Tech Hammer

Lu Dongyi looked at his junior brother and really had nothing to say. Of course, there is nothing wrong with Ning Wei's statement. It perfectly proves that he is indeed unaware of the commotion in the foreign mathematics community, but he just doesn't understand common sense.

"Remind you, setting off firecrackers is prohibited within the Fifth Ring Road of Beijing." Lu Dongyi reminded.

"Senior Brother Lu, you know so much! By the way, Chen Shuang will come over later. If you want to hear the beautiful sound of the piano, you can wait a little longer." Ning Wei said hello with a smile.

"Yeah. By the way, where is Yu Xingwei?" Lu Dongyi glanced at the empty table opposite and asked.

Ning Wei patted his forehead and said, "I almost forgot. I came here to see my senior brother just to inform you that this table can be removed tomorrow. I found a good place for Brother Yu. He doesn't have to come to see you from tomorrow on." Crowded together."

"Oh? Where did you arrange for him?" Lu Dongyi asked curiously.

"I bought a supercomputing center, but it will take fifteen days before it can be officially handed over. Brother Yu will go and get familiar with the situation first, and he will be arranged there from now on." Ning Wei replied.

"Buy a supercomputing center?" Lu Dongyi stared at Ning Wei, and suddenly thought of when he took this junior brother to buy a house, the junior junior brother very humbly told him that the turbulence algorithm was on the market, and the laboratory rewarded him with a sum of money in advance. It’s enough to buy a house...

He probably understood that this was when the patent licensing fee started to show its power in the later period. Then Lu Dongyi deeply understood the feeling of being rich and willful, and he also probably understood why Ning Wei could not care much about many things.

"How much did it cost?" Lu Dongyi asked after being stunned.

"I'm responsible for paying 190 million, and don't worry about the rest. But after buying it, you may have to spend some money to upgrade or something." Ning Wei replied, after all, some things cannot be hidden from the people around him.

"Ha...means I don't have to queue up at the school's computing platform if I need to calculate anything later?" Lu Dongyi said after regaining his composure.

"Of course, it's necessary. I'll ask Brother Yu to open a permanent account for Senior Brother Lu later." Ning Wei immediately patted his chest and said.

Lu Dongyi shook his head and changed the topic: "Although you have given up the opportunity to study abroad, I suggest that you still maintain communication with the mainstream of the academic world, so that you can always know the latest research progress in the academic world. More importantly, Communication is often one of the most important sources of inspiration.”

Ning Wei thought for a while and then replied: "But haven't you noticed that the development of mathematics has been stagnant for many years? It has been several years since the Poincaré conjecture was proved. It seems that it has been a long time since the mainstream mathematics community heard anything about it. Is there any amazing progress? Otherwise, I was just proving a KLS conjecture, how could I have made such a big fuss?"

"Um……"

Lu Dongyi said silently that the 2022 Fields Medal was finally awarded to five mathematicians, but probably none of the winners was groundbreaking or could leave a significant achievement in the history of mathematics.

For example, one of the mathematics professors from Kangaroo Country won the award because he comprehensively analyzed number theory, homogeneous dynamical systems, topology and representation theory, and solved some problems in the distribution of arithmetic objects.

How can I put it, this is the timing of Ning Wei's emergence. It is indeed a coincidence. A series of gorgeous achievements all occurred in the year when the World Congress of Mathematicians was held, and the list of reports at the conference had been determined the year before. , Ning Wei was not included among the candidates at all. Otherwise, given Ning Wei's achievements, it would be unjustifiable not to award him a Fields Medal this year.

The quadrennial World Congress of Mathematicians is held in July. Ning Wei’s paper on the universal solution of the three-dimensional NS equation under specific conditions was not published in Nature until the end of March because of a lot of mess. The proof of the KLS conjecture was already at the end of May. , although the mainstream mathematics community has paid attention to Ning Wei, in the end Ning Wei still missed out on this World Congress of Mathematicians.

Therefore, Lu Dongyi really couldn't say anything against Ning Wei's words.

