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In the message, Ning Chen expressed his willingness to help Wang Junlong's teacher solve the problem.

In fact, Ning Chen didn't particularly care about the rewards they could provide.

Today's Star Technology has become a first-tier technology company in China, and is likely to continue to be among the top technology companies in the world in the future.

To a certain extent, Ning Chen has achieved financial freedom. The wealth obtained by solving scientific research problems does not make Ning Chen take it to heart.

The only thing that Ning Chen cared about was the fulfilling process of solving scientific research problems.

However, Ning Chen did not refuse the reward directly. After all, he still didn't know what kind of problem this was. Ning Chen couldn't let himself appear too proactive.

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Bincheng.

Early in the morning, Wang Junlong woke up early and prepared to start a new day of internship work.

At this moment, Wang Junlong saw the reply message sent by Ning Chen.

"Brother Chen...actually agreed to our invitation?"

Wang Junlong was also a little surprised when he learned the news.

In fact, Wang Junlong didn't want to send this message to Ning Chen at first, because Wang Junlong knew that Ning Chen was usually very busy and didn't want to disturb Ning Chen casually.

Wang Junlong has never taken the initiative to mention the relationship between himself and Ning Chen, but after all, this relationship is real, and some people still know that Wang Junlong is Ning Chen's cousin.

Moreover, the problem that Wang Junlong's mentor wanted to ask Ning Chen for help was related to a national-level project, so Wang Junlong made up his mind to ask Ning Chen for help.

Wang Junlong didn't know that Ning Chen was actually very happy to accept such an invitation. These psychological burdens on him were completely unnecessary.

After receiving the news, Wang Junlong immediately found his mentor Gao Hong and explained that Ning Chen had agreed to help them solve the problem.

Gao Hong was also very happy after learning the news.

Gao Hong is a professor of ice engineering and is doing some research work on ship design and navigation modeling.

However, during the research, Gao Hong encountered some difficult tasks and did not solve these problems for a long time.

Since these problems were closely related to mathematical knowledge, Gao Hong thought of asking some mathematics experts for help.

It happened that his student Wang Junlong was a cousin to Ning Chen, so Gao Hong thought of using this relationship to find Ning Chen for help.

Gao Hong didn't have high hopes for this. After all, Gao Hong also knew that Ning Chen was usually very busy and might not be interested in such a scientific research topic.

Unexpectedly, Ning Chen readily agreed to help them.

"Great, Junlong, now let's send the specific questions to Teacher Ning. Because these matters involve internal confidential information, I would like to ask Teacher Ning to keep it confidential for us."

In fact, this type of cooperation does not meet normal requirements and omits many steps of normal scientific research cooperation.

However, out of his trust in Ning Chen, Gao Hong still didn't worry so much.

After all, it is not easy to find Ning Chen for help, and Ning Chen has already done so many scientific research projects, so he must be aware of confidentiality matters, and Gao Hong is not worried about this.

"Okay, Teacher Gao, then I will send these documents to Teacher Ning."

In accordance with Gao Hong's request, Wang Junlong sent these documents to Ning Chen and asked Ning Chen to strictly keep this information confidential.

On the other hand, after Wang Junlong sent these documents to Ning Chen, Xiaozhi reminded Ning Chen in time again.

Ning Chen also temporarily put down his work and looked at these documents.

"It turns out to be a mathematical modeling problem related to ship navigation."

After roughly looking at the contents of the file, Ning Chen quickly determined the type of problem.

Speaking of which, although this is a ship and ocean problem, it is essentially a mathematical modeling problem.

It can be said that without a very good foundation of mathematics and modeling knowledge, it is difficult to easily solve this problem with only ship and ocean knowledge.

"No wonder they want to find me so much. Ordinary mathematics experts may not be able to solve problems of this level."

After carefully analyzing the problem, Ning Chen realized how difficult it was.

But for Ning Chen, the difficulty of this problem is not difficult to solve.

