Hammer of Technology

"So how stupid is that Mr. Coulston to say such things in front of reporters?" Mika Slampa complained.

"Stupid? Mika, you think too much, why do you think he is stupid? Niels is not a stupid person, and you really think that you didn't communicate well in advance. As a member of the Nobel Prize Evaluation Committee, you will say in front of reporters This kind of words?" The other side said disapprovingly.

"Oh? John, what do you mean they told the Chinese people?"

"No, no, Mika, these are for us to hear. Wait, although Niels' remarks made the news today, tomorrow there will be higher-level people to criticize his remarks, and may even criticize Niels himself. I can even think of what they will say, tell the whole world very sincerely, Niels just drank too much yesterday, what he said doesn’t count at all, the Nobel Prize is the most fair award, it depends on Contribution, you will never miss it because of what awards you have won. But after you listened to what Niels said yesterday, who would you trust more?"

"But what's the point? If that's what you say, why don't they just call us or send us an email?"

"My God, Mika, don't be so naive! What if we are exposed by sending an email alone? What if we record the phone call? Take a step back, they can guarantee that we will not spread the content of these private communications, But who can be warned by this? Don’t you think that this statement is just to scare a few of us? So it’s the best way to deal with it by saying it publicly and then refusing the rumors! The impact is big enough, no one can say otherwise, but everyone will Think about which sentence is true and which sentence is false.”

"Faker! John, I suddenly understood what you said! Then what do you think?"

"I'm ready to win the prize!"

"Why? Are you really going to give up the chance to win a Nobel Prize in the future?"

"No, Mika, I want to bet that the March Award won't go down. Think about it, if the March Award really develops in the future, when this old story is revealed again, how will they prove that Neil Is it just a simple hello? There is nothing more convincing than putting a former March Prize winner on the stage of the Nobel Prize. But only if you, I and Shlomy Kotler Going to win the prize! So you understand?"

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361 generation gap

John Teuffel's prediction was so accurate that Mika Slampa even wondered if someone from the Royal Swiss Academy of Sciences would get along with his partner.Because early the next morning, he saw on Facebook that Lars Heikensten, chairman of the Nobel Foundation, stood up to refute the rumors.

Although the Nobel Foundation is not in charge of award evaluation, the Nobel prize money is distributed by the foundation. As we all know, generally speaking, the money managers of any institution are relatively tough.

The video is 5 minutes long, but the translation probably said two things.First, the statement made by Niels Coulston yesterday was very irresponsible. The Nobel Prize is famous for its impartiality. change the position of the selection;

Second, he has suggested to the Royal Swiss Academy of Sciences, which is responsible for the review of the Physics Prize and the Chemistry Prize, that unless Niels Coulston is removed from the review committee to resolve the dispute, next year's Nobel Prize in Physics may not be awarded. Gone……

This is really serious, and the attitude is very serious.

But if you know the history of the Nobel Prize, you will know that it is not the first time that the Chairman of the Foundation has made remarks that may suspend the selection of a certain Nobel Prize. As early as 2018 and 2019, some scandals directly led to the Nobel Prize. The chairman of the foundation spoke that the evaluation of the Nobel Prize in Literature may be suspended that year, but at the last minute, these problems were resolved, and the winners of the 2019 and 2018 Nobel Prizes in Literature were announced directly in 2019.

All in all, this matter was handled very well.

After all, the chairman of the Nobel Foundation is obviously more prestigious than a member of a certain awards committee, and it is not a big deal for a certain academician of the Royal Swiss Academy of Sciences to have a bad moral. This kind of treatment is justified.

As for the impact in academia, that is a matter of opinion.The Nobel Prize is the most famous award in the world, what the judges think and whether this speech will have any impact on the judges of other famous awards are unknown.After all, the academic circle is actually very small, and the connection between those academic leaders may be far closer than most people think, especially when physics and mathematics are actually closely related.

Undoubtedly, this incident also caused an uproar in China.

Then a very counter-intuitive scene appeared.

On the day when the March Awards were announced, when major domestic media reported the truth, there was no movement.Basically, few ordinary people care about the movement of the March Awards. After such an incident at the Nobel Dinner, Huaxia netizens suddenly paid more attention to the March Awards, and even the official website that announced the March Awards also received a lot of visits. Beginning to rise exponentially...

Fortunately, the official website of the Intelligent Development Journal in March is hosted on Huawei Cloud. In March, the little cutie will carry out some daily maintenance. The surge in traffic is not terrible. Under elastic computing and high load, the backup machine will be automatically called to achieve dynamic expansion, so even if There were 5000 million visits that night, and it didn't have much impact on the website. It was nothing more than an occasional delay of a few seconds. As long as you refresh it, you can fully display the webpage.

