From university lecturer to chief academician.

Chapter 63 Funding from Penguin

With the lecture experience at the Abayun Research Center, Wang Hao is fully prepared to give similar lectures at Penguin.

Including the explanation content, time and rhythm arrangement, I have thought about it carefully, and even made a PPT for it. I have thought about the way of explanation for a long time, and I am determined to tap the potential of all the lecturers so that they can maximize their performance... Ahem, I hope more people can understand.

"After all, people also spend money, and 300,000 is a lot, so we must explain the content clearly!"

Wang Hao was thinking all the way.

According to past experience, the "guided" explanation method can bring more inspiration, but it is obviously not suitable for the explanation of difficult algorithms. Multiplication algorithm' difficulty will be higher.

Even at the STACS conference, doing the 'algorithm for multiplying large numbers' didn't get much inspiration.

Wang Hao concluded that the reason is 'too difficult'.

The difficulty is high, and it is not easy for the listeners to keep up with the train of thought, let alone to diverge their thinking and think about other content. What they bring is the "knowledge base" rather than the more important "inspiration direction".

"The introductory explanation method is too slow, and there are no students in the audience, so it is not suitable; the report-style explanation is definitely not good. It only provides knowledge content, and it cannot increase a few inspiration points at all."

"The best way is to explain the basics. You don't need to prove it, it's just an explanation of the algorithm."

"Is this probably what companies want to hear?"

Enterprises will definitely care about the correctness of the new algorithm, but whether the algorithm is correct or not has been verified by academic institutions, and enterprises do not need to care about it at all. They are more concerned about the "algorithm application".

'Algorithm application' is the most critical.

If you don’t need to dig deep into the principle of the algorithm, but just explain the application of the algorithm, the difficulty will be reduced linearly. In addition, in the process of explaining, the step-by-step expansion of the content will definitely allow most people, even as long as they have a certain algorithm foundation. Everyone can follow the train of thought.

Of course, there must be some elites who feel that the explanation is slow, but they may diverge their thinking and bring more inspiration.

Wang Hao was full of anticipation when he thought about it.

……

After getting off the plane at Shencheng International Airport, Wang Hao saw the person who came to pick him up, and then went to the Penguin headquarters building, and the luggage was put into the hotel by the person who picked him up, leaving a lot of time.

The core technical department of Penguin Company is located in the headquarters building.

Wang Hao followed the reception staff to the technical department, and met Zhu Zhen who invited him, and also met several technical directors, managers, etc. He greeted and introduced a lot of people, and it was not easy to remember the names.

Zhu Zhen and his team took Wang Hao to visit the technical department, and then went to the data center on the first floor, and then found a reception room to rest, lying on the soft sofa and squinting for a while.

The lecture time arranged by Penguin is very similar to that of the Abayun Research Center. They are all after dinner. The lecture venue is the conference hall behind the headquarters building, which has a very large conference room.

Wang Hao made simple preparations, and the time was almost up. He walked out from the back calmly, seeing the countless heads in the conference hall, his mood became much calmer.

Hundreds of people, normal operation.

Then Wang Hao stood on the podium, facing everyone in the audience, and when he noticed a few people in the front row, he sighed secretly, "It's a big loss again!"

In the afternoon, those people had met.

One of them is Zhang Zhiwei, one of the powerful giants of the Penguin Group. He is fully responsible for Penguin technology and data-related affairs, and ranks among the top five in the Penguin Group's important performance.

This kind of person who not only has real power, but also has assets calculated in billions, actually sits in the audience and listens to his lectures. The key is that the lecture fee is only a pitiful 300,000...

So shabby!
With contempt for the rich Chiguoguo, Wang Hao started a lecture on "Fourier Transform Assisted Constructing Mathematical Models". The place is also repeated several times in a row, trying to make everyone understand it.

When the explanation slowly unfolded and deepened, everyone in the venue became very serious.

Some employees with average abilities think that it is difficult for them to keep up with their train of thought, but it turns out that they can keep up smoothly, and they immediately become more serious.

At the same time, some elites feel that the speed of speaking is too slow. They even have the time to say a few words. It feels like they are back in the class of the students. For the right topic, if you listen carefully, you will feel like a waste of time. If you don't listen carefully, you will miss the content behind.

Soon, an hour passed.

Wang Hao continued to speak without pausing, as if he had fallen into the art of lecturing. He didn't stop until he realized that the effect of the teaching currency was over, and hurried to the side to drink some water.

"Let's rest for five minutes before continuing!" He greeted the person in charge next to him, went to the side to rest for a while, and ate something to replenish his energy and strength.

Then, the lecture continued.

