Crossover: 2014

Chapter 102 MIT Admissions Invitation

"So what if it's ruthless?"

Hearing Ewald Cherry's rhetorical question, Eve Carly suddenly realized the seriousness of the problem.

Although Eve Carly's team had a good cooperative relationship with Google/Google before.

But as Ewald Cherry said.

The previous good cooperative relationship between the two parties was based on the fact that Eve Carly's algorithm team can continuously create value for Google/Google.

Now Eve Carly's team's algorithm research has fallen behind, and even has a generation gap with the most advanced technology.

How can you hope that the father of the benefactor will continue to spend money to provide/support them?

Although Eve Carly's team is quite a top natural language processing algorithm team, it is not the top after all.

If you are not the top, you are destined not to be irreplaceable.

Moreover, the previous cooperation between Eve Carly's team and Google/Google was not based on a contract, but rooted in the tacit understanding of conventions.

Now even if the partnership breaks down, Eve Carly's team has little room to appeal.

Even if there is a contract, there is nothing Google/Google can do to let her go.

Google/Google has a professional team of legal thugs/hooligans who will find various loopholes to circumvent the constraints of the contract.

All in all, Google/Google will find all kinds of "reasonable" and high-sounding reasons.

Such an Internet giant will always present a bright and upright side in front of the world, no matter how much discord and filth there is in the corner.

For established Internet companies like Google/Google, many official organizations in the United States have no good solutions.

(ps:...Except for the official agencies of the United States Department of Justice/Department of Antitrust/Bureau, Federal/Federal Trade Commission/Commission, and Internal Revenue Service)
What about Eve Carly?

The power of individuals is so small in front of capital.

Although the power of technology is powerful, if the technology is not strong enough to a certain level, it also has no right to speak in front of capital.

Perhaps the algorithm is only qualified to say no to capital if it is advanced to the level of LIN HUI.

Speaking of LIN HUI, Eve Carly was a little envious for some reason.

In addition to envying the algorithm itself developed by LIN HUI.

Eve Carly also looked forward to the scientific research institutions in the country on the other side of the ocean.

I heard that the research and development funds of the scientific research institutions there basically come from official funding.

Although appropriation of such things may not be satisfactory.

But at least there is no need to beg for alms like their team.

He is obviously an elite in technology, but he still has to sell/laugh and cater to capital like an actress.

This made Eve Carly very unhappy.

If you are unhappy, you are unhappy, and Eve Carly has nothing to do.

Eve Carly was a little bit depressed, and to tell the truth, she had always lived in an ivory tower of intellectuals.

She's not that good when it comes to things other than technology.

She is just a very pure person, so pure that there are almost only one line of code in her life.

Now facing the news that Google/Google is about to divest, she is a little overwhelmed.

If Google/Google really betrays the good history of cooperation or even divests, it will be almost disastrous for the next algorithm research of Eve Carly's team.

Eve Carly did not exaggerate the consequences in the slightest.

Many people may think that algorithm research is just messing around with computers.

Where is it so easy?It might be fine to tinker with ordinary algorithms like this.

However, when it comes to algorithm technology with very grand application scenarios, the corresponding research work is not so easy at all.

The amount of work involved is second, and the most important thing is that it is not an exaggeration to say that this kind of work is a gold-swallowing behemoth.

Take the "corpus required for language model construction" encountered before as an example.

Although the structure involving the English corpus is easier than the construction of the Chinese corpus.

And there are three universities of Oxford, Harvard, and Yale to cooperate with each other in linguistics.

Eve Carly feels that the funds needed for their team to finally get the corpus are more than one million US dollars.

Not to mention involving other completely unfamiliar technical fields such as NLP sentiment analysis.

In short, algorithm research is a behemoth that swallows gold.

Thinking of the almost seamless cooperation with Oxford, Harvard, and Yale before, Eve Carly became even more pessimistic.

In fact, the reason why these universities work together in linguistics is to cooperate with their team's previous research.

To a large extent, they also want to get a share of Google's investment.

Now that the sponsor is gone, it is unknown whether these universities will continue to cooperate.

What about future technical research?

Eve Carly couldn't help feeling sad.

Ewald Cherry noticed Eve Carly's mood: "Hey, be optimistic! Please don't be so pessimistic! We are not completely helpless! Didn't I just mention it? It's not that complicated, the truth is Is it enough to just have an invitation letter?"

Eve Carly: "What do you mean?"

Ewald Cherry: "Have you noticed the age of the applicant in the patent?"

