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Chapter 181 I accidentally forgot
The afternoon sun shone through the heavy curtains, casting a spot of light on a pile of math books.

James Maynard was sitting on the sofa, wearing glasses and reading the paper in his hands carefully.

On the small table next to it, the coffee was still steaming.

Opposite him, Larry Guth was working on a small whiteboard in the office, holding a marker in his hand and frowning as he made some simple deductions.

There is no doubt that the article James Maynard was holding in his hand at this time was Qiao Yu's "The Geometric Mapping of the Riemann Hypothesis under the Generalized Modal Axiom System".

In fact, it had been two days since they accepted the role of reviewer. They both had a certain understanding of Qiao Yu's general ideas.

But just as John Henry suspected, the two professors' understanding of Qiao Yu's generalized modal axiom system was not that in-depth.

So it takes a little longer to read the paper. Fortunately, if you want to understand the key theorem proofs, you don’t need to read much previous literature.

After all, generalized modal axioms are still a very new direction, and Qiao Yu mainly cited his first paper on the modal axiom system.

"Ah... The Riemann hypothesis is essentially a distribution problem on the complex plane. We have always believed that his modal space does not have enough dimensions to capture the symmetry of the complex number field. Now it seems that we are wrong!"

After calculating on the whiteboard, Larry Guth sighed and said, breaking the quiet atmosphere in the office.

James Maynard looked up at what Larry Gus had deduced, took off his glasses, rubbed his eyes, and then said, "I was just thinking about a question."

"Oh? What are you thinking about?" Larry Gus asked.

"I wonder if his method can already geometrize the Riemann hypothesis, then can this theory be extended to the more general Dirichlet series?" James Maynard asked in return.

Larry Gus was stunned when he heard this, then he picked up the paper beside him and turned to the last page.

"He wrote in the last paragraph that, well, the modal density function can be adjusted with different parameters to adapt to a wider range of situations. I think this wider range of situations should include the Dirichlet series and even other L functions."

"Okay, I admit it! This guy is a genius!"

James Maynard nodded and said something, then put down the paper in his hand and looked at what Larry Gus deduced on the whiteboard.

"Yesterday I saw on the official website of Annals of Mathematics that the paper he published four months ago on the generalized modal axiom system has been cited over a thousand times.

Now he has tied the whole system to the Riemann hypothesis. If this paper is published, how many citations do you think his paper will receive by November this year, a year after it was published? "

Larry Guth thought about it, then shook his head and said, "I don't know, James, but I think you are a little boring to care about this problem. You don't seem to be such a boring person. I only care about whether his method can really solve the Riemann hypothesis."

James Maynard smiled and said, "Don't think about it, Larry. I can't say whether his method will work, but I am sure that he can solve the Riemann hypothesis."

Larry Gus looked at James Maynard in surprise. The two had worked together for many years and he knew his old colleague well.

Although he seems easy to get along with, he is extremely proud in his heart. Not many juniors even think highly of him.

Of course, James does have the right to be proud, after all, his colleague is a Fields Medal winner.

"This is the first time you are so optimistic that someone can solve the Riemann hypothesis! So you think that even if his method doesn't work, this problem can still be solved? Why?"

James Maynard stood up, walked over to Larry Gus, took the marker from him, and made a few changes on the whiteboard.

He kept muttering, "It's simple, because this guy isn't even twenty years old! Damn, do you remember what you were doing when you were his age?

You may not believe it, but when I was that age, I was still thinking about how to sneak into Aunt Mary's house next door and watch her take a bath!

But at this age, he has at least fully understood the Riemann hypothesis and even has his own definition of mathematics. So I have great confidence in him! Really."

Larry Gus glanced at the content on the whiteboard that had been modified by James Maynard.

Well, he forgot a parameter just now, and now it has been added. So the whole structure looks elegant.

However, he still looked at James Maynard with a complicated look and asked, "Um...James, so when you British people are young, do you think and act so directly?"

James Maynard glanced at Larry Gus and said in a muffled voice, "That's not the point! Larry, regardless of whether Qiao Yu's method is useful or not, he has at least found a new direction.

And so far, I haven’t found any obvious logical loopholes in the paper. At least it is logically self-consistent. As for whether there are any problems with the details, I need to read it twice more. ”

If a math student heard these words, he would probably drool with envy.

As we all know, most reviewers do their work on a voluntary basis. Especially for some bigwigs, if they are not interested in the manuscript, they will not accept it at all.

Sometimes, due to various circumstances, I have to take on the task of reviewing manuscripts, but I don’t have that much time to read the manuscripts. I usually give them to my students to read, or take a few glances at them in my spare time and give my comments.

Of course there are articles that these big guys can read deeply, but they are definitely not many, maybe only one or two every year. And most of them are the latest achievements of big guys of the same level.

For the author of a paper, it is a great honor to be able to read through an article without finding any obvious logical loopholes and to continue reading it in detail.

This is enough to illustrate the cautious attitude of the reviewers towards this paper.

Of course Qiao Yu didn't know this.

For him, writing a paper rigorously is a basic skill, because before he even started writing papers, he had seen what would happen if a paper was not written rigorously.

