A male student from the School of Computer Science made a speech: "Lin Zhixia completed her undergraduate studies in three years and her doctorate in two years. This is too cruel. She is so cruel to herself, how can she be cruel to her students? Damn, if I take her class, I will be doomed. I have to be busy with internships, TOEFL and GRE this semester. How can I find enough time?"
His roommate was still hesitant: "Hey, Teacher Lin... so beautiful, so beautiful."
Lin Zhixia wore a black suit skirt today, with a tight waistline and a skirt that went below her knees, which made her look very slender and charming. She stood quietly in the corridor with her back to the students in the classroom, which reminded people of idioms such as "slender and graceful" and "beautiful and pretty". Several students who passed by her couldn't help but look back at her.
Drop out of Lin Zhixia's class...
It is really a difficult decision!
Some students in the lecture hall gathered together for a moment to discuss.
Although Lin Zhixia is a responsible and knowledgeable teacher, the difficulty of the assignments and exams discourages students. The boy from the School of Computer Science also advised everyone: "If you want to see Teacher Lin, just come to the classroom to audit. It's better to go to her office on Friday for an interview than to study this course to death."
As soon as he finished speaking, he picked up his schoolbag and waved to everyone: "I'm going to the library to study and drop out of Quantum Bits and Computers."
He took with him a group of followers.
The back row of the lecture hall was almost empty.
Almost all the boys from the School of Computer Science have left, and many students from the School of Interdisciplinary Studies are still struggling.
Looking at the entire classroom, there are no more than forty students who are really interested in this course. The one with the strongest interest is the "God of Interdisciplinary College" - his full name is Cui Yiming, and his classmates respectfully call him "Ming Shen".
Cui Yiming pushed his glasses up on his nose, looked at the blackboard written by Lin Zhixia, and smiled a chilling smile. He stood up from his seat, packed his schoolbag, put it on his shoulder, and walked a few steps in a hurry.
His roommate asked in horror: "Ming Shen, you want to drop the class?"
"What's the use of refunding?" Cui Yiming explained, "There are empty seats in the first row. I'll go sit in the first row."
After the class bell rang, Lin Zhixia walked into the classroom again.
She was stunned for a few seconds.
Half of her students were gone.
Why is this happening
All the students taught by Lin Zhixia are full of praise for her.
To this day, she still frequently receives emails from Han Guang and Wu Pinyan, both of whom were undergraduates she taught at Cambridge. Currently, one of them is doing a PhD at MIT, and the other is doing a PhD at Cambridge, and both are determined to join the scientific research community.
Lin Zhixia's undergraduate roommate Deng Shasha would send her a text message every Teacher's Day: "Happy Teacher's Day, Xiaolin! Shasha will always love you."
Lin Zhixia never thought that the dropout rate of "Quantum Bits and Computers" would exceed 50%.
"Quantum Bits and Computers" has a weekly lab class, and Lin Zhixia has already written the grouping arrangement and timetable. Suddenly losing half of her students, she was frustrated in her teaching task for the first time in her life. If too many students drop out, the course will be stopped by the Academic Affairs Office.
But she prepared for a long time and put in a lot of effort.
Lin Zhixia held the desk with her left hand, reflecting on her performance in the last class. She did not make any academic mistakes. She also introduced several of the most interesting algorithms of "quantum computing" and outlined the future development direction of this field. Many students in the neighboring physics school were happily listening to the extremely difficult "String Theory" and "Quantum Spin Simulation". Why did Lin Zhixia fail in the battlefield of "quantum computing"
Countless thoughts flashed through her mind.
She had to admit that she felt a little depressed and lost.
Even though she understood a lot of principles, when she had negative emotions in her heart, she could not quickly resolve them within a few minutes. She took a deep breath and said calmly, "Okay, let's continue the lecture... In the last class, we mentioned entangled states and density matrices. Quantum states are inseparable from probability issues. At the same time, we also need to consider Heisenberg's uncertainty principle. Position and momentum cannot be determined at the same time[1]..."
Hearing this, the two students sitting by the window in the fifth row suddenly picked up their schoolbags and tiptoed out of the classroom - one of the boys felt a little reluctant and kept looking back at Lin Zhixia.
Lin Zhixia paused.
"Quantum Bits and Computers" has opened up course selection channels for six colleges. Compared with the Interdisciplinary College and the School of Physics, students in other colleges, such as software engineering and computer science, probably rarely come into contact with the concepts related to quantum mechanics. Therefore, even if Lin Zhixia is just introducing simple definitions of terms, it will scare off some young people who are afraid of failing the course.
Lin Zhixia calmed herself down and continued with the class.
She deliberately slowed down the pace and inserted two jokes to adjust the classroom atmosphere.
Finally, some relaxed laughter was heard in the classroom.
A freshman auditor held his face with his hands, staring at Lin Zhixia intently, his pupils shining. Lin Zhixia felt that her teaching method should have some merits.
After class, Lin Zhixia took out her cell phone and was about to call Jiang Yubai, but then she remembered that he was very busy these days and might not have time to chat with her, so she put the phone back into her backpack.
The "God of Cross Academy" blocked her way.
She turned around and asked, "Is your name Cui Yiming? Hello."
Cui Yiming raised his eyebrows slightly: "Teacher, do you know me?"
Lin Zhixia knew all the students at the Interdisciplinary College. She had seen group photos of the students, with each person's name on the back of the photo. In this way, she remembered their appearance and names.
