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Chapter 306 The Upgraded Shimmer
After the code upgrade, "Shimmer" was directly upgraded from version 0.1 to LV1, and Qin Ke started to test it with great interest.

In the virtual world, Qin Ke doesn't have to worry about being heard by others, so he directly talks to "Shimmer (virtual)" by voice.

"Shimmer, are you awake?"

After the upgrade, Shimmer, who took over the hardware authority of the laptop again, responded immediately: "Master, Shimmer has woken up, and I feel like I've suddenly been 'enlightened' and become smarter."

After the upgrade, the shimmer has a bit of the level and ups and downs of human conversations when speaking. It is no longer like the mechanical voice that reads lines coldly like in v0.1, and even uses anthropomorphic feelings such as "feeling" and "like". And words like "enlightenment".

Of course, this does not mean that it has real self-learning ability or self-awareness, and it can only learn within the "learning rules" formulated by Qin Ke.

Because it still lacks the most critical ability to judge "information entropy"-that is, to actively judge which information is useful from countless information, so as to learn and imitate.

From this point of view, LV1's Shimmer is still at a relatively low-level artificial intelligence stage, even inferior to human toddlers. After all, toddlers have the ability to process "information entropy" and can analyze and imitate the speech and behavior of their parents and people around them. study.

It is estimated that in order for Shimmer to truly have the ability to process "information entropy", at least it must be upgraded to LV2 or even higher.

However, Qin Ke himself added thousands of lines of code in this upgrade operation of Shimmer.These codes were figured out by Qin Ke himself, and are not included in the 30 lines of LV1 artificial intelligence codes provided by the system.

There is only one function of these thousands of lines of code, which is to enable Shimmer to learn and imitate human logic and way of thinking through specific man-machine dialogue, making it more and more "humanized".

Qin Ke only intends to open up this "specific" conversation authority to himself, Ning Qingyun, and his younger sister Qin Xiaoke. He has already written the interface, and he only needs to add "Xiguang" as a friend on WeChat on his mobile phone, and he can directly communicate through WeChat. Talk to it.

Qin Ke tested some functions again, and was generally satisfied with the low light of LV1. At least it looks like artificial intelligence, which can actively analyze and judge the needs of the owner, and learn the usage habits of the owner, so as to improve the operation of the computer by the owner. From this point of view, Weiguang has greatly surpassed Siri or Xiaoai. As the core mastermind of the Lime operating system, it is qualified.

Qin Ke continued to test the most important "code expansion ability" of Shimmer.

"Shimmer, try to analyze the computer hardware configuration of the fruit notebook next to it, analyze and reconstruct the driver, and write a small hardware driver module suitable for it."

"Got it, Shimmer is going to work now, master please wait."

With the dim light entering the working state, the fan of the notebook computer immediately started to spin crazily, and the CPU utilization rate was close to 100% in an instant.

From the interface of code execution monitoring function in the background, Qin Ke can see that lines of code are being executed at a speed that is difficult to distinguish with the naked eye, and the window on the right has just displayed a detailed explanation of the progress of the operation that Shimmer is executing.

Qin Ke observed for a while, yes, Shimmer is working according to the "rules" of the KEY module.

The hardware management module of the Lime operating system is mainly composed of the "KEY" core module that formulates rules, and small driver modules for various types of hardware.

The "KEY" core module formulates the rules on how to discover, add, delete, and use hardware devices, and how to combine small driver modules. At the same time, it is also a tool for Vivolight to manage computer hardware resources and perform Reasonable scheduling and allocation.

Now Shimmer follows the process written by Qin Ke and writes the code according to the rules of the "KEY" core module.

It first analyzes the fruit notebook next to Ning Qingjun's fruit notebook that "reappears" in this virtual world, obtains the model information of its hardware, and then automatically downloads the corresponding driver from the Internet for analysis, and then press The code rules of the "KEY" module are refactored and written to generate the most concise and efficient hardware driver module, and then "glued" to the "KEY" module.

——For different hardware, the small driver module is naturally different, but as long as Shimmer writes a small driver module for all computer hardware on the market, you can freely choose the small driver module assembly according to the situation of different computers .

Qin Ke observed for a while and found that the current LV1 version of Shimmer's code analysis and reconstruction capabilities are not strong. On the one hand, the level of Shimmer is low and the processing power is limited, and on the other hand, it is limited by the performance of the notebook.

Yes, although Qin Ke bought a 5 yuan high-end notebook computer, but at this time it is still the main bottleneck restricting the low-light performance, making the low-light performance unable to perform at its best.