Yes, he was talking about Qin Jingru's article, which was really hard for him to describe. That is, when Xue Song came to Yanbei, he only brought doctoral students, not master's students.

Otherwise, Qiao Yu would at least treat this Senior Brother Qin to a few more meals to thank him for providing a negative example and providing a lot of help for his academic growth.

Of course, for him, publishing a paper at the beginning of the year does not mean that everything is fine. To be honest, he has been quite busy recently. A lot of things depend on him.

Both laboratories were in the final stages, and because Chen Zhuoyang had to do some other verification work, some of the final calculation work in the Yanbei University laboratory also fell on Zhang Xiao.

Qiao Yu felt that this was also helping Senior Brother Chen. After all, the biggest enemy of a long-distance relationship is that there is no one around when you feel lonely, and then someone takes advantage of you.

But now, as long as the workload is heavy enough, Zhang Xiao will be so busy that he has no time to relax, and every day can be very fulfilling. It is impossible for him to think about other things.

Really, being able to do this for Senior Brother Chen, Qiao Yu felt that he might be a great saint, but he and the people around him had not discovered this shining side of him before.

He also has to keep an eye on the company over at Huaqing.

No, it should be said that the company doesn’t need to look at it, but he needs to keep an eye on the storage center.

The company's name is very low-key, called Beijing Xiyu Technology Service Co., Ltd.

The word "drizzle" here is actually the names of Qiao Xi and Qiao Yu. We took one character from each of them and then picked out a word that is quite meaningful.

The main business is to provide data processing and simulation computing services to major laboratories and engineering teams.

Chief Engineer Yu was quick to pay, and the construction was also fast. With the second phase of 10 million in funding in place, the equipment had basically been laid out.

To be honest, the initial investment of more than 42 million yuan in equipment sounds like a lot, but for a computer room, there are actually only two standard U cabinets in it.

Add to that various storage devices, internal switches, network cabling and a cooling system. This is probably why scientific research is all about money.

These things are indeed expensive.

This is also the reason why Qiao Yu did not intend to provide computing power support. Generally speaking, laboratories or engineering teams that can afford his platform basically have no shortage of computing power, but only a computing platform that can help them.

When the hardware is almost set up, he has to debug the software.

Chen Zhuoyang and Zhang Xiao were both too busy with upgrading the generalized modal axiom system to help him with the preliminary debugging. Qiao Yu could only pull Qiao Xi along to help him with the debugging.

This again requires the help from the Institute of Computing Technology, which really has a huge amount of desensitized data to help Qiao Yu with training.

Thanks to the lecture he gave at the Institute of Computing Technology last time, Qiao Yu met several very good assistant researchers there.

Since the data has been provided, I naturally don't mind helping him process it. Anyway, the other party is used to doing these basic tasks, and he can learn something by following Qiao Yu.

For example, the parameter adjustment method of the future drizzle computing platform.

This technology should not be underestimated. After all, parameter adjustment is also a technical job. The basis of modular design is the precise understanding and adaptation of different mission parameter requirements. For example, optimizing the main model parameters of reaction dynamics can also provide services for optimizing celestial body orbit models, which requires dynamic adjustments based on actual conditions.

Of course, the platform’s capabilities in the early stages are definitely not as outstanding as when he leads people to follow the data, but it doesn’t matter, the core of the platform is driven by algorithms and data.

As long as high-quality data samples continue to increase, coupled with feedback from partners to optimize and iterate, the platform's capabilities will definitely grow exponentially.

Moreover, the machine learning framework has become very mature now, and Qiao Yu has no intention of accepting data outside the scope of scientific research, so the complexity of the machine learning model is also very low.

Unlike those so-called big AI models, which overemphasize the universality and complexity of scenarios, and are fancy but cannot even effectively clean the data.

It is much easier to build learning capabilities on this kind of dedicated platform... well, it can only be said to be relatively easy.

At least Qiao Yu hasn't had a good night's sleep for more than a month because of writing code.

But there was no way, Qiao Yu was really worried about handing over the core code of the platform to others. After all, every logical node directly determines the stability of the underlying computing of the platform.

He was afraid that he wouldn't be able to understand the code that others had typed.

As for non-core code... well, there is no need to find someone to write it specifically.

Taking a look around the open source communities that programmers often visit, you will find that there are so many functional modules that you can never use them all.

The logic is simple and does not involve the underlying stability. You only need to copy and paste, and then make slight changes, and you can use it directly.

After all, this is not an interface for ordinary users. UI design? It doesn't exist! It just needs to run, be stable, and not make mistakes.

Basically, the people who do professional docking with the platform are all science and engineering men. The aesthetics of this group of people has always been simple, clear, and clear at a glance, which is enough!

Talking to someone who doesn't even know the color of lipstick about whether a button that's too square will make it look too angular and not good-looking is like talking to a cow.

The reason why many software codes are called shit mountains is that they want to achieve too many functions. Add everything to it, and over time, as long as it can run, it will live forever.

The truly small and beautiful programs are often the original appearance of those popular software. Just like many people have long forgotten that WeChat was originally used simply for chatting.

