Chapter 181 Accidentally Forgot
The afternoon sun shines through the heavy curtains, drawing a spot of light on the pile of math books.
James Maynard is sitting in front of the sofa, wearing glasses, reading the paper in his hand carefully.
On the small table next to me, the coffee was still slightly steaming.
Across from him, Larry Gus was doing some simple deductions with a frown on a small whiteboard set up in the office, holding a marker pen in his hand.
There is no doubt that the article James Maynard is holding in his hand at this time is Qiao Yu's "Geometric Mapping of the Riemann Hypothesis under the Generalized Modal Axiom System."
In fact, it has been two days since they accepted the reviewer status. Both of them already had a certain understanding of Qiao Yu's general idea.
But just as John Henry suspected, the two professors did not actually have that deep understanding of Qiao Yu’s generalized modal axiom system.
So it will take a little longer to read the paper. Fortunately, if you want to understand the proof of the key theorem, you don't need to read much prerequisite literature.
After all, generalized modal axioms are still a very new direction. Qiao Yu mainly cited the first paper he wrote on the modal axiom system.
"Hey... the Riemann hypothesis is essentially a problem about distribution on the complex plane. Before, we always thought that his modal space did not have enough dimensions to capture the symmetry of the complex number field. Now it seems that we were wrong!"
After doing some calculations on the whiteboard, Larry Gus sighed and said, breaking the quiet atmosphere in the office.
Hearing this, James Maynard looked up at Larry Guth’s derivation, took off his glasses, rubbed his eyes, and then said: “I was just thinking about a problem.”
"Oh? What are you thinking about?" Larry Gus asked.
“I’m wondering if his method can already geometricize the Riemann Hypothesis, can this theory be extended to the more general Dirichlet series?” James Maynard asked rhetorically.
Larry Gus was stunned when he heard this, then picked up the paper in his hand and turned to the last page.
“He wrote in the last paragraph here, well, the modal density function can be adjusted by different parameters to adapt to a wider situation. I think this wider situation should include Dirichlet series or even Other L functions."
"Okay, I admit it! This guy is really a genius!"
James Maynard nodded, and then put the paper in his hand. Put it down and look at what Larry Guth deduced on the whiteboard.
“Yesterday I saw on the official website of the Annals of Mathematics that he just published the paper on the generalized modal axiom system four months ago, and the number of citations has exceeded a thousand.
Now he has tied the entire system to the Riemann Hypothesis. If this paper is published, how many citations do you think his paper will have by November this year, one year after its publication? "
Larry Gus thought for a while, then shook his head and said: "I don't know, James, but I think it's a bit boring for you to care about this issue. You don't look like such a boring person. Now I only care about whether his method can really solve the Riemann Hypothesis. "
James Maynard smiled and said: "Don't think about it, Larry. I can't say yet whether his method will be effective, but one thing I'm sure of is that he can definitely solve Li's problem. Mann guessed. ”
Larry Guth looked at James Maynard in surprise. The two had worked together for many years, and he knew his old colleague.
Although he usually looked very He's easy to deal with, but he's extremely proud at heart and doesn't even like his younger peers.
Of course, James does have the right to be proud. After all, his colleague is a Fields Medal winner.
“This is the first time that you are so optimistic that someone can solve the Riemann Hypothesis! So you think that even if his path fails, he can still solve this problem? Why?”
James Maynard stood up, walked to Larry Gus, casually took the marker from his hand, and made a few changes on the whiteboard.
He muttered: "It's simple, because this guy is not even twenty years old! Damn it, do you remember what you were doing when you were his age?
< br>You may not believe it, but at that age I was still thinking about how I could sneak into Aunt Mary’s house next door and watch her take a shower
But at this age, he has at least fully understood the Riemann Hypothesis, and even has his own definition of mathematics. So I have great confidence in him! real. "
Larry Gus glanced at the content modified by James Maynard on the whiteboard.
