Algorithm system

The biggest trouble with hanging force 1Hao Tuan Company had finally arrived, but Lin Yuan even felt he had already gained the most important thing.

Recalling how Professor Zhang had looked at him differently during the admission interview, Lin Yuan was very grateful.

However, gratitude was gratitude, and it had its limits and expiration date. It was obviously not feasible for Lin Yuan to foolishly follow his mentor’s every command just out of gratitude.

As for Professor Zhang’s appreciation for Lin Yuan, it was indeed genuine appreciation.

But appreciation couldn’t last forever.

If you didn’t dare to step up when faced with a problem, that appreciation would gradually fade.

Lin Yuan didn’t understand why his mentor kept harping on the OCR matter, and he naturally couldn’t bring himself to ask. That’s why he tentatively said, ”If the teacher says do it, I’ll do it,” implying: It’s not that I want to do it, but I’ll listen to you, old man.

Professor Zhang naturally understood, which was why he said, ”Great wisdom often appears as foolishness.” Because Lin Yuan hadn’t shown such emotional intelligence before.

This wasn’t Lin Yuan deliberately hiding it; rather, when a person was in that environment, they naturally learned it. Everything happened naturally.

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With a stomp on the brake, the car finally pulled to a stop in Hao Tuan Company’s underground parking garage.

”Teacher, what’s the general situation at Good Group?”

The two of them had come to discuss matters with Good Group, and it was only now, with the car parked, that they finally touched upon the main purpose of their trip.

But ”main purpose” had always been vague. What was the main purpose? Lin Yuan’s current main purpose seemed to be to communicate about algorithms with Good Group. However, in his heart, he believed the real main purpose had just been discussed in the car. Because Lin Yuan had already reached an unspoken agreement with his mentor.

If one had to give such an agreement a name, in the context of Dragon Nation’s traditional culture, it could be called ”tacit understanding.” In modern Dragon Nation parlance, it was ”you know.”

This moment was the beginning of Lin Yuan gradually becoming an ”insider” by his mentor’s side. Of course, it was still just the beginning.

But once he had the ”insider” label, he was a preparatory ”inner disciple.”

Towards trash like Gu Xuan, Lin Yuan hadn’t even had a single direct confrontation with him, yet he had already launched a dimensionality reduction strike against him. ’Hmph, a mere outer disciple. What if he has money? I have my master’s protection.’

The mentor’s response came slowly, ”According to my students within Good Group, the technical lead of Zijin Branch held an emergency meeting with the headquarters overnight. In short, they take it very seriously, but the specific situation is still unclear.”

Professor Zhang had long been using his connections to inquire about information for Lin Yuan.

”Although I forwarded your algorithm document, I haven’t had time to read it carefully. I didn’t expect you to give me such a surprise. Did you really use the ’algorithm generating algorithms’ strategy you mentioned to me before?”

Lin Yuan’s expression didn’t change. At this moment, he could only keep a straight face, even though ”algorithm generating algorithms” was originally something he had made up on the spot to cope.

”I did do it that way. It was just for practice, and I didn’t expect it to catch the attention of the headquarters.”

Although Professor Zhang was his kind teacher, the existence of the system had to be kept secret even from his own parents.

Professor Zhang didn’t delve deeper, but Lin Yuan was already a bit uneasy. Because his mentor was a technical expert of many years, the ”algorithm generating algorithms” excuse would be exposed sooner or later. He still had to come up with a more convincing reason.

Actually, the biggest trouble with being a cheater wasn’t how to cheat, but how to cheat without being noticed.

’Sigh, this is going to be a headache.’

—

Inside the general manager’s office of Good Group Zijin Branch.

Perhaps to show sincerity, Good Group didn’t go to the conference room.

There were only four people present: Lin Yuan, Liu Zhang, the Group Vice President specially sent by Good Group from Shanghai, Professor Zhang, and the general manager of Zijin Branch.

Even the head of the technical department of Zijin Branch was not allowed to attend.