Of course, this popularity was completely unplanned.

For the March Awards judging team, it even just feels inexplicable.

Of course, if we must say that the reason for this incident can probably be attributed to what Ning Wei said at the press conference announcing the existence of March to the world, "The March Award will be compared to the Nobel Prize in the future." award."

When a problem arises, the first thing to do is to solve the problem.

For the staff, the most important issue is probably the need to appease the award winners this time, call the winners again by email and phone, and confirm whether these winners still choose to accept the March Award, and whether they will follow the previous Plan to attend the awards ceremony for the March Awards.

Inexplicably, the workload increased.

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"...if a hidden variable is called a locally deterministic hidden variable, then any output for alice and bob should be given by the formula △y. In this case, a component should be separated, denoted as α, then α... "

In the office, Ning Wei is studying some problems of three-dimensional entanglement.Of course, research on these issues is not aimless.

This is closely related to the design of three-dimensional silicon through-body cpu chips.

To put it simply, making a chip is only the first step to make a finished product. Making an instruction set is the first step. Under the framework of the instruction set, the arrangement of each transistor is very particular. If one line is wrong, the function of the entire chip will be seriously affected. , not to mention that the wiring layout of the design directly affects various specific technical indicators such as chip power consumption, area, and delay.

Three-dimensional silicon through tube chips naturally have to face the same problem.

In the past, the radio frequency chip can produce results very quickly because the radio frequency chip is relatively simple.But the cpu is different, there are too many issues to consider.So many various problems pop up in Ning Si's laboratory every day, and Ning Wei spends some time every day trying to think theoretically and solve these problems.

This is a very interesting cycle, from application to theory and then to application. Generally speaking, most people really can't play with this mode of thinking, but for Ningwei, he just feels happy in it.

Because the process of solving problems can actually have some relationship with physics, which he is most interested in now.

Of course, this does not mean that chip design should be applied to physics. In fact, the simplest chip design only needs to understand Boolean algebra.

When these chips are stacked together and run, physical problems must be considered. For example, the circuit delay caused by the temperature rise of the chips during operation is a very typical physical problem.

Temperature will affect the mobility and threshold voltage of semiconductor devices. Rising temperature will increase the delay of the circuit. If the delay is too high, some circuits will not be able to meet the timing requirements, output wrong results, and cause circuit function errors.

For computer enthusiasts, when overclocking the CPU, it is necessary to strengthen the cooling, otherwise it will not be able to boot or crash.

How to reduce power consumption through design, or how to generate heat in the most scientific way when the chip is running, these are the difficulties of chip design.

Especially different from planar chip design, minimalist eda does not have the accumulation and ability to directly store enough designed various circuit diagrams in the library, so everything has to be restarted, and naturally there will be many problems, which is normal .

At first, Ning Wei didn't want to get involved, after all, there is March.

But when Sanyue submitted a lot of problems to his mailbox, especially some very complex problems that required collaborative calculations, after Ning Wei saw it, he still fell ill...

It's better to make a little more contribution to the awesomeness that you brag about.

So naturally, Ning Wei started to spend some time every day to study the specific work of chip design.Fortunately, in this direction, it is no exaggeration to say that Ning Wei feels that he is still very talented.

Especially for solving some complex problems, he can always come up with the most direct solution ideas and after handing over to March for verification, he can often get relatively perfect results.This even made Ning Wei wonder if his brain really has anything in common with the CPU.

If you pay more attention to technical details, you will naturally pay less attention to what is happening outside.

Of course, Ning Wei still knows about everything that happened at the Nobel dinner.

After all, it's hot news, especially for China, so it's hard not to pay attention to it in March.

To be honest, Niels Coulston's words did not cause Ning Wei to have any psychological fluctuations, just like when Mika Slampa first saw the declaration, Ning Wei also wondered if it was the The academician of the Royal Swiss Academy of Sciences has his mind flooded.

How could it be possible to say such words in front of reporters that would obviously damage the credibility of an award?

For a moment, Ning Wei thought that Academician Coulston was an undercover agent bought by the March Award Committee. What he said at the Nobel Dinner was for March to hit the international awards. Blow the horn.

Ning Wei didn't think deeply about this issue, he just found it boring and stopped paying attention.

At the beginning, he let many things out, instead of doing everything himself to obtain the maximum benefit. He hoped that he would not think about these intrigues.

Mathematics is very interesting, and physics is also very interesting. Thinking jumps in various dimensions. For pure science students, the comfort brought by solving problems through complex spatial configurations is far better than pondering the hearts of a group of people. It's much more interesting to think about what to think about human nature.