Well, he just forgot a parameter, and now it has been filled in. Like this The whole structure looked really elegant.
However, he still looked at James Maynard with complicated eyes and asked: "Well...James, so you British people think about problems and act when you are young. Are all methods so direct? "
James Maynard glanced at Larry Gus and said in a muffled voice: "That's not the point! Larry, no matter whether Qiao Yu's method works or not, he at least found a new direction.
And for now, I have not found any obvious logical loopholes in the paper. At least it is logically self-consistent. As for whether there are any problems with the details - I have to read it twice. ”
If a certain number of students heard these words, they would probably be so envious that they would drool.
As we all know, reviewers are mostly voluntary workers. Especially for some big-name figures. He said that if the manuscript is not of interest to them, they will generally not accept it at all.
Sometimes, due to various circumstances, they will be accepted for review. In fact, I don’t have that much time to read the manuscripts. Most of them are given to my students, or I use my spare time to take a look at them and give my opinions.
Of course there are articles that these big guys can read deeply. , but definitely not many, maybe only one or two articles every year, and most of them are the latest achievements of the same level.
An article like this that you can't find any obvious logical loopholes after you've read it thoroughly, and you still plan to read it carefully, is a great honor for the author of the paper.
This is enough to illustrate the cautious attitude of the reviewer towards this paper.
Of course Qiao Yu didn't know this.
For him, it is fundamental to write the paper rigorously. Because before he had much contact with papers, he had seen what would happen if the papers were not written rigorously.
Yes, it was Qin Jingru’s article that really left him speechless. That is to say, when Xue Song came to Yanbei, he only brought doctoral students, not master's students.
Otherwise, Qiao Yu would at least treat Senior Brother Qin to a few more meals and thank him for providing negative teaching materials, which had provided a lot of help for his academic growth.
Of course, for him, publishing a paper at the beginning of the year does not mean everything will be fine. To be honest, he has been quite busy recently. A lot of things are inseparable from him.
The laboratories on both sides are in the final stage, and because Chen Zhuoyang has to do other verification work, some of the final calculation work in the Yanbei University laboratory also falls on Zhang Xiao.
Qiao Yu felt that this was helping Senior Brother Chen. After all, the biggest enemy of long-distance relationships is that there is no one around to accompany you when you are empty, and then someone takes advantage of you.
But now as long as the workload is heavy enough, Zhang Xiao can be so busy that he has no time to spare, and he can live a very fulfilling life every day. It is impossible to think about it.
Really, being able to do this for Senior Brother Chen, Qiao Yu felt that he might be a great saint, but neither he nor the people around him noticed this shining side of him before.
He also has to keep an eye on the company in Huaqing.
No, it should be said that the company does not need to look at it, but he has to keep an eye on the storage center.
The name of the company is very low-key, called Jingcheng Xiaoyu Technology Service Co., Ltd.
This Xiaoyu is actually the names of Qiao Xi and Qiao Yu. They each took one word, and then picked out a word that was quite artistic.
The main business is to provide data processing and simulation computing services to major laboratories and engineering teams.
Chief Engineer Yu gave me the money easily, and the construction here is also very fast. With the second phase of 10 million funds in place, the equipment has basically been laid out.
To be honest, the initial investment of more than 20 million yuan in equipment sounds like a lot, but in the computer room, there are actually only two standard 42U cabinets.
Plus various storage devices, internal switches, network cabling and a cooling system. This is probably why scientific research relies on money.
These things are indeed quite expensive.
This is why Qiao Yu has no intention of providing computing power support at all. Generally speaking, laboratories or engineering teams that can afford to use his platform do not lack computing power. What they lack is just a computing platform that can help them.
Now that the hardware is almost arranged, he has to debug the software.
Both Chen Zhuoyang and Zhang Xiao have no time. Lao Xue is also busy upgrading the generalized modal axiom system and has no time to help him with early debugging. Qiao Yu can only drag Qiao Xi along to help him with debugging. .
