Genius of the Rules-Style System

Chapter 58: Chapter 54 ’Youth Cup’ Champion!_2

"We choose the computer topic."

Everyone looked at guest He Xianglin.

He Xianglin smiled as he walked onto the stage, took the host’s microphone, and looked at the players from Thirteenth Middle School. "Before I came, I didn’t expect the final to go into the overtime stage and didn’t specifically prepare questions."

"Thirteenth Middle School has players proficient in computers, so it’s not surprising that they picked me. So, are you sure you want me to ask the question?"

"Let me make it clear in advance that if you have a computer-savvy player among you, I certainly won’t ask simple questions since it would be unfair to the other team."

The audience nodded in agreement.

Zhao Yi had found a flaw in the iOS system and won a million dollars, his computer skills were undoubtedly amazing.

If they only asked high school-level computer questions, even if the difficulty was a bit higher, it would still be unfair to Jiangzhou Experimental Middle School.

Everyone turned to look at Zhao Yi.

Zhao Yi didn’t hesitate and still confidently nodded, "I’m sure."

"Good."

He Xianglin laughed, "Young people should be confident. So, I’ll mention something related to my research."

Everyone suddenly became interested.

"I have a project to design a robotic arm with high flexibility, ideally as flexible as a human body." He Xianglin gestured with his arm to demonstrate.

Zhao Yi immediately caught the key point, "You mean it can move left and right, up, and down simultaneously, and have rotation capabilities as well as telescoping functionality?"

"Exactly!"

He Xianglin looked at Zhao Yi approvingly and added, "When the arm is in motion, it also needs to have other functions. For example, the simplest one is when encountering a hard obstacle, the arm would stop and be able to bypass it."

Zhao Yi nodded in understanding.

"We encountered many problems during the design process."

"My question is coming." He Xianglin laughed, "If you can point out the problems we may encounter, just two or three of them, I’ll definitely give you full marks!"

"Huh!"

The audience became noisy.

Everyone thought He Xianglin was making it difficult for a high school student— even a computer prodigy—to point out problems encountered by a professor during research.

Not to mention high school students, even computer science undergraduates or master’s students might not be able to answer the question.

Zhao Yi, however, fell into deep thought.

In his memories of more than a decade ago, he had also been exposed to mechanical design and artificial intelligence content. Artificial intelligence was a big direction in the future, and everywhere there was publicity. He had even learned some knowledge on his own, hoping to have the opportunity to jump to a top company in the future.

However, even more than a decade later, designing a mechanical arm as flexible as a human body would be a challenging and almost impossible task.

So, what was the difficulty a decade ago?

One aspect was program design.

Mechanical devices rely on programs to drive them, but programs are ultimately just code, and to catch up with the human mind requires unimaginable complexity.

Another aspect was...

Zhao Yi suddenly had a bright idea and spoke into the microphone, "Professor He, I can’t think of any specific problems that you would encounter in your research in such a short time, but most of your problems can be linked to one point."

"What point?" He Xianglin asked thoughtfully.

"The lack of a comprehensive underlying system support!"

Zhao Yi was very certain, "The current mechanical intelligence technology is just beginning, and there is no comprehensive and simplified robot operating system for easy design."

"So, when you design, you have to write every small file that supports the operation yourself, and the CPU used for the mechanics only supports single-threaded work. But even if you upgrade to support multithreading, the lack of perfect operating system support can easily cause simple underlying programs to crash."

Zhao Yi finished and faced the audience, raising an easy-to-understand example, "It’s like building a house on loose soil without a foundation—no matter how good the design or how many functions it has, various problems will arise."

"In my opinion, mechanical automation and artificial intelligence are the main directions of future technology, and the most difficult problem to overcome now is not the design of the upper-layer programs but the fact that no easy-to-use robot operating system can be found worldwide."

"For simple automation, single-threaded operation is sufficient for use, but for the design of complex machinery, automation, or even intelligence, a well-rounded underlying system support is indispensable!"

Zhao Yi finished speaking, bowed to the audience, and then looked up, saying, "That’s my answer, thank you!"

"Clap! Clap! Clap!"

A warm round of applause arose from the audience.

Most people didn’t understand what Zhao Yi was specifically talking about, but the conversation revolved around automation, machinery, programs, and operating systems, all accompanied by a confident expression, and it sounded very impressive.

He Xianglin took a deep breath, gazing at Zhao Yi in surprise. After returning to his seat, he wrote a score on the card and held it up high.

"10 points!"

"Whew!"

The audience looked at the other guests.

The other three guests exchanged glances and also held up their cards with scores. free𝑤ebnovel.com

"10 points!"

"9 points!"

"9 points!"

The host summed up and announced forcefully, "Zhengyang No.13 Middle School’s score is 38 points!"

The players from Zhengyang Thirteenth Middle School immediately cheered. Zhao Yi was hugged by Lin Xiaoqing and Sun Liang, one on each side.

"Get away from me, don’t touch me!" Zhao Yi pushed Sun Liang away distastefully.

Sun Liang sat aside.

Sun Jiali rushed over and immediately took Sun Liang’s place.

On the left and right).

Beautiful women in his arms.

Zhao Yi patted both their backs with a hand, cleared his throat, and said, "Pay attention to the impact, pay attention! Although I’m outstanding, handsome, and attractive ... but everyone else is watching!"

Lin Xiaoqing immediately let go, her face still flushed with excitement.

Sun Jiali didn’t care, hugging him as if she couldn’t help being excited. Zhao Yi quickly spread his hands, showing his innocence.

What were they doing!

On the other side.

The players from Jiangzhou Experimental Middle School were feeling down. They thought answering the question wasn’t important now— the other team had scored 38 points.

How could they catch up?

Even a perfect answer wouldn’t get full marks.

In the end, they chose a history question.

Zhang Zhenhua didn’t make it difficult for anyone either. The old man gently asked Jiangzhou Experimental Middle School to talk about the historical knowledge of the Terracotta Warriors.

Jiangzhou Experimental Middle School said a lot and gained the approval of the guests.

"9 points!"

"7 points!"

"8 points!"

"8 points!"

"The score is 32 points!"

The host decisively announced the result, "Let’s congratulate Zhengyang Thirteenth Middle School for winning the championship of this year’s ’Youth Cup’ with a high score of 258!"

The entire audience erupted in excitement.