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For Ning Wei, thinking about the future is a very serious matter.

He has always been adhering to the style of handing over troublesome things and focusing on the key points, even if he gave up many benefits. This should have made his life easy, but the actual situation is that he still feels more and more Time is running out.

Especially after talking to Liu Wei, Ning Wei felt that the future was gloomy.

This time it made him a little sleepless at night...

"What's wrong with you today? You seem worried?"

Under the orange light in the bedroom, classmate Jiang snuggled next to Ning Wei, buried his head on the man's shoulder, and asked softly. This action was strongly requested by Ning Wei, so even though he was used to intimate actions, Jiang's exposed cheeks were still a little blushing...

"Hey... I completed the design of the chip instruction set today. I should have celebrated, but suddenly I found that I always have the feeling that I will do more and more things. I don't know when this kind of life will end." Ning Wei sighed.

That is, when facing Jiang Chenshuang, he could express his emotions so unscrupulously. If it were anyone else, even Yu Xingwei and Lu Dongyi, they would probably only think that he was in Versailles. Of course, this can't be blamed on others, after all, he has too many criminal records.

"But aren't you enjoying it? If you were really allowed to have some time off and bid farewell to the laboratory, and no one would come to ask for your opinions, you would probably be more worried, right?" Student Jiang raised his head and asked.

"It seems reasonable..." Ning Wei thought for a moment and suddenly felt unable to refute.

Maybe he still has a little bit of vanity. Although he is very busy, if you think about it carefully, the feeling of being taken seriously is actually not bad. It doesn't really make sense for him to bid farewell to his current life and become a leisurely and happy little rich man.

Especially when I think about the fact that I may not have the opportunity to see people like Pat Gelsinger walking into his office with which foot, I feel that everything is boring, so I still have to work!

"So you should do your own things first. My dad told me before that as long as a person can do things when he should do things and enjoy happiness when he should enjoy it, his life will be complete. It's a pity..." Student Jiang's voice I became sad, probably because I thought of my father who did not survive to the age of happiness.

"Yes, yes, my wife is right. Let me think about it. It's almost December now. You will graduate next June. We should do what we should do!"

"Ah? Ning Wei, don't make trouble, hey, don't make trouble..."

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There were a lot of things going on at the end of the year, and Ji Mingzhi, Meng Runze, Lu Ying, Chen Yuru, Wang Sitang and Li Jingwen had all started their basic studies before formal enrollment, so it was hard for Ning Wei to stay in the laboratory.

However, the design work of the CPU has not been put down.

After the instruction set is completed, the next step is the design of the chip architecture. In other words, based on the instruction set, a series of complete design arrangements for the components contained in the CPU, such as control units, logic units, and storage units, are realized.

This area is actually March's strength, especially when it comes to completing simulation tests through design drawings. March can replace EDA software to complete testing more efficiently, thus saving a lot of time.

But at the same time, this is also a very detailed and time-consuming job.

If it is a traditional chip design, many functions already have ready-made templates that can be directly applied. However, the three-dimensional through-silicon circuit is completely different from the previous design ideas, and the stacking method is also different.

For example, in the past, the modules of a chip that completed a specific task were concentrated on a small plane and connected through circuits. However, in a three-dimensional through-silicon circuit environment, the layout is completed within several tubes. At the same time, in order to ensure three-dimensional For the problem of heat dissipation inside the space, often when such tasks are run, they cannot be carried out in adjacent tubes. There must be at least one silicon tube around them, and the circuit connections are made through the upper and lower panels.

There are no ready-made templates, and the design process is destined to be more complex, which also adds a lot of difficulty to the chip design stage.

Therefore, it is naturally impossible to completely pursue high efficiency. If Ning Wei is to do this kind of work alone, not only will the efficiency be low, it will really make everyone crazy. So Ningwei really couldn't be of much help here. He could only check the design progress shared with him by Ningsi Lab every day, and occasionally give some opinions.

This also allowed Ning Wei to focus more on the review of this year’s March Awards.

According to the previously announced process, the winner of the March Smart Award each year will be announced in December of that year, and the bonus will be officially awarded and an awards ceremony will be held in March of the following year. For Ningwei, this is a job that is no less important than chip design.

In order to attend the SODA conference, Ning Wei set his ambition while queuing up for a visa. He hoped that in the future, academic centers would gather in China so that everyone would not have to queue up for a visa.

If this goal is to be achieved, a scientific award with sufficient influence in the world is one of the foundations. When the March Intelligence Award is widely recognized by the world's academic community, when the influence of the March series of intelligent journals increases, a series of the world's top academic conferences will begin.

So the first selection is still very important.

At least to ensure fairness, or...

"What the hell does it mean that I am the first candidate for the Mathematics and Computer Science Awards?"

Ning Wei was a little confused after seeing the comprehensive data judgment given in March.

