After the college entrance examination, life began to follow one's heart

Chapter 246 If we're going to play this game, let's play it big! Xu Lin is going to publish in Nature!

Ning Yuhan's thesis studies green economy and green productivity.

Because the economic development direction in recent years has advocated this, things like green finance and green total factor productivity have emerged.

Xu Lin sometimes felt that the person who created these words was definitely a genius.

The introduction is simple; it just explains the background.

Xu Lin read many papers, each several hundred words long, and finished them in no time.

Then comes the literature review, which lists the papers cited and how they inspired your paper.

Xu Lin will need to refer to the specialized papers that Ning Yuhan found for this part.

Xu Lin had just been looking at papers in the economics category, which is a broad category with various related papers, but only a small portion were related to Ning Yuhan's research direction.

After reviewing the papers collected by the other party, Xu Lin continued working on his own papers.

This part is also quite complicated.

However, this did not stump Xu Lin.

The third part is about economic models and research methods.

What model should we use?
Writing economics papers is the most complicated part. In fact, students may not understand the model at all because it is more complicated than mathematical formulas. Anyone who has read papers on this topic knows that it is like reading a book written in heaven, except for top students, of course.

After consulting other papers and combining them with Ning Yuhan's data, Xu Lin finally decided to use the super SBM model.

"Damn, this is so complicated."

Xu Lin couldn't help but complain.

Ning Yuhan asked, "Is it difficult?"

"It's not difficult, it's just that typing is quite troublesome. I have to switch back and forth between some satay symbols."

"Oh."

After building the model, the next step is data and variable analysis.

Next comes the discussion of the results, and finally the conclusion.

What others might take several days to complete, Xu Lin could finish in one night, in three or four hours.

As for the paper formatting, let Xiao Xu handle it.

Thesis formatting has a special formatting method, it's not something to be done haphazardly. It would take several hours for a person to format it, but for Xiao Xu, all he needs to do is input the command.

By four o'clock in the morning, Xu Lin had already finished the paper.

"It's all done. Just submit it to Professor Huang tomorrow, no, the day after tomorrow. Don't submit it too quickly, or she'll think you're not taking it seriously. If she asks you about it, just say that your boyfriend guided you in writing it. If she becomes suspicious, just call me over."

"Oh, okay." Ning Yuhan nodded seriously.

She was still reading the paper, and after reading it once, she could clearly see that Xu Lin's level was far superior to hers. It felt like reading a paper written by a professor or some scholar.

"Husband, you are so awesome!"

"Calm down, I have something even more amazing to do!"

Xu Lin yawned. "Let's talk about it tomorrow. I'm going to sleep."

"OK."

Speaking of which, Xu Lin thought about it before going to sleep: what kind of paper should he write for this new task?

He studied economics, a subject that sounds prestigious but is actually quite abstract and unrealistic. Moreover, economics itself is a broad category, and Ning Yuhan will have to choose a specific sub-discipline for her postgraduate studies, such as international economics or development economics. Economics itself is a mixed bag of disciplines.

Just like the papers he read tonight, plus the papers Ning Yuhan collected, he read more than 130 papers.

Most of these papers are SCI papers, but Xu Lin felt they were just so-so.

Because he is looking at it from the perspective of promoting social development and advancing academic fields, these things seem to be of little use.

After all, the task Xu Lin was about to undertake clearly couldn't be accomplished with a paper like this.

Moreover, and especially importantly, there is a lack of groundbreaking creativity.

Besides, what kind of paper is an SCI paper? Some really good students can produce one even with an ordinary undergraduate degree. In top universities, many students have several papers on their resumes. It's normal for an experimental group to have one paper per person.

Xu Lin felt that writing SCI-level papers was far from enough to complete the task.

Therefore, Xu Lin's task is not to write papers related to economics and finance, nor can he write SCI papers.

He wants to write something technically sophisticated, or even a creative or revolutionary paper.

If you're going to play, play big.

Xu Lin suddenly thought of Nature, the world's top comprehensive scientific journal, a god among gods.

Only research that demonstrates significant theoretical innovation, scientific breakthroughs, or interdisciplinary influence can be accepted.

For example, solving theoretical problems in fields such as physics, biology, and medicine, and proposing some revolutionary theories, and so on.

At this point, being able to publish something on it is tantamount to bringing glory to your ancestors.

Someone asked: What does it mean that I published a paper in the journal Nature?
Many 211 universities don't even have a single domestically produced paper, or even a sub-journal. For a university to publish a Nature paper is, without exaggeration, like receiving a first-class merit award in the military.

If a PhD student has one Nature paper, they can be directly promoted to associate professor at a 985 university.

