Brainoid

The place where Qi Min made an appointment to meet Ms. Zhou Xiaoshan was neither at the University of Science and Technology of China nor the "Yuyun" Center. Because Ms. Zhou Xiaoshan also knew that Qi Min had not yet recovered from the sequelae of leaving the brainoid body, she chose the place to meet in a cafe not far from Qi Min and her parents' home.

When Qi Min woke up the next morning, he started to wash up and get ready to go out. Ms. Zhu Shaoqiong and Mr. Qi Zhiguang saw that she and Anton were busy changing clothes without even eating breakfast, and couldn't help but wonder what they were doing.

Qi Min fooled her by saying that she wanted to go out for a walk, which would help her recovery. Since it was an excuse for her to undergo chemotherapy, it was unscientific to think about work at this time, and Anton couldn't just say that he was going to pick up Mimi.

Before going out, Anton gave Qi Min another glass of apple juice for breakfast. Because Qi Min couldn't eat any solid food, he didn't bother to have breakfast seriously. He planned to send Qi Min to a place and then find a place to eat.

Ms. Zhu Shaoqiong and Mr. Qi Zhiguang were wondering what kind of illness their daughter was suffering from and what the specific consequences of the so-called experimental accident were. They couldn't help but be curious when they saw her going out. The old couple thought about it and were still worried about where Anton was taking their daughter, so they planned to follow her secretly.

Anton helped Qi Min walk out of the house and went to the subway station. Fortunately, they still had seats at the starting station of the subway. Qi Min didn't waste much energy sitting all the way, and he could walk to the cafe by himself after getting off the bus.

In order to prevent Ms. Zhou Xiaoshan from having other concerns after seeing her difficulty in walking, Qi Min deliberately arrived a quarter of an hour early, sat down and let Anton leave. She has no interest in introducing her boyfriend to her collaborators. For such a big project, Qi Min is already young enough and unreliable. There is no need to show that she has a younger boyfriend, which will make her even less reliable. Reliable.

However, Qi Min sat sickly on the window seat and just ordered the cheapest cup of hot lemonade, which still made the cafe clerk have some objections to her.

After Ms. Zhou Xiaoshan arrived, she was a little surprised to see Qi Min huddled in an armchair with a hat and a pale face, and only ordered a glass of lemonade: "Xiao Qi, why are you... so serious?"

"Ah, Teacher Zhou." Qi Min looked sick, but he was actually in good spirits, "I'm actually fine."

"When we talked about applying for a patent yesterday, I thought you had recovered." Ms. Zhou Xiaoshan said with some worry. However, since it was a serious working relationship, Qi Min said she was fine and took it as nothing. "Saha I took a look at Luo Wa’s situation. Is she your Ph.D. classmate? She hasn’t officially graduated yet?”

Qi Min knew that she would definitely ask about Yelena, and said with some embarrassment: "Yes, she was delayed for a year because of her visa situation."

Ms. Zhou Xiaoshan nodded, and took out a few pieces of paper from her handbag and handed them to Qi Min: "I don't understand you guys very well. But I looked at the generation code you wrote and made some changes. "

Qi Min took it and looked at it, and found that Ms. Zhou Xiaoshan had completely changed her frame. What she wrote before was a step-by-step method of generating virtual neurons one by one. After generation, it was traversed N times to connect the connections one by one. Qi Min knew that writing like this would be a huge waste of computing resources, but she would only write like this. Qi Min couldn't fully understand the idea that Ms. Zhou Xiaoshan changed, but he could also see that she was based on the mathematical rules in the period and greatly reduced the number of loop traversals.

"My writing before was... terrible." Qi Min smiled sheepishly, as if he was a student in a programming class whose teacher pointed out mistakes in his homework.

As a teacher who has taught classes before, Ms. Zhou Xiaoshan couldn't help but said: "Study more theory and don't worry about writing code." Then she realized that Qi Min was not her student, and he was not even in the CS direction, so she quickly said, "But It’s not easy for you to write like this by yourself. Later, when you expand the brain-like body, I can find a few doctoral students to help you.”

She paused for a moment and then said: "Of course, if you need Ke Li to continue doing wet experiments, that's no problem. But Ke Li's coding level is really... I heard that you gave him part of his algorithm before. Changed.”

"That's all trivial." Qi Min scratched the back of his head out of habit, but it only touched the woolen hat. She then remembered that she had no hair, and suddenly felt a little regretful.

Ms. Zhou Xiaoshan looked at her shy and conceited look and couldn't help but smile. Qi Min has been a PI for half a year, but no matter how you look at it, he still looks like a doctoral student. That is to say, the undergraduate student in her laboratory could still realize that she was a teacher on a daily basis, but Ms. Zhou Xiaoshan also found that Qi Min played games with the undergraduate student in his free time, which was a bit unruly.

But then again, there's nothing wrong with being young and lively. In Ms. Zhou Xiaoshan's view, Qi Min is like a child who has not grown up - although her actual age is a bit too old, her essence is the same.

There was just one more thing she had to ask: "By the way, Xiao Qi, why did you decide to cooperate with Sakharova so quickly? It doesn't sound like she can come up with it right away. Sufficient funding.”

Speaking of this, Qi Min felt even more embarrassed: "Uh...actually, I just...called Yelena. I suddenly remembered this and told her..."

Ms. Zhou Xiaoshan laughed dumbly: "You have such a good relationship with her."

"She was the one who discovered that Cynomolgus No. 2 was awake." Qi Min said a kind word for Yelena. She actually thought about it as soon as she came up with it. She just said it casually, but after she said it, she realized that it was really worth doing, and then she came up with the idea of ​​cooperation.

"So, it's your good luck as a friend." Ms. Zhou Xiaoshan joked, and then said, "Sakharova is in Beijing now, and I plan to talk to her in person. But if you don't Don’t force yourself to recover, and the same goes for meeting on Skype.”

"Okay, I'll send you Yelena's contact information." Qi Min nodded.

"Go back and take a look at the modified code. If you have any questions, feel free to tell me. But don't worry, 'Nimbus' can no longer expand to generate more virtual neurons. We have to find other supercomputers." Zhou Xiaoshan The lady said, "You'd better rest now."

"Then...the project is over, and...should I publish the article?" Qi Min asked hesitantly.

Ms. Zhou Xiaoshan said calmly: "I can finish the project. There is no problem with this. I think it is better not to publish the article now. Once the virtual neuron model is released, it will be easy to copy it as long as there are relatively advanced supercomputers. , there is not much use in applying for a patent in this regard.”

Qi Min immediately understood the main idea: "Does it mean that if we want to do it, we have to 'make a fortune quietly'?"

"Well, I'll find someone to look at how to circumvent the callosal interface patent." Ms. Zhou Xiaoshan said calmly.

Qi Min felt that this was a bit sorry for the research group at the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris. They supported him with such an internationalist spirit, but they had to bypass their patents when transforming the results. But think about it again, bypassing patents is a routine operation to avoid disputes during the research and development process. If you can really make money in the future, your intellectual property rights will be indispensable.

Qi Min’s fortunes:

(near graduation)

Qi Min (making a wish): Boss, take me with you!

Gary: OK, I’ll take you. (Graduated at the same time)

(Do your own project)

Qi Min (making a wish): Boss, take me with you!

Corpus Callosum Interface Group: OK, I’ll take you. (Major breakthrough in experiment)

(want to transform results)

Qi Min (making a wish): Boss, take me with you!

Ms. Zhou Xiaoshan: OK, I’ll take you. (Making a fortune in a muffled voice)

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Qi Min: Actually, I am the daughter of God?