Riding the wind of rebirth

In this way, the system does not go online during a large amount of thinking time and is in a state of disconnection for most of the time, which can save a lot of internet costs.

"We still need to urge the telecommunications sector to launch monthly internet packages for families as soon as possible," Nie Qisheng sighed. "For now, these three methods are probably the only options."

In addition, there are issues with the system's points system and player allocation. The system can allow real players to be matched against each other, or players can choose virtual players.

The virtual Go player is naturally Wild Fox Xiao Zhi, but Wild Fox Xiao Zhi can't be allowed to bully others with the level of a top-tier Go player. Therefore, when facing opponents of different levels, it is often necessary to "lower its intelligence" so that they can be evenly matched.

Regarding the system rating, the Go Academy currently has a complete rank evaluation system, but that system is quite strict and suitable for competition but not for leisure. This is inconsistent with the Go website's main purpose of leisure, promotion and cultivation of enthusiasts, so corresponding adjustments must be made.

In this regard, Zhouzhi felt that the forum game model could be a good reference. However, considering future development, the forum game model is obviously quite limited. In addition, it is necessary to take into account the family access mode. Therefore, it is more reasonable to develop it into a mini-program, i.e., the BS model.

The only good news is that Java, as a web-oriented object language, has been developed quite maturely by Clover, the market environment has been gradually cultivated, and several online games have even tested the waters. It is now entering the early stages of rapid development, and developing such a system may not take too long.

However, Lao Nie couldn't wait that long; he was very anxious. Therefore, Zhou Zhi had no choice but to come up with this solution: first, use the forum architecture model, with a dedicated line and a chess academy model, to establish a local area network chess mode. This way, not only could Yehu Xiaozhi be introduced as a virtual chess player to serve as a whetstone for chess players from all walks of life, but also masters could be stationed in the capital and play "guidance chess" to chess academies in various places through the dedicated network.

This model also includes Nie Weiping's newly opened Go school, which would be called a "Go school" in China, where he trains his students.

With all this arranged, Zhou Zhi and Mai Xiaomiao were finally able to leave to attend the Unicode Consortium conference.

This is an extremely rare global conference in the field of information technology being held in China. It is highly valued by all parties involved, and representatives from all over the world, especially from the pan-Chinese cultural sphere in Asia, have sent representatives to participate in the conference.

This is a logical step, since there are only a few hundred thousand Unicode characters in total, while the Asian Semantic Range (ASMR) contains as many as 130,000 characters, and this number is still growing. All other characters in the world combined are only a fraction of the ASMR character set, so it is natural to prioritize Chinese characters.

Although Zhou Zhi is the leader and designer of Hanwen Large Font Library, the speaker sent by Clover is Mai Xiaomiao.

In Zhou Zhi's words, the Hanwen Large Font Library he created only represents the past, while the search engine that Mai Xiaomiao developed based on the Hanwen Large Font Library, as well as the non-linear matching algorithm that drives the engine, truly represents the future.

Mai Xiaomiao's speech was titled "The Importance of Chinese in the Future Information World".

"As the oldest pictographic script, Chinese has one of the most amazing characteristics for information technology: its unit information content."

"Taking the UN Charter as an example, the Chinese version of the UN Charter has 26650 characters, while the English version requires 55600 characters. Under the condition of uniform typesetting, the thickness of Chinese documents is generally only half that of alphabetic languages ​​such as English." "Therefore, as a written language, Chinese characters are the most efficient and information-dense writing system on the planet."

"The fundamental reason is that alphabetic scripts are 'one-dimensional,' representing only sounds, while Chinese characters are two-dimensional, representing not only sounds but also encapsulating a massive amount of information."

"This information can also be freely combined to generate derivatives in a very simple way."

"For example, the word 'internationalization' requires twenty characters in English but only three characters in Chinese. When it comes to the expression of information technology, it requires twenty bits in English but only six bits in Chinese."

"According to Shannon's research on information entropy, the information entropy of a character is 4 bits, while the information entropy of Chinese characters is 9.65 bits. In other words, in the information world dominated by computer technology, Chinese can record and disseminate a larger amount of information with a smaller information carrier and a faster speed than other languages."

"For example, the Chinese word for uncle only has four bits, but to accurately target it in English, it needs to be represented as 'mother's brother.' The Chinese word here also contains information about bloodline, generation, and gender, which is something that character-based texts that record sound cannot express."

"Besides the efficiency of recording, there is also the efficiency of reading." Mai Xiaomiao spoke eloquently on stage: "There is a Chinese idiom called 'reading ten lines at a glance,' which means that reading Chinese information can be done in an area-like or graphical way."

"Clover Labs conducted an interesting experiment, which involved scrambling the order of fixed Chinese words and then creating a text for readers. Readers were surprised to find that the disordered word order, combined with correct Chinese grammar, did not affect their reading comprehension at all."

"In other words, 'experiment' and 'verification' serve the same purpose in the article, and the incorrect order will be automatically corrected by Chinese users at a subconscious level."

"The human brain mainly involves two pathways when reading: the dorsal pathway, which is mainly used for speech recognition, and the ventral pathway, which is mainly used for visual processing and semantic connection."

"When reading character-based text, people need to convert the text into speech first, and then receive it through the back channel; while when reading ideographic text, both channels work simultaneously, which is why we can achieve the effect of 'reading ten lines at a glance' and greatly improve the efficiency of information extraction."

"As a recognition tool, the 'Six Scripts' method of Chinese also provides powerful functions. All the ideographic characters in the Hanwen Large Character Library can be broken down into 'character roots,' and these character roots also contain a huge amount of information."

"For example, characters with the bird radical can define a general scope of understanding. You can find that most of these characters in Chinese are related to characteristics such as birds and flying, which is difficult to achieve with character-based writing systems."

“Some people might intuitively think that the efficiency of Chinese characters is related to the large number of characters,” Mai Xiaomiao said with a smile. “However, this is a misconception. The total English vocabulary exceeds one million words and is still growing by four to eight thousand words every year. In contrast, there are about 3500 commonly used Chinese characters. Basically, you only need to master these 3,500 characters to be able to freely combine them and complete more than 90% of the information exchange in the Chinese world. This is also the scope of the Hanwen benchmark character set.”

"Is this important? I'll just point out one important aspect: Chinese people basically don't need to reconstruct their own professional language or learn another set of professional vocabulary to freely engage in cross-disciplinary learning." (End of Chapter)