Chapter 106: Future Turing Award Winners

The math Olympiad is a very formal exam, and the invigilator cannot stand next to a student for a long time, otherwise there will be suspicion of cheating.

Wu Youqiang took a few glances and walked away.

After that, the number of times he 'passed by' increased significantly, and he was sure that he was indeed not mistaken, Zhao Yi did indeed skip steps very seriously.

If you can understand it just by skipping steps, some of it will not be understood at all.

The difficulty of the last big question is very high, and Wu Youqiang glanced at it and knew that he couldn't do it in a short time, but he still knew the general direction of thinking.

Divide the question into ten steps, and everyone else will do the problem from the first step to the tenth step.

Zhao Yi is different.

He wrote the fifth step, then the seventh, and then the second step?

Then, the fourth step.

Step 9.

Wait a minute.

When the previous conditions were not perfected, he directly wrote the last step.

There are not many things on the papyrus, and the steps are still messy, and there is no logic at all, as if the answers are deliberately scrambled, but when copied on the test paper, the steps become very clear, and the step-by-step clear calculus feels the same as writing a standard answer.

"This Zhao Yi is indeed too powerful!"

"It's no wonder that I was able to make a Rubik's Cube calculator, which made so many experts in the field of computer science feel incredible......"

"This is genius!"

Wu You couldn't help but sigh.

He could still understand the other geniuses, but the genius in front of him couldn't understand it at all, and he felt that he couldn't even keep up with his thinking.

They don't seem to be people of the same world.

Zhao Yi didn't know that there was an invigilator who paid attention to himself, he used scientific research coins, and also used learning coins, causal thinking and focus mode, so that the body and mind were fully engaged in the test questions.

Unless there is a big movement, or I take the initiative to pay attention, I don't know what the teacher is passing by.

After copying the answer to the last question on the test paper, Zhao Yi reviewed the questions again, and used the test results of "The Law of Cause and Effect" one by one, and raised his head without any problems at all.

There are five minutes left in the exam.

The invigilator is already reminding, "Watch the time, there are five minutes left!"

Zhao Yi checked the name and candidate serial number again, but there were no mistakes, hesitated or waited for a few minutes, and the invigilator took away the papers normally before walking out of the examination room.

He walked along the flow of people and went out of the door to wait for Sun Liang.

When he arrived at the door, there were two reporters standing next to him, he didn't care, it was normal to have reporters in the Olympiad exam, but he didn't expect the reporters to wave at him, and a female reporter simply rushed over with a microphone, for fear that he would walk away immediately.

"Hello?" Zhao Yi was a little strange.

In fact, it is not strange that a reporter interviewed him, but the popularity of the previous period has ended, and his news can still be searched on the Internet, but it is rare to see reporters in life.

He's not a star after all.

Whether it is a Rubik's Cube calculator or a third-order Rubik's Cube blindly screwed to break the record, the heat belongs to the thing, not his own, and the heat of the matter has passed.

The female reporter did come for him, "You are Zhao Yi, the maker of the Rubik's Cube calculator, right?"

"Yes?"

Zhao Yi used an uncertain tone, and simply refused to admit it when he encountered trouble.

"I heard you're in this exam room, so you're waiting here. The female reporter's tone was very kind, and when she spoke, the cameraman also followed, and the camera was directly aimed at Zhao Yi, "I am a news reporter from Nanjiang TV." At present, many people at home and abroad are concerned about the core algorithm of your Rubik's Cube calculator, and it is said that you are going to publish relevant papers, right?"

Zhao Yi nodded.

"Then do you want to publish in what journal or magazine?" the female reporter pointed the microphone at Zhao Yi.

The interview was conducted at the entrance of the examination room, and the students who had just come out also gathered around, making the entrance a little congested.

Zhao Yi glanced left and right, and simply walked to the side of the road, "Here!"

"Good. ”

The videographer helped keep the onlookers away.

The person next to him also chattered, "I know him, Zhao Yi, the maker of the imitation calculator." ”

"He's amazing, he broke the Rubik's Cube world record, and now everyone calls him 'Rubik's Cube Expert'. ”

"I didn't expect me to take the math Olympiad with him. ”

"I'm together! I remembered that during the exam, he sat next to me, and the invigilator paid special attention to him, and he always kept passing by, which was really depressing. ”

“......”

Zhao Yi looked at the person next to him a little helplessly, he didn't like to be so eye-catching, so he simply made a long story short, "I have already submitted the manuscript, it is in "Journal-of-the-ACM", I hope it can be passed." ”

"By the way, if the interview is really going to be broadcast, I would like to thank Professor Liu Hemin of the Academy of Sciences for his guidance during the writing of the paper. ”

"That's it. ”

Zhao Yi said it bluntly enough, but he overestimated what ordinary people know about academia.

