When I am reborn, I just want to be a top student

Beauty is the eternal pursuit of mankind.

Good wine, good food, beautiful women, good looks, good dreams, good conversations…

These words with the word "beautiful" in them all have very good meanings.

Among them, beautiful women are the most popular and the most attractive.

From the four great beauties in ancient times, to the various class beauties, department beauties, and school beauties in modern society, to the entertainment industry where people often claim to be the most beautiful in thousands of years.

Once these words appear, they always attract a lot of people's attention.

When Shi Hang from Yao's class proposed to demonstrate his abilities, Wang Donglai thought about it quickly in his mind.

Finally, I chose the small field of beauty.

At present, there are many beauty software and various beauty cameras on the market.

For example, Meitu XiuXiu.

However, Wang Donglai, who has experienced various beauty software and filters in the future, simply looks down on the beauty products of this era.

Not only that, he wants to use his own technology to truly rebuild a set of algorithms through artificial intelligence technology and create better beauty products.

It's just simple copying, the quality is really too low.

The beautification program is of moderate difficulty and has a large audience, so any woman will dislike it.

The application prospects in the commercial field are broad.

It’s hard to say whether the success of TikTok in its previous life was due to some factor of beauty filters.

In Wang Donglai's plan, he could only produce a rough framework of a beauty product in five days.

If you want better subsequent results, you need to invest more data resources.

For example, more photos of beautiful women.

However, he has built a rough framework, and the initial results are enough to beat the beauty products currently on the market.

After all, today's beauty products are nothing more than whitening, skin smoothing, and face slimming.

It can be said that there is technical content, but it is not high.

It is naturally impossible for Wang Donglai to create a beauty product so easily.

Since artificial intelligence technology is being utilized, the expected effect will definitely be much higher than the products on the market.

To put it in the simplest terms, using this beauty program not only achieves a beauty effect, but also makes the effect very natural and in line with different personal styles.

The stereotyped snake-like faces and white cold skin in later generations are really nothing new.

This is exactly what Wang Donglai wants to achieve using artificial intelligence technology.

Everyone has their own face, and the final beauty effect presented by each person is different.

In China, there is a more authoritative definition of beauty.

Three parts and five eyes, four high and three low.

The "three sections" in "three sections and five eyes" refers to the length ratio of the face, which divides the length of the face into three equal parts: from the forehead hairline to the brow bone, from the brow bone to the base of the nose, and from the base of the nose to the chin, each accounting for one-third of the length of the face.

The "five eyes" refers to the width ratio of the face. The width of the face is divided into five equal parts based on the length of the eye shape. From the left hairline to the right hairline, there are five eye shapes.

Of course, this is just a widely circulated saying.

Wang Donglai considered these things when he was writing the algorithm.

A beauty software that suits the tastes of the Chinese people must be recognized by both female users and liked by male users.

"call!"

Before starting, Wang Donglai went over this information in his mind and then activated the [Brain Overclocking] skill.

As the wonderful feeling emerged, Wang Donglai felt his mind become clear, as if thousands of inspirations were born. He wanted to take action immediately to turn the inspiration in his mind into reality.

"Crackling..."

Ten fingers tapped on the keyboard quickly.

At the same time, characters appeared on the screen one by one.

……

Shake.

Then it was the third day.

Chinese Academy of Sciences, Supercomputing Center.

Wang Donglai was a little surprised when he received the news from Yao Qizhi that he had applied for and obtained the right to use the Supercomputing Center of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

After just a little thought, Wang Donglai understood.

As Yao Qizhi is the winner of the Turing Award, and PBCUST has taken great pains to recruit him to the school, so PBCUST will naturally give its full support.

Wudaokou also has a supercomputer, but its computing power is not strong.

Wang Donglai finally spoke up, and Yao Qizhi naturally would not try to fool him with the supercomputer at Wudaokou.

If Wang Donglai wanted to use the supercomputer at Wudaokou, he wouldn't have to say that to me.

So, after agreeing to Wang Donglai, Yao Qizhi did not delay. He took out his mobile phone, made a call, and then let the matter go.

What happens next is simple.

The supercomputing center of the Chinese Academy of Sciences directly allocated four hours of time and gave it to Wang Donglai.

The reason why we chose the supercomputing center of the Chinese Academy of Sciences is that only the supercomputing center of the Chinese Academy of Sciences can squeeze out time at this time.

The tasks of supercomputing centers are often quite ambitious, such as simulating the 140 billion years of evolution of the universe, or completing projects such as fingerprint recognition systems.

Once started, it cannot be interrupted.

It often takes several months or even hundreds of days to operate.

Although Beijing is a core city and has many units with supercomputers, they need to have strong computing power and cannot be confidential units, while also being able to squeeze out time.

When these requirements are put together, the number decreases rapidly.

So, in the end, only the supercomputing center of the Chinese Academy of Sciences was the most suitable.

"How is it? How is the supercomputing center of the Chinese Academy of Sciences? Can it meet your requirements?"

