Hammer of Technology

"We didn't follow up last year, because we always felt that this project is too empty to propose now. Let's talk about the entrance of the Metaverse first. At this stage, neither VR nor AR technology can be said to be mature, and then the supporting software. We have already set foot in this area. Of course It is still incomparable with the most advanced foreign technology, but as far as we know, the most advanced 3D engine probably cannot load the various relationships in the physical world in the virtual world. Feels like the internet is ready for..."

Hearing this, Ning Wei continued: "But if this technology can be produced abroad in the near future, the market is still very attractive, right? Actually, I think you are quite calm. I personally think that the concept of metaverse is at least It cannot be completed within five years. As you said, I personally think that this metaverse project relies on breakthroughs in 3D engine technology, artificial intelligence technology, and underlying algorithms. In addition, there are basic innovations in basic communication networks. Now 5G has not yet been fully popularized, so how can it support such a huge data flow platform?"

"Originally we thought so too, but Mr. Ning, the ultra-high compression theory you put forward at the STOC conference gave the industry a new idea. Fast decompression is carried out through rapid ultra-high compression technology and a large-scale supercomputing platform. Not long ago At the Internet conference, an industry expert pointed out that after calculation, as long as [-] supercomputers with the same computing power as Taihu Light are built in Huaxia, and combined with a dense cloud computing platform, they can support the operation under the existing network environment. The network foundation of the Metaverse. This argument was not first proposed by us, but by the scientists at Google."

Hearing these words, Ning Wei understood why Yan Ming suddenly mentioned this concept to himself.

Feelings The paper he published at the stoc conference has been planned by scientists to build the underlying communication protocol of the metaverse open platform in the existing network environment. Ning Wei can only sigh in his heart about this. What kind of fairy idea is this?

Build [-] supercomputers equivalent to Taihu Light to decompress highly compressed transmission data?If we really want to achieve the ideal model, I am afraid that we need to build a cloud computing platform in all cities across the country to support this network...

"Mr. Yan, this money is enough to install 5G equipment in mainstream cities all over the country, right? Why spend money to play like this?" Ning Wei asked curiously.

"First of all, after the popularization of 5G, the data transmission speed will also have an upper limit in the peak period of user use and places with a large number of users. After all, data transmission will definitely suffer losses, and it is impossible to reach the ideal speed of the laboratory. If you really want to support the Metaverse, you will have higher requirements for network quality, so even if the 5G network becomes popular, you will most likely need this technology to support the Metaverse.”

After hearing these words, Ning Wei probably knew what he was saying, and said with a smile: "President Yan, let's put it this way, anyway, I personally feel that it is far from the time to deploy this field, if you have already started at the software level of the platform In terms of layout, I can do it first, but I have a bold idea, but I have to wait until the project I am working on is almost the same. If you are still interested in this direction by then, maybe we can cooperate once."

"So you also think this project is not reliable for the time being?"

"Very unreliable! Let me tell you this, Mr. Yan, if you really want to build a so-called Metaverse in the near future, it depends on my research results, don't you believe it?" Ning Wei said in a half-joking tone.

"Ahem, if you want to say that, why not cooperate again? For example, we can cooperate to build a future laboratory. How about you being the chief scientist of the laboratory?"

------------

194 If you are unhappy, stab the sword in the back first

"Haha, Mr. Yan, you really know how to joke. Haven't we been cooperating all the time? We will definitely continue to cooperate in the future, so I will let you know as soon as I have any achievements in the future." Ning Wei said with a smile, But in the end, he politely declined Yan Ming's invitation.

In fact, purely from the perspective of cooperation, Ning Wei felt that Huawei was indeed a good partner, and the reason for his refusal was purely troublesome.

If he really wants to cooperate in building such a laboratory, Ning Wei knows very well that the construction of the entire laboratory, the purchase of instruments, equipment, etc., probably don’t need him to worry about, and he probably doesn’t have to pay too much in terms of money, although he doesn’t care about it now. He is an out-and-out billionaire, with hundreds of millions of funds in his bank card. From a personal point of view, there may not be many people in China who have more personal cash flow than him.

But when it comes to the ability to mobilize funds, the money in the bank card may be nothing, not to mention that multinational technology companies like Huawei and those giant Internet groups may have more funds than any fund manager can mobilize. He is several orders of magnitude more.

However, cooperation often involves many problems. For example, people have to have the right to speak when they invest real money. Therefore, in Ning Wei's view, the current relatively loose scientific research environment is more suitable for him to do current pure theoretical research. If he really wants to cooperate, then It is also a matter of waiting for application-level research.

