Brainoid

However, Qi Min's work went very smoothly.

Being able to use the computing resources of "Nimbus", the 1024×1024×1024 connector was quickly completed, and the results of the machine learning test were in line with expectations. Such brain-like bodies composed of virtual neurons that completely imitate the activities of real neurons often produce various strange parameter fluctuations during the machine learning process. This may be considered to be some kind of "conscious activity" produced by the brain-like body, but as a scientific researcher, Qi Min feels that it is better not to be so full of words.

After that, Qi Min did not run 2048×2048×2048, but directly started to generate a full-size 16384×16384×16384 brain-like body, which will have 4398046511104 virtual neurons, two orders of magnitude more than the human brain.

This code generation will probably take several months. During this period, she'd better revise all the articles, finish writing the supplementary materials, and then fill in the data and figures.

But in addition to these paperwork, Qi Min also faced the task of taking care of graduate students. Even though there are no places for doctoral students to be recruited when she first arrives at the school, she can still be lent to her the places that other teachers are not filling up. This will ensure that there are people under the PI of the new laboratory who has just arrived at the school.

Because the school wanted to slightly strengthen the level of the Department of Pediatric Biology, it sent two doctoral students to Qi Min this year. She read the materials and found that the two doctoral students were a boy and a girl, both with undergraduate degrees in biology. The boy was named Chen Linyou and the girl was named Wang Xin.

On the first day of the rotation, Qi Min arrived at the biology department hall early in the morning. Because she had to meet students, she was not in the office, but went directly to the laboratory to wait.

While waiting, Qi Min did another machine learning session using her virtual neuron connectome at the school’s computing center. While she was changing the code, two heads appeared at the door. They looked around in the laboratory, seeming to be hesitant to enter the room.

"Are you...Chen Linyou and Wang Xin?" Qi Min turned around and asked.

"Yes...yes." Chen Linyou and Wang Xin quickly walked through the door.

Chen Linyou is tall and thin, with a dark complexion and wears glasses. Wang Xin is a bit short, with a fair, round face. They look exactly like college undergraduates who have never been in society.

One tall and one short, one black and one white, they are really a bit happy. Qi Min smiled and said, "You guys arrived on time."

She looked around: "There is almost no one in the laboratory right now. There are all empty tables. You can sit wherever you like."

Chen Linyou and Wang Xin placed their bags on the two empty tables and waited for Qi Min to continue giving orders.

"Well...actually there is nothing in the laboratory right now..." Qi Min continued, "I looked at your materials. You both have a biology background. You should be able to program, right?"

The two first-year students looked at each other, and Chen Linyou said: "I have learned C... and I also learned a little bit of VB before."

"I can use Matlab, does this count?" Wang Xin whispered.

"It's still a bit basic... let's go back and learn Python first, because now the work in the laboratory is all written in Python." Qi Min asked again, "By the way, you two should have already decided on the subject. , you will be in this laboratory from now on, right?"

The two first-year students nodded.

"Okay." Qi Min stood up and said, "Although our laboratory is majored in bioinformatics, it is actually mainly doing neurobiology. There should be other directions in the future, but that is ...It’s about the future.” In fact, whatever she wanted to say would have to wait until her original PhD article was published. “I think you are not too familiar with Python, so let’s do some work on cells first. Right - you must have all been in the cell room, right?"

"I've been in." Wang Xin nodded immediately.

Chen Linyou also nodded hesitantly: "I have entered."

"This is easy to handle." Qi Min said with satisfaction, "In fact, the cell aspect is not complicated. It is to cultivate a batch of ESP cells (pluripotent embryonic stem cells) and induce them to differentiate into nerve cells, which are used as cells in the brain. Negative control of the developing nerve cells. Let me give you two copies of PROTOCOL first. After you read them, we can go to the cell room and see the cells first."

The cell room is shared by the laboratories on this floor, and Qi Min is also assigned a cell ultra-clean bench. Reagents, culture dishes and other consumables arrived quickly, and cells could be borrowed from other laboratories, so she had everything ready for cell experiments.

Qi Min waited for the two new doctoral students for half an hour. After they had almost memorized PROTOCOL, she led the two novices into the cell room.

When entering the cell room, you must wear masks, gloves, hats and shoe covers in the preparation room. The clumsy looks of the two doctoral students, one tall and one short, looked quite funny. Because Wang Xin had bangs, there were always a few strands of hair that couldn't fit into her hat. Qi Min even helped her put her hat back on.

After entering the cell room, the two novices were even more at a loss. Wang Xin was fine, but Chen Linyou's hands were shaking when he took the cell plate.

Qi Min was really afraid that he would shake the bottom culture medium onto the cover and cause contamination, so he had to say to the two novices: "Forget it, how about I do it first and show it to you. Then you can practice again?"

In fact, Qi Min was not trying to demonstrate to them, but was simply afraid that they would contaminate the EPS cells that she borrowed from Mr. Zheng Wenyu to knock down the p53 gene and express VC - this was something Yan Zhaolan spent a lot of effort to accomplish. The car was delivered to her with an ice box. Qi Min must ensure that this plate of cells can grow well so that she can have cells frozen to prevent them from being used next time.

As for the two novices, Chen Linyou and Wang Xin, just let them passage ordinary EPS cells. Materials that cannot be quickly re-obtained must not be created casually for them.

So the scene changed to Chen Linyou and Wang Xin standing on both sides of the ultra-clean table, leaning their heads closely to watch Qi Min perform cell passage operations. And since cell passaging is nothing more than constantly adding liquid, withdrawing liquid, and centrifuging, it is really not interesting to watch. After a while, Wang Xin couldn't help but yawn.

Chen Linyou saw his little friend yawning, so he looked at his watch: "Hey, it's already twelve twenty-five now..."

"Really?" Wang Xin whispered, "I heard that the cafeteria will be very crowded after 12:30."

"Well...I suddenly want to ask," Chen Linyou asked Qi Min, who was looking at the cell density under the microscope, "How long will it take for cell passage?"

"About ten minutes." Qi Min said casually while watching, "If you are in a hurry to eat, go ahead."

"Okay!" Chen Linyou said happily.

Wang Xin also said to Qi Min with great gratitude: "Thank you, senior sister, let's go first!"

Then they really walked out of the cell, took off their disposable gloves, masks, hats, and shoe covers, threw them away, and left in a hurry.

After Qi Min transferred the last plate of cells, when she thought about it carefully, she felt something was wrong: Why did she feel like she was working for a doctoral student?

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