Xueba's computing system

Chapter 97 Passing the test
Lin Yuan continued his explanation, "The right time, the right place, and the right people are my summary of the Feng Shui AI model parameters."

“I have summarized all Feng Shui parameters into these three categories.

The time of day can be further divided into: time of day, climate, and weather. Climate refers to the climate conditions of a place throughout the year, while weather refers to the current weather conditions. These three things will also involve the five elements. For example, the five elements of Shen time are "gold", and the five elements of spring are "wood is prosperous, fire is in the phase, earth is dead, gold is imprisoned, and water is resting."

"Let's talk about location. Location can be further divided into: the size of the store, its type, texture, orientation, longitude and latitude, the business it runs, and the business hours. These factors also involve the Five Elements."

"As for the harmony between people. I originally wanted to collect the birth dates of business owners and employees, but this involves personal privacy. So I collected the local per capita salary and economic development status, and then combined the reference values of the profit margin and profitability index of the business in the background of the group, and used these economic indicators to approximate the psychological state of the relevant practitioners."

"Finally, I introduced a set of AI model parameters based on the traditional food delivery algorithm. So far, the results are pretty good."

Professor Zhang was already listening to something that sounded like a foreign language. "Did you really do that?"

Lin Yuan felt a little guilty, but still pretended to be calm, "Yes, I still have the source code." In order to justify himself, Lin Yuan not only prepared the documents, but also the matching source code.

But Professor Zhang had no intention of looking at the source code. Instead, he paced back and forth, pondering to himself.

"Feng Shui, the relationship between people and the natural environment, the mutual influence? Just like electromagnetism often appears in pairs?"

"Yes," Lin Yuan immediately replied, "Electricity generates magnetism and magnetism generates electricity. Electromagnetism and electricity are interdependent, just like humans and the natural environment." Lin Yuan quickly stepped on the accelerator as his mentor's thinking was about to be led astray.

After a moment, Professor Zhang suddenly stood in front of the window with his hands behind his back.

"Ah~~, when I was young, I never believed in feng shui and fate. But as I get older, I have to rethink those things. Perhaps the trajectory of a person's life has already been determined in the dark.

If we have to find a reasonable scientific explanation, it is "character determines destiny."

But how is personality formed?

Isn’t it just the combination of innate genetics and the people and things in the surrounding environment?

This does make sense.

But, at your young age, how could you have thought of such a novel perspective on Feng Shui?"

Lin Yuan immediately opened the personal introduction page of the charlatan professor at Xiabei University. "When I was bored and browsing the paper database earlier, I saw a paper discussing the relationship between AI and Feng Shui. It was written by Professor Zhou from Xiabei University. Inspired by him, I tried this path."

"What's this week?"

"Zhou Shui Yi."

Professor Zhang tried hard to recall, "I've never heard of this person."

According to Lin Yuan's guess, if Zhou Shuiyi was too famous, he would have gotten into trouble a long time ago. God knows how this guy got to be a professor.

"Show me his paper."

Professor Zhang studied the paper carefully for more than ten minutes. “Although I am getting further and further away from the front line of scientific research, I still understand the underlying principles of AI. There are no substantial new breakthroughs in modern AI theory. But this paper... I just can’t understand it.

How did he combine Zhouyi Bagua Fengshui with AI models? He didn't even define the model parameters. The 'right time, right place, and right people' you just mentioned are not reflected in his paper."

Lin Yuan certainly knew how bad Zhou Shuiyi's paper was. "I was just inspired by him, but I didn't use any of the ideas in his paper."

"Then show me your technical documentation."

Professor Zhang was relieved after reading Lin Yuan's document. "That's right. This is what technical information should look like. No matter whether these parameters can be understood or not, you must have the parameters first. Any theory must be able to be converted into mathematical symbols, otherwise how can people understand it."

Then he turned to Lin Yuan and said, "So you just borrowed his ideas about Feng Shui, but didn't use any of the academic ideas in his paper." "Uh...yes. Actually, there isn't any academic idea in this paper."

"Why didn't you tell me earlier? You made me, an old man, feel uneasy. To use the words of you young people, I thought I was out of date. I just can't understand anything."

Then the master and disciple looked at each other and laughed.

“Introducing Feng Shui model parameters into AI training makes sense, but it’s hard to explain in mathematical formulas.”

Lin Yuan responded, "The concept of transformer used in chatGPT is quite mysterious. We don't know which features of sample data are used to extract information from a certain question answered by AI."

"You are right. Modern AI has completely entered the black box stage. Mathematical formulas have increasingly weaker constraints on it. Although some papers list a lot of formulas, the core idea is actually just one sentence. Those mathematical formulas are only used to prove the results, not to outline the AI training process."

Lin Yuan agreed, "For example: residual network. The core idea is actually just one sentence: listen to the voices of the grassroots."

"What?"

"The lower-level network not only receives the output of the upper-level network, but also receives the output of the upper-level network. This means that leaders cannot just listen to the opinions of department heads. Sometimes they have to bypass department heads and listen to the opinions of ordinary employees."

Professor Zhang was stunned for a moment, then burst into laughter. "You summarized it very well. I didn't expect you to interpret the residual network in this way. Although it sounds ridiculous, the primary purpose of the residual network is to solve the problem of vanishing gradients. It is similar to the process of grassroots opinion transmission."

"Okay, okay. You young people's thinking is divergent. I am really old. As I said, although I don't agree with you taking the crooked path of Feng Shui, just like I didn't agree with you trying to touch the takeaway algorithm. But the teacher still supports you.

It is normal to make mistakes when you get older, otherwise the world would not be innovative.

Just go ahead and do it.”

"Okay, thank you, teacher." Lin Yuan saw that he had basically passed this level of the instructor.

"By the way, you can publish a paper on this model that combines Feng Shui and AI. After all, you have the actual results of the HeXi District food delivery algorithm test as a basis. Although your theory is groundbreaking, the field of AI still values results the most."

“Is it an SCI paper?”

"Yes. With your novel ideas, sufficient and detailed factual evidence, and some packaging, it is almost certain that they will be published in a top SCI journal."

Lin Yuan was secretly delighted. Gu Xuan had put so much effort into publishing a top SCI journal, but he had done it with just a few moves?

However, he soon realized a problem - the first rule of survival for a cheater is to hide!
The purpose of coming up with this set of Feng Shui model parameters is to solve the problem of the takeout algorithm. Why would I publish a paper and create trouble for myself?

Therefore, in line with the principle of "morality first", Lin Yuan never completed the task of publishing an SCI paper required by the computing system. He did not intend to mechanically carry out the task given by the system.

"Teacher, I still won't submit my paper."

"Ah? Why."

"Because, after all, this idea was thought up by someone else, even though that person didn't break it down into a mathematical formula. But I still don't want to be suspected of stealing someone else's work."

"This is not stealing research results at all. His paper does not even have a decent formula, and it is completely inconsistent with the academic community's determination of theoretical hypotheses. You can publish your paper boldly."

Lin Yuan said with some embarrassment, "Let's forget about it. Without his inspiration, I wouldn't have thought of so many things. Besides, if I want to use Haotuan's takeaway data for my paper, it will involve a confidentiality agreement, which is also a hassle. Let's forget it."

Professor Zhang thought for a moment and said, "You are just a simple country girl. If it were Gu Xuan... Never mind. I respect your opinion."

Only Lin Yuan himself knows. How can this be described as his simplicity?

(End of this chapter)