The end of technology.

Chapter 193 Bad Time Arrangement

On February 2019, 2, the Chinese New Year's Eve arrived as scheduled.It's time for Huaxia to welcome the new year again. This is also the second year the Ning family has spent in the capital, which is far more lively than the first.The main thing was Ning Zi's first new year after marriage.

The whole family of the Ning family and the three members of the Lu family came to the university early in the morning, and Ning Zi's aunt followed the tradition of the Ning family and started preparing the New Year's Eve dinner early in the morning.Fortunately, there are many people who can help now, so it won't be too tiring.And early in the morning, Ningyuan cafeteria delivered a lot of pre-cooked ingredients, which can be practical with simple heating.

Although there are large-scale activities in Ningyuan in the third year of junior high school.But most people still have to have a holiday on New Year's Eve.Although some invited scientists have come to Huaxia, most of them live in nearby hotels and are taken care of in daily life.

Of course, there are some people who are special today, such as Tim Cook.

Although Ning Zi invited Tim Cook to a dinner party, the Apple CEO came to Ning's house at noon, and his arrival made Ning's house even more lively.

He did not come empty-handed. This time Tim Cook brought two sets of all Apple products as gifts.Although there is no shortage of electronic products here, the old man is still very popular.Especially Ning Yulin, after accepting the gift happily, she directly regarded the Apple CEO as her speaking partner.

I have to say that Ning Yulin's language skills have improved rapidly in the past two years in the capital.It is still junior high school, and I can already have a normal conversation with Tim Cook, a pure American.

Ning Zi thinks this is also very good.

Although the future intelligent translation system will be very advanced, it will greatly reduce communication barriers between different languages.But it's also easier to learn a language rather than a machine.

The most important thing is to cultivate her sister's self-confidence. Now Ning Yulin, who is already cheerful, is even more cheerful.

Of course, Ning Zi knew the reason why Tim Cook came so early. After Ning Yulin had been grinding the boss for a while, Ning Zi took the time to invite him to the study.

When he came to Ning Zi's study for the second time, Tim Cook sat on the sofa and said with emotion: "You have a very cute sister."

Ning Zi sat down at his desk and said with a smile, "What about you?"

"I only have two brothers. Although they are nice people, I would rather have a younger sister." Tim Cook shrugged and expressed his opinion.

Ning Zi smiled and didn't continue this topic. After all, the two of them didn't care much about each other's family, so they just asked straight to the point: "Okay, Mr. Cook, let's not talk about things that cannot be changed. What do you want to talk about?" what?"

Speaking of business, Tim Cook also became serious, looked at Ning Zi and asked: "I am here because of the new chip technology and intelligent programmable software, which is the Faster software that Cisco is now launching. Ning, If you have a choice, I think maybe Apple can cooperate with you more deeply."

Faster is Cisco's name for artificial intelligence programming software. It is simple and rude, and it probably means faster than humans.

"If it's about the chip, we can talk about it, including giving Apple better conditions. As I said before, you have supported our chip research center, and we will launch more advanced technology levels in the future. Moore's Law can be continued. The three-dimensional configuration and the main structure of the carbon tube can make Moore's Law effective for at least another 20 years. But Faster has been fully authorized to Cisco. If Apple needs related products, it can only contact Cisco. Talk about cooperation."

Tim Cook shook his head slightly and said: "Actually, this is exactly what I am worried about. To be honest, Apple has not purchased Faster so far, and I am still waiting and watching. Although this software can indeed save costs to a great extent , but to be honest, I’m concerned. I don’t even recommend that Apple’s developers make a wholesale switch to using this software to provide software for Apple.”

Ning Zi nodded and asked, "Why? Many companies in Silicon Valley have started using this software, and it has proved to be very effective."

Tim Cook looked at Ning Zi seriously and said: "But no one can guarantee that it will last forever. When people start to rely on a tool and lose a certain ability, they always hope that it can get whatever they want, but in fact many Sometimes hope and reality always run counter to each other.”

These words were very tactful, and she almost pointed at Ning Zi's nose and said that if everyone relied on this product, there would be troubles here.

