After rebirth, I became a great master

Chapter 251 The Time It Takes to Drink a Cup of Coffee
The editorial board's evaluation is still ongoing.

Besides him, there is another person who will also take the exam.

Zhou Haoran failed the test and had just stepped out when he ran into Qiao Nuo's brother, Qiao Hai.

"Zhou Haoran!" Qiao Hai rushed over, asking expectantly, "How did it go? Did you pass the test?"

Zhou Haoran shook his head. "No, only Dean Cheng and Professor Tan agreed."

"Huh?" Qiao Hai was a little disappointed, then patted his shoulder and said with a smile, "It's okay, you're still young anyway. I asked someone to bring back several Java books from America. You can read English, right? Come to my place and get them, and study them carefully."

Zhou Haoran chuckled and said, "Reading and studying?"

Qiao Hai said in a low voice, "The editorial board's assessment is held every semester. You should study hard, and you'll definitely pass the assessment next semester."

Zhou Haoran glanced at him. "You don't think I failed the assessment because my skill level wasn't up to par, do you?"

"Huh?" Qiao Hai was slightly taken aback. "Isn't that right?"

"Of course not. You saw my level in the lab last time, didn't you?" Zhou Haoran sighed. "But it's also my fault. I overestimated them. Experts of this era... their understanding of the Java language is not as good as that of undergraduates twenty or thirty years from now."

Qiao Hai smirked, "That's enough."

"I should have given a simpler answer. Now look what happened. My answer was too advanced, and the judges couldn't understand it. It's no wonder they didn't vote for me."

Zhou Haoran had a pretty good idea of ​​why they failed.

Editing a book requires utmost care.

Especially compiling textbooks, this is a matter of national importance!

No room for carelessness!

During the assessment meeting just now, Zhou Haoran's answer was far too profound; the judges didn't understand it at all. He even shamelessly pointed out many mistakes made by the creator of Java when creating the language.

This is outrageous.

In addition, he is too young and inexperienced.

Letting him join the editorial board is too rash!

Even Dean Cheng's recommendation was useless!
Qiao Hai sighed, "Your spot this time is probably gone. The one who just went in was Senior Ning. He's Vice Dean Liu's PhD student, and his programming skills are amazing."

"Who?"

Zhou Haoran raised an eyebrow, wondering if he had gotten caught up in workplace struggles within universities.
Qiao Hai said, "Senior Ning Yuanjia, he is a doctoral student supervised by Vice Dean Liu. Among us, he has the strongest Java skills. It is said that he is going to stay at the university and be promoted to associate professor."

"Oh."

Zhou Haoran did not want to get involved.

Qiao Hai noticed his discouragement and encouraged him, "It's okay, I won't say anything more. Just study hard. You might not be able to get into the editorial board for the first edition, but there's always the second and third editions. You'll get in sooner or later."

“I personally don’t care, but the college students can’t afford to wait. I just want to get involved and write the best textbooks to train domestic IT engineers. How can textbooks written by others compare with those in the United States?” Zhou Haoran shook his head, quite fearless. “If the textbooks are outdated, no matter how excellent the students are, they still can’t compare to the Americans.”

"hehe."

Qiao Hai felt that this person was too arrogant.

"No way! I have to be involved in the first edition of the Java textbook! This is related to the country's grand strategy of revitalizing the nation through science and technology!"

Zhou Haoran made a decision immediately.

"Where?"

Qiao Hai was somewhat confused when he was pulled back.

Zhou Haoran said, "Go to the lab and let me use your computer."

"Oh." Qiao Hai nodded. "What are you doing?"

Zhou Haoran said, "I'll write a paper! I have no choice. I'm too outstanding, and my ideas are too sophisticated for the average person. The domestic reviewers and experts can't understand them. I can only write a paper and let those computer experts in the United States give me their opinions!"

"Are you serious?"

Qiao Hai opened his eyes wide.

"go!"

Zhou Haoran kept his word.

This is Dean Cheng Dechang's laboratory.

The equipment is complete.

His students are all here.

There are a total of 3 doctoral students and 7 master's students.

Some people knew Zhou Haoran and were very enthusiastic; his help in fixing the crash bug of dynamic particles on the webpage last time had truly amazed everyone. Several others who weren't there last time had also heard of his legendary story and came over to exchange pleasantries.

I heard he's going to write a thesis.

Everyone was very curious.

They formed a circle and watched him perform.

Zhou Haoran didn't hesitate at all. He sat down in front of the computer, opened a Word document, and switched to English input method.

So we started taking action.

The title is quite sensational: "A Time Bomb for Concurrency Models: The Coarse-Grained Bottleneck of Synchronization Locks".

English title!

One classmate exclaimed in shock, "Zhou Haoran, you're not going to write this in English, are you?"

