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Chapter 289 The Unknown of the New Era
Zheng Xiwen knew something about the fact that Qiao Yu didn't like Microsoft.

Ever since Microsoft released a new generation of quantum chips as soon as Qiao Yu gave a report on quantum simulation computing more than four years ago, Qiao Yu has never hesitated to express his disgust after hearing the name Microsoft.

Zheng Xiwen couldn't help but sigh that Qiao Yu was really loyal. It had been more than four years, and now he was still thinking about Microsoft the most.

What hatred and resentment!

There were many thoughts in his mind, but Zheng Xiwen did not show any strange expression on his face.

how to say……

Isn't it an advantage for young people to like to remember history? Zheng Xiwen found a reason for Qiao Yu in his heart.

When Qiao Yu joked with him in private, he liked to call him "little old man", and Zheng Xiwen was used to it.

Because of this name, he sometimes even felt like the child's father, worrying about Qiao Yu.

Well, there are actually many people who want to be Qiao Yu's father. There is Professor Xue in Yanbei University, and when Qiao Yu and I returned to Xingcheng, there was also Principal Lan.

Yes, Langjie is now the vice principal of Xingcheng No. 1 Middle School, mainly responsible for teaching.

The main reason why he was promoted from a high school math teacher to the position of vice principal so quickly was naturally because he discovered Qiao Yu.

The more achievements Qiao Yu made, the faster he would be promoted. Of course, this was also related to the fact that Lang Jie himself was very responsible at work.

To put it bluntly, if he had not discovered a talent like Qiao Yu, things like always leaving some money for students in his desk, giving students free tutoring during his break time, and being serious and responsible in teaching would all be part of his daily life.

After listening to it, everyone might exclaim that this teacher is pretty good, and that’s about it.

But with the halo of discovering Qiao Yu, the situation was different when Qiao Yu would mention the help that Teacher Langjie had given him every time he went to Xingcheng.

These little things in daily life that Ranger himself didn't even care about were all dug out one by one, became excellent materials, and then began to improve rapidly.

Now Xingtie No. 1 Middle School has entered the fast lane of development again. All kinds of resources are given priority to Xingcheng No. 1 Middle School. It is at a stage where it is difficult not to achieve results. Naturally, there is a promising future for the former teacher Lan.

Whenever Zheng Xiwen thought of this, he felt a lot of emotion and felt that those little shortcomings of Qiao Yu were no longer shortcomings.

Most people are empathetic, especially when the other person is a big shot in the industry.

So I agreed without hesitation: "Microsoft, right? OK, I'll contact the other departments right away and let you know as soon as I have any news."

"Thanks, Uncle Zheng." Qiao Yu responded with a smile.

Zheng Xiwen asked, "So you're not going out today?"

"I'm not going out. Coco is going to attend a high-end economic forum with her mentor today, so I'm just preparing for the press conference."

Zheng Xiwen nodded. He knew that Xia Keke was going to attend the forum. He had a list of guests for the forum.

He even arranged the seats for Xia Keke and his mentor.

"Okay, then you go ahead and do your work. I'll go over to the side. Call me if you need anything." Zheng Xiwen gave his instructions and left.

Next to it is the newly built intelligence monitoring room of the International Mathematical Research Center, which is also Zheng Xiwen’s main activity location in the school.

There are various equipments inside.

By the way, Qiao Yu also promised that after the Tai Chi series computers are released, he would give one to the surveillance intelligence room.

Zheng Xiwen heard that this new product had some new features that could reduce their workload by more than 50 percent.

Well, Zheng Xiwen just listened to this, because their work was difficult to quantify.

The outside world's understanding of security work is mostly based on various news and scenes seen on TV.

The serious bodyguard, wearing headphones and a handsome uniform, stood beside the person he was protecting.

But the actual security work is far from being so romantic, or it can be said that what the public can see is only the last line of defense.

The real trouble is the various supports behind the scenes. Especially this kind of long-term security work is very tiring.

Security is a job that requires a high level of concentration, but it is impossible for people to maintain a high level of concentration for a long time. Especially in a comfortable environment, it is easy to relax vigilance.

