The End of Technology

Dou Liaozhen feels like a standard programmer, although he is higher-end than most programmers in the world.

For example, he is not good at words and is slightly autistic. He is really autistic, not the kind who likes to make others autistic. Especially when chatting face to face, I am not very good at finding topics. But he is still quite active on the Internet, often showing a side that is different from reality, and can even be very aggressive.

I have never won an argument with Ning Zi, so naturally I am talking about communication on the Internet.

In fact, Dou Liaozhen has never met Ning Zi in real life, and it will be the first time later. After all, both of them have varying degrees of social anxiety symptoms. As we all know, patients with sociophobia generally do not like to leave their comfort zone and communicate on other people's territory.

If he hadn't celebrated the official launch of the N1 humanoid robot prototype this time, he wouldn't have come to the capital from Shenzhen to meet Ning Zi.

Of course, for Dou Liozhen, the most important thing this time is to take a look at the prototype, instead of just interacting with the N1 through the Internet and videos as before.

To use a favorite metaphor, the N1 humanoid robot is also like his child.

From a toddler to now, he is not only able to adapt to complex movements, but also has the ability to work in complex terrain. It is also inseparable from his time and again modifying various algorithms and fine-tuning various hardware and software.

Of course, he was not the only one who contributed.

In fact, many of the key issues were brought to him by Ning Zi, which was why Dou Liao was really unwilling to argue with Ning Zi. Some things can't be compared.

Ning Zi can solve the problems that he can solve, and it seems that the problems that he can't solve can be solved by this side. Although he doesn't say it, Dou Liao Zhen feels frustrated in his heart the more times he does it. The specific manifestation is that once the two parties argue about a certain technical issue, although they speak hard, they also wonder whether they are wrong in their hearts.

Of course, it turned out that when he argued with Ning Zi online, he was wrong most of the time. But the tone of people who are arrogant and arrogant is accumulated there. I just hope that one day I can get my place back.

It's just that this place has not been recovered yet, so I can only choose not to fight for the time being.

It's a pity that what Dou Liao really doesn't know is that there was once a professor at Harvard University, Dominique Duncan, who was also queuing up to win against Ning Zi, but so far he has not succeeded. If he knew, he might be able to compete with Domi Nite became a good friend. Let’s talk about our frustrations together.

Many times the tragedy of geniuses is that there is a more outstanding person in the same era who always overwhelms them, making their achievements less impressive.

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Passing through the Space Academy is the large test building in a row.

This is also the most famous laboratory incubation base of the University.

Every year, young and promising professors and researchers from all over the world are absorbed into this system. They have their own laboratories in buildings, and they upgrade their laboratories by accepting tasks issued by the base. This is one of the reasons why the base can always maintain its scientific research competitiveness.

Earning lab credits is extremely useful for these researchers. Especially for young scientists who have not yet had time to become famous in academia, they can exchange points for everything they can think of.

The latest equipment and even the future.

Of course, this requires them to devote almost all their energy to the task at hand. Even if you are tutoring graduate students, you have to work hard. After all, only with qualified assistants can you get twice the result with half the effort.

When passing by here, Ge Dongshu didn't chat with Dou Liozhen, but just sighed silently in his heart.

To be honest, seeing these rows of experimental buildings, Ge Dongshu admired Ning Zi's management ability.

It can manage so many arrogant bosses in an orderly manner, allow hundreds of laboratories to compete in an orderly manner, promote and merge every year, and allow these laboratories to work according to their ideas. , In the view of Ge Dongshu, who has done a lot of management work, this difficulty is no easier than doing scientific research, or even more difficult.

This requires very careful coordination to ensure that resources are allocated in the most efficient manner.

Even large companies like Youwei Group cannot do this. Not to mention that the large R\u0026D base does not put profits as its top priority, and it is difficult to define KPIs for scientific research, so it is naturally even more difficult.

Therefore, Ge Dongshu really admires Ning Zi's ability to manage such a huge base in an orderly manner, and the efficiency of various projects is even higher than that of Youwei Group.

