Chapter 409 Normal Company (4878)
It wasn't until he got on the high-speed train and saw the entire first-class carriage filled with technical leaders from Youzi Technology and Ysou whose names he had only seen on GitHub and in papers, and at most met once or twice in the elevator, that Bai Yuheng felt it was not real.
How could a nobody like me be in the same carriage with so many big guys?
Wait, how did I get the offer from Ysou so easily back then? Could it be because of this?
What if I don’t play any role by then and Youzi Technology doesn’t solve the problem, will my contract be terminated again soon?
Bai Yuheng couldn't help but have wild thoughts in his mind, and the panic in his heart was like an indestructible cockroach. He originally thought that the monster was gone in the house, but when he went to the kitchen, he saw two tentacles sticking out of the cupboard and moving around.
No, no.
"Brother Bai, would you like water or Coke?"
Bai Yuheng suddenly came to his senses when he felt someone poking him. He took a few deep breaths and saw that the conductor was distributing drinks and high-speed rail snacks. Liu Wenxiao next to him had already taken one, and seeing that he didn't move, he poked him.
"I need some water. Sorry, I was distracted. Thank you."
Bai Yuheng smiled apologetically at the conductor and politely thanked Liu Wenxiao.
Although the young man next to me is only in his early twenties, he has co-authored a paper at a top conference with over 3,000 citations at Youzi Technology, and has several articles on arxiv that have received considerable attention. He is completely on a different level from me.
"I heard that Brother Bai had encountered this problem before? What exactly happened?"
Liu Wenxiao, who was standing next to him, was eating crab and cucumber seeds from a snack while trying to get along with Bai Yuheng in a friendly manner.
Bai Yuheng smiled awkwardly. "To be honest, we didn't find the cause of the problem in the end. It appeared inexplicably at the time, and it was said that it disappeared inexplicably afterwards."
Liu Wenxiao was curious: "Did you investigate the time window that triggered the fault? For example, before the fault began, did the 'content management' module receive any abnormal requests? Or was there a task thread running in the background? What about the system logs?"
Bai Yuheng shook his head. "That's exactly what's strange. There's nothing unusual, and the system logs didn't reveal anything strange. Over 30 people in our team were looking for this problem, but they couldn't find anything."
"Everything in the system was normal. We even found more than a dozen previously undiscovered system vulnerabilities, but we couldn't find out why the 'content management' module failed."
"The system logs are normal, too?" Liu Wenxiao piqued his interest. "Could it be a hacker attack? Did someone tamper with the log files?"
"Perhaps, but we haven't found any signs of hacking. Of course, Qianxun faces thousands of intrusions every day, but most of them can't get past the system firewall and can't possibly reach the core level of 'content management'."
Bai Yuheng smiled stiffly, then added another sentence.
"We also considered whether there might be a zero-day vulnerability or a supply chain attack, but after a thorough investigation by the security team, no trace of intrusion was found. The firewall and intrusion detection system were almost completely silent during those days, which was the strangest part."
If someone had said that before, he would have already launched into a tirade. What's the point? Are you questioning our team's capabilities? Who do you think you are? Do you think we can't consider such a simple and trivial issue?
Qianxun's security team is a veteran, after all, so many hacker groups want to defeat Qianxun as a boss to gain reputation.
There are also many black market people who want to hack into Qianxun servers to make a living.
The tests this security team has faced are no less severe than those faced by Ali’s Payment Insurance and Penguin’s WeChat.
But now, in front of the Youzi Technology team, which is almost legendary in the current IT industry, even when facing a small character like Liu Wenxiao, Bai Yuheng unconsciously lost some of his confidence.
Programmers are in the industry of lifelong learning. These days he is also teaching himself deep learning and wants to switch to AI.
Only when he really started to get involved in this area did he realize how indispensable Yuzu Technology is in the field of AI.
If Geoffrey Hinton is the Euclid of neural networks, pioneering the starting point of artificial intelligence, then Yuzi Technology is Newton + Euler + Riemann + Gauss + Leibniz...
In the past year, the academic contributions of the YouZi Technology team accounted for 45% of the important academic contributions in the global AI field. There is almost no new paper in the field of deep learning that does not cite the papers of the YouZi Technology team.
