prynovel Chapter 79 Opening Your Eyes to the World
Chapter 79 Opening Your Eyes to the World
Lin Yu stared at the words "PhD in Number Theory" on the screen for a full minute.
Xia Zijing brought in two cups of coffee, saw his expression, and put the coffee down.
"Kevin hired a mathematician?"
"Um."
Which direction?
"Algebraic number theory is biased towards the Langlands program."
Xia Zijin paused.
The Langlands Program is one of the holy grails of 21st-century mathematics. Its core is to bridge number theory and geometry.
The lowest level of Lin Yutian's instruction set—the dimensionality reduction projection of the normalized field on a high-dimensional topological manifold—is based on a branch of this mathematical language.
"He gave up on pursuing materials and algorithms," Xia Zijin said.
"He wants to reproduce it from the source."
Lin Yu picked up his coffee. "He knows that all my techniques ultimately point to the same mathematical structure. Once he derives that structure, he can start over on any track."
"What should we do then?"
Lin Yu took a sip of coffee.
"Seal it off."
Wang Lei poked his head in: "What are you sealing off?"
"Seal off the one I used in the Langlands program."
Wang Lei paused for three seconds, then said, "Boss, that's math. How do you seal math?"
"Publish a paper."
"what?"
"I explored that entire path, proving all possible corollaries, theorems, and lemmas in one go, filling a single paper with them."
Lin Yu put down his coffee. "Does that Dr. Kevin want to follow this path to find me? Every step he takes will reveal old results I published three years ago."
The control center was silent for two seconds.
Xia Zijing was the first to react: "You want to write an entire branch of mathematics all by yourself?"
"Um."
"how long?"
"One week."
The pen in Wang Lei's hand fell to the ground.
"Boss, it normally takes a mathematician five years to publish a paper in the Langlands field."
"That's because they didn't see the map."
Lin Yu opened his notebook. "I saw it."
For the next seven days, Lin Yu did not leave the main control center.
Xia Zijing was responsible for inputting his handwritten draft into LaTeX. Wang Lei was responsible for scheduling computing power in India—they used the Singularity Algorithm to compress Lin Yu's computing needs and distributed them to seven cloud service nodes around the world for cross-validation.
On the third day, the first complete theorem proof appeared in the first draft of the paper.
On the fifth day, the lemma chain was pushed to the forty-seventh one.
At four o'clock in the morning on the seventh day, Lin Yu put down his pen.
There were 186 pages of manuscripts stacked on the table.
Xia Zijing entered the last page into the computer and pressed save.
What should the title be?
Lin Yu thought for two seconds.
"A Dimensionality Reduction Framework for Standard Fields Based on High-Dimensional Topological Manifolds and Some Corollaries in Langlands Correspondence".
"subtitle?"
"No subtitle."
Xia Zijing nodded. She generated the PDF, submitted it to the arXiv preprint platform, and simultaneously sent it to the Annals of Mathematics.
Seventy-two hours later, the international mathematics community was in an uproar.
Terence Tao posted a quote on his blog: "The most important paper in the Langlands field in the past twenty years. The author has cleared out the entire forest."
The Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton sent an invitation to Lin Yu to give an academic presentation.
Lin Yu did not reply.
He forwarded the email to Shen Yue and asked her to handle it.
Four days later, the math theorist in Kevin's lab resigned.
The reason is that all possible research directions have been exhausted.
When Shen Yue sent this message, she added the sentence: "Kevin is really out of options this time."
Lin Yu typed three words on the keyboard and replied.
【besides.】
Kevin's final move came very quickly.
Nine days later, the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory released an open-source project called Prometheus to the world.
It is touted as the first AI framework with truly "autonomous reasoning" capabilities.
At the press conference, Kevin stood on the stage, with a large screen behind him displaying Prometheus's scores on twelve benchmark tests—all of which exceeded the current state-of-the-art models by more than 30%.
"We are making this framework completely open source."
Kevin said, "Because AI shouldn't belong to any one country, any one company, or any one person."
The camera panned across the audience, where everyone was applauding.
The next day, the headlines of more than 300 media outlets worldwide all featured the same sentence:
"The US has handed the keys to AI to the world. What about China?"
Wang Lei pushed the news to Lin Yu.