At that time, the WeChat installation package was only 457KB, and it could be installed as long as the mobile phone had 2M of space. Now the size of the installation package alone has exceeded 700MB.

In any case, after launching the main functions, determining the framework, and with many people indirectly helping, it still took him a month and a half to build the basic framework of the platform.

Really, from childhood to adulthood, Qiao Yu felt that he had never cared so much about anything.

After all, whether this computing platform can truly be efficient directly determines its future reputation and whether it can attract some big customers.

During this time, Qiao Yu also learned about the current status of scientific research in China, and found that his previous estimate was too optimistic.

It turns out that 90% of the research groups in China are the kind that are hard-working and have little money, especially those in basic research projects.

There are also many unknown professors or researchers who find it extremely difficult to get some money reimbursed. After all, even if they get a project, the money will be transferred to the unit account.

The expenditures must be signed by the unit leader. For those hard-working researchers, expensive computing services are simply unaffordable.

Like Professor Zhang, he dares to pay 200 million yuan in consulting fees for just being a consultant, which makes him a rare wealthy boss in the industry.

No wonder Liu Hao is determined to follow his boss.

Therefore, if they really want to make money, those small research groups can only gain a good reputation at best, and they need the support of a well-known large research group.

Large scientific research groups are usually led by big men themselves, and they often have fixed partners. If you want to steal their partners, you will definitely have higher requirements on the capabilities of the platform itself.

At least in the first two times, you can make people realize the benefits of using your own model so that you can take more orders.

Just like that, it was the end of April.

The system framework of the platform has finally been built, but of course it will take some time to debug it slowly.

Fortunately, this major part of the work can be handled by assistant researchers from the Institute of Computing Technology.

Qiao Yu only needs to keep an eye on the background every day, wait for feedback on problems and then take timely action.

Qiao Yu, who finally felt relieved, had no time to think about how to celebrate before he received a call from Tian Yanzhen.

As soon as he answered the phone, before he could even report the good news, he heard a scolding from the person on the other end of the phone.

"Qiao Yu, are the phone number you left in the submission system and the email address the center gave you just for show? You submitted your manuscript to a journal, but the editor couldn't get in touch with you, so you came to me?"

After hearing Tian Yanzhen's scolding, Qiao Yu remembered that he had submitted a paper to JAMS more than a month ago.

He has indeed been so busy recently that he forgot about it.

It has indeed been a long time since I last checked my mailbox. Or maybe Qiao Yu has never developed the habit of checking his mailbox regularly.

As for phone numbers…some time ago, he felt that there were too many spam calls, so he simply enabled the whitelist function. As expected, he felt that the world had become quieter.

After all, it is very unpleasant to have your thinking process always interrupted by messy phone calls.

Well, it was indeed his fault. He had been so busy recently that he forgot that he had submitted a paper.

But Qiao Yu felt a little aggrieved. Couldn't Director Tian reflect on himself first? If he was willing to be the corresponding author, this problem would not have occurred.

As for calling me late at night to scold me?

Of course, Qiao Yu only thought about this last sentence in his mind and didn't dare to say it out loud.

"Oh, Director Tian, ​​I forgot. You know, I've been so busy lately. I really haven't had time to check my email. As for my phone, um... you know about the whitelist, right? Um, why did the JAMS editor contact you? Does the paper need to be revised?"

Qiao Yu asked.

"The paper does not need to be revised, and it has been proofread and finalized! However, before it is officially published, you need to log in to your personal account in the JAMS online submission system and sign a formal electronic copyright transfer agreement.

They have already sent you the link and instructions for signing the agreement via email, but you have not responded. I can't get through on the phone. If it weren't for the rush to publish in April, you don't think they would care about you!

JAMS is a quarterly journal! This means that if you don’t publish your paper this month, you will have to wait until July to publish it! I’ve never seen such a thing before! When other people publish papers, they have to check the status of the papers every day! But you don’t reply to the editor’s emails or answer the phone calls…”

Qiao Yu recalled that this seemed to be the standard procedure.

It’s just that before I submitted the paper to the Annals of Mathematics at Princeton, it seemed that I signed it directly when I submitted it.

I subconsciously explained, "I thought the review would take some time. Who knew the reviewers were so efficient? After all, I submitted the manuscript at the beginning of the school year."

"Okay, sign the agreement quickly and explain to them, otherwise the editor will think you don't plan to publish it. You kid, every day..."

After saying that, Tian Yanzhen hung up the phone.

Qiao Yu was embarrassed and quickly logged into his mailbox. Sure enough, JAMS' official mailbox had sent him a total of six emails...

Before, there was an email reminder every time the status was changed, and later he was reminded to sign the copyright authorization agreement, and three emails were sent.

The editor was even afraid that his work email had been blocked for unknown reasons, so he tried to send him the same email using his personal email...

Well, I have to change this bad habit of not checking my email.

I quickly entered the personal center of the online submission system through the official website email link and signed the copyright transfer contract according to the prompts.

Qiao Yu then sent a very sincere apology letter through the editor's private email address, and the matter was over.

After all, which editor would have the nerve to embarrass a 17-year-old who doesn't understand the rules of scientific research? !

(End of this chapter)