Riding the wind of rebirth

Chapter 1379 Thinking System

"That's how it was." Zhou Zhi was so happy that his eyes narrowed: "But the word cards provided by the two senior brothers are so useful."

"The character cards of "Sea of ​​Words" have numbers, large characters, pinyin, Republic of China pinyin, and even old four-corner numbers, as well as definitions and examples of small characters, which meet all the requirements of our automatic identification software for debugging and calibrating the model. Of course we have to use that end too!”

Zhou Zhi added: "With the help of word cards, we quickly improved the accuracy of the software in recognizing graphic characters from 92%, which is eight out of 100 character errors, to 90% Nine point six, that is, relying on software to recognize text, there will only be four mispronunciations out of a thousand words. It has directly improved by an order of magnitude."

"This achievement has directly helped us cross the last huge threshold of digital libraries. This software has truly matured."

"The digitized "Sea of ​​Words" brought this time is our first digital book established through computer scanning and recognition technology. Since "Sea of ​​Words" with the largest number of words can be digitized, of course we are full of resources for the rest of the classics. confidence!"

"So the digitization of ancient books can be put on the agenda?" Wei Yixin was overjoyed: "Our school is working on the big book "Siku Quanshu Series". How about you come to our school? Can you tell me about your student status..."

The director of the computer center also nodded repeatedly: "Actually, Tsinghua University has not lost its head. You are a liberal arts student after all. You came to us to work on the ancient books digitization project. Think about it, how big an achievement will this big project be if it is completed? Ancient people Isn’t that what we call a gentleman’s three virtues, his virtues, his merits, and his words, all included in this?”

Zhou Zhi laughed secretly in his heart. It should be said that the cultural atmosphere of Peking University is indeed good. You see, the director of the Computer Center can even interpret the proposition that a gentleman is three independent...

However, this was not possible for the time being, so Zhou Zhi had no choice but to explain with a smile: "Our Shu University's two great books, the Taoist Canon and the Confucian Canon, are also ready to be studied. It is impossible for Grandpa Shi to let him go."

"But now that we have good tools, even if I don't come to Peking University, everyone can speed up the progress of the project. Let's get back to business now. I will use the digital "Sea of ​​Words" to demonstrate our project architecture protocol and the process of organizing digital classics. standard."

Just like a standard library, a book is stored as a text file as a whole, and then the file is compiled with the book title, book number, and at most the author, publisher and other information as a label.

Until Zhou Zhi traveled back through time, the country's work on digitizing classics was still at the relatively primitive application stage of establishing a tree-like database.

Such things are of course unqualified in Zhou Zhi's eyes. They can only be regarded as foundations at best, and are still far from being a hundred-foot-tall tower.

The advantage of this is that it is simple and clear, easy to upgrade and maintain, and the information is comprehensively saved. In one sentence, it is sufficient but not easy to use.

This thing is Zhou Zhi's own creation. Even in the previous life, this is something that has never been done in the Book Classics Project.

Information engineering is like this. The ideas of algorithms and protocols are often more important than the basic work. If the guiding ideology is wrong, wait until the project progresses to the point where it is no longer enough to be used. To carry out, a huge price will be paid.

The huge confusion of Chinese encoding in later generations is the best footnote of this lesson.

These ideas were sorted out under the guidance of Clover's research and development thinking and the "how to ask three questions" principle proposed by Zhou Zhi. "How to ask three questions" sounds mysterious, but it is actually very simple and simple. For any needs, we have to ask three or more questions.

For example, the classics digitization project, according to the general idea, is it easy to use?

The answer is definitely: not easy to use.

So here comes the first one: how to make it easy to use?

The answer is simple: in addition to scanning books into text documents, a huge tag system and smart search engine must be built on this basis.

Then the second step comes: how to build a huge tag system and smart search engine?

The answer is that we need a tag collection software that can automatically analyze and extract feature tags based on the document content; to complete a smart search engine, we also need a spherical network data topology association system.

Then comes the third step: how do we develop this tag collection software and a ball-net data topology correlation system.

The answer is software and hardware parallelism. In terms of software, we use the latest mathematical statistics principles and introduce them into computer models to develop a set of feature extraction algorithms and feature linkage algorithms. We use this set of algorithms as the guiding ideology to complete software development.

In terms of hardware, in order to overcome the insufficient computing power of existing computing equipment, we must use the help of the Internet era to maximize the use of all computing resources on the wide area network and develop a distributed computing power application system based on the Internet.

This concept is still relatively preliminary, but the digital "Sea of ​​Words" based on this concept is very clear. Zhou Zhi also took the lead in inventing a system of exposition to explain the words on a page of cards through three-dimensional layers. , the complex relationships between various contents.

Through the illustration, Wei Yixin and Leng Yulong can see that the flat word card has turned into a straw grasshopper cage, or like a folding lantern after it is opened. The various layers are connected through algorithms. The feature labels of each layer are connected to form the three-dimensional structure of the character card.

It is even easier for people majoring in liberal arts to understand this system of thinking than it is for people majoring in science. Professor Zeng from the Computing Center had to explain it carefully, but the two senior fellow students felt comfortable watching it.

Because in the minds of the two senior brothers, the knowledge system about word cards is just like what Zhou Zhi is showing in the information system now!

Leng Yulong clapped his hands happily: "Wonderful, wonderful! What does it mean to be better than blue? This is called being better than blue! Who could have thought that one day every page of the book would become three-dimensional?! Hahahaha, this is what we spent What took me many years to build in my mind is now clear to me. There is something in this digital book!"

They didn't understand many of the technical details Zhou Zhi just explained to them, but the applications supported by these technical details were so familiar to them that they couldn't help but feel a sense of surprise like "meeting an old friend in a foreign country."

"Many sages during the May Fourth Movement were extremely disappointed with our Chinese studies and believed that there was no need for Chinese characters to exist or be transformed into characters." Zhou Zhi smiled and said: "This is a pessimistic estimate without any basis. However, until today, this It’s really unbelievable that there is still a market for this kind of poison.”

"You can't say this in vain." Both senior fellow students are serious academics. Leng Yulong said: "You have to come up with a strong enough reason, otherwise you will be committing the same crime as the May Fourth scholars again." mistake?"

(End of this chapter)