Chapter 944 Only Losers Will Be Laughed At

Eric watched his daughter staring at the nine-square grid in Steve Mitnick's hand for about half a minute, thinking that this question was a bit difficult, and was about to remind the little guy that the sum of three consecutive numbers should be 15. The little Hawaiian hand pointed at the center of the Jiugongge: "The middle is 5. [Maopu Novel's fastest and most complete free novel]"

Far away in Boston, Steve Mitnick, Ian Grenier and Tina Brown all looked even more surprised. This problem is much more difficult than the simple sum of numbers.

Steve Mitnick reached out and filled in the number 5 in the center of the nine-square grid, and Hawaii quickly filled the nine-square grid. The sum of any three straight-line numbers on the nine-square grid was exactly 15.

After looking at the Jiugongge in his hand and the little guy on the opposite side for a while, Steve Mitnick recovered from his surprise and said with a smile: "Eric, do you still remember "Men in Black", although I never thought you were a Pandora, but your daughter might really be."

There is no father who is not happy for the intelligence of his child. Eric said proudly: "Even if it is a Pandora star, it is my daughter. This is definitely not wrong."

The two were joking, but Hawaii retorted solemnly: "I'm not from Pandora. Mom said it was just a joke in the movie. You should tell me how Yahoo search works."

"Of course," Steve Mitnick nodded. Seeing that Eric had no objection, he began to briefly explain the principles of search engine algorithms to the little guy. Ian Grenier and Tina Brown were also interested. A few words are inserted vigorously from time to time.

After the two questions just now, Steve Mitnick has completely stopped treating the little guy in front of him as a child under five years old, and explained in detail the information capture, data processing and user retrieval functions required by the search engine. , under his good guidance, Hawaii's thoughts were even led to the field of artificial intelligence unconsciously.

After chatting like this for half an hour, Steve Mitnick concluded: "So, Xia Xia, if in the future you can create an intelligent algorithm that imitates human thinking ability, then a machine with such an algorithm can Like humans, or even better than humans."

Because his daughter did it with her back to him, Eric didn't notice the little girl's brighter eyes, and he had no way of knowing what kind of door Steve Mitnick's words opened in his daughter's heart.

After Steve Mitnick finished speaking, Eric smiled and said, "Steve, are you not afraid that my daughter will create Skynet and destroy the world?"

Steve Mitnick nodded in anticipation, with a hint of madness in his eyes: "If Xia Xia can really do it in the future, I will be willing to be killed by the t-800."

"I don't want you to be willing, I don't want my daughter to have these messy pursuits, she just needs to be her daughter's daughter at ease. Other daughters buy one Hermes at a time, and my family Xia Xia buys one at a time. car."

Steve Mitnick rolled his eyes, looked at Hawaii and said, "Hey, Xia Xia, do you think your father is very vulgar?"

"Well," the little girl nodded earnestly, and in a blink of an eye she forgot that she despised her father just now, and turned her head and said, "Dad, can I use the computer in the future?"

Eric said: "Baby, we made an agreement that you have to wait until you are at least six years old."

Steve Mitnick was dissatisfied when he heard the conversation between the father and daughter: "Eric, with Xia Xia's current IQ, let alone six years old, she is smarter than sixteen-year-old children. restrain her."

Eric looked at the camera and said, "I don't want Xia Xia to complain that I didn't give her childhood when she grows up."

"How do you know that the childhood you gave her is what she wanted," Steve Mitnick retorted, and then said to Hawaii: "Xia Xia, ignore your father, you can use the computer secretly when he is not around. Oh.

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The little man's expression was very disappointed, but he still shook his head and said, "No way, if my father doesn't agree, my mother will not agree. If I use it secretly, my mother will be sad. I don't want to make my mother sad."

The three big men are nothing, and Tina Brown, who has become a mother, heard the little girl's words, and her mother's love overflowed, her eyes were a little wet, and she immediately opened her mouth to crusade Eric: "Eric, listen to me. Ah, can such a sensible thing be said by an ordinary four or five-year-old child, I suddenly feel that you are so hateful."

"Eric, as long as there is restraint, it's okay for children to use computers," Ian Grenier, who has always been less talkative, couldn't help but say.

Eric was actually very moved, and quickly surrendered, and said to his daughter, "Okay, but Xia Xia, you must have your mother by your side when using the computer."

Seeing the little girl nodding happily, Steve Mitnick interjected again: "Eric, I think I should hire a math teacher for Xia Xia, who can teach mathematics directly from junior high school."

"I think we should talk about business," Eric directly ignored Steve Mitnick's words, and then said to the daughter in his arms: "Hey, Xia Xia, Dad has promised you, now you can go out to play. "

"Dad, can I listen here, I'll be obedient," the little girl blinked.

Eric always felt that his daughter's expression was very similar to Emma's coquettish expression, but he didn't think much about it. He just thought that children were probably like this. He nodded, but said softly, "Actually, Xia Xia, you There is no need to know so many things at all. The knowledge in this world is endless. No matter how smart people are, they will never be able to acquire one ten thousandth of all the knowledge in the world. Sometimes, you only need to master the channels for acquiring knowledge. , and get the information you want when you need it.”

Speaking of this, Eric flashed some thoughts in his mind, looked up at the camera, and said to the three people on the opposite side: "Ian, Steve, Tina, do you know 10 to the 100th power, I remember exactly There's a word that I can remember someone using to describe endless data. I've been thinking about spinning off our search engine into a completely independent sub-brand for a while now, and I think our search The engine should also have the ambition to collect all the data in the world. Then, this search engine is named after this word. Google, what do you think?"