Even if human nature must be considered, the social configuration under group consciousness is more logical than speculating on the unfathomable nature of individual consciousness.To put it simply, there are all kinds of birds in the forest, but many strange birds will only appear when the samples are complex enough.

In the Internet age, you can see all kinds of weird news on the news every day, which is enough to make people say that reality can be even more weird, and even exclaim that the scriptwriters of dramas dare not write scripts like this.

But in fact, it is very common with strange stories in divine dramas, but in reality there are certainly strange stories and various coincidences, but if we really look at it from the perspective of probability, the probability of occurrence is actually negligible.

It’s as if it’s already 2025, humans have landed on the moon many times, and there are only three years left before Musk wants to immigrate millions of people to Mars, but there are still millions of people in the Western Hemisphere who firmly believe in the theory of a flat earth and work hard In proving this, the Flat Earth Society was even formed.

This number seems huge, but compared with the total population of the Western Hemisphere, a million people is really not many, and it is just a strange thing hidden in a few thousand people, so it is naturally not representative.

It’s as if there are many minors playing truant all over the world every day, but in the end, they are called environmental protection princesses purely because they don’t want to go to school. There is only one person in the world. Most of them play truant, that is truancy.

Of course, the little princess has been silent, and she is probably still struggling with high school knowledge, but Ning Wei doesn't care about these things, because there are too many interesting things immersed in the academic world.

Even a project as complex and serious as chip design sounds.In particular, chip design is a technology that requires extremely high coordination. For those who have an overview of the overall situation, even if all departments have given correct results, when they are combined, they can often find many interesting results. Problems that can lead to systemic disaster.

It seems that Ning Wei hopes that the CPU of the [-]D silicon-through-tube can even integrate the AI ​​image recognition function, which requires the CPU, DDR, bus, AI processor, and mipi in the chip to work perfectly.

Then when the image is collected by mipi, stored in ddr, recognized by the ai processor, and then verified and calculated by the cpu, a whole set of procedures needs to test the speed and ability of mipi, the speed and ability of dma, whether the bus matches, ddr speed, ai processor Recognition rate and matching, cpu interaction efficiency, etc...

Even if a function that each department is responsible for can be perfected during verification, but when all the perfect functions are integrated together, oh well, the chip starts to have a fever as soon as it runs, should it be designed from scratch, or should it be thrown to downstream manufacturers? Going to the heap to dissipate heat becomes a problem.

For Ning Wei, what he has to do is to take the overall consideration into consideration, theoretically not only let each department give their own perfect solution, but also predictably solve some problems that will not appear too much when all functions are integrated. Coordinated guidance on major issues.

Extremely challenging and extremely mentally draining work, once indulged, the problem can be serious.For example, when eating or drinking water, I always think about how the problem arises and how to solve it, and naturally I don't think deeply about other people's ideas.

What's more, even if you want to ponder people's thoughts, it's better to look at the communication (tuiguo) records between various departments in the laboratory.Fighting among science and cultural people for work can often show extremely powerful writing skills that far exceed document records.Those words full of connotations are enough to make many doctors of literature feel ashamed, and it can be said that they fully demonstrate the profoundness of Chinese characters.

Of course, those things are only done in spare time, and Ning Wei is no longer surprised by this, and even learned a few skills...

At this time, Ning Wei was sketching the enlarged structure inside the chip, trying to theoretically solve a signal reliability verification problem in the three-dimensional tube.

He directly muted the phone and threw it aside until the kitten jumped out of the monitor.

"Meow, my dear Master Ning, the call from Senior Brother Lu has been connected for the third time within 5 minutes. According to your previous instructions, I will specially notify you!"

This is what Ningwei said to March every time before he muted the phone. If the same call in the address book calls three times within 5 minutes, or if there are more than ten calls in the address book within 5 minutes , we must take the initiative to remind him.This is also the rule he summed up. Generally, when this happens, it means that there are really important things to find him.

As for the kind of calls that are not answered after one call, it means that it is not a very important matter, and you can go back and ask about the situation when you are free.

So after receiving the reminder, Ning Wei put down the work at hand and connected to Lu Dongyi's call.

"Hey, Brother Lu, didn't you go out for a meeting? Do you have any instructions?"

"Well... just now, did you read the response of the chairman of the Nobel Foundation to the person at the dinner yesterday? The March Award preparation team called me and said that you couldn't find him, and asked if it should be correct this year. Some more caring promises from the winners, or a certain response. I haven’t dealt with this kind of situation, so I still want to make a call to ask you..."