"Meow, this is the result of comprehensive data judgment. You received the most votes. Mathematical discoveries are closely integrated with application fields. Your achievements in mathematics have promoted the understanding of partial differential equations and established the number theory foundation for machine intelligence and big data transfer and screening. , especially if judged based on the comprehensive value after sorting recent comprehensive results, of course it is you..."

"But I said I will not participate in the selection of any awards for the March Awards."

"Meow, this judgment factor is not included in the necessary conditions."

"Okay, now include it."

"Meow... Then introduce the second batch of candidates."

This time the result seemed to be normal for Ningwei.

According to the results given in March, apart from Ning Wei, there are two second-ranked candidates for the March Mathematics Award.

Marina Vyazovska, a female mathematician from Uzbekistan, is recommended because she has almost perfectly solved the eight-dimensional ball-packing problem. She has used a similar method with others to solve the 24-dimensional ball-packing problem. In recent years, it has been proved that Based on the conjecture of Korevaar and Meyers on small designs in arbitrary dimensions, a major breakthrough has been made in the modular form of densest packing work.

Austrian mathematician Jody Williamson, a geek in the field of number theory, pioneered new technical methods when studying group theory, which can effectively solve a series of group theory problems.

The reason why there are two people in the second sequence is mainly based on the model built in March. Their final scores are very similar, with a difference of three decimal places...

Of course, these are nothing to Ning Wei.

Judging from the comprehensive evaluation in March, if there is no problem with this score, the two of them will win the award together.

Compared to Austria, female mathematicians from Ukraine seem more pleasing to the eye, so it’s good to be ranked first.

By the way, Ning Wei also read several papers published by the two people. From this point of view, it is known that Ning Wei is not closely connected with the contemporary world of mathematics. After all, these two people are the best among the younger generation of mathematicians. They are all recognized candidates for the Fields Medal.

Of course, these are not important. The main thing to study is whether there are enough candidates nominated.

This is the most important.

Fortunately, although the March Prize may not be so eye-catching among ordinary people, the academic community is still very considerate. In the candidate pool, there are a total of 39 candidates for the Mathematics Prize, of which 31 are recommended by major academic institutions. Senior scientists who are qualified to recommend recommended 8 people.

As for the March Computer Award, if Ning Wei is excluded, Lermontov Gard is currently ranked first among the 67 candidates. Then Ning Wei discovered a very embarrassing situation.

For example, GPT-3, which once made the entire Silicon Valley crazy, was originally the idea proposed by this professor.

Especially after researchers provided GPT-3 with a dedicated OpenAI API at that time, many developers also used the open API to design many weird functions. The only problem was that GRT-3 at that time and now GRT-5, from Theoretically speaking, it is a one-way natural language model training method. In other words, it is a model that allows machines to understand natural language.

At that time, it even sounded like a scientific research monopoly in the AI ​​field was forming. After all, 170 billion parameters were daunting. It even led to a self-deprecating saying in the industry at that time: poor in theory and rich in pre-training.

But the sudden emergence in March directly made this technology useless.

After all, Ningwei can bluntly tell the world that no machine or software can understand human natural language better than March. When March was born, it did more than just translate papers. It was a direct The existence of mathematics editors of countless top mathematics journals has been concealed. The comments it wrote on many mathematics papers still put many mathematics professors on the pillar of shame...

Not only that, but his popular science on Weibo made billions of netizens not realize that it was actually a machine, and all the copywriting was automatically generated. What’s even scarier is that there is no need to adjust parameters in March…

This is probably the embarrassment caused by awarding the award to the second place after excluding the first place.

Everyone actually knew that there was no suspense about winning this award, because in the past few years, no one could do anything about the entire computer industry, whether it was hardware or software, or in the most cutting-edge field of artificial intelligence. Ignoring Ning Wei's contribution has even exceeded Ning Wei's contribution in the field of mathematics.

This is also the reason why the Turing Award had to be awarded to Ning Wei. If we go back ten years, we will not be able to find another person who has made as great a contribution to computers as Ning Wei. But when Ning Wei decided not to participate in the election, the final winner’s greatest contribution has been eliminated by the award system...

In other words, elimination is not appropriate, because although it is useless, major technical fund contributors and developers including OpenAI, Google, and Facebook have not completely given up. After all, for now, without considering March, GRT -5 is still the most advanced intelligent language system in the world, and it can basically be used to write all kinds of papers that have nothing to say but look like that.

To be honest, Ning Wei felt quite embarrassed looking at this choice, so he could only ignore it. Anyway, everyone knew what the situation was.

Fortunately, at least for now, the March Physics Prize has nothing to do with Ning Wei. This is obviously the weakest aspect of the March Prize. There are only 18 people on the candidate list. The highest ranked ones are Mika Slampa and John. Teufel and Shlomy Kotler.

The contributions of the three people belong to two different teams, but the contributions are the same. The specific explanation is very troublesome. Generally speaking, they can be summarized as using different methods to achieve quantum entanglement at the macro level. In other words, these studies may break the quantum physics The boundary with classical physics allows the two to be unified to a certain extent.

