Riding the wind of rebirth

Chapter 1964: Not enough to pay for electricity
"I think the old host has some tricks up his sleeve!" After walking for a while out of the mountain gate, Wu Renzhong said, "Are your legs and feet sore?"

"A little bit, but not serious." Mai Xiaomiao stuck out his tongue and said, "I thought I would have to carry myself down the mountain today, but it turns out I don't have to."

"Yes." Gillette said, "If you hadn't told me, I wouldn't have realized it, and I wouldn't have felt anything."

Ah Zi was in good physical condition, and could even jump around: "I don't feel any pain at all."

"Master Mingtai just told me that people like us who work at desks for a long time are prone to soreness and fatigue in the waist. He asked us to practice the traction movements he taught us last night every morning and evening, and he said that it would be much better."

Mai Xiaomiao paused: "Then do you remember what the action is?"

Several people looked at each other, and then unanimously decided to try hard to recall and put together this set of useful exercises.

Fortunately, we are all young people with good memory. After laughing and joking for a while, we pieced together all the movements.

"That was close! I almost missed the chance to become an immortal!" Zhou Zhi said with a smile, "Thank goodness Xiao Miao reacted quickly!"

"You're exaggerating." Ah Zi couldn't stand Zhou Zhi's nonsense any more. "From a medical point of view, this should be the elimination of accumulated lactic acid through muscle stretching. There is a certain scientific reason for this."

“Okay!” Zhou Zhi couldn’t help but sigh: “It’s a pity for Ah Zi. She was clearly picked up, but she missed the chance to become an immortal again…”

Everyone laughed and thought Zhou Zhi's joke was quite funny.

Because we were not tired, the journey down the mountain was actually much easier and we went much faster. It only took two hours for us to get back to the foot of the mountain.

Before setting off, Zhou Zhi pulled out the water tank prepared for camping at the rear of the car and filled it with Lingshan mineral water. This spring water is quite famous in Liangshan in later generations. Since he was already here, he certainly couldn't miss it.

When he returned to the grain station, there were a lot of things piled up at the entrance of Zhouzhi, and Gillette Abi had added a lot of people's names to the gift list he had given him.

Next, Zhou Zhi started a new round of home visits with Mai Xiaomiao and his family. Zhou Zhi prepared the most popular gift for everyone - a small stainless steel bowl.

This thing is durable, easy to clean, and most importantly, lightweight. It can be carried in a backpack, and one basket can be delivered to many families, because many families live far away in the mountains, and it is not easy to deliver things there.

Four stainless steel bowls and a stainless steel rice spoon are such simple yet decent return gifts that make the recipients very happy.

The people living in these deep mountains basically make a living by raising goats. They often find a hilltop or ravine with a small independent road, surround it with hedges on both sides, and then raise black goats and rock eagle chickens.

It is rare to go down the mountain on weekdays, usually once every few months, basically to buy matches, salt, soap, and occasionally some shoes and cloth. The rest is basically self-sufficient.

In Mai Xiaomiao's eyes, the life of these people is just like that of savages, or similar to that of the Andes Indians, who open up terraces at lower altitudes and grow crops such as corn, potatoes, and buckwheat; and graze livestock at high altitudes, but replace alpacas and llamas with black goats.

Many of them could not speak any Chinese. If it were not for A Zi, the little translator, even the Yi people in the city of Shamaricong could hardly understand their "local dialect".

But their smiles and hospitality were extremely sincere. They would kill a sheep to entertain Zhou Zhi and his friends at any time. After being firmly rejected by Zhou Zhi and his friends, they would at least kill a chicken. After they finished eating the potatoes and chicken, they would also send Zhou Zhi and his friends out of the mountain, and send them very far away.

Every time Mai Xiaomiao returned to the mountain pass and saw the big white windmill erected on the hillside, he couldn't help but praise Zhou Zhi: "You are really amazing for being able to do something for them."

"You are quite amazing." Zhou Zhi said with a smile: "I thought you would not be able to eat the roasted chicken and potatoes after seeing the black fire pot, but I didn't expect you to eat it so happily." "You are making fun of me again." Mai Xiaomiao habitually wanted to get closer to Zhou Zhi: "You just want to say that I am greedy."

"I really don't have that." Zhou Zhi smiled and said, "I really admire you for your strong ability to adapt."

“The main thing is that the local chicken and highland potatoes are indeed delicious.” Mai Xiaomiao recalled: “Anyway, they have been stewed at high temperature for so long, there can’t be any problems, so just ignore the rest.”

Zhou Zhi gave a thumbs up: "No wonder Grandpa Chi Ri likes you so much. He said you are not that kind of delicate girl at all."

"By the way, our system has completed its first national mission. Are you happy?"

"Well, it's mainly because you're smart. In addition to Gobang, you can also come up with such a trick." Mai Xiaomiao said: "But the money you earn is not enough to pay Xiaozhi's electricity bill."

"Don't worry, use marketing methods to analyze, this is called cultivating potential consumer behavior." Zhou Zhi didn't care at all: "First cultivate consumer habits, and when Xiaozhi becomes stronger in the future, bigger and more difficult tasks will come to us, and we will make money later."

This was Zhou Zhi's idea. After the successful experiment of forming initial computing power of the cellular neural network system, Zhou Zhi began to expand the system according to the second step of the plan.

The effect of the expansion is very good. At the beginning, the resources of less than 4 million actually only exerted a computing power of 3 million. However, when the system was expanded to 7 million, it caught up with the computing power of a mainframe worth 7 million.

Zhou Zhi defined a new term for this ratio, called "computing power cost-effectiveness ratio".

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This cost-effectiveness ratio has a characteristic that as the investment cost increases linearly, the network computing power increases exponentially.

Hu Tianyu used a very vivid metaphor to describe this phenomenon. If you spend the money of a minicomputer to build a neural network, the computing power you get is only half of that of a minicomputer; if you spend the money of a mainframe to build a neural network, the computing power you get is equivalent to that of a mainframe; but if you spend the money of a supercomputer to build a neural network...

You will get three supercomputers!

This is not an exaggeration at all. Colossus, the world's largest AI supercomputer in later generations, is equipped with 10 Hopper GPUs, each of which is equivalent to a computing module with amazing computing power. Although its computing power has not been announced, the bandwidth used for data transmission alone is as high as 3.6Tbps.

The amount of data that can be exchanged in one second is 3.6T.

Zhou Zhi is still far from going down that path now. In fact, the structure of such a supercomputer is simpler than that of Xiaozhi now, because of its terrifying data exchange capabilities.

One force can bring down ten.

However, due to the limitation of the current system transmission speed, Xiaozhi can only find a solution from the mathematical model to simulate the working principle of neuron cells, that is, to take the advanced algorithm path of "linked nonlinear simulation" and use more advanced mathematical tools to solve the problem.

This is actually for the day in the future when Chinese people cannot get the most advanced AI chips, they can also build a super system with amazing computing power through large-scale network systems.

Of course, if there were no such obstacles in this life, and China had the ability to produce computing chips with performance comparable to Hopper GPU, and then add Xiaozhi...

That would be even more terrifying.

Therefore, after Zhou Zhi increased the funding to 15 million, Xiaozhi's computing power began to be somewhat decent. Playing Gobang was not a problem, so Zhou Zhi contacted the Chinese Academy of Sciences and asked, "Do you have any topics to allocate computing power on Galaxy II? Please allocate some to us!"