But Ning Zi was not angry, just smiled and said: "Tim, many big companies don't think so. You are not the only smart person in Silicon Valley."

Tim Cook shrugged his shoulders again and replied: "There is a reason. They want to participate in the development of new standards. They need to be nice. I have talked to many people, but they feel that there is nothing to worry about. , because they believe that people's skills will not disappear quickly over time. If there is any problem, those who have been laid off can be recruited back at any time.

Of course, they must also be responsible for the shareholders, after all, Faster can indeed save a lot of expenses.Obviously the vast majority of people are optimists, but not me.To be honest, I am a pessimistic person most of the time. I like to think about a problem for as long as possible. "

Well, Ning Zi can feel that although this boss is strong, he is also very cautious, but obviously this cautious thinking is wrong, or the direction of worry is not right.

In fact, Ning Zi really didn't plan to use this software to do anything in the future, because it was unnecessary.

Since reaching an agreement with Apple to help upgrade Siri in exchange for a chip research and development center, some people think that Ning Zi is selling technology at a low price.

But the reality is that both Sanyue and Ning Zi don't bother to rely on these technologies to make money.

Doing these things is just to save resources.

Including letting Cisco proxy faster, the ultimate goal is also to save resources.Because from the kitten's point of view, all these saved resources will eventually be used by humans to conquer space.

In other words, it will eventually flow into its predetermined direction of development.

As for where to keep these temporarily unused money?

So for Tim Cook's worries, Ning Zi just shook his head and smiled, and then said: "Actually, this suspicion is normal, and I don't think you will believe anything now. But after the third day of junior high school After reading the forum, I believe you can understand how ridiculous this idea is.

It's better to embrace the future boldly. Faster will only become more and more intelligent in the future. I will allow it to be used in China after three years at most. It is meaningless for Apple to insist on these three years.So I still sincerely suggest that we will not discuss whether it is chips or faster for now, and we will formally discuss cooperation after the forum, how about it? "

The topic was once again brought to the upcoming large-scale academic forum. Seeing Ning Zi's confident look, Tim Cook didn't know what to say for a while.

To be honest, at the moment, he doesn't really want to figure out what kind of discovery will give Ning Zi such confidence, thinking that after reading it, he will definitely shake his current thinking.But it also made him more curious.

So after a moment of silence, Tim Cook asked with a wry smile: "This makes me even more confused, Ning, do you want me to sleep well these two days? Maybe you can give me some information first , really, I don't want to lose sleep continuously."

This sentence made Ning Zi smile very happily, and said: "Haha, Tim, insomnia? It doesn't exist. You must not know how lively the New Year's Eve dinner in China is. Have you heard that song? Friends are here." If you have good wine, my dad specially prepared our national wine to entertain you today. Of course, for the sake of friendship, I can still give you some hints. You see, this is the first time that Ning Yuan holds such a large-scale academic event, just like astronomy Strong correlation, so you can imagine my target, right?"

……

In fact, Ning Zi likes chatting with Tim Cook very much, although the interests of the two have never been the same.

Probably that kind of frankness makes it easy.

The following family banquet also proved that Ning Zi’s prediction was correct. Although Ning Jian and Ning Kang’s English skills were not good enough, Ning Yulin volunteered to act as an interpreter, which was enough for Tim Cook to experience it. How extensive and profound is the toasting culture of the older generation in China.

In particular, the happy Ning Yulin also likes to be funny. She can always translate what her father said into a mess: "Drinking is not fish farming, Uncle, you should DUNDUNDUN..."

While talking, he would pick up his drink and make gestures...

At first, Old Cook was still very reserved, but after toasting enthusiastically and drinking two glasses of Moutai, which was obviously not to his liking, he was finally left behind.

It wouldn't be so drunk that she lost her mind, but Ning Zi felt that a good night's sleep shouldn't be a big problem.As for how to live the next two days, that's none of Ning Zi's business.

However, the reception work is still well prepared.

For example, the hotel where Tim Cook stayed was originally the designated reception hotel for this forum, and he could stay in the hotel inside Ningyuan on the second day of junior high school, including several former Nobel Prize winners who also arrived in Huaxia on this day, everyone They all live on the same floor, so it won't be sad to chat with anyone casually.

