vstars Chapter 186 Function Intuition
Chapter 186 Function Intuition
Upon hearing Entropy's overly demanding, even fanciful, request, root was so agitated he almost jumped up to object:
"Are you crazy?! Where in this world can you find such a perfect tool to choose from?"
If such a person truly existed, they would have been enshrined in top-tier national laboratories long ago!
"If we can't attract a prodigy like this, who surpasses even geniuses, then recruiting more ordinary people won't help!"
Entropy gritted his teeth.
"If I were just an ordinary person, I'd rather use brute force, scrambling through the code line by line!"
"Ah! You mean that kind of tedious, manual labor that involves modifying code day and night?"
As a partner, Root knows all too well.
To find a function that perfectly fits the conditions in a vast database, Entropy often goes without food and drink...
Like an ascetic, he relied entirely on manual intervention, modifying the underlying code and mathematical formulas word by word.
That's not something a human being would do!
"Alright, you two, be quiet."
Cyber Fox, staring intently at the screen, interrupted the argument.
"Entropy, by your standards, what level would they need to reach today to be considered satisfactory and eligible for recruitment?"
Entropy hesitated for a moment, then spoke:
"At least I'm at the level where I can easily solve this final, most challenging problem."
If you can solve around three of the requested clues, you can barely be considered a usable talent.
"Oh?" Root became interested. "What if we only use one or two prompts?"
When faced with root's question, Entropy didn't retort as it usually would...
Instead, he shrugged, his tone unusually tinged with an indescribable sense of awe:
"To be able to lock in the answer with just one hint... that's the true chosen one."
This is something that cannot be achieved through computing power alone; it requires an extremely terrifying level of intuition!
Entropy murmured.
"Monsters of that level don't need our painstaking deductions."
They can instantly determine whether the original function is an exponential, logarithmic, or amplitude-decreasing wave equation simply by glancing at the messy data on the screen.
Our advisor calls this near-miraculous ability "functional intuition"!
"This is...!" Root swallowed hard, his face filled with disbelief.
"No, from a strictly logical standpoint, is it really possible for such superpowers, which disregard basic laws, to exist in humans?"
"Of course it exists." Entropy patiently gave an example.
"People who are good at musical instruments, if you just give them a sheet of music, even if it's an obscure piece they've never heard before, they can play it perfectly on the spot, right?"
"Yes, that's a basic skill."
"What if... they don't even give them the sheet music now, but instead have a symphony orchestra play an extremely complex new symphony right in their ears?"
Then what if they were asked to simply read the entire score of the piece from a blank sheet of paper?
Note that this involves not only writing out the main melody, but also meticulously writing out every single note of the woodwind, brass, and string parts, as well as the extremely complex arrangement elements!
"That's absolutely impossible!" Root shook his head. "The human brain couldn't possibly process and reconstruct such complex audio information simultaneously!"
"But in the field of mathematics, there are monsters who can do just that!"
Perhaps if you search carefully within the very top circles of the music industry, you might find someone with this kind of superpower.
A brief silence fell over the control room. Everyone stared intently at the main monitor.
Time passed by, second by second.
A full ten minutes passed.
Faced with that massive stream of data that is as incomprehensible as a book written in the heavens, the psychological defenses of ordinary people should have collapsed long ago.
At this point in time, most normal people would give up their futile struggles, obediently lower their heads, and ask for the first life-saving hint.
Ellie and the "backpack" were already covered in sweat, and their eyes were starting to glaze over.
However, it was right there in the surveillance footage.
The boy codenamed 001 suddenly moved!
He stood up from his chair without warning.
Immediately afterward, under the completely bewildered gazes of his two teammates, he strode to the control panel and placed his hands on the keyboard without hesitation.
"Huh?" The three people in the control room exclaimed in surprise at the same time.
"Holy crap! What is that kid doing?! Has he gone mad?"
We haven't even given you a single variable hint yet!
Root almost jumped out of his chair.
Entropy's brow furrowed even more:
"Given the current, completely random raw data, even a supercomputer couldn't possibly converge to the correct solution instantly, could it?"
But the sound of the keyboard clicking through the loudspeaker was crisp and extremely decisive, without the slightest hesitation.
Tap tap, tap tap tap—
His hand speed was so fast that it even left afterimages!
"I guess... I guess he was just under too much pressure and just tried it out on a whim?"
"Absolutely! Trying to guess the answer mindlessly using brute force? Ridiculous! Does he think this is buying a lottery ticket!"
However, the moment Su Hao finished typing the last line of code, casually extended his little finger, and pressed the "Enter" key to complete the input!
"bite--!!!"
Suddenly, the system's judgment voice, which the three people in the control room thought was absolutely, absolutely, absolutely impossible to trigger at this moment, came from the loudspeaker!
Congratulations! (Level cleared!)
boom!!!
All the lighting sequences on the ceiling were forcibly switched within one second!
The laboratory, which was originally dark and gloomy and resembled a haunted house, was instantly enveloped in a dazzling golden light, as if it were ascending to heaven!
The beaver doll suspended in mid-air suddenly began to wag its mechanical tail merrily.
Suddenly, a highly infectious victory fireworks symphony began to play from the loudspeakers.
Bang! Bang! Bang!
On the screen, golden fireworks effects flew wildly, and a huge banner announcing the completion of the level popped up:
Thank you for the rescue! The beaver will never forget this kindness!
Whether it was "Backpack" and Ellie in the challenge room, or the three top hackers in the control room, they were all in a daze, as if their souls had left their bodies!
"What the hell...?"
"What...what's going on...?"
In the control room, Root and Cyber Fox were completely frozen in place.
Like two soulless clay sculptures, they stood completely still, their eyes vacant, mouths agape, staring intently at the "pass" message on the screen.
"Without even asking for a hint, they just reverse-engineered it from those completely unrelated, fragmented pieces of information that's worse than what you'd find in a shredder?!"
This is utterly illogical! It violates the laws of mathematics!!
Suddenly, an extremely absurd yet uniquely reasonable thought flashed through Entropy's mind like lightning.
She stared intently at the screen, at the object bathed in dazzling golden light...
The boy, number 001, remained calm and collected despite the prompts indicating the game was over, and even felt sorry for not being able to play for a little longer.
His two fellow freshmen teammates who were working on the problem with him—Ellie and "Backpack"—were now deathly pale.
As if witnessing God descending at close range, he looked at Su Hao beside him with awe and horror.
As far as Entropy knows, this year, globally...
Only one person has been able to demonstrate this astonishing rebirth of the ultimate "functional intuition" that exists only in theory!
That person was so renowned and had such an extraordinary resume that all the top professors at the school unanimously agreed:
Such a deity would absolutely not, and would never deign to, participate in some lousy welcome game!
At this moment, he should be a super academic giant chatting and laughing with Nobel Prize and Fields Medal winners in some national-level laboratory!
"Could it be..." Entropy's voice trembled so much that even the tone changed.
"He...he's SuHao?!"
The three people in the control room looked at each other, their backs instantly soaked with cold sweat.
Although they had heard this name, like a demon king, countless times on the authorship lists of papers in top academic journals...
Yet no one has ever truly witnessed the face of this genius who turned the academic world upside down.
And now, this deity stands in the "playing house" game they painstakingly built, casually shattering everyone's worldview with a single kick!