Qiao Hai scolded, "Shut up, don't bother him. Zhou Haoran is a genius, is it strange that he writes papers in English?"

Zhou Haoran didn't care about the noise around him.

Throw yourself into it wholeheartedly.

The thought process flows smoothly!
From a technical standpoint, this is not difficult at all. Anyone who is proficient in Java and understands its history knows that these are typical examples of how later generations corrected and fixed the Java language.

The flaws pointed out in this paper were difficult to detect in applications during the single-core CPU era of 1996.

Because of its weak performance and small user base.

Low concurrency.

Things will be different in a few years.

This is a contribution from our country.

In 2005, Taobao experienced a 90% drop in transactions per second due to this technical glitch... After several days and nights of troubleshooting and error-finding, they discovered that the error stemmed from a thread safety paradigm flaw inherited from Java version 1.0 in 1996.

The reason it was first discovered in China, rather than in the United States, is that...

Because domestic e-commerce platforms love to run promotions.

When a promotion is launched, traffic surges, leading to high-concurrency events that don't occur in the US.

High concurrency is like a super amplifier. Normally, everything looks normal, like a solid plate; but when magnified, you'll find that there were actually cracks all along.

The technical aspects of the paper that Zhou Haoran wrote were simple for him.

There are no difficulties on the theoretical level either.

No experimental data is required, nor is there an index of references.

These two steps are the most time-consuming in thesis writing.

Zhou Haoran doesn't need any of that.

This greatly improved his paper writing efficiency.

The only difficulty, if I had to name it, would be writing in English.

He can read many complex words, but he's unsure when writing them. Current input methods lack intelligent word association, leaving him somewhat uncertain about many words.

A short essay consisting of 912 English words.

It was finished in less than 20 minutes.

Zhou Haoran turned his head and saw the doctoral and master's students behind him staring at the computer screen in disbelief, their mouths agape and their expressions astonished, as if they had all been paralyzed.

"Who among you is good at English?" Zhou Haoran, who was used to being an assistant, asked. "There might be a lot of spelling mistakes here, please help me correct them."

"Zhao Lihui, are you here?"

Qiao Hai pushed a shy, bespectacled man next to him over.

"I can't do it!" Zhao Lihui repeatedly backed down. "I can't do it. This paper is a bit too... Let alone the technical aspects, I don't even understand many of the terms." Qiao Hai said awkwardly, "If you can't understand it, then we certainly can't."

"It's alright, I'll ask Professor Tan to take a look at me."

Zhou Haoran borrowed a floppy disk, copied the file, and went upstairs to find Professor Tan Mingliang.

"You..." Tan Mingliang had only been back in the office for a short while when he saw him and couldn't help but complain, "I told you before, be careful during your defense. Those old guys in the college can't even understand C, do you expect them to have any deep understanding of Java? Is that even possible?"

Zhou Haoran sat down on the sofa and said, "I've already been very restrained, but I didn't expect they still wouldn't understand."

Tan Mingliang retorted angrily, "Even I couldn't understand it, so who could?"

"Can I still get into the editorial board?"

Zhou Haoran wants to become one of the authors of "Java Programming Guide," a book promoted by Fudan University, but he first needs to join the editorial board.

"can!"

Tan Mingliang responded very decisively.

Zhou Haoran asked, "I heard that Dr. Ning Yuanjia is quite skilled in Java."

Tan Mingliang nodded. "It's alright, but he didn't pass."

"Didn't pass?"

"Well, it doesn't matter if the other judges agree; I rejected it."

"You?" Zhou Haoran couldn't help but chuckle. "Professor Tan, do you have that much power? You're the chairman of the editorial board?"

Tan Mingliang laughed and said, "I am the first author of 'Java Programming Guide,' and the editorial board formed around this book is all here to assist me. I can't make decisions about the editorial board of other textbooks, but I have the final say on this one!"

Zhou Haoran frowned. "Then why haven't I passed yet?"

“Uh…” Tan Mingliang said helplessly, “I only have the right to veto. I just had an argument with them, especially with that Vice Dean Liu, who was very unhappy.”

Zhou Haoran nodded. "I've heard that Dr. Ning Yuanjia is his student."

Tan Mingliang said, "Yes, there's this kind of bad phenomenon in academia; everyone likes to form these teacher-student circles. But it's okay, he's just a vice dean. Dean Cheng thinks highly of you and can give me a lot of support."

Zhou Haoran asked, "When can we add more?"

"Let's hurry!" Tan Mingliang was a little anxious about this. "According to the plan, this book needs to be submitted to the Ministry of Education for review in June next year. In September next year, it will be officially open to freshmen across the country. So the first draft of this book needs to be finalized by March next year at the latest. This semester, the final list of editorial board members needs to be determined."

