Hammer of Technology

"Hang up, 88!"

After hanging up the phone, Zhang Dingxi felt like he was dreaming.

Instead of clicking on the WeChat group in a hurry, he directly logged in to the official website of the March Foundation with the device at hand.Sure enough, he was the only name in the column of the winner of the March Award Computer Award released today.

Almost subconsciously, he clicked the award details button next to his name, and then saw comments from many big names in the computer industry.

The original versions of these comments include Chinese, English, and even some niche texts, but it doesn’t matter. The website considerately provides a one-click translation function, which can translate these comments in different languages ​​into the language you are most familiar with.

Regarding his comments, the first place is the score given by the tutor Ning Wei and the reason for the score.

Nine points!

How sure is this? After all, the points awarded in March are relatively strict. Of course, these are not the key points.The point is that in the past, Director Ning had never been a judge in the selection process of the March Awards, and Director Ning's name was never listed in the award details column.

This is so...

No wonder he said that he didn't know that his junior sister didn't believe it at all, and he wouldn't believe it if it were him. After all, the foundation will notify the winners the day before the official ceremony. This time Director Ning participated in the awards, and according to the understanding of ordinary people, he must have passed the air with him in advance. But Zhang Dingxi knew very well that Director Ning really didn't call him, and he didn't even send a WeChat message.

Zhang Dingxi was stunned for a while, and when he came back to his senses, he immediately called Ning Wei.

The phone rang twice before it was connected, and director Ning's lazy voice came from the microphone: "Hello?"

"Director Ning, it's me...Zhang Dingxi."

"I know it's you. I remembered your number. What's the matter? After sleeping late, you called early in the morning. You students, every day, can't let me worry?"

"Ah?" Zhang Dingxi was a little taken aback, and looked at the clock hanging on the wall of the laboratory, it was already 09:30...

In the past, at this time, Director Ning should have woken up two hours earlier, but soon he realized that his tutor had just finished the design of the cpu, and Meng Runze and Zhou Zhenghao both got two days off, so he felt a little unreasonable.

"Well, Director Ning, I'm sorry, I just saw that I won the March Award?"

"Yeah! Didn't the Foundation notify you? Oh, I remembered, yesterday they couldn't get through to you twice, and you were not in the courtyard, so let me notify you. I will forget when I get busy. What's wrong? Is it not good to win a prize?"

"No... Director Ning, I saw the rating you gave..."

"Nine points, you deserve it. I have seen your hard work these years, and last year happened to be a rewarding year, so I took a look when the results were announced in March this year. You were already ranked No. 0.02 Three, according to the rules of the March Award, scientists with the same scoring standard at one decimal place in the final algorithm will share the March Award bonus of the year, and you have a difference of [-] points. Then I will share the results of other candidates After understanding it, to be very objective, I think these achievements are not as good as yours."

"After the judges scored, the follow-up calculation ratio in March is very complicated. Although my weight is relatively high, who knows if that guy can get you enough 0.02 points after the final conversion? So just to be on the safe side, I simply hit You got a score of 9.5, and guess what, you won the prize alone! This score of 9.5 is slightly higher. If you are not my student, I would probably only give you a score of 8.5 from the bottom of my heart. So you Don't get too excited, the extra 1 point is what I called myself, after all, you chose a good mentor, which is also a bonus item. In other words, it just gives you some small advantages, don't take it too seriously."

Ning Wei put it lightly, but Zhang Dingxi can only describe it as complicated at this time.

Small advantage?

This small advantage directly allowed him to go from the third row to the first place. Originally, the other two won the award jointly, but now he alone won the award...

This small advantage is somewhat exaggerated.

More importantly, Zhang Dingxi knew very well how much his mentor valued the March Award.

Ning Wei has instilled in them more than once the idea that China has a long way to go to become a world science and technology center, and a worldwide award can be said to be the most important thing.Through a fair award system, it is not only to attract the attention of the academic and technological circles, but also to attract the attention of capital.

After all, modern scientific research is not an era when problems can be solved with a piece of paper and a pen.Most of the results are piled up with money.Take the [-]D display he made as an example, a set of simple optical equipment costs millions of dollars, and an experimental light source costs millions of dollars.

Ning Wei gave him such a high score in person, no doubt handing cannonballs to those who argue whether the March Award is fair and whether it can become a world-wide award...

"Director Ning, is this not good? What if others question it?"

"What's wrong? Let me tell you Zhang Dingxi, be confident! When others question you, the key is to show results to make them shut up! Now there are exactly three months before the March Awards Ceremony. The test report this time is already very good. If you really want to respond to other people’s doubts, you can just come up with something on the day of the awards ceremony to shut up those habitual BB people, are you confident?”

Speaking of this level, what else can Zhang Dingxi say?He immediately replied loudly: "Yes! Director Ning!"