So in recent years, Zheng Xiwen's team members have actually been replaced several times.

Originally, Zheng Xiwen was also going to be transferred, but every time Qiao Yu asked to keep him, and when he asked for Zheng Xiwen's opinion, it was basically just a formality.

Anyway, even if he wanted to transfer, his leader would persuade him to stay. It was still good to keep Qiao Yu, although not much would fall on him for the time being.

After entering the room and saying hello to his subordinates who were watching the surveillance camera, Zheng Xiwen went into the office, took out his mobile phone and sent a message to the relevant department.

Inform him of the news that the president of Microsoft will visit China soon so that he can report to Academician Qiao Yu.

No need to use his personal connections.

If Qiao Yu wanted to know something, he could just send a message and ask. With Qiao Yu's social skills and the level of respect he currently had, no one would refuse.

It's just that Qiao Yu is too lazy to do these things. Especially during this period, he is even too lazy to check his emails every day.

Unexpectedly, there was an immediate response as soon as the message was sent.

"Academician Qiao, you've figured it out, right? Microsoft President and CEO Mr. Smith has confirmed that he will visit China after Christmas."

Seeing the word Christmas, Zheng Xiwen suddenly realized that the time of the press conference arranged by Qiao Yu had made it difficult for many Western technology leaders to celebrate Christmas.

After all, for Westerners, the status of Christmas is probably similar to that of the Chinese New Year.

This guy probably did it on purpose, Zheng Xiwen thought, then picked up the phone and called Qiao Yu directly.

Let's make this guy satisfied quickly, so he doesn't have to suffer every day.

……

Soon, it was late December, and Beijing was noticeably busier. During this period, the news on the Internet had almost become a special topic of science and technology, with reports every day that the president and CEO of XXX company had come to China again and started a visit lasting several days.

Naturally, all of these schedules include attending the new computer launch event hosted by the Quantum Simulation Computing Alliance on New Year's Day.

This also caused this new computer product launch to directly attract widespread attention from around the world.

Of course, this is also predictable.

The fact that so many CEOs of world-class mega-companies, covering almost every aspect of computer manufacturing, gathered at a product launch conference was itself a topic of discussion.

In addition, quantum computers have been a hot topic on the Internet recently, and this time point is not long after China's Tiandun exercise. Many foreign netizens are still shocked by the rapid development of China's science and technology, so the attention is naturally rising.

How high is it?
DouLe originally wanted to sign an exclusive broadcasting agreement with the Huaxia Quantum Simulation Alliance, and then broadcast live to the world simultaneously through two domestic and foreign software.

After all, DouLe had cooperated with Qiao Yu before, and the two sides had a very pleasant cooperation, so DouLe felt that there was still great hope. Even spending more money would be acceptable.

But this plan ultimately failed. The reason is very simple: the central media also took action to broadcast the new product presentation live.

Not only will domestic and international channels be broadcast on TV, but we are also planning to start live streaming on the internet simultaneously.

Therefore, it is definitely impossible to get the exclusive broadcasting rights.

Of course, this is definitely good news for the Quantum Simulation Computing Alliance. The Quantum Simulation Computing Alliance does not rely on this kind of press conference to make money. Naturally, the more media that come to do live broadcasts or rebroadcasts, the better.

Even so, various promotional activities have not stopped.

I can only say that the Quantum Simulation Alliance has too many Internet savvy people. During this period, a confusing promotional video was released almost every two days.

This news flooded the Internet, along with various rumors about new computers based on quantum simulation computing technology.

For example, one of the most widely circulated videos recently starts with darkness until the first light comes on, and then countless lights light up to form a Tai Chi pattern, and the voice-over also sounds synchronously.

“When computing breaks through the boundaries of classical physics, we redefine the dialogue between people and technology.”

The camera quickly switches to a laboratory, where researchers in white coats are looking at a suspended transparent crystal panel and gesturing with their fingers to reorganize the information on the screen.

