Chinese entertainment for engineering students

As the new year is approaching, Wang Feifei went to Xiangjiang to record a program. She has been invited a lot recently, and her rising reputation overseas has made her gradually become a bit transcendent in Xiangjiang. Last year's hit songs are obviously inseparable from Wang Fei's name.

It is estimated that in another year at most, Wang Fei will have to announce that she will no longer participate like Zhang Guorong. Otherwise, new and old singers will be scolded.

Xiangjiang is a place that worships the West, especially the country. Wang Fei’s songs have reached the top of the country. How can it be weak in Hong Kong? Now when Wang Fei is mentioned, she is not just a diva, she is an international superstar, eh , it is true that Xiangjiang people dare to brag.

Of course, if Fan Fan is talking about it, there is nothing wrong with Xiangjiang being blown away like this. After all, Wang Feina is really internationally famous. As for the superstar, well, who is not a superstar anymore.

However, Wang Xu speculates that if "The Matrix" can achieve good results, Wang Fei's reputation as an international superstar will really be confirmed.

But what no one expected was that Wang Fei's simple recording of a program would become inexplicably popular, not because of the program itself, but because of the interview after the program.

"Excuse me, why have you been in the mainland recently?" asked a reporter from Xiangjiang.

"I'm engaged, of course with my fiancé." Wang Fei nodded matter-of-factly.

"Is your fiancé your producer?" asked another Hong Kong reporter.

"Yes, that's him, that Dr.

"I can see that you love him very much." The reporter caught Wang Fei's micro-expression and quickly complimented him.

"Yes, I love him." Wang Fei raised her hand generously and showed everyone her diamond ring.

"It's a very beautiful style. It should be a set with your necklace and earrings. Such a big diamond must be worth a lot of money. Can you introduce your fiancé?" The reporter complimented and used clichés. Wang Xu is a mysterious existence. Now Although a lot of information has been exposed.

But he is still not the kind of person who is in the spotlight, and he is the type that readers like to read.

"It's mainly because of his will. He did it by himself, and it didn't cost much." Wang Fei did not introduce Wang Xu. This was the consensus they reached. It was better for Wang Xu to remain mysterious.

"It didn't cost much? Are you saying this is not a real diamond?" The reporter was surprised and asked.

Xiangjiang values ​​luxury goods very much, and I have never heard a celebrity say outright that the jewelry he wears is fake. In the entertainment industry, even if it is rented, you must bring genuine jewelry.

"Diamonds are originally crystallized carbon. These diamonds were made from my hair and his hair. They didn't cost much. They were made from one of his scientific research projects. But the platinum used for fixing cost some money, and he handmade it himself." Made." Wang Fei announced proudly.

Of course, this was also agreed upon. Such good publicity should not be wasted. Wang Xu gave Wang Fei some science knowledge about the pitfalls of diamonds, and then said with a wicked smile that he should educate the people in Xiangjiang so that they can see what they are after. What the hell.

"Can diamonds be made from hair? What's the difference between them and real diamonds? How to tell the difference?" All the reporters were surprised and asked questions one after another.

"There is carbon in hair, so of course it can be made into diamonds, pencil lead, or wood. Anyway, you can do anything. It's just the difference between trouble and no trouble.

Everyone's hair is unique, and there are a small amount of trace elements in the hair. The content and ratio of these trace elements are unique, so the diamonds made will have a unique color.

It also coincides with the Chinese meaning of tying a couple, so he made such a unique set of diamond jewelry. "Wang Fei's science popularization is still going on. Unlike in TV programs where Wang Xu explains the science popularization, this time, the big star himself is doing the science popularization for everyone.

"Will such a diamond be on the market? How much can it cost?" The reporter's question was a bit off-topic. This is a big stunt, and it is certainly worth tracking.

"Probably, we don't know about this. Anyway, our rings have been finished, and we don't have anything to do with the rest." Wang Fei spread her hands, saying that she didn't know anything about the follow-up.

"Can you tell me more about your fiancé?" The reporter brought the topic back to the person involved.

"There's nothing to introduce, he's very nice." Wang Fei returned to her usual aloofness.

"Everyone is very concerned." The reporter asked.

"It has nothing to do with you." Wang Fei said.

"But your fans are very concerned." The reporter continued.