As Eric said, he wrote the word 'google' in the blank of a document in front of him, and then put it in front of the camera and showed it to the three people on the opposite side.

Naturally, Tina Brown and Ian Grenier had no problem, just about to nod, Steve Mitnick said: "Eric, the pronunciation of this word is correct, but you spelled it wrong, 10 of 100 To the power, the professional word should be 'googol', not 'google'."

Steve Mitnick also wrote down the correct spelling in the notebook just now.

Eric's expression didn't look any different. He smiled and showed the words in his hand to Ian Grenier and Tina Brown, and then gestured to the word in Steve Mitnick's hand, saying, "Although Misspelled, but I think this 'google' in my hand should look better than 'googol', right?"

Both Tina Brown and Ian Grenier nodded with a chuckle, and Steve Mitnick also compared them, agreeing with Eric's opinion in his heart, but still said: "But this is too imprecise, If someone in the future learns that you misspelled the name of our search engine, they will surely be laughed at."

Eric disagreed and said: "Only losers will be laughed at. When our 'google' becomes the largest search engine in the world, then everyone will only think that my misspelling at this time is a very meaningful thing. An anecdote. Also, since I can think of the correct domain name without 'googol' already being registered, you'd better get someone today to get the 'google' domain name that belongs to us.

In the next year, I hope you will do your best to build this search engine sub-brand. I said a long time ago that the Yahoo in my heart should definitely not be an online media company, it should be an online technology company, we want to provide Internet users with tools to browse the online world, not content, because no matter what No matter how large Yahoo is, we cannot meet the differentiated needs of hundreds of millions of Internet users.

Portals are destined to be only the product of the initial stage of the Internet. As people's awareness of the Internet deepens, they will gradually want to get rid of the media content that we actively provide, and take the initiative to find things they are interested in. Therefore, search engines, only is the future of the Internet. "

Ian Grenier and Steve Mitnick nodded in agreement, but they couldn't help but look at Tina Brown.

Tina Brown has been in charge of Yahoo's media content division. If Eric intends to weaken the image of Yahoo Internet Media, Tina Brown will definitely be gradually marginalized in the future.

Although she agreed with Eric's point of view in her heart, Tina Brown's expression was inevitably a little disappointed.

Eric naturally understood the thoughts of the three people on the other side, smiled, and said: "Tina, don't worry, you will not be marginalized, I remember I still said that another business focus of Yahoo, I don't know about you. Forgot?"

Tina Brown thought for a moment and said, "You mean, social network."

Eric nodded: "Yeah, social network. The reason why I say that no matter how large Yahoo is, it can't meet the content needs of all Internet users is because our number of employees is limited after all, and we can't give all Internet users access to content. Provide what you want. Moreover, with the development of the Internet, other media companies will naturally build their own media content platforms. However, there is a group that can compete with all those who want to develop Internet content platforms in content production. Media companies, this is the huge user base of the Internet.

Like search engines, we can win over this huge user base as long as we build a complete social network. By then, our social network will be, in fact, the largest media platform in the world.

Therefore, while taking into account the content department of Yahoo's portal, I hope that you will focus more on the operation of Yahoo's personal homepage in the future. Although in my mind, this is not the ultimate form of social network, but if you manage Yahoo's personal homepage well, you can accumulate experience for the future development of social network. "

Tina Brown's eyes no longer had the loss just now. After listening to Eric, she thought for a while, and said, "In this case, Eric, why don't we, like the search engine, also publish Yahoo's personal homepage alone? What about setting up a dedicated subsidiary?"

"Of course I thought so, but the time is still immature," Eric shook his head and said, "The development of the Internet is much faster than I thought, so now is the best time to increase investment in search engine business. Good timing, but if you want to popularize social networking, I want to wait until people can access the Internet anytime, anywhere, and then promote it.”

Ian Grenier suddenly said: "Eric, this should be the purpose of you letting us develop that mobile client operating system, and Firefly's yahoopad project?"

Since it was seen by Ian Gernier, Eric did not hide it, nodded and said: "Yes, in fact, yahoopad is only the first step. It is still very inconvenient for this machine to log in to the Internet anytime, anywhere. It can only be connected to the Internet if it has a wifi hotspot network, so if we want to promote this kind of machine in the future, the first thing we need to do is to popularize the wifi hotspot network all over the country. As for the future, I hope The mobile phone networks of major telecommunications companies can meet this function of connecting to the network at any time, in fact, some telecommunications networks now have the function of connecting to the Internet, but the high cost is simply not affordable for ordinary people.”

Yahoo has a very close relationship with Firefly Electronics. Ian Grenier has also seen some wifi technology materials, and when he heard that Eric plans to build a wifi hotspot network across the country, he couldn't help but say: "Eric, we will build a nationwide network of wifi hotspots. For a wifi hotspot network, doing so is almost equivalent to building a brand new telecommunications network. Even the three major telecommunications companies may not do this easily. You must know that even a regional telecommunications network in one city and one place, the construction cost It’s all calculated in billions, not to mention the nationwide telecommunications network.”

Eric remembered the McDonald's, KFC and Starbucks chain stores in big cities and small towns in the United States, smiled and said, "I didn't talk about building a large-scale mobile communication network like a telecom company, you can focus on your own business. , we'll know when the time comes." (To be continued.)