Complex Function

"The financial system has driven the implementation of industry, but it has been slow to accelerate scientific research. In many cases, it has even had a counterproductive effect!" Song He said, "This situation is very strange. In theory, economic growth consists of two parts: technological breakthroughs and industrial implementation. Only focusing on the latter half while neglecting the former is undoubtedly a huge deficiency!"

"It's time to create a brand-new financial tool specifically for promoting scientific research! This should have been done a long time ago, but no one has done it. So, let us fill this gap today!"

"I am pleased to introduce the protagonist of today's press conference, the Interstellar Scientific Research Platform!"

The screen changed, revealing the logo of the Interstellar Scientific Research Platform: a purple planet with three white satellite trajectories across it, and below it, the words "Interstellar Scientific Research."

Applause thundered, and the media below the stage took pictures like crazy. This scene will undoubtedly immediately become the headline of major media outlets, appearing as the cover photo on the mobile phones and computers of billions of people worldwide!

"Everyone can open the Interstellar Bank APP on your mobile phones or log in to the Interstellar Bank official website on your computers. Look for it in the function bar. The download method for the Interstellar Scientific Research Platform is inside. After downloading, this is the interface!" Song He said.

Two pictures appeared on the big screen, the interface of the mobile APP on the left and the computer interface on the right. The interfaces are different, but the number of function keys is the same.

"The step of registering an account is very simple. Just click to agree to the information authorization, and a new account will be automatically created and bound to the Interstellar Bank account. The bank account contains everyone's name information, so the scientific research platform account will also directly display the real name."

On the big screen, the two interfaces were clicked by the mouse. After the information authorization, a prompt for successful account creation popped up, and the account name suddenly became "Song He"!

"You can also upload an avatar. This step is relatively relaxed. Except for illegal pictures, you can upload anything. The avatar I personally chose is this." Song He said.

The screen changed again, and a red-haired gorilla wearing a doctorate gown and a doctoral hat appeared in the avatar frame, with a confused and cute look, with subtitles below:

"I feel like I haven't learned anything, but they still gave me a degree."

There was a burst of laughter in the auditorium. This picture is quite classic in the academic circle, and countless students use it every year.

"Of course, I recommend that you researchers don't learn from me. I don't lack money, so I can do whatever I want. If you want to raise funds on the platform, it's best to take a portrait that shows your temperament and leave a reliable first impression on the majority of investors. Who would invest money in a gorilla's research project?"

There was another burst of laughter in the auditorium, like students listening to teachers telling jokes in class.

"The next function is academic qualification confirmation," Song He said.

"We have completed docking with more than 50% of the universities worldwide, and the remaining 50% of the universities are still actively docking."

"Click on the information authorization, and the academic qualification information will be automatically updated, but this is not the end. You need to check and confirm it again. If there are no errors, submit the verification. If there are errors, give feedback and appeal."

On the big screen, the academic qualification column of Song He's account was updated. Clicking on it will show his degree information.

"Remind everyone to confirm all academic qualifications and degrees!"

"You went to a certain university for your bachelor's degree, confirm it. You may have studied for two master's degrees, confirm them all. Now you are studying for a doctorate and have not yet graduated, or you dropped out halfway through. All situations must be confirmed."

"Some people think that I started with a junior college degree, or I studied at a wild chicken college for my bachelor's degree. Later, I was admitted to Peking University for graduate school. Can I only bind the academic qualification of Peking University? Can I ignore the previous academic qualifications? No!"

"I will explain the specific reasons later."

"The first step is just to bind the universities. The second step is to conduct in-depth binding and bind as many of your achievements during your school years as possible. You need to provide photos of certificates and medals and detailed information."

"For example, if you participated in the International Robot Competition and won the third place, take photos of the certificate and enter the year to bind it. You participated in a certain academic conference, upload your invitation letter photo or scene photo."

"Including the universities that have docked with us, we will collect the scores of all university exams, the scores and rankings of each midterm and final exam, and also count them on each person's account."

"The third step is papers and invention patents."

"We have docked with more than 95% of the world's paper libraries and are continuing to dock. We will count all the papers you have published and all your invention patents, and you also need to confirm the information."

"The fourth step is work experience."

"You have interned at a certain scientific research institute and participated in a certain project, please upload the information. You have worked in a research and development position in a certain company, please also upload the information. We will verify the authenticity of the information through various channels."

"The fifth step is awards and titles."

"For example, you have won the Ramanujan Prize, the WuXi AppTec Award, you are the president of the Global South Quantum Physics Association, you are the editor of a university textbook, upload all the information!"

With Song He's quick explanation, steps appeared on the big screen.

[Academic Qualification Confirmation]
[Achievements in School]
[Papers and Patents]
[Work Experience]
[Awards and Titles]

"The above five steps collect almost all the information of scientific researchers and are a prerequisite for starting an investment project!" Song He said.

