Cultivation Shura Field

Shen Lan: "What coriander... Oh, did you forget to add coriander to the shredded beef?"

Xu Zhe: "Yes, this temperature is indeed OK, but I forgot to add coriander, so the taste became a little monotonous, and the burnt aroma made me feel a little bitter."

"So that's how it is." Shen Lan responded and took a bite of tofu, but as she chewed, she couldn't help but frowned. Now, even if she wanted to defend a chef, she didn't know how to say it.

Xu Zhe also noticed her abnormality, tasted the mapo tofu, and immediately said, "It's bland."

Shen Lan looked over quietly, with a hint of inquiry in her eyes.

She asked, "This doesn't seem like your level. Are you feeling unwell today?"

Xu Zhe shook his head: "Nothing is wrong."

Shen Lan: "What's going on? What distracted you?"

However, Xu Zhe now understood after a little thought that it was not so much that he was distracted, but rather that the recent series of developments in the Shura Field had made him a little confused.

Originally, he had already adapted to the intimate relationship with Shen Lan and Feifei. He had even accumulated a lot of experience in getting along with one without telling the other. But that night, Song Xingye's words added a lot of psychological pressure to him.

Now, the scumbag's behavior has not really been exposed, but what if it is exposed in the future?

He had thought about it a long time ago. If he was exposed, the worst that could happen was that the girls would scold him and break up with him, or even beat him up. He could bear that. On the contrary, he couldn't bear to hear someone say "I can wait for you" like Xiao Ye did.

So when he was cooking for Shen Lan just now, his imagination started to run wild in his mind.

At this time, Xu Zhe quickly found an excuse: "Because I received a message from Professor Zou of Jiaotong University yesterday. He told me that we won the ImageNet competition, and the advantage was very large."

Shen Lan just recalled a little, and then said: "Is it the associate professor in the winter camp? I remember you told me that the competition seemed to let artificial intelligence recognize pictures."

Xu Zhe nodded. "Yes, you know, no matter how powerful computers are now, they don't have the ability to understand. For example, when a camera takes a picture of my face and stores it in the computer, it just converts the light into pixels and doesn't know that the thing in the lens is a human face. And what the competition aims to do is to let the computer distinguish whether a photo is a human face, a cat, or something else."

Shen Lan pondered and said, "Then we should make a mathematical model. For example, which parameters are met for a human face, and which parameters are met for a cat..."

Xu Zhe: "The traditional method is like this, but it's really not smart enough. For example, if I face the camera straight on or sideways, will the parameters be the same? The difference for cats is even greater. Have you ever heard of a saying that cats are a kind of liquid?"

Shen Lan couldn't help but be stunned: "Cats are liquids?"

Xu Zhe: "I'll share some videos with you when I have time. It shows that cats have very soft bodies. They can curl up in a bowl or pot, or crawl into the cracks of a sofa. They can take all kinds of strange shapes. The human brain can always recognize that it is a cat, but it is difficult to come up with a mathematical model using a set of parameters."

Shen Lan: "What should we do then?"

Xu Zhe: "Think about it, how does the human brain recognize it? For example, what is a cat? Children will encounter cats again and again under the guidance of adults, and gradually grasp the meaning of the word 'cat'. If a child's eyes are regarded as a camera, recognizing a scene is like pressing the shutter of a camera. A three-year-old child is equivalent to taking hundreds of millions of photos."

Shen Lan: "So the amount of data will be huge, I understand. But can we complete the learning process just by having a large amount of data?"

Xu Zhe nodded: "As long as the initial state of the neural network is set and the algorithm is designed, then all we need is a large enough amount of data. In a complex enough system, new patterns will automatically emerge."

Shen Lan: "But what about the principle of emergence? There must be a principle, right?"

Xu Zhe: "Unfortunately, the principle you want to know may be too complex for the human brain to understand."

Shen Lan stared at the rice in front of her and fell into deep thought.

Xu Zhe ate his food in small bites. Although he didn't cook well today, that was only compared to his previous cooking skills. For today's lunch, even the most failed dish, the Mapo Tofu, was actually better than what Tang Lingfei's parents made. In short, at least it was edible.

Shen Lan still stared at the bowl of rice, and suddenly whispered: "I suddenly thought of a question. One grain of rice is not a bowl of rice, and two grains of rice are not a bowl of rice. How many grains of rice are added together to make a bowl of rice?"

Xu Zhe: "It depends on how you define a bowl of rice."

Shen Lan looked up at him and said with a smile: "Whether artificial intelligence is considered intelligent or not depends on how we define intelligence. But I have another question."

Xu Zhe: "What's the problem?"

