Free Web NovelChapter 162: Chapter 147: You must be thinking about eating pi!_2
And then.
He nestled his face against her belly, drawing a deep breath.
Intoxicated.
"You smell so lovely!"
"You...stop it!" Lin Xiaoqing’s face flushed as if she was about to burst into tears. She pushed Zhao Yi away, trying to suppress her emotion. It felt ticklish at the spot where he’d nuzzled on her belly and she had an urge to scratch it.
A gasp suddenly came from the door, "What...what...are you guys doing!"
Lin Xiaoqing quickly pushed Zhao Yi away.
This time, with more force.
Zhao Yi was knocked back onto the bed. He thought to himself with relief, ’glad it happened on the bed’, otherwise he might have ended up sprawling on the floor.
Giggles of two women echoed from outside the door.
"I saw everything!"
"You saw it wrong!"
"Really? No way! Xiaoqing, you guys!"
"Stop talking!"
Zhao Yi chuckled, touched his chin, and saw the message of Study Coins credited to his account. He gave himself a thumbs up.
"Mission completed!"
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Sea waves.
Seagulls.
Zhao Yi was lying calmly on the beach, soaking in the warm sand from head to toe.
His wish was finally fulfilled!
The only thing was, the two girls weren’t applying sunscreen on him but were burying him in the sand.
Soon.
Only his head was left exposed.
Being buried in the sand was a unique pleasure. He continued to bask in the sun and enjoy the beach until he finally stood up and walked to the edge of the water to wade around after a long while.
Two middle-aged men walked by him.
One of them, a bespectacled man, made eye contact with Zhao Yi and stopped abruptly. He exclaimed, somewhat surprised, "Zhao Yi?"
Zhao Yi was also slightly surprised.
Though he had been on the news a few times, he knew his fairly ordinary face wouldn’t be easily remembered, especially in an unfamiliar place where people didn’t usually recognize him.
"You are?"
The man confirmed it was Zhao Yi and enthusiastically extended his hand to shake, "Hello! Hello! I’ve been following your Filtering method recently. You’re truly amazing, indeed a budding hero in your field!"
"My name is Zeng Wenjun. I work at the Chuanfu Computer Application Research Institute. This is Professor Zhang Qinghong from the Hong Kong Polytechnic University."
Zhang Qinghong also came over to shake hands with Zhao Yi.
After introducing himself, Zeng Wenjun revealed that they had travelled to South Island not for leisure but for an academic conference organized by the Computer Mathematics Committee.
The Computer Mathematics Committee is a subsidiary of the national Mathematical Society, affiliated with the Science Academy’s mechanized laboratory for Mathematics and Information. The newly-established organization held its first formal academic conference.
Zhang Qinghong, as the deputy director of the Computational Mathematics Committee, discussed the recently-concluded conference and mentioned the possibility of inviting Zhao Yi to the next one.
After Zhang Qinghong left, Zeng Wenjun engaged in conversation with Zhao Yi. Mostly, it was him speaking, discussing the topic of "Effective and Irrelevant Carry Filtering". It seemed as though he wanted Zhao Yi to help clarify some queries.
Zhao Yi simply headed to a nearby spot to rest at the beach and ordered two cups of coffee from the waiter.
They began to converse at leisure.
Zhao Hongjuan noticed Zhao Yi talking to someone and came over in surprise, asking, "Zhao Yi, do you have acquaintances even here in South Island?"
"No."
"This is... Madam? You look so young. Your son is quite the celebrity. There’s no one in the world of computer and mathematics that doesn’t know about him. I’m here to learn something new too."
Zeng Wenjun mistook Zhao Hongjuan for Zhao Yi’s mother.
Zhao Hongjuan, stifling her laugh without explaining, walked away to block Lin Xiaoqing and Zhao Linlin who wanted to join, and stayed aside so as not to interfere.
Zhao Yi continued chatting with Zeng Wenjun.
Zeng Wenjun asked several questions about the filtering method, then talked about his research, "Our institute, sponsored by Haitian Technology, has been developing a program capable of distinguishing items."
He started to explain.
The idea of using AI to distinguish items might sound simple, but it’s not. When dealing with photos, it’s relatively easier, but with dynamic video, it’s harder. The most challenging aspect involves uncertainties, such as a cucumber.
Differentiating a cucumber is difficult given that many vegetables and fruits share similar characteristics like being green and long, and the cucumber varieties also vary greatly.
"Our ultimate goal is to pick the most likely correct item from many similar objects accurately."
Zeng Wenjun explained, "but we have tried many methods without success. Many people in our institute believe that your filtering method could be helpful, but it’s just too complicated."
He sighed with a bitter smile.
Next, Zeng Wenjun talked about the issues they encountered during the research of the filtering method. He also expressed his hope to see successful cases applying the filtering method, which would help their understanding and application.
Round and round.
Zhao Yi murmured to himself, realized that this guy...wanted to see the core code of the Rubik’s Cube calculator?
Not just seeing it!
Noticing that Zhao Yi didn’t respond directly, Zeng Wenjun put it bluntly, "Zhao Yi, you know that our country’s computer development can’t keep up with foreign countries. We don’t have any complete products for some basic tasks like operating systems and low-level hardware drives. Your filtering method is a brand-new algorithm that could help our country to overtake other countries in computer software capability."
"If possible, I have an impertinent request. Could you give us a copy of the source code of the Rubik’s cube calculator for our institute? Don’t worry, we’ll only use it for research in the institute and we won’t distribute it or use it for commercial purposes..."
Zhao Yi shook his head, "Honestly, I intended to sell the source code before, and Apple Company was interested in acquiring it. But they didn’t offer enough. My asking price is six hundred thousand US dollars."
"If you want the source code, fine. Just two million RMB," he thought for a moment, "either from the government or an individual. I can even publicly release the code!"
"I’m not all about the money. But given I wrote the source code line by line, there needs to be a good enough reason. I can’t just let people see it for nothing."
Zhao Yi’s words were very sincere.
"I understand."
Zeng Wenjun went on, "You probably don’t know the situation in our national research institutes, especially the computing ones. The key national research institutes and labs mostly rely on government funding. Top Internet companies in our country have their research teams, and most of the projects of our lab are supported by the state or completely for the state..."
So, in one word --
Poor!
"If you could share the source code, surely we could..."
"As well as the development of domestic computers..."
Zeng Wenjun kept talking, roughly asking on behalf of the ’official’ for Zhao Yi to be generous and copy them the source code.
For a naive eighteen-year-old who hasn’t experienced much, they might be persuaded by these seemingly righteous appeals to the nation.
Zhao Yi was nonplussed by it all.
The country?
If the country truly needs it, he would surely contribute without hesitation. But would the country care about two million RMB?
All the words Zeng Wenjun said were for himself.
He just couldn’t use the filtering method effectively, so he wanted to ’freely’ check the source code, maybe even with other secret intentions. Ultimately he just wanted a freebie.
Zhao Yi couldn’t believe that there could be such a shameless person in the world. He decided not to chat more, and only had one sentence to say, "Two million, then you can look. I could even sell it to you."
"Otherwise..."
Shaking his head.
Zeng Wenjun took a deep breath and kept on, "Don’t you want to think about the country?"
Zhao Yi realized that this guy had no intention to pay the money. He apologized and walked to the seaside. Calling Lin Xiaoqing, Zhao Linlin, and Zhao Hongjuan, he was ready to leave and rest.
He found it somewhat amusing.
This guy kept asking for the source code but didn’t want to spend a penny, still spewing big words about serving the country...
Jesus.
What are you dreaming about!
