Chapter 6: Dogs and Vests.

"Elder!"

Late at night, a researcher staring at the screen suddenly exclaimed, "It's been verified! This new formula, balancing complexity and variables, optimizes both calculation difficulty and average processing time to a new limit!"

"What?"

Second Elder Cheng Qingyuan couldn't believe it, rushing over, and on the screen was the algorithm released by "Cheng Jinyang" three hours ago on the family forum.

It was his daughter Cheng Yuexian who discovered this.

She had casually forwarded it to a math-savvy friend, who confirmed that the formula indeed seemed to save computational power and suggested running a few matrix simulations to confirm.

Sensing something amiss, Cheng Yuexian hurried to find her father, who oversees science and education within the family.

So Cheng Qingyuan woke up his researchers (research involves burning the midnight oil), to see if they could verify it.

The result was actually validated.

"This... is it purely a mathematical proof?" Cheng Qingyuan asked cautiously.

"More or less," the researcher explained, "We have data from over 5000 members of our clan, so we conducted statistical sampling and modeling tests."

"The simulation results show that unless the computational power is exceptionally high or low, this new algorithm is indeed more efficient. Because 96% of the clan's computational power falls within this optimal range, so..."

"This is great!"

Cheng Qingyuan immediately exclaimed with joy, "So, uh, Cheng Jinyang really made a remarkable contribution this time!"

Improving algorithm efficiency, to give an analogy, is like saving cooldown and casting time in a game, even 0.1 seconds is very valuable.

After all, many battles are often on the brink of life and death, and calculating and releasing skills a second earlier can make the difference between defeat and victory, between life and death, for the clan, isn't that a significant contribution?

"Quick, revise the textbooks!"

Suddenly remembering something else, Cheng Qingyuan immediately instructed, "I remember that this year's newly admitted eighth-grade students in the clan have started learning about time functions, right? Let them directly switch to learning this new algorithm!"

[T/N: The grade here isn't the 'Class Grade'. It's the realm of the Cheng family descendents.]

"Father, isn't this a bit hasty? After all, it hasn't been verified in real combat..." Cheng Yuexian worriedly asked on the side.

Our clan's textbooks haven't been updated for like seventy or eighty years, right?

"What's the matter?"

Cheng Qingyuan said indifferently, "The difficulty with algorithms lies in innovation. As long as they are genuinely optimized and their efficiency can be confirmed theoretically, would there still be any hidden risks?"

Cheng Yuexian fell silent at his words.

Indeed, mathematics doesn't lie; optimization is just that—optimization.

There's no such thing as a ghostly claim like "theoretical efficiency is higher, but not suitable in practice."

But at least consider it from a political perspective. The clan leader is so wary of him now...

Huh?

Cheng Yuexian suddenly had a different thought, feeling like she had fallen into some sort of cognitive bias.

Why look at the problem from the clan leader's perspective?

To father, he oversees the field of science and education as an elder of the clan, which is involved in managing the clan's private school. It's well known that this area often has strong professionalism and authority.

After all, when it comes to teacher-student relationships, any offspring educated in the clan's private school must recognize Cheng Qingyuan as their primary teacher.

In other words, at least concerning the clan's educational materials, father has 100% control.

If he says the new algorithm is better and needs to be immediately implemented in the existing materials, then those materials will be changed.

If the clan leader wants to intervene, does that mean he thinks I'm not doing well? Well, then why don't you do it yourself? I'll step down!

[T/N: She is thinking from her father's perspective.]

So, the clan leader must be at a loss without my father's help.

As long as the efficiency of the new algorithm does improve, and all the clan members who have used it speak highly of it, wouldn't that greatly enhance my father's prestige?

You all looked down on Cheng Jinyang's algorithm, but only my father, relying on years of professional experience, could see its potential and value at a glance, and it turned out to be true.

What else can be said?

"Alright, father," Cheng Yuexian said with a smile, "I'll arrange it right away."

"As soon as possible," Cheng Qingyuan nodded satisfactorily.

