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Chapter 274 Graduation Ceremony!

July 307, , Yanbei University, Building , Dormitory .

A standard four-person dormitory in the girls' dormitory building of Yanbei Guanghua College.

Although it was already 11:30 at night, the lights in the dormitory were still on. The four girls were already lying on their beds, but they were not sleeping, but chatting.

This is understandable.

Tomorrow is the 2031 undergraduate graduation ceremony and degree awarding ceremony of Yanbei University. For these sisters who have been together for four years, they are about to go their separate ways.

There is naturally a lot to talk about at this time.

Yes, four years ago, Xia Keke finally accepted Qiao Yu's advice, applied for Guanghua College of Yanbei University, and was successfully admitted.

The only pity is that happy times are always short-lived. The wonderful four years of undergraduate life passed by in a flash.

Before I had time to savor it, it was gone.

However, these four years are definitely extremely precious memories, because Xia Keke did have a very smooth life and almost never encountered any unpleasant things in school.

For example, the three girls in the dormitory all have very good personalities. For four years, there has always been only one group chat, and there has never been such an outrageous thing as four people creating more than ten group chats.

There is no doubt that this is all for Qiao Yu's face.

In fact, I was selected to live in the same dormitory with Xia Keke. If we didn't get along, we would change dormitories in the first semester.

There was no way around it. Some of the professors who taught Xia Keke in the past four years were terrified. They were much more reserved in class, not as free and easy as when they taught other classes.

The main reason is that I don't dare to bring in some personal opinions. Although it didn't matter if I just said it casually in the past, but some words got to Qiao Yu's ears...

Let me put it this way, generally speaking, once you get the title of professor, as long as you don't engage in academic fraud, don't mess around at school, and complete the basic teaching requirements, you generally have a stable job.

After all, professors who can get tenure at top universities like Yanbei University are all outstanding these days. As for bringing some personal opinions into the classroom and advocating some of your own views, it can be said that it is all basic operations.

After all, China really respects intellectuals when it comes to freedom of speech.

But there are always exceptions.

When Xia Keke was in her sophomore year, a professor was in a class and for some reason he talked at length about the various disadvantages of concentrating resources to accomplish major tasks in China's economic system. He even used Qiao Yu's project as a negative example and began to advocate the various benefits of the West's use of pure market economic regulation.

For Xia Keke, it doesn't matter what is said in class. She is already in university and can understand that the idea of ​​inclusiveness is necessary. There must be things worth learning on the other side. China used to cross the river by feeling its way to the other side.

Besides, everyone has different ideas. But the girl who always admired her boyfriend couldn't stand it when Qiao Yu was talking about the project.

I started a debate with the professor in class. After that, the professor of this class was replaced...

Because two days later the college posted a notice stating that after careful study, the college had decided to terminate the professor's employment on the grounds of spreading inappropriate ideas.

This incident had a great impact among the students at that time.

Although Xia Keke felt that she had nothing to do with the professor's expulsion, and Qiao Yu also told her so, no one else believed it.

Anyway, since that time, Xia Keke has become the undisputed big sister of the 27th grade of the academy. As a result, his relationship with Qiao Yu was also exposed.

When they were dating before, they were still cautious and always kept it secret. They never chose to meet up on the campus of Yanbei University, but usually went outside the campus.

After that incident, the two of them just let go. They often went to the Weiming Lake to walk around hand in hand. This shocked a group of people in the school...

It also aroused the envy of his classmates. Who could have imagined that the youngest and most promising professor in the school would have a girlfriend so early, and that she was his classmate?

He was simply a hidden boss! It was from then on that the already harmonious relationship in the dormitory became even better.

……

"Keke, tomorrow we have our graduation ceremony, can your Professor Qiao come to attend?"

When the four little girls were chatting most enthusiastically, the girl who lived in the bed opposite Xia Keke, who was also the youngest girl in the dormitory, came.

Hearing this question, Xia Keke, who was in high spirits, suddenly fell down and answered sullenly: "He may not have time tomorrow. He said that he has a very important meeting and it is not convenient for him to be absent."

