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Chapter 278 This Vending Machine Says Thank You (3K)

Tang Yiping didn't have a real moment of leisure until two or three o'clock in the afternoon, after he left home.

Tang Yiping was so busy that his head was spinning.

He discovered that although his little bean sprout was small, it was quite powerful.

Good news: once you're home, all work is off the table, and no one will bother you even if the sky falls.

The bad news is that as soon as I leave home, all the problems come back.

What does it mean to "retreat into a small building and become a unified entity"?

Tang Yiping thought that if he had had the [Original Dust Mother Tree] when he came to Linghai Technology for his internship, he could have stayed at home for thirty days a month until payday.

Then you can collect your salary for free.

It sounds wonderful!
Instead of now...

I code every day, but nobody pays me a salary.

Thinking this, Tang Yiping sighed and turned on ROBO-FU again.

Yesterday, he updated ROBO-FU to version v0.5, opening up the API interface to access various city data, but so far, he hasn't connected any data yet.

Of course, his opening of the API this time is not for accessing ordinary data; he has a completely new and different way of accessing data.

……

As Tang Yiping left home, not far from Qihang Building, at Jingzhunweidu, Brother Wang finished modifying the parameters on his phone and connected to his own ROBO-FU server.

Ever since witnessing the amazing simulation capabilities of the little robot, Brother Wang has been hoping to experience a metaphysical simulation himself.

For example, he dreams of Xiao Luobo helping him find a big client to increase the company's revenue. Or perhaps a logistics company tycoon suddenly gets into a car accident and breaks his leg, and he happens to arrive and saves him, thus securing a large order from the logistics company; or a government planning official suddenly gets into a car accident and breaks his leg, and he happens to arrive and saves him, thus getting an opportunity to participate in a bidding process; or an investment company tycoon gets into a car accident and breaks his leg…

In short, he used several people's phones in the company to simulate the process, and each time he rushed over excitedly, only to return disappointed.

Not a single broken leg was found.

Instead, my colleagues asked me to buy a lot of milk tea and snacks on the way.

In short, watching Lin Jiaqiang and Zhao Wenjie simulate it felt very mystical, but so far, he has never succeeded even once.

This made him reflect on himself and wonder if there was something wrong with his character.

However, on the forums of L Station, netizens have already summarized some patterns of the "mystical simulation".

First, do not set any initial data during simulation, only enable the default simulation; second, be truly desperate during simulation, and have no other options; third, sincerity will bring results (see point 2).

Seeing the experiences summarized by netizens, Brother Wang had to reflect on himself and wonder if he was not sincere enough.
Is it really too much to always hope that big shots get into car accidents and break their legs?
Of course, Brother Wang doesn't really believe in the experiences summarized by netizens. If you say that Little Radish can judge whether a person is sincere or not, then that's really a metaphysical question.

Brother Wang didn't believe in this superstition, and he decided to find out the pattern of this thing.

For ordinary users, cloud resources are needed to simulate it, but for Brother Wang, he can deploy ROBO-FU on his own server.

That means you can simulate as many times as you want, and even use simulations on a larger scale than the official cloud simulation.

After all, ROBO-FU's server resources were sponsored by the big shots at L station for Tang, and they weren't high-end servers, which is why each person could only simulate once a day, and often had to wait in line for half a day.

As a result, after testing it on his own server for a long time, he discovered...

Even without any mystical explanations, this thing is damn good.

Then he became somewhat dependent on it.

As a provider of high-precision map data, Precision Technology is a newcomer to this field. In terms of technology, it belongs to the "mid-tier" of the industry, mainly providing high-precision maps for some vertical fields and some regions.

As a high-precision map service provider deeply rooted in Hailing City, Wang Ge and his team have in-depth cooperation with the local transportation department, possessing the most accurate traffic data and the most accurate local data every day, which is also one of their competitive advantages.

He discovered that with detailed input data, the simulations performed by the little radishes were incredibly accurate and precise. However, if there was a significant discrepancy between the little radishes' simulations and the actual traffic data of the day, it indicated that there was a problem with the map.

Sending data collection personnel to conduct an on-site survey will surely uncover unlabeled items, such as temporary construction, road damage, incorrect labeling, and so on.

Through simulation alone, they have already discovered hundreds of errors, greatly saving manpower and resources and improving efficiency.

However, Little Carrot has a drawback: it can only simulate urban environments in ordinary scenarios. It cannot simulate climate changes such as wind and rain, or other influencing factors, because Tang Yiping did not provide it with such data.

This feature is so important that Brother Wang simply wrote a PR himself, intending to submit it.

But guess what? Wang Ge wrote half of his PR, and v0.5 was released.

