Chapter One Hundred and Ninety-Nine Senior Brother Returning Home
For Li Mengyao, she saw everyone's concern for her. What surprised her a little was that Lili also joined in.
Li Mengyao and Liu Lili didn't have a close relationship, and they didn't communicate much, so Li Mengyao guessed that the reason why Lili helped her was because of Zhao Shiyan's relationship.
But no matter what, Li Mengyao silently accepted Lili's kindness. Although her approach was relatively tough, Li Mengyao didn't hate it.
During these nearly two weeks, Lingzhi and the three of them fended off some people who wanted Li Mengyao to be her sparring partner.
Of course, not everyone will be blocked. There are some girls from nearby universities who occasionally come to Xingyu to play ball. They sometimes come together to ask Li Mengyao for advice on ball skills, and Li Mengyao is naturally willing to teach them.
In this way, Li Mengyao spent a relatively relaxed two weeks.
In the past, she didn't want to cause trouble to Lexus and the others, so she wouldn't complain to them about how tired she was from work, because she was already satisfied with a job in hand.
And now, it is also a good thing to accept the care of good friends.
She didn't pretend that she didn't need them to come to Xingyu to practice football, because she knew that next semester, Ling Zhi and Zhao Shiyan would leave Huacheng and go to Pengcheng for internship.
By that time, it may be difficult to see them again.
In this case, it is better to seize the present moment, and as for the future things... let's think about it slowly later.
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Three days before the start of the Huacheng City Chinese Billiards Citizen Cup, a rare visitor came to the laboratory where Lexus was working.
"Everyone, please pay attention. This is your senior brother who graduated before, Guo Chengyu. He came here specifically to see me today and also communicate with you. You should seize the opportunity."
Wang Haibo brought Guo Chengyu to the laboratory and greeted everyone.
"Hello, senior brother!"
"Where does senior brother work now?"
"..."
Everyone in the laboratory seemed very enthusiastic and gathered around Guo Chengyu to ask questions. Wang Haibo was very satisfied with everyone's enthusiasm. He temporarily returned to the office, leaving Guo Chengyu to communicate with everyone.
"I am currently working in the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory of Xiangyi Technology Co., Ltd., mainly doing research on intelligent transportation. Is anyone doing research in this direction?"
"Um, senior brother, we don't do intelligent transportation here."
"Then what direction are you in?"
"..."
Everyone introduced their research directions to the senior brother one after another, but no one knew who interjected in the middle:
"By the way, hasn't Lexus been working on intelligent transportation recently?"
Guo Chengyu said with interest:
"Ling Zhi? Who is he? Isn't he here?"
Hearing this, everyone all looked in the direction of Ling Zhi. Ling Zhi was seen sitting alone in his seat reading the paper, and did not come to join in the fun.
"Hmm? Is he busy?"
Guo Chengyu said doubtfully.
"No...not really."
"It's okay. Everyone is busy with their own business. I'll talk to him alone."
After that, he walked through the crowd and sat next to Ling Zhi.
"What's going on with Lingzhi today? He didn't come to join in the fun even when the senior brother came?"
"I don't know, he usually doesn't get along with others, so it's normal that he doesn't come to join in the fun."
After chatting, everyone sat back in their seats.
"Um, your name is Lexus, right? They said you work in intelligent transportation?"
Seeing Guo Chengyu sitting next to him, Ling Zhi replied honestly:
"Oh, hello, senior brother. Strictly speaking, I haven't done intelligent transportation yet. I've just been reading articles on the application of reinforcement learning methods in the field of intelligent transportation recently."
"Reinforcement learning? I have never heard of using reinforcement learning for intelligent transportation. Our company mainly does traffic light timing and license plate recognition. What specific application are you doing?"
"Well, senior brother, I told you that I haven't started working on it yet. What I've been reading recently is a paper on traffic light control."
"Signal light control? Is anyone studying this? It shouldn't be possible. It would be great if the current traffic lights can be independently timed. Can they also be controlled independently?"
"It's definitely not possible at the moment, but..."
"If you can't do it, why are you still studying it? Isn't it more meaningful not to study something else?"
Ling Zhi's heart sank, this senior brother didn't seem to be easy to get along with.
There is naturally a difference between what is studied in academia and industry. Things done in academia may not be used by industry for a long time in the future, but this does not mean that what is done in academia is useless.
It stands to reason that the senior brother graduated under Director Wang, so he should not understand this. So it is very strange that he said that what he read was meaningless.
"Senior brother, it's not meaningless if you can't do it. By the way, what was your research direction when you were working under Teacher Wang?"
Ling Zhi changed the topic in time, not wanting to have any conflict with his senior brother in this regard.
"Oh, me, I do multi-objective optimization. Director Wang is already good at it. You should know that."
"Oh, I know this. Did senior brother publish any papers before?"
"..."
"It's okay, senior brother, I'm just asking casually. It doesn't matter if it's not convenient for you to say."
"No, when I graduated, the conditions for graduation were relatively loose. I only had to issue a patent."
"That's it, I understand."
Ling Zhi and Guo Chengyu tacitly did not continue on this topic.
And since Guo Chengyu's direction is multi-objective optimization, he naturally did not continue in this direction after graduation. Therefore, whether what he did while studying was "meaningful" should be questioned.
However, Guo Chengyu is his senior brother after all, so Ling Zhi will naturally not hold on to this and embarrass his senior brother.
Guo Chengyu seemed to be aware of this. He stopped asking whether what Lexus was researching was meaningful, and began to talk about his specific research experience in the company. At the end of the talk, he concluded:
"In short, the signal timing and license plate recognition done by our company have been planned to be used in Huicheng's traffic super-brain, which is expected to reduce the average vehicle waiting time by 14%."
