MIT Media Lab, E14 building.

This building, which once symbolized the highest academic institution, has now become a battlefield without gunfire.

The sky outside was already tinged with twilight, and the afterglow of the evening gradually disappeared behind the Boston skyline.

But inside the core project team of this building, the lights were on all the time.

No one had any intention of leaving get off work.

Overnight, the situation changed dramatically.

The formulas on the blackboard have been scanned by a high-resolution camera and clearly projected onto the large screen in the control room.

Researchers sat around the monitor, desperately trying to decipher the algorithmic logic left behind by Su Hao.

Lisa pointed at the screen and spoke.

"Look here. This is completely different from the underlying logic we used before. Is this some kind of multi-layered structure?"

"Multi-layered?"

Everyone frowned and zoomed in on a section of the image.

"This seems to be a direct reconstruction of the neural network using pure mathematical formulas..."

However, this is not a traditional artificial neural network; the iteration rules for each layer are different.

Lisa nodded emphatically.

"That's right. Each layer operates on a different time scale."

This layer operates on a second-to-second scale, while the other layer operates on a microsecond-to-microsecond scale. This is a completely non-linear model.

"Is this model physically feasible?" someone murmured to themselves.

"Look here." Lisa typed on the keyboard, separating out a core formula.

"This is not a traditional time-domain analysis based on Fourier transform."

This formula itself can trigger the system to synchronize automatically.

Su Hao estimated that the frequent errors were due to hardware bottlenecks causing concurrency limitations, so he simply embedded the 'time' parameter entirely into the underlying computational kernel.

A brief silence fell over the control room.

People tried to reverse-engineer these formulas, but their complex topological structure made them impossible to decipher at a glance.

After staring at the screen for a long time, several senior researchers couldn't help but let out a wry smile.

"Am I too old? I don't think I can continue doing this job."

"This level of expertise is more than qualified to name a new theorem, isn't it? This is simply a high-order mathematics that delivers a crushing blow."

"It seems that the MIT leadership had a very discerning eye when they granted him permission to have an independent lab."

Lisa stared at the formula and continued.

"Most incredibly, this architecture is completely free from the risk of oscillation decay."

Normally, such a complex nested system would trigger an avalanche effect with even a tiny error, but this system can absorb errors in real time, forcing itself to converge and stabilize.

She pointed to a workstation running a simulation test.

The function graph on the monitor was incredibly smooth.

In the past, an anomaly would have caused the curve to fluctuate wildly like an electrocardiogram, but now it was like a smooth ribbon, rising steadily.

"CPU load is only 48 percent?" Jason leaned closer to the screen in disbelief.

Previously, the extreme overload that often exceeded 80% and approached 90% has now been cut in half.

"How can the performance be so superior when feeding the same dataset?"

"The clock synchronization is also perfect."

Previously, each parallel processing operation had a delay of 0.03 seconds; now, the skewness has been reduced by more than a hundred times.

"It seems that he had already factored in the latency caused by hardware physical losses during the underlying modeling stage."

Several core researchers huddled together, flipping through the compilation log.

A sense of shame, enough to make one want to disappear into the ground, spread through me.

Not long ago, in this very office, this group of self-proclaimed industry leaders confidently asserted:

The original model has reached its optimization limit, and there is no room for further improvement.

Now, his face is all swollen from being slapped!

This is hardly the limit of optimization.

This is a revolutionary, groundbreaking qualitative change in parameters!

What's the most creepy thing?

All of this was accomplished by Su Hao single-handedly!

He single-handedly completed the entire project team's work in less than two days!

This outrageous fact shattered everyone's understanding like a heavy hammer, leaving everyone present horrified!

Allen, who had been standing at the back, silently listening to the various data reports, finally nodded heavily and made the decision directly:

"There's no need to look for any other backup plans."

Let's make this the final version to be delivered!

Run the entire validation set for me!

"Received! No problem!"

The frustration of having my budget cut and being pressured by the deadline vanished instantly.

The dawn of victory finally broke through the gloom with an extremely forceful manner.

The once lifeless laboratory was now completely enlivened and ignited the entire venue!

All the researchers immediately returned to their respective workstations.

The green cursor was flashing rapidly and wildly on the black screen of the terminal.

The sound of the keyboard being typed was like a torrential downpour.

Lines of instructions, representing the final execution, were crisply and cleanly typed into the system kernel.

The validation set has been loaded.

A moment later.

Buzz————

The array of workstations, located deep within the server room, resembled mechanical behemoths that had been fully awakened, their chassis emitting a deep rumble as they ran at full speed.

"Ready!"

Lisa suddenly raised both hands and then slammed down the Enter key!

With a bang!

Dozens of real-time simulated terminal windows, like a peacock spreading its tail feathers, were simultaneously spread out densely on the giant screen in the main control room!

"All 12,000 test cases have been pushed in. Full-scale brute-force verification, let's begin."

Allen stood with his hands behind his back, surveying the entire arena.

At this moment, his eyes had completely lost their scholarly gentleness and had become like those of a ruthless general about to lead his troops into battle.

"During the next 24-hour testing period, everyone shall enter the highest level of combat readiness!"

All the underlying logs I'm running are forcibly set to be automatically backed up every ten seconds!

Once an error is thrown, it must be reported immediately. Except for emergency manual circuit breaking, absolutely no unnecessary write operations are allowed!

"Received!" everyone responded in unison.

The battle horn has sounded.

We've reached the final sprint of this decisive battle.

The faces of every programmer staring at the screen were no longer relaxed; they were filled with the solemnity unique to scientific researchers.

Michael rubbed his aching temples and chuckled dryly.

"Looks like everyone's going to have to prepare a huge dose of espresso again. Let's all pull an all-nighter."

But for these research fanatics who have long since sold their souls to code, what kind of project is it if they don't stay up all night?

Staying up all night has long been commonplace.

"Be content. As long as this system can run smoothly and we hand it in, pulling an all-nighter is nothing."

"Back in the day, on that lousy project, a bunch of us slept on cots that smelled of feet for a week straight and we got through it. What's a little bit of trouble like this now?"

"Yes, staying up late is never a problem at MIT."

"But to work yourself to the bone for half a month and not produce even a single result—that's truly worse than death."

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