Cultivate a black technology god

Chapter 2 Looking for foreign aid

After Xia Zhi understood what was going on, he began to think about how to collect the [-] mission points needed for system help.

The first variable is time, which is easy to understand. It has taken a total of 18 hours since he received this task until now.

The second variable, energy, is also easy to understand, but Xia Zhi doesn't quite understand how the following numbers are calculated.

Anyway, it is linked to the mental and physical expenditure he put into this task.

The third variable is better understood, investing money.

Now it is zero, which means that Xia Zhi didn't spend a dime to solve this problem.

Xia Zhi saw the coffee on the table and thought to himself, if the two cups of coffee just now were treated by himself, then the financial investment should be counted, right?
Thinking of this, he immediately sent a 50 yuan red envelope to Wen Fang, specifically stating that it was the money for the coffee just now.

Not surprisingly, the capital investment number on the system panel changed to 30.

And the task point is still 13 points.

It seems that the unit of this capital investment is not yuan, and the weight it occupies is not high, and it is not decisive for the final mission point.

The fourth variable is external assistance, which Xia Zhi understands as support from others.

If colleagues help themselves to solve this problem today, this number will not be zero.

Four variables are involved in the calculation, with different weights, and finally a task point is coordinated.

It's only 13 o'clock now.

It's a bit too much from the [-] points required by the system.

In order to make up these one hundred points, the weight parameters of the calculation formula remain unchanged, so we can only make up for it from the variables.

The faster the time, the better.

In terms of energy, Xia Zhi was almost at his limit. He was already staying up late and couldn't think of how else to squeeze out his energy.

Money is easy to manage. Xia Zhi thought of buying a 3080 to run this model. The small investment of [-] yuan will definitely increase the number of variables.

But thinking of buying it now, it will have to arrive tomorrow at the soonest, and the time is too late.

Xia Zhi then thought that he could rent Alibaba Cloud and use the cloud server with the highest configuration to run the model.

The rent is not cheap, even the monthly card for preferential users needs more than 400 yuan.

After buying a graphics card, you can still play games and work. When the graphics card trend picks up again, you may still make some money by selling it. This cloud server will be useless once it is used up. It is really a loss in total.

But Xia Zhi was cruel and bought it!
After activating the cloud server, he uploaded the code and started debugging.

At this time, he called up the system interface and found that the item of money investment had changed from 30 to 1877 points.

What is exciting is that the task points also jumped to 57 points.

It's halfway through.

Xia Zhi did some calculations and realized that the investment in coffee is not as important as the investment in cloud servers.

In addition, I invested 400 yuan, and the task points changed from 13 points to 57 points, an extra 44 points.

If you invest another 400 yuan, add 44 points.

You can achieve the points required for the mission.

He gritted his teeth and renewed his account for another month.

At this time, the task point on the system panel changed to 68 points.

"What's going on? Didn't I calculate that?"

Xia Zhi scratched his head and saw that the capital investment had changed from 1877 points just now to 2100 points.

"Why is this capital investment so dilutive?"

Even if he doesn't understand mathematical formulas, Xia Zhi has played online games before, and he knows that when he piles up an attribute point, when the threshold is reached, the ratio of investment and income will decrease.

At this time, Xia Zhi discovered that the time had changed to 19 hours.

The energy investment has increased from more than 300 to [-].

The task point came to 72 points.

"Come on, come on."

Xia Zhi looked at the last variable, external assistance.

He thought for a while, and finally dialed the number of his college roommate:
"Hello? Qiangzi, are you in bed? Why don't you go to bed so early, come to my place to have fun, I bought beer and barbecue, and three duck heads."

The Qiangzi over there is a classmate of Xia Zhi's at university, named Zhang Wenqiang. After graduation, he went to Jinling University of Science and Technology to study as a graduate student, not far from where Xia Zhi lives.

As soon as Zhang Wenqiang heard about the good news, he lost sleepiness, put on his trousers and left the dormitory, hailed a taxi and rushed to Xia Zhi's rental room.

Xia Zhi notified Zhang Wenqiang, and he packed his things and rushed home.

I happened to meet Zhang Wenqiang at the gate of the community.

Zhang Wenqiang looked at Xia Zhi's bag and asked:

"What do you mean, are you going out to buy food again? Why are you being polite to me?"

Xia Zhi patted the backpack containing the computer, and said with a smile:

"You're welcome."

Arriving at Xia Zhi's rental house, Zhang Wenqiang was dumbfounded.

There is no barbecue beer. The girl who promised it has changed into a duck head, which is still the leftover one from last night.

It turned out that this guy actually asked him to stay up late and fix bugs together.

"Damn Xia Zhi, you are shameless!" Before Zhang Wenqiang could yell out, Xia Zhi covered his mouth:

"Keep down, it's so late, my roommate is asleep, don't disturb others."

There are two other people sharing the apartment with Xia Zhi, a man and a woman, living in the other two rooms.

Zhang Wenqiang is still angry:
"You called me in the middle of the night to help you fix bugs, so you don't feel like you're disturbing my rest?"

Xia Zhihehe picked up the keyboard on the table and said:

"Haven't you already fallen in love with my keyboard? After you help me correct this bug, I will lend you this keyboard for a month."

"Three months! Go buy me some food and a pack of cigarettes." Zhang Wenqiang bargained with Xia Zhi.

"Two months, I'm going to buy it now, I can't smoke here."

"make a deal."

Zhang Wenqiang sat down and studied with Xia Zhi.

Xia Zhi and Zhang Wenqiang briefly explained the interface parameters and the problematic model.

"You are a graduate student, you should know this machine learning model?"

"Pediatrics."