"It has nothing to do with them." Wang Fei continued.

Finally, they left the show coldly. Wang Fei was used to quarreling with reporters every day, so it wasn’t really a bad breakup. Everyone was just working, there was nothing emotional about it, and the necessary materials were all there. Anyway, it was up to the reporters themselves to edit whatever they wanted. The final say.

Then, the next day, all major newspapers, magazines and televisions all reported overwhelmingly.

"Wang Fei Engagement Producer"

"Wang Fei said it has nothing to do with fans"

"Wang Fei's cold words"

"Wang Fei's engagement ring is fake"

Anyway, as for the media in Xiangjiang, everyone knows that he is the founder of the shocking body for future generations. He dares to write any headlines and make them as exciting as possible.

News headlines like this are not a hot topic for Wang Fei. In other words, everything about her is a hot topic, which is not surprising at all. But this time the news incident attracted the attention of other media.

After all, although the news media like to take quotes out of context, some media still show the full text of Wang Fei's conversations. Wang Fei's daily quarrels with reporters are not news. She is used to making sarcastic remarks, and reporters and even her fans have long been used to it.

But this time, the news about Wang Fei's three-piece engagement ring set attracted the attention of many people. The first one was from some major newspapers, and there were always some technology sections. After seeing Wang Fei and her fiancé using their hair to make diamonds, Some people have written popular science articles to eliminate illiteracy.

Then a step further, some professional science and technology magazines began to analyze the current technology of artificial diamonds. In fact, this technology had been invented in 1954, and in 1971, the country of Chou was the first to realize gem-quality diamonds.

But the limitation of this technology has always been cost. The cost of gem-grade artificial diamonds is even more expensive than natural diamonds, which makes the commercialization of this technology impossible.

However, some fine diamond particles can be replaced by artificial diamonds, which are mainly used as industrial raw materials, mainly various abrasives, and use the hardness of diamonds to process metals and non-metals.

Moreover, artificial diamonds have never solved the problem of crystal size. Even if they are gem-grade, they can only produce small diamonds and cannot make diamonds above one carat.

But this time, there are pictures and the truth. The diamond hanging around Wang Fei's neck is at least 10 carats, and 20 carats is not impossible. This is obviously beyond the scope of existing technology.

It should be the only one in the world at present. Then, the magazine estimates based on the processing cost of existing artificial diamonds that the cost of manufacturing a diamond of this size may exceed US$1 million at least.

Therefore, when Wang Fei said that she didn't spend any money, she meant that she didn't spend any money on the diamond, not that the diamond was worthless. Although it is manual, the cost of processing is probably astonishingly high. It doesn't cost much, which is just a modest statement.

Then from the perspective of Wang Fei’s annual income, how much Wang Xu can get as a producer at least, and Wang Xu’s photo album in his childhood was sold out, etc. Although Wang Xu may not be as good as Wang Fei, his income should be the same. Very impressive.

Based on this, we can judge that what they mean by not spending much money may be different from what we understand by not spending much money.

This relatively rational analysis lasted for several days, but the popularity did not subside. The reason was that a jeweler took a fancy to Wang Fei's set of jewelry and contacted the agent to ask if he could lend it for exhibition.

Of course Wang Fei knew what Wang Xu was thinking. He wanted to introduce this technology and shake up the jewelry market. Of course she had to cooperate. So, just being a little reserved, I loaned out the necklace and earrings.

In fact, the processing level of Wang Xu's set of jewelry is also quite good, which has entertainment skills. Although Wang Xu rarely uses it, his carving and some metalworking are top-notch.

Coupled with Wang Xu's outstanding artistic aesthetic, the set of necklaces and jewelry he designed are rare fine jewelry in themselves. Even without the gimmick of artificial diamonds, this set of jewelry can be regarded as the highlight of a jewelry store.

The exhibition was held in a hotel in Victoria Harbor. This was an exhibition organized by a well-established jewelry company in Hong Kong. All the treasures of this company were on display. The visitors were celebrities from all walks of life, business elites and so on. Anyway, there were no If you're worth it, people won't invite you to participate.

Wang Fei did not attend. It was already the second year of junior high school when this place started. Who told her that at thirty she still had to attend various galas in the imperial capital.

