Chapter 638: Robots, DNA, and field research at the Desert Weather Observatory
At this moment, all the dissatisfaction and embarrassment in Xu Guanxiong's heart disappeared, leaving only heartfelt gratitude.
The familiar-looking boy in front of him not only saved the life of his cousin Xiaoyu, but also saved his life.
At this time, the little girl opened her hands and said: "Cousin...cousin..."
Xu Guanxiong took the little girl from Qin Ke's hand and said to Qin Ke sincerely: "Thank you... I will seriously reflect on this incident, and I will definitely be more alert to drive in the future. By the way, friend, please trouble you.
Leave your name and phone number, and I...I will reward you heavily in a moment!"
Qin Ke shook his head: "There is no need for reward, but it is such a coincidence that I can't let you take the little girl away before her parents arrive."
"Of course, I will wait here for my uncle or aunt to come over. If you are sure you don't want cash reward, it doesn't matter. My name is Xu Guanxiong. I am currently the deputy general manager of Els Intelligent Automation Technology Co., Ltd., which can be regarded as the best in this capital.
If you have some ability, if you encounter something that you can't settle, just call me. If I can settle it, I will definitely help you settle it." After saying this, Xu Guanxiong handed over his business card again.
Els Intelligent Automation Technology Co., Ltd. is the largest listed company in China engaged in industrial intelligence and robot research and development. It is very famous and ordinary people who pay attention to domestic robots will have heard of it.
Being able to be the deputy general manager in such a large company - even if it is just a shadow of my father's generation, it is still very glamorous.
When Xu Guanxiong heard that the boy in front of him refused a heavy reward and did not state his name, he was more interested in making friends, so he tried to use his job title. Normally, as long as he reported this title, the other party would instantly look at him differently and his attitude would change.
You have to be polite.
Unexpectedly, Qin Ke just nodded slightly and said, "Thank you." He took the business card and stuffed it into his pocket.
Xu Guanxiong could see that this boy really didn't take his identity seriously, and he only accepted the card as a courtesy because his attitude had improved, and he couldn't help but feel even more surprised.
Who is this boy?
Suddenly someone lost his voice and said, "Are you... Qin Ke? Ning Qingyun?" But Xu Guanxiong's friends also came over, and one of the young women among them recognized Qin Ke and Ning Qingyun.
Xu Guanxiong patted his head and finally understood why he thought this boy looked familiar. It turned out to be Qin Ke, a famous mathematician whose photos he had seen many times on TV and the Internet!
And the girl next to Qin Ke, who is beautiful, innocent, and has a cold temperament, is undoubtedly Ning Qingyun, the first female mathematician in Xia State who also won the Fields Medal!
Thinking of their fame and status at this time, Xu Guanxiong's face was burning, but he didn't dare to be disrespectful in the slightest, and he quickly called an acquaintance to arrange a tow truck.
He came to tow Qin Ke's car away for repairs, and also took the initiative to arrange a vehicle to pick up and drop off the two of them for their temporary use in the past few days.
Qin Ke thought that he could take Chen Ming's car, so he didn't want to trouble anyone else. He just exchanged mobile phone numbers with Xu Guanxiong so that the car could be repaired and sent back to Qingmu University.
This incident had already attracted many passers-by to watch, and because it was discovered that the famous Qin Kening Qingyun was involved, more and more people were watching.
A passing anchor quietly opened the live broadcast room and reported the entire incident.
The previous academician co-optation incident has not subsided yet, so this rescue incident naturally caused another sensation and a lot of praise on the Internet. #mostaggressiveandkindest traffic violation# quickly jumped up the hot search list.
Top of the list.
Qin Ke noticed this and asked Ning Qingyun to take off his scarf and wrap it around the little girl's face to hide her appearance. He went over to negotiate with the anchor and signaled that the child's appearance and clothing should not appear, so as not to affect the child and his family.
mental health, which caused netizens who saw this scene in the live broadcast room to express a series of "666", "Qin Shen is so attentive, support Qin Shen", "Awesome! Qin Shen and Ning students can praise them vigorously, but
Don't affect the children!" barrage.
Not long after, the traffic police arrived, and then a panicked middle-aged man with a Chinese character drove up. He was the little girl's father. He was wearing a Bluetooth headset while driving to discuss work matters, so he didn't pay attention.
When his daughter fell out of the car window, he drove for two or three kilometers. After making a call, he found that there was no sound in the back seat of the car. When he looked back, he found that his daughter was gone. He was so frightened that his hands and feet were cold and he quickly called 110 for help...
The middle-aged man hugged his daughter and kissed her again. He held Qin Ke's hand gratefully and thanked him again and again. He had seen the whole story clearly from the surveillance camera video provided by the traffic police. He felt that Qin Ke had taken a big risk to save her.