The final conclusion is that if Ning Jue did not do scientific research, he could probably be at the top of the world as a business enterprise. After all, it can be judged from the results alone that maintaining the management model of the entire base is even an art. Ge Dongshu really wanted to learn from Ning Zi, and he talked to Ning Zi on the phone more than once, hoping to learn from the management experience here, but Ning Zi rejected him.

Ning Zi told Ge Dongshu that he didn't understand management at all, but Ge Dongshu wouldn't believe it to death.

Of course, Ge Dongshu also has an in-depth understanding of the management model of large-scale R\u0026D bases in TiDa, and he also roughly understands that the requirements for the smooth operation of this management model are extremely demanding, such as having a huge amount of funds as backing, because only sufficient capital inflow can meet such requirements. Many scientists are hungry for key equipment.

In addition, the base must have an absolute core figure who can speak for itself. In particular, this core figure must be trusted and admired by all arrogant scientists. Because of the existence of such a core figure, these scientists can believe that as long as they complete their tasks and make achievements according to the rules of the base, they will have enough resources to help them gain their due status in the future.

This is also extremely important.

The pursuits of scientists as a group are often different from those of ordinary people. Financial incentives alone are not enough. Even many people just want enough money, and what they want more is to get all kinds of fame. It just so happens that Ning Zi has this ability. And it’s still recognized.

Of course, it ultimately depends on the ability to allocate various resources and plan. Hundreds of laboratories managed by individuals must cooperate with each other to achieve a goal. How to allocate work to achieve maximum efficiency is definitely a worldwide problem.

This is what Ge Dongshu admires most.

Facts have proven that Ning Zi's ability in this area can easily defeat the world's most powerful management masters.

On this point, the Wei Group has the most say.

Because the two parties have a cooperative relationship, the two parties will regularly report to each other the progress of various robot research projects. This base provides very detailed information to Youwei Group. Which laboratory or laboratories conduct which cooperation each week, what achievements they make, and which level of robotics engineering development they promote are all clearly stated in the notification documents.

If you study these reports carefully, you will find that these hundreds of laboratories seem to be Ning Ju's left and right arms. Each laboratory number has been assigned different tasks according to its own characteristics, and the achievements it has made can just promote the project. orderly development.

This ability is what Ge Dongshu wants most.

Think about it, if Youwei Group can also design this model, establish a scientific research base, have so many personal laboratories, and have a baton to allow these laboratories to do what they need in accordance with the group's development intentions. results, how terrifying can the group’s development speed be?

But this Ge Dongshu really didn't dare to learn, let alone promote it in the group.

Because he knows very well that if he really follows Ning Zi's approach, there is a high probability that resources will end up being wasted crazily, because he will eventually fall into a vicious cycle of extensive management, and the waste of repetitive research on various important projects will eat up all his resources. Good intentions. No amount of resources is enough to waste.

So he could only look at the dozen or so large research buildings outside the car window with admiration, and then sighed silently in his heart...

Why can’t Mr. Ning share this management system with Youwei?

A miracle in management is wasted.

Fortunately, the car drove past the private experimental building area and entered a lush garden.

Ge Dongshu was lucky enough to have been here once before, so he naturally knew that this was actually the core of the entire base. Most laboratories and factories are designed underground, so there are no large buildings on the surface. There are only some two to three-story buildings with different functions dotted in the green belt.

Of course, if the car wants to drive into the core area, it still needs to go through security check again.

However, the final security check was of a tight inside and loose outside type. The specific manifestation was that he could directly use the software sent to him by the base to scan the code to open the gate and enter the core area. Although there are no guard booths at the entrance and exit of the gate, and no security guards can be seen, based on Ge Dongshu's experience, if the code scanning step is wrong, the problem will probably be serious.

Because Ning Zi rarely explained procedural security matters to him very carefully, but when she told him to scan the QR code to pass through the core area gate, she explained it very seriously.