Soon, Ning Chen determined several important ideas to solve this problem.

"Optimization solution...ant colony algorithm...mathematical modeling...creating Maklink connection diagram..."

After determining the core idea, Ning Chen did not immediately start specific calculations.

Although the route has been clarified, the calculation amount of the entire algorithm is very large.

Naturally, Ning Chen would not do such heavy calculation work himself, but it would be more appropriate to hand over the problem to artificial intelligence.

Ning Chen was about to hand over these calculations to Xiaozhi directly, but at this time, Ning Chen suddenly remembered something.

"Now...it's time for Xiaozhi to enter the quantum leap."

This was Ning Chen's original intention in designing and manufacturing Quantum Leap, and now, Ning Chen felt that the time was very ripe.

Ning Chen activated the internal network connection channel between his home and Xingchen Technology. Through this network connection channel, Ning Chen can connect with both inside and outside the company, including Quantum Leap.

In this case, Ning Chen can directly use the computing power of Quantum Leap at home.

"Xiao Zhi, enter the connection channel with Quantum Leap."

【Okay, Master】

As an artificial intelligence, Xiaozhi can connect with the outside world through the Internet.

Ning Chen had never let Xiaozhi enter the outside world before, just to prevent himself from accidentally leaking Xiaozhi's existence.

After all, the external network is very complex. As long as the technology is sophisticated enough, when information spreads to the outside world, there is actually no secret at all.

Ning Chen did not dare to take any risks for this, because Xiaozhi's existence was unexplainable. It was an artificial intelligence product far beyond this era.

As for this internal channel connected to Xingchen Technology, Ning Chen has strictly kept it confidential, and the relevant information can never flow to the outside world.

After Ning Chen gave the order, Xiaozhi entered the quantum leap through this connection network.

This does not mean that there is a distance between Xiaozhi and Ning Chen. In fact, Xiaozhi’s speed is equal to the speed of light. As long as the connection between the two devices is not interrupted, Ning Chen can still communicate with Xiaozhi at any time. .

"Xiaozhi, let's try to use quantum leap to learn and calculate first. Let me see how the calculation speed and experience value increase."

【Okay, Master】

Immediately, Xiaozhi began the learning and calculation process just like before on Ning Chen's computer.

Ning Chen was a little surprised to notice that Xiaozhi's experience points on the data interface were increasing at a rate visible to the naked eye.

This kind of experience growth rate is much faster than when using the computer at Ning Chen's home, and even much faster than when testing on the Galaxy Quantum Computer.

At the same time, Xiaozhi's calculation speed has also increased many times.

If this continues, Xiaozhi will be much closer to continuing to improve his level.

What surprised Ning Chen even more was that even after entering the quantum leap, Xiaozhi showed no signs of reaching the limit.

Because Quantum Leap still had many other tasks to do, after conducting tests, Ning Chen reduced the Quantum Leap computing power used by Xiaozhi.

This will not affect Xiaozhi from solving the mathematical modeling problem of ship navigation. A problem of this level is undoubtedly a dimensionality reduction blow to a top artificial intelligence and a top quantum computer.

In just a few seconds, Xiaozhi successfully solved this problem.

After seeing the optimal solution to the problem given by Xiaozhi, Ning Chen was also completely conquered by Xiaozhi.

"I wonder what they would think if they knew it only took a few seconds for us to solve this problem?"

After all, this is a problem that has troubled Gao Hong for several months, and Gao Hong is already considered an expert in this field in China, which is enough to prove the difficulty of this problem.

Naturally, Ning Chen would not tell Gao Hong and the others this truthfully, otherwise, it would be too shocking.

Ning Chen summarized Xiaozhi's process of solving this problem and had a clearer understanding of Xiaozhi's current abilities.

Nowadays, Xiaozhi can only solve some optimization problems. If it is a more complex problem, it must be led by humans.

After sorting out the entire solution to the problem, Ning Chen sent the file to Wang Junlong.

