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Three days later, Zhou Buqi took Ning Yaxian to San Francisco.

The mood is still very good.

I had a great time in Los Angeles these days. The most important thing is that Secretary Ning is not the type of servant in Israel. He only asks for anything when he is in love with death, and he can still abide by his identity as a secretary on weekdays.

I didn't do anything just because I slept through it, and I didn't make some excessive demands.

Basically the same as before.

Go to Silicon Valley, go to Facebook first.

I met the technical team led by Tang Binchen, who was sent here by Ziweixing to participate in the cooperation project.

The most concerned, of course, is the algorithm.

"How is it? Do you have any clues?"

"Amazing."

"How to say?"

Tang Binchen said: "It's really different from China. After all, it is Silicon Valley, and the technical level is too high. I have never heard of the technical theories proposed many times, and I have to learn it now."

Zhou Buqi smiled and said, "Is English okay?"

"Communication with Americans is relatively smooth."

"Um?"

"The mid- and low-level technicians here account for half of Asians. Among them, Chinese and Indians are the main ones. The accents of those Indians are really hard to understand. But their technical level is really high. key members."

"Indians... do they work overtime?"

"Well, they work harder than the Chinese. There is almost no time for rest. Even if it is a rest day, they are not idle. They enroll in this class and that class to learn all kinds of knowledge."

Zhou Buqi was a little surprised, "Work harder than the Chinese? Really?"

Tang Binchen said: "I didn't believe it at first, but after seeing it, I was really shocked. There is a colleague who graduated from the Indian Institute of Technology the year before last and joined this project team after graduating from Stanford in June this year. He only sleeps every day. Three or four hours."

"What are you busy with?"

"Study! As far as I know, there are six or seven classes he signed up for, in addition to IT, communication engineering, Japanese, management, economics, and even every Sunday, he spends a few hours in the morning Go to Los Angeles, go to film school, and then drive a few hours back in the afternoon."

Zhou Buqi frowned, "Where are the Chinese?"

Tang Binchen said: "Chinese people also love learning, but they are not as good as Indians. Moreover, Indians learn a wide range of subjects, while Chinese people basically learn their professional and work-related skills."

Zhou Buqi said: "No matter how high the level of professional skills is, even if you become a postdoctoral supervisor or reach the level of the Nobel Prize, you can only be a migrant worker in the workplace. It is not The scientist Maxwell who figured out the principle of electromagnetism was not the engineer Nikola Tesla who relied on the principle of electromagnetism to make practical achievements, but the great businessman Edison who pushed the results to the market."

Tang Binchen remained silent.

Zhou Buqi sighed, "From a technical point of view, the Chinese are not much worse than Indians. But from a management point of view, the gap will only become wider. Managers need generalists, not specialists. In the future …When this wave of Indians rises, the life of the Chinese in Silicon Valley will become more and more miserable.”

Tang Binchen said with a smile: "It's not a bad thing, they can go back to China."

Zhou Buqi shook his head.

If they all go back home, it will be miserable.

The United States is the world's high-tech center, where the world's high-tech achievements gather. There are a large number of Chinese working here, so they have the opportunity to get in touch with the top scientific and technological achievements and technical details.

A small part of them return to the country to serve the country and bring back some of the top science and technology, which is enough to make a great contribution to the technological development of the motherland.

To put it bluntly, if you want to do high-tech, you must go to the United States to "learn experience."

Without this process, everyone is working behind closed doors in China and doing research from scratch. Years of monkeys will not produce results, and the gap will only widen.

But Indians are getting bigger and bigger in Silicon Valley, which is the most detrimental to the Chinese.

India is a country with a large population and a large IT country. After Indians become executives, they will vigorously support their compatriots and let more Indians come to Silicon Valley. It will seize the job opportunities that originally belonged to the Chinese, and even form the exclusion of power for some Chinese executives.

The elite Chinese in Silicon Valley will naturally return to China.

In the short term, it is very helpful to the country and can boost the rapid development of the country's high-tech industry. But in the long run, there are great hidden dangers, and India is the biggest beneficiary.

This matter is too complicated, Zhou Buqi is too lazy to think about the long-term.

In the short term, the return of the Chinese to China is always beneficial to Ziweixing.

"How about our two projects?"

"The core algorithm of advertising distribution has been made. It has been tested for half a month, and the effect is very good. The next step is to supplement the corners and corners. It is estimated that it will be completed in early December. Another project is more complicated and the progress Less than half."

"Already have the core algorithm?"

"Um."

"Can you take a copy back?"

"It should be possible. This is not a world-class algorithm. It is a project jointly developed by the two parties. And... the management is not so strict now, unlike ten years ago, when technology companies were monitored like thieves."

Zhou Buqi nodded and said with a smile: "Then send a copy back. Guo Pengfei is working on a new project and may use this algorithm."

