pertwk Chapter 134 A Project of the Century
Chapter 134 A Project of the Century
After the long holiday ended and he returned to school, Su Hao went to the library as soon as possible.
He has pondered for a long time the ultimate question of "how to achieve financial freedom while being a minor".
What are the shortcuts to overnight riches that ordinary people see, such as investing in stocks on the A-share market?
Or go play those virtual currency trading games like musical chairs?
He kicked both of these options away within a second of their creation.
Despite his overwhelming mathematical models and computing power, which would allow him to achieve precise short-term attacks in the financial markets.
However, from the perspective of probability theory and the underlying logic of the macro-financial system, this field is rife with too many uncontrollable variables, such as speculators pulling the plug and policy-driven black swan events...
The inherent risks far exceed the expected returns.
After rejecting the path of the financial tycoon, his next thought was to go into application software development, the most sought-after field in the IT industry.
However, this seemingly safe Silicon Valley geek route, after circling in Su Hao's mind for a while, also failed to satisfy his discerning palate.
In his view, many so-called hit apps on the market are simply adding fuel to the fire of human laziness; they are merely tools to satisfy existing physiological or psychological needs.
Now that he has plenty of youth to spare, Su Hao hopes to create wealth by doing what he truly wants to do and what has epoch-making significance!
"If you're going to do something, do something that benefits society!"
When Su Hao was casually writing that duck-themed laundry software, he keenly realized an intriguing fact:
Humans have never been purely rational beings.
Human nature is too complex; it has both an inherent, extreme selfishness and social attributes shaped by the environment.
Even more outrageous is that, under certain specific circumstances, it can sometimes abruptly exhibit an indescribable altruism that even Darwin could not explain.
It was this extremely complex and contradictory decision-making mechanism, which exists at the core of human behavior, that ignited Su Hao's deep-seated interest in exploration.
When you look at a single human being, consider their decision-making process each time they choose which flavor of instant noodles to buy...
They are all like unpredictable quanta in the microscopic world, full of Schrödinger-style exceptions and maddening variables.
But what if... we could construct a sufficiently large mathematical model to capture and predict these seemingly flawed human choices?
What if the social upheavals caused by billions of impulses, jealousy, and greed could be precisely quantified by cold, hard formulas?
This is simply the realm of gods!
On the point of "searching for eternal objective laws amidst endless uncertainty"...
This insane idea is strikingly similar to the Riemann Hypothesis, the crown jewel of mathematics, in its ultimate sensuality!
While a single individual is certainly full of unpredictable uncertainties, when the number is magnified to the level of millions or tens of millions...
This vast group called human society must inevitably exhibit some rigorous mathematical paradigm on a macroscopic level!
Su Hao's eyes brightened, and an idea that would give even the world's top sociologists and Turing Award-winning computer scientists a heart attack took shape:
He wanted to forcibly dismantle and reassemble the so-called "human free will and decision-making process" itself, and ultimately forcibly construct an unprecedented supercomputing engine!
Without hesitation, Su Hao reached out and deftly pulled several thick tomes from the bookshelf.
Reinforcement Learning and Decision-Making Mechanisms
Game Theory in Practice
Uncertainty and Information Theory
Stochastic Optimization and Markov Processes
Cognitive Science and Artificial Intelligence
Behavioral Economics
As the starting village for this god-level project, Su Hao's first-stage strategic goal was very clear.
That means directly targeting the school he is currently attending and conducting a comprehensive holographic mathematical modeling of all teachers and students!
In the previous washing machine project, students competed or compromised with each other every day around the limited washing machine resources.
The game theory logic revealed in it is, for him, raw data of extremely high purity and great research value.
Now, he needs to broaden the scope of data collection to a wider range of dimensions:
Dormitory schedules, cafeteria routes, power structures in student clubs, prime seating in libraries and study rooms, and even deeper considerations like final exam preparation strategies and how to allocate time for extracurricular activities...
Every seemingly unrelated decision that students unconsciously make every day becomes excellent research material to feed his terrifying engine!
This project is comparable to building a metaverse in the real world.
If all this cumbersome campus data can be extracted into a beautiful mathematical model, his envisioned first-generation "decision engine" can complete its core infrastructure within the campus, this "beginner's village"!
Once the school's test is successful, with the iteration of computing power, he may be able to expand the observation scale exponentially!
From a single school, the scope has expanded to predicting the macro-level trends of a megacity with a population of tens of millions, or even a superpower!
The circulatory flow of transportation networks and the successive changes of business districts, the allocation of educational resources and the evolution of cultural trends, and even the identity and stance held by each individual in the torrent of history...
All of this can be integrated into his invisible modeling network.
After all, in Su Hao's eyes, the so-called bizarre and complex society...
Ultimately, it is nothing more than the inevitable result of countless tiny individuals making choices based on their instinct to seek advantage and avoid harm, which are then wildly superimposed and intertwined on the timeline.
If we could use pure mathematical logic to brute-force decode the underlying objective laws, we could greatly reduce the enormous entropy generated during the operation of the entire city...
This will perfectly avoid those heartbreaking resource misallocations, and from a top-level perspective, design a new social system that is more equitable and highly efficient.
And people living in that system might also gain more... happiness?
At this moment, thirteen-year-old Su Hao clenched his fists, firmly believing in this point.
The next steps became very clear:
On the one hand, he gradually established the basic framework for his monumental project and collected data;
On the other hand, they also began to explore the Riemann Hypothesis in its early stages.
After borrowing the books, Su Hao then printed out a full twenty cutting-edge core journal articles from the literature section.
"A New Perspective on the Zero Distribution of the Riemann Zeta Function", "The Riemann Hypothesis and Quantum Chaos Theory"...
And that's just the tip of the iceberg.
On his long list of papers to be read, the total number of papers remaining is estimated to be close to 10,000!
He knew very well that trying to conquer this monumental problem known as the "Riemann Hypothesis" single-handedly would essentially be an extremely protracted and uncompromising death marathon.
Before accumulating sufficient foundational knowledge and experience, any fool attempting to blindly rush forward relying solely on adrenaline...
The ultimate fate of them is inevitably to go mad, have their brains burned through, and become permanent patients in mental hospitals.
Therefore, Su Hao is brewing a crazy plan that will astound all mathematicians in the world:
He intends to single-handedly complete what has been the case for over two hundred years.
All research published by the global mathematical academic community regarding the Riemann Hypothesis that has made even the slightest effective progress...
Just like an emperor reviewing memorials, he examined every single word without missing a single detail!
Even if you maintain a crazy frequency of reading ten articles a day, enough to make a PhD student want to vomit blood...
To completely conquer this mountain is an epic and massive undertaking that will take at least three years to complete.
But Su Hao's face showed no trace of the boredom, despair, or pain that a normal person should have.
Quite the contrary!
Instead, he felt an almost frenzied anticipation, his blood rushing with excitement, as he tested the edge of truth!
In his view, this was not reading a research paper.
This is a journey across time and space, personally tracing the footsteps of thousands of mathematical giants who once stood at the pinnacle of human intelligence...
The clues that were barely left behind by a lifetime of painstaking effort during those long and dark years!
For him, this was a mental pleasure that was enough to send dopamine levels soaring!