"As long as you have it. Zhang Dingxi, you know what I like most about you? It's the attitude that you don't face difficulties just to save trouble. There are two things I always remember. The first one is that this project has just started, When you need to solve the problem of [-]D mesh denoising, you can choose someone else’s ready-made algorithm, but because the other party is unwilling to authorize it permanently, you did not choose to compromise, but researched a new algorithm to solve this problem by yourself.”

"The second thing is when choosing a light source. If you choose some light source provided by foreign countries, the development time can be greatly shortened. But in order not to follow other people's standards, you finally choose to develop a new light source yourself. This kind of repetitive work may seem meaningless to others, but I know what you think. Because these two technologies happen to be lacking in China at present, and if you don’t have your own technology, it’s easy to be suppressed.”

"Compared to other domestic technologies with mature supply chains, you didn't bother with those technical details, which is actually similar to my idea. Some things, we may not use them in large quantities, but we must have them. In the future, [-]D displays will really It is going to be mass-produced, and if the domestic light source factories can’t keep up, of course they can use foreign ones, but whether we have them will affect their sales strategy, which is very important. So you deserve this award.”

"It's not your performance last year that made you win this award, but your accumulation from the establishment of this project to now, so that you can win this year's award with a clear conscience. As for your other senior brothers, their Although the results are impressive, but the independence is not very strong at present. There will be opportunities in the future. Remember what I said, it is more fair for you to win the award. In the face of doubts, just show the results with confidence! Any question?"

"No more!" Zhang Dingxi said hastily.

"Well, I'll hang up without it. Remember, March, bring me something!"

"Don't worry, Director Ning, even if I'm exhausted in the lab, I still want to show you something on the day of the awards ceremony!"

"Don't make trouble... What are you dying for? Rest when it's time to rest. You thought you were in March! You're so pissed off! Hang up!"

"Beep beep..."

Hearing the busy tone from the phone, Zhang Dingxi was stunned for a moment, then took out his mobile phone, opened WeChat, looked at the lively content of the group chat, thought for a while, and quickly typed a few lines: "I just finished talking with Ning Dao Call, Director Ning asked me to come up with some results in March to prove myself, brothers and sisters, whoever is free recently, can you help me? Don’t talk about one month’s meals, I’ll pay for one year’s meals!”

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Compared with various internal discussions, the Computer Awards in March this year did cause a storm on the Internet.

For ordinary people, the name Zhang Dingxi is actually very unfamiliar. After all, his research is still in the laboratory and has not had time to release it to the public.Although many research results have been published in conference papers, they have also been adopted by conferences and included in journals, but who would ordinary people pay attention to those things?I can't understand and say...

However, it is easy to see Ning Wei's name by clicking on the award details column.

This is already news.

After all, the March Award has been held for four times, and its influence is no longer comparable to that of the first time.

Big bosses show their faces every year. This method of public scoring even allows many people to compare it with the secret award operation of the Nobel Prize every year.But as the initiator of the award, Ning Wei never appeared in the list of judges.But even if you look at people who are unhappy with Ning Wei, you have to admit that Ning Wei has an absolute say in the two awards of mathematics and computer science.

This time Ning Wei finally couldn't help showing up, and he made a big move as soon as he made a move, directly giving a high score of 9.5 points.

You must know that the judges of the March Award are extremely cautious in scoring, and 9.5 points are a high score that has never appeared before.Before that, only one judge of the Mathematics Award had a high score of 8.8. Generally speaking, the reference scores given by the judges of the previous March Award winners were mostly concentrated in the segment of 7.5 to 8.5.

Show, too show!

Although Ning Wei also rated other candidates, everyone didn't pay much attention to them. After all, although Ning Wei's comments did not use any uncommon words, they were often full of academic terms and thesis topics, which were difficult for ordinary people to understand. Understand.What everyone is more concerned about is who is this Zhang Dingxi who can make Ning Wei come forward and score such a high score, and this is actually no secret.

Anyone who cares can get the answer just by searching the Internet...

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374 The Violent Ning Tradition

The Internet age has made people aware of a question that they have never thought about before, that is, what is the truth?

When we are bombarded by excess information every day, not to mention distinguishing the inner cause of something, just distinguishing the true from the false requires all our energy.

When people speak out on the Internet, they subconsciously mainly narrate the content that is beneficial to them. Even if what he said is indeed the truth, it is at best a one-sided truth. Even so, it is enough for countless people to make wrong judgments.To solve this kind of problem, it is often necessary for media personnel to be able to objectively give a more complete description of everything reported without subjective consciousness.

But unfortunately, due to the pursuit of traffic in the self-media era, let alone let media people report an event fairly and comprehensively without mixing objective emotions. Selective reports that are not for the sake of traffic and eyeballs are considered very media people. It's morale.