"Look, you agree with me, right? Now we only count journals in the second area and above, and we will find that thousands of new mathematical theorems may appear every day, but 90% of them may be published within a few years. Then it was swept into the trash can of history. From twin primes to Mersenne primes to my guess, how many papers can a serial proposition produce every year? Sometimes I wonder, if one day my guess is falsified, what will happen to everyone? If all the relevant papers that need to be deleted from the World Mathematics Journal were printed on A4 white paper, they could probably circle the earth twice at the equator." Ning Wei sighed.

"Don't say this in front of Director Tian. He will vomit blood if he hears it." Lu Dongyi said angrily.

Ning Wei ignored Lu Dongyi's words and continued, "So, I always think that the best direction for the application of mathematics is to design theoretical guidance for today's artificial intelligence development direction. As long as we can develop a complete set of Theory can comprehensively provide theoretical foundations and technological innovations for various algorithms in the field of artificial intelligence to neural networks. What is one or two Fields Medals? I’m not bragging, I’m not a junior. If it is really successful, we will give IMU The rotating chairman called and asked him to arrange the next conference to be held in our institute, but he didn’t even dare to fart!”

"More than that, if we can really do this, we will open two journals directly in China. Both journals are aimed at this field, one mathematics journal and one computer journal. As a founder, we want to use our Mathematicians and computer scientists who are doing theoretical research in this direction must definitely choose our journals as their first choice. Think about it, with the current booming market demand for artificial intelligence, how many people will devote themselves to building our theories and algorithms without hesitation in the future? In a few years, we will have an absolute say in the field of artificial intelligence!"

"Think about it, while others are still looking for the next blue ocean market, we are creating a blue ocean! Anyone who wants to communicate cannot avoid our theoretical foundations and the various foundations developed under the guidance of our theories. Intelligent algorithms, future smartphones, PC devices, wearable electronic devices, self-driving cars, smart homes, and even basic industrial robots, industrial base machines, basic software, etc. based on intelligence, all rely on The theories and algorithms we built.”

"When that day comes for Fields, Nobel, and Turing awards, it's not us begging others to award them to us, but them begging us to send people to get the awards! Because if we don't go, it will appear that their broken awards are not enough. Officially. We can even create new awards, such as the Ninglu Intelligence Award! Awarded once every four years to the scientific researchers who have promoted the field of artificial intelligence the most in the world! The prize money is higher than the Nobel Prize, and the honor is also greater than the Nobel Prize. , after all, our technology is related to all aspects of human life in the future, and is more valued by ordinary people!"

"Furthermore, when that time comes, even if the former dragon slayer turns into an evil dragon, no one can do anything to us! Forget about our own people, whoever dares to attack outsiders should learn from the trick of that Lucassen Flanders Son, just tell him to shut up! Thinking about it this way, does Senior Brother feel a little excited?"

Ning Weiyi's long speech left Lu Dongyi completely stunned.

How much of a blow did Lukassen Flanders have to his junior brother, that he has already begun to think about the dragon slayer turning into a dragon to bully people? Of course, this is second to none. The scariest thing is that Ning Wei thinks very far. If these are Ning Wei's true thoughts and they really come true, this description is not necessarily too exaggerated, because all of this has happened before.

Whether it is software or hardware, the West has relied on various intellectual property and patent protection rules to strictly protect basic technologies. These rules are also the basis for multinational technology companies to dare to spend money on research and development to maintain technological leadership. If Ning Weizhen can design a whole new set of theories specifically for artificial intelligence, derive corresponding algorithms and achieve success, it will guide the future of strong artificial intelligence. The direction of its development can really have an infinitely greater impact on the entire world.

The question probably just lies in whether what you want can succeed. What Lu Dongyi didn't know was that Ning Wei was really confident at this time.

Of course, Ning Wei's confidence did not come out of thin air. Ever since he had an epiphany yesterday while listening to classmate Jiang playing the piano and wrote that inequality, he has connected all the things he has done before.

Starting from studying the NS equation, his biggest gain was not the paper on the general solution of the NS equation under certain conditions, nor the influence of Ningwei Space in the industry, but the emergence of the turbulence algorithm. The algorithm itself hides software intelligence. thought of.