China Channel's Spring Festival Gala, for Wang Fei now, is an annual appearance. Basically, there is no need for selection or anything, and the program has been decided early.

It wasn't even necessary to rehearse, but Wang Fei went to the rehearsal anyway. She was still very serious about her singing career at the moment.

Just sing a song and leave, it's simple and clear, the time is the prime time at eight or nine o'clock, which is enough to reflect Wang Fei's worth.

The song I chose this year is "Invisible Wings", which is quite inspirational and within the rules. I won't break the rules when attending the Spring Festival Gala. This is the most stable choice.

The song was also very good, and it was sung all over the streets the next day. This is the influence of the Chinese Spring Festival Gala in this era.

This year's Spring Festival Gala featured a skit "Playing Poker", performed by Huang Hong and Hou Yaowen. It criticized current ills and had sharp words. It is rare to see this type of work in future generations. In this era, people really dare to say anything.

Future generations will not feel outdated when watching this kind of sketch. It was in this sketch that "a third-rate singer in Hong Kong and Taiwan earns an appearance fee of 500,000!". Then suddenly many celebrities from Xiangjiang and Wanwan realized the great potential of the mainland market, and from then on they began to move north on a large scale.

Of course this is just a joke, the real reason is actually openness. Not only is the country becoming more open, but Wanwan actually began to relax some restrictions last year. As a result, some mainland singers landed in Wanwan. In turn, more and more singers are turning to the mainland to attract money.

Many restrictions on mainland actors have also been gradually lifted. This has allowed many Hong Kong film companies to boldly go to the mainland to learn from their experience, and to jointly film and so on. The general environment is the foundation of everything. Without the general environment, a sketch is just a sketch.

Wang Xu actually likes many literary and artistic works of this era. They have ideas and characteristics. He doesn't know what happened later, but the Spring Festival Gala is always a mess. Well, you know.

During the Spring Festival, visiting relatives and friends is not much different from previous years. The relatives have not changed much, but there are many more friends. It is lively and no one is messing around during this time, except Xiangjiang.

In fact, it’s not really a hassle. It’s just that after the jewelry exhibition opened for a while, many people visited it, and after appraisal by the jeweler, they discovered these artificial diamonds.

They couldn't tell whether it was a natural diamond at all. If Wang Fei hadn't said it herself, they would have been unable to detect the authenticity of the diamond.

To passers-by, this news may not be a big deal, but to jewelers, it is too scary. If one day someone makes a batch of diamonds out of pencil lead and comes to them to sell, they will not be able to tell what the diamonds are. True or false.

And although the magazine said that the manufacturing of this thing is very complicated and expensive, the magazine also said that this thing cannot be made big. In the past, all diamonds were produced, which was very expensive and uneconomical.

But what is coming out now are huge gem-quality diamonds. Natural gems of this size are rare but rare. And they tested the one on Wang Fei's necklace, although it was not removed.

However, the appraiser still gave an accurate assessment. The diamond should weigh about 23 carats, have a long side size of 18 mm, and have a quality appraisal of VVS grade with almost no flaws.

Whether it is light transmittance, purity, or any professional perspective, this diamond is of extremely high quality. The key is that you can't tell that it is not natural.

We are all jewelry appraisers, so of course we are familiar with the structure of diamonds. The raw material of this kind of crystal, which is purely composed of carbon, is not scarce at all. It is even found in the earth’s crust. But it is so big and so Pure diamonds are really scarce.

Diamonds that reach VVS grade like this are rare. If they are natural, the price may be at least tens of millions of Hong Kong dollars or even tens of millions. So even if the processing cost is calculated based on the US$1 million speculated by the magazine, , then it is still a profitable business.

In fact, such a large area is not scary. The most terrifying thing is that if they can process one or two carats of such high-purity diamonds, it will be a devastating blow to the entire diamond market.

Now it is certain that Wang Xu can do it. After all, Wang Fei’s ring is designed to be comfortable to wear. Therefore, the diamond selected is only two carats in size, and the daily sales price is 20,000 to 30,000 yuan.

The only thing that can be expected is that this processing method is really expensive, so no one will make it.

But rational people have actually already thought that diamonds have become industrial products and are no longer decorations or luxury goods.