This has to be said about the help from the computing institute. There is really a huge amount of desensitization data to help Qiao Yu with his training.
Thanks to the lecture he gave on computing last time, Qiao Yu met a few pretty good assistant researchers there.
Now that the data has been provided, I naturally don't mind helping him with some processing. Anyway, the other party is used to doing these basic tasks, and he can learn something by following Qiao Yu.
For example, the parameter adjustment method of the future Xiaoyu computing platform.
This technology cannot be underestimated. After all, parameter adjustment is also a technical job, and the basis of modular design is the precise understanding and adaptation of different task parameter requirements. For example, optimizing the main model parameters of reaction dynamics can also provide services for optimizing the celestial orbit model, which requires dynamic adjustments according to the actual situation.
Of course, the platform’s ability in the early stage is definitely not as outstanding as his ability to lead people to follow the data, but it doesn’t matter, the core of the platform is driven by algorithms and data.
As long as high-quality data samples continue to increase, coupled with feedback and optimization iterations from collaborators, the platform's capabilities will definitely grow exponentially.
Moreover, the machine learning framework has become very mature now, and Qiao Yu has no intention of receiving data outside the scope of scientific research, so the complexity of the machine learning model is also very low.
Unlike those so-called large AI models, which overemphasize the versatility and complexity of the scene and make them flashy, they cannot even effectively clean the data.
This kind of dedicated platform learning capability is much simpler to build...well, it can only be said to be relatively simple.
At least Qiao Yu hasn't been able to get a good night's sleep for more than a month in order to type code.
But there is no way, Qiao Yu really doesn't trust handing over the core code of the platform to others. After all, every logical node directly determines the stability of the underlying computing of the platform.
He is afraid that he cannot understand the code typed by others.
As for the non-core code...well, there is no need to find someone to write it.
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Walking around the open source community where programmers often go, there are really too many functional modules that can’t be used up.
The logic is simple and does not involve underlying stability. You only need to copy and paste, then make slight changes, and you can use it directly.
After all, this is not an interface for ordinary users, UI design? Doesn't exist! As long as it can run, is stable, and does not make mistakes, it will be fine.
Basically, those who work professionally with the platform are men from science and engineering. The aesthetics of this group of people have always been simple, clear, and clear at a glance, which is enough!
To talk to someone who can’t figure out the lipstick number and whether the button is too square will look too angular and unsightly, is tantamount to playing the piano to an ox.
The reason why many software codes are called shit mountains is simply because there are too many functions they want to implement. Add everything to it, and over time, long live if you can run.
Really small and beautiful programs are often the original appearance of popular software. It seems that many people have long forgotten that WeChat was originally just used for chatting.
At that time, the WeChat installation package was only 457KB and could be installed as long as there was 2M of space on the phone. Now, the size of the installation package alone has exceeded 700MB.
No matter what, it took him a month and a half to build the basic framework of the platform after he had launched the main functions, determined the framework, and had many people indirectly helping him.
Really, ever since he was a child, Qiao Yu felt that he had never cared so much about anything.
After all, whether this computing platform can be truly efficient will directly determine its future reputation. Can you get some big customers?
During this period, Qiao Yu also learned about China's current scientific research status. Then he discovered that his previous estimate was too optimistic.
It turns out that 90% of the research groups in China belong to the kind of hard-working people with little money. Especially those basic research topics.
There are also many unknown professors or researchers who find it extremely difficult to reimburse some money. After all, even if you get the project, it will be credited to the unit account.
Expenses must be signed by the unit leader. For those hardworking scientific researchers, expensive computing services are simply unaffordable.
Like Professor Zhang, he dares to pay 2 million in consulting fees for just being a consultant. He is already a wealthy and wealthy boss that is rare in the industry.
No wonder Liu Hao is determined to follow his boss.
So if you really want to make money, those small research groups can only gain a reputation, and they must be supported by well-known large research groups.