Moreover, the entire big model industry is currently built on the Pomelo framework and the open source version of the Orange big model.
In addition to Google's hugging framework, it does use Google's own framework, which is a unique framework formed by integrating the DeepMind team's AlphaGo and Google's brain's self-generated model.
The 'GUZI Framework' has become an essential core platform for both industry and academia. The 'Orange Big Model' has become the default choice for AI model deployment by major companies and institutions.
In comparison, Google's TensorFlow architecture appears redundant and cumbersome. Although it has been improved with the support of DeepMind, it is still difficult to shake the dominance of the PUZZ framework.
TensorFlow, which Google Brain had previously prepared to officially release, has been completely abandoned in favor of the hugging architecture.
Giving up is not an option. The field overlaps with that of the yuzu architecture, but the performance is more than one generation behind. If we don't give up on tensorflow and continue to invest, wouldn't it be the same as Nokia clinging to S60 and waiting to die under the double pressure of Android and Apple?
Therefore, almost all of the first twenty or so employees of Youzi Technology have become well-known technical experts in the industry, even Liu Wenxiao, a smoker and drinker who was even dumber than the clear-headed and stupid undergraduates when he first came for the interview.
A few days ago, Liu Wenxiao was invited by his mentor Song Jianguo to return to Chengzhou to hold an exchange meeting at the Ziguang Exchange Center with his younger classmates who did not leave school during the summer vacation, fulfilling Hua Zecheng's prediction two years ahead of schedule.
In this situation, Bai Yuheng, who had just joined Ysou, of course looked like a big shot to everyone.
Liu Wenxiao is a technician and doesn't have many social activities. Apart from this exchange meeting, he hasn't really felt the change in his social status. Therefore, he is very polite to the older Bai Yuheng, which makes Bai Yuheng even a little flattered.
After the two chatted, Bai Yuheng discovered that Liu Wenxiao had studied for his undergraduate degree at Haipu Jiaotong University and was his junior.
"It's already noon, and I'm a little hungry." Liu Wenxiao touched his stomach.
Seeing this, Bai Yuheng hurriedly said, "Wenxiao, I'll go to car 5 and talk to the conductor, and also order lunch boxes for everyone else."
Liu Wenxiao had no idea what Bai Yuheng was up to. "Brother Bai, no need. We'll be arriving soon. Didn't they just say they wanted to get off the bus for shaved noodles? And I brought some delicious food."
After saying that, Liu Wenxiao took his backpack off the luggage rack and took out two large lunch boxes from it.
After putting a company-issued notebook on his backpack, the total capacity was not very large. It turned out that he basically didn't bring any spare clothes and used all the space to carry food.
Liu Wenxiao swallowed his saliva and opened the lunch box. It was full of...meat?
Is this meat smoked? It smells pretty good.
Bai Yuheng couldn't help but sniff.
Opening the lunch box, Liu Wenxiao said politely, "By the way, Brother Bai, you haven't been to Haixi for long, so you must not have eaten this. Let me tell you, this tastes amazing, and you have to eat it with a pancake. I'll give you a portion to try."
After Liu Wenxiao finished speaking, he opened another Lock & Lock lunch box. Wow, it looked like there were at least two pounds of cakes in it.
Huh? There are still peeled garlic cloves.
“If you eat meat without garlic, the flavor will be lost by half.”
Liu Wenxiao chuckled twice, put the smoked pork head from the lunch box between the pancakes, and handed it to Bai Yuheng.
Bai Yuheng waved his hands repeatedly: "No, no, I'll go find the conductor to buy a lunch box."
Liu Wenxiao said enthusiastically, "Try it. Seriously, I'd call this smoked meat the best in the country. Before the company moved, we always bought from it. We took turns lining up every day. They started selling at 4 p.m., so we usually had to line up at 3 p.m., and we'd be sold out and closing the stall by 4:30 at the latest."
"Oh, why does it smell so good? Wenxiao, did you go to Liuheju? Why didn't you bring me some?"