"Haha, that's fine. I'll wait for good news from President Ning. Let's make an agreement. If there is a new breakthrough, we must be notified."

"Don't worry, Mr. Yan. I think we had a good cooperation before. If we really want to choose another partner, it must be you."

……

After talking about the business and exchanging a few more pleasantries, he hung up the phone, and curiously, Ning Wei continued to explore the concept of the metaverse on the Internet.After getting acquainted with it, Ning Wei only felt that those technology bigwigs in the west were really good at telling stories.Immigrating to Mars and building the metaverse, let alone the innovation of basic scientific theories, in short, the proposal of a large-scale idea can make the entire capital market boil.

He doesn't know much about other situations, but at least using his theory to build the metaverse infrastructure, Ning Wei thinks it's very unreliable.Even if he wants to transform the theory into a practical application with a limited basis, it will probably take one or two years, and it will be after he gives up the current theoretical research and has a team of at least [-] people who are experienced, hard-working, and ruthless. Only with cooperation can success be possible.

Most importantly, Ning Wei didn't believe that he could find a team of [-] people who had thoroughly understood his theory to do this.

After all, this piece involves too many technical details, such as re-establishing a series of new general technical standards, and these standards cannot be formulated casually, and must be different from mainstream equipment providers and software developers in the world. Stop holding meetings and discussing games.Not to mention building an open platform like the metaverse, which also involves the establishment of an internal economic system.

How to balance the interests of large companies and small developers in the platform, how to build a cross-platform economic system, and then to the technical level, who will build and maintain the basic server investment of millions or even tens of millions of calculations, and the 3D common platform Who will formulate the engine technical standards...

In Ning Wei's view, if there is no large-scale commercial alliance to do the overall layout planning, the so-called metaverse concept is just a joke. The evaluation is probably only "hehe".

It’s just that I have a deeper understanding. After reading some technical details of Changxiang, Ningwei’s mind suddenly twitched. The data load of the universe platform is judged by various access standards, and it seems that it is not impossible to build an open metaverse platform.

As long as you can really develop enough excellent 3D engines and excellent enough vr equipment, you can choose a city with a wide enough coverage of basic network services and more computing resources to do a pilot first, build a small metaverse platform and try it out ...

It's just that as soon as this thought came to mind, Ning Wei shook his head and threw it away.

Before his basic theory is finished, March is not replicable for the time being, and now he has no intention of announcing the existence of March to the world.If he really wants to cooperate with those people to build such a platform, March will definitely not be able to hide it.Most importantly, why should he disrupt the rhythm he has already established for the stories told by others?

Thinking of this, Ning Wei's thoughts returned to his upcoming beautiful vacation.Just as he was planning to continue his online strategy, his phone suddenly vibrated again. When he clicked on it, his exclusive account manager at the bank sent him another greeting message before the National Day.

Looking at the other party's very affectionate greetings in WeChat, Ning Wei wished he could slap him on the face. When will he develop the mindset of a rich man?He was still thinking about the boring question of whether to take a taxi or take the subway when going out to play.

So he immediately replied on WeChat: "I heard that your various services are very good. I want to travel around the capital on the National Day. Can you help me arrange it?"

Before wechat could reply, the phone rang soon.

"Hi, hello, Mr. Ning, I'm Liu Xin, the senior account manager of your private bank, you should still remember me?"

"Of course! Can your bank still provide car charter service? I plan to travel for four days and need to arrange a car to follow us for four days."

"Hello, Mr. Ning, of course we can provide these services, but you may need to sign an agreement, because your current deposits in our bank are current deposits. If you want to enjoy these services, you need to keep your deposit in our bank. If your deposit is above a certain amount, or buy some wealth management products tailored by our bank."

Ning Wei thought for a while and said, "Does it mean that I can enjoy these services regularly if I save [-] or [-] million?"

"Of course, if you purchase our bank's large-denomination certificate of deposit, you can also enjoy all the services we have customized for you."

"Okay, I'll transfer [-] million in the app operation for a three-year period later." Ning Wei quickly made a decision.

I have to say that someone who serves him exclusively can save him from worrying about a lot of things, which can save him a lot of time.After all, there are many differences between him and those real rich people. For example, he does not have a special car to serve him 24 hours a day when he goes out. It is very worthwhile to set aside [-] million on a regular basis and enjoy all the services provided by the bank by sending a WeChat message.

"Yes. You just wanted a special car to serve you, didn't you? Do you have any special needs for the brand of the car?"

"There is no special requirement, as long as the seat is comfortable and the safety factor is high enough."

"The car service is from No. 1 to No. 4, right?"

"more or less."

"May I ask how many people are you traveling with?"

