[Microsoft Pitbear Story Collection] September Hero Story: Self-Interpretation of Contemporary Programmers from the Perspective of MVP

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Have you watched "Out of Control Players" recently?

The protagonist of "Out of Control Player" is an NPC in the open world game "Liberty City", a bank clerk "Gai" who repeats the same life every day. After falling in love with a player "Cocktail Girl", Gai begins to develop self-awareness. And deviate from the set behavior tree.

: "Out of Control Player" is naturally reminiscent of "Number One Player" in previous years. "Liberty City" is also inspired by "GTA5", "Minecraft", "Fortnite", "Roblox" Waiting for games, they all point to a concept that is very popular recently-meta universe.
If you are still a little unfamiliar with "Meta Universe" and "Roblox", then "Fortress Night" should be familiar. This game, which is popular due to the "Battle Royale" gameplay, has become the closest "oasis" in reality. "The presence.

The film crew puts a trailer for "Creed" in "Fortnite"

Sister A has a concert in "Fortress Night"

[Bit Bear Story Collection] as the first release of the BIT Bear Live Room series, will regularly invite technology experts and industry pioneers as guests. Not only the most "hot" technology is talked about here, there are more personal stories and interesting topics to be unlocked! Make an advertisement here, and welcome friends who love technology sharing and have stories to come to Pitbear’s live broadcast room!
: This bear is fortunate to invite two Microsoft MVPs, Li Jiarui and Duan Qinghua, to chat with you about the universe, chatbots, and more interesting things in life.

Bear: In the previous movie series, Pitt Bear has had a lot of contact with Teacher Jia Rui! She is a very brilliant young lady programmer. Not only is she in charge of Sentence Interactive, but also Jiarui can always be seen in many activities.

more curious that there is a sentence in the introduction of Teacher Tsinghua, "The AI engineer who understands finance best", the meaning of this sentence needs to be explained to me by the deity.

Tsinghua University: is like this. Although the term "artificial intelligence" has been popular in recent years, it seems to me that there are still very few so-called "AI engineers" in the industry. There are many steps in the process of knowledge in this field from academic to industrial stage to landing and practice. Engineers can only rely on accumulation to "produce" slowly.
Since graduating, I have been doing finance-related things, including my work before starting my own business, which has also enabled me to participate in many projects of top Chinese financial institutions and learn a lot of algorithmic knowledge that is biased towards finance. Of course, we cannot simply understand that I know finance best. I know finance best among AI engineers. There are certain conditions.
: It turned out to be so, then I can ask Tsinghua teachers in addition to technical questions about artificial intelligence, and I can also ask for financial advice! I know that the two also have a common identity, Microsoft MVP.

[Microsoft MVP concept] Microsoft's most valuable expert is a global award granted by Microsoft to third-party technical professionals. For 28 years, technology community leaders around the world have won this award for sharing their expertise and experience in online and offline technology communities. MVP is committed to helping others through speeches, forum questions and answers, creating websites, writing blogs, sharing videos, open source projects, organizing conferences, etc., and to help users in the Microsoft technology community use Microsoft technology to the greatest extent.

Bear: I would like to ask the two teachers, what is the experience of becoming an MVP? Are the two teachers already MVPs when they met?

Jia Rui: we met we had not yet become Microsoft MVP, and I became MVP a little earlier than Tsinghua University.
Tsinghua University: I think a prerequisite for becoming an MVP is to pay more attention to the community. Pitbear also said that MVP is an honorary title issued by Microsoft to third parties. When I became the MVP, many people thought I was in Microsoft.
Programmers definitely come into contact with the community the most. The outside world joked that programmers are constantly doing various "Copy-Paste". Then where does the copy and paste come from? It is from the community. "Copy and paste" is definitely a joke. We all abide by the community's agreements and rules and regulations, and stand on the shoulders of giants. In the process, you will want to make more contributions to the community, "I am for everyone, and everyone is for me". Now that I have gained a lot from the community, can we also give some to make the whole community and the whole industry better?

Including our open source projects, writing articles, posting videos and tutorials, etc., some community activities are all doing more output for the community. I also learned about the MVP during this process. My MVP recommender is a mutual friend of Jiarui and I. I sorted out some of my contributions and submitted them to Microsoft with my ideas about the community. MVP.
: I participated in a technology sharing session. At that time, Amazon and Microsoft were supposed to be sponsors. What I shared was "How to build a chatbot from 0 to 1", and then I also talked about how to use bots to solve some practical problems. . I met Chris, the person in charge of the MVP, and she asked me if I was interested in becoming an MVP. I thought it was quite interesting, so I applied.
Because I am starting a business, I mainly do SaaS and technical services, and I use a lot of AI technologies, so we have a lot of cooperation with Microsoft, especially on Azure. We have cooperated with many departments of Azure and recommended many large companies to us. We will also purchase more Azure and have more intersections.

Pitbear: I know that the two have not only met and become friends because of the common professional field, but also often have some cooperation. According to my survey, these things are actually of practical value. Can you share with us?

: We have been making a small robot. Everyone may have encountered such a situation. A lot of files have been posted in the group. When I look for them after two days, either the download fails or the file cannot be found. When there is more than one group, it is more difficult to find.
How to store files in a structured manner is a pain point that Tsinghua and I want to solve, so we have this WeChat assistant. It solves three problems: storage, search and push. Not only storing files, but also storing links as documents to solve problems such as link invalidation. It can also recognize natural language to generate To-do list, which is also a kind of storage.

The second is search. I think chatbots essentially solve the problem of search. I can get the services I need in a faster way (such as a sentence). Including looking for documents, asking what my To-do is-"What's the arrangement at six o'clock". The third uses a visual catalog to display information. Because I started a business, many of my friends who invest in me have a desire to structure and see what is stored.