At least Ning Zi thinks so, and it seems to be the case.

In fact, since the first day of junior high school, Ning Zi has been so busy that her feet never touch the ground.

The family members stayed at home to entertain the people who came to pay New Year's greetings, while he entertained the scholars who had come early in Ningyuan.

During the Chinese New Year period of this forum, Ning Yuan did not arrange too many cars to pick up and drop off according to Ning Zi’s instructions. Basically, the invited scholars received a very considerate software from Ning Yuan. After getting off the plane As long as the software is turned on, it can automatically locate and guide these scholars to the subway station or the place where they can take a taxi according to their requirements.

Full intelligent service.

This is also the cheapest way of guidance. For Ning Yuan, developing such a simple route guidance applet hardly costs any money.It was nothing more than saying hello to a well-known map company in Huaxia in advance and borrowing their background data.

And Ning Zi thinks this way of reception is very perfect. Anyway, the safety factor of Huaxia Capital is extremely high, and it can also allow these scholars to see the scenery of Huaxia Capital along the way. The income of online car-hailing drivers is a win-win situation.

Of course, there can be tricks in receiving people, but Ning Zi can't be tricky in the reception work after people arrive.

In particular, many university scholars took the time to participate in this forum because of his face. They also notified their arrival time by email in advance. Say hello and have a brief chat.

Fortunately, the vast majority of them are ordinary people after all. After flying for more than ten hours, they still have jet lag. Basically, they are too tired to take a rest after chatting for 10 minutes.

For Ning Zi, this is not a burdensome matter.It's just that people came here scattered, and Ning Zi could only receive them here and there.The whole day is spent in the office, and it feels more cumbersome than usual work, probably because there are too many pieces of time.

For the first time, Ning Zi felt that arranging the forum in March on the third day of the Lunar New Year was somewhat anti-human.

Originally, he could spend this time getting along with his relatives and friends, which is definitely more pleasant than having a few pleasantries with many strangers in the office.

Fortunately, only this time.

No matter what kind of academic forum is held next time, Ning Zi doesn't plan to have his name on Ning Yuan's invitation letter.The mentality is probably that love comes when it comes, and it doesn't come and pull it down.After all, everything is difficult at the beginning.

Of course, meeting with many top scholars is not all interesting.There were also some brief discussions that inspired Ning Zi a lot.For example, when talking with Colin Drost, a former physics Nobel Prize winner, the two exchanged some knowledge about the universe, which made Ning Zi feel that he had learned a lot.

Especially about the use of Doppler spectrometer technology to measure the tiny wobbles of stars when planets and stars move around the common center of gravity, and the possible blue shift and red shift of the light emitted by these wobbles. For future observation of extraterrestrial information, it is possible to discover The traces of civilization that exist are extremely useful.

Precisely in this direction, Ning Zi believes in his own judgment more, for example, he always believes that there are other civilizations in the universe.It's just limited by too many constraints, and there is no intersection between civilizations.Where are these constraints, and why no other extraterrestrial civilizations have been invented even though they have mastered the medium space crossing technology, the high probability is that the cause of this layer of constraints has not been found yet.

In short, the first two days of junior high school and the second day of junior high school passed by during the meetings with many scholars.

In the evening of the second day of junior high school, the whole building is brightly lit.

This is not just to celebrate the Chinese New Year, there are not many people on duty at the school that was supposed to celebrate the Chinese New Year.The main thing is to arrange tomorrow's forum.

Because the display link is not indoors, but on the playground around Ningyuan.

The Second Stadium next to Ningyuan was completely sealed off in the afternoon of the second day of the junior high school, and a huge shed was erected.

Some scholars who have already lived in Ningyuan saw this scene and wanted to find out, but they were all politely persuaded by the staff to leave.

At around midnight, under the escort of the convoy, a sealed van drove into the stadium, and left quietly after three o'clock in the morning.

Then everything was calm again, the calm before the storm.

……

China time, February 2th, morning.