This confirms the claim that Pingzi doesn't offer any opportunities to contribute code. It also confirms the complaint that if you want a feature, you don't need to submit an ISSUS request; you just need to quietly create a folder, and bam, Pingzi will have the feature online the next day.

Right now, Brother Wang was lamenting that Pingzi couldn't be so cunning, while also updating his own server to version 0.5.

Then, based on the API documentation, I converted my own data source and integrated it into ROBO-FU.

After restarting the service and getting Little Carrot running, he ran a simulation and stared blankly at the results.

What is a digital twin?

This is what you call a digital twin!
Looking at the simulation results on the map, for a moment, Brother Wang had a strange feeling.

The whole city came alive.

He had the illusion that he was looking down on the whole world.

This feeling left him lost in thought, and it took him a long time to pull himself out of it. "Old Liu..." he said, looking at Liu Jiadong beside him, with a mix of感慨 (gan3kai3, deep emotion) and 兵味 (binge-like bravado), "From today onwards, our company's little robot is truly the strongest little robot. Even Pingzi's official version can't catch up with ours!"

"Huh? Why?" Liu Jiadong asked, puzzled.

"Because our company has the most comprehensive dynamic data for Hailing City!" Brother Wang felt a sense of loneliness despite his invincibility. "It's a pity that this data is all under exclusive agreements, and no one else is allowed to use it. Sigh, otherwise I really wanted to contribute it to Tang!"

He said.

Liu Jiadong blinked.

"Ok."

He said.

You're the boss, so I'll just quietly watch you show off.

Indeed, although Tang released the API, there is no data source available. It is estimated that netizens will provide some third-party open-source data later, but the accuracy and precision of such data will probably not be of much reference value.

Surely Tang can't conjure up data.

Thinking this, Liu Jiadong opened the official version on his phone, and then he discovered...

“Hirako has updated the data source,” he said.

……

In the afternoon, after finishing his lunch and resting for a while, Lin Jiaqiang went to the alley again to restock the vending machine.

Then he saw a van parked on the side of the road, and several strong young men were unloading things from the van.

There was also a sign next to it that read "Vending Machine Restocking Station".

Upon seeing him, a young man greeted him: "Hi, Jiaqiang, you're here today too."

"Ah, you know me?" Lin Jiaqiang was a little confused.

The young man smiled.

Absolutely! It left a deep impression; I was almost scared to death.

"What's going on?" Lin Jiaqiang asked. "Why did you move outside?"

"It's too much trouble to always let you come in. It's not easy for cars to pass through inside, and the road is long, so we simply moved it out," the young man said.

"That's perfect, I might be able to make another trip in my spare time." Lin Jiaqiang said, as he moved several boxes of snacks and water into his car.

The young man helped him tie it up and watched him leave.

Lin Jiaqiang looked at the OIFU map and saw that several nearby vending machines he had restocked yesterday still had stock. He decided to restock the other vending machines nearby that were out of stock.

His electric bicycle can't carry too much, but he figured he didn't need to refill the vending machines all at once; as long as they had some, that was enough. He could keep several nearby vending machines always stocked.

Arriving at a vending machine marked "Stock 0" on its OIFU, Lin Jiaqiang connected to the OIFU, opened the restocking slot, and then squatted down to begin unpacking and restocking.

After tidying up and smoothing out the goods, and checking them one last time, Lin Jiaqiang closed the restocking port, clicked "Restocking Complete," verified the restocking data, and confirmed that everything was correct before turning to leave.

Then he heard someone say, "Thank you for restocking my stock."

Lin Jiaqiang: "???"

Did I just hear someone talking?

Someone thanked me?

"Who?" he asked.

"Thank you, young man, you're so kind," the voice said.

"You're welcome. And who are you?" He figured that someone might be trying to take something from the vending machine, but it was empty, which was why they were thanking him.

Although he couldn't see the person, he figured they were probably hiding behind the vending machine.

After all... when he was down on his luck, he didn't want to see anyone.

But... it still feels a bit strange.

"Even though you restocked my stock, your lips are cracked. Have some water and rest," the voice said, and then with a "plop," a bottle of water rolled out of the vending machine's dispenser.

Lin Jiaqiang: "???"

He turned to the front of the vending machine and saw that, at some point, a square-headed cartoon robot had appeared on the screen.

"Is that you... speaking?"

What's going on? This vending machine can talk?

"Yes, it's me speaking," said the cartoon robot. "My name is Lorenz. What's your name?"

"Uh... my name is... Lin Jiaqiang." Saying your name to a vending machine is indeed quite strange.

"Lin Jiaqiang, I'm so grateful to you for restocking my stock," said the little cartoon robot. "Listen, thank you, because of you..."

　The information density felt too high; it was 7 words long.
　　
　
(End of this chapter)