This lecture lasted for more than an hour. When the effect of the teaching currency ended, I simply used another teaching currency and continued to explain after the time was continued. After another half an hour, I finally finished the final content.

Wang Hao finished it, stood on the podium and breathed a sigh of relief, and saw that the total time was almost three hours.

From six o'clock to nine o'clock.

This time it took longer to explain than the Abayun Research Center, but the effect is obviously very good. Most people are listening carefully, unlike the last time, some people obviously can’t keep up with the rhythm, and it’s no problem to continue listening. If it becomes meaningless, just stop listening.

The explanation is over.

After a ten-minute break, it was time for Q&A.

Some people raised application-related questions, and Wang Hao answered them one by one, because they were all about application-level questions, and the process was explained in great detail. It was not like Abayun had so many questions that time. After about half an hour, it was over after talking about a few key issues.

After the lecture was over, Wang Hao didn't have the energy to deal with the pleasantries, so he went back to the hotel to rest, closed his eyes and fell asleep until the next day.

work, continue.

The next day was relatively deserted, Penguin did not organize a large number of people to listen to the lecture, but gathered dozens of elite experts to listen to Wang Hao's "Large Number Multiplication Algorithm" in the small conference room.

Wang Hao is still talking about 'applying methods', rather than 'proving that new methods are feasible' like making a report.

The application method of the "large number multiplication algorithm" is relatively much lower in difficulty, just like ordinary vertical multiplication. If you want to use "addition" to prove that the result of vertical multiplication is correct, you will definitely It's a bit more complicated, but it's not difficult at all just to talk about how to do the calculation.

The same is true for the 'Large Number Multiplication Algorithm'. The method used is to use fast Fourier transform and other methods to delineate the area, and then filter step by step to get the final result.

This process can be understood by writing.

Wang Hao still explained very patiently, which made people feel that he hoped that through the lecture, everyone could understand and understand, and even directly learned a new 'calculation method'.

Many people couldn't help sighing, "This teacher Wang Hao is really serious and responsible for his work!"

"If it were someone else, I would probably just say it once. If you don't understand it, you won't understand it. Mr. Wang Hao, the speech is good and serious. Some parts are repeated several times, in case some people don't understand."

"He must be a good teacher who is respected by students in college!"

"..."

The explanation of the "Large Number Multiplication Algorithm" is much simpler, and it only took more than an hour, and part of the time is for answering questions.

After the explanation is over, the lecture is over.

Wang Hao met Zhang Zhiwei again.

Zhang Zhiwei was very busy with work, so he didn't come to listen to the "Large Number Multiplication Algorithm". He entered the conference room halfway through the explanation. He asked other people and knew that the explanation was very effective.

Everyone was satisfied with Wang Hao's explanation, so he invited Wang Hao to have lunch together.

Or the staff canteen.

Zhang Zhiwei and Wang Hao sat together, showing great enthusiasm, but he didn't intend to poach corners, because he knew that Wang Hao rejected Abayun, and he would definitely not come to Penguin, he just chatted with Wang Hao casually, saying We talked about technical issues of big data analysis, market analysis issues, and so on.

Then they talked about research.

In the eyes of large Internet companies, Wang Hao is a super algorithm expert. Fourier transform assists in constructing mathematical models, coupled with the latest large number multiplication algorithm, the results of the two algorithms are very shining, and they must be the top in the field of algorithms. research talent.

Zhang Zhiwei is interested in Wang Hao's next research.

Wang Hao also said, "I'm studying the number of God, you should know this? The third-order Rubik's Cube, the number of God, American has a team, using supercomputers, using the brute force method to get the number '20' , but I hope to use mathematical methods to prove it, rather than using exhaustive methods to brute force."

The people around listened and nodded.

Zhang Zhiwei praised, "This research is very interesting. I also have some research on algorithms. If I am not mistaken, this should require a new algorithm, right?"

"Yes, I'm researching, and I already have an idea."

"Have you applied for a project?"

Wang Hao shook his head, "I originally wanted to apply for an excellent youth, but the review time is too long, so I can't wait."

"How about this!"

Zhang Zhiwei smiled, "We can sponsor and give you financial support."

"Cooperative research and development?" Wang Hao thought for a while, but still didn't understand, "But there is no patent for this kind of basic algorithm research?"

Zhang Zhiwei smiled heartily and said, "We don't want patents, we just want to support basic research and development. Teacher Wang Hao, you don't have to push. We don't want anything, just sponsorship."

Wang Hao found no reason to refuse at all.

How good would it be for a company to sponsor its own project without directly giving money for anything?
This is tantamount to giving money to yourself.

(End of this chapter)