Riding the wind of rebirth

Chapter 1890 An idea

"If we combine it with the social class structure, conflicts, diplomacy with surrounding nations, wars and other 'node elements' at the time, perhaps we can get a reason for the rise and fall of a dynasty, and perhaps we can learn from the experience and explore the possibility of avoiding collapse at that time."

“Even if we can prove that its demise was inevitable, it is still a very welcome progress.” Zhou Zhi emphasized: “At least we have introduced a method to try to conduct large-scale and complex social science research, which can relatively accurately quantify the proportion and interaction between various social forces and obstacles in the development of feudal dynasties at various stages.”

"Historical research actually lacks a kind of confirmation. For example, the same government order will have different effects in different places and under different backgrounds. For example, the degree of strictness of the rule of law. The effect of lenient law may be to give people a rest and promote people's livelihood, or it may be chaos in the rule of law, bandits everywhere, and destroy people's livelihood. The effect of strict law may be to clamp down on social vitality, punish people for any action, and make people look at others, or it may be to enforce orders, make society run efficiently, and improve production efficiency."

"Historians often attribute such differences to the rulers' insight and wisdom, saying 'if you can win the heart, the rebellion will disappear; if you fail to judge the situation, both leniency and severity will be wrong'. Even in modern times, historians' analysis is still relatively rough, more often faithfully recording or retelling the arguments in historical books of past dynasties, and rarely involving precise quantitative analysis."

"If we want to use the ancient books digital library to conduct application experiments in cellular neural network laboratories, I think this is a direction."

There was applause at the door. It was Mai Mingdong who had arrived. He was clapping his briefcase under his armpit. "Elbow has a deep understanding of cellular neuronal networks. It looks like our work will be easier."

"Mr. Mai."

"grandfather."

Mai Xiaomiao called out "Grandpa", which scared Hu Lidong and Hu Tianyu. "Mr. Mai, is this girl your granddaughter?"

“Be respectful!” Zhou Zhi had teased the two men enough, and now he frowned in front of Mai Mingdong: “This is an authority on cellular neuronal networks at Berkeley, a disciple of Professor Cai, a senior researcher of the IEEE Association, and an academic expert who came to help us build a laboratory!”

"Ah?! No way?!"

"Ah?! So young?!"

Two wailing voices rang out in the conference room, and then they shouted in anger: "Boss, you are cheating us!"

Zhou Zhi spread his hands and said, "How did I cheat you?"

"I, I..." Hu Lidong was particularly angry: "I just thought it was a new person brought by Xueshan..."

"Yes, if Xiao Miao agrees to join us, she will indeed be a newcomer." Zhou Zhi smiled sarcastically: "Lidong, as an old employee, you can't take advantage of your seniority..."

"You are just trying to trick me!"

"Okay, okay, it seems everyone is familiar with each other, so let's start the meeting." Mai Mingdong looked at his watch and waved for his colleagues to come in. "It's almost time. The capital is still waiting."

When the other party's screen lit up, Zhou Zhi found that the standard of this meeting was quite high, and people from the Academy of Sciences, ministries and the Science and Technology Commission were all present.

The host of the meeting was also an old acquaintance, Director Song from the Science and Technology Commission. When he saw Zhou Zhi, he smiled and said hello: "Hey, Xiao Zhou is back too?" "Hello, Director Song," Zhou Zhi waved at the camera: "Is Chunjia doing well over there?"

"Xiao An is very good. We have almost completed the preliminary work of the project. Now the country has officially approved our plan, and the Xia, Shang and Zhou Dynasty Chronology Project has officially started."

"Our proposal for the definition of civilization has been widely supported by many countries with ancient civilizations. In the academic community, scholars from Japan, South Korea, Cambridge, and Yale also actively support it. We have already submitted the proposal in a draft form to UNESCO, and we are steadily pushing for its adoption. This time we have a good chance of success."

In fact, the introduction of this concept itself is related to the Xia, Shang and Zhou dynasty dating project, which involves the question of whether China's work will be recognized internationally. Although Zhou Zhi does not attach importance to this aspect, it does not mean that the top leaders do not have their considerations.

"That's good." Today is not the time for small talk, but since Director Song greeted him first, Zhou Zhi had to chat for a few words.

Director Song did not mention Zhou Zhi casually. As the opening of this meeting, after entering the formal meeting, Director Song mentioned the country's urgent need for cutting-edge technology and future technology, and emphasized that these undertakings require a great reliance on young people.

After that, Mai Xiaomiao's academic background and brief social relationships were introduced. After the introduction, Mai Mingdong introduced the preparatory work of the laboratory. Finally, Mai Xiaomiao introduced the latest progress of Cai Shaotang's three major theories and their application prospects.

Mai Xiaomiao is very proficient in the three major theories and was able to introduce the theories very clearly without any notes. During the presentation, experts from the academy of sciences and ministries also raised some questions, and Mai Xiaomiao gave answers that satisfied the experts.

However, at the end of the meeting, Mai Xiaomiao picked up the plan she had prepared for the security upgrade of the Clover Group, which had been revised by Zhou Zhi: "Dear leaders and teachers, after a discussion last night, we had some new ideas..."

Next, Mai Xiaomiao introduced the security upgrade plan of Clover Group. The first step of plugging bugs was skipped, and the focus was on the second step of establishing a distributed computing power and storage system and realizing an unchangeable ledger mechanism. He also brought up the concepts of cloud computing, cloud storage, big data, and blockchain proposed by Zhou Zhi, believing that these will become the absolute direction of the application of neural network technology in the next few decades.

The experts from the academy of science and the ministries all felt a chill down their spine. If the previous laboratory planning was still at the level of a specific analytical tool, the application prospects of this plan were obviously too broad, completely like the difference between a pond and the sea.

If this technology really develops to the level described by Mai Xiaomiao, the impact it will have on the entire world is self-evident.

But in this case, the planning of the original small laboratory is obviously not good enough. Not to mention Chinese universities, there may not be such a laboratory in the whole world.

"Actually, we discussed some ideas about the construction of this laboratory yesterday." Zhou Zhi coughed lightly and raised his hand to indicate that he wanted to speak.

"Xiao Zhou, you talk about the elbow." Director Song gestured.

"We think it would be better to put this laboratory in Clover Group." Zhou Zhi said, "There are several advantages to doing this."

"First of all, there is the issue of Mai Xiaomiao's identity. She is still a US citizen, and she also has a teaching and research mission at Berkeley. She is also a postdoctoral fellow at Berkeley. It is okay for her to be an exchange scholar with these identities, but it is unreasonable for her to become the head of a national key laboratory, and it is likely to cause international disputes."

"Of course, we are not necessarily afraid of these disputes, but Xiao Miao's family in the United States may encounter unequal treatment or even threats, which will affect the work at that time."