"Two people, just me and my girlfriend."

"Okay, then I can arrange the imported Audi a8l for you, do you think it's okay?"

"can!"

"Do you need to arrange a travel itinerary for you and help you book hotels around the attractions?"

Hearing this question, Ning Wei felt a little itchy in his heart. The suggestion of booking a hotel gave him some bold ideas, but he finally gave up.

"Forget it, I don't need this one. You guys can help me recommend restaurants with better taste around the scenic spot, and send them to me on WeChat later. I don't need anything else."

"No problem, you can send me your specific requirements and the specific location for the driver to wait for later via WeChat, and I will make arrangements for you immediately. I wish you a pleasant holiday."

"Thank you!"

Hanging up the phone, Ning Wei let out a long sigh of relief.

It’s a difficult question for him. It turns out that a phone call can solve it. Sure enough, intellectual property rights and patent rights are good things. No wonder so many big companies go to court for patents every day, and there are even specialized patent troll companies in this world.This is also beating Ning Wei. In the future, the more good things like patents, the better. Although he is not greedy for the enjoyment brought by money, if he wants to do something in the future, he will have a lot of money and he will have a stronger voice. .

After chatting with his account manager on WeChat, he set the meeting place with the driver directly at the gate of the R&D center, and the topic he had just discussed with Yan Ming came to Ning Wei's mind.

Originally, a bunch of capitalists were hyping up the topic of metaverse, which really had nothing to do with him, but since someone used his theory to tell a story, Ning Wei felt uncomfortable no matter how he thought about it.Especially after thoroughly understanding the concept of the Metaverse, for some reason it reminded him of the famous Star Wars project in history.

The difference is nothing more than that the former is a technological competition between countries, while the latter is a big pie in the high-tech business field. The same point is probably that massive R&D investment is unlikely to produce results in a short period of time.

So Ning Wei, who had just finished solving the most important task recently, logged into Weibo freely and began to express his views.

"I heard that the concept of the metaverse is being hyped in full swing. I would like to express my personal opinion. I think that there is no breakthrough in basic mathematical theory, and it cannot essentially solve the problem of collaborative computing between super-large computing platforms and infrastructure such as real-time transmission of big data. A series of technical problems caused by the architecture, the so-called metaverse is probably a feast of self-indulgence. The guys who advocate the metaverse are probably either stupid or bad, let alone five years, who can build a prototype of the metaverse in ten years, I am willing They have worked for nothing for ten years!"

In fact, Ning Wei originally wanted to say that he was willing to live broadcast the upside down, and this kind of speech was more impactful.But after thinking about it, he decided to give up. After all, he is no longer an ordinary college student, and he still needs to pay attention to some influences.

And think about it carefully, if his brother Yu is strong enough to use application-level achievements in this disruptive technology field by themselves, it is equivalent to fulfilling this bet by himself, which seems to make sense, It's not too much of an exaggeration for him to work hard for himself for another ten years.

After clicking send on Weibo, Ning Wei thought that the concept of Yuan Universe was first initiated from the United States after all. Clicked send again.Then turn off Weibo as usual and ignore it.

To put it bluntly, Weibo has always been just a channel and tool for him to speak out, and he doesn't care at all whether his fans are up or not, and what the reaction in the comment area under his Weibo is.It is enough to say what you want to say.

Here he just closed Weibo, when Lu Dongyi opened the door and walked into his office.

"Ning Wei, I found a few problems after studying your thesis, let's talk to you, are you free today?"

"When you're free, when you're free, Senior Brother Lu is here to sit."

"Well, let's see. According to the inference 16 given by your Theorem 1, any bds pattern in big data can be deduced and analyzed with increasing details through a top-down low-level structure, that is, Θq =?0 k = q Θk1k = q Θk() Θk - 1 , Θ0i = 0rmj = 0 dij|tj, I don't quite understand here..."

What does it mean to shoot yourself in the foot?

Pulling a serious guy into his camp, Ning Wei found that he has no chance to fish!

……

Apparently Ning Wei underestimated his current influence. When he logged on to Weibo just now, he didn't even notice that his followers had exceeded 200 million.Of course, this is actually thanks to the Princess Isabel.

After all, Ning Wei is not a celebrity. If it wasn’t for the rumors he had with the princess in Montreal, which was widely reported by the European media, he probably wouldn’t have gained more than 90 fans in one month, many of whom were stationed in various countries. China's journalists and friends.

Engaging in scientific research is a completely unfamiliar field for countless ordinary people, and the process is extremely boring. How can it be interesting to eat melons from celebrities or even princesses?Not to mention that Ning Wei's research is still mathematics, and when he put the content of his research on Weibo, about 90.00% of the [-] people reacted by looking at it for a second, then cursing and clicking cross directly.