"Say goodbye to codes and keyboards. In the quantum era, what we are doing is to satisfy all your imaginations of the future."

The suspended transparent crystals in the video suddenly turned into points of light, and then quickly reorganized into different scenes.

People dressed as farmers can control the simulated growth of crops with finger gestures, and there is also information such as temperature, humidity, and future weather.

In a busy financial trading market, a financial trader stares intently at the curve chart on the screen. With a few random operations, the system automatically predicts several different future trends, with brief analysis, recent related news and probabilities in small print next to them.

In the cubicle, a programmer with thick hair typed a command on the keyboard with both hands, and the next moment the screen showed several complete code options...

The narration sounded again: "When uncertainty becomes a controllable resource, we begin to use quantum thinking to simulate the world."

The last scene is a cute child who is still babbling. He tilts his head back, curiously looking at a bunch of math formulas floating in the air, then raises his hand to touch them tentatively.

The formula collapsed in an instant and then blossomed into a gorgeous starry sky.

Then came the final closing remarks: "From now on, you and I will go hand in hand with the future! See you on January 2032, 1!"

There is no doubt that this is a video with a strong sense of science fiction. It is also the most controversial video.

After all, this video has set too high expectations for everyone.

For example, the interactive mode. According to the interactive mode shown in the video, it seems that the new computer also has the function of holographic display.

This is also the most common interaction mode in science fiction movies, but obviously, it has not been truly realized on any device so far.

The reason is very simple, this thing is really too difficult. It is also the most controversial.

For example, whether it is China's Donghu or similar knowledge-based question-and-answer platforms abroad, there have been extensive discussions on this technology, and even industry leaders have personally come out to explain the difficulty of achieving holographic display.

"Ladies and gentlemen, theoretically, according to Fourier optics, holograms need to record all spatial frequency information of an object. This means that to achieve a 150° field of view equivalent to the naked eye plus retinal-level resolution, the amount of data required will reach PB/second.

What kind of device can have such computing and transmission capabilities? Although I don’t understand how quantum simulation computing works, even if the computing power is sufficient, the transmission capacity is difficult to achieve!
Secondly, the speckle effect produced by laser interference will seriously reduce the image signal-to-noise ratio. The most advanced solution currently is a combination of a random phase plate and a vibrating diffuser, which can only suppress the noise to a critical value acceptable to the human eye.

In addition, the traditional point cloud method requires 4 trillion floating-point operations per frame to generate a 2.5K hologram. Even NVIDIA's OVX computing platform still requires 5 seconds per frame under the ray tracing algorithm, and real-time display requires a computing speed of at least 120 frames per second.

In addition, there are performance ceiling constraints of optical modulation devices, energy dissipation of dielectric materials, and the realization of the tactile feedback effect of this technology...

Based on the above, I think holography is just a gimmick in the video. Everyone can go away and believe in science. Quantum simulation computing may be the most cutting-edge research direction and has very powerful capabilities, but it cannot solve all problems. "

This answer is well-reasoned and clearly comes from a real industry expert. And this is an answer from a foreign optical professional forum.

For ordinary people, it is very likely that they don't understand what he said. But it does give people a sense of awe.

However, the reason why this answer became popular on the Internet is not because his answer is professional enough.

In fact, for this kind of hot topic, the more professional the answer, the less likely it is to attract attention. After all, the threshold for reading is relatively high.

On the contrary, those witty and emotional answers are more likely to be spread. After all, people can not only understand such answers, but also participate in them.

Whether you support or oppose, you can express your opinions in the comment section.

There aren't too many people who know professional optical theory, after all, the threshold is really high. But when it comes to trolling or bashing people online, there are too many people who are good at it.

What made this answer popular was a comment below this answer from a user who was certified as a new quantum computer engineer.

“The answer is very professional. I have read your paper and I agree with some of your views, such as that quantum simulation computing is not omnipotent.

But pure technology cannot achieve it, so can quantum simulation computing plus all the tricks achieve it? We should still be humble about the technology we don’t understand. "

There is no doubt that this comment, which was pushed to the top, although a little bit shady, is also the truth!

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