Before meeting Jeff Hinton, Gu Mojie had many guesses about the other party's image, and even thought that the other party might be a science madman like Einstein. But when I really met, I realized that this fantasy was wrong.

Jeff Hinton is a very attentive and spirited old man, even quite an artist.

And this kind of artist atmosphere is not the atmosphere of impressionist painters or rock singers, but the atmosphere of academic symphony orchestra conductors, elegant and decent.

After a few brief exchanges, Gu Mojie understood the reason for this atmosphere from the other party's conversation and experience.

Because Jeff Hinton is not a person who has been working on computers and programming algorithms all his life. The other party is from a psychology background, and he only made his debut halfway through the algorithm. It was after the research of psychology was exhausted that I suddenly thought about "how does the human brain work?" When this question was asked, he suddenly understood it and became a generalist who studied and studied several subjects.

A few months ago, the academician Qiu Chengtong Qiu that Gu Mojie had just met was also such a generalist. A generalist who entered the mathematical world from the string theory of physics and completed the "Calabi-Qiu flow pattern".

Gu Mojie himself is also a generalist.

A generalist in the era of the Internet of Everything is lucky. Because there are infinite possibilities in this world, waiting for them to discover. If another ten or twenty years pass, the era of Wanxue inspiration has passed, and this empty blue ocean that suddenly appeared will be blocked and congested, and there will not be so many masters who have been recorded in history.

The exchange between two generalists who were destined to go down in history in the future because of chance, even if there was little in common in academic details, was enough to produce a common language that made Jeff Hinton appreciate Gu Mojie.

It didn't take long. Jeff Hinton had a sense of hating to see each other.

However, today's topic is mainly about money. Talk about the scientific research funding that Gu Mojie deserves. It's a cheesy topic that isn't something a pedant like Jeff Hinton should discuss.

Anyway, how much money should be given in total has been negotiated a long time ago, and now the specific use details are handed over to professionals.

"Mr. Gu. Professor Hinton said he had some other things to attend to, and he had to let Sunderland Lawyers advise you. ”

After Yan Lei translated Jeff Hinton's words, the other party signaled goodbye to Gu Mojie and went to work on himself. Leave behind Sondland, the lawyer who handled the matter in the first place.

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Sunderland was the same lawyer who flew to China to sign a contract with Gu Mojie. He was authorized by Jeff Hinton, and he was not polite at the moment, opened the documents, and gave an overview of the situation straight to the point.

"Mr. Gu, according to our original secret agreement. Professor Hinton has brought you a total of $6 million in basic research funding. It is paid in two fiscal years, $3 million for the current fiscal year. It is now in place, with another 3 million for fiscal year 2005. You can always set up a non-profit organization to accept this payment.

However, I think I need to explain to you that the use of the money is regulated by the California government's audit department, as well as the federal audit department. Every expenditure will be examined, and except for a small amount of entertainment and publicity expenses, every other expenditure will require strict reconciliation. So, I hope you've figured out what you're going to do with this money. ”

Gu Mojie took a sip of coffee. Pointing to the beautiful lawyer he brought with him, he said, "Before you come." I don't know much about the legal details of the United States, so I only decided on a few general research directions, and I didn't finalize them. I need you to help me see which of these directions are in line with the policy. I'm not in a hurry, I have a month to deal with these things anyway. ”

Sunderland and Feliro and Vivien Leigh are also old acquaintances. At the moment, he naturally knew what Gu Mojie had done. He asked very professionally: "So, first of all, tell me about the directions that your lawyer has preliminarily drawn up for you, and I can refer to them for you to see which ones are in line with the scope of the law." ”

The term "basic scientific research funds" is tax-free because it enjoys several times the leveraged profits. So it's an area that the government is strictly watching. There are strict provisions in government laws on which scientific research belongs to basic scientific research and scientific research that belongs to the public welfare of all mankind.

Otherwise, the U.S. government and state governments will inevitably face a dilemma: they will not be able to collect a dime of corporate income tax. Because all technology companies will make false accounts of their own commercial R&D costs as "basic research donations".

Feliro took out a plan and was about to answer Sunderland's question, but Gu Mojie raised his hand and motioned for her to wait.

Then, Gu Mojie turned to Sunderland and said: "I directly said all the plans, some of them are inappropriate, after all, we are not professional, and some of the plans are very whimsical." It would be better for Mr. Sunderland to give us a few examples to show us how the U.S. government is on this issue. In that case, there are some obviously unreliable plans, we can filter them out ourselves, and we don't have to take them out to be embarrassed. That also saves everyone's time. ”

Sunderland's expression tightened, knowing that he had met a formidable opponent.