"Isn't this fast enough!"

"Okay, I'll talk to the dean and arrange another interview and assessment in a month to determine the final editorial board members. Prepare well then, and be careful during the defense; don't spout technical theories that nobody can understand."

"I don't want to go to the defense. A bunch of people who are not as good as me are surrounding me and asking me questions. It's like I'm being interrogated."

Zhou Haoran had had enough.

Tan Mingliang frowned. "Don't act impulsively. You'll definitely pass next time."

"Let's write the thesis instead."

Zhou Haoran took out a floppy disk and walked to the desktop computer on his desk.

Tan Mingliang's eyes lit up. "You've written another paper?"

Zhou Haoran said, "I just finished my defense and wrote it in the lab."

"Huh?" Tan Mingliang was stunned for a moment. "What did you say? What did you just write?"

Zhou Haoran laughed and said, "Yes, while you were interviewing Dr. Ning Yuanjia, I was waiting for you, so I went to the lab to borrow their computers and wrote this paper. I didn't have time to check it, so there might be some spelling mistakes. Could you help me correct them?"

"You just wrote that?" Tan Mingliang didn't believe it at all. "Just a short while?"

"Hmm, 20 minutes then."

Zhou Haoran inserted the floppy disk and began to demonstrate.

Tan Mingliang opened his eyes wide, fully absorbed, and read attentively.

After looking at it for more than ten minutes, he turned around with an incredulous look on his face and asked, "You wrote this paper in 20 minutes?"

"Correct."

Zhou Haoran nodded.

“You…” Tan Mingliang thought this was too absurd, then his eyes rolled and he came up with an idea, “Haoran, your paper is a bit too advanced, and it’s about the shortcomings of high concurrency… Modern machines don’t have very high requirements for high concurrency, and it’s difficult to experiment with.”

Zhou Haoran said, "It's definitely right."

Tan Mingliang suggested, "During your defense, I thought your answers regarding class loaders were excellent and quite insightful. The experiments weren't difficult to conduct and were easy to verify. Why don't you start right now and use my computer to write a paper on security sandboxes?"

"what?"

Zhou Haoran hesitated.

"Hurry up and write a couple more papers. I'll send them to my advisor at Stanford. He's a member of the National Academy of Sciences and a leading figure in the computer industry. If he approves of them and writes a letter of recommendation, they can get published in a world-class journal through a special channel at the fastest speed."

Tan Mingliang wanted to see for himself whether this kid was bragging or not.

"Alright, Professor Tan, I see you have a coffee machine here, could you make me a cup of coffee?"

Zhou Haoran sat down in his seat.

"Row!"

Tan Mingliang laughed heartily.

His coffee machine hadn't been used for a long time, mainly because brewing coffee was too much trouble; he now drank instant coffee, which could be made simply by adding hot water. However, since the gifted student had made a request, he figured he might as well demonstrate his skills.

While studying in the United States, he won the favor of his professors and classmates with his excellent coffee-making skills.

The whole process is very complicated.

Especially since he hasn't used it for a long time, the coffee equipment needs to be cleaned again.

After cleaning, you should boil water first.

Then select the best-quality coffee beans and grind them by hand.

After boiling the water, it cannot be used for brewing.

Use a small fan to cool down.

Once the water temperature drops to 90 degrees Celsius, use the French press brewing method. Place the ground coffee into the brewing vessel and slowly pour in the hot water. Wait for a while to allow the coffee to fully steep and extract.

Finally, pour the brewed coffee into the cup.

This pure Americano, I doubt this kid will like it.

Professor Tan took it upon himself to add some milk and a sugar cube to his coffee, turning it into a latte.

The aroma of coffee filled the air.

Professor Tan was very satisfied.

I took a cup of coffee and walked over, placed it on the desk, and then just wanted to quietly watch the guy write his thesis.

But the next moment he was stunned.

The once blank Word document was now densely filled with text.

There are thousands of words!

All in English!
The main title is "Vulnerability of Security Sandbox: Class Loader Trust Chain Vulnerability".

"Professor Tan, this coffee smells delicious!"

Zhou Haoran took the coffee and praised it highly.

Tan Mingliang said with a shocked expression, "What is this...?"

Zhou Haoran took a small sip. "I'm done writing."

When was it written?

"I just wrote this!"

"You finished writing in the time it took me to make coffee?" Tan Mingliang's jaw nearly dropped to the floor in astonishment. "So fast?"

Zhou Haoran replied casually, "It's alright, this paper is simpler than the previous one."

"The time it takes to drink a cup of coffee..."

Tan Mingliang stared blankly at the computer screen, a chill running down his spine. He truly sensed the aura of genius, even stronger than the smell of coffee.

(End of this chapter)