txolops Chapter 204 Butcher Ding's Skill in Carving Up an Ox
Chapter 204 Butcher Ding's Skill in Carving Up an Ox
Even without any prior introduction, Allen's extremely discerning eye instantly made a judgment:
That seemingly nonchalant boy is definitely the backbone of this team!
There was no stage fright, and no unnecessary movements.
Just from his extremely relaxed yet subtly authoritative demeanor, Allen could sense an undeniable aura of absolute leadership.
He had only ever seen that kind of aura in Wall Street tycoons and top scientists!
With a glance from the boy, the other two team members beside the podium quickly and methodically finished setting up all the equipment.
"cough."
The Asian teenager on the podium tapped the microphone lightly, his voice not loud, but it instantly silenced the whispers in the entire lecture hall.
"Dear professors and students, good afternoon. I am Su Hao."
His voice was clear and calm, yet it possessed a power that could penetrate the heart.
"For a long time, academia and politics seem to have reached a desperate consensus:"
Boston's infamous, deadlock-like traffic congestion is an irreversible disease.
Su Hao placed his hands on the podium, his gaze calmly sweeping over the group of academic luminaries and top students below.
"But our team has a different perspective on this."
Here, we utilized some underlying data obtained from the Transportation Bureau, combined with variables collected from external sources...
We have successfully replicated Boston's current global traffic flow model in a virtual dimension. Please take a look.
As he nodded slightly, the originally dull gray road network on the big screen instantly seemed to be infused with a soul, and began to be painted with dazzling colors!
What happened next made Allen's pupils suddenly contract!
Like a high-speed time-lapse video, the live traffic map on the big screen changed at a terrifyingly fast speed visible to the naked eye.
The glaring blood red, symbolizing severe paralysis, spread wildly along the main thoroughfare of the city center!
Immediately afterwards, the yellow congestion zone, symbolizing a warning, radiated wildly outwards from the red zone like a shockwave to the surrounding suburbs!
Subsequently, as the system time progressed into the off-peak period of the early morning, these glaring colors gradually faded away like the tide, turning into green, symbolizing unobstructed flow.
Absolutely stunning!
It's as if an invisible God pressed the button to accelerate time.
The entire 24-hour cycle of Boston, a megacity with tens of millions of inhabitants, every painful pulse, every desperate blockage, was ruthlessly and intensely condensed and laid bare before the eyes of everyone present!
"hiss--!!!"
The students in the audience didn't know the details; they just thought the scene was amazing.
But Allen, the deputy director of the Transportation Bureau, who was sitting in the first row, was struck dumb at that moment!
He stared intently at the screen, his heart skipped a beat, and his back was instantly soaked with cold sweat!
His eyes, which had seen countless grand projects, were now wide open like copper bells, filled with extreme horror that ordinary people could not understand!
This...this is a top-secret situation map, locked deep within the Transportation Bureau's underground server room, requiring dual fingerprint authorization from both him and the bureau chief to view. It's absolutely impossible for any outsider to know about it!
As the first deputy director of the Transportation Bureau, Allen was all too familiar with this scene that tormented him every day.
But it was precisely because of this familiarity that he felt his scalp tingle and his whole body go cold!
His mind was screaming: How is this possible?! How did these guys even do that?!
This Asian teenager named Su Hao was actually able to reconstruct such a god-like microscopic model from just a tiny bit of incomplete and fragmented data?
Moreover, its accuracy is even smoother than the top-secret monitoring network built by the Transportation Bureau at a cost of hundreds of millions!
What the hell is this monster?!
On stage, Su Hao remained completely unfazed by Allen's utterly shattered worldview; he remained as calm and composed as ever.
"Through an in-depth analysis of this flow model, we conclude that:"
Boston's currently much-vaunted "intelligent" traffic control architecture is fundamentally based on the pursuit of a "local optimum" at a single intersection node.
Su Hao suddenly turned around and grabbed a piece of chalk.
"This control strategy, when viewed at a micro scale at a single intersection, might be considered reasonably efficient."
However, when placed at the level of a macroscopic network system with tens of thousands of nodes, this selfish, self-serving algorithm will inevitably lead to a catastrophic cascading bottleneck of complete paralysis!
These words were like a resounding slap in the face.
After saying that, Su Hao didn't give the audience any time to process what he had said. He immediately wrote down several lengthy equations on the huge blackboard behind him.
The massive, chaotic, and unpredictable urban traffic flow is meticulously dissected in his writing, much like a skilled butcher dissecting an ox.
Ultimately, it was transformed into a set of cold, symmetrical partial differential equations that exuded ultimate beauty!
Allen stared intently at the screen and the blackboard, his face burning with pain, the back of his shirt completely soaked with cold sweat.
Pain! Shame! Embarrassment!
He was exposed by an outsider college student who might not even have a driver's license, who used pure mathematics to pinpoint his fatal weakness that he had been trying to hide.
They pointed their finger at them and yelled, "Your system is a piece of shit!"
This caused Allen, a leading figure in academia and the bureau chief, an unprecedented sting.
But even stronger than the embarrassment was the pent-up resentment in his chest that was suffocating him!
How could he not be aware of the problems in Boston?
Doesn't he know that local optima can lead to global collapse?! He knows it better than anyone else!
But how could those armchair strategists know how dirty reality is?
In this decaying city, if he wanted to adjust even one block of traffic light cycles, he had to swallow his anger and endure endless layers of questioning and approval from the laymen of the Transportation Systems Committee.
Each district's municipal budget is independently accounted for, and each district operates on its own.
Even if he just wanted to install the cheapest, cheapest sensor at a key intersection, he would have to go through months of endless wrangling and passing the buck between this office and that department!
Moreover, those citizen environmental groups that wave the banner of so-called "political correctness" protested every day downstairs in front of his office building, demanding absolute "pedestrian priority";
Meanwhile, the police station, fire department, and hospital were holding him by the neck, forcing him to forcefully leave an emergency lifeline that absolutely could not be occupied in his already paralyzed blood vessels!
Under the constraints of such an extremely distorted, multi-faceted, and mutually destructive corrupt bureaucracy, even if God came, this broken system would surely descend into chaos and become a stinking mess!