One person, two prestigious schools, three phDs have not graduated. He once worked for Google, Microsoft, Intel and other world famous companies, but when he left, he spoke and scolded these companies over and over again. He almost joined Alibaba, but got the relationship frozen in an interview. This is Wang Yan, do you say that he is a wizard or a ghost?
Wizards and ghosts have talents that are incomprehensible to the world. Some of the wizards are high and enviable; some of the ghosts do not play their cards according to the routine, which is frightening. From this point of view, I think Wang Yan should be regarded as a ghost talent.
< h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > crazy obsession with computers</h1>
Wang Yan was born in Meishan City, Sichuan Province, the hometown of the literary hero Su Dongpo; Wang Yu did not have a prominent family background, and his parents were ordinary people's teachers. Wang Yu's IQ is extremely high, and he belongs to the kind of child who never has to worry about others when learning. What is valuable is that his curiosity is still very strong.
Wang Yan was very fond of computers, and his parents, who did not have a high income, spent a lot of money to buy him a computer in order to train him. He also did not live up to his parents' expectations, teaching himself computer knowledge day and night, translating and reading English literature in middle school. Spending so much energy and time on hobbies did not delay his admission to Sichuan University, the highest university in Sichuan Province, in 1997. At that time, he was only 2 points away from Tsinghua University.
At this time, his life has not yet made waves. He has the label of a bully, and he has excellent self-learning ability. Not taking two more points in the college entrance examination to be admitted to Tsinghua has become his regret. He is about to graduate from undergraduate to make up for this regret.
What awaits him in the future is not a smooth road of study and work, but a series of terrifying waves. He needs to face wave after wave of verbal criticism, but his own heart seems to be unfazed, like a stubborn stone (no pejorative).
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > second, a word is not in line with Tsinghua</h1>
In 2001, Wang Yan, who graduated from Sichuan University, was sent to Tsinghua University for a master's and doctoral degree in computer science. In 2003, he published two articles, "Working Completely with Linux", "To People Who Support and Oppose < work > who work completely with Linux", stepping on Windows and Yang Linux. He also became an Internet celebrity of that era.
In 2005, one of his papers, The polygonal contraction heuristic for rectilinear Steiner tree construction, was awarded the Best Paper Award at the ASP-DAC International Conference, one of the most influential international conferences on integrated circuit design and auxiliary tools research.
At this time, Wang Yan was still a year away from his doctoral graduation, and everyone watched a new star rise, but he made an unexpected move. On September 22, 2005, he wrote the shattering of tsinghua dreams - an application for withdrawal to Tsinghua University, which shook the whole country, which was 17,000 words. The rhetoric was fierce, slamming China's higher education.
At that time, he famously said, one was that "they only care about reputation." As for my displacement, life and death, what does it have to do with them? The second is "I am tired of domestic academics, I want to go abroad to find a good teacher!" ”
In 2006, he was given the opportunity to study for a doctorate at Cornell University (a world famous university with a comprehensive ranking higher than Tsinghua University) in the United States, so he set off for the United States. But who would have thought that he published a "Cornell Feelings" in 2008 and dropped out of school in anger. As for the reason, he said: "American education is a commercial test-taking education, and the courses for foreign graduate students are not that, basically to deceive undergraduates into cheap labor." And the huge pressure of homework and exam preparation has deprived students of the freedom to think. ”
After that, he went to Indiana University Bloomington to continue his doctorate (the university's overall strength was far behind Cornell University), and unsurprisingly, he dropped out again four years later and wrote a "Farewell to a Doctorate".
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > third, the self-created language is amazing to the world</h1>
Wang Yan studied at Tsinghua University and Cornell University, two world-class universities, and did not graduate from her three doctoral studies. Do you think he failed? Not really! At that time, he was already developing his own computer language, the Yin language. But this language, in the years that followed, was buried by the dust of time and no one remembered.
From his writings, you seem to be able to smell something different, "Ph.D. has been used by schools and academia as an invisible chain to take advantage of cheap labor." You want the title of "doctor", so let's work cheaply for us, and those who can write papers will write papers, and those who can write code will write code. ”
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > four, after scolding Google and microsoft</h1>
Because of his technical strength and reputation, Google gave him the opportunity to intern. After he joined Google, the executives who took him said bluntly, "He's the best techian of the interns I've seen in the last 20 years." "What about Wang's work?" He had a conflict with his colleagues and wrote the entire project himself in Python.
His exact words were, "This Python thing, although it doesn't take a lot of effort on me, is something that very few people in Google can make." Even The creator of Python, Guido van Rossum, is probably mysterious! Seeing this, you won't be surprised to see some of his other words in the blog (see chart below).
What is Wang's impression of Google? He concluded at the end of his internship: "Google is evil, pompous and flattering, and Western critical thinking doesn't exist here." "He has a "Story with Google and Me", the full text of more than 10,000 words, he uses words to pour his emotions to the fullest.
After leaving Google, he joined Microsoft, and it didn't take long to leave, leaving two sentences, one is "Microsoft's final demise should be sooner or later." The second is" Maybe I wrote the code too clearly, so they didn't think they needed me. ”
Having worked for Google and Microsoft, it is not inferior to Intel. Wang Also had a period of work experience at Intel after leaving Microsoft. In 2019, when he left the employer, he did not send "ridicule and ridicule", but seemed to be a little light. He thanked the people around him for his open and inclusive approach to cooperation, offered his vision for the future, and said he was ready to start education.
But this is not all, after he attended Ali's interview, he wrote the following article, put the question on the table, for netizens to speculate.
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > five, do education and make music</h1>
It can be seen that at this time, he seems to have changed a little. But we can still feel his sharpness from the text of his blog.
It may be that due to the failure of many doctoral studies, or it may be out of disdain for the education system, wang Yan has firmly established the idea of going to education. He has not liked test-taking education since high school, and in his mind, there is an educational utopia in which "students do not need to be suppressed by teachers, they can retain their creativity, and they will not be limited to rigidity".
But this utopia doesn't seem to have been born out of his hands, as we can see from the updates to his blog posts. He is doing some computer training, and he also expresses a lot of views on social issues.
It can be seen that he has a fondness for music, and he has his own unique thinking about some social issues. Let's take a look at some of his prickly statements.
He believes that people who use words such as "xueba", "xueshen", and "xue scum" are anti-intellectual. People who are curious and learnable, and who know how to improve themselves, don't use these words.
He believes that many of China's online words embody vulgarity, laziness, decay and ugliness, such as "dry goods."
He believes that there is a problem with the aesthetic level of the Chinese. Chinese men's plans include careers, women, families, and children, but none of them are to improve themselves, to make their appearance and heart more beautiful, to make the place where they live, and to make every daily necessity around them more beautiful. Men in Europe and Japan are different.
Some people mocked him, saying that he had tossed and turned for so many years, and there was not much movement, and there was no result, but after all, it was just a matter of obscuring the people. I would like to say that his talent is still outstanding, his work experience has verified his talent, and his study experience has verified his learning ability. Compared to us ordinary people. He has achieved a lot. What may have bothered him may only be a matter of character.
Wang's views on higher education are shared by many graduate students. In this regard, I would like to say that seeing the problem is indeed an ability, and being able to calm down and study the method of solving the problem should be a higher ability. Whether it is a wizard or a ghost, talent can create value to be called talent.
Is there a way for wizards and ghosts to both blend into the world and realize their personal value?
What do you think of Wang Yan's talents? What do you think of his character? What do you think of his future?
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