As for industrial products, the most terrifying thing is the scale effect. Once they can be mass-produced, the price will probably drop dozens or hundreds of times. Not to mention dozens of times, if the price is half as low, it can collapse the entire diamond industry.

Therefore, after carefully studying Wang Fei's diamonds, they chose to keep it secret, but privately decided to slowly shift the center of the industry away from diamonds and focus on other gem luxury goods.

But Xiangjiang is so big, and the jewelry industry only has so many people in it. How could there not be spies infiltrating each other?

On the fifth day of the Lunar New Year, the quality inspection report of Wang Fei's diamond suddenly appeared in the "Oriental Daily" with a very simple title, "Wang Fei's diamond, quality beyond imagination."

Well, this kind of diamond is directly named Wang Fei Diamond. It’s also good that this is the naming habit of foreigners. It is also common practice for large gemstones to have their own independent names.

This extra-large diamond belonging to Wang Fei was not given a name because it was man-made, but the media had long named the diamond the Wang Fei Diamond in reports.

In this way, the name spread widely, and later became the name for artificial diamonds grown by the growth method.

Then, inexplicably, this information began to spread out of the entertainment circle, to the technology circle, and then into the economic circle, spreading from Hong Kong to Southeast Asia, small days, corrupt countries, and ugly countries.

Even many well-known big media have begun to join in the fun. Well, it is not uncommon for Wang Fei to leave the entertainment industry, but as a person who has been making headlines in the entertainment industry for a long time, she suddenly appeared in the country. The economic news of He Chou Country is somewhat confusing.

In any case, Wang Fei's reputation became even bigger, and even Robert Shaye called back specifically to confirm with Wang Xu the authenticity of the existence of artificial diamonds.

He believes that this hot spot is very helpful for their publicity. After all, this is a scientific event, and the protagonist of the event is the star of a science fiction movie, which has a very positive bonus.

But he needs Wang Xu's cooperation to slowly turn this incident into a long-term hot spot instead of a short-term hot spot.

Wang Xu thought about it and agreed to discuss it with the team when he went back. He couldn't make the decision on this matter. Of course, we actually discussed it with Director Jiang. This kind of situation where a big name might be needed requires national approval.

After putting down the phone, Wang Xu went to Director Jiang to talk about the matter. After all, he wanted to make a movie. It was impossible to hide it completely, and the achievements he had made could not be erased.

As long as his image is not seen by the outside world as the kind of engineering talent that the country urgently needs, fortunately, most of the things he publishes are low-level research, and any such research will generally not be targeted.

Motivating such scientists will often have a very bad impact within the scientific community, especially since Chou Country relies on immigration to absorb a large number of high-end talents. At least in this era, Chou Country will not do anything that risks the disapproval of the world. of.

But Robert Shaye proposed that the fermentation step of this matter is to wait for the popularity of entertainment news here to slowly decrease, and then rely on other means to start from within the technology circle, then circle back to the economic circle and finally break the entertainment circle.

It will take almost half a year, which is enough for the crew to finish filming. Although the post-production may not be completed yet, it is enough.

For a film that has been completed, there are too many ways to maintain its discussion, not to mention that this film has a high voice within the technology circle, and there are countless open source projects on GIT. All kinds of creativity and ideas, all kinds of new stories emerge one after another.

Some of them even inspired Wang Xu after watching them, which means that once this film is successful, there will be almost no shortage of resources for subsequent sequels.

Later generations had the cinematic universe method, but in the 1990s, both Marvel and DC were still struggling on the edge of bankruptcy, let alone the creativity of the cinematic universe.

But what Wang Xu is doing seems to have the prototype of a movie universe. The emergence of a large number of second-generation and third-generation works on GIT has gradually made this community one of the most lively projects on GIT.

There is no way, almost everyone can understand this project, and it is not difficult to contribute anything. A large number of non-computer practitioners who have never used GIT have become GIT users by using graphical tools.

These graphical tools are naturally GIT projects. GIT is like this. Its expansion and expansion are almost endless. Especially in the early days of the Internet, there were a large number of elites willing to provide various codes for free. .

This community is simply a paradise for anarchic GEEKs, and non-technical people start messing around in various other projects, which is ruined.

In the end, Wang Xu had to discuss with GIT's management committee to make his vision a reality.

