A Weibo debate triggered by 2B - If you can’t cross the barriers of your own thoughts, you won’t be able to understand the world.

If you cannot cross the barriers of your own thoughts, you will not be able to understand the world.

A joke about 2B

The famous playwright Shakespeare once asked "To be, or not to be" in the first scene of the third act of "Hamlet". Recently, a "2B or Not 2B" question occurred on Weibo.

An account on Weibo called "New Threads of Light 001" posted a message complaining about Kai-fu Lee's recent swearing in a report on artificial intelligence. The Weibo account "New Threads of Light 001" is the voice channel of Fang Zhouzi, a famous academic anti-counterfeiting fighter, on Sina Weibo.

Are Kai-Fu Lee and Fang Zhouzi discussing the same 2B?

What’s interesting is that after the Weibo was posted, many people showed joy in the replies, and even lamented that this was the joke of the year. Among them, Bertong Li solemnly introduced to Fang Zhouzi that 2B means to business (for enterprise users), not "erbi", which is often used as a curse in the Chinese context.

No one is perfect

Looking back on the past, this is not the first time that Fang Zhouzi has crossed paths with Kai-fu Lee.

Fang Zhouzi is a well-known academic anti-counterfeiter. He was admitted to the Department of Biology of the University of Science and Technology of China in 1985. He received a PhD in biochemistry from Michigan State University in the United States in 1995. He later founded the website "New Threads". Publish your own articles and publish articles from netizens to expose academic corruption in China's scientific and educational circles. Fang Zhouzi and his New Thread website have repeatedly made achievements in exposing academic misconduct by Chinese scientists, and they are like an "anti-counterfeiting fighter."

Lee Kai-fu is a well-known computer expert, technology company executive and investor. He received a doctorate in computer science from Carnegie Mellon University and has worked in IT companies such as Apple, SGI, Microsoft and Google. The company plays an important role. After leaving Google in September 2009, he founded Sinovation Ventures and served as chairman and CEO. In addition to playing an important role in the technology industry, Kai-fu Lee also actively imparts his growth experience to young people and is widely known as a "youth mentor".

Fang Zhouzi is a stubborn counterfeiter. He cannot tolerate sand in his eyes, has a keen sense of smell, and likes to take the initiative to provoke disputes. Outside of academia, there are many great figures who have been slain by him, including the "Working Emperor" Tang Jun's falsified academic qualifications and Kai-fu Lee's resume translation problem.

In 2011, Kai-fu Lee once translated his position as assistant professor after graduation as "associate professor". After Fang Zhouzi pointed it out, the two sides set off a fierce confrontation, during which Kai-fu Lee was forced to publicly admit that it was "vanity" that caused the incident. solved the problem of improper translation.

Every other line is like a mountain

Of course, even a shrewd person like Fang Zhouzi sometimes makes mistakes.

In the joke made by Fang Zhouzi about Kai-fu Lee using "2B" in his speech, netizen Ji Siliu pointed out the problem - every other line is like a mountain. Fang Zhouzi once studied and worked in the United States. He is an expert in the fields of biochemistry and medicine. He has a deep understanding of academia and its professional fields, but he is obviously just a layman in the technology industry.

In the market economy, different enterprises adopt different business models, including to Business, to Consumers, and Government, etc. In English, to also means It is often replaced by 2, so it is usually referred to as 2B, 2C, 2G, etc. for short. The usage of these abbreviations for different business users has been widely popularized with the development of e-commerce. For example, when Alibaba was founded, it was B2B (Business to Business), Taobao later established was C2C (person-to-person), and Tmall was It is B2C (business to individual).

Only by crossing the barriers of thought can we understand the world beyond the siege of our own knowledge.

The jokes made by Fang Zhouzi and Kai-Fu Li about 2B reminded me of what I have experienced.

When I was in college, one day I came down from the dormitory building and suddenly saw a poster. I took a glance at it and went to class.

On the way, I suddenly remembered that there was a string of numbers and M2 (the square of M, similar to "xxxx M2") on the poster. There was a bug here - what is M2? I was studying computer science at the time, and for a period of time I was constantly installing machines, systems, software, calculating hard drive and memory capacity, and file sizes. When I saw M in my mind, I thought of it as the unit of capacity in the computer, megabytes. For example, Mbit means megabit, MByte means megabyte, 1G=1024M, etc. So when I saw the symbol M2, I immediately thought about the computer capacity, "What does this M2 - square trillion mean?" After being troubled for a while, I finally got out of my own thinking barriers. Later, I checked and found out that M2 there refers to the geographical area and has nothing to do with computers.

Another thing is that when we were in school, one of the physics professors in one of my elective courses was often troubled by the problems of making simple web pages and operating PPT. Later, I gradually realized that professors in universities are all divided into disciplines. They may be at the forefront of their own niche fields, but when they leave the subject area of ??their expertise, they become laymen. Since you are a layman but can't live without it, the best way is to learn, practice, and ask professionals for advice if you don't understand. So when I was a student, I helped many old professors solve their computer and software problems, and some of these professors quickly learned common function operations.

Interestingly, there are often some terms that have different meanings in different disciplines and contexts. If you simply think from a familiar perspective, you can easily get into trouble. On the contrary, if we can get out of the barriers of our own thoughts, the siege of knowledge and the fortress of self-righteous experience that we are proud of, we can better understand each other and the world.

Finally, I conclude with a poem by Bing Xin.

Reference information

Fang Zhouzi: Li Kaifu and Tang Jun are different in nature /11/1202/09/7K8Q7AJU00253B0H.html