Lin Yuan had only met the general manager of Zijin Branch a few times. When he joined, he met the head of the technical department there, but the general manager of the branch said at this time, ”I saw potential in this child the day he arrived.”

’Damn it, I never saw you on the day I joined.’

The four sat around a dark, heavy-looking table, and the branch general manager was fiddling with a set of white porcelain tea ware.

This made Lin Yuan somewhat dazed, because this slow-paced tea-making style clearly didn’t fit the internet company’s vibe.

It was also his first time knowing that in an internet company that pursued youth and vitality, one of its leaders might still prefer the old ways. It gave him a feeling that this world still had its original underlying color.

After a few polite greetings, they took their seats. Liu Zhang, the Group Vice President who had rushed from Shanghai, and Professor Zhang, after many twists and turns, finally, like underground party members exchanging secret codes, brought up a professor they both knew. Only then was the connection between their networks forcibly established.

”Professor Zhang is indeed an elder in our industry. In less than a month of guiding his student, he has already proposed optimization directions for our Good Group’s delivery and routing algorithms. We are very interested in Student Lin Yuan’s idea: using algorithms to generate algorithms for different areas...”

”Eh~~,” Professor Zhang quickly interrupted Liu Zhang, ”It’s true that I recommended Lin Student to your company, but on the matter of algorithms, I didn’t give him any useful guidance at all. I only knew he had done something quite good after you contacted me. I originally thought he was just practicing as a kid.”

Professor Zhang’s words were very blunt.

From Good Group’s perspective, they would naturally attribute Lin Yuan’s submitted algorithm to Professor Zhang, especially since Lin Yuan’s algorithm was personally submitted by Professor Zhang.

But Professor Zhang maintained his usual decisive and straightforward style, without any thought of profiting from his student. His purpose in coming this time was simply to support Lin Yuan.

Watching his mentor and the two company leaders engage in pointless small talk, Lin Yuan couldn’t get a word in. Sitting idly by, Lin Yuan suddenly thought of a question: What if I were just an ordinary Good Group programmer?

If he hadn’t been admitted as a graduate student to Zijin Aviation School after getting the system, but had by chance joined Good Group, then foolishly cheated, and then submitted the algorithm to the head of the technical department who wasn’t even qualified to be present at this time.

What would have happened? Would Good Group still have taken it seriously? Or rather, whose basket would the peach ultimately fall into?

This was naturally unknown.

The conversation at the scene at this moment gave Lin Yuan a feeling: as if discussing matters should always have such a casual chat segment.

After two rounds of tea, they were still talking about things like school-enterprise cooperation, and then about the employment situation, graduates’ career paths...

It wasn’t until over an hour later that Lin Yuan finally didn’t have to continue being an NPC without lines.

”Our subsequent plan is to first test this algorithm in HX District of this city. The computing resources required for algorithm iteration have also been approved by the headquarters. If all goes well, algorithm iteration will proceed alongside the testing. Then, depending on the algorithm’s effect, we will gradually expand the test area.

The work of algorithm iteration will be fully overseen by Lin Student. You can contact me directly for anything you need.”

The implication: Lin Yuan no longer needed to report to the head of the technical department here in Purple Gold, but would directly report to Good Group’s Group Vice President.

Professor Zhang nodded frequently, ”This arrangement is good. I will specially adjust Lin Student’s academic schedule to give him more time to cooperate with your work.”

”Then we thank Professor Zhang in advance.”

”It’s nothing.”

”Oh, and regarding the underlying principles of this algorithm, Lin Student will need to take some time to write a detailed technical document. We need to know the entire process of the algorithm from nothing to something. This, you see, is a regulation that any IT company would have.”

”Understood, we understand.”

Having his mentor supporting him was like having a pillar of the sea for Lin Yuan. Even if Good Group wanted to dig a pit for him, they would have to carefully weigh the pros and cons first. This was why Lin Yuan had to cling tightly to his mentor’s leg.

Of course, the deeper reason was: his cheat was too low-level, so much so that he still had to find a strong backer in reality.