Well, now not only Xia Keke was disappointed, the other three girls in the dormitory were also quite disappointed.

After all, when they entered school, Qiao Yu was a well-deserved legend in the entire education system.

In his first year of high school, he won a gold medal in the Olympic Mathematics Competition and was subsequently recruited to Yanbei University. After only one year at the school, he won a Fields Medal.

By the time they entered the school, Qiao Yu was already a full professor. Although he had been working on the project quietly for many years, he had not produced any high-profile results.

But every year we receive news that an international award is going to be given to Professor Qiao, but he always refuses it without exception.

Moreover, if you open the official website of the Yanbei International Research Center for Mathematics, you will find that Professor Qiao Yu's team publishes several articles in top international journals every year.

Let me put it this way, before, Yanbei University and its Mathematical Research Center published about ten articles in the field of science in top international journals every year.

Now it has almost doubled.

The professors often joke that after Professor Qiao forms a group after graduation, it is probably like merging a medical school into the school.

As we all know, the reason why universities used to like to set up medical schools or merge with medical schools is that medicine is one of the scientific fields most likely to produce watered-down papers.

"That's a shame indeed. But it's understandable that Professor Qiao is busy. After all, he must be under a lot of pressure right now."

The roommates heard the disappointment in Xia Keke's tone and someone immediately offered comfort.

A well-known professor in the school is the boyfriend of a roommate, so everyone cares more about Qiao Yu on weekdays.

Although Qiao Yu always makes some noise in the international arena and his team publishes many articles, the two projects that Qiao Yu strongly promoted at that time have not made any progress, which is a flaw.

When the Space-Based Denial Project and the Quantum Simulation Computer Project were launched, although the official did not directly promote Qiao Yu, so many years have passed and the mastermind behind the scenes has long been analyzed.

Especially the quantum simulation computer project.

When Qiao Yu live-streamed the dimensionality reduction attack of quantum simulation computing on the current financial trading system, China started the research of quantum simulation computers with great fanfare. It would have been strange if Qiao Yu was not the main focus.

Only four years have passed, and there seems to be no breakthrough in either the exciting space-based denial project or the research on quantum simulation computers, which represents the next era. As a result, many questioning voices on the Internet have gradually begun to dominate the mainstream.

Some people talk for money, some are really stupid, and some are simply unhappy with everything. But there is no way, in a country of more than one billion people, it is impossible to completely eliminate those who like to say weird things.

And if you want to wear the crown, you must bear its weight.

One of the rules of operation of this society is that whenever you do something, there will inevitably be opponents.

Serious people have a lot of things to do every day, so how can they have the time to debate with these idle people on the Internet every day? So the increasingly fierce doubts on the Internet are understandable.

In this situation, it is normal for Qiao Yu to feel pressure. If he doesn't feel any pressure at all, he would be completely heartless.

"It's not that bad actually. Qiao Yu rarely goes online and doesn't care about what's said online. But it's true that he has been very busy in the past two months."

Xia Keke said casually.

Although Qiao Yu was always very tight-lipped and rarely told her anything about research, Xia Keke could still easily sense whether he was busy or not.

There was no room for suspicion between the two of them. If Qiao Yu was not busy, he would definitely come to see her on the weekend.

In the past two months, she met Qiao Yu only once. They had a meal together in the cafeteria. She listened to Qiao Yu complain about how unreliable the professors in the project team were in their work recently. Then the two never met again.

We only have time to chat on WeChat in the evening.

From this we can see how busy Qiao Yu has been recently.

Tomorrow is the undergraduate graduation ceremony, and Xia Keke told Qiao Yu about it on WeChat yesterday. He replied this morning, saying that he had a very important meeting today, and it depends on the situation whether he can make it to the meeting tomorrow.

Generally speaking, if Qiao Yu said this, he definitely didn't have time.

After all, all the meetings that Qiao Yu mentioned were important without exception. If they were emphasized as being relatively important, then they were extremely important. One definitely couldn't be absent.

"Okay, let's stop here for today and get some rest. We can't be listless at the graduation ceremony tomorrow. If you want to talk, we can chat all night tomorrow!"

