Tech Hammer

"Hey, Coco, dad brought you toys, but you have to tell dad first, do you miss him?"

"I want to... I really want to, I really want to..."

"What do you miss about dad?"

"What gift will dad bring me?"

…

As soon as he returned to school, Ning Wei went straight home and fell in love with his little daughter.

My family would rather have my grandpa and grandma watch over me, so Jiang finally chose to work in the logistics department of Yanbei University. The school very considerately arranged a logistics post for Jiang that didn’t pay much but had fewer things to do. As long as he completed the tasks every day, he also Being able to go home and be with my children.

In addition, Xiao Ningke’s grandmother finally moved next door after classmate Jiang’s grandmother passed away last year. Because of this, Ning Wei took two days off and went to LP County to help the family arrange the funeral of the elderly man.

You can imagine how happy Xiao Ning is. The four members of the family are almost all around the little princess.

Oh, yes... I have to add Ning Wei's sister-in-law, Jiang Chenlu.

Jiang Chenlu, who is now a senior, has confirmed that she will be admitted to graduate school with her excellent grades and is currently in the process of selecting a mentor. That’s right, it’s about choosing a mentor. Probably because of her excellent grades, several relevant professional tutors were very interested in Jiang Chenlu and extended invitations to her.

But it was obvious that Jiang Chenlu knew what was going on. He left the question of choosing his mentor directly to his brother-in-law, and then he enjoyed his senior year heartlessly. For example, when I get home, I come to grab toys from Ning Ke, until the beautiful little man has tears in his eyes, and makes the little guy happy again...

In short, the birth of Ning's child made the Ning family extremely lively. Just like now, when Ning Wei was teasing his daughter, there were three female onlookers next to him. The arrogant father Ning never chooses to pay attention to such boring things as soon as his son comes home. He is still doing his Tai Chi on the roof according to his daily habits. Ning's mother and mother-in-law learned that Ning Wei did not go out when he returned home today. Student Jiang looked at Ning Wei and Ning Ke having fun from the side with a smile.

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"Keke, why are you missing your dad? You are missing the gift dad gave you. Dad is a little unhappy."

"Then, then, then, who told you to go out for many, many days? The baby has almost forgotten what his father is like!" The little girl sitting barefoot on the warm carpet said while doing it He made exaggerated gestures, especially when talking about many, many days, as if he was afraid that his words would not be strong enough, and he used his two pink and tender hands to draw big circles in the air.

It must be said that genes are very powerful. Although she is only two and a half years old, Xiao Ning's expression ability is already very powerful. Especially when he was arguing with Ning Wei, the serious expression on his face was enough to make Ning Wei feel guilty.

"Okay, it's Dad's fault this time, but Dad has to work. If Dad kisses you, can you forgive Dad?"

"Well..." Xiao Ning withdrew his hand, supported his little head and began to think. After his eyes moved twice in his eye sockets, he said seriously: "No, you have to ask your mother to agree to do more per day." Give me a piece of chocolate!”

"puff……"

"rather……"

"Look, look, mom is going to be cruel to me again..." The little girl curled her lips and looked like she was about to cry. She lost her reserve and rushed into Ning Wei's arms.

"Haha, okay, Chenshuang, it's just a piece of chocolate..."

"The child is teething, so he can't eat too much sweets at this time!"

"It's okay. It won't be bad if you eat one more piece of chocolate... No big deal, just brush your teeth more times a day." Ning Wei said nonchalantly.

"Wow, daddy is the best!" Ning Ke said loudly, and then very unreservedly put his little face to Ning Wei's cheek and gave him a hard "pop".

Ning Wei glanced at Classmate Jiang with a smile on his face, blinked his eyes, and made an expression begging for mercy. Finally, Classmate Jiang was speechless. Then he walked to the cabinet in the living room and took out a chocolate. Passed it over.

Ning Wei took the chocolate and carefully opened the package for his well-behaved daughter. Then he watched little Ning stick out her pink tongue with a happy face, licking the smooth chocolate bit by bit, and her heart softened.

"Let's see what gift dad brought you?" Ning Wei took out a round metal ball and a little finger cot from his bag.

"Huh? What is this? Dad."

"This is a gift from dad to Coco. This is specially designed for you. I asked many uncles to make it specially for Coco. Come and put on this finger cot." With that, Ning Wei put on a little finger cot. Wear it on Ning Ning's index finger.

Then teach the child to pinch the finger cot hard with his thumb, and the next moment the finger cot lights up.

"Come on, let Coco do a magic trick for grandma, grandma and mom. You move your fingers, and the ball can not only move, but also transform into a big fat robot. Look, move to the left, and the ball will roll to the left. You stand Get up and walk forward, and the little ball will follow you. If you circle your fingers, like this, you see, the little ball can also grow legs and a head..."

"Wow...grandma, grandma, the baby can do magic..."

"Haha, do you like it?"

"like!"

The old father played a game with his cub for a while, watching the baby licking the chocolate and having a great time until his face was covered with chocolate syrup. Mother Ning who couldn't stand it anymore picked her up. After giving birth to the child, he went to wash Xiao Ningke's face while scolding the father for his ignorance, and then he gave up.