Probably no one wants to revisit advanced mathematics after posting on Weibo, and even if they revisit advanced mathematics, there is a high probability that they will recognize a few more symbols.

But this time, everyone understood Ning Wei's words, and Weibo exploded!

How should I put it, for many netizens, especially game lovers, the concept of metaverse has almost become their belief.Think about it, a virtual world independent of the real world, where all interactions can be completed through the Internet, a real oasis world, this is such an exciting field, just thinking about it makes people salivate.

Not to mention that the initiators of the metaverse concept already have countless fans in China.Just like Tesla’s Musk said last year that he would launch a Tesla robot this year but missed the appointment, but his reputation in the hearts of fans is still intact. Zuckerberg, who supports the metaverse, publicly discusses the metaverse’s Google. , etc. The big guys also have countless fans.

What's more important is that not every high-tech fan knows the name Ningwei from the Internet, and after Ningwei's microblog has been reposted more than two thousand times, the comment area explodes without any surprise.

------------

195 In fact, he doesn't remember!

Ning Wei was discussing academic issues with Senior Brother Lu in the office, and the surrounding atmosphere was quiet and peaceful. However, on the Internet, the comment section of Weibo that Ning Wei just posted has exploded, and countless people flocked to express their opinions.

"Who is this person? I heard that he seems to be a top student? Can a top student be so stupid now? Can he evaluate other people's most advanced scientific and technological achievements? Does the microblogger know about Google X Lab? Is it a proper black technology?"

"I don't want to say anything more. If you are crazy, you will be in trouble. After participating in two computer conferences, you feel that you are omnipotent?"

"Metaverse is an extremely advanced Internet concept. As far as I know, re has initially built a vr social network. What do bloggers say about this? Are you planning to join re now to do free work for others? However, it is very likely I won't want you!"

"So I sometimes feel that staying in China to study will really make people stupid! Why don't our scientists have the imagination of Western scientists? The Internet was invented by Americans, and now the concept of Metaverse was proposed by Americans. Some things really can't be compared."

"That's right, I've seen it since the beginning of Tesla. The real geniuses with ideals are on other people's side. Some people should reflect on why Tesla can become the world's most powerful electric vehicle company."

Most of these speeches are quite rational, and there are not a few who directly utter various fragrances in the comment area.

For the first time, Ningwei's fans realized that their own strength seemed to be really not enough.This is especially true for Weibo owners like Tanshang Ningwei who don't pay attention to the follow-up after posting Weibo. Just a few knowledgeable people say a few words in the comment area, and they are quickly wiped out by the mindless bad comments.

However, the continuously rising number of retweets and comments made Ningwei's Weibo start to become a trending topic. #华夏学霸无知评论最新元宇宙论坛# went out of the circle smoothly, and I couldn't suppress it.

You must know that this is definitely a rare scene for Weibo. Generally speaking, except when the Nobel Prize is announced and a Chinese person wins the award, it is difficult for topics about technology to be on the Weibo hot search list.

After all, Weibo has positioned itself as a software that focuses on entertainment and gossip since it established its status in the world.All kinds of entertainment news and celebrities are the mainstream here, and the reports and publicity of scientific research results are more inclined to gimmicky and topical reports such as Metaverse and landing on Mars. Emotional venting is more welcome, and rational discussions are here. Very rare here.

From this point of view, Ning Wei’s speech is definitely against the trend, just as someone ridiculed in the comment area, “Students don’t study hard, and like others, they come to Weibo to gain popularity. Do you want to become an Internet celebrity? No wonder Our people can’t come up with such an innovative concept as metaverse.”

Of course, when it comes to hype, the countless big v on Weibo are professional. For a while, Ning Wei received a lot of @, and all kinds of science popularization about the Metaverse became the most mainstream news the day before the National Day. For a while, many people were not sensitive to the frontier of technology. Chinese people learned about metaverse and what is the next generation of Internet through this hot search...

Different big Vs naturally interpret Ningwei's Weibo from different angles. Of course, some big Vs in the education and technology sectors are probably the most excited at this time.Indeed, in just one afternoon, countless articles by Huaxia Education that stifled the imagination of scientific researchers began to flood again, and Ning Wei was the most negative example.

Of course, for many self-media, the truth has never been the most important thing, and being able to find hot topics to sell anxiety is the most important thing, because it is directly related to their jobs.

