He was outscored after scoring 520 points, but his status as a prodigy can't be hidden.

Chapter 46 Unprecedented Madness

"Ridiculous! Utterly absurd! Folded space? Do you think you're writing science fiction? The physical storage medium of data determines its location! You're violating the most basic laws of physics!"

"Who told you that data must exist in three-dimensional space?"

A clear, cold voice rang out.

Xia Zijing stepped forward, took the paper, and drew an arrow perpendicular to the paper at the point of overlap.

"By mapping the data to a high-dimensional topological manifold and then performing a dimension-reduction projection through a gauge field transformation, computation can be performed in-place at the logical level. Professor Li, this is a fundamental concept in quantum field theory. You must have learned it at Bell Labs, right?"

Li Jianbin's laughter stopped abruptly.

His face instantly turned a deep liver color.

A female student he didn't take seriously actually used his Bell Labs credentials, which he was most proud of, to slap him in the face!

Chen Jiefang looked at the folded piece of paper on the table, and his cloudy eyes suddenly flashed with an unprecedented sharpness.

He couldn't understand those complicated theories.

But he understood the action.

That earth-shattering action of folding the white paper in half!

That represents a kind of thought, one that is groundbreaking...

Dimensional reduction attack!

Li Jianbin's face alternated between green and white, like a spilled palette.

He was most proud of two things in his life: being a student of a Nobel laureate and leading core projects at Bell Labs. These were the assets that allowed him to stand at the pinnacle of the domestic academic community.

But now, these two things were used by a young girl with blond hair as a slap in the face for the person in charge.

What he found even more unacceptable was Lin Yu's action of folding the paper.

That's not science, that's an insult to science! It's a trampling on the system he's studied his entire life!

"Nonsense!"

Li Jianbin slammed his hand on the table, the pear wood surface making a dull thud. "Professor Chen, I strongly object! This isn't academic discussion anymore; it's amateurish speculation! Entrusting the nation's most important project to a student who might not even be able to write out Maxwell's equations by hand? This is playing with the nation's destiny!"

Several senior researchers behind him echoed his sentiments.

"Professor Li is right. Architecture design is not drawing; it involves tens of millions of lines of code and hundreds of millions of transistors, requiring rigorous engineering practices."

"This is still just a conjecture in string theory, how could it possibly be used to make chips?"

The atmosphere in the office instantly shifted from shock at the genius to an attack on the madman.

Chen Jiefang remained silent. He simply gazed at Lin Yu, his eyes deep and thoughtful. He knew that what Li Jianbin and the others said was true. But his intuition told him that this young man before him might represent the truth.

Lin Yu completely ignored the surrounding noise.

He pulled out a chair, sat down again, picked up the half-cooled cup of tea, and blew on it.

"So you don't believe me?"

Lin Yu raised his eyelids and glanced at Li Jianbin.

"letter?

"Li Jianbin sneered, "You'd better figure out what CMOS technology is before you talk about believing it or not!"

"Can."

Lin Yu nodded, as if he were talking about something trivial, "Then I'll prove it to you."

He put down his teacup, looked at Li Jianbin, and spoke in a calm tone, as if giving an order.

"Give me your project team's supercomputer. Xia Zijing has the simulation model. I'll write the code now."

"Don't even think about it!"

Li Jianbin refused without hesitation, saying, "Every second of computing power at the Sunway Supercomputing Center is the nation's most precious strategic resource, not something for a child like you to test your wildest ideas with!"

Yeah, the usual resource blocking methods. Boring.

A hint of impatience flashed through Lin Yu's mind.

He turned to look at Chen Jiefang, who had remained silent, and asked, "Old Chen, what do you think?"

All eyes were on Chen Jiefang.

Chen Jiefang was torn between his inner thoughts and his own. Reason told him that Li Jianbin was right, and that science required rigorous procedures. But his emotions and a soldier's intuition made him want to take a gamble on Lin Yu.

He hesitated for a moment, then slowly said, "Jianbin, it's a fact that the project has stalled. Perhaps..."

"Old Chen!"

Li Jianbin interrupted him excitedly, "Giving him a chance is fine! But he can't use Shenwei! This is a matter of principle!"

He looked at Lin Yu with disdain and scheming in his eyes.

"Didn't you claim that your architecture could solve the power limit problem?"

Li Jianbin stepped forward, aggressively pressing, "Fine! I'll test you with the hurdle our team currently can't overcome!"

He took a report from his assistant and slammed it on the table.

"This is the bottleneck we encountered when designing the next-generation AI training core. When performing parallel training simulations of a large model with 1800 billion parameters, as long as the computing power exceeds a certain threshold, the chip's simulation power consumption will instantly break through the heat dissipation limit, causing an avalanche. Our entire team spent half a year trying to solve it, but we were unable to do so."

Li Jianbin pointed at Lin Yu and said, enunciating each word clearly, "You, Lin Yu! I'll give you 72 hours! I won't use the Shenwei supercomputer, nor any resources from the project team! As long as you can produce feasible simulation results, even if it only theoretically solves the power consumption wall problem, I, Li Jianbin, will bow and apologize to you in front of everyone, and resign!"

"But if you can't do that..."

A cruel smile curled at the corner of Li Jianbin's lips. "You get out of this base right now, and never set foot in the field of scientific research again!"

The entire office was deathly silent.

This is a doomed situation.

How can we solve a top-level problem that even supercomputers can't solve without using a supercomputer?

How can you complete a task that a team of 100 people had been working on for half a year without any progress in 72 hours?

This is no longer a test, this is an insult.

The researchers behind Li Jianbin all wore expressions of anticipation, as if watching a good show. In their eyes, Lin Yu was already a dead man.

Xia Zijing frowned slightly, looking at Lin Yu with a hint of worry in her eyes. This wasn't theoretical derivation; it was engineering simulation. Without computing power, it was like trying to draw water from a dry well.

Chen Jiefang was about to speak when he thought the bet was too harsh.

"Can."

Lin Yu's voice wasn't loud, but it reached everyone's ears clearly.

He stood up, too lazy to even look at the report.

"72 hours is enough."

He looked at Li Jianbin, whose face had instantly turned to astonishment, and added a sentence.

"But my condition is that if I win, I will have complete control over everything related to this project, from its underlying architecture to its technical roadmap."

Lin Yu surveyed the entire room, his gaze finally settling on Chen Jiefang.

"You, Li Jianbin, and all of you,"

He pointed to Li Jianbin and his team behind him, "You all have to listen to me. If I say one, you can't say two. If I say dismantle, you can't install."

"I want absolute control of this project."

mad!

Unprecedented madness!