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The weather in Beijing has started to get colder in late November, and the most powerful proof is that the central heating has been turned on indoors.

This was Ning Wei's first winter in the north, and what he was most unaccustomed to was probably the strong wind and dry air outside the capital, which annoyed him as a half-southerner.

A lot has happened in the past month and a half.

For example, on the third working day just after the National Day, the media suddenly revealed that Weibo’s top executives were collectively interviewed by several departments. After the bosses went to drink tea for a whole day, the issue was not discussed in the media. As the Internet became more popular, Weibo officials began to issue announcements. Nearly 30 big V accounts in the name of science popularization were permanently banned. In addition, dozens of big V accounts faced bans ranging from one week to half a year. .

At the same time, Weibo has launched a month-long internal rectification and will comprehensively sort out accounts that may have violated regulations. And announced a special appeal email address, directly stating that if there is a ban error, appeal applications can be directly accepted through this email address.

There are always some netizens who look at problems more comprehensively and carefully, and they soon discovered what these big V accounts have in common. For example, these accounts are basically all about Ning Wei’s high consumption on National Day. Is this a guarantee for the national team? However, many of them were not sure about what to do with Ning Wei. Would it be too much to directly ban him forever? Especially the fans of these accounts.

However, before this topic became hot again, more exciting news began to spread. It was said that most of the accounts that were banned this time were paid. In other words, these people are actually paid to post. Not only that, except for six of the holders of big V accounts who were directly and permanently banned from overseas, the rest were basically taken away to assist in the investigation.

This news shocked many people, but countless people still started heated discussions that night. After all, not only were the accounts banned, but people were also controlled, and there were so many people at once. This paid posting problem must be quite big. Of course, what makes people more curious is who actually spent so much money to let so many big V posts to attack one person together. How much hatred must be caused.

In this way, countless netizens spent the night eating melons. There were various speculations. Some said that colleagues were jealous, some said that it was a foreign conspiracy, some said that Ning was offended because of his youthful ambition, and some speculated that Ning was because of his hands and eyes. Sky-reaching. After all, many of these Weibo Vs often make positive remarks...

The next day, today's big melon was exposed on the Internet. At that time, the WeChat chat records of the Hokage disaster that made the most comprehensive speculations and blackmailed Ning were directly exposed. According to the WeChat chat records, a WeChat account named The guy from Ready Player One issued an order directly to him to find some friends to publish some negative news about Ning Wei in the near future, preferably about academic misconduct or various inappropriate remarks.

According to the WeChat records, the sponsor behind the scenes is very rich and the remuneration he gives is quite high. For example, if he completes this business, Naruto will get a commission of 100,000 yuan. If the peers he recommends are good, he will get an extra 20,000 yuan per person. .

What kind of hatred is this? Taking so much money at once to blackmail a doctoral student? Of course, these are not the point. The point is that for outsiders, everyone really doesn’t know that this industry can be so profitable? Didn't we agree that it would be fifty cents a piece?

Another day that everyone was talking about passed. The next day, the relevant departments directly issued a notice, directly reporting that the "Hokage Disaster" was involved in a case, so these people have now become suspects. The current case The investigation is ongoing and the results will be announced to the public.

Finally, everything was settled. When the official charges were announced, someone started to do the math. Among the more than ten people, whoever can get this bonus can probably win the pot. Ning Wei, another protagonist in this case, once again caused a stir.

After all, according to the simplest emotions of the Chinese people, if the enemy hates it and wants to try their best to discredit it, it must be good for our own people. As a result, Ning Wei's various achievements in this short year were revealed by omnipotent netizens. Starting from the debate about the NS equation and ending with the last number theory paper on big data, many people glanced at those papers with relish and may not be able to understand them in their lifetime.

Of course, Ning Wei never spoke out about this matter. In fact, he knew some details of the case earlier than others because someone specially informed him. To be honest, Ning Wei was quite surprised. He really didn't expect that he just felt that these people had affected Jiang's mentality and prevented him from enjoying a perfect vacation. He was so angry that he committed suicide and got such a result.

What's even more exaggerated is that the big boss on the phone also informed Ning Wei that he was helping him apply for a special bonus of up to three million, and that it would be paid to him directly after the case was finally implemented. This is even more outrageous, so you can still get a bonus by self-destructing?

Ning Wei subconsciously planned to refuse. After all, he didn't seem to be short of the three million now. Although it cost him some money to buy a supercomputing center, Huawei had already put the settlement fee for the turbulence algorithm hardware patent on his card. He was unceremonious. In terms of assets alone, he may not be ranked among the rich, but in terms of the funds that an individual can withdraw at one time, he is definitely ranked in the top ten.

However, the other party told him a historical story about Zigong redeeming people on the phone... As expected, the bosses were all knowledgeable and talented. After hearing this, Ning Wei also decided to accept the other party's kindness. However, Ning Wei also thought that he could donate some of the money himself.

However, this time Ning Wei did not continue to speak out on Weibo, which directly caused the Weibo where he once commented to become popular again, and the number of fans increased sharply. It's just that the new comments in this wave of comments are obviously a bit weird, such as "Whether you can become the richest man in the future depends on when our dear Dr. Ning posts on Weibo to criticize people!"

Online platforms are so powerful!

During this time, there were more discussions in the chat group. But Ning Wei obviously doesn't have time to pay attention to this, because he is also busy moving in March.

Moving March is not that simple. For example, if you want to give March an environment where it can perform better, you need to modify the main program. The supercomputing center is different from ordinary servers, such as the win10 enterprise version that Ning Wei uses directly for his home workstation. However, the environment in the supercomputing center is more complex. For example, the supercomputing center login node purchased by Ningwei mainly uses the ordinary version of Linux. The computing node actually uses a simplified Linux kernel without the graphics. At the same time, different processor architectures also Requires different kernel versions of Linux and BSD deployment rules.

