Time Travel: 2014

Having said that, Lin Hui was a little worried.

I don’t know that Professor He didn’t know that Lin Hui would not choose to study in any university in China, not only as a classmate of National Yang University.

If I had chosen to study at an overseas university, would I still be so amiable and open-minded?

When Lin Hui revealed to He Tianchang that he was going to study at MIT.

Professor He did not become as cold as he expected.

On the contrary, he approved of Lin Hui's approach and told Lin Hui that it was a good thing to see more of the world while he was young.

At the same time, he also said that if he had the opportunity, he would introduce some friends in the United States to Lin Hui.

When Lin Hui is overseas, he can take more care of Lin Hui.

Lin Hui was flattered by this kind of kindness from an elder, and he quickly responded.

Professor He Tianchang's attitude made Lin Hui feel a little guilty.

It seems that the previous thinking was too narrow.

We underestimate the tolerance of the older generation.

He Tianchang was also very happy to communicate with Lin Hui.

Both sides have surprisingly similar views on many things.

For a moment, He Tianchang felt as if he had met his old friend.

But He Tianchang was somewhat hesitant at first.

After all, He Tianchang had long known that Lin Hui was destined to miss out on National Yangtze University, whether he chose Beijing University or Mizuki University.

How could he be in a good mood at this time?

Anyone who finds a treasure and has to leave it alone is not happy.

And it is better to entrust such a treasure to the hands of someone who has always wanted to surpass you.

After learning that Lin Hui was going to study at MIT as an undergraduate.

He Tianchang felt relieved all of a sudden.

Good guys, aren't you Mizuki and Jingda always so arrogant?

Aren't you the ones who monopolize the top scorers in the college entrance examination every year, except for a few who go to Hong Kong University? ?

Now, okay, now these two universities are also in trouble.

With this thought in mind, some of the vague hesitation in my heart before disappeared completely.

He Tianchang chatted a lot with Lin Hui about the development of Nanfeng APP.

There's nothing easier than communicating directly with the developers themselves to get some insight into the creation of software.

Well, this matter is like a big test for Lin Hui.

Although Lin Hui is quite satisfied with the sales achieved by Nanfeng APP and the corresponding professional mode of Nanfeng APP.

But He Tianchang is very dissatisfied with Lin Hui's current sales.

Moreover, Lin Hui should not have the mentality of trying to stop at nothing, but should have the courage to explore.

It can’t just be about survival, but it should be about making products profitable.

Only when the product is profitable can a virtuous cycle be achieved.

In fact, when it comes to the profitability of the software Nanfeng APP, it is not an exaggeration to say that Lin Hui is making a lot of money in this situation.

There should be a reason why He Tianchang said this.

Lin Hui felt that He Tianchang must have calculated the profitability after taking into account the costs involved in market research, software development, publicity, channels, operation and maintenance, etc.

If this is the calculation method, then He Tianchang can know the sales volume achieved by Lin Hui in the professional mode of Nanfeng APP through third-party data.

But he calculated that Lin Hui’s net profit must be much less than Lin Hui’s actual net profit.

After all, according to normal thinking, money will be spent on publicity, channels, operation and maintenance and many other aspects after the software is launched.

And it’s not just pennies spent, it’s burning money.

It was precisely because of these factors that He Tianchang thought that Lin Hui had made this Nanfeng APP just enough to survive.

It's no wonder He Tianchang thinks this way, after all, every generation has its own set of hardships.

The early software development industry was really hard.

Not only do you need to take advantage of loopholes in the rules, but you also need to take advantage of the operation and maintenance costs during the initial operation period of the software.

It may be hard to imagine now that there is such a thing as selling a house in order to develop software, but it happened often at the time.

They even resort to any means necessary to retain users. Anyway, even the most embarrassed developers now have a hard time imagining what it would be like to pretend to be a girl to retain users.

However, He Tianchang's way of thinking is only under normal circumstances.

During the project cycle involving the software Nanfeng APP:

The cost of forest ash is quite limited:

The bulk of various expenses in the project cycle of conventional software is generally publicity.

As for Nanfeng APP, Lin Hui was considering the core algorithm involved in this software rather than the value of Nanfeng APP itself.

Therefore, at that time, in addition to writing some articles in the slogan of the app store.

Lin Hui did not spend money on publicity.

As for channels, operation and maintenance, Lin Hui didn't worry too much.

It can be said that in this case, the income from the forest ash's revenue share is basically equivalent to the pure profit of the forest ash after paying taxes.

Although this profit is completely incomparable with the profits Lin Hui made from the previous games and the shortcut command app that he had reached an agreement with Apple.

But objectively speaking, the profits obtained by Nanfeng App are also very good.

However, it is difficult for Lin Hui to explain the costs involved in each aspect of specific software development in too much detail with Professor He Tianchang.

It was enough to prevaricate in front of ordinary people. In front of such a senior industry insider, Lin Hui didn't want to accidentally bring up some things that he had become accustomed to in the past few years and be noticed that it was unusual now.

Fortunately, Professor He Tianchang only mentioned it and did not study it too deeply with Lin Hui.

Afterwards, the conversation was mainly about academic exchanges.

The content of the chat involves something related to natural language processing.

Someone with a rank like He Tianchang must be at least a full professor.

Is it okay to have an equal, conversational academic exchange with a full professor?

But there is nothing to be vain about. There is a sequence of hearing the Tao.

The first step is the guide.

What's more, Lin Hui went first for seven years.

And in fact, Lin Hui felt much less stressed when chatting with He Tianchang than when chatting with Eve Carly about the same issue.

Although He Tianchang also has a certain academic status.

But through a simple conversation, Lin Hui discovered that He Tianchang was not very good at generating summary algorithms.

It is also understandable that there are specialties in the art industry.

Except for a few generalists in human history, most people are good at one field.

In short, it is normal even if Daben is not good at something.

But it may be because He Tianchang is not very good at natural language processing.

So when it comes to the direction of natural language processing.

He Tianchang's perspective is often macroscopic, and Lin Hui has benefited a lot from this novel perspective of looking at problems from a macroscopic perspective.

He Tianchang also gained a lot from this exchange with Lin Hui.

Of course, at He Tianchang's level, it is difficult to acquire any new knowledge except the most cutting-edge knowledge.

And even if Lin Hui had some academic advantages, he couldn't show off regardless of the occasion.

Therefore, He Tianchang’s main gains are:

The communication with Lin Hui confirmed some previous judgments.