Even though it took some time to sort out the plan, only half a day had passed since Wang Junlong sent this question to Ning Chen.

After receiving the solution sent by Ning Chen, Wang Junlong's surprise was beyond words.

"Brother Chen...it only took half a day to send the solution to the problem?"

Opening the file sent by Ning Chen, Wang Junlong looked at the contents.

Although Wang Junlong could not immediately understand all of Ning Chen's ideas, Wang Junlong could clearly see how excellent Ning Chen's optimization plan was.

Compared with the previous plan, Ningchen’s optimization plan increased the efficiency of ship navigation by about 20%.

It is indeed incredible that so much efficiency can be improved by simply modifying the sailing plan while the performance of the ship remains unchanged.

Wang Junlong immediately submitted the plan to his mentor Gao Hong. After seeing the plan, Gao Hong had the same feeling as Wang Junlong.

After all, Gao Hong is an expert in the field of ships and oceans. He has a more professional knowledge reserve than Wang Junlong, and he quickly understood some of the ideas in Ning Chen's plan.

"The constraints of the formula here take into account the minimum distance and the minimum safe distance between the route and the dangerous area..."

"Here is a ship route planning model based on the Dijkstra algorithm, but some optimizations have been made compared to the traditional algorithm. The problem of solving the route planning model of ships operating in dangerous areas at sea is converted into the shortest roadbed problem of a directed graph... "

"A probabilistic formula of the ant colony algorithm is used here. When the number of iterations reaches the threshold number, the current path output is the optimized navigation path of the ship in the offshore operating area..."

While studying Ning Chen's algorithm, Gao Hong explained it to himself.

Listening to Gao Hong's explanation, Wang Junlong gradually began to understand Ning Chen's clever thinking in this plan.

Wang Junlong's admiration for Ning Chen has never changed in his heart, but through this incident, Wang Junlong realized that even in his own profession, Ning Chen was far ahead of him.

Even his mentor Gao Hong could only learn from Ning Chen.

After carefully studying Ning Chen's plan, Gao Hong finally understood Ning Chen's entire idea.

However, Gao Hong still didn't quite understand how Ning Chen completed such a complicated calculation in such a short period of time.

In any case, Ning Chen did help him solve a thorny problem. Gao Hong would definitely honor the generous remuneration promised before.

"Junlong, go and ask Teacher Ning for an account so that we can transfer scientific research funds to Teacher Ning."

Gao Hong also knew in his heart that with Ning Chen's current status, Ning Chen would not take this small amount of money seriously.

But no matter what, I definitely can't say nothing on my side.

"Okay, Teacher Gao."

Immediately, Wang Junlong followed Gao Hong's instructions and asked Ning Chen for his account information.

After receiving Wang Junlong's message, Ning Chen did not send his account information.

Just as Gao Hong thought, Ning Chen didn't care about this bit of pediatric research funding now, but it was better to use this favor in exchange for some more important "rewards."

"Xiaolong, there's no need to worry about funding. I want to have a few words with your instructor."

"Then...brother, let me convey your message to Teacher Gao."

Knowing that Ning Chen wanted to communicate with him, Gao Hong felt a little nervous and excited.

I feel nervous because communicating with a scientist of Ning Chen's level will put Gao Hong under a lot of pressure.

But at the same time, Gao Hong is also looking forward to such an opportunity. After all, such an opportunity is very rare.

"Okay, Junlong, then give Teacher Ning a call back."

After Wang Junlong dialed the number, the call was quickly connected.

"Hello, Teacher Ning, I am Gao Hong, Wang Junlong's mentor."

"Hello, Teacher Gao, nice to meet you."

After saying hello, the two parties first talked about Ning Chen's solution to the ship navigation planning problem just now.

"Teacher Ning, thank you very much for taking time out of your busy schedule to help us. I didn't expect you to come up with such a perfect plan so quickly, which directly improved the efficiency of our ship's mission by one percent. As many as twenty.”