Ning Wei simply followed classmate Jiang upstairs to the bedroom, ready to take a bath and have a good rest.

"Bringing something like this to Coco again, won't it cost a lot of people to make these toys?" When he went upstairs, classmate Jiang complained.

"I asked my two students to design it. There is special equipment in the laboratory, so I made a special one. I paid for the material cost and labor cost, which is more than 20,000 yuan!" Ning Wei explained.

"More than 20,000 again?! Hey... you!" Student Jiang wanted to say something, but finally sighed.

"Don't be angry, don't be angry. We have donated a lot of money over the years. You also know that I am busy and can't spend more time with my children. I can only spend more time on other aspects."

"I'm not angry, it's because the child is so young and you bought her so many expensive toys. Mom will tell you when she finds out. And the child can't be spoiled like this. When she grows up and realizes that these toys were so expensive when she was a child, If you don’t have any idea about money, this kind of education is not good.”

"Hey, my wife is right, I won't do it again."

"You said the same thing last time..."

"Haha, I forgot last time, I promise to remember this time!"

"You... forget it, let's not talk about it. By the way, Director Tian called me a few days ago and asked me to advise you that you should spare some time for the review work of some related projects in the hospital. Take the time to look around more and say nice things to people. Don’t always write letters of recommendation, sometimes people’s words can be scary.”

Speaking of this, Ning Wei sighed and said: "Hey... don't mention it. I'm also very angry, but what can I do? There is indeed a lot of basic research funding for the entire semiconductor system, easily reaching tens of billions. , but there are so many details to be divided, and they all want a piece of the pie, and they expect me to speak out fairly. Where can I speak out? In the past, they used to talk about academic circles, academic circles, and I do feel that academic monopoly is definitely wrong. , is that no problem?"

"But think about it, Chenshuang is a subdivided project, especially a project that is closely related to the future matching of CPU in terms of supporting facilities. It invests tens of millions or even hundreds of millions. How do I choose? People I know well, I I just know his research status and scientific research strength. What about the ones I'm not familiar with? I can only look at the data, but you know how outrageous a lot of the data is. If you leave it to March for analysis, all the data provided by many people are already gone. It has reached the world’s leading level!”

"Seeing these things, I almost thought that our chips and basic software technology have been ahead of the other countries for many years! Do you think I can safely leave these things to others? If we really mess with these things, a limit can make it easier I have a headache. Why bother with this kind of thing for nothing? So I don’t do reviews, I just write letters of recommendation, which is to recommend people I know to do it. At least the final result is controllable."

"As for the fear of people's words, I really don't care. This is not bragging. Those people in the west made me so bad back then, and I didn't lose a hair, right? Academic matters ultimately depend on Results speak for themselves, so what am I afraid of?”

"But……"

Jiang was about to say something else, but was directly interrupted by Ning Wei: "Nothing is wrong. If you think about it this way, in fact, official investment is not what it used to be. I have a general understanding of the official personnel responsible for the final assessment, although they do I don’t understand technology, but most people understand finance. If you treat the whole thing as an investment, it will be easy to figure it out.”

"In the end, investment is about a rate of return. What is the rate of return of the total investment? After subdividing the rate of return of each project, there will eventually be a report. Then the results will speak for themselves. Let's put it this way, the scale of tens of billions The new market, not to mention making money, even if it is a loss, if the results are directly reported in the end, it is equivalent to generating tens of billions of GDP and advanced technology reserves. As long as this is achieved, I have a clear conscience. Especially Most of the direct projects I am responsible for are corporate investments, and the market is responsible for its own profits and losses."

Classmate Jiang nodded and said nothing more. It would be confusing to mention this matter out of concern. Since Ning Wei knew what was going on, she would not say anything more.

It's just that Ning Wei felt unhappy when he saw Classmate Jiang's worried look.

"Don't worry, it seems that I have been too quiet in the past few years, and many people have forgotten what kind of personality I was three years ago. I have almost completed the CPU design and testing work this time, and I have time to follow. Are these people messing with each other? Are they saying that I'm a schoolboy? Then I'm really a schoolboy, what can I do? Those students in Ningban have made more than one billion in the past three years, and these people are still With so little scientific research funding, you are not even as good as a student, but you still have the nerve to say that I am a scholar? I will talk to them later about what it means to be a scholar!"

"Also, those people in the west are not honest anymore. Intel has started to cut prices, and Microsoft has issued a special statement that in the future, the Windows desktop operating system will support the X86 architecture in greater depth. It is said that many motherboard manufacturers are said to have According to internal documents, if production starts to support other CPU motherboards in the future, you may no longer receive microcode updates from Intel. These people must have had such a smooth life in the past two or three years. I forgot that I just made a phone call and asked these people I've had a good few nights of insomnia. Don't worry, just take it easy. I've asked the little cat to remember this, and I'll settle it right away. If you really want to mess with me, I don't mind doing more things."

After hearing this, classmate Jiang didn't dare to say anything at all.

I originally wanted to persuade Ning Wei to be kind to others, but I didn't expect it to have the opposite effect.