Zhang Wenqiang seemed very confident and started debugging.

After Xia Zhi finished speaking, he opened the door and went out.

On the way, he saw on the system panel that the external assistance had jumped to 148 points, and it was still increasing.

The corresponding task point has moved from 72 points to 79 points.

"This kid is amazing."

Xia Zhi bought a barbecue worth more than 80 yuan and two bottles of Sprite, but not beer. He was worried that Zhang Wenqiang would not be able to work after drinking.

In the supermarket, I brought him another pack of regular cigarettes.

A total of more than 100 yuan was spent.

Back at the rental house, the two ate while studying bugs.

Zhang Wenqiang said vaguely:

"There is a problem with using this model here. Which parameters are you stupidly adjusting?"

Xia Zhi scolded:

"It must be me, otherwise this bug will be my turn? I think you are just cursing me in a roundabout way."

Zhang Wenqiang added:
"This bug is because the model has ambiguity in character escaping on Windows and Linux. The way I think of it is to reprocess the data on the model parameter."

Xia Zhi thought of something and said:

"Then the speed has to slow down a lot?"

Zhang Wenqiang nodded:
"Otherwise, you have to re-modify the model and re-adjust the parameters."

Xia Zhi shook his head:

"It's too late, it's not necessarily enough to give me another week."

Zhang Wenqiang added:
"Then just slow down the speed and make do with the work. The efficiency optimization task will not be handed over to you, a rookie. It will definitely be your algorithm engineers and architects."

Xia Zhi smiled and said:

"You kid, you have a way of paddling and throwing the pot."

Zhang Wenqiang raised his eyebrows, feeling a little proud.

Just do it, and the two began to cooperate to write the data processing module.

After finally finishing his work, Zhang Wenqiang stretched himself.

"What time is it? Damn, it's already five o'clock in the morning." Zhang Wenqiang yelled.

Xia Zhi pointed to the bed:
"Go to sleep, I'll go to the company to find a test."

Zhang Wenqiang said quietly:

"I can really fight."

Xia Zhi carried her bag, dialed Wen Fang's number, and walked out.

Wen Fang was woken up by Xia Zhi, yawned, and asked without opening her eyes:
"solved?"

Xia Zhi felt a little guilty:

"That's it."

"What does it mean?"

"It's solved, but not completely solved. You'll know when you come to the company."

The two met at the company, and Xia Zhi put the coffee and breakfast he just bought on the table.

Wen Fang nodded, turned on the computer first, and got busy:
"Has the code been pushed up?"

"Ah."

Xia Zhi watched Wen Fang's test from the side, and was too embarrassed to have breakfast alone, so he just waited.

He glanced at the system panel by the way:
[Task in progress: push algorithm message stack bug fix. 】

【Development time: 26h】

[Energy input: 622 points]

[Investment funds: 2600 points]

[External assistance: 703 points]

[Total mission points: 89 points]

[Note: The minimum points required to enable system assistance: 100 task points. 】

It was still close to the system's action, but Xia Zhi felt that it was unnecessary, and the task had been completed anyway.

In the beginning, he wanted his roommate Qiangzi to come to the muddy water to make up the system points.

Unexpectedly, Qiangzi was a graduate student and knew a lot, and the problem was actually solved by him.

At this time, Wen Fang frowned and asked:
"How did it slow down so much?"

Xia Zhi said awkwardly:

"The data has been processed again, should it be all right?"

Wen Fang didn't speak, and was still testing.

If the core business is not affected, Xia Zhi can be let go.

Time passed little by little.

Seeing that the coffee on the table was getting cold, Xia Zhi moved the cup towards Wen Fang.

"No need for now." Wen Fang said without taking her eyes off the screen.

"Ok."

Wen Fang refused to eat or drink, so Xia Zhi had to hold back even if he wanted to eat.

The company's project is not big, but if you want to run it through, the workload is not small.

Xia Zhi turned on her computer and helped Wen Fang test it too.

But Wen Fang was worried about Xia Zhi, and had to go through everything on her own before signing Xia Zhi's module and going online.

Xia Zhi was a little bored, so he went to the window to stretch his joints.

A voice sounded in his mind:
Task No. 1 has reached the task point required by the system, please choose whether to accept system assistance.

Xia Zhi's eyes widened suddenly, and he quickly called up the system panel.

There is a small amount of fluctuation in time, energy and money, and the 703 points of external assistance have now reached 1228 points.

Xia Zhi turned around to look at Wen Fang suddenly, and realized: Wen Fang who was testing at this time was also considered an external assistance.

He mentally confirms acceptance of system help.

The system reminded him that the source code on his computer had been changed.

Xia Zhi quickly ran to his computer to check whether the code had really changed.

Seeing Xia Zhihuo's anxious look, Wen Fang was not steady at all and shook her head helplessly.

"Fuck!" Xia Zhi exclaimed when he saw the change in the code.

Wen Fang shuddered, and couldn't help lecturing the newcomer aloud:
"What are you doing?!"

Xia Zhi shook his head, hehe said:

"It's all right." After saying that, he started to run the model on his side.

He uploaded the code to the server for testing.

The test results left him stunned.

At this time, the speed of the model was more than twice as fast as the company's previous model, and the accuracy rate increased from 89% to 99%.

"Black technology."

At this time, Wen Fang next to him picked up the coffee, looked at Xia Zhi and said:

"Although the speed of your module is a bit slow, the impact is not significant. Considering that you are a rookie, Sister Fang will not embarrass you. I just passed the bug ticket for you."

Xia Zhi was a little embarrassed and said:
"Sister Fang, I just re-modified the model, and the effect is better, or can I trouble you to test it again?"

(End of this chapter)