I have to say that the days chosen in March are actually very good, and the high probability is that the weather has been predicted more accurately.

Early in the morning, it can be seen that today is a rare good weather in early spring in the capital, and the temperature also broke through from below zero to three degrees above zero early.

Ningyuan Restaurant also became lively early in the morning.

According to the arrangement of the meeting, the breakfast time is from 09:30 am to [-]:[-] am, and the formal sign-in starts at [-]:[-] am. The sign-in time lasts until [-]:[-], and then the meeting officially begins.

It's just that it's different from ordinary conferences. After signing in, the visiting scholars didn't directly tell which lecture hall to go to. Instead, after verifying the invitation letter, they were taken to the large lounge on the first floor of Ningyuan to rest first.

When someone inquires, the staff will also inform you intimately that before the official start of the meeting, in order to facilitate this communication, scholars will be shown some of the latest research results of the Fundamental Physics Laboratory of BNU.

Undoubtedly, this answer also piqued the interest of many people.

After all, everyone is willing to attend the meeting this time. In fact, the most important reason is that Ning Zi discovered through mathematical theory that there are multiple star systems in the Galactic Center, which made everyone very interested in Ning Zi's theory.After all, this conclusion is counter-intuitive, but it has been successfully verified, which also makes many astrophysicists very interested in Ning Zi's theory.

However, the paper published by Ning Zi on "Science" did not explain much about the theory itself, which was also the initial motivation for many well-known scholars to decide to be invited to participate in this forum.

It is definitely a surprise to see the latest results displayed.

So the staff responsible for explaining to everyone became the most popular among scholars, and many people guessed that the so-called new results must be related to the enclosed playground.But curiosity still makes them very eager to know some details earlier.

It's a pity that we are doomed to be disappointed, because the staff responsible for explaining really don't know much.

Fortunately, they are all highly educated people, and most of these occasions are gentlemanly. Seeing that the staff could not get the information they wanted, everyone quickly dispersed in twos and threes, and began to chat and discuss with people they knew well.

After all, any high-end academic forum is a good time for communication.

Of course, in addition to these scholars, there are also photojournalists responsible for recording this forum.

Luo Kezhang of the Science and Technology Channel received the task of recording the astronomy forum today years ago. In fact, as the most experienced senior reporter of the Science and Technology Channel, he really didn't want to come to the University to do filming during the Chinese New Year. mission.

Taking over the task meant that his New Year's plan was completely disrupted, and he could only stay in the capital and not return to his hometown.

But the director personally called him over and talked for half an hour to explain the importance of this task, so he could only bite the bullet and take it.After all, if the director talks in person, if he still doesn't agree, then he is really ignorant of current affairs.There is still some disbelief in my heart, who would hold such an important forum on the third day of the Lunar New Year?
What's even more irritating is that even the photographers responsible for recording the whole process, after getting the agenda of the meeting, they don't know what the show will be before the official start of the meeting.

In Locke Zhang's opinion, this is somewhat excessive.

After all, if you don't even know what to record, it will be difficult to do the work, and it may appear that there is no focus.

In the end, when I called back to Taiwan, the answer I received was that if the job was easy to do, I would not hire him, the most experienced photographer, to lead the team. Their shooting team must unconditionally cooperate with all the requirements of the forum organizer.

Well, when it comes to this matter, Luo Kezhang really has nothing to say.

Fortunately, he received the notice soon, and under the leadership of the staff, he entered the playground enclosed by the big shed half an hour earlier to arrange the aircraft seats.

Then I saw a covered black curtain and a young man standing in the middle of the playground chatting with some familiar scientists. After subconsciously taking a few photos, I realized that there is no need for them to enter in advance. reason.

Many internal cameras have been set up with fixed positions, and their job is actually to check for omissions...

But these are not important anymore. The professionalism of the old reporter made him realize immediately after seeing the big shots around Ning Zi that there is a high probability that there will be big news today. After all, everyone there is everyone in their station. It was very difficult to get it, but at this moment, it was surrounded by the young man like stars around the moon.

Oh, big news on the third day of the Lunar New Year.

Sorry!

(End of this chapter)