When he was being interviewed, he reacted to the field of artificial intelligence, came up with the idea of ​​developing an EDA software, and started to implement it. It was a big step forward in this direction, although his EDA software has not yet been developed. It has caught the attention of the world's mainstream chip designers, but it will definitely be a big help in the future.

Then at the SODA conference, he was touched again, which led to the birth of March. After arriving at Yanbei University, under the influence of March, he chose the research direction of big data and basic theory of artificial intelligence...

To put it bluntly, Ning Wei found that his brain was leading him step by step to develop further into the field of artificial intelligence, and then it evolved into the current situation. Ning Wei has almost figured it out. There has been a major breakthrough in the field of strong artificial intelligence. Its significance is definitely not just as simple as various civilian application innovations. The most important thing is in the field of scientific research. If part of March's ability can be replicated, then It is equivalent to having countless assistants who can assist with complex system calculations day and night.

This has been tested, such as by assisting Professor Tan’s carbon nanomaterials project trials.

The fundamental reason for Ning Wei's confidence is that he has a specific object to study. Through in-depth exploration of Yue Yue's abilities, he can supplement and verify the theories he studies. This is currently the case for any smart laboratory in the world. It is an advantage that cannot be possessed, and it is an advantage that all theoretical mathematicians cannot touch.

When he has solved all the five basic theoretical problems he has summarized, it will be the time when he can officially meet the world in March. When that time comes, no matter which research direction he turns to, he will be able to get twice the result with half the effort, and there is a high probability that he will not be in the dilemma of lack of money for research and development.

So Ningwei was full of confidence at this time, so he was full of ambition, so he dared to say these words to Lu Dongyi, which made his senior brother full of confusion.

"Ning Wei, I think your idea is very good, but what do you mean by what you are telling me now?"

"Didn't I express it clearly enough? Of course I am advising Senior Brother Lu to put aside all the messy topic proposals now and come with me to lay the foundation for our cause. Look, I still have several branch theories here We need research, we need help, we need to discuss with people to clarify our ideas, and we need to train a group of graduate students and doctoral students in this field in the future. I can’t rely on me alone, right?”

"So, this is what I think. The two of us will be responsible for theoretical research first, and Yu Xingwei will be responsible for digesting our theories and developing appropriate algorithms. When we have results again, we can find more people to join us. .At that time, you will be responsible for explaining the ideas we discussed in the initial stage to the new joiners, teaching courses, and then we will continue to push forward in the final direction. When we finally develop a set of theories that are self-consistent and proven to be usable, our project will be similar. Senior Brother Lu, what do you think about being able to separate from the Institute of Mathematics and set up an international artificial intelligence institute?"

Ning Wei simply made his thoughts clear.

Lu Dongyi was a little confused. It turned out that Ning Wei had gone around in such a big circle to poach him and asked him to change his research direction, abandon the research on PDE and invest in the new field of artificial intelligence mathematical theory construction. He subconsciously glanced at the table My proposition is roughly in line with what I just thought about, and I fell into deep thought.

I have to say that Ning Wei's words are very bewitching.

The thought of creating a brand new field and becoming the founder of artificial intelligence really made him a little excited. Of course, the choice was not without risks. After all, artificial intelligence was a brand new field for him, and he needed to give up the possibility of losing his current position. The research content of the results is to re-learn a completely new field, and I don’t know whether it will really succeed in the future, but...

"Brother Lu, I have always felt that we cannot stay in our comfort zone when doing scientific research. Just like Director Tian asked me to continue studying NS equations, I also know that if this trend continues, it is indeed the most likely to produce results, but I am still decisive. I gave up. Why? Because it’s not worth it. If you don’t give it a try when you are most energetic, you will definitely regret it in the future! Also, after two more Fields Medals, you will be over forty, right?”

After hearing this, Lu Dongyi raised his head, took a serious look at Ning Wei, and said, "Junior brother..."

"Um?"

"You are so awesome. What you said today makes me think that if I don't join you, I won't even have the time to study my own project."

After saying that, Lu Dongyi simply picked up the manuscript paper in front of him that had written a lot of content and tore it up directly, and then continued calmly: "Okay, I will study your previous papers carefully from now on. If you have any questions, we can meet at any time. comminicate."