Free Web NovelChapter 346: Chapter 229: The Fourth Paper is Published!
The discussion in the chat group continued.
Zhang Zhen was talking about the difficulties he encountered in researching robot operating systems, and several people joined the discussion.
Zhao Yi pretended not to see the chat records and silently sent a smiling emoticon.
A few seconds later, Ma Xiaojun typed and asked, "Zhao Yi, I saw your interview video. Your fourth paper will be published in ’Mathematical Progress’ next month, right?"
"Yes, it has been accepted."
"Is your paper about twin primes? That’s what your interview mentioned."
"Yes."
"Can you tell us more about it?"
Zhao Yi replied, "It’s a weakened version of the twin prime conjecture. I only proved a small part of it, but I think this approach to prove the twin prime conjecture has reached a dead end."
"Oh."
Professor Liu suddenly sent a private message, "My research is almost complete, and the test results are not bad. After adding your filtering method, the computer’s recognition and analysis capabilities of input data have significantly improved."
Zhao Yi: "I’m glad I could help you, Professor Liu."
Professor Liu: "When you have time, come to the Science Academy and see the final results. You have a robot, right? I can install part of the program package in your robot. We also have the most advanced language package from our partner company, which I can help you install."
"That would be great."
Zhao Yi was tempted by the offer.
At this stage, the main weakness of robots was their conversation ability. The evolutionary algorithm content that Professor Liu had been researching was quite interesting. At the very least, it could grant robots a certain level of autonomous learning ability instead of relying solely on the input of vast amounts of information.
Perhaps because Zhao Yi suddenly joined the conversation, Zhang Zhen approached him to discuss the technical issues of Yuan Zhongchen’s team in designing the robot operating system.
"If we can solve this technical problem, the framework of the robot operating system will be complete. We can then proceed with the first round of financing. Once we get the financing money, we can expand our scale and recruit more people... " freewebnσvel.cøm
Zhang Zhen said.
Zhao Yi asked about the technical issue, which was not too complicated; it was just a matter of compatibility between machine language and the underlying system.
Zhao Yi didn’t have a deep understanding of computer hardware technology, so after some thought, he recommended someone to help.
Xu Chao.
Recently, Xu Chao’s work had been relatively relaxed. He had provided technical support for several cooperative projects, and after completing several troubleshooting trips, he spent most of his time on vacation or visiting the laboratory. However, he was no longer a laboratory employee. Wandering around the university every day, he felt like an old man reminiscing about the past.
Zhao Yi had been unsure of how to arrange work for Xu Chao, as he didn’t plan on starting any new projects and wanted to take some time off.
But now things were different.
Yuan Zhongchen’s team was a suitable place for Xu Chao. His technical skills were undoubtedly top-notch, and he could not only provide technical assistance but also serve as Zhao Yi’s representative as the "major shareholder."
In this way, he could communicate with Zhao Yi about important matters in a timely manner.
For example, the upcoming financing.
Financing was good for the company, but it might not always be beneficial for the original shareholders. The shares they held would be diluted. Of course, after financing, the company’s valuation would increase significantly, and the value of the shares they held would only increase. Nevertheless, their shares would still be diluted.
Of course.
Financing was a necessary part of a company’s development process. No one could realistically handle everything by themselves, and even those with the financial means wouldn’t invest all their money in a single company.
Doing so would create a family business.
If it really developed into a family business, even the employees would lose their motivation. They would be working for the owner, and they wouldn’t put in as much effort as before.
So the best approach was to let the company develop freely and normally.
Zhao Yi hadn’t planned to invest more heavily, but as a shareholder with the same proportion of shares as the founder and core member, Yuan Zhongchen, it would be best to have a representative in the company.
This representative, with a stake worth at least hundreds of millions or even more in the future, was worth appointing.
This representative also possessed strong technical abilities and could provide considerable help to Yuan Zhongchen’s team.
Zhao Yi discussed his thoughts with Zhang Zhen.
After chatting with several people in a row, he planned to shut down his computer and rest for a while. Suddenly, he felt as if he had forgotten something.
What could it be?
Why couldn’t he remember?
After pondering in his chair for a long time, Zhao Yi finally thought of one person - Terence Tao.
That’s right!
He hadn’t carefully studied the files Terence Tao had sent to him, and it seemed somewhat disrespectful to the attention the other party had given him.
"Alright!"
"I’ll take a serious look this time, and if possible, I’ll try to work on it!"
Zhao Yi began to study the content carefully.
He had read part of it last time and had researched some of the professional terms involved.
For example, compressive sensing.
The core concept of compressive sensing is to theoretically reduce the cost of measuring a signal.