"That's really excellent. Congratulations, senior brother. Having said that, after senior brother just introduced so much, I'm still very confused, what kind of technology is used to realize the timing of our signal lights?"
"Well, it's just some of the more traditional methods. You know the green wave belt, which is to set the phase period of the green wave belt based on experience..."
Guo Chengyu talked a lot, and Ling Zhi seemed to understand a lot, but he did understand one word:
"experience".
After working on it for a long time, you still set the signal phase duration through experience, right? No key algorithms and technologies were used. No wonder you said my research was meaningless.
However, Lexus does not think this is bad. In fact, in the field of transportation, experience has always been better than technology.
Compared with technical black boxes, the traffic police obviously trust their many years of experience at intersections, which cannot be completely replaced by existing technology.
But having said that, it is true that the content of research in industry is indeed very different from that in academia. It is not clear whether there is a chain of contempt. If there is, it is not clear who should despise whom.
Naturally, Ling Zhi would not sit idle and stand on the chain of contempt. He simply said some polite words to his senior brother and did not ask any further questions.
Time soon came to noon, and Ling Zhi, who had never had lunch with everyone in the past, rarely joined the group at Guo Chengyu's invitation.
On the way to the canteen, Guo Chengyu lamented the changes on campus in recent years. Suddenly he changed the topic and mentioned another thing to Ling Zhi:
"Actually, I came here this time to discuss a vertical project with Teacher Wang, related to the transportation field."
"Vertical project? Is it a national key R&D plan?"
Ling Zhi felt very confused. Why are you talking to Director Wang about applying for a project? Why are you talking to me?
"It's not a national-level project. I don't dare to think about that. It's a provincial fund project. I want Huacheng University to be the lead unit, Director Wang to be the project leader, and Xiangyi to be the participating unit, and the two of us will jointly work on a big project.
come out."
Hearing what he said, Ling Zhi felt even more confused.
Ordinarily, the provincial fund does not have much money for a project. If you apply for a project independently, you probably won’t have enough money to spend, let alone if you apply for a project jointly with Huada.
Is it possible that you are afraid that your own company will not be able to get a provincial fund, so you have to join forces with Director Wang to get it?
This is too outrageous! A unit is not even confident in winning provincial funds? Then the scientific research level of your artificial intelligence laboratory is also questionable.
Just as he was thinking about it, Guo Chengyu continued to talk about his plan:
"So I want to ask you, are you willing to help me contribute to this project? After all, our laboratory is in the field of intelligent transportation, and you are the most familiar with it."
Ling Zhi is not a fool. Although his senior brother seems to trust him very much, in the laboratory, only the topics he is doing are related to intelligent transportation. Now that his senior brother allows him to contribute, it means that most things related to this project will be done in the future.
Put it on your head.
As for Director Wang, Ling Zhi guessed that Director Wang would not necessarily want to cooperate with Senior Brother Guo, but for the sake of appearance, he would still push for this matter, but he would not be particularly active.
So in the end, if I actively participate in the project, it is very likely that in the end the project funds will be taken by Director Wang, but I will end up with a broken leg on behalf of Director Wang.
Of course, I will definitely be able to get labor fees when the time comes, but how much I can get is not up to me.
So Ling Zhi thought about it and replied:
"Thank you for your trust in me, senior brother. In the field of intelligent transportation, I am only in the beginning stage. Although I have participated in some things when Mr. Wang applied for the project, if I were asked to shoulder the burden of a project alone, I think I would still
The ability is not enough, so..."
"That's it, I understand, I understand."
Seeing Ling Zhi hesitate to speak, Guo Chengyu understood what Ling Zhi wanted to say. He nodded slightly, not knowing exactly what he was thinking.
When they arrived at the canteen, everyone was preparing to go to the first floor to get food. However, Guo Chengyu, who was hanging at the end of the team, saw so many people inside and wanted to quit:
"I haven't been to school for several years. As a result, there are so many more students?"
Seeing that everyone had entered the canteen and lined up, Ling Zhi, who was accompanying Guo Chengyu, had no choice but to explain:
"It's mainly during the peak period of classes, so students are all crowded here. However, a new staff restaurant has been opened on the second floor recently. There are fewer people, but we are not teachers, so..."
"Oh? There are few people on the second floor? Then take me to the second floor to eat. I'm almost hungry. We usually eat quite early."
Guo Chengyu consciously ignored some words and only picked up the words that interested him.
"Um, senior brother, but only teachers on the second floor can..."
"Hey, why are you so stubborn? If you go to the second floor to eat, are they asking you to show your ID? Come on, let's go, don't waste time!"
Ling Zhi had no choice but to take Guo Chengyu to the second floor.
When they arrived on the second floor, there were not many people there, and the two of them had a smooth meal. No one cared whether they were teachers or not, but Ling Zhi still felt very uncomfortable among the teachers in formal attire.
But Guo Chengyu didn't seem to think so. When he was chatting with Ling Zhi while eating, Ling Zhi had no choice but to nod at him.
In the afternoon, the two returned to the laboratory. Guo Chengyu said goodbye to Ling Zhi and walked to Wang Haibo's office.
"Director Wang, I had a good chat with them. You have recruited many good students in the past few years, haha."
"Well, as long as you have a good chat with them. By the way, I asked you to find candidates. How is your search going?"
"Oh, I think Lexus is pretty good. He has his own insights in the field of intelligent transportation. I think he should be very reliable."
"Okay, then it's settled. Let Lingzhi handle the specific application work for this provincial fund with you. It's just a good opportunity to train him."