Fortunately, everything went smoothly. After opening the software and scanning a strange pattern generated on the electronic screen at the gate, the gate opened directly. It looks no different from the gate for vehicles entering and exiting the community. It is even worse than the gate at the entrance of the community. It does not even have an intelligent license plate recognition. Bad review.

Of course, the people in the car won't complain about this.

The fact that you are invited to be here is already a great honor for many people.

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Passing through the gate is the core area.

The late autumn weather didn't seem to affect the place. The entire park was covered with lush trees, and the two-lane road seemed quite quiet.

The car drove forward for about two hundred meters and there was a small parking lot at the end of the road.

There are already more than a dozen cars parked in the small parking lot with more than 20 parking spaces. Just by looking at the license plates, you can tell that the people who can park the cars must be big shots.

Ge Dongshu finally saw a living person in the base, an acquaintance.

The acquaintance stood there waving and signaled the driver to park the car in the parking space, and then took the initiative to help Ge Dongshu open the door.

"Mr. Ge, I haven't seen you for a long time. Hello, hello." As soon as we got off the car, the person guarding the parking lot greeted him warmly.

"Director Zhuo, you are too polite." After getting out of the car, Ge Dongshu also greeted his acquaintance warmly.

Ge Dongshu was actually quite impressed by Zhuo Mingqian.

After all, he had met this young man when he first met Ning She. At that time, he felt that this young man would achieve success in the future, and now it has indeed confirmed his judgment at that time.

Although there are several deputy directors in this R\u0026D base, Zhuo Mingqian is definitely the one who speaks with the most weight among all the deputy directors. He made the final decision on many things and was deeply trusted by Ning Zi.

It is said that even the newly reported Nobel Prize winners must first pass the young man in front of them.

Because everyone's careful verification report is written by Zhuo Mingqian, Zhuo Mingqian has the final say to a large extent which positions scientists can be assigned to and what level of confidentiality they can reach. This is in the base But real authority.

After all, you can participate in any level of research as long as the confidentiality level reaches it. For example, if you want to take a look at the negative quality material processing workshop, the confidentiality level required is extremely high. If you want to know the specific manufacturing process, Director Zhuo will have to take the time to check the details of the whole family.

One can imagine what kind of existence Zhuo Mingqian is on this three-acre land of the base.

"Haha, Mr. Ge, our Dean Ning knew that you were coming, but he has been waiting for you. Hey... this is Mr. Dou. This is a real person. I'm afraid you don't know Mr. Dou? You write The algorithm is so admired by all the software engineers here! For a while, everyone was counting on the code you submitted to survive. Today I saw it with my own eyes. It is indeed a talent, a talent! No wonder you can write such wonderful things. code!”

The enthusiastic Zhuo Mingqian held Dou Liaozhen's hands with both hands and kept shaking them, which made Dou Liaozhen, who had just got off the car, feel that he could not find his way.

Dou Liozhen, who usually only dealt with those nerdy technicians in Youwei, had never seen such a battle. For a moment, he was even a little embarrassed by the praise, and he felt full of affection for the sunny young man in front of him.

"Director Zhuo, thank you, thank you!"

"Hey, Mr. Dou, please don't be humble. Your ability has been personally certified by our Dean Ning. Our Dean Ning rarely praises others. I'm not bragging in our base. Don't say anything. There are as many academicians as there are Nobel Prizes and Turing Awards. We, Dean Ning, have not even praised a few of them, but we, Dean Ning, have praised them by name.

Otherwise, why would I wait here? On the one hand, I want to welcome Mr. Ge, but more importantly, I want to see and meet the algorithm boss who has been named and praised by our Dean Ning for the first time! Our robot project can achieve results so quickly, but it is inseparable from your efforts. I have to have a drink with you today, and I have to give you face when the time comes. "

"Uh...really, did your Dean Ning praise me? What did he praise me for?" Dou Liaozhen asked curiously.

"Our Dean Ning said it himself, Mr. Dou, you are only a little bit close to catching up with him."

Dou Liao looked at Zhuo Mingqian seriously and blinked... For a moment, his mood was so complicated that he didn't know how to describe his feelings at this time...