Yao Qizhi asked Wang Donglai.

Wang Donglai nodded and thanked him, saying, "Thank you Academician Yao for your help. I was able to apply for the supercomputing center of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, which is enough for me."

Yao Qizhi nodded and asked, "At this point, you should be able to tell me what you want to do with the supercomputer, right?"

As he spoke, he also took a look at what Wang Donglai was holding in his hand.

At this point, Wang Donglai naturally would not hide it, and said, "Academician Yao, it's not that I kept it secret on purpose, it's just that you didn't ask before."

"The students in Yao's class want to see what kind of products I can make using artificial intelligence technology? This is it!"

"I wrote a small program these two days. I will run it through the supercomputer later to absorb the collected data and information, and then do some deep learning. That will be about it."

Wang Dong said it lightly, but Yao Qizhi's face showed some shock, and more of curiosity.

As a professional technician, Yao Qizhi quickly thought about Wang Donglai's two sentences in his mind and asked, "Oh, so you have completed the general program architecture, and you are going to use the computing power of the supercomputer to let this program do deep learning later?"

Wang Donglai nodded in acknowledgment.

"hiss……"

Yao Qizhi took a breath and looked at Wang Donglai with eyes full of surprise and scrutiny.

After a while, he regained his composure and asked, "Neural networks and deep learning, have you mastered them so well?"

"Well, it's not that difficult actually!" Wang Donglai answered naturally.

"..."

Yao Qizhi was speechless.

Whether it is difficult or not, he, a Turing Award winner, must know it. After a moment of silence, Yao Qizhi asked, "Can learning mathematics well also help you master computers?"

Wang Donglai thought for a moment and said, "Well, it should be possible. After all, computers are still a combination of 0s and 1s."

"Ok."

Yao Qizhi nodded, and secretly wondered if he should adjust the emphasis he placed on mathematics.

While the two were chatting.

A middle-aged man wearing glasses walked out of the supercomputing center, followed by several younger researchers.

"Hello, President Yao."

The middle-aged man walked quickly forward, took the initiative to shake hands with Yao Qizhi, and spoke very politely with a hint of excitement in his tone.

"Director Chi, hello, let me introduce you. This is Professor Wang Donglai. We are going to use the supercomputer this time because Professor Wang needs it."

"Donglai, this is Director Chi from the Supercomputing Center."

With a smile on his face, Yao Qizhi shook Director Chi's hand, and after saying hello, he took the initiative to introduce the two parties to each other.

"Hello, Professor Wang!"

"Hello, Director Chi!"

Wang Donglai and Director Chi greeted each other at the same time.

"I have heard of Professor Wang for a long time. People always say he is young and promising. Now I see that he is just being modest. He is definitely a young talent."

Director Chi praised Wang Donglai with a smile and a sincere tone.

Wang Donglai smiled and said, "Director Chi, you are too kind."

After some pleasantries, led by Director Chi, everyone came to the supercomputing center.

"In 2007, we introduced the IBM Cell BE computing cluster. Two years later, we introduced the domestically produced 'Shenzhen Teng 7000' supercomputer with a computing power of one trillion times. Since then, with the rapid development of domestic supercomputing technology, I can proudly say that the computing power of our supercomputing center of the Chinese Academy of Sciences is also in the first echelon among universities and research institutions in the country."

Director Chi proudly introduced the situation of the supercomputing center to Wang Donglai and Yao Qizhi.

Soon after the introduction, Director Chi asked about Wang Donglai.

"Professor Wang, what project are you going to research? Is four hours enough?"

The reason why Director Chi asked this question is that domestic supercomputers are still in the development stage and their computing power is far from sufficient.

The establishment of national supercomputing centers has gradually incubated a computing power market in China.

Research institutes and my university are gradually reducing the scale of self-built supercomputers and increasing the purchase of external supercomputer resources.

The supercomputing center of the Chinese Academy of Sciences is an exception.

The computing power is powerful enough to almost simultaneously meet the needs of three types of supercomputing projects: cutting-edge supercomputing, general supercomputing, and industry supercomputing.

Cutting-edge supercomputers are mainly used for national scientific research projects, such as astronomical phenomena, earthquakes, etc., while general-purpose supercomputers and industry supercomputers are more detailed.

At this time, Director Chi's question was just a normal inquiry.

Wang Donglai had some knowledge of these things in advance, so he said, "A general-purpose supercomputer will do. I wrote a program that needs to be run on a supercomputer. Four hours should be enough."

Director Chi was a little surprised and said, "So it's running a program. I thought Professor Wang was going to use the supercomputer to prove a difficult mathematical problem and verify his ideas. I didn't expect Professor Wang to have such attainments in computers. He is really a promising young man!"

After a polite remark, Director Chi continued, "Professor Wang, you may not know that running a program on a supercomputer is not just about putting it on the computer. You also need to compile, optimize, and integrate the source code in the Linux command line window. If the program is complex, you will need to do more complex adaptation and transplantation."

