Chapter 90: The Penguins of Australia
The International Computer Vision Conference at the end of 2013 had some dark humor.
The most important technical achievements were not published on them, and Meng Fanqi threw himself into the next year's computer vision and pattern recognition conference, and the event seminar was not on the main agenda.
The vice president was far more popular than the main meeting, and due to the lack of space in the room, the conference gave priority to academics to enter the room.
There were very few people from the media who were able to enter the venue.
After the meeting, Meng Fanqi and the others felt a little tired, so they quickly slipped away from the venue.
The reporters with long guns and short cannons at the door waited for a long time, and directly let go of the young people who came out with the others at the beginning.
After all, they seem to be the least people who need to shoot, interview, and interview themselves.
Only a few reporters who had done their homework slapped Meng Fanqi violently.
A few reporters next to me wondered, "What are you shooting?" Hinton, Rose, and Likun didn't come out. ”
"Still filming Hinton, Rose, everyone is tired of watching. Do you know who just passed? This year's breakthrough work in the field of vision is basically all done by himself. ”
At what level, you can come out and be an academic journalist without caring about current affairs? I don't even know who should shoot.
The journalist replied with an inward sneer.
To say that in this meeting, the most widely spread thing later.
In fact, it is not Meng Fanqi or Han Ci's academic display and Q&A, there are very few people who will really watch things of this nature.
Instead, it was a photo of Meng Fanqi that was captured during the final Q&A session.
This photograph takes Meng Fanqi as the center of the picture, surrounded by a circle of bigwigs with outstanding positions in academia and industry.
There are many contrasting elements, such as nationality, age, etc.
The young Chinese scholars at the core, and the surrounding circle of elderly scholars from Europe and the United States, make the focus of the whole picture very prominent.
As a result, this photo was later widely circulated in China.
The big boss finally settled the two serious matters of the academic conference and the Google contract, and the rest of the people were embarrassed to bring up the idea of playing around.
"I want to see penguins! Penguins are so cute! "Mai Mang loves all kinds of cute animals, and he can't hold back at the moment.
"Deduct points, deduct points. Bad rules. Don Juan immediately pointed out Mai Mang's mistake, "The big boss hasn't spoken yet, how dare you?" ”
"Aren't penguins unique to Antarctica?" Meng Fanqi didn't know much about animals, but he didn't have anything particular about going.
When you come to a new place, you can see the local customs, and animals should be one of them.
"Penguins are mostly in the Southern Hemisphere, and if you want to talk about Antarctica, Australia and New Zealand should be considered very close. I remember there were a lot of little blue penguins on Macquarie Island. "Han Ci's memory is so good that I can't forget a lot of things I've seen.
"The little blue penguin is the smallest of all penguins, and most of the little animals are cute, so let's go check it out." Han Ci also responded to Mai Mang's call.
"Let's go check it out." Regarding the little blue penguin, Meng Fanqi knows a technical anecdote. The founder of the Linux operating system, Linus Tovaz, was once bitten by a little blue penguin while on vacation in Australia.
This directly led him to choose the emperor penguin, which is the most well-known and immediately thought of the penguin image as the official logo and mascot of the Linux operating system.
The fact that the Sini Safari Park is located in the center of the city, not even 2-3 kilometers away from the venue, is quite a surprise to everyone.
Everyone was ready to travel a long distance, but they never thought that they would be able to reach it by going out for a walk.
It's said to be an indoor zoo, but it's generally made like a park.
The animals inside are either eating or sleeping, and they are very leisurely.
"Wow, this gray kangaroo is so ugly." Looking at the kangaroo up close, Mai Mang screamed, and after she found that the kangaroo was far less cute than she imagined, she was very disgusted.
"Be careful, its arms are full of muscles, beware of it punching you."
In addition to the local kangaroos, the koalas are quite cute.
"Koalas spend eighty percent of their lives in trees and sleep more than eighteen hours a day. Wouldn't this kind of life be a little boring? Liu Xu looked at the introduction of the animal next to him and sighed with emotion.
"Then you don't calculate the time we spend studying and working? Count the time we go to sleep and see how much is left? ”
"Don't say it, don't say it, it's all tears if you talk too much."
It was just the right time for a few people to come, and the park happened to open up to the penguins for a close-up visit.
In addition to buying some carrots to feed the giraffes, the group was given the opportunity to feed some little penguins.
After bringing this group of about a dozen people into the museum, the keeper enthusiastically introduced, "The little blue penguin is the smallest penguin in the world, and it is only about 40 centimeters tall when it reaches adulthood. ”
"They usually live here and eat by the pond over there."
While the keeper was giving an introduction, two little blue penguins swayed past the side, causing the tourists to exclaim in low voices.
"It's so cute, isn't it?"
"Swaggering, so proud."
"These two penguins are gay penguins in our zoo, and they're both males." The keeper was very conscientious.
There was a white guy from Scotland next to him who immediately became excited, "Tell me everything, I want to know all the stories of these two penguins!" ”
"I would like to ask you, can you tell the difference between male and female penguins?"
The group of tourists shook their heads in confusion, and then realized something.
"Very well, I think you probably guessed the reason, and many penguins can't tell the difference."
"Last year's mating season, the other penguins started exercising, and these two penguins were also exercising. But months passed, and the other penguins laid eggs, but they couldn't lay their own eggs. ”
"So the two of them dangled around the penguin pile all day, and they couldn't figure out why it was the way it was."
Eventually, the two of them found a stone that looked like an egg and carried it home. They take turns for an hour or two a day to incubate the stone. ”
Hearing this, the tourists all let out a voice of distress and pity for them.
Just then, a tiny penguin stumbled after them and chased after them.
The keeper explained that it was because she took an egg from a penguin that laid a lot of eggs for the two gay penguins to hatch.
"Wow~ It's so cute." Several girls listened to this story and found it very touching.
"Cute just because they're penguins." Meng Fanqi is completely immune to such things, "Imagine replacing the penguins in the story with humans. ”
"Shut up!!"