For instance, if a signal contains one thousand pieces of data, according to traditional signal processing theory, at least one thousand measurements are required to fully restore the signal. This is equivalent to saying that one needs one thousand equations to accurately solve one thousand unknowns.
However, the idea of compressive sensing is to assume that the signal has a certain characteristic so that it can be fully restored with only three hundred measurements. This is equivalent to solving one thousand unknowns with just three hundred equations.
Terence Tao’s new digital compression technology revolves around compressive sensing and uses mathematical methods to transform low-resolution images into high-resolution images.
He has already done a lot of work in mathematics for this.
What Zhao Yi sees now is his achievements.
Obviously.
Many of the contents that Terence Tao sent to Zhao Yi are of a confidential nature.
After carefully studying the contents, Zhao Yi felt an immense sense of trust, because the mathematical content above could be considered research achievements.
However, on second thought.
When mathematical research reached the level of Terence Tao or people like him, ordinary mathematical achievements indeed had little significance to them.
Unless it’s a very significant mathematical achievement, it would hardly improve their international mathematical status.
Terence Tao has already done the mathematics work, and what he needs Zhao Yi’s help with is the computer algorithm part.
If there is a very good algorithm that can efficiently design the mathematical content in the algorithm, it can achieve a new digital compression technology.
100% conversion of mathematical theory into computer content is almost impossible. The algorithm just determines the degree of completion.
Terence Tao sent a lot of mathematical theoretical content.
What Zhao Yi needs to do is to maximize the reflection of the theoretical content into the computer algorithm and minimize the amount of computation needed when capturing information.
This is the key to the new digital compression technology.
The most unreasonable part of the original digital compression technology was that the amount of calculation needed for data acquisition was higher than that of digital decompression, while the actual hardware level was just the opposite.
For example, the performance of a point-and-shoot camera used for photography is definitely very average.
However, the performance of a computer used for decompression analysis and printing is tens or even hundreds of times higher than that of a camera, yet the amount of computation for decompression and analysis of photos is lower.
This is the contradiction.
The algorithm to be designed by Zhao Yi is to transfer Terence Tao’s mathematical theoretical work into the algorithm. The closer the conversion is to 100%, the more perfect his work will be.
Zhao Yi officially started work.
What he did at the beginning was not to enter the algorithm design step, but to study the mathematics part carefully. After almost understanding it, he immediately used Supervision Law.
Revise it!
What Terence Tao did was the mathematical theory of digital compression technology. Applied mathematics is not a simple proof question. There are many parts of the content. Zhao Yi uses Supervision Law one by one. It doesn’t take much energy to use it once, but it still consumes quite a bit when calculated as a whole.
Consumption is not a problem for Zhao Yi now, as long as it is not a one-time large consumption of energy, it can be solved with Study Coin.
He is now a "nouveau riche" in Study Coin, or a "burst of energy" user.
After squandering eleven Study Coins luxuriously, Zhao Yi revised the entire mathematics part in just under two hours, and then sent the revised content to Terence Tao.
Trust is mutual.
Terence Tao trusts him, and he also trusts Terence Tao. Let Terence Tao review it, and if there are no problems, he will start designing the algorithm.
This process is estimated to take one or two days.
Zhao Yi took the time to study the robot, intending to put the robot to use instead of stacking it in the dormitory to take up space.
"This way!"
"Let’s make it a meal-fetching robot first!"
Zhao Yi made up his mind.
The next morning, he went out with the robot, tested it to buy breakfast for himself, clipped the money into the robot’s hand, set up the program and route, as well as the breakfast to be purchased, and set off officially.
All the way.
There were many onlookers along the way, and even two teachers followed.
This was a bit awkward.
After letting the robot buy breakfast at the cafeteria, Zhao Yi decided to let Xu Chao help with the testing. Once the test confirmed that it could be used, he would let the robot help him buy meals.
This is the first step for the robot to become a nanny!
The next day.
Zhao Yi did not receive a reply from Terence Tao, but instead received the new issue of "Mathematical Progress," which published his fourth paper--
"Proof of the Existence of Infinite Prime Combinations Less Than or Equal to 246".
He has always felt that the paper would not have much impact, after all, it is just a proof of a part of the weakened Twin Prime Conjecture.
Weakened, part...
What he did not expect was that the impact of this paper even surpassed the previous few papers.
On the same day, major domestic media exclaimed that "Zhao Yi has taken the first step for the international mathematical world to prove the Twin Prime Conjecture!"
"This is the most significant step!"
"A step across the times!"
"And certainly the most important step!"
Zhao Yi looked at the content of the media reports and couldn’t help but twitch the corners of his mouth, "This is..."
"A bit exaggerated, right?"
