Time Travel: 2014

Because of the time difference, although it is already night in China, it is still daytime overseas.

In other words, although Lin Hui is resting, there are still many people overseas who are busy at work.

In an office at MIT's Natural Language Processing Research Center, Eve Carley is still fighting.

In fact, since the advent of the generative text summary algorithm tinkered by LIN HUI.

Eve Carly didn't know how long it had been since she had slept.

The reason why I couldn't sleep was not because of jealousy, but because of excitement.

To describe it as excitement seems not to be accurate enough. To be precise, it is an unusual excitement.

Of course, excitement is not everything. In addition to excitement, there is also some fear.

But deep in fear is expectation.

Although her moods are very fan-shaped, Eve Carly is sure that each of her moods are not without reason.

As a scientific researcher, it is natural to be excited to be exposed to an unprecedented way of solving problems.

The more we learn about generative summarization algorithms, the more exciting we get.

The more she learned about it, the more Eve felt that the person who proposed the algorithm was powerful.

The gap in strength made Eve Carly a little overwhelmed, and she unconsciously felt a little afraid.

Eve Carly seems to understand a sentence:

——The closer you get to the other party's level, the more you understand how powerful the other party is, and the more you fear it.

As for expectations, it is easier to understand. Human beings are naturally curious about unknown things.

While each feeling is legitimate, it's always weird to mix the moods together.

Especially for a person like Eve Carly who basically never has any mood swings.

This feeling is even more unfamiliar than ever.

Well, although I don’t know how to describe that strange feeling.

But deep down, Eve Carly admires LINHUI, a genius from across the ocean.

What is genius? Although Eve Carly received a PhD from the School of Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, one of the world's top computer research institutions, at the age of 25.

But Eve Carly never dared to call herself a genius. Although she had a smooth journey, only she knew the hardships she had to endure.

In her opinion, the focus of genius is not "talent" but "talent"

The saying "Genius is 99% sweat and 1% inspiration" is completely lies.

In the eyes of Eve Carly, people who have gone through all kinds of hard work to achieve success may be regarded as talents.

But this is definitely not genius. How can genius use almost strenuous efforts?

Maybe genius also needs a little effort, but it definitely doesn't require this kind of hard work.

It's like everyone seems to know that they have to go out of the room to find the door but are unable to do anything.

The genius is the one who strolls to the door and gently opens the door under the blank gaze of everyone.

Words such as "going through thousands of hardships" and "receiving joy after all hardships" can only describe ordinary people.

"Wandering around in the garden" and "lifting weight as if it were light" are the descriptions that a genius should have.

And LIN HUI is a genius in the absolute sense.

When everyone is facing the bottleneck of the extractive summary algorithm and cannot find a way out of the text summary room.

LINHUI appeared at just the right time, and in everyone's confusion, it opened a brand new door called "generative text summarization".

In Eve Carly's heart, LINHUI is a worshiped idol.

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Worship is worship, technology has no national boundaries, but technicians have national boundaries.

Eve Carley's team was tasked with following up on the technology proposed by LINHUI as soon as possible.

The task I received was not issued by a higher-level scientific research management agency.

It was proposed by Google.

Google and Eve’s natural language processing project are in-depth strategic partners.

Google/Google sponsors the team with over 10 million US dollars every year.

To put it bluntly, Google is the financial backer of Eve Carley’s research team.

Google’s mission is simple (at least that’s what the people at Google think):

——Evaluate the feasibility of implementing the algorithm proposed by LIN HUI, and consider whether it can be reproduced in a short time based on the actual situation.

The reason why the character Eve is arranged is because there needs to be someone who can understand and implement the purely technical tasks assigned by the protagonist. Well, Huang Jing feels that she cannot do this. Don’t pay too much attention to the characters who appeared before and now don’t appear in the book. The existence of some people seems to only confirm the growth of the protagonist.