: Such "robots" are everywhere in our lives, unknowingly it makes our lives very convenient. Pitbear used to have the impression of programmers or engineers of "plaid shirt + glasses", but now he has discovered that programmers' lives have also changed a lot. In this regard, I would like to see what the two "being in it" actually feel?

Tsinghua University: may now be no longer a uniform plaid shirt, but programmers can still be recognized through some typical features. In this industry, many people are busy with work on the one hand, and on the other hand, they are also out of love for technology, which makes us willing to tilt time from life to work. The lack of time in life allows us to develop some fixed habits, such as wearing the same clothes and using the same mechanical keyboard as everyone else.
For example, when you see this dress I am wearing now, I have about 15 pieces that are exactly the same. They are not exactly the same. Two of them are black, but the stripes are the same.

Jia Rui: I always think that Tsinghua never changes clothes, but I am most surprised not that the clothes have not changed, because I think it is normal for boys. What I am most surprised is why his clothes are getting more and more. Newer!
Tsinghua University: The brand will also be updated!
: Speaking of which, the wardrobe of the protagonist of "Out of Control Player" is also a unified "blue shirt + khaki pants".

Jia Rui: I think this movie is very good, because I want to talk about the relationship between people and machines because of work. Hardware is getting better and better, network speed is getting faster and faster, and the way of human-computer interaction is changing all the time. From the earliest phone calls, to communicating with the early giant computers, to the mouse and keyboard, through touch, the next thing may be done by saying a word.
Every change in the way of interaction will generate huge business opportunities. The business we do is actually the next generation of cross-platform marketing cloud based on instant messaging applications. Why is it the next generation? What we used to do through websites and phone messages is now using instant messaging.

"Blade Runner 2049"

I think the relationship between humans and machines has remained unchanged. Machines have been enhancing human capabilities rather than replacing them. However, in most science fiction films, machines are meant to completely replace people, and contradictions are also caused by this.
: Pitbull thinks of Ke Jie. Everyone should have seen the pictures of him crying after losing to AlphaGo, but in the interview, he said that he was actually regretting his mistakes, not simply because of being defeated by AI. He believes that the essence of AI's victory over mankind is the advancement of human science and technology. The new wisdom of mankind has defeated the ancient wisdom in some form. This is actually the self-transcendence of mankind.

: is very touched to see the end of "Out of Control Player", "Code is a love letter I wrote to you".
Bit Bear: Indeed, whether it is the protagonist of the programmer or the guy who is "out of control", this movie can arouse empathy, especially for us who are in this industry field and the world at this moment. Many of the plots in the movie are simply "the world is another for me"! However, while lamenting how advanced these machines are, the true human emotions make me feel more precious.

: This movie also reminds me of the recent hot "meta universe". I saw on the Internet that this concept originated from a science fiction novel "Avalanche" published 30 years ago. The author initially stated that the metaverse is a virtual space parallel to the real world, in which people can live and humans. Everything the world has can be found in this virtual digital world, and what humans have done in the real world can also be done in this world.

The brain-burning multi-dimensional market in "City of a Thousand Stars"

Tsinghua University: People can only communicate face-to-face at the beginning, and later they can make phone calls, use WeChat or even use machines to complete the communication between people and the world, or complete the communication between people and the world. It is indeed possible that something similar to the meta-universe will appear in the future. We interact with the content of the meta-universe and let it feed back to the real world. Because if we don’t interact with the real world at all, the meta-universe is meaningless. Then why interact with the real world through the meta-universe? I think it can solve some problems.
I often ask people what do you think of the transportation in the next 50 years. Everyone has all kinds of illusions: in 50 years, everyone will ride on a rocket, or everyone will have a solo aircraft, or a cool flying skateboard.

"back to the Future"

At this time I will interrupt others: Why should I go out in 2070? Obviously it's better to lie at home, at least to go out when you need to go out, right? You have to carry the aircraft during your last shift (laughs)?

At least one problem solved by Metaverse is that we only need to lie at home and interact with Metaverse, whether it is entertainment or work. How the meta-universe feeds back to the real world is another issue. For example, farming, without sending real people, can we turn this matter into an operation performed in the meta-universe, and the meta-universe feeds back to a certain reality in reality. robot.
In this way, the meta-universe becomes a mapping of our real world, and obviously it is also a more convenient mapping, because it only has the flow of information, not the flow of matter. To transport a huge object like a person from one place to another requires too many resources.

The virtual flight pod in Guardians of the Galaxy 2

It is much faster to transmit only consciousness information or signals. In the future world, in order to reduce the energy consumption caused by the transmission of "giant matter" like me, and to speed up the communication between people and the world, the "meta universe" is still very necessary.

Pitbear has something to say

The programmer's world is actually very interesting, not just zeros and ones that laymen don't understand. What they are doing is not to make the world regular and mechanical, the advancement of machines is to make people better. Perhaps they will apply "training" and "testing" in their daily lives. But this way they are real and even a little cute. They will try to save time on some things that can improve efficiency, and spend this time on things they think is more meaningful, not only technology, but also may be devoted to their hobbies, playing games, sports, and even cooking. .

Pitbear sees their most ordinary and simple side in these "heroes", and of course their commendable professional research and continuous pursuit of innovation. These heroes have many brilliant performances in the technical field, and in real life they also have their own hobbies and small habits, so that Pitbear can also find too many common topics! They like to share through any window. If you really ask questions, I think they are willing to answer.

The October MVP hero story will invite other experts to share with us more hot topics and their skills. Are they new heroes or familiar old friends?

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