In order to prevent the emergence of Rashomon, there is such a rule in the professional ethics of journalists that all reports involving conflicts of interest must interview three parties; two parties with conflicts of interest, and a third party who knows the truth.This is what media majors should learn as a freshman.

However, fair reports often lack the effect of shocking people, but eye-catching and curious headlines and report content are often still very popular, which directly leads to the content produced by media professionals who want to be serious about the content, but no one cares about it. .Bad money drives out good money in this way, so people can be moved, angry, and passionate every day because of the news on various hot searches, until the sudden reversal...

Up to now, many people have even become accustomed to letting various hot events float for a while, and will not comment at the first time, waiting for the final reversal of the plot.

It's the same this time.

Breaking news must of course have a shocking headline.

For example: "It's because of him that he made an outrageous comment on the youngest academician's March Award!", "After three years of silence, Ning Wei finally couldn't help it!"

But in fact, such a title is already very gentle, and there are even more exaggerated ones, such as: "The fairness of the March Award is questioned by the world, because the initiator of the March Award, Ning Wei, did such a thing!"

Similar titles probably have the same meaning as "JJ Lin and Jay Chou's two bases turned against each other at the concert, tens of thousands of fans witnessed each other calling each other not men".Just reading the title makes people feel the adrenaline soaring. Clicking in to see the content, I found that Lao Zhou invited Lin as a guest at the concert, and the two sang the song "What a Man".

In fact, this kind of report is not very malicious, and it mainly attracts people's attention. However, some reports are not only shocking in title, but also in content. He gave a very firm conclusion, "It will take ten more years for the March Award to be recognized by scientists all over the world, rather than scoring this time. It may even prevent the March Award from becoming the same as the Nobel Prize and the Turing Award. an award of equal stature."

What's even more frightening is that the self-media directly derived the conclusion that there is no soil for scientific research in China, and that good scientists will degenerate in this land of China.For example, the former Ning Wei, what a good child, after being rated as an academician, he is still floating.

The former dragon-slaying boy has finally become the person he hated the most...

This means that the biggest villain who once stopped the Dragon Slaying Boy was a highly respected professor in the United States, otherwise these people might be able to elicit more emotions.

However, these news also successfully put this matter on the hot search, and made Zhang Dingxi's name known to the public.

Some people even specially paid to download Zhang Dingxi's papers. Of course, whether they can understand it is a matter of opinion.

In short, Ning Wei and Zhang Dingxi were at the forefront because of the announcement of the March Award, and even the first batch of doctoral students under Ning Wei were exposed one by one.People are still not very interested in their research direction, but they are quite interested in them.

So why Zhang Dingxi? !What is the PY deal between teachers and students?

……

As for the distorted public opinion on the Internet, it actually didn't have any impact on the group of people in the yard.

If there is something to say, it is probably because Ning Wei talked to Director Tian again, and then posted a threatening sentence in the student group, "Everyone, hurry up and do research, surf the Internet every day and be careful not to graduate."

Yes, for Ning Wei, three years ago, he never took the media reports seriously, and three years later, he would not feel any throbbing emotions because of these selective reports.

It's not a day or two since someone always wants to take the opportunity to discredit him, just get used to it.

I once felt a little bit aggrieved and wanted to go back immediately, but after all, I was still immature.After the man had a child, he became more open-minded after all, or Ning Wei didn't bother to compete with a group of people who had nothing to do with him.

From another point of view, this kind of report that fuels the flames actually has some benefits.

Stir up Zhang Dingxi, and by the way, stir up the entire set of technical solutions, so that after a set of technical standards is officially announced to the public, there will be enough enthusiasm.

In fact, science and technology work does not require too much enthusiasm, but it is necessary for related investment companies to do product promotion.

But Ning Wei apparently forgot that the group of Ningban children were still young, passionate, and at the stage of their lives with the strongest fighting spirit.Their real scientific research ability may not be as good as that of their brothers and sisters, but they are a group of talented students who understand the artificial intelligence software level best, and are most able to use the existing artificial intelligence platform.

What's even more frightening is that they have the backing of Ning She, who has already succeeded many times.

Yes, when Ning Wei was totally dismissive of outside public opinion, Zhang Dingxi had no energy to care about it in the laboratory, and other brothers and sisters were obediently busy with their big papers because of a message from Ning Dao, Chen Diancheng decided to stand Out.

For the president of Ningshe, it happened to be very busy recently.He has already handed over the most troublesome task assigned by director Ning to a senior graduate student.No matter what kind of results are given to him in the end, passing the test is definitely not a big problem.

Chen Diancheng was planning to be lazy, but he already had a general idea about that problem, and the verification results were pretty good, but it was manual labor to make it concrete.Not everyone likes to type code on the keyboard in front of the computer all day long.