It's really rather that he probably doesn't know it, but in one afternoon he has become synonymous with countless people who are stupid in middle school.After all, in order to prove their point of view, many self-media people have spent a lot of hard work. For example, they have dug up all the previous achievements of Ningwei, and then after careful study, they will find that if the achievement of turbulence algorithm is removed, then Ningwei The biggest achievements are probably only those papers published in "Nature", "Science" and top computer conferences.

So everyone has found a breaking point, so can China's technological level really catch up with Western countries by publishing papers?With the help of the Almighty Network, someone also found the public list of Ning Wei when he was sponsored by the national top-notch youth, and let everyone know that Ning Wei's project has also received 120 million national youth research funds.

This time it became even more lively. Regardless of whether Ning Wei is a doctoral student or not, it is an indisputable fact that Ning Wei just graduated from Jiangcheng University, so questions about how Ning Wei got the national top-notch youth qualification also began to rage.

Why? !

Just published a few papers, can you enter the national plan for ten thousand people?It's okay to enter the national ten-thousand-person plan, but still post such ignorant remarks on Weibo!So countless people began to get angry!Various fighting messages began to appear on Weibo in turn, and many people began to ask for an explanation directly @燕北大学 and @江城大学, and even more directly, the official Weibo of the Ministry of Science and Technology of China @华科技.

So Ningwei once again topped the top two hot searches on Weibo. In addition to the previous hot search, #宁为进入少外项项目支持120万元# was also ranked eighth on the Weibo hot search list by countless netizens s position.

Of course, some big Vs start writing articles as quickly as possible for the sake of popularity, but there are also writers who pay more attention to the rigor of their articles, such as Zhang Zhijie.As a former professional game player, retired anchor and Weibo big v, he also likes to express some opinions on Weibo when he is free.In addition to my love for some, I will occasionally broadcast some vr content, so I am very concerned about this aspect of content.

It is no exaggeration to say that he is probably one of the first netizens in China to know the concept of the metaverse, and he is full of confidence and expectation that the metaverse will really come out.

So after seeing Ning Wei's Weibo post, I really felt that a bucket of cold water was poured on it. After all, Ning Wei's speech almost pointed some people's noses and said that the Metaverse is a complete lie.

So he scolded three messages in the comment area, and then reposted this Weibo on his Weibo, adding the word "hehe", and immediately began to prepare to write an article to refute it, because he saw it while surfing the Internet. There are more consumer remarks about Ningwei's Weibo, but Zhang Zhijie feels that these people are missing the point.

Ma Dan, this guy, as a top student, poured cold water on the most imaginative new technology in the world, and was criticized by a group of people for education!What does this have to do with China's basic education?

Therefore, Zhang Zhijie began to collect information on the Metaverse from the entire Internet, intending to refute Ning Wei's argument through rigorous facts.

Soon he found the latest speech of Google scientists on the Metaverse at the World Artificial Intelligence Industry Forum.The only pity is that there are videos of this kind in China, but probably not many people in this forum care that there are no subtitles.But Zhang Zhijie is not troubled. As a well-known game anchor, he still has many friends on the Internet, especially among his fans, there are many talented people, including translators who have been in the subtitle group before.

So he shook people on WeChat, made requests, and then sent the URL, and the action was done in one go. Half an hour later, his fans sent him the complete translation of the video content of about 15 minutes on the Internet.

The content of these translations plus other content he found on the Internet just now, and his self-conscious understanding of the concept of the metaverse is deeper than ordinary people, so after knowing what the Google scientist said, he started to write, but when When he read this speech, he suddenly felt that something was wrong, because according to the content translated by fans, there was a paragraph in the middle like this.

"...Here I feel that I need to thank the seminal paper published at the OC conference from China. Our laboratory is preparing to design a set of VR equipment based on his theory that can quickly and The method of receiving data without loss, and this method will form the basis of Internet communication in the future metaverse. You must know that a smooth and high-quality network is one of the core elements for the survival of the metaverse. After all, the lag of vr equipment is almost unacceptable to users of……"

He copied and pasted this paragraph, and then sent it to the professional translator fan: "Old knife, can you help me look up the information of this stoc conference and see if this Dr. Ningwei is related to Weibo? That Xueba Ningwei is the same person?"

"Fuck, Gazizhang! Do you still need to check this? It must be the same person! Before that, Ning Wei published a 206-page paper on stoc, which is said to be a very powerful mathematical theory! Then I came here to have an affair with a princess from the Nordic snow country, and I also accepted the job and helped translate several foreign reports on this matter.”

"So what Google scientists said about the latest progress in the Metaverse is to use Ning Wei's theory to build a network foundation for the so-called Metaverse era?" Zhang Zhijie subconsciously edited a message and sent it.