"In addition to that, there's some other information, such as master and disciple relationships, research and development partnerships, family situations, and other more private information. You can choose to fill it in or not, make it public or not, but of course, it's best to fill it in."

Various pieces of information that needed to be filled in were rapidly listed on the big screen, so many that it was dazzling, even more detailed than a census.

"This information serves two purposes," Song He said.

"First, for investors to see. When an investor clicks on a scholar's account, they can see a super-detailed resume in the account information, as a reference for whether or not to invest."

"Second, to input into the Interstellar Scientific Research Large Model, for the large model to perform big data calculations!"

Huge subtitles appeared on the big screen:

Interstellar Scientific Research Large Model

The audience was surprised, probably not expecting a dedicated large model to appear.

"The Interstellar Scientific Research Large Model's main function is to collect massive amounts of data for analysis and calculation, to calculate the research potential of each scholar and present it to investors for reference!" Song He said.

"We've been working on this model for a long time, using data authorized by tens of thousands of scholars from multiple partner units for repeated adjustments!"

"I can't disclose the specific calculation details, as they are trade secrets, but I can clearly guarantee that it's definitely not a simple and crude scoring system, but a very complex calculation logic that is extremely close to reality!"

"For example, the education section."

"The large model will analyze various scientific research output data from a school, such as the impact factor of papers, commercial landing news, and faculty strength, and after a comprehensive analysis, it will derive an estimated value to determine the approximate level of the students at this school."

"But at the same time, this analysis will be constantly adjusted."

"For example, a wild chicken school, with almost no scientific research output in the past few years, the large model's evaluation of this school will be very low, giving the students of this school a lower score."

"But if this wild chicken school suddenly hires famous professors and experts, and the laboratory starts to produce high-quality papers, or many of the graduates suddenly get into Peking University or the University of Science and Technology, the large model will keenly notice this change and constantly raise its evaluation of this school!"

"After the evaluation of this school is raised, the scores of related students will also be slightly adjusted, including current students and graduates. After the students' scores rise, they can get more scientific research investment and produce more scientific research results, so the scores of individuals and schools will be raised again, forming a virtuous circle and continuous progress!"

"This kind of large model calculation is not only for schools, but also takes into account various factors such as honorary titles, and repeatedly adjusts and verifies!"

"For example, the Nobel Prize. When we were debugging the large model, we found that the Nobel Prize is not a good factor, but is gradually declining, and may even become a negative influence. Why?"

"Because the Nobel Prize is often awarded for achievements decades ago, and most of the award winners are old people who have long been detached from the front line of scientific research, lost their research and development capabilities, and go to do management work or run around to make money."

"The large model analyzed the papers of Nobel Laureates and concluded that most Nobel Laureates' academic careers are also nearing the end after winning the award, so naturally their scores will continue to decline."

"But this is not absolute. For example, Xiang Xiaotong and I are decades younger than the average age of Nobel Laureates, so after entering the Nobel Prize data, the large model did not lower our scores too much, only a little bit, because judging from our age, we still have the energy to do scientific research."

Everyone in the auditorium looked at the front row, a group of Nobel Prize old men and women with helpless smiles.

"After saying so much, I've only talked about the tip of the iceberg of the large model's operating mechanism."

"As the saying goes, there are gods three feet above your head. The Interstellar Scientific Research Large Model is similar to an omnipotent and omniscient god. It will greedily absorb data from the entire scientific community, use a lot of calculations to observe everyone, and then come up with a score to let investors know the strength of scientists."

"What does the scoring look like? Please see the example!" Song He said, "I'll use one of my students as an example here."

[Lu Geng]
[Comprehensive Score: 512 points]
[Pros: Provincial Top Scorer in the National College Entrance Examination, University exam scores ranked in the top 1% of the major, studying at the first-class famous school "Frontier Technology University School of Pharmacy", paper impact factor is 270% higher than scholars in the same situation, research direction is a direction of achievement blowout, laboratory check-in working hours are long, reagent instrument usage is large, scientific research incentive environment is strong]
[Cons: Young age, has not yet entered the golden age of intensive scientific research achievement blowout, the number of paper samples is small, it is difficult to specifically analyze research capabilities, studying in a newly established university major, the relevant university's training ability remains to be observed, no mature team work experience and long-term scientific research resume]
[Comprehensive Evaluation: A young man with great potential, may have a high success rate in a specific scientific research direction, please invest cautiously]

"This evaluation of the large model is basically the same as my judgment of student Lu Geng," Song He said. "Of course, I have a deeper understanding of Lu Geng. After all, his concentration in the laboratory, his keenness of thought when he talks to me about scientific research, many things cannot be measured by data."

"This introduces another informal functional mechanism, the Talent Scout Score!"