In the family forum, although the original post has been locked and Cheng Jinyang's account has been banned, discussions related to it continue unabated.

This is because, within the originally harmonious 'criticize and suppress' camp, a few discordant voices have begun to emerge.

There are always some young people who love supernatural abilities.

Seeing how lively the discussions are in the forum, several young people didn't care about the late hour and went straight to the testing ground to try it out.

Surprisingly, they found that this formula is really useful, making calculations much smoother than before.

The original family algorithm textbooks listed two formulas, formula A and formula B.

The problem with formula A is that it has too many parameters, and after calculating one thing, you have to calculate another. The problem with formula B is that it has high complexity, with fewer parameters but is particularly difficult to calculate.

However, the new formula proposed by Cheng Jinyang has a much simpler complexity compared to formula B, making it acceptable to those accustomed to using formula A. Moreover, it has fewer parameters than formula A.

Therefore, after everyone actually calculated it, they found that they could save roughly 10% to 20% of their total computation time.

Well, isn't that great?

Who said there was a problem with this formula?

So these arrogant youngsters returned to the forum and recounted their experimental results. Then they were awarded the title: "Floor Moppers".

Not everyone likes to personally verify problems, and algorithms, as mathematical creations, are not something that anyone can easily judge the pros and cons at first glance.

So most people don't bother to look at their firsthand experiences, they just criticize if opinions differ from theirs.

Not only criticism, but they also attack personally, smearing their motives, saying they're 'taking money from slaves( Ji Nu),' 'helping slaves whitewash,' 'choosing to be a slave's dog instead of a decent person.'

These young people immediately got angry.

We stay up late to conduct experiments, work hard on evaluations, and you guys just hide behind your screens and spout nonsense?

Have some guts, don't hide behind anonymity, we're all from the same family, let's settle it offline, face to face!

Then they were dubbed with the title: 'Slaves' aliases.'

Offline duels are impossible, only through keyboards can one fully engage in battle.

But to outright refuse to fight seems too cowardly, so they play the game of personal attacks:

Those speaking now are all just Cheng Jinyang's sock puppets, who would be foolish enough to go to the experimental site late at night?

The real selves dare not show up, so they use aliases here to pretend to be Cheng family's family members to confuse people.

Duel with us? You, a slave, are worthy?

Now these young people are furious.

How come we go to conduct experiments late at night, only to come back and be dismissed as keyboard warriors, turned into aliases?

Both sides fought until three in the morning, with hundreds of posts, big and small, even the administrators were tired of deleting them, and finally couldn't resist shutting down their computers to go to sleep.

On the other side, in the dream world.

"This is what you call a dream?"

Wang Wanrou curiously surveyed the surroundings of the residential area, which is identical to the one in reality where Cheng Jinyang lives.

If it weren't for the deep red sky, the distant blaze, and the cries and wails coming from somewhere, she wouldn't even notice anything unusual compared to reality.

"No time to explain!"

Cheng Jinyang forcibly pulled her along with Xing Yuanzhi and rushed upstairs, quickly knocking on their own door.

Normally, Su Lili should have immediately come to open the door. However, after waiting for a moment, there was still no response behind the door.

The screams of demons could already be heard downstairs, causing Wang Wanrou's face to change slightly.

She had never seen demons before, but from the sound of it, it seemed similar to the screams of ordinary women?

Xing Yuanzhi quickly used light body technique on everyone, and the two of them rushed into Su Lili's adjacent home (the door of this house was never locked in the nightmare), then as usual, they leaped across the balcony.

Breaking the window glass, they landed on their own balcony.

Cheng Jinyang quickly rushed into the living room, followed by the bathroom, study, and several bedrooms, all of which were empty.

Su Lili was nowhere to be found!

What's going on?!

He was in a state of confusion when he heard Xing Yuanzhi's loud shout from behind:

"Be careful!"

Before the words fell, there was a sound like an explosion, the sound of window frames breaking and glass shattering from the back.

The demon leaped from Su Lili's balcony and suddenly jumped onto his own balcony!

he safe house has failed!