"Professor Wang, I wonder if you have done your preparations well? If not, there is still some time. If the procedure is not complicated, you should be able to catch up on time."

Hearing Director Chi say this, Wang Donglai's expression remained unchanged and he said, "Thank you Director Chi for your concern. I have already prepared these."

"Well, that's good!" Director Chi nodded.

soon.

It was the agreed time.

Wang Donglai did not rely on others to help him, but did it himself.

China started late in the field of supercomputing, but is catching up quickly.

In 2013, the University of Science and Technology of China developed the Tianhe-5.49 supercomputer system, with a peak computing speed of 3.39 quadrillion times per second and a sustained computing speed of quadrillion times per second, with extremely superior performance.

The supercomputing center of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has introduced the Tianhe-2 supercomputer system.

At this point, the supercomputer started running.

Wang Donglai and others can also take a break and wait for the supercomputer to give results.

At this time, Director Chi stepped forward with a smile and said, "Professor Wang, I have always heard that your achievements in the field of mathematics have filled several blank records in China and have greatly brought honor to China internationally. It is not an exaggeration to say that you have brought glory to the country."

Showing courtesy for nothing is either cheating or stealing!

From the very beginning of their meeting, Wang Donglai had a feeling that Director Chi seemed to be quite concerned about him and was well-intentioned.

At this time, hearing Director Chi praising him like this, Wang Donglai's heart was moved, and he said aloud: "Director Chi, you are too kind. My achievements are nothing compared to those of my predecessors. Moreover, our country is a big and powerful country. As the country revives, such things will become more and more common."

Director Chi laughed and said, "Professor Wang, you are too modest."

"Actually, I have a request. I would like to ask Professor Wang for a favor. I wonder if you can help me."

"Originally, I shouldn't bring this up at this time, but this problem has troubled us for a long time, and it is also related to supercomputing. Once a problem occurs, the impact will be huge. Professor Wang happens to be here, so I'll take the liberty to bring it up."

"I know Professor Wang's time is very important and he has a lot of things on his plate. If you really can't spare the time, that's fine."

Having said that, Director Chi finally revealed his true purpose.

Hearing what Director Chi said, Yao Qizhi and Wang Donglai were not too surprised.

Yao Qizhi has seen this kind of thing many times.

The reason why mathematics is called the mother of natural sciences is because mathematics plays an extremely important role in many fields.

Having a top mathematician around can make many research topics easier.

In fact, Wang Donglai was no stranger to Director Chi's requests. He had received many requests since he became famous.

He had done this several times at Tangdu Jiaotong University.

As for some other schools and research institutes, they had no connections with Wang Donglai and it was difficult to find him.

"Director Chi, you might as well tell me about it. I'll see what the problem is so I can have an idea." Wang Donglai did not agree to it without hesitation, but said so while leaving room for maneuver.

Hearing Wang Donglai's words, Director Chi smiled, looked around, and said, "Professor Wang must also know that the larger the equipment, the greater the possibility of failure."

"Supercomputers, in particular, have excellent performance and powerful computing power, and naturally require a large number of processors to work. Therefore, one of the issues that has always existed here is to ensure the smooth operation of the processors without errors."

"Last year, our center's service time reached 99.9%, and the equipment utilization rate reached more than 95%. We can say that we have always been operating at full capacity, so we cannot let a processor failure cause the project to fail to complete in time."

"We have also taken many measures to solve this problem and ensure the completion of computing tasks. However, as computing power becomes stronger and stronger, these previous measures must keep pace with the times."

"Professor Wang, you are an internationally renowned mathematician who also has knowledge of computers. The center has just made a control system. Professor Wang, can you help check the mathematical model inside it?"

After Director Chi finished speaking, Yao Qizhi's face turned a little ugly.

He is a Turing Award winner, but in the eyes of Director Chi, he can't even solve a supercomputer anti-crash control system and even asked Wang Dong to check the mathematical model.

One of the reasons is that I don't trust his ability.

Secondly, Wang Donglai applied for the use of the supercomputer himself, but now Director Chi is asking Wang Donglai about it, which seems to be a bit of a circumvention.

In response, Yao Qizhi did not say anything, but was waiting for Wang Donglai's reaction.

If Wang Donglai didn't want to, he would speak up immediately and end this farce.

Just as Yao Qizhi was waiting for Wang Donglai's reaction.

Wang Donglai had a calm face and said confidently without any hesitation, "Is it that simple? Leave it to me!"

As soon as these words were spoken, Director Chi showed a look of joy, and the researchers nearby also looked curious and expectant.

It is impossible to say that no one envies Wang Donglai, a genius in the field of mathematics who has won three top international awards in one go.

But mathematics is different from other subjects. If you don’t know the answer, you don’t know the answer. Therefore, not many people suspect that Wang Donglai is a fraud.

And because Wang Donglai was younger than many of the researchers present, everyone was even more curious and wanted to see Wang Donglai's demeanor. (End of this chapter)