Bai Yuheng and Liu Wenxiao were being polite to each other when they heard someone talking next to them. Then, a hand reached out, picked up a pancake from Liu Wenxiao's lunch box, and without hesitation rolled up almost three taels of pork head meat in it and started eating it.
"Where's the garlic? Give me two cloves."
The fat hand took two more cloves of garlic from the lunch box.
Liu Wenxiao quickly protected the lunch box: "Teacher Hua, if you want to eat, go buy it yourself! I queued up at 2:30 yesterday afternoon and waited for an hour and a half to buy this."
Yesterday at 2:30 pm? That was still work hours, right? He was already lining up for bacon? Are the people at Yuzu Technology so laid-back?
Besides, Hua Zecheng is your direct supervisor, right? Is it really okay to tell your boss you skipped work to buy bacon?
For a moment, Bai Yuheng even felt that the three views he had developed over the past ten years of work had been greatly impacted.
What's even worse is that he was sitting by the window, Liu Wenxiao was sitting by the aisle, and Hua Zecheng was standing next to Liu Wenxiao. If he was sitting by the aisle, he could get up and give his seat to Hua Zecheng, but now he was sitting inside and couldn't even give up his seat.
Hua Zecheng didn't notice Bai Yuheng's restlessness, and his eyes were only focused on the bacon.
When Youzi Technology was still located in the old computer room of the National University, employees often bought smoked meat from this store during gatherings. Later, Youzi Technology moved to the eastern suburbs, and their dormitory moved there as well, so they rarely went there anymore.
Hua Zecheng ignored Liu Wenxiao's resistance and ate a mouthful of meat, a bite of pancake, and a mouthful of garlic: "I'm on a diet, aren't I? Your sister Lu Si won't let me buy it."
Liu Wenxiao sneered: "Didn't you say you gained weight by eating Sister Lu Si's leftovers? There's a limit to showing affection. We're both still single."
Bai Yuheng was stunned watching from the side. Is this how Liu Wenxiao talks to Hua Zecheng?
This is Hua Zecheng!
Hua Zecheng can be regarded as a big shot in the entire field of deep learning!
Wait, what did Liu Wenxiao just say?
Lu Si? Hua Zecheng and Lu Si are a couple?
Damn, isn't this a powerful combination?
No, does Yuzi Technology allow office romances? Especially relationships of this level, they shouldn't be allowed, right? The risks are too great!
Hua Zecheng swallowed a mouthful of meat and sighed contentedly. "Well, let me tell you, cherish your single days when one person feeds the whole family. Don't rush into a relationship, enjoy a few more years of single life. This is the best stage for a man. Look at Niu Tianrui, what a nice guy, much more handsome than you, right? He went astray in love and sold his options to buy a bag for his girlfriend. Now you regret it, right? Hey, don't stare, you'll understand when you find a partner and get married."
Liu Wenxiao muttered: "I think the boss is not single, and he lives a pretty good life every day."
Hua Zecheng's face changed, and he secretly turned his head to look at the front of the car. Seeing Chen Shuyao and Zhou Shuzi sitting together and chatting, he turned back and whispered, "Liu Wenxiao, if you want to die, don't drag me into it."
Bai Yuheng was confused as he watched from the side. What did that mean? Mr. Zhou was indeed not single, and it seemed that he and his wife had a good relationship.
After thinking about it, Bai Yuheng realized that they were from Youzi Technology and were not actually in the same team as him, so the boss they were talking about was certainly not Zhou Shuzi.
Is that the legendary young genius and pioneer of the artificial intelligence era, Fang Yu?
Fang Yu already has a girlfriend? Then there's no need for them to be so nervous, right?
Liu Wenxiao patted his chest in fear and said, "I'm wrong, I'm wrong. Teacher Hua, please bear with me. It's just that your example is not very convincing. How about you introduce me to Sister Lu Si's junior schoolmate first?"
Hua Zecheng waved his hand in frustration: "Forget it, you wouldn't believe me even if I told you. Oh, by the way, Xiaobai is married, right? If you don't believe me, ask Xiaobai."
Bai Yuheng, who was a little nervous at first, was approached by Hua Zecheng. After chatting for a few words with Hua Zecheng, who had become fatter and more cheerful, he found that these people who he thought were legendary big shots were not so high and mighty after all.