Precisely because the breakthroughs made by the three of them were similar, the final ratings given in March were also similar, accurate to five decimal places.

So in theory, the March Physics Prize will be awarded directly to these three people. According to the practice of other awards, this year's prize money should be divided equally among the three winners, each with one million.

This is also good. There are more people coming to win prizes and it’s more lively.

Ning Wei had a rough idea of ​​the winner of this year's March Intelligence Award, so Ning Wei began to think about how to build momentum for this year's March Intelligence Award Ceremony.

Theoretically speaking, this kind of scientific award is different from the Oscar awards in the entertainment industry. In fact, it doesn't require too many gimmicks. After all, the scientific community does not need as much public attention as the entertainment industry.

But after all, Ning Wei is a young man with ideas. For this newly established award, if there is no gimmick, it is still difficult to attract everyone's attention, thus raising the value of the award and achieving the purpose of publicity.

Especially those outstanding scientific research talents from abroad, such as outstanding talents like Lucy Rowan.

To attract the attention of the younger generation of outstanding talents and let them know that China has a world-wide award with extremely high credibility, it still needs some celebrities to stand up.

Of course, these celebrities must not be celebrities in the entertainment industry.

It would be best if he is an internationally recognized figure in various academic circles. He knows many great people in the mathematics and computing circles, but unfortunately, the relationship is definitely not very good. After thinking about it, he was most confident to invite Professor Smith, who had become acquainted with NS equations. Unfortunately, this professor had already gone to study philosophy. But the influence is still there, and you can invite people to support the scene.

There is also Professor Shen from Penn State Institute of Technology, who is also a great master in the field of mathematics. Although the two of them do not interact much, they only crossed paths at two computer conferences, but Lao Shen and Director Lu are good friends, and they have always been Keeping in touch by email should also give him face. Then there is Lucy Rowan’s former mentor-Professor John Wilson, who is also one of the leaders in the computer industry. I believe he will also give his proud disciple face. Of course The prerequisite is that he has to convince the woman Lucy, and this woman is still angry with him because of the confidentiality code...

In addition, the only academic leader he has the confidence to invite to the platform is Michael I Jordan. This former leader in the field of artificial intelligence has always had a good relationship with him. At least the two of them have not. Even after being embarrassed, he often took the time to answer the boss's questions about the design concept of March.

In addition to these people, Ning Wei found out that he really didn't have the face to invite more foreign celebrities in the academic world. However, by mobilizing the big guys like Director Tian and Dean Yao, he should be able to invite more than a dozen academic experts, but For Ning Wei's plan, this still failed to meet his expectations, so Ning Wei naturally thought of the big guys from technology companies.

After going through it in his mind, Ning Wei immediately felt keenly that it was probably the most cost-effective publicity to have well-known bosses from these technology companies come to support the March Intelligence Award.

Not only do these big guys bring their own traffic, but the actions of these companies have great weight in the hearts of countless young people who are interested in scientific research. Many of the big guys are originally from the technical background, and many of them are even the idols of the younger generation. .

Inviting the big guys in the country shouldn't be a big problem, after all, Brother Liu still has a lot of face. He is quite familiar with the big guys in the foreign technology industry, and at least he still has their phone numbers.

The only problem is probably that some time ago, there may have been some misunderstandings, which led him to blacklist the numbers of these big guys. The good news is that the misunderstanding should have been resolved now. I wonder if these big guys on the opposite side will give him this. Save some face.

Ning Wei has always been a practical person. Whether he is given face or not, a phone call and an invitation should have results.

After thinking for a moment, Ning Wei decided to make the first call to Tim Cook. Speaking of which, the Intelligent Alliance is still in the honeymoon period with Apple, especially Apple's second-generation car, which still relies on the March Intelligent Platform to pass big data screening. Integrated materials database to follow advanced battery construction...

The only regret is probably that Apple will have to face more than a dozen patent lawsuits because it joins the Intelligent Platform Alliance. Of course, Ningwei believes that with Tim Cook’s ability and Apple’s powerful legal department, it will be easy to deal with these lawsuits. piece of cake……

But this time I had to ask for help, so Ningwei still paid attention to the time difference.

I waited until 8 o'clock in the evening, which was 8 o'clock in the morning Silicon Valley time, before dialing Tim Cook's phone number.

What made him happy was that the technology tycoon did not blacklist his phone number, so he behaved very politely after the call went through.

"Hello, Mr. Cook."

"Oh, Ning, it's true. I almost don't know what emotions to show when I receive your call now. Why don't you tell me first, after today's call, will I feel happy, surprised, or have to do something extra? Submit an application for approval of overtime wages worth hundreds of millions of dollars.”

See, this is probably why Ning Wei thinks Tim Cook is pretty good.

A boss with a sense of humor can always make people feel at ease with just one sentence, which makes Ning Wei feel that he should learn this way of communication...