Vivienne Ming
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725 appearances
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 25 Jul
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My grad students are brilliant.
They know.
Everything, more than I do about the problem that they're studying, 'cause for me, at best it's one hour a week.
For them it's their life for years on end.
So why am I there?
In a world where they could look up answers on their phone.
They could go to the library.
But turns out at Berkeley we have a pretty good one.
They could search the internet, like
They're brilliant.
They never needed me to give them answers about brains or about machine learning or psychology or any of it.
Why am I there?
Because my students know everything and understand nothing.
And the point of spending those years with me or any mentor.
is to learn the understanding of the problem.
We're scientists.
Our job is when there aren't answers anymore.
If there are answers, then it's an engineering problem.
If there aren't, it's a scientific problem.
Hei!
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