Riding the wind of rebirth

Zhou Zhi was really shocked when he heard Mai Mingdong say that his granddaughter was Cai Shaotang's student. He felt that there was still a lot of room for improvement in the intelligence collection work of the Ansheng Information Industry Intelligence Department: "Your granddaughter? Really...really?"

"What? You can write "Information System Engineering Management Theory" at the age of 20, but my granddaughter cannot start researching neural networks at the age of 20?" Zhou Zhi seemed to have seen the smug look on Mai Mingdong's face on the other end of the line: "There are not only geniuses named Zhou in this world, right?"

"What kind of genius am I!" Zhou Zhi quickly denied: "Mr. Mai, your granddaughter is called Mai Xiaomiao?"

"Yes, she is here on behalf of UC Berkeley to share network resources with us. In addition, she is using the digital library as the only test field in our country to practice the cellular neural network model and bring back some of the most advanced scientific research results from abroad." Mai Mingdong said with a cheerful smile, "I talked to her about you some time ago, and I praised you for your strong foresight. It's not enough to say that you are prepared for a rainy day. You are just like Zhuge Liang who has insight into the future development trend of information technology!"

Zhou Zhi was speechless. Maybe it was because of your unnecessary praise that aroused the little girl's rebellious psychology and caused trouble for our Clover Group.

However, this is just speculation. Judging from the fact that this person secretly published a paper on the empty instruction sled using his grandfather's ID, he may have known that such vulnerabilities exist in all major systems in theory, but he just didn't bother to take action.

"That's great! We are currently lacking talents who can lead this field. Graph databases are originally prepared for future ultra-large-scale data clusters. The best big data analysis tools in the future must be neural network systems that can deeply match their network analysis models." Zhou Zhi said: "At least from the current perspective, among the several neural network system models, Professor Chang's CNN, that is, the cell network system model, is far more likely to become a breakthrough than the biological neuron network system model."

"Yes, we think so too." Mai Mingdong was very excited: "Since we now have such a research foundation, it would be a pity if we don't study CNN quickly, so... how does Cui Jian sing that song? I'm ready to borrow your territory to go wild!"

“Hehehe…” Zhou Zhi couldn’t help but secretly laugh at Mai Mingdong’s iron-fisted crow’s mouth, but he didn’t reveal what his granddaughter had done: “Welcome, welcome. When I’m free, I’ll go back to Shudu to see her.”

"My opinion is that you'd better come back now." Mai Mingdong did not give up putting pressure on Zhou Zhi: "With a role model like you, I can also keep her from running around all day and build the laboratory as soon as possible."

Zhou Zhi already knew how Mai Mingdong had created this negative image for him. Who does every child hate the most? Of course, it's the kid next door who is well-behaved, sensible, and has good character and academic performance in the eyes of parents and elders!

But he said, "Mr. Mai, you know that I have just started many things here, so I can't get away. But I will definitely come back during this holiday. If you have anything, just contact Tianyu and the others. I guess by the time I come back, the cell network laboratory will have been established."

After chatting with Mai Mingdong for a while, Zhou Zhi hung up the phone and immediately called Kong Huaiming: "Manager Kong, can you buy me a ticket to Shudu tomorrow? I have something to do and need to go back temporarily."

Everything just now was a smokescreen, the purpose of which was to catch the other party off guard.

Kong Huaiming's life role has changed from the former director of Xichang Soy Sauce Factory to the head of Zhou Liu Niang Food Group Liangshan Branch. His business mission has also changed from the initial saving of the soy sauce factory to introducing modern production lines and integrating the soy sauce and vinegar industry in the Panxi area of ​​Liangshan; purchasing and selling wild mushroom specialties from the mountains, operating crude processed dry products, deep processed sauces, and aviation cold chain fresh food and other modern agricultural and sideline products enterprises as a professional manager.

Whether it is personal income, career prospects or social status, they have all been greatly improved. Kong Huaiming certainly knows how to treat Zhou Zhi, the "youngest" who is loved by his boss's family: "No problem, how about we drive over to pick you up? The road to Lianhe Township is easy to travel now, and it's not troublesome at all."

"No need, I'll drive here myself." Zhou Zhi smiled and said, "Thank you for troubling Manager Kong." "Hey, why are you being so polite to me? By the way, are you going back to Manzhou after returning to Shudu this time? If you are, I'll call your cousin in advance."

Zhou Zhi smiled secretly in his heart. If he said he wanted to go back, he might find a lot of gifts waiting for him when he arrived in the autonomous prefecture. It might not be as simple as making a phone call. He quickly said, "I'm going back this time because of an urgent matter at school. I will be back in two or three days. I don't have time to go back."

"Okay then, see you tomorrow."

"Dinner is ready--" Gillette's voice came from the kitchen at the right time.

"You're still going back to Shudu? Is the situation serious?" After Zhou Zhi finished making a few calls, he realized that Li Lu, Liang Guangping and Liu Hongtao were staring at him with interest and eager eyes: "Whose granddaughter did you just hear you say? Are you going to meet that girl?"

"What's with that expression on your face?" Zhou Zhi was now completely relaxed. There was an M on top of the big black cat, and everyone had guessed it to be a Qi on the bottom. Now it seemed they had guessed wrong. In fact, there was a Xiao on top, and the bottom was the most obscure way of writing the word "苗" in the "Six Books Manual".

The signature of the small account is the same. The two cat ears on the top are actually the pinyin of Mai Xiaomiao's surname, M; the two cat eyes plus a small nose are actually a deformation of the word "Xiao"; and the small paws and body at the bottom are actually derived from the word "Miao".

No wonder she likes to use cat patterns to represent herself. After knowing the meaning, looking at the two signatures again, they are quite design-conscious.

"Just tell me, are you going to meet a girl, the granddaughter of so-and-so?"

"She is the granddaughter of Director Mai of our school's computer department. I heard that she is a disciple of a master in cellular neural network research who has returned from Berkeley. She wants to use our school's digital library project to build a cellular neural network laboratory."

"Wait a minute, why do I feel dizzy when I hear what you say? Isn't cellular neural network a research topic for us in biology? How is it related to digital library?"

"This cellular neural network is not the same as biology... No, that's not right, but it is still related." Zhou Zhi explained to several people that this is actually a large-scale nonlinear complex analog system that can process signals in real time. Each basic circuit unit in the system is called a cell neuron, and the entire system is composed of identical cell neurons regularly arranged and connected in space. These cell neurons are only connected and interacted with adjacent cell neurons through memristors, or "synapses". Each neuron has input, output and dynamic rules-related states. Because CNN has continuous-time dynamic behavior, non-adjacent cell neurons can also have an indirect influence, ultimately forming the ability of complex nonlinear operations.

Although Liang Guangping and Liu Hongtao are fans of information technology, this "system" is far beyond their cognition and feels more like something from a science fiction novel: "Isn't this... isn't this the working principle of human brain cells?"

"Yes, that's why it's called a cellular neural network." Zhou Zhi said, "I'm the representative and coordinator of the Chinese Department for the school's digital library project, so the school wants me to go back." (End of this chapter)