"That... uh, Teacher Hua, there's something I want to tell you first..." Bai Yuheng gritted his teeth. If he stuck his head out, he would be in danger. If he hid his head, he would be in danger as well. If Y Souzhao had brought him in just for this day, then he would be useless and would be exposed when he got to the scene. It would be better to make it clear in advance.
Hua Zecheng was stunned by Bai Yuheng's expression: "What's the matter?"
"Actually... I didn't find any issues with the Qianxun system when I was there. I was just discussing this with Wen Xiao, and I'm completely confused right now. I might not be able to help the company that much..."
Hua Zecheng said "oh" with a confused look on his face, still not understanding what Bai Yuheng was trying to say.
"I want to ask you, if I don't work this time, will our company terminate my contract directly? After all, my probation period hasn't ended yet."
Bai Yuheng looked nervous and sweat broke out on his head.
"Probationary period?" Hua Zecheng wondered. "Does Ysou have a probationary period? I haven't heard of any probationary period at Youzi Technology."
Bai Yuheng was stunned for a moment, then he remembered that the HR department did not seem to mention the probation period when he joined the company.
But isn’t the default period for this thing three to six months?
"Don't worry. Although I'm not at Ysou, we at Youzi Technology will never fire an employee without reason. If you don't believe me, take a look at the employee handbook. There's no such thing as firing for breach of contract. The most serious liability is being struck by lightning, hahaha."
Hua Zecheng burst into laughter as he spoke.
God bless you, it's so funny, I want to laugh every time I think about it.
"You guys should also be using TeamPulse, right? Check your contribution score on your Pulse page. As long as it's above the bottom line, you're safe. Even if it's below that line for three consecutive quarters, you'll get training first and then a job transfer, so you're unlikely to be fired."
Bai Yuheng found it a little unbelievable: "If the company doesn't fire employees, what will happen if they encounter unsuitable employees?"
Hua Zecheng thought for a moment and said, "I'm not really sure about that, but at least our team hasn't had any employees who were so bad they had to be fired. We recruited them all by Shu Yao and the others. I don't know what their criteria are, but anyone who made it to the final interview is pretty good and they're all capable."
"If you're interested in this, why not just ask Shu Yao directly?"
After saying that, Hua Zecheng pointed to the front of the carriage and then took a bite of the pig's head.
Chen Shuyao? Bai Yuheng couldn't help but shrink his neck.
Can you ask HRD just by asking?
Do you think everyone is you, Hua Zecheng?
"Okay, Teacher Hua, you're eating while Sister Lu Si is away again!"
A pleasant voice with a slight nasal tone was heard, and then a pretty face that showed both joy and anger appeared in Bai Yuheng's sight.
"Brother Bai, I'm Chen Shuyao, remember?"
Chen Shuyao smiled apologetically at Bai Yuheng: "I only found out you were in this technical team before I got on the bus. I suddenly remembered just now and came over to ask you, if you signed some confidentiality agreement related to this mission when you resigned from Qianxun, you don't have to participate."
"Perhaps Professor Hua and his colleagues were more accustomed to considering the issue from a technical perspective, so I'm asking you to confirm this. After all, this involves the legal liability of individual employees. A normal company shouldn't let its employees take such risks."
Hearing Shen Shuyao's words, Bai Yuheng couldn't help but be stunned.
Normal companies shouldn't let their employees take this kind of risk?
"I did sign a confidentiality agreement, but... you know, it's about that incident, and it shouldn't be related to this mission."
Bai Yuheng suddenly felt that his voice was a little nasal when he spoke.
Is this a normal company? If this is a normal company, then what about the place I worked in the past?
Chen Shuyao nodded in sudden realization. Just as she was about to ask Bai Yuheng to send the confidentiality agreement to the legal module of TeamPulse and let the AI check whether there were any risks, the sound of the high-speed train arriving at the station rang out.
"Dear passengers, Yujun Station is coming soon. Passengers getting off the train, please pack your belongings and prepare to get off in advance. Ladies and gentlemen, the next stop is YuJun Station..."
(End of this chapter)
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