The oldest sister in the dormitory yawned and said.

One of the secrets to harmonious university life is that any persuasive suggestions will always get a quick response.

It was the same this time, and soon the lights in the dormitory were turned off and it became quiet.

……

On the other side, Qiao Yu was in his small room getting angry at Zheng Zefeng on the computer video.

"Old Zheng, what can I say about such a simple proposition? You have dozens of people under you now, right? Why is your efficiency still so low? People who work on hardware are more efficient than you!

Now everyone is waiting for us to make a breakthrough in the embedded layer indexing technology, and for a breakthrough to happen, we have to wait for you to update the discrete and continuous coding hybrid strategy as soon as possible.

How long has it been? Can't you solve such a simple problem? I really don't want to say anything to you. Tomorrow is the graduation ceremony of Yanbei University. I can't attend it because you are holding me back! What do you think we should do? "

Zheng Zefeng on the other side of the video looked ashamed.

In fact, their work has always been far ahead, at least for three consecutive years. After all, he is mainly responsible for mathematical theory and application.

As we all know, applying theory to practice requires a huge amount of work.

Although their work is very diverse and requires theoretical guidance for both hardware and software, they have Qiao Yu's constant support. In addition, every breakthrough they make is enough for the manufacturers' laboratories to test for several months, so the pressure is not that great.

But in the past six months, with the rapid development of various design tasks, they have begun to slow down.

Especially after the first truly universal analog quantum computer was successfully assembled at the beginning of the year, their work suddenly began to fall behind...

There are too many problems that need to be solved on their side.

In addition to the embedding layer indexing problem that Qiao Yu mentioned, there are also issues related to discrete markers. By expanding the vocabulary to achieve multimodal embedding, we can solve the numerical simulation of strongly coupled systems, design quantum parallel computing models, design stable sub-error correction codes, perform fault-tolerant control, etc.

In the past six months, Zheng Zefeng has been really busy.

But who can blame it?
At that time, Qiao Yu originally wanted to add two more teams, but he felt that there was no need for that and they would definitely be able to handle the work.

As a result, all mathematical problems that require optimization now need to be completed by his team. So he is scolded every other day...

"This... this problem has been almost solved. I'll ask about it later..."

"How long does it take to be solved? Didn't I say that the last solution only required simple optimization? Why hasn't it been optimized after so long?"

"The main reason is that I've been following up on the dynamic scheduling algorithm recently, and I've been a little relaxed here. How about I focus on this first?"

"How can that be possible? The coordination of quantum resources for multiple tasks is also a problem that needs to be solved as soon as possible. This not only involves the new computer project, but is also the key to the current space-based denial project.

Now that seven space-based denial satellites have been launched, why don't you quickly solve all the problems? When do you plan to conduct the formal exercise? Everyone is waiting to see the results, don't you know?"

Zheng Zefeng was speechless, looking innocent, overwhelmed, and full of regret.

If he had known earlier, he should have agreed to form another basic mathematics group, so that he would not be in such a passive position now.

I shouldn't have been so greedy at that time. I wanted to publish more articles, but now the basic mathematics group has become a weak point.

"Forget it, forget it. It's my fault for not thinking it through carefully at the time. I thought I could still help you with this. I didn't expect there would be so many follow-up things.

But Lao Zheng, you still need to reflect on yourself. This is my first time working on such a large project, but it's not you. You have experience, so why did you dare to take on so much responsibility at that time?"

Hearing this, Zheng Zefeng's face turned red, and he immediately agreed: "Yes, yes, yes, I should reflect on myself."

Qiao Yu nodded, and the lines on his face finally softened a little.

"Okay, since you've realized your mistake, let's forget about it this time. You can attend the meeting of the Ministry of Science and Technology tomorrow on my behalf. Remember to review your behavior sincerely at the meeting.

Tell them that two months later, after the most important synchronous orbit network satellite in Asia is launched, we will ensure that all problems at the software level can be solved. By then, the first exercise of the Space-Based Denial Program will surely go smoothly!"

"what?!"

(End of this chapter)