I am even more grateful for my daughter’s behavior:
"Professor Qin, Professor Ning, I didn't expect to meet again. You have become my daughter's lifesaver. I cannot thank you enough. You gave my daughter a second life. Our whole family will remember this kindness."
It’s a small world, but this middle-aged man with a Chinese-character face was the editor-in-chief of Beijing Daily, Xu Tonghai, who helped Academician Song Shiliang together outside the venue of the National Science and Technology Award Ceremony in January.
Seeing that there were too many people watching, Qin Ke whispered: "You're welcome, Editor Xu, you'd better take your child to the hospital for a check-up first."
"Okay, Professor Qin, I'll leave first. I have your phone number and will contact you then. Guanxiong, please greet Professor Qin and Professor Ning, otherwise it's up to me how I will settle the account with you today!"
Xu Guanxiong said hurriedly: "Don't worry, uncle, I will definitely take care of it."
Considering that this matter attracted too much attention, it was a bit inappropriate to leave in Chen Ming's car. In the end, Qin Ke took Ning Qingyun and left in the car arranged by Xu Guanxiong.
Chatting with Xu Guanxiong and others on the road, Qin Ke realized that these young people were all the rich second generation in the capital. The elders in the family were either the chairman of a listed company or had a large factory at home. Basically, the family assets were no less than one
billion.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! What surprised Qin Ke was that when he mentioned his good friend Sun Bingfei, Xu Guanxiong and others actually knew each other and were very familiar with him. Qin Ke could only sigh that the circle of the rich second generation is really
Xiao, of course, also secretly lamented that the second generation of rich people had learned to connect with each other early and established good connections in advance. These intangible wealth are incomparable to many grassroots people.
Xu Guanxiong called Sun Bingfei. Upon hearing this, Sun Bingfei immediately said: "Are you with Brother Ke and sister-in-law? Okay, I'll meet you right away!"
Sun Bingfei came as soon as he said he would come, and within half an hour he met everyone in a large shopping mall.
"Brother Xiong, although Brother Ke is not my real brother, he is closer to me than my real brother. Fortunately, you didn't hurt him and his sister-in-law today, otherwise our friendship that we grew up playing with would have ended today!" Sun Bingfei said carelessly. , proudly holding hands with Qin Ke. Showing off his relationship with Qin Ke and Ning Qingyun to outsiders is one of his pleasures.
With Sun Bingfei playing a role in the relationship, several young people present quickly became familiar with each other. However, after this accident, the planned picnic was aborted. Qin Ke contacted Jiang Zhenjie and others and simply asked them to take a taxi to come and have a party together. gather.
At noon, Xu Guanxiong hosted a banquet for everyone. There was a topic during the dinner that aroused Qin Ke's interest.
"Guan Xiong, you said that Els Company has initially developed a humanoid bionic robot?"
"Yes, the current laboratory model has been launched. It is a cooperation with a certain rice company. It uses artificial intelligence as the core and standard humanoid as the carrier. It currently has complete three-dimensional space perception capabilities and can also realize human identity recognition and gesture recognition. , expression recognition function, but there is still a long way to go before it can be put into use, mainly because the artificial intelligence and algorithms are too limited, and the actual effects of biped technology and arm control are unsatisfactory."
Xu Guanxiong was able to become a deputy general manager at Ayers Company because the chairman was his father. However, he himself also graduated from Stanford University with a major in automation, and he did have considerable technical skills.
He also talked about a lot of news about the service robot developed by Els. Almost all of this news has been reported in the media, but most of the media releases were for propaganda purposes, and there was no truth or detail in what Xu Guanxiong said.
Qin Ke thought again of his distant goal of being a robot teacher in the mountainous area, and felt that there was still a long way to go.
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In any case, the unexpected acquaintance and friendship with Xu Guanxiong broadened Qin Ke's horizons in robotics, and he also allowed him to understand the technical status and bottlenecks of domestic intelligent robots.
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Qin Ke estimated that the goal of establishing a robot teacher in mountainous areas and achieving equitable education for students in mountainous areas may not be achieved within twenty years, so he focused his attention and energy first on the new desert sweet potato project that could be achieved within one year.
After returning to school, in order to cultivate a perfect new type of desert sweet potato as soon as possible, Qin Ke even put aside the Hodge conjecture in mathematics and concentrated on repeatedly studying the experimental data of the Lime Plant Breeding Laboratory and the DNA paper data of the Biological Society.
It is naturally not an easy task to create a new subject and put it into practice.
Computational seed science is no exception. It is closely related to the study of DNA, and the study of DNA is the most difficult direction in biology.