"I don't know about this matter yet. Let me find out first. You can send them a message and contact them after I understand. You don't need to worry about it. Go and communicate well, after all, you are in a meeting."

"Well, then I hang up."

After finishing speaking, Lu Dongyi simply hung up the phone.

Ning Wei sighed, then looked at the kitten on the screen, and asked, "Did you hear the call just now? What did the chairman of the foundation respond to?"

"Meow……"

After the kitten scratched its paw, a short video automatically played on Ningwei's computer.

"...Nils Coulston's statement is irresponsible for our consistent attitude of tolerance, especially for a member of the jury, his statement is contrary to the consistent purpose of the Nobel Prize , we take it very seriously. In fact, I have already called Mr. Needham to ask him to face up to this matter. At the same time, although I have no doubts about Niels' academic level, his speech will undoubtedly make people wonder whether his When judging the achievements of a scientist, can we stand from a fair point of view? Yes, I have suggested that Niels Coulston will no longer be a member of the Physical Review Committee next year... "

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Human emotions may be different, but wisdom is interlinked after all.

Ning Wei wanted to give a thumbs up to the entire Nobel system for such an instant refutation of the rumors, but after reading the content of the friendly exchanges between various departments, he still figured out something different.

"In March, is this response video popular?"

"Meow, very tall!"

"How tall is it?"

"Meow, it's about as high as the Oriental Pearl Tower, and of course it's a little bit lower than the popularity of the Meow Stars vs. Shuba in March..."

Ning Wei glanced at the increasingly arrogant kitten on the screen. He found that since the cartoon starring March was officially launched, the kitten has become more and more humane. For example, it has not only learned metaphors, but also The power of its metaphor is farther and farther away from the rigorous machine thinking.

Of course, this may also be related to the recent increase in computing power in March in order to adapt to increasingly heavy tasks.

"Do you think it is necessary to respond to this kind of public opinion?"

"Meow...meow star people are not afraid of challenges, and always go forward bravely!"

Of course Ning Wei remembered that this was the slogan that the kitten in the cartoon would shout every time it transformed.Although it is simple, although it is in the second grade, it is undeniable that with the bursting animation special effects, it is probably enough to arouse the emotions of children with single-digit ages.

So this is treating him like a child?

Sure enough, as long as children grow up, there will be a generation gap...

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362 traffic

According to Ning Wei's original intention, he doesn't really want to pay attention to the drama that Ruiguo forced him to add, and there is no need for it.Judging from the current situation of development, they are not in a hurry anyway.

With the assistance of March, it is enough to just do their own things step by step.At least Ning Wei is still very confident that in his lifetime, he can see the March Award surpass the Nobel Prize and become the most pertinent and well-known award recognized all over the world.

Of course, these are secondary, the key is the sense of honor of winning.

The reason why the Nobel Prize is so influential is that everyone has tacitly accepted that these winners have pushed the technological tree of the world forward in the right direction, so there are many exclusive privileges for Nobel Prize winners.For example, special parking spaces in colleges and universities, such as capital bosses waving check books for cooperation.

In Ning Wei's design, the future March Award will of course also be the same, and must be won.

Because an international award can often really drive a country's scientific and technological strength forward a big step forward.

The population of Ruiguo is only 1000 million people. Just looking at the population, it is basically comparable to a medium-sized city in China. However, its technological strength can be ranked among the top ten in the world, and it is leading the world in many technological fields.Such as metallurgy, materials, machinery, electronics, communication, etc., among which the Nobel Prize naturally plays a great role in promoting.

After all, most of the judges of the Nobel Prize are in this country. Everyone recognizes this award, which means that Swedish scientists have the right to comment on the development of science and technology in the world.

For Huaxia, the March Award is the same.

When the March Award has the same status as the Nobel Prize, it means that the whole world has recognized the scientific evaluation system formulated by Ning Wei, recognized that China has the ability to determine the direction of world science and technology, and recognized that China has grown from a world manufacturing center to The transformation of the world's technology center.Once there is this understanding in the academic circle, it also means that more outstanding talents from various countries will have more sufficient willingness to come to China for exchanges, at least come to China to have a look.

Although the global village has been used to describe the speed of information transmission on the earth in the Internet age, in fact, the China under the lens of many Western media and the China in the eyes of Chinese people are still two worlds.

Many people who are obsessed with academics almost instinctively choose those large-scale media with a certain degree of credibility when they want to understand or obtain some information, because if they want to obtain information from tens of thousands of self-media, it takes too much sinking. It is too costly to distinguish the authenticity from the false, and it is not cost-effective to waste too much time.