Shen Lan: "Besides me, who else can you talk to about this with?"

"Let's talk about technology and philosophy?" Xu Zhe also smiled, "That's true, only you."

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309. Chapter 307 306 Who is the boss of whom

309.

When his supervisor called him to his office, Shang Pengyu was a little nervous. Of course, he was worried that he had been slacking off too much recently and was discovered.

However, in the office, Associate Professor Zou Tianyan did not ask him about his efficiency in doing the project, but instead brought up an unexpected topic:

"Do you still remember Xu Zhe?"

Shang Pengyu scratched his head and said, "Is it the junior who asked me to help with the paperwork last time and participated in the science and technology innovation competition?"

Associate Professor Zou: "Have you established a good relationship with him?"

Shang Pengyu: "He is only in the first year of high school, it is still a long time before he can join the group, why are you in such a hurry..."

Zou Tianyan chuckled: "Have you heard of a mobile game called Ski Escape? When I was competing outside this time, I saw several young people from Europe and America playing this game."

Shang Pengyu shook his head: "I don't play many games, let alone mobile games."

"Look at this," Zou Tianyan motioned the students to look at the computer screen, "The company that made this game is called Lanzhe Technology. Can you guess where the word 'Zhe' comes from?"

Shang Pengyu saw that the webpage displayed on the screen was data about the game "Ski Escape". In addition to the name of the game development company, there was also the total global sales, which was a seven-digit number.

"Eight million?!"

Zou Tianyan smiled with some emotion: "In less than three months, the sales volume is 8 million. It is now firmly in the top few of the Pingguo game list. The price of this game is not expensive, only one yuan, but multiplied by this sales volume, it is terrifying."

Shang Pengyu murmured, "Is it too late for me to build a good relationship with my junior brother now?"

Zou Tianyan asked back: "What do you think?"

Shang Pengyu clapped his hands: "It must be in time, he is my dear junior fellow apprentice!"

Zou Tianyan stood up and patted the student on the shoulder: "Xiao Shang, if you get along well with him, you won't have to worry about finding a job in the future."

Shang Pengyu couldn't help but smile, but then asked, "Teacher, what about you?"

Zou Tianyan: "Forget it, I'm not a game developer."

Shang Pengyu: "But, is it possible for Junior Brother Xu Zhe to sponsor our project team?"

"The school has funding, so we don't need his sponsorship, and..." Zou Tianyan cleared his throat, "I can't possibly get to the point where students can sponsor me, right?"

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It was early in the morning again, and Tang Lingfei came to Xu Zhe's house again before his parents went out for work.

Xu Guowei and Zeng Jing certainly didn't know how much had happened during this winter vacation. They still greeted Feifei and said good morning as usual, and then went out one after another.

Tang Lingfei gently pushed open the boy's bedroom door, and fell into entanglement and hesitation again.

Because of the last time she stole a kiss, Tang Lingfei had secretly made up her mind not to do something similar again. Although Tang Lingfei didn't hate his "punishment" method, she was worried that if she pushed too far, Xu Zhe would hate her. That would be more trouble than it would take.

But now, looking at his sleeping face and thinking that if she only took a few steps closer, she could kiss him again, Tang Lingfei couldn't help but clench her fists.

She took one step, two steps, three steps, and stood beside Xu Zhe's bed.

Tang Lingfei looked down at the boy's face, hesitated for a long time, and finally said, "Xu Zhe, get up."

This was a test to see if he slept soundly.

He didn't react at all.

Tang Lingfei raised her voice a little more: "Wake up, your parents are at work, don't you have to work?"

Still no response...

If I bend down and give him a kiss now, he probably won't notice, right?

However, just when Tang Lingfei was in a dilemma, Xu Zhe suddenly opened his eyes and stared at her.

His eyes were quite clear, not at all like he had just woken up.

Tang Lingfei was startled: "Wow! You, you woke up a long time ago?"

Xu Zhe: “Yes.”

Tang Lingfei: "Then why didn't you respond when I called you just now?"

Xu Zhe replied calmly: "Because I was thinking about something."

Tang Lingfei couldn't help but wonder - was this guy really thinking about something and didn't respond? Or was he pretending to sleep on purpose to test whether he would do something?

Unfortunately, the girl couldn't get an answer. She didn't dare to test him, because if she asked, she would reveal her evil intentions.

Xu Zhe sat up and said, "You came just in time. I don't have to make a phone call. I want to have a meeting today. Are you free?"

Tang Lingfei: "I do have time, but why did you call me to the meeting?"

Xu Zhe: "Have you forgotten? You are already a contracted employee of my company. You just don't need to work on weekdays, but you have to obey the boss's normal arrangements. If you are called to the meeting, it is of course because it is related to you."