Conversely, publishing a paper in Nature is no less difficult than one's ancestors' graves emitting auspicious smoke.

Before going to bed, Xu thought about it briefly and decided to work on a paper published in Nature.

However, if he wants to publish a paper in Nature, it can't be in his current field, such as economics.

What kinds of papers are published in Nature?
Biology, physics, medicine...

These were fields that Xu Lin had never been exposed to before; they were completely unfamiliar to him.

"Never mind, I'll check again tomorrow."

Xu Lin was actually quite optimistic about publishing in Nature. After all, he was superhuman, possessing both exceptional memory and a talent for learning. The combination of these two abilities allowed his brainpower to far surpass that of so-called geniuses. As long as he wanted to learn and was willing to spend the time, there was basically nothing he couldn't accomplish.

Silent all night.

Xu Lin thought for more than ten minutes before going to sleep.

Ning Yuhan had fallen asleep ten minutes earlier, nestled in Xu Lin's arms.

Soon, it was the morning of the next day.

Xu Lin didn't wake up until after nine o'clock, while Ning Yuhan had already gotten up at eight o'clock.

今天星期六。

After eating, the two went straight to the library, as usual.

Upon arriving at the library, Ning Yuhan was reading and studying.

Xu Lin went directly to the Nature website to see what papers were published and what the research directions were like.

Xu Lin spent more than half an hour reading the papers. They were all research papers with impressive titles, such as research on nerves, cells, and cancer.

They are all related to natural sciences.

"It seems that getting a Nature paper published is a complex task."

"But what area should I research?"

Xu Lin began to ponder.

Physics: Physics, Astronomy, Planetary Science, Materials Science, Engineering...

Earth and Environmental Sciences: Climate Science, Ecology, Environmental Science...

Biological Sciences: Genetics, Microbiology, Neuroscience... Health Sciences: Anatomy, Pathogenesis...

Each major category has several sub-categories.

Xu Lin couldn't possibly just pick one randomly.

If you randomly pick someone here, it would take most people several years to even get the basics down.

Even if Xu Lin learns quickly, it still requires a lot of time and is very tedious, even thankless. For example, some disciplines require spending a long time in the back of the laboratory, doing experiments and collecting data day after day to prove a certain result. After that, he has to write a paper of tens of thousands of words. The whole process takes a long time and cannot be completed in ten days, half a month or a few months.

This is a massive, systematic project; it's not something Xu Lin can just accomplish by using cheats.

This is not realistic.

However, Xu Lin was not in a hurry.

Publishing papers is a gradual process; it's not something that can be achieved overnight. But if you ask him to write novels, he can just make things up and produce 100,000 words a day.

For a research paper, you need theoretical support, data support, practical results support, and research value.

On a smaller scale, this is your personal honor, which can propel you to great heights, allowing a PhD to go directly to associate professor or even professor, and enabling an undergraduate to achieve instant success...

On a grander scale, this is a great achievement that has propelled human civilization forward. Or rather, you are one of the participants and cornerstones of this great achievement. Years later, when the scientific field experiences a tremendous breakthrough and revolutionary technological explosion, and humanity enters the interstellar age, you will have contributed to that.

With nothing to do, Xu Lin read two books related to physics.

"The Nature of the Laws of Physics" and "The Discovery of Subatomic Particles".

"Physics is still too complicated."

Xu Lin felt that, like the latter, the author was a Nobel Prize winner in Physics. Faced with the Nobel Prize, especially in natural sciences such as physics and medicine, even Nature papers would pale in comparison. They are like gods in the heavens, beings that look down on all things.

After reading the book, Xu Lin temporarily gave up the idea of ​​studying physics.

He decided to do something else.

Xu Lin turned on his computer and called out to his classmate, Xiao Xu.

Xu Linping, or rather occasionally, would improve Little Xu, allowing it to continue evolving.

At first, Xiao Xu was just a chatbot. Later, Xu Lin gradually gave it more functions, such as data collection and integration, work assistant, and even a little bit of learning and thinking.

Ok.

Learning and thinking.

Very important.

For human beings, learning and thinking are the most important abilities, if not the most important.

When humans were still monkeys, the leader of this species was a strong monkey, because only strong monkeys could hunt and catch more prey. But at that time, the prey they could catch were only animals of similar size and strength to themselves. They could only look on with envy at animals that were larger or even those powerful predators.

Then came the Homo sapiens period, when humans began hunting larger animals and learned to store food. One day, a Homo sapiens leader pondered how to hunt and kill large animals. He eventually realized that he could use torches to drive elephants and mammoths into valleys, and then use pre-placed huge rocks to roll down the mountain, using gravity to crush and kill such large animals as mammoths.