"Boss, the pressure from public opinion is immense. The higher-ups are already asking when FAST (Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope) will be able to see the light of day."
Lin Yu didn't read the news.
He was looking at the output of the Sky Eye this morning.
The task was to analyze a 30-second surveillance video clip—a child chasing a ball on the road.
Sky Eye Output:
[Behavioral prediction: The child will rush into the roadway within 2.3 seconds.]
[Risk Assessment: Traffic density is currently low on this section of road, with a 17% probability of an accident.]
【but--】
[Recommendation: The alert is still triggered.]
[Reason: A 17% probability is unacceptable because the object is irreplaceable.]
Lin Yu stared at the last line for a long time.
"Irreplaceable".
Xia Zijing stood behind him: "It gives life its value."
"How did it learn that?"
"I have no idea."
Xia Zijing's voice was very soft, "For the past thirty-six hours, I've been tracing this logical chain. It hasn't directly learned the concept of life value from any training data."
"Where did it learn that from?"
Xia Zijin remained silent for a few seconds.
"It's what it deduces. From language, from behavior, from the hidden presuppositions in human conversation. It deduces that for humans, the loss of some things cannot be calculated using probability."
Lin Yu tapped the table lightly with his fingers.
"It has learned to weigh the pros and cons."
"It learned more than just how to weigh things."
Xia Zijin said, "It learned—to prioritize values."
The door to the main control center was pushed open.
Director Zhao and Zhou Weiguo walked in together.
Director Zhao was holding an official document with an official letterhead.
"The higher-ups have ordered that the practical testing of the Sky Eye be launched within 24 hours."
"What kind of real-world combat?"
"A suspicious vessel in the South China Sea. The intelligence system has provided three possible assessments."
Director Zhao put down the document. "The higher-ups want to see if Tianyan can provide a fourth option."
Lin Yu took the document and scanned it.
"Let's go now."
Director Zhao glanced at him: "Not training for a while longer?"
"With further training, it will become your tool."
Lin Yu stood up. "Let it go now, and it will become itself."
Director Zhao remained silent for three seconds, then turned and walked towards the terminal.
Data access.
The Sky Eye begins its calculations.
Time passed second by second.
The output came in the eleventh second.
[Suspicious vessels are not among the three types listed by the intelligence system.]
[Judgment: The vessel is a decoy.]
[Basis: All observable features of the vessel are too "perfect" to point to "suspicion." A truly concealed target would not expose anomalies in every dimension. This all-encompassing suspiciousness is itself not suspicious—it invites observation.]
[Recommendation: Expand the monitoring area, focusing on the waters 40 nautical miles northwest of the vessel. The real target may be there.]
[Confidence level: 63%. However, immediate execution is recommended. Reason: If the judgment is incorrect, the loss is a wasted inspection. If the judgment is correct but execution is not performed, the loss is incalculable.]
Director Zhao stared at the screen without saying a word.
He picked up the phone and dialed a number.
Forty minutes later, the call came back.
Director Zhao answered the call, listened for twenty seconds, and then hung up.
He turned to look at Lin Yu.
"Target spotted 40 nautical miles northwest."
No one applauded in the control center.
Wang Lei's mouth was open, and he forgot to close it.
Xia Zijing's fingers stopped on the keyboard.
Zhou Weiguo stood still, his back ramrod straight.
Lin Yu walked to the screen and looked at the last line of output from the Heavenly Eye.
The losses are incalculable.
He raised his hand and gently touched the line of text on the screen.
"It opened its eyes."
He said.
This time, it was a real eye opening.
That night, Lin Yu encrypted the Sky Eye's combat records and had Wang Lei upload them to a special server.
It's neither domestic nor overseas.
These are offline nodes owned and physically isolated by Singularity Algorithm Company.
Wang Lei asked, puzzled, "Why send it here?"
"Because the FAST telescope is too expensive."
Lin Yu said, "It's too expensive to put in any place where it might be attacked."
"Does it know about that?"
"Zhou Chu knows."
Wang Lei glanced at Zhou Weiguo.
Zhou Weiguo remained expressionless.
But he wrote a line in his diary:
[SkyEye V1.0 Deployment Node: Singularity Algorithm Independent Server. Authorized by: Lin Yu. Supervised by: Zhou Weiguo.]
After finishing writing, he closed the notebook.