This is actually very detrimental to March's ability to play, so Ningwei not only needs to modify the main program of March, but also needs to recompile part of the system kernel of the supercomputing center based on the source code in order to make the supercomputing center more suitable for March's performance. , this is a big project.

In addition, the system of the supercomputing center is not the most important. To maximize the potential of March, it also involves adjusting and upgrading the distributed scheduling module of the supercomputing center, which in turn involves the Modifications to user-level operations.

Basically, according to Ning Wei's idea, he has the highest operating authority in the entire supercomputing center, and March uses his sub-account directly. Because Ningwei has no plans to open the supercomputing center to the outside world, the previous client can be directly cut off and replaced with a client directly facing March.

Of course, for other people, such as Senior Brother Lu, if they want to borrow the supercomputing center to calculate some homework, it is no different from the past. Because there is no graphical interface, for other users, the operation is not much different from the school’s supercomputing center. The homework is prepared in advance and can be submitted directly after logging in. The difference is that the computing power is not predetermined. Instead, March, which occupies the distributed module, allocates the computing power based on its knowledge.

To put it simply, March has the authority to prioritize the computing resources needed for her ongoing tasks. However, theoretically speaking, apart from continuing to use computing power for learning, the tasks in March are basically all assigned.

With more computing power resources, Ning Wei also arranged higher permissions for March. In addition to accessing the library system of Yanbei University, March can not only absorb free information on the Internet, but also She began to establish March's own paper indexing system, adding papers that she felt were high-quality and in need, and made technical comparisons.

In short, moving March is an extremely tedious project. It happened that classmate Jiang, who had just moved to Ning Wei's place those days, was still not used to it, so Ning Wei simply squeezed in with Yu Xingwei.

During the day, Yu Xingwei took a few people left after the inspection to do some routine maintenance on the servers in the computing center, and made some repairs to the system according to the suggestions given by Ning Wei. The main program is modified. In the evening, Yu Xingwei was busy with his thesis, while Ning Wei began to modify the large framework previously built by the supercomputing center according to the predetermined plan.

The word "busy" can be used to describe his life during this period. He was so busy that he almost slept only five hours a day. This made him find his way back to the Jiangnan University Software Laboratory. That feeling when doing turbulence algorithms. The difference is probably that Yu Xingwei no longer has to run out to bring food every day.

Every day, classmate Jiang would prepare meals for the two of them from the cafeteria of Yanbei University. In Jiang’s words, the food outside the school was not clean. In the evening, he would often cook for Ning Wei and make soup for Ning Wei and take a taxi to deliver it. When we got to the supercomputing center, of course Jiang would not admit that this was specially made for Ning Wei. The reason was that Chenlu had to study until very late every day. The elder sister felt sorry for her younger sister, so she made some soup, but the younger sister couldn't finish it by herself. So I brought some to Ning Wei and Yu Xingwei.

Anyway, these meals and soups are really more delicious than those made by Yu Xingwei.

It took about a month, and the supercomputing center was finally renovated with the joint efforts of Ning Wei, Yu Xingwei and March, and March finally officially moved into its new home. The advantage is that after this upgrade, Ning Wei no longer has to go to the study to communicate face-to-face with March. After completing the move, March’s main program remains in the supercomputing center, but its tentacles can be directly extended to Ning Wei directly. March opened ports for all devices.

This is probably similar to the server and client of online games. March’s calculations and data storage are all stored in the supercomputing center. Communication with March can be done through smartphones, laptops, desktop computers and even other smart wearables. Equipment completed. This also makes March more like an electronic pet. When staying in the office and her mind is stuck, she can bring March out at any time and tease her.

Of course, this huge project has not prevented March from continuing to maintain contact with the Western academic community. Even in the past month, March has been praised more and more highly in the mathematics community, especially in the Western mathematics community. The specific manifestation is that many professors in Western mathematics have sent emails, inviting me to cooperate with March on the basis of number theory in the field of artificial intelligence.

Collaborative research in academia is different from cooperation with enterprises and academia. Most of them follow the path of independent thinking and regular communication. Probably everyone is studying the same topic, and every once in a while, the two parties conduct an academic exchange on the current research results. Of course, if someone has a major breakthrough, and if the other person has time, they can communicate immediately.

With the advancement of the Internet, communication can be completed in a variety of ways, such as email, online video or voice discussions, etc. Ningwei's choice was to accept everyone who came. In this way, Professor March formed this cooperative research with three professors from foreign academic circles, two scientists from scientific research institutions, and three scientists from corporate laboratories. partnership.

These include engineers from the famous Google X Lab, MIT-IBM Watson Artificial Intelligence, and so on.

This is why the entire upgrade process lasted for more than a month. In addition to upgrading March, Ningwei also has to express some opinions on peer research and discuss some opinions with March. Of course, the most outrageous operation in this process is that Ningwei will occasionally directly use the backend March Record the details of the logical thinking process, and then after some processing and reduction into mathematical theory, directly throw it out to provide these experts with various extremely complex ideas for realizing machine thinking...

The effect is also very obvious.

Really, when a group of big guys are amazed by March after in-depth exchanges, they will naturally express their admiration for March's research on more occasions.

The only regret for everyone is that March has always insisted on using the most traditional form of email for two-way communication.

If there were people who thought they had seen through everything before, then now that Ning Wei has chosen to remain silent, and March has long had some new ideas coming out and sparking discussions, basically no one doubts March’s own academic ability.

What’s even more frightening is that while Professor March was thinking about this, although his review efficiency had declined, he still stood out from the crowd. Even though he still maintained his venomous comment style, he still won the title of the most beloved reviewer by the editors of mathematics journals. …

Mysterious and lovely March!