How to put it, no one can question Ning Wei's ability to make trouble, especially big things. To sum up, he can be said to be a representative who is ruthless and talkative. Moreover, Classmate Jiang knew Ning Wei very well. If she tried to persuade him at this time, she would probably add fuel to the fire.

I just prepare a change of clothes for Ning Wei in a dull mood, hoping that Ning Wei has matured and will not be as unscrupulous as before. Maybe it's just talk?

…

Classmate Jiang’s prayers are most likely in vain.

At dinner time, Jiang Chenlu also came back. The family had a warm dinner, and then played with Ning Ke until eight o'clock, until the little girl's eyes finally started to fight after not sleeping all day, and she was hugged by her mother. bedroom.

Ning Wei then walked into his study after chatting with Lao Ning for a few words.

Ning Wei cannot be disturbed in the study, this has become the consensus of the family. Even classmate Jiang will only go in and clean the study when Ning Wei is not using it. As for others, they generally won't go in at all. There is no need to explain it deliberately. As long as Ningwei is at home, someone will collect even the waste paper in the study and pack it away. Only classmate Jiang can handle this matter.

So no one knows what Ning Wei did in the study, and probably no one can imagine that Director Ning is having a hard time with Yue Yue.

"March, March, just immersing yourself in doing things is not enough. Tell me, can the world really be changed by just relying on what we are doing now?"

"Meow..." As for the less nutritious topic, the kitten was probably too lazy to participate in the discussion. He just responded perfunctorily and continued to care about himself, carefully combing his hair with his little tongue.

I have to say that after so many years, March's habits have become more and more like that of an adult cat. At least at the animation level, it spends most of the time dealing with its fur to maintain an elegant and close-fitting state.

"Forget it, I don't understand even if I tell you. You'd better call me the list of candidates for this year's March Award."

This time the cat reacted and pawed, and the list of candidates for the 2028 March Award was displayed in front of Ning Wei.

After years of development, the March Award has made its mark in major international awards. Of course, this is also indispensable for the contributions of many foreign technology giants. After all, at every award ceremony, the March Awards always invites very big-name award guests to the scene to stand for the March Awards. In addition, the March Awards itself has a very special awarding method. Including but not limited to the announcement of all candidates, the final contribution score of artificial intelligence, how the final score is calculated, how the algorithm is designed, etc.

This level of transparency is enough to leave people speechless, and at least it has been widely recognized by the entire academic community. Coupled with the fact that big names with great reputations can be invited to the platform every time, it has aroused the interest of many ordinary people, which has also caused the trend of online public opinion to change in recent years.

Initially, only the Nobel Prize attracted the most attention among such science and technology awards. In the past, the day when the Nobel Prize was announced in mid-October was the most lively month for discussions about scientific research progress on the Internet. But by the end of October, the Nobel Prize was settled. After that, no voices discussing these issues were heard on the Internet. But now the March Prize has successfully extended this discussion on scientists’ contributions to mid-December, when the March Prize is announced.

It was even lively for at least another week in March of the following year. After all, the Nobel Prize Awards Dinner is not like the March Awards, which generates great momentum every year and attracts the attention of countless netizens.

The same is true this year. Some people on the Internet have begun to predict and even start to argue who will be the winner of this year's March Award.

Currently, three rounds of the March Prize have been awarded, and this year will be the fourth. After this year, the March Prize Organizing Committee will announce a decision to expand the selection scope of the March Prize. Five additional awards will be presented at the awards ceremony.

This is something that has been planned for a long time. Over the past four years, the March Award has accumulated enough influence and experience, and the entire selection process and algorithm have been recognized by most people in the academic community.

Of course, this is thanks to the fact that the Western media did not do much to smear the March Awards. It was not that these media were open to the March Awards, but that they reacted too fiercely to some slanderous remarks and did not follow the routine. The way the cards were played led to direct misfortune for many people, and even strained the relationship between several well-known media and well-known technology companies. In the end, NBC and CNN even changed the people in charge, and the impact gradually disappeared.

Too direct consequences make many media people think twice before reporting negative news closely related to someone. In the past, no matter how you played, the fundamentals would not be damaged. When the opponent did not play according to the routine and always hit the king bomb, no one wanted to be the one who took the blame in the end.

Of course, the gap is still established. Although I won't smear someone in a big way, I will still make tentative remarks when I get the opportunity. Because many Western scientists have won the March Prize in recent years, negative news of this level will naturally not shake the foundation. However, according to the evaluation criteria, Chinese scientists have begun to appear in the 2026 Mathematics Award and the 2027 Computer Award.

One is of Chinese descent and the other is a native Chinese.

This year, after Ning Wei read the list, he said, "I didn't participate in the expert scoring in previous years. This year I want to score these candidates. What is the specific weight coefficient?"

"Meow... In the fields of mathematics and computer science, your score weight is naturally extremely high, but in other fields... meow..."

"Oh, these two fields are enough. I decided to give Zhang Dingxi's research results 9.5 points. This Elton's result is only worth 6 points at most. Can a garbage algorithm like Bernie be recommended? Just 2 points... …”