That is to separate GIT into two, one is still a purely technical gathering place. A new one named GiTee was opened to provide space specifically for humanities and social science projects, and Wang Xu's "Matrix" project is the first project of the new site.

To this end, Wang Xu even specially modified some codes to optimize the uploading of large files such as pictures, audios, videos, and three-dimensional shapes.

Such an operation can be said to be a last resort, but it also illustrates the complexity of the network. Many times, it is really not so consistent with your original idea, and even very different situations occur from time to time.

Don't think it's just building a new website, but it involves a lot of things. There are so many mirror sites around the world, and they all have to be synchronized. What if you delete it here, but it's not synchronized elsewhere, and it's linked back to you again.

Fortunately, when the GIT program was designed, distributed storage was fully considered and distributed storage was fully utilized. This allowed such synchronization operations across several continents to proceed smoothly.

Of course, the more troublesome thing is to modify various links. GIT supports many hyperlink modes internally. You can hyperlink in a file to reference some resources of other projects, or even link to other Internet resources.

But such links are non-mandatory, which means that no one will verify for you whether this hyperlink is still alive. Once the project is migrated, whether it is the "Matrix" project that references other projects or other projects that reference "The Matrix" , the link address needs to be modified again.

The "Matrix" project itself is fine, and everything else is still on Git. We just need to change the link source server. Other projects are in trouble. They don't necessarily only link to "The Matrix".

This job can only be maintained by each project, and there are really many projects involved.

Especially because there are a large number of pictures, icons, music and other things uploaded by many fans in the "Matrix" project. These are not things created by science and engineering handicaps. Many of them are the work of serious art people.

Its exquisiteness can be said to affect the entire GIT community. Therefore, these things are often cited by other projects as resource materials and the like.

This is one of the reasons why Wang Xu has not made up his mind to relocate for so long, but he finally made the decision, otherwise it may be more troublesome in the future.

This also raises a new question, that is, how to solve the trouble of such file references, and then how to effectively manage this complex mechanism with the least resources.

Then GIT ushered in a major upgrade. Outside of GIT, Wang Xu developed a special system specifically designed to manage and store such files to save and manage finished versions that can be used for public release.

This in turn reduces the consumption of GIT's own resources by a large number of GIT references, and this thing specifically used to store various multimedia data is the so-called object storage system OSS.

Well, Wang Xu has one more project to work on. In the past, he thought that this thing might not be used in the short term. Unexpectedly, within two years, he was slapped in the face.

In order to develop this thing, we had to develop a directory service that was once dedicated to user management. This thing is amazing. One Tongfang server can manage tens of millions of account information, and it supports multiple levels. Parallel connection, hot backup, etc.

It can also provide up to 10,000 login requests per second, which is something that almost no existing system can achieve. In his previous life, Wang Xu knew that Novell had done it, and later Microsoft and Sun Microelectronics also developed similar products.

However, they were eventually eliminated by ordinary database management because they were too expensive and even required special hardware equipment.

Wang Xu came up with this thing in advance in this life, so that everyone can have a unified place to put user information and other similar tree-structured information. This is actually an attempt.

Let’s see if there will be a framework for reusing databases for user management after the early open source and free services in this world, and whether the inertia of technology will be so great.

In the past life, most programmers didn't even know that such a product specifically for tree information management had ever existed. Even in the Pentium era, it was able to achieve the feat of having 100,000 users log in at the same time.

Of course, one of the reasons was that the system back then was too complicated to use. Wang Xu didn’t have time to do it all by himself, so he wrote down the various simplified operation requirements and ignored them. Only the core codes were written by Wang Xu himself.

He has always been like this. For many things, he is only responsible for the overall design and the lowest core code, and the rest is left to the recent influx of college students to complete.

China in this life is no different than Wang Xu's previous life. Under Wang Xu's constant instigation and influence, it was not just Shuimu who attached great importance to computer education and increased investment in computer hardware.

The vast majority of colleges and universities are not blind. They have all seen a large talent gap in computer software and hardware. It is really a waste of time to get some computers to allow students to earn extra money.

Unlike the previous life where the utilization rate of many computers in the university was extremely low, in this life, almost no computer in the university can be left idle.

Under the call of money, countless students who were not originally computer majors have tried their best to learn some programming and use various computer resources they can find to earn some extra money to support their families.

