Xueba's computing system

Chapter 59 I have to act more like a real person

The next day, Lin Yuan got up and checked his emails after the alarm rang at eight o'clock.

Sure enough, the other party's email arrived before seven o'clock.

[Student, we fully feel your passion for the field of AI. We also admire your research spirit. Please add WeChat for further contact. I hope we can work together for the equality and freedom of mankind. ]

Ugh~~, 'Luckily I haven't had breakfast yet!'

Add WeChat? This made Lin Yuan feel troubled.

NGOs like OCR might get into trouble someday. Lin Yuan recalled the last admission letter incident, the most troublesome thing was the phone call record.

Fortunately, the call was short enough that Lin Yuan insisted that it was a harassment call. In addition, the owner of the copy shop that made fake IDs was very good at his job, and the cameras he installed in his shop were purely for display - there was surveillance footage but it would not be recorded to the hard drive.

Therefore, Lin Yuan was able to escape due to insufficient evidence.

Lin Yuan was not afraid of exchanging emails with OCR, because OCR was a legal organization registered in Hong Kong, at least on the surface.

Lin Yuan's email did not violate any taboos. Even if OCR was exposed in the future, Lin Yuan could still put on an innocent smile and say, "I don't know. I don't know that the other party is such an organization. If I had known it earlier, I would have..."

But since the other party has asked to add WeChat, it is most likely not a purely formal communication, but it is easy to talk about some marginal things.

the most important is.

The email address that Lin Yuan used to send emails to the other party was a three-no account that he bought online, but WeChat must be registered with real names.

I want computing power resources, but I don’t want risks.

What to do? This is a dilemma.

Tell the other party not to add WeChat anymore and just use email as a chat tool? This is obviously unrealistic.

Think about it carefully. If the other party asks for your WeChat account, they probably want you to show their loyalty to them.

Lin Yuan hesitated for a long time, but finally had no choice but to use his own WeChat account.

As the saying goes, you can't get a tiger cub without risking it. We can only try our best to use our language skills in the subsequent communication with the other party.

(PS: The reasonable plot here obviously shouldn't be like this. Are the demons in "All or Nothing" trapped by the real-name system? No more, 404 warning...)——
Lin Yuan sent his WeChat ID via email while he was in great trouble.

Not long after, he received a friend request.

【Corporate WeChat: OCR application specialist No. 12, requesting to add you as a friend! 】

This nickname is quite direct. And it is also a corporate WeChat account, so it is official.

After Lin Yuan approved the application, he started chatting with the other party.

【Hello, classmate. What’s your name?】

At this point, even WeChat has been added, so I don’t have to worry about my name anymore.

[My name is Lin Yuan, and I am a graduate student at Zijin Aviation University. I would like to apply for your company's computing resources, but I don't know what the prerequisites are.]

[Hello, Mr. Lin. We are a non-profit organization and are happy to provide learning assistance to young students like you. We do not have clear prerequisites, but will collect your information and submit it for review. In order to facilitate your acquisition of computing resources, I hope you will communicate with me truthfully in the subsequent chat. ]

[Okay. Can we start now?]

【certainly. 】

【What is Lin's major? 】

【Computer Science and Technology. 】

[What is the size and purpose of applying for computing resources? ]

size? Lin Yuan was stunned for a moment. Can't you speak Chinese? He took a while to react and understood the context: size should refer to the total amount of computing resources he needs to apply for.

For Lin Yuan, the more computing power the better. [I would like to ask if it is possible to apply for computing power equivalent to one or two H100 GPUs. I don’t need it for too long, just about 5 days will be enough.]

Five days was enough time for Lin Yuan to come up with the first draft of the algorithm. After that, he could use this draft to convince Haotuan that he was capable, and then he could ask Haotuan to invest resources. Then, he would no longer need to deal with OCR.

OCR is like a toilet to Lin Yuan.

Lin Yuan is now like a person with a stomachache - he needs to obtain high-computing power equipment in a short period of time to run the first draft of the algorithm, but he is obviously not eligible to apply for it at school, even if he finds a tutor, because the school has its own rules.

As for the good group company, it is actually due to the rules.

Lin Yuan is a newcomer to both the school and the group. If a newcomer wants others to break the rules for him, he needs to show some results. But without computing power, he can't show results. Lin Yuan is stuck in the "chicken and egg dilemma".

Then, OCR is the key to breaking this dilemma. However, due to the nature of OCR as an NGO organization, Lin Yuan naturally understands the principle of "a gentleman should not stand under a dangerous wall". It is better to have less contact with them. He does not want to be invited to drink tea by GuoAn.

Therefore, OCR is not like a toilet for Lin Yuan when he has a stomachache - he wants it very much at the time, but finds it smelly after use.

Lin Yuan waited anxiously for the other party's reply, for he was worried that the other party would think that he was asking for too much.

[What does Lin plan to calculate? Is the data very large and complex? ]

【Used to run AI training related to food delivery. 】

There is nothing to hide. Since we are using other people's computing power equipment, how can there be any secrets when the data is running on other people's equipment? Unless some obfuscation is done on the data, so that ordinary people can't know what the data is used for after reading it. Then after the training is completed, the training results are reversed according to the obfuscation logic.

But where the hell does Lin Yuan have the time? What he lacks most now is time. School is about to start, so he doesn't have the leisure to come up with a confusion strategy.

[Why did Lin think of caring about the field of takeout? This is very different from the characteristics of your school. ]

At this point, Lin Yuan already felt that the other party was not unable to provide high-power equipment, otherwise why would they continue to talk to him. The other party must be hoping to see what chips are worth their investment.

Lin Yuan first asked tentatively, "Because I care about democracy, freedom and human rights, I want to collect statistics on the current situation of the food delivery industry."

He did not mention his original intention of training the food delivery and routing algorithms, but instead used the other party's rhetoric to force his own behavior into the other party's values.

[What does Lin think of the group of deliverymen? ]

What do you think? Lin Yuan has worked as a rider himself, so he has the most say.

[Of course, deliverymen are a very miserable group.] As he was not familiar with the other party, Lin Yuan did not complain too much, but expressed his views very restrainedly.

[It seems that although Lin is a CS major, he is also quite interested in sociology? ]

Lin Yuan really wanted to say: What I am most interested in now is Mane.

However, based on his understanding of NGOs, Lin Yuan continued to follow the other party's words. [I will pay attention to it occasionally. ]

[What is your original intention for paying attention to the takeaway group? Are you concerned about their suffering? ]

[Yes.] Lin Yuan felt that he didn’t even need to answer because the other party had already answered it for him.

[Very good, it is a great honor to have this meaningful interview with Mr. Lin. I will submit the interview record. In order to increase the probability of passing the review, it is recommended that Mr. Lin submit a sample data of your takeaway training. Is that okay? ]

【sure. 】

[OK, I will send you the data submission method later. ]

There is nothing wrong with submitting data. As I said before: if you are going to use other people's equipment for training, why bother about data confidentiality?

After the chat, Lin Yuan realized: The other party must have regarded him as an angry young man. Otherwise, why would he talk to him about the food delivery industry?

"Am I considered a cynical future public intellectual? Then I have to act like one."

'How do I install it? Got it. Cut the deliveryman's income in half in the submitted data. Hehe, it should be in line with the other party's taste.'

(End of this chapter)