Because if Gu Mojie directly poured beans into a bamboo tube just now, he could have said all the plans he had originally made, Sunderland could have done a multiple-choice question, and selected one of these plans that was most likely to pass the review, and then operated.

But in that case, Gu Mojie's benefits may not be maximized, because several of his plans may not withstand the limits of the US government's patience.

For example, if Gu Mojie spoke first, this question would be equivalent to: "I know that there is theft under US law, and I have several plans now, which can steal $3,000, $6,000, and $10,000 respectively, please tell me, how much money to steal, so that I will not be sentenced?" ”

In this case, assuming that the starting point of US law is $5,000 in the amount involved, then Sunderland only needs to tell Gu Mojie: "If you choose the plan of stealing only $3,000, you will not be sentenced." ”

In this way, Sunderland and the rest of the lawyers' team will save much more trouble.

But Gu Mojie was obviously not satisfied with this, because his interests were not maximized.

So Gu Mojie asked Sunderland to speak first and mark the red line of $5,000, and then he could modify his crime plan and steal $4,999 against this red line.

Where is the red line of the boundary between crime and non-crime stipulated by US law, Gu Mojie has to use the scale of exploiting loopholes to the limit and play a side ball against this red line. The law allows Gu Mojie to be a bad person, and he must be as bad as possible within the tolerance scale of the law, and be as bad as possible.

Fortunately, Sunderland came prepared, he thought about it for a while, and said something calm:

"Mr. Gu, I hope you understand that almost none of the network technologies are for public welfare, and I have not encountered them before, so I can't give too appropriate examples. So, please allow me to illustrate the situation with an example in the field of health care, or education, after all, there are more public welfare businesses in those fields."

Gu Mojie nodded in agreement: "Yes, you just say it." Anyway, the law is bypassed. ”

"Then I'll give you an example in the field of health care." Sunderland hurriedly said,

"If you have a biopharmaceutical company that wants to develop a new drug, and then you want to make the cost of developing that new drug into 'non-commercial basic research,' then that's not going to work. The federal government will find out, remove its leverage tax exemptions, and fine it. Because although the drug itself is life-saving, there is also a patent behind the drug, and pharmaceutical companies can rely on this patented technology to seek commercial benefits, so it is not in line with the policy orientation of public welfare scientific research.

However, if a pharmaceutical company promises to disclose the technical details of the production of the new drug to the whole society after it has developed a new drug, and does not seek to apply for a patent for the company or seek monopoly benefits, then the federal government will also posthumously recognize the concession -- at this time, those pharmaceutical giants will play a game of rubbing the corners, mixing some by-products in the process of developing new drugs, or research with private goods, to make the funding for public welfare scientific research slightly inflated -- of course, you still need to spend the cost to find a clever accounting firm to help you make false accounts. Well, it's still possible to succeed.

Taking a step back, if the scientific research that a pharmaceutical company is doing at this time is not a new drug, but a new clinical diagnosis and treatment of a disease, because the diagnosis and treatment method cannot be patented, the federal recognition is for the benefit of all mankind, not the commercial interest of the company - in this case, in this case, the use of the kind of funds that we are going to discuss today.

It's the same in the field of education, so I won't give more examples. For example, the release of new textbooks and teaching software is definitely not in line with public welfare, but if it is some public courseware and teaching method research that cannot be commercialized, it can be used as a basic achievement of public welfare. ”

Sunderland explained very informatively, seeing that American lawyers are so treacherous and accustomed to it, all kinds of loopholes are commonplace. Gu Mojie and Feliro listened very carefully, Gu Mojie nodded secretly in approval while listening, and Feliro was holding a pen and following Sunderland's explanation, revising and revising the original planning plan.

Several people talked in detail about this for a whole morning. In the middle, Gu Mojie ordered takeout, and after a few people ate, they continued to do business, and at dusk, Gu Mojie's original plan was also deleted a lot, leaving only two or three optional evasion plans.

Gu Mojie scrutinized and threw out the last question: "Lawyer Sunderland, according to our deduction today, I think that this research plan should be able to meet the scope of 'non-profit public interest scientific research purposes' as stipulated by federal law and California law, and at the same time, it also belongs to the field of Internet and software technology, which is compatible with my business." ”

As he spoke, Gu Mojie pushed over a document that had been picked out and had been revised in a scattered manner.

"Internet security research aimed at preventing the large-scale spread of the Grey Pigeon virus at the network level?" After reading this title, Sunderland almost jumped up, feeling that his tongue had been wasted all day, "Mr. Gu! This is for-profit research for antivirus software companies! How can it pass the federal scrutiny! Didn't you listen to what I said all day? ”

Gu Mojie smiled incomprehensibly: "No, what I want to do is not antivirus software." It's a free tool for public benefit cybersecurity, and it's a completely different technical principle and focus – hear me out. (To be continued.) )