When real money is poured in, it will actually have a joint effect, just like attracting investment from various places. The more important the project is, the more other resources in society will be mobilized.

What's more, Wang Xu is engaged in such a huge project that involves almost every possible field of computers.

In fact, Wang Xu has not invested much of his own money until now. He may have 10 to 20 million. No matter how much it is, it will actually come from all aspects. The overall scale will definitely not be less than 200 million, it will only be higher. .

Since GIT went overseas, foreign investment has peaked here. Mercenary World now has countless language versions, and countless project research and development tasks on GIT will appear on it.

If you can't do it yourself, just find a group of mercenaries to do it. Chinese mercenaries are easy to use and not expensive, and their reputation is not generally good.

This is actually the prototype of software outsourcing. With the deepening of communication and the expansion of development, various commercial software, self-use software, etc. will definitely form a software outsourcing industry chain.

Wang Xu has no intention of stealing the limelight from Asan’s software outsourcing business in his previous life. This thing is a double-edged sword. Although it can expand a large amount of business and reap a lot of profits in a short period of time, it will also block the path of his own software innovation. .

After all, if you are already writing things for overseas countries based on other people’s ideas, who will contribute to your country’s software?

This is also an important reason why Asan was clearly a big software development country in its previous life, both in terms of capital intensity and talent intensity, but it was never able to produce its own software products.

However, in the early days of the software outsourcing industry's complete rise, it is also a good choice to allow programmers to make some quick money and attract more people to engage in this industry.

Software outsourcing is fine for doing small jobs in China, but for complex businesses, the English proficiency of most Chinese people is a stumbling block. Even the CET-4 test can stump countless college students. It is really impossible to compete with those who have lived in English since childhood. Compete with people in the environment.

What's more, the Chinese people value hard work and look down on skills such as rhetorical speeches, but this is Ah San's strength, which can be said to play a decisive role in undertaking overseas software outsourcing business.

Just when Wang Xu was still thinking about how to make a name for himself in the technology circle, an unexpected phone call provided Wang Xu with the perfect solution. It was an invitation from Science magazine.

It was probably the morning of the eighth day of the Lunar New Year, when Wang Xu was still sleeping with his wife in his arms, when he heard the phone ringing like an alarm, so he had to put down Wang Fei, who couldn't wake up with any alarm, and got up to answer the phone.

The call was from Director Jiang. He rarely called Wang Xu so early. Wang Xu usually got up very early, but it was still dark at this time.

That is to say, people who get up early will call this time morning, and those who go to bed late, probably, probably, probably haven't slept at this time yet.

Director Jiang told him that an editor-in-chief of Chouguo's "Science" magazine had just called him, hoping to invite Wang Xu to publish the "artificial diamond" paper in their magazine.

Wang Xu was stunned. This was the first time he knew that a magazine like "Science" actually still invited manuscripts? "Science", you have changed. How can you no longer be aloof and condescending? How can you be like those coquettish bitches and ask for manuscripts?

Wang Xu had never engaged in scientific research in his previous life. He didn't know that in fact, "Science" magazine was not a cold goddess. He definitely played a lot of tricks, not to mention those sociological experiments that disgusted Chinese people. You can also appear in "Science" in a grand manner.

When it comes to hot events, "Science"'s ability to speculate on hot topics is no worse than those of news magazines. If it didn't use new eye-catching methods, how could it have gone from a money-losing magazine that almost went bankrupt and was finally sold for $500? It has become the top professional magazine in the field of natural sciences.

For example, in fact, "Science" will also hire people to write articles and report some news events, of course, interpreting them from a scientific perspective, in order to attract readers' interest and make "Science" magazine as interesting as possible.

His writer once made up a paper that was full of errors and omissions, and then submitted it to more than 300 journals. 150 of them were accepted, including some big-name journals. Then Science openly published articles mocking the quality of these journals.

Well, it was actually the same this time. After Wang Xu returned to Shuimu's office, he called the science magazine. As expected, it was the editor of the science magazine, saying that they had noticed Wang Xu's paper "X.W" published on arXiv. engagement ring".