Eve Carly asked puzzledly, "What's wrong?"

Ewald Cherry: "I saw that LIN HUI from the far eastern country in the patent filing under the website of the Patent Office. He is only 18 years old this year?"

Eve Carly: "Is there any problem with this age? Do you want to use age to question his patent fraud?
There is no shortage of geniuses in the computer field.

I actually had my first patent when I was 18!

I still remember the name of that patent, which is called "A New Method for Text Judgment, Screening and Comparison".

This is also an algorithm patent. Although this patent is very backward from the current point of view, it cannot be compared with the patent that LIN HUI has done.

But this is enough to show that age is not linked to achievements.

I suggest that you still don't make a fuss about the age issue, it is easy to humiliate yourself.

Age is just a parameter used by geniuses to paralyze opponents. "

Ewald Cherry: "I'm not questioning the degree of genius of that Lin Hui.

But what do you think you were doing when you were 18?Probably in high school.

I deduce that the 18-year-old prodigy LIN HUI on the other side of the ocean should also be a high school student now.

That being the case, why don't we just send an invitation letter to invite him to study at MIT? "

Eve Carly felt her eyes light up for a moment: "This idea is really good. If LIN HUI can really come to MIT, patents and so on are not important. He himself is the greatest wealth. But you How can you be sure that he must be a high school student? What if he has a graduate or higher level degree?"

Ewald Cherry: "It should not be a master's student or a doctoral student. If it is true, the corresponding degree Master/Doctor should be indicated when applying for a patent, and the corresponding patent remark should also be Master LinHui /Doctor Lin Hui"

Eve Carly: "If it weren't for these two, even undergraduates would have been tricky!"

Ewald Cherry: "That's even better, just invite LIN HUI to study for a master's degree. Isn't it a waste of time for such a genius to study for an undergraduate degree?
Moreover, it is also a good thing for his classmates that such a genius came to a higher institution earlier.

It should also be a pain for the light of the firefly to be with the brilliance of the sun and the moon. His classmates should wish that he would leave sooner. "

Eve Carly: "But..."

Ewald Cherry: "There is nothing but, don't you think the research results of LIN HUI are not worthy of a master's degree?"

Eve Carly: "Of course it deserves it, but how can you be sure that their university won't obstruct it? After all, LIN HUI is such an excellent talent?"

Ewald Cherry: "What are their colleges fighting us for?
Uh, I didn't mean to look down on them, I mean ()
You know, even their best Mizuki is only 47th in this year's QS ranking.

Our MIT QS ranking is the first in the world.

As of 2014, MIT has 30 Nobel Prize winners, 47 Rhodes Scholars, and 61 Marshall Scholars.

And what about them?What do they have?They still dare to obstruct? ?What do they use to hinder it?
Isn't it time for them to beg us for exchange student places? "

Eve Carly: "But how can you guarantee that Lin Hui is interested in scientific research? What if he has no interest in scientific research at all?
I've seen many talented people end up in the business world or go straight to entrepreneurship. "

Ewald Cherry: "If he's interested in starting a business, he should come to MIT.

How many famous companies have been founded by MIT alumni, Intel (Robert Noyce), McDonnell Aircraft Company (James Smith McDonald), Douglas Aircraft Company (old Donald Welsh Douglas), 3Com (Robert Metcalf), Texas Instruments (Cecile Howard Green), Qualcomm (Andrew Viterby), Bosco (Amar Bose), Koch Industries (Fred C. Hertz), Rockwell (Willard Rockwell), etc., were founded by our MIT alumni.

Choosing MIT is equivalent to joining a super luxurious social circle. How could a person who is determined to start a business say no to MIT? "

Eve knows that what she said is true. Not long ago, the British "Guardian" also reported:
"A survey shows that MIT alumni have founded 25800 companies, employing 300 million people. These companies have achieved a total annual revenue of 2 trillion US dollars. If MIT were a country, then it would be No.11 in the world big economy."

Eve Carly: "Uh..."

Ewald Cherry: "Could it be that you are worried about his language proficiency again? Don't worry, he can explain patent papers clearly. It doesn't make sense that he can't speak English at all."

Eve Carly: "That's not what I mean. I mean, even if you said that you won't encounter any obstacles in Huaguo, how can you be sure that you can convince the school board to let him join MIT as a graduate student? Woolen cloth?"

After hearing Eve Carly's doubts, Ewald Cherry smiled sweetly:

"There's nothing to worry about, the school manager is my father."

Eve Carly: . . .

(End of this chapter)