Chapter Ninety-Nine: On Cooperation#
The place where Qi Min and Ms. Zhou Xiaoshan made an appointment to meet was neither at the Chinese Technical University nor in the "Nimbus" center. Because Ms. Zhou Xiaoshan also knew that Qi Min had not recovered from the sequelae of leaving the brain-like body, she chose a café not far from Qi Min and her parents' house.
After Qi Min woke up the next morning, he began 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 and said that she was going to go out for a walk, which was conducive to recovery. Because she was using chemotherapy as an excuse, it was not very scientific 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 made Qi Min a glass of apple juice for breakfast. Because Qi Min couldn't eat any solid food, he didn't bother to eat breakfast seriously, and planned to find a place to eat after sending Qi Min to the place.
And Ms. Zhu Shaoqiong and Mr. Qi Zhiguang were wondering what kind of illness their daughter was having, and what the consequences of the so-called experimental accident were, and they couldn't help but be curious when they saw her going out. The old couple summed it up for a while, but they still didn't know where Anton would take their daughter, so they planned to follow behind secretly.
Anton helped Qi Min out of the house and went to the subway station, fortunately they still had seats at the subway station, Qi Min didn't spend much energy sitting all the way, and he was able to walk to the café by himself after getting off the train.
In order to avoid Ms. Zhou Xiaoshan from having other concerns when she saw her difficult to walk, Qi Min deliberately waited a quarter of an hour early, sat down and let Anton leave. She is not interested in introducing her boyfriend to her collaborators, for such a big project, Qi Min herself is young enough to be unreliable, there is no need to show that she has a younger boyfriend, and it seems that she is even more unreliable.
However, Qi Min sat in the window seat sickly, and just ordered the cheapest hot lemonade, which still made the café staff have a slight opinion about her.
After Ms. Zhou Xiaoshan came, she was also a little surprised when she saw Qi Min wearing a hat and huddled in the armchair with a pale face, and only ordered a glass of lemonade: "Xiao Qi, why are you ...... It's so serious. ”
"Ah, Mr. Zhou." Qi Min looked sick, but he was actually in good spirits, "I'm actually fine." ”
"Yesterday, when I talked about applying for a patent, I thought you had recovered." Ms. Zhou Xiaoshan said with some concern, but since it is a serious work relationship, Qi Min said that she was fine, so she should be fine, "I took a look at Sakharova's situation, she is your classmate for a doctorate?" Haven't officially graduated yet? ”
Qi Min knew that she would definitely ask about Yelena, and said a little embarrassedly: "Yes, she has been delayed for a year because of the visa situation. ”
Ms. Zhou Xiaoshan nodded, took out a few pieces of paper from her handbag and handed them to Qi Min: "You guys do nerves, and I don't know much about it." But I took a look at the generated code you wrote and changed it a little. ”
Qi Min took it and took a look, and found that Ms. Zhou Xiaoshan had changed her frame entirely. What she wrote before was that it was a step-by-step generation of virtual neurons, and after generation, she iterated N times to connect the connections one by one. Qi Min knew that writing like this would definitely be a waste of computing resources, but she would only write like this. And Ms. Zhou Xiaoshan's changed train of thought Qi Min can't fully understand, but it can also be seen that she starts from the mathematical laws in the Cong period, which greatly reduces the number of cycle traversals.
"I wrote before...... It sucks. Qi Min smiled embarrassedly, as if he was a student who was pointed out to be wrong by the teacher in the programming class.
As a teacher who has taught classes, Ms. Zhou Xiaoshan can't help but say: "You learn more theories, don't be in a hurry to write code." Then she realized that Qi Min was not her student, and she was not even in the CS direction, so she hurriedly said, "But it's not easy for you to write like this yourself." After that, I can expand the generation of brain-like bodies, and I can find a few PhD students to help you. ”
She paused for a moment and then said, "Of course, if you need Ke Que to continue the wet experiment, that's fine. However, Ke Li's code level is really ...... I've heard that some of his algorithms were changed by you. ”
"That's all trivial." Qi Min habitually scratched the back of his head, but only touched the woolen hat. She remembered that she had no hair anymore, and suddenly felt a little regretful.
Ms. Zhou Xiaoshan looked at her somewhat shy and conceited, 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, the undergraduate student in her laboratory can still realize that she is a teacher on a daily basis, but Ms. Zhou Xiaoshan also found that Qi Min still plays games with that undergraduate student in her free time, which is really 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 little over, but the essence is the same.
It's just that there is one more thing she has to ask: "By the way, Xiao Qi, what are the reasons for you to decide to cooperate with Sakharova so quickly?" It doesn't sound like she'll be able to come up with enough money right away. ”
Speaking of this, Qi Min was even more embarrassed: "Uh...... Actually, I am...... I called Yelena, and suddenly remembered it and said......"
Ms. Zhou Xiaoshan smiled dumbly: "You have such a good relationship with her." ”
"Or did she find Cynomolgus Monkey No. 2 awakened?" Qi Min said a good word for Yelena. She actually wanted to come out one by one, and she originally said it casually, and only after saying it did she realize that it was really worth doing, and then she had the idea of cooperation.
"So, it's the good fortune of your friend." Ms. Zhou Xiaoshan made a joke, and then said, "Sakharova is in Beijing now, and I plan to talk to her in person." But if you don't recover by then, don't force it, and see you on Skype. ”
"Okay, I'll send you Yelena's contact information." Qi Min nodded.
"You go back and look at the code that you have changed, and feel free to tell me if you have any questions. But this is not in a hurry, 'Nimbus' can't expand to generate more virtual neurons now, we have to find other supercomputers. Ms. Zhou Xiaoshan said, "You should rest first." ”
"That'...... At the end of the project, there are ...... Can't post an article? Qi Min asked hesitantly.
Ms. Zhou Xiaoshan said calmly: "I can do the project at the end of the project, there is no problem with this." Once the virtual neuron model is published, it is very easy to imitate a relatively advanced supercomputer, and it is useless to apply for a patent in this area. ”
Qi Min immediately understood the main idea: "That means that if we want to do it, we have to 'make a lot of money in a muffled voice'?" ”
"Well, I'll find someone to see how the patent for the corpus callosum interface can be bypassed." Ms. Zhou Xiaoshan said calmly.
Qi Min felt a little sorry for the research group of the Paris École Supérieure that people supported him so internationally, but when the results were transformed, they had to bypass other people's patents. But think about it again, bypassing patents is a routine operation to avoid disputes in the research and development process, and if you can really make money in the future, intellectual property rights are also indispensable to others.