I believe everyone who has studied biology knows that the four bases a, t, c, and g are the basic characters for writing genetic information. They are closely connected in the form of gene sequences according to specific rules, and a group of adjacent bases (from a few numbers) (ranging from ten to tens of thousands) are combined to determine a genetic function and also represent a functional gene.
Qin Ke has collected a large number of whole genome sequences. After repeated research and verification, he has screened out different plant DNAs that are related to reproductive ability, branching ability, disease resistance, drought resistance, insect resistance, alkali tolerance, and high yield.
Ability and other closely related genetic molecular markers, which enabled him to grasp the main genetic information and key characteristics of a crop variety's DNA.
But this is not enough, he also needs to figure out which base combinations determine the ability to accept and reject which elements, etc.
To this end, he also designed a DNA single-stranded probe of the gene, using single-base polymorphism (SNP) markers that can be accurately detected, combined with the germination speed of seeds in thousands of different soils, and the single-stranded probe after germination
The emitted light signal value is used to determine the relationship between the gene to be detected and a certain element, and to explore the encoding of proteins and the regulation of genetic expression - that is, the "key genetic information" represented by a specific "position" on the genome.
In order to cultivate a perfect new desert sweet potato and make it a more advanced variety that can only grow in desert areas, Qin Ke must combine millions of genes in different forms to achieve free separation and combination of traits.
From them, we can combine new base combinations that best meet the characteristics of temperature, humidity, light, air flow, carbon dioxide concentration, etc. under desert conditions, and then deduce the most suitable hybrid breeding plan.
There are no ready-made answers to these problems provided by the system. Everything can only be explored and researched by oneself.
This kind of workload is undoubtedly terrifying, but fortunately Qin Ke is not alone.
The first partner is naturally Ning Qingyun. Ning Qingyun has greatly assisted Qin Ke in the theoretical improvement and mathematical modeling of computational seed science, and has also reduced the time and energy Qin Ke needs to invest in these two aspects.
The second partner is Shimmer, who has been successfully upgraded to level 4, and is becoming more and more like a capable assistant.
Since upgrading to lv4, Shimmer's "anthropomorphism" has become very high. She can respond to WeChat messages, SMS messages, email contents, etc. according to Qin Ke's orders, which is almost enough to make the fake look real.
Thanks to the "chat education" of Qin Ke, Ning Qingyun and Qin Xiaoke over the years, Shimmer has also formed its own "character".
Probably because Qin Xiaoke chats with it the most, the personality shown by lv4 Shimmer is somewhat like Qin Xiaoke, he likes to be cute and coquettish, and sometimes shows Qin Ke's gags. Fortunately, he is typical at work.
Ning Qingyun's style is solid, serious, and reliable, and she performs tasks without compromise.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! After Qin Ke and Ning Qingyun completed the mathematical modeling of seed DNA, Weiguang can take over all the subsequent deduction work, including the generation program and the main
Parameters and running, output results, saving two people a lot of time and energy.
In addition to these two partners, the Lime Plant Breeding Laboratory also went all out to cooperate with the research of Qin Ke and Ning Qingyun.
Since the Spring Festival holiday, researchers at the Lime Plant Breeding Laboratory have been working day and night on genetic observations and experiments on desert crops such as cacti, sea buckthorn, and Populus euphratica, and have analyzed the differences in elemental content between sandy soil in the desert and normal soil.
, comprehensively screen out the most suitable base set for desert growth.
Thanks to their research, Qin and Ke obtained a large amount of precious first-hand information and expanded the base combination data of DNA.
Once we have the theory, observational data and deduction results, we naturally cannot do without experimental verification.
Only through experiments, cultivating seeds and analyzing and recording the growth status throughout the process can we truly judge whether the derivation conclusion is correct, whether any detailed parameters need to be adjusted, and then infer whether the synthesized base combination is correct.
In this link, the "Hybrid Breeding Laboratory" in Qin Ke's "Virtual Scientific Research Experiment Center" plays a key role.
In reality, a cross-breeding experiment would take at least three or four months to complete.
But in the "virtual scientific research experiment center" where the time flow rate can be freely adjusted, it only takes about a minute to obtain useful data and results.
With the help of the "Virtual Scientific Research Experiment Center", Qin Ke may only need a month or two of free time for an experiment that would normally take decades and thousands, tens, thousands or even hundreds of thousands of attempts to succeed.
Of course, Qin Ke is a human being, not a machine, and he will also feel bored with a lot of repetitive experimental work. After more than a month of continuous research, when the time came to early May, Qin Ke felt a little dizzy.
It happened that academician Jiang Weixian was taking him and Ning Qingyun to a desert meteorological observation station in the northwest for field research. There had been some abnormal climate phenomena recently.
Chapter completed!