The female reporter asked a little confused, "Where did you say it was published, can you say it again?"

"Journal-of-the-ACM?Journal, of, the, A-C-M, well, that's a magazine sponsored by the International Association for Computing Machinery. ”

I heard it this time.

The female reporter obviously didn't intend to let Zhao Yi go easily, she continued to ask, "You just said that you want to thank Professor Liu Hemin, right? Can you introduce Professor Liu Hemin?"

Zhao Yi nodded and said, "Professor Liu Hemin's professors of the Academy of Sciences have reached the world's top level in the field of artificial neural networks. ”

He said simply, "If you want to know more, you can search the Internet for ......."

The female reporter continued to ask, "Can you talk about the Olympiad competition? How did you do in the morning?"

"It's okay. ”

Zhao Yi replied somewhat conservatively.

"Can you estimate the score, how much can you take?" asked the female reporter with interest.

Zhao Yi thought hesitantly, "If you judge by the result, it should be a full score, right? ”

"Hula~~"

The surrounding students couldn't help but exclaim.

Even if it's just a try of the Olympiad, I dare to say that the results are right, and I may not be able to find one in an examination room.

Zhao Yi answered a few more questions, and found that Sun Liang, who came from afar, hurriedly left on the grounds that there was something, he didn't want to be watched by so many people.

In fact, the interviews of female reporters are mainly aimed at papers.

It's an exaggeration to say that 'the whole world cares about Zhao Yi's paper', but many people who are engaged in research in the field of computer science do care about the core algorithm of the Rubik's Cube calculator.

Cracking the Rubik's Cube has always been a world problem.

This problem has plagued scientists for decades, and they have been trying to simplify and simplify the algorithm, but because the numbers calculated are too large, it is still far away to solve it.

The Rubik's Cube calculator turned out to be correct, and the core algorithm involved must be interesting.

Zhao Yi has already been given the title of 'future Turing Award winner', and it is possible that he will be nominated as a candidate for the Turing Award just by virtue of the core algorithm of the Rubik's Cube calculator.

Of course.

Before the paper came out and others didn't see the core algorithm, everything was just speculation and prediction, and they were still very concerned about Zhao Yi's paper.

Shirley Kamani is also one of the people to watch.

As a Ph.D. in computer science, a Ph.D. in biology, and a professor who mainly studies biology, Kamani is more concerned about the application of computers in biology, and some of the algorithms of computers are really interesting to apply to biology.

Now Kamani is a reviewer for Zhao Yi's paper.

Even without a special greeting from Professor Liu Hemin, Carmani would have focused on Zhao Yi's thesis.

Journal-of-the-ACM accepts a lot of submissions, but most of them are 'rubbing the edge of publication' or simply 'impossible to publish' because the research is meaningless, or repetitive research, or simply a patchwork of papers.

Zhao Yi's difference.

The core algorithm of the Rubik's Cube calculator has been directly put into use and has been verified to be the correct algorithm.

This algorithm is very valued by the computer industry, and even many people in the International Association for Computing Machinery are concerned about the upcoming papers, and when they learned that Carmanny was in charge of reviewing, many people even called to urge, which almost is, "Hurry up and review the manuscript!"

Kamani was feeling the pressure.

During the review process, Kamani was drawn to the content.

Most simplification algorithms use mathematical 'group theory' or other mathematical methods to eliminate repetitiveness and simplify data, and there are also 'carry filtering methods', but when it comes to 'imaginable computational orders of magnitude', it becomes extremely difficult to perform simple filtering.

The 'effective and irrelevant carry screening method' gives Carmani a sense of clearing the clouds and screening out the 'harmful' steps, which is obviously much easier than the 'favorable'.

Some of the algorithms and conclusions in the 'screening method', the formulas and theorems used in the proof process are not profound, and most of them are very simple and definite formulas, which make the conclusions more certain.

Kamani was fascinated by it.

'Effective and irrelevant carry screening method', there is always some shortcut, it is not easy to understand the proof process, and it is even more difficult to fully understand.

Professor Liu has been discussing algorithms with Zhao Yi, and decided to come to Zheng Yang and Zhao Yi to communicate face-to-face.

Others just look at the paper and feel it and think about it.

Kamani looked at it carefully for a morning, and simply didn't go to the review, and directly gave the 'review passed'.

Review, you don't have to fully understand it.

Most academic papers do not need to understand the content at all, because the world's cutting-edge research is difficult to understand, and the most important thing in reviewing is to ensure that the manuscript meets the standards and is eligible for publication in journals.

After giving the 'review' a 'review', Kamani remembered his work.

She's a professor at Oxford!

She immediately called the Oxford University Admissions Department, "Do you know the maker of the Rubik's Cube calculator? That Chinese high school student, Zhao Yi, I got his paper." ”

"If you want to miss out on a future Turing Award winner, stay in the office and drink tea!"