"Really?" Tang Binchen looked very interested.

"Well, it's called Today's Toutiao, adapted from the school news."

"It's an attractive name."

Zhou Buqi briefly explained the project to him.

The core of the algorithm of this project is to find people by writing. That is, mark the user, judge the articles he may like according to his hobbies, habits, reading taste, personal occupation, etc., and then recommend them.

This is the same as the advertising distribution system.

Advertising distribution is also based on the various tags of users, tailoring and recommending the advertisements that best suit their tastes, so as to attract them to click on the advertisements and obtain more advertising revenue.

One is to find people through articles, and the other is to find people through advertisements.

From the perspective of algorithm logic, it is basically the same.

After making this set of algorithms, Guo Pengfei's workload can be greatly reduced. Regardless of what Tang Binchen said lightly, this advertisement distribution algorithm is not a world-class algorithm, and the difficulty is not high. It can be placed in the country, it is definitely top-notch.

For example, in 2008, Baidu wanted to improve the conversion efficiency of advertisements, and wanted to build a similar advertising promotion system, but couldn't get started. Li Yanhong came forward in person and went to Sohu to find Wang Xiaochuan.

At that time, Wang Xiaochuan had just been promoted to be the chief technology officer of Sohu. In fact, he was promoted and demoted secretly. Boss Zhang dismissed him from his position in Sogou.

It stands to reason that this is a good opportunity to poach corners.

Li Yanhong wanted him to go to Baidu as the chief technology officer, focus on this business, and create a similar advertising system.

It's just that Wang Xiaozhou was not interested. He chatted with Mr. Li several times, but he didn't call. He has a lot of technical ideas, but he only wants to make more money by advertising.

Later, Baidu built a Fengchao system, which caused a series of scandals.

In the evening, I met Liu Qing.

He doesn't look very good.

"what happened?"

"Things in the company are messy."

Zhou Buqi frowned, "Chaotic management?"

Liu Qing sighed: "It's about the same, there are a lot of troubles. If we didn't occupy nearly half of the shares, I would have given up my pick and left. It is really difficult to rely on this group of people to get things done."

Zhou Buqi hurriedly said: "You can't leave, what a good direction Twitter is!"

"It's pretty good, but it's out of tune."

"This is a choice between choice and ability. If you choose the right one, it doesn't matter if your ability is a little bit weaker. You can cultivate and learn slowly. It's better than being capable but choosing the wrong one."

"You are so optimistic."

"Have to be optimistic, I'm counting on Twitter to shine!"

Liu Qing was a little surprised, "Excellent? What do you mean?"

Zhou Buqi said with a smile: "Twitter is so American. The format is restricted, so that users can only express opinions, but not discuss. This is to provide everyone with a fair opportunity to speak out."

"Well, it's pretty good."

"good?"

Zhou Buqi sneered twice.

Liu Qing looked at him strangely, "What's the matter? Aren't you very optimistic about Twitter?"

Zhou Buqi said: "I just want to cash out. We foreigners can't get involved in the game of Twitter. What does it mean to provide everyone with an equal opportunity to speak out? Let those hip-hop hooligans and university professors , with equal opportunities to speak. But the number of idiots is far more than that of elites. Traditional media represents the voices of elites, which will be more correct. When Internet media replaces traditional media, the voices of idiots will become mainstream. Exactly, Lao America is the country with the most popular conspiracy theories. The Rothschild family, the 911 conspiracy, the fake moon landing, and the Freemasonry are all made up by Americans. Let them immerse themselves... Oh, we are here Set up a game for Lao Mei!"

Ning Yaxian looked at him blankly.

Liu Qing couldn't believe it, "Really? Don't talk nonsense."

Zhou Buqi said: "At that time, there will be more and more anti-intellectual voices. But for the sake of traffic and stock price, Twitter can only attract more mass users, relying on conspiracy theories and anti-intellectual remarks to attract them. To When the time comes, something big is bound to happen.”

Ning Yaxian couldn't help it, and asked weakly: "What about the country?"

She knew that Xiaonei.com was making headlines today, and had no money to invite professional journalists, editors, writers, contributors, and intellectuals, so they had to mobilize college students.

But college students have never entered the society, what experience can they have?

Pretty much the same as Twitter.

Zhou Buqi said: "It's different in China. There are regulations in the country, very strict control. When there are bad signs, the whole network will be blocked. There will be minor problems, and the general direction can't be wrong. The United States can't do it, and the gods can't stop it. Those rednecks and big old blacks rebelled."

Liu Qing snorted, "It's inexplicable, it's useless to say less, I think you are anti-intellectual enough, it's no different from a conspiracy theory. Seriously, didn't you ask me to help you find a chief financial officer? I found it The candidate has been selected, when do you have time to meet?"