After looking at it for a while, Qin Ke estimated that it would take about three hours for Xiaoguang to complete the development and writing of the small hardware driver management module of the Fruit Notebook.

The efficiency is indeed a bit low, but the good news is that there is no error reported in the whole process.

Qin Ke thought for a while, and directly increased the time flow rate of the "Artificial Intelligence Research Laboratory" by a thousand times, and soon he saw a dim light indicating that the code compilation had been completed.

Correspondingly, the laptop is terribly hot, and the wind from the cooling vent can burn the skin.The fact that the CPU of the notebook computer did not burn out due to overload has proved that Shimmer's ability to manage, schedule and control the hardware is really good.

Qin Ke shook his head speechlessly. It seemed that he had to find a way to buy a server with the highest performance for Shimmer. If his laptop was played by it like this, it would soon be scrapped.

After speeding up the time flow again to cool down the laptop, Qin Ke personally checked the code written by Shimmer.

The code written by Shimmer is not as good as what he wrote himself. The execution efficiency is not high enough, and the code is not concise enough, but it is already higher than [-]% of the programmers in the world. The key is that Qin Ke didn't find any mistakes. that's enough.

Moreover, the so-called execution efficiency is not high enough, that is, the execution time has not been reduced from 0.008 seconds to 0.007 seconds, which is completely negligible for computer users. In the future, the upgrade of Shimmer should further improve the ability to write code.

Qin Ke tried to install Windows, Linux, macOS, Android, and IOS applications on the Lime operating system. "Shimmer" immediately used the deconstruction and reconstruction tool, and all these programs across different versions of the system were decomposed by Shimmer It is a small module one by one and installed successfully.

I tested the startup and running speed of several common applications, and they are faster than in the original operating system.

nice!
Qin Ke was a little excited.

The most important thing about an operating system is the application ecology, that is to say, how many applications it can support. In terms of compatibility alone, Lime OS can kill all operating systems on the market in seconds.

Just because it is compatible with all applications, it is not necessary to force programmers to modify their programming habits. They can use whatever programming language they like. This will undoubtedly get the most critical upstream "programmers" and downstream "users" in the application ecology. ", as for the midstream "manufacturers", it is easier to win, and even the main profit point is on them.

Qin Ke's Lime operating system is planned to be free for personal non-commercial use. With the user, he has the right to speak. "Manufacturers" can only use the Lime operation legally in their computers by bowing their heads and paying the copyright fee honestly. system.

Qin Ke only needs to set the copyright fee at a low level, not afraid that "manufacturers" will not rush to use the Lime operating system.

Thinking about it this way, it is estimated that the task of 500 million installed capacity of the system will not be too difficult to complete.

After thinking about it, Qin Ke re-copied the code of the operating system, modified and optimized it, and then packaged it into a V1.0 version of the Lime operating system installation package.

In this Lime operating system V1.0 version, the artificial intelligence that plays a central role is named "Xiaoqing" (the default name, which can be renamed by the new owner of the operating system).

"Xiaoqing" basically has most of the functions of the current "Shimmer", the difference is that it does not have the ability to write codes, nor does it have the extra thousands of lines of "promoting humanization" code added by Qin Ke.

This is naturally to simplify the size of the operating system, otherwise it will have a huge cluster of small modules like "Shimmer", and this new modular operating system will lose its meaning.

In addition, in order to save computing resources and improve the smooth experience of use, even the top 5 yuan laptop like Qin Ke, "Shimmer" is almost useless when writing code, let alone ordinary computers for most people. .

Under the brand-new modular architecture, the "Xiaoqing" of major PC terminals can search for any small modules they need from the "Small Module Warehouse" of "Shimmer", and download and use them directly if they are not. If so, send the requirements to "Wi-Light", which will write the code on the server side, store it in the module library and send it out.

It took Qin Ke half a night to complete the code modification of the V1.0 version of the operating system, and then use his notebook as the "core server" to store all the small modules, and finally installed and tested it on the fruit notebook.

The v1.0 version of the Lime operating system is still very fast to install. The installation is completed in less than 2 minutes, and the core of the operating system "Xiaoqing" runs automatically. In the notebook, I downloaded the small fruit notebook driver module that was written not long ago, and then uninstalled and deleted the slightly bloated universal network card driver module.

The whole process is executed independently, which is transparent to users. They only see about two and a half minutes before the operating system is completely installed and restarted, and it is much more convenient to use than ordinary operating systems.

Qin Ke also tested gesture control, lip language control, extremely fast writing control, and voice control, all of which worked smoothly.

(End of this chapter)