Most of the large scientific research groups are personally responsible for it, and they often have fixed partners. If you want to take advantage of others, you will definitely put forward higher requirements for the capabilities of the platform itself.
At least the first two times can make people realize the benefits of using their own models, so that they can receive more orders.
The end of April is here in a blink of an eye.
The system framework of the platform has finally been built. Of course, it will take some time to debug it slowly.
Fortunately, the main work of this part can be taken care of by the assistant researcher at the Institute of Computing Technology.
Qiao Yu only needs to stare at the background every day, wait for feedback on the problem, and then do some processing in time.
Qiao Yu, who finally felt relieved, received a call from Tian Yanzhen before he could think of how to celebrate.
As soon as he answered the call, before he could announce the good news, he heard a scolding from the other side of the phone.
"Qiao Yu, are the phone number you left in the submission system and the email address the center gave you just for decoration? You submitted articles to other journals, and their editors couldn't contact you, so they found me here?"
After hearing Tian Yanzhen's reprimand, Qiao Yu remembered that he had submitted a manuscript to JAMS more than a month ago.
He has indeed been busy and forgotten recently.
It’s been a long time since I’ve seen my mailbox. In other words, Qiao Yu has never developed the habit of checking his mailbox regularly.
As for the phone number... Some time ago, he felt that there were too many spam calls, so he simply enabled the whitelist function. Sure enough, it felt like the world had become quiet.
After all, it is very unpleasant to have your thinking process interrupted by random phone calls.
Well, it was indeed his fault. I have been so busy recently that I forgot that he had submitted a paper.
But Qiao Yu felt a little aggrieved. Can't Director Tian examine himself first? If he was willing to be the corresponding author, this problem would not arise.
As for making a phone call late at night to scold yourself?
Of course, Qiao Yu just thought about the last sentence in his heart and did not dare to say it out loud.
"Oops, Director Tian, I forgot. You know, I've been too busy recently. I really don't have time to check my email. As for my mobile phone. Well... you know the whitelist, right? Well, why did the editor of JAMS contact you? "Does the paper still need to be revised?"
Qiao Yu asked.
“The paper does not need to be revised, and it has been proofread and finalized! However, before it is officially published, you need to log in to the personal center account of the JAMS online submission system and sign a formal electronic copyright transfer agreement.
They have sent you the link and instructions for signing the agreement via email, but there has been no response from you and I can’t get through to you on the phone. , if you are not in a hurry to publish it in April, you will see others ignore you!
JAMS is a quarterly journal! This means that if your paper cannot be published in time this month, it will not be published until July! I haven’t seen you for a long time! When someone publishes a paper, he has to go to the backend every day to check the status! You don’t reply to the editor’s emails or answer the phone..."
Qiao Yu recalled that this seemed to be standard procedure.
It’s just that before I submitted my manuscript to Princeton’s Annual Journal of Mathematics, I seemed to have signed it directly when I submitted it.
I subconsciously explained: "I thought it would take a while to review the manuscript. Who knew reviewers were so efficient! After all, I only submitted the manuscript when school started."
" Okay, hurry up and sign the agreement, and then explain it to me, otherwise the editor will think you don’t plan to publish it. You kid, day by day..."
After saying that, Tian Yan was really worried. Got the phone.
Qiao Yu felt ashamed and quickly logged into his email. Sure enough, JAMS's official email had sent him a total of six emails...
Every time he changed his status, there was an email prompt, and then he was reminded to sign the copyright licensing agreement. , and even sent three letters.
Even the editor was afraid that his work email had been blocked for unknown reasons, so he tried to send him the same email using his personal email...
Okay, I don’t like it. You need to change this bad habit of checking your email.
I quickly entered the personal center of the online submission system through the official website email link, and followed the prompts to sign the copyright transfer contract.
Qiao Yu sent an extremely sincere letter of apology through the editor's personal email, and the matter was over.
After all, which editor would have the nerve to embarrass a seventeen-year-old child who still doesn’t understand the rules of scientific research? !
(End of this chapter)