They were surprised to find that Wang Xu had not submitted this paper to a physical journal, so they hoped that Wang Xu would choose "Science" to publish it, and they could arrange it for this issue. They had already reviewed it, and there was no problem at all. They didn't even need a typesetting editor. Wang Xu, they will handle it themselves.

Okay, it turns out that "Science" can be so shameless when it comes to making headlines. Okay, Wang Xu will just think that he has learned a lot.

Since Wang Xu has published papers in the magazines "Science" and "Nature", these two magazines already have Wang Xu's contact information.

This is inevitable, especially since his paper created a new field of two-dimensional materials, which is an extremely important discovery. In the words often heard by Chinese people, it is a Nobel Prize-level discovery.

In this way, scientists are the focus of all journals, and their papers are usually specially marked to prevent someone from rejecting the manuscript for inexplicable reasons and causing others to switch to others.

This kind of thing is not uncommon in the world. Scientists sometimes lose their temper like children. These journals deal with this group of people all day long and understand the strange temperament of these people better than anyone else.

And Wang Xu had no intention of doing anything with this paper. As for this thing, we can't talk about in-depth theories, we can't talk about detailed steps, and we can't talk about the manufacturing plan of the equipment. So what else can we talk about.

Therefore, Wang Xu roughly wrote a paper and posted it on arXiv, a free paper distribution center he created.

This is the same type of website that Wang Xu built after the website of the same name in his previous life. It sounds lively, but in fact it is copied.

Here, researchers are allowed to upload papers freely, and each version will be given a clear timestamp, the type of electronic signature, to confirm the ownership of the paper.

This is a simpler way than mailing a postmark. It allows people to upload a preview version of their paper before submitting it to the journal. There is no need to worry about someone publishing the paper in advance during the long wait for editorial review, which will keep you for many years. All the hard work was in vain.

And once something happens and a quarrel breaks out, you can just throw the timestamp on arXiv at the other person's face and tell the other person, "I'm sorry, you're late, sir."

This is actually not the original intention of creating arXiv. Wang Xu’s original idea was ulterior, that is, he hoped to have a method of collecting new papers from around the world that he could control. Then he thought of the arXiv preprint version in his previous life.

In its previous life, arXiv was originally a website created by a group of scientists at the Alamos Laboratory in the U.S. to quickly share papers. It was later taken over by Cornell University.

In fact, arXiv in the previous life had a certain review mechanism. They had to at least distinguish whether your paper was submitted to the right partition, but Wang Xu couldn't even do this here.

Because he didn't have that many people, he could only design a mechanism to allow readers to find out their own mistakes. But in order to prevent anyone from messing around, he set up a real-name recommendation system.

Only registered users can use all the functions on this website, while visitors can only browse. Users registered with their real names can make a judgment, that is, whether they have voted for the right channel, whether the format is confusing, etc.

Only users who have been recommended are qualified to make the second type of judgment, that is, whether it is true and correct.

There are also Blue V users who can only be certified by administrators. They are people who are definitely well-known scholars, and they need to be recommended by multiple Blue Vs to become one.

Blue V users do not have any privileges, but their comments will be placed directly at the front of the comments, that is, at the top, so that more people can see them.

Anyway, the overall mechanism is quite troublesome, but in general it is to ensure that what is uploaded is a paper, has certain format requirements, and can be retrieved. Wang Xu even developed a set of tools based on LaTeX to allow ordinary people to edit quickly. , in particular the possibility of multilingualism is guaranteed.

Of course, Wang Xu here also provides a simpler standard template very simply. This is a text mode that focuses on the structure of the information itself. It is somewhat similar to the JSON format commonly used in communication standards in the Internet era, with only a few key additions. Word and definition module.

This is a very lightweight format structure that allows users to pay more attention to the content itself such as text, pictures, formulas, charts, etc., instead of paying more attention to the printing format, font typesetting and other trivial matters.

This is also because there is no need to print it out when browsing the website. It is really not that important whether the layout is neat or not. What matters in the paper is the content, not the neat layout.

This is a bit subversive of the traditional paper publishing world, but after all, Wang Xu also provides traditional LaTeX compatible support. This can be regarded as a transition. Maybe a simple format will win, and it may allow future researchers to be less overwhelmed by LaTeX. The fear of domination.

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(See you tomorrow, another 10,000 words, it’s the weekend, I’ll probably update less tomorrow)