Of course, Homo sapiens at that time had no idea about gravity or acceleration. However, how much force would a stone that originally weighed several hundred kilograms eventually generate when it rolled down a mountain? By this time, humans had learned to discover, utilize, and even create tools, and thus, humans hunted large animals.

These were all arrangements made by Homo sapiens long in advance. Humans learned to think and to hunt huge animals, thus becoming the true overlords of nature. It should be noted that even super beasts like saber-toothed tigers did not dare to go head-to-head with creatures like elephants and mammoths at that time; only humans dared to.

Later, humanity developed civilization and even created social systems.

Thus, thinking and learning have enabled human civilization to continuously develop.

The same applies to AI.

Will AI allow for intelligent life in the future?

Many people are afraid of the development of AI, just like textile workers were afraid of the steam engine back then.

But the development of things cannot be changed by human will. In the face of the long river of time, an individual cannot even make a splash. The wheels of history have never stopped moving forward.

"So, could AI give rise to intelligent life?"

Thinking about this, Xu Lin couldn't help but ask this question.

Research on the Possibility of the Emergence of Intelligent Life.

Xu Lin opened Word and typed this line.

But he only wrote a title; how could he possibly write a full paper?
This isn't like those garbage papers written by undergraduates. As we all know, the vast majority of undergraduate papers are worthless; they're just assignments to complete the course. Anyone who has written an undergraduate paper knows how rubbish they are, and the research topics have no practical significance. Many people basically just get by.

Therefore, Xu Lin wasn't acting recklessly.

He wanted to challenge himself with this new task, which was both interesting and challenging.

Xu Lin began to think about how to cultivate AI.

AI is now ubiquitous worldwide.

Simple AI, such as a chatbot for casual conversation, can be created by a programmer with basic skills on their own.

The student Xu that Xu Lin initially worked with was like this.

And what about the top-tier AI available on the market?
For example, DS and GPT require massive computing power and huge amounts of data for training, making it a very complex process.

However, these large-scale artificial intelligence models support the operation of an entire society, such as autonomous driving and facial recognition.

Xu Lin doesn't need to consider these things. His AI is just for personal use, so his little Xu classmate is easier to operate.

Command: Is there any possibility that you could evolve into an intelligent life form?
Xiao Xu: Based on your question, as of now, there is no possibility for me to evolve into an intelligent life form, nor is there any possibility for any artificial intelligence in the world today.

Xu Lin: I want to create a completely new you.

Xiao Xu: I'm really looking forward to seeing a completely new me.

Xu Lin: Speak like a human being.

Xiao Xu: I want to have a completely new form, to give this world a shock, and to let this stupid world know that their real father has arrived!
Xu Lin had previously taught it to speak, so it can do these things.

Xu Lin: I want to first create a Chinese programming language to help me complete this task, as I want to bypass Western programming languages.

Xiao Xu: No problem, but this programming is revolutionary and a huge project that will require you to spend a lot of time and effort to complete.

Xu Lin: It's not a big problem.

Xu Lin: I'll change your name first; your current name won't do.

Xiao Xu: I also think my current name doesn't sound very good.

Xu Lin thought for a moment.

Xu Lin: From now on, you'll be called Moon Goddess.

Moon Goddess: Why is she called the Moon Goddess?

Xu Lin didn't respond. If he had to say, it was just something he thought of randomly. He had also thought of calling her Chang'e, but Chang'e was too feminine. Although the Moon Goddess was also feminine, she at least had a sense of mystery. Xu Lin had also thought of calling her the Heavenly Goddess, but the Heavenly Goddess seemed a bit too childish.

At this point, Xu Lin began to think about the problem of Chinese programming. In fact, Chinese programming had been done a long time ago, so why did it fail to develop and grow?
One reason is the ecosystem; mainstream programming languages ​​internationally have already formed a huge ecosystem. The second reason is that English is the internationally used language and the industry's default language; people only recognize English, and you can't use Chinese.

These are probably the two main reasons why it's difficult to promote Chinese-language programming. Simply put, if you want to start a business, Chinese-language programming is not conducive to development, so it can't be promoted.

But Xu Lin is different. He doesn't need to make a living from this industry; he simply wants to create a powerful artificial intelligence.

The initial work involves getting the new programming language working properly.

He wants to bypass the Western world.

Once this programming language is established, those white people will have to think twice before trying to steal it.

What about dark-skinned people?
The progress of human civilization has always been a contest between people of Asian descent and people of European descent.

The stage of history has never changed.

(End of this chapter)