Chapter 50: Penrose

Ju Chen proudly posted on social networks the office of the first beautiful wooden house with a large spire he had just built, but there was a scolding below.

"MR book?haha, these are the top 10 stupidest tech ideas of the year, and I'm not the only one who says that, but the editor of Wired Magazine thinks so. ”

This comment has received thousands of likes.

"It's really stupid, I don't see any need, I thought that the cross-border scientists who created the PCC platform were very good, but now it seems that this is the case, or there is a specialization in the art industry, so let's do your job as an associate professor at Columbia University." ”

"Only a stupid prostitute would work in such a company, right? A programmer friend of mine is going to go, and I forcibly stopped him, and he will be grateful to me in the future. ”

There are also some supporters who look like gods: "Don't be like this, crack down on our Internet celebrity scientists, it's not easy for China to come up with one, and it's still so young." It's still quite interesting for me to read the Wordless Book Bar, at least once I will go and have a cup of El Saldoba's coffee. ”

All in all, there was a negative scene on the Internet, which made Juchen feel a little suffocated, so he hurried outside to get some fresh air and see the workers who were busy building the MADI wooden house.

Now, the only thing that can make me feel relieved is that I have a vast industrial land and realize my dream of building a "Wucheng". The word Wu, originally meant that the grass grew messy, but literally, it seems to be Wuyun, as mentioned earlier, Juchen does not like the traditional garden that plants exotic flowers and plants everywhere, he wants to turn this land into a "Wu" style place.

Plants attract insects, and fountains attract mosquito larvae, neither of which is a good thing.

Without the decoration of flowers and plants, how can you look stylish? Ju Chen thought of a plan - to use non-periodic brick groups. Everyone has seen periodicity, the most common is the square, one by one is OK, more complex can use regular hexagons, all of which are arranged at a glance to know the period.

Aperiodic bricks have a research direction in the mathematical community. In 1966, mathematician Robert Berg gave the first non-periodic block set, which required 20,426 bricks to lay into one of these tiles. Berg's focus on aperiodic brick groups was soon reduced to 104 bricks, which was reduced to 13 by 1996 thanks to the efforts of other mathematicians.

What is the limit of the combination? This was discovered by the mathematician Penrose, and instead of using squares, 36-degree diamonds and 72-degree diamonds can be laid into very beautiful patterns, and the matching auxiliary shapes on the sides can be easily laid by the workers.

The finished pattern is acyclical, and it is more confusing than the gradual charm of the flowers. (You can search for the Penrose brick set to enjoy it)

The combination of the two colors uses a variety of colorful combinations, which further highlights the decorative effect of no flowers and plants. Juchen came up with this idea, and the concrete realization was left to the architect and designer to complete, and in short, he also saw two or three architects there to measure the site in order to come up with the perfect plan.

Seeing the architect at work, I felt a little better when I thought about this interesting and gorgeous square in the future.

The factory is relatively large, Juchen is ready to purchase a batch of CVT bicycles for employees to travel, these customized CVTs are all painted with the pattern of the Penrose floor tile group, which is highly consistent with the visual design of the square of the floor tiles. The non-architectural part of the whole factory resembles a square, called "Penrose Square", which is full of foreign style and style.

After the renderings came out, as the architect expected, the colors were too bright and violated the teachings of Dun Dun in the "Style", well, Juchen still gave up the original fantasy and let the architect design an alternative to the elegant and solemn atmosphere.

Penrose Square, which houses programmers and engineers, is half sea and half flame compared to the dilapidated factories and dormitories where former tobacco factory workers live.

In the booth where Mr. Shu's project has been criticized by the mouth, there are some projects that are gratifying - PCC's daily active programmers have reached 500! On average, each person works three hours a day, creating a value of 15,000 US dollars, of course, this is not to say that Juchen makes a lot of money, because many projects are his own, not only do not make money, but he also loses money, so he uses strange projects to cultivate the crowdsourcing work habits of programmers.

In fact, the hourly salary of 10 US dollars is not low in China, many startups require 996, 9 hours a day, then it is 90 US dollars, about 588 yuan of daily salary, and the couriers do not have this number during Double 11.

Of course, it is impossible for many programmers to complete 9 hours of high-intensity programming activities, so daily programmers work an average of 3 hours.

Sometimes it's touching to think about it, because the programmer dedicates the three most golden hours of the day to this platform.

Of course, because investors have a large number of media resources in their hands, they can add fuel to the fire, and according to this principle to select investors, PCC began a round of financing, with a valuation of $500 million, raising 50 million, and only releasing 10% of the equity.

And the 10% stake is quite dispersed, which does not give any investor a chance to dominate.

Now those retail investors who invest in the corporate bonds of tobacco companies can rest assured, you see, the company founded by the professor has been valued at 500 million, how can we not give our 100 million to the pit. Then they found that the corporate bond platform was still crowdfunding, and the crowdfunding was active again after being activated by the financing of related enterprises, after all, there is a yield higher than twice that of government bonds, and it is still possible to use it as part of conservative investment.

After the financing, sure enough, many venture capital affiliates began to tout PCC, consciously or unconsciously, to make it more popular, and the venture capitalists' investment immediately reaped the benefits, if they were willing to leave the market now.

The venture capitalists jointly recommended a CEO, Ju Chen retired to the background as chairman, and then went to New York to teach and educate people with peace of mind, driving his amber Camry to work every day, easily.

A bunch of idiot media people are repeating the same old tune, saying that billionaire scientists are hard and simple, and their billionaire net worth only drives a $30,000 car and lives in a dormitory assigned by the university.

Of course, there are still many professors who really live like this, and it's not Juchen, he just does it because he's too lazy to pursue luxury cars, and if he is in a bad mood one day, he will change it, and it will immediately become synonymous with luxury.

There are also media that have a new idea, and Juchen published a paper in a professional journal of crystallography on the use of ring accelerators to make large diamonds.

The paper, which mentioned the cut-off value for making a large diamond with a diameter of 10mm, sparked a heated discussion among crystallographers, and the less knowledgeable bosses were also interested in the media coverage, and some owners of the jewelry industry threw an olive branch to Ju Chen, hoping to learn more about the feasibility of the process described in this paper.

As a result, Juchen gathered a group of scientists with experience in manufacturing accelerators to join the discussion.

After some research, Juchen found that if he built an accelerator around his cigarette factory, he could theoretically produce diamonds with a diameter of 5mm, and at most cut into small diamonds of 0.5 carats. But because it can be generated continuously, it still has commercial value.

This accelerator is expensive, I am afraid that it will not be able to come down with hundreds of millions of dollars, and the risk is huge, Juchen thought of a way to reduce the risk - to create protons and carbon atom accelerators for hadron therapy, and at the same time compatible with the detonation pressure method to make diamonds, so that even if the diamond project fails, it can still have the effect of hadron therapy.

At present, hadron therapy is a very cutting-edge technology in the treatment of cancer, because it is expensive to build, and few countries have such devices. Hadron therapy is a radiotherapy program, compared with laser rays, it has a unique attenuation curve, which can produce a strong killing force at a certain distance, and then decay rapidly, so the damage to human healthy cells is much smaller than electrons, X-rays, etc.

Moreover, in this way, a large number of tertiary hospitals in China can be attracted to cooperate, and a strong lineup can be approved faster, and the hospital will definitely be willing to participate in such a good project, and can publicize its special advantages in cancer treatment in the future.