The words "obey the boss's normal arrangements" made Feifei's imagination run wild. She didn't think about the unspoken rules in the workplace, but she secretly imagined that he would call her to his office to talk about work alone, and then talk about work, life, and love... Hehe, just thinking about it is interesting.

Xu Zhe suddenly asked: "What are you thinking about?"

Tang Lingfei came back to her senses: "I didn't think about anything."

Xu Zhe: "But your expression is not right, it seems like you are imagining something strange."

Tang Lingfei quickly shook her head: "No! I obviously didn't think of anything!"

Xu Zhe sighed, "If you say so, then so be it. Anyway, this meeting is about setting up a music studio. This studio will not only compose music for games, but also create some other pop songs. Of course, you will be the only artist in the studio in the early stages, and you will also be given some shares."

Tang Lingfei: "Give me shares in the studio?"

Xu Zhe: “Yeah, what do you think?”

Tang Lingfei felt that being able to sing was enough to make her happy. The studio and the shares seemed so far away from her. So she asked, "Wouldn't it be good to pay me a salary?"

Xu Zhe didn't know whether to laugh or cry: "Giving shares and paying wages don't conflict. You can get a fixed salary, and then with the shares, you can share the profits of the studio. Of course, this is all my investment, so I definitely get the lion's share. But the specific proportion will be decided in the meeting later."

Tang Lingfei asked again: "Besides the two of us, who else wants to attend the meeting?"

Xu Zhe: "Uncle Song will definitely come, he has a lot of things to deal with. The company's new financial officer, Shi Yueyao, will attend the meeting remotely. I will open a QQ video call for her to participate in the discussion. There will also be Xiao Ye and Sister Lan."

Tang Lingfei: "Why is there Senior Sister Shen Lan?"

Xu Zhe: "Because the shareholders of the studio are not only Chongkai, but also Lanzhe."

Tang Lingfei was stunned: "Doesn't that mean that Senior Sister Shen Lan has also become my boss?!"

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310. Chapter 308 307 The biggest problem is this

310.

The meeting place set by Xu Zhe was his own home.

As the Spring Festival approaches, more and more shops are closed, not to mention that it is difficult to find a rented meeting place in this small town. Of course, you can go to a coffee shop or something like that, but it is not necessary. Anyway, there are only a few people in total, and a table can accommodate them.

The dining table was square. Xu Zhe sat alone on one side, Shen Lan sat alone on another, Song Huaifeng sat with the computer with video on on one side, and the two sisters Song Xingye and Tang Lingfei sat together for warmth.

Song Xingye was also responsible for making tea. She brought the kettle and the quilt filled with tea leaves to the table, distributed them to everyone, and poured hot water on them. At the same time, the video was connected, and the meeting began.

"I've already sent you the topic of today's meeting in advance. We're going to set up a music studio, not just to make game music, but also some pop songs. And when new games are released in the future, there can also be advertising songs, promotional songs, and the like. I'd like to spread out the shares of this studio, what do you think?"

Shen Lan was the first to raise her hand.

The others' eyes were focused on her. However, this tall girl with short hair did not show any sign of stage fright.

She said, "I heard that Sony Music wants to sign our musicians, is that right?"

Xu Zhe nodded: "They have already signed Walker, and the next step is to sign me and Tang Lingfei. The data of "Faded" on YouTube is still soaring, so of course they want to copy such a song."

At this time, Song Huaifeng said: "I can add something to everyone. Pingguo wanted to sign the copyright of this song, but I listened to Mr. Xu and didn't let them buy it out, so they are still drafting a share agreement. You don't know how You may not know it on YouTube, but the song "Faded" has exceeded million plays on YouTube."

"Please..." Tang Lingfei's jaw dropped a little. She didn't even dare to think that so many people in the world had heard her voice.

Song Xingye quietly squeezed her hand under the table and gave her an encouraging smile.

But soon, the two besties focused their attention on their rival in love.

Shen Lan didn't seem to care about their gazes and continued, "So the reason why we set up a studio is actually to cooperate with Soni Music and use some of their resources to launch our songs. In this case, will Soni have any requirements for our studio shares?"

Xu Zhe: "We have studied Sonny's letter of intent. They do not intend to take our shares, but require us to sign an exclusive agreement."

Shen Lan: "Exclusive agreement?"

Xu Zhe: "The release of records, the organization of concerts, and some other commercial activities all need to be arranged by Sony. We can be passive, but we cannot do things through other entertainment companies. Sony will help us contact professional arrangers and producers, and handle the main process of record release."