After Shi Qian left, Zhong Ran and the others gathered around the computer, looking at the data that had been generated. The accuracy rate was even lower than the version before optimization.
Shi Qian was mainly responsible for this part of the data. After reviewing it, Shi Qian found that the data that had been optimized yesterday had been modified. Someone had added a piece of code, which caused the accuracy of the results to decrease.
None of the others had touched this program; Shi Qian was the last person to operate it.
"Has anyone else come here in the last two days?" Shi Qian asked.
The group shook their heads.
“I was here all day yesterday. The lab was full of our own team members; no one else came,” Zhong Ran said.
“I stayed here until almost 11 p.m. before leaving, and I didn’t notice anything unusual,” Lu Yibai added.
Guan Yi checked the lab's access records, shook his head, and found no outsiders.
"Could it be someone on the team who did it?" Lu Yibai asked.
“Probably not,” Guan Yi paused. “These people have been with us for years and have never had any problems.”
"Didn't they hire three new people this year? Could it be them?"
Although such suspicion is unethical, there is really no other place where the problem might have occurred.
This year, Yue Lang's team, including Shi Qian, recruited a total of four new people. Apart from Shi Qian, who was personally recruited by the dean, the other three were people who came in from Cheng Dai's side.
Cheng Dai was greedy this year and hired several more people than he needed. Two weeks later, he said he didn't need that many and wanted to return them.
The number of students admitted to the lab each year is fixed. Except for Cheng Dai and Yue Lang, who can flexibly add more students, the number of new students admitted by other professors each year is fixed. If there are more than that, it needs to be reported to higher authorities.
Generally, no additional people are added. Apart from the dean and vice dean's team, other mentors' labs do not have many projects, only one or two per year, and each project lasts for half a year or even a year.
Each individual team lab receives a fixed subsidy. If more people are recruited but the number of projects applied for does not increase, there is a suspicion of wasting resources and fraudulently obtaining subsidies.
Therefore, other teams only recruit until they reach their full capacity each year, with a batch graduating and another batch joining, so the manpower is more than enough to cover the projects.
This year, Cheng Dai's team went crazy and added extra people in retaliation, but the team's manpower for several projects was already saturated, and they really couldn't use so many people.
Newcomers to the lab are generally not dismissed arbitrarily unless their performance falls far short of expectations or other serious problems arise.
Students who are rejected, regardless of the reason, will not be allowed to participate in the laboratory selection process again. This is equivalent to having a "record" against them and never being hired again.
Therefore, professors generally do not actively expel students. The only one who was expelled in recent years was to show off that he brought different partners to the lab every day and messed around with them.
On the day the dean happened to witness it, this person, along with three others, caused a ruckus in the multi-million dollar server room, nearly blinding the dean.
Afterwards, the dean issued a notice expelling him from the laboratory and strengthened access control and increased authorization for valuable spaces such as the computer room.
Most of those who get into the lab aren't just in it for credits; they all have their own ambitions. After being left waiting for a week, the extra people Cheng Dai recruited took the initiative to ask their seniors if they needed any help.
Most of Cheng Dai's team members were from Su Yang's faction, but Su Yang wasn't keen on mentoring newcomers. He always felt that the younger generation would surpass the older generation, and that he, as the older generation, would be swept away and killed on the beach.
Coupled with the misunderstanding during his confession in junior high school, he became even more wary.
In the words of those who disapprove of Su Yang's behavior, Su Yang's knowledge can probably only be transmitted through sex.
Su Yang is the leader of Cheng Dai's team. In order to "get along well" with Cheng Dai, the others automatically followed Su Yang's style.
To avoid being replaced, everyone tacitly kept their secrets hidden, fearing that others would learn them and they would lose their status.
The few non-Su Yang faction members who were willing to lead others were all peripheral figures in the team, and the work they did was mostly unfinished scraps, such as helping to organize simple data and assisting Su Yang and the others. They were not people who could be taught even if they wanted to.
Even if we teach them, there's nothing for them to do.
Su Yang had long disliked these few unsociable "old-timers" for wasting laboratory resources and wanted Cheng Dai to be eliminated, but Cheng Dai, in order to maintain a balance with the number of people in Yue Lang's team, never agreed to remove them.
Now another batch of "useless newcomers" has joined, and the harder they try to improve, the more Su Yang dislikes them and tries every means to get rid of them.
Cheng Dai doesn't care much about the internal relationships within the team or whether they get along harmoniously; he only cares about results. Therefore, he basically delegates all management tasks to Su Yang.
Cheng Dai didn't have anyone he particularly liked this year, and he always felt he was being taken advantage of, so he directly asked for a few more.
After accepting the job, they didn't care about anything else and just had Su Yang arrange work for them.
Su Yang outwardly agreed, but in reality he didn't care at all, letting them do nothing, so that he could report to Cheng Dai in a few days and say that these people were not capable enough and it would be better to dismiss them.
After listening to Su Yang's project report, Cheng Dai realized that these people were indeed useless, and his own team now had more members than Yue Lang's, so he wanted to quit.
The final step of dismissing members requires the dean's approval. Yue Lang frowned when he saw that Cheng Dai had dismissed three members at once.
He saw that Cheng Dai's reason was that he lacked ability. He had only been recruited for two weeks and had not had much time to train him. How could he have any lack of ability?
These kids worked so hard to get in; how can you just condemn them to death like that?
When Cheng Dai saw that his proposal had been rejected, he went to Yue Lang and said that he absolutely did not want these people. If Yue Lang did not agree, he could take them with him himself.
Yue Lang originally only wanted one Shi Qian this year. Since Guan Yi wasn't there, he didn't choose a newcomer, thinking that the team members were enough.
It would be a pity for these three kids to quit like this, so Yue Lang didn't argue with Cheng Dai and directly transferred the three of them to his own team.
Just then, Shi Qian mentioned a few more projects he wanted to work on, and the team suddenly had a lot more projects. Yue Lang asked Guan Yi to manage the allocation and take good care of the newcomers.
Among the team members for Shi Qian's project this time was a newcomer who joined at the same time, named Guan Qinghong.
Shi Qian suddenly remembered something and asked Zhong Ran and the others, "Have you touched the manuscripts I put in the drawer before?"
"What's wrong?" Zhong Ran asked.
"I discovered a couple of days ago that a few of them were missing. I assumed you had borrowed them for reference."
"Impossible. We would always tell you before taking your things, and we would put them back after we were done. How could we have taken them for so long?"
Shi Qian remained silent. He hadn't really paid much attention to his materials; they were originally written as reference materials for the team's projects, intended to make them easier for lab members to understand.
Occasionally, when Lu Yibai or Zhong Ran wanted to refer to something, Shi Qian would generously let them take it.
All lab members have signed confidentiality agreements, and internal project information will not be leaked.
However, if an insider steals the information and takes it out to outsiders, then the situation is different.
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