Some people can be a monster at leisure.

The most important thing is that Ningshe's latest "crystal shoe" project has made great progress, which gave Chen Diancheng the capital to do something big.

Although Chen Diancheng and Ning Wei's family environment is different, for example, the younger Chen and the elders belong to Gaozhi, his father went to sea early, and his business is still very successful, while his mother has been working as a professor in a university, and his family is very wealthy.But the two people's philosophy of not being afraid of big things when they do things is the same.

So, when everyone in the yard was doing things at ease, after reading various reports on the Internet, the child who was so angry that he couldn't help himself asked for the phone number of Mr. Zhang of the Penguin Group, sent a text message, and after receiving the reply, Immediately called over.

"Hello, Mr. Zhang, I'm Chen Diancheng."

"Oh, President Chen, long time, long time, I've always wanted to meet you, but unfortunately I went to the capital twice, but I didn't meet you."

"Mr. Zhang, you're welcome. In this way, I happen to be free these two days. Do you have time to come here? I will show you our software laboratory in person, and show you the latest version of the crystal shoe software by the way."

"Oh? President Chen, wait a moment, let me check the schedule. Well, okay, I have a meeting in the afternoon, and I will fly to the capital after the meeting. See you tomorrow at the Yanbei International Mathematical Center?"

"Don't come to the courtyard. If you come tomorrow, we'll meet you at the north gate. I'll take you in directly. Don't bring too many people. I'll show you around, and let's talk about something in a low-key manner."

"This one……"

"Mr. Zhang, don't you know? Our Director Ning has always had a bad impression of capital, so let's be careful when we meet, and don't be bumped into by Director Ning."

These words made Zhang Zhihong a little confused.

What the hell is Ning Wei not having a good impression of capital?I have never heard of it, but it is a fact that Ningwei is difficult to deal with.The Penguin Group tried to cooperate with Ning Wei several times, but failed in the end.

So far, the Penguin Group has only had some relationship with Ningwei in the future city project in LP County.For strategic considerations, the Penguin Group mainly operates an interactive game area in the future city and built a penguin building.

Now the whole project is coming to an end, and it is expected to start trial operation in half a year at most.Many designs in the city are indeed breathtaking, but the effect needs to be verified by time.

However, the Penguin Group now really hopes to have in-depth cooperation with Ningwei.Especially in Ning-led CPU design, it is said that there is a major breakthrough, and it may be a key node that will be launched soon.

Although I don't know if there is any potential in the [-]D silicon-integrated CPU market, for a large software company rooted in China and focusing on social networking, it is still necessary to understand this new technology and make some preparations.

For Penguin Group, this is more than a market issue.There is no other reason, just looking at the shareholding composition behind Ningsi Lab is enough.

Of course, there is also the influence of Ningshe's launch of a series of products.

For example, the random algorithm has been widely used in various games developed by the Penguin Group. Most of the games represented by the Penguin Group have also added the random algorithm developed by Ningshe under the communication of the Penguin Group.

With the previous successful cases, Penguin Group naturally did not dare to underestimate the crystal shoe project developed by Ningshe.

To be honest, if Ning Society is not just a college student association, and it is backed by Ning Wei's big Buddha, Penguin Group really wants to buy Ning Society directly.Acquisition is impossible now, so for the people of Ningshe, Penguin Group is still very strange.

It's a pity that not to mention the members of the Ning Club, even the students diverted from the Ning Class in their sophomore year are too sought-after. Even with the size of the Penguin Group, they don't have an advantage when it comes to robbing people.This is also one of the reasons why Zhang Zhihong has always wanted to meet Chen Diancheng. In addition to talking about cooperation and investment, Zhang Zhihong also wants to talk to Chen Diancheng. Using his status as the president, he will help Penguin Group to do publicity when recruiting schools, such as helping Penguin The group coordinates a special school recruitment promotion within Ningshe every year.

At present, only Huawei has taken advantage of the cooperation with Ningwei, and will hold an internal presentation of Ningwei every year.After other companies entered the campus during the school recruitment season, they did not see a few Ningshe members submit their resumes, which was really a headache.Especially for software companies that do not advance or retreat.There will always be a shortage of top talents, but now Ning She is probably the group of top talents who have the deepest influence on strong artificial intelligence recognized in the world.

"That's fine, I'll listen to President Chen's arrangement. What time do you think we will meet at the north gate of Yanbei University tomorrow morning?"

"Nine o'clock. I'll pick you up at the door on time."

"Okay, then President Chen will see you tomorrow."

……

Early the next morning, Chen Diancheng came to the north gate of the school alone on time, which made him very satisfied. Zhang Zhihong only brought an accompanying secretary to wait for him at the north gate.What satisfied him most was that the two of them were not in the car, keeping a low profile enough.