She did not answer Cui Yiming's question, but asked him: "Do you have any idea of doing scientific research?"
Cui Yiming smiled. He said that his undergraduate advisor had mentored him during his sophomore year, and he had published a paper in a Zone II SCI journal. Last summer, he also did summer research at the Max Planck Institute in Germany. He wanted to ask Lin Zhixia about the theoretical research direction that she was best at.
Lin Zhixia talked with him as they walked.
He followed her footsteps and went to the laboratory with her.
His roommates were all pausing in the hallway.
Everyone looked at the backs of Lin Zhixia and Cui Yiming, and their expressions couldn't help but become subtle.
There were only Fang Yiwen and Zhan Rui in the laboratory.
The operating room was well-lit. Fang Yiwen, dressed in white, lowered her head and wrote furiously. She worked quickly on the formulas with a very focused look.
Zhan Rui was standing in front of a whiteboard with a marker in his hand, organizing his ideas for his paper on "distributional reinforcement learning."
When Zhan Rui first got the paper, he thought it was related to "distributed reinforcement learning" when he saw the title. It turned out that he was wrong. The two algorithms are actually very different, and the implementation process of the former is more novel.
Most interestingly, the authors of the “distributional reinforcement learning” algorithm admit in their paper that they don’t know exactly why this new approach performs better than traditional methods in gaming applications.
Zhan Rui fell into deep thought.
At this time, he heard footsteps.
He turned his head and saw Lin Zhixia and Cui Yiming.
Lin Zhixia introduced Cui Yiming to him and asked, "Where's Xu Lingbo? Didn't he come to the lab today?"
Yes.
Xu Lingbo didn't come.
At this time, Xu Lingbo was lying on the single bed in the dormitory. He was playing with his mobile phone, thinking about his senior sister, and set an alarm, planning to go to the cafeteria to buy food in advance and send it to the laboratory for his senior sister as lunch.
At this time, his senior sister actually called him.
Xu Lingbo immediately pressed the answer button, and heard the senior sister say: "Teacher Lin wants you to come to the laboratory building. There is a boy in the group who wants to work on a project with Lin Zhixia. We need to hold an impromptu group meeting. Please come quickly."
Temporary group meeting
What is this
Xu Lingbo jumped off the bed in a panic, and before he even put on his pants, he began to seek help: "Brother Qiang, hey, Brother Qiang, my instructor is going to hold a temporary group meeting, and a junior has joined the group. What should I do?"
The "Brother Qiang" that Xu Lingbo called was Xu Lingbo's master's roommate.
Brother Qiang has a strong psychological quality.
He was reading a book. He turned the page and said calmly, "What should I do? Use the graduate student group slacking technique I taught you."
"Is it okay?" Xu Lingbo was unsure.
Brother Qiang turned around, looked at him, pointed at his pants, and motioned for him to put on his clothes first.
But he misunderstood what Brother Qiang meant, and suddenly realized: "Brother Qiang, are you trying to say that I should relax, live in my crotch... live in the present?"
Brother Qiang was as steady as an old dog: "Bodi, your instructor had a class on "Quantum Bits and Computers" this morning. The new person in your group must be an undergraduate. You studied for a year as a master, and you are scared when you meet a third-year undergraduate? Don't make trouble."
After listening to Brother Qiang's analysis, Xu Lingbo straightened his chest. He took out the notes he had made last semester and several papers he had printed in advance from the cabinet. Every page of the paper was densely underlined with colored highlighters. These were all illusions Xu Lingbo had deliberately created.
He took these things and rushed to Lin Zhixia's laboratory.
Lin Zhixia's laboratory suddenly became lively.
In addition to Cui Yiming who had just joined the team, Tan Qianche also happened to come to the laboratory building of the Interdisciplinary College to do some work.
The experimental machine reserved by Tan Qianche was mistakenly sent to the Interdisciplinary College. If he wanted to get his things back, he had to say hello to the leaders of the Interdisciplinary College first.
After finally finding his leader and finishing his business, Tan Qianche thought it was time for lunch, so he went to see Lin Zhixia - Lin Zhixia was his junior sister in the same school. His doctoral supervisor, Professor Gu Likai, had called him some time ago and told him to do scientific research well in school, teach students seriously, and if convenient, take care of his junior sister.
Tan Qianche understood the hidden meaning of Gu Likai's words.
Gu Likai believes that Lin Zhixia is kindhearted, has never been out in society, has always worked and studied in school, and has found time to work with an Internet company to build a quantum technology platform - this is of course a good thing. However, Lin Zhixia must also be careful not to step into the trap, and being involved in commercial disputes will damage her academic reputation.
Tan Qianche thought to himself that Teacher Gu didn’t know that the company Lin Zhixia founded was invested in by her boyfriend.
After Tan Qianche met Lin Zhixia, he tactfully conveyed Teacher Gu's opinion to Lin Zhixia. They were sitting in a conference room, chatting for a while, and Xu Lingbo arrived late.
He held a stack of papers, pushed open the door of the conference room, and shouted confidently, "Teacher Lin!"
Before Lin Zhixia could speak, Tan Qianche laughed out loud: "You are an interesting student. Your paper is full of highlighters. It seems that you love studying. What's your major?"
Lin Zhixia proudly introduced: "His doctoral research direction overlaps with yours."
"So amazing," Tan Qianche smiled even more broadly, "You, a master's degree student, did what I did as a doctorate student?"