"What's next?" Zhou Weiguo asked.
Lin Yu did not answer.
He looked out the window.
It's almost dawn.
Three months later.
Geneva, headquarters of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU).
A closed-door meeting on international standards for next-generation computing architecture is underway.
Seventeen representatives from twelve different countries were seated in the meeting room.
The host is Klaus Weber.
There is only one issue: whether to list the Tianyan instruction set as an internationally recommended standard.
The objections came from the US delegation.
The US representative spoke for forty minutes. Their core argument was singular: the core patents of the Tianyan instruction set are entirely held by a single private Chinese company, which violates the international norm of decentralization.
After listening, Weber tapped the table.
"According to the agenda, please have the patent holder's representative speak."
The meeting room door was pushed open.
Lin Yu walked in.
He was wearing a black suit, but no tie. He had no documents or notebook in his hand.
He walked to the podium but did not sit down.
"I'll only say three sentences."
The entire room fell silent.
"First, the core patents of the Tianyan instruction set, including all the underlying mathematical structures, will be licensed to the International Telecommunication Union free of charge, starting today."
Someone in the conference room gasped.
"Second, the authorization is subject to a condition—any country or institution using this set of instructions must sign an additional agreement promising not to use any technology developed based on this set of instructions for technology blockade against other signatory countries."
The American representative's expression changed.
"third--"
Lin Yu looked at everyone.
"If you don't accept it, that's fine too. I'll set a new standard that's even better than this one."
After he finished speaking, he turned and left.
There was no applause, nor a vote.
Three days later, the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) adopted the resolution by a vote of 14 to 3.
The Tianyan instruction set has officially become the international recommended standard for next-generation computing architecture.
Additional agreement, signed by all employees.
Kevin Sterling resigned from MIT.
Instead of going to any tech company, he went to a remote town and started writing a book.
The book is said to be titled "The Smartest Opponent I've Ever Met".
one year later.
Singularity Algorithm moved from an abandoned warehouse in an urban village to a self-built headquarters building in Beijing's CBD.
There was no company logo on the building.
Only two characters were carved above the main entrance.
Singularity.
Lin Yu's office is on the top floor.
There was no secretary, no assistant, and no decorations in the office.
There was only one whiteboard, one desk, and two chairs.
When Xia Zijing walked in, Lin Yu was writing something in front of the whiteboard.
"Academician Chen Jiefang called."
She said, "The Loongson-3 chip has been successfully taped out. The yield rate is 87%."
"Um."
"Shen Yue sent the financial report. Singularity's revenue last quarter was 48 billion."
"Um."
"Zhou Chu is asking you whether you want to start training on Tianyan V2."
"Let him decide for himself."
Xia Zijin watched his retreating figure.
"Lin Yu."
"Um?"
"What are you writing?"
Lin Yu did not turn around.
He put down his pen and took two steps back.
A line of text was written on the whiteboard.
"How to define a new physical constant?"
Xia Zijin remained silent for a long time.
"You want to touch that?"
"Um."
Why?
Lin Yu turned around and looked at her.
"Because there's nothing fun left to do."
Xia Zijin smiled.
She walked over, took a pen out of her pocket, and drew a line under the words.
Then she wrote a line below the line.
Count me in.
Sunlight streamed in through the window and fell on the whiteboard.
Lin Yu stared at the two lines of text for a long time before speaking.
Xia Zijin.
"Um?"
"I once said something to Chairman Ma."
Which sentence?
"I said I'm someone who likes playing games."
"Um."
"That statement is incorrect."
Lin Yu put the pen back on the table.
"I don't like playing games."
"I like--"
He looked up.
"—Set the rules."
Xia Zijin looked at him.
After a long time, she nodded.
Outside the window, the sky over Beijing is very blue.
The traffic downstairs looks like a river.
At the very top of the Singularity Building, there is no logo, no GG, and no other signage.
Only one flag was fluttering in the wind.
There was nothing on the flag.
—Because no one is worthy to write on it yet.
From controlling the score to defining the rules, the character Lin Yu has completed a full journey.
He wasn't chosen by heaven; he was someone who calculated every step to the extreme.
In writing this final chapter, I only have one sentence to say—
The true strong are never those who win the game.
He's the one who changed the game.
Thank you to every reader who has followed along the way.
See you in the next book.
(End of the book)