Chapter 16: Programming Expert
"Iteration completed, taking 15 minutes and 20 seconds.
Achievement unlocked: Love Expert!
Unknown data: 586M
Data pending collaborative processing: 842M"
Looking at the computer's feedback, Song Han nodded.
"The local data of internet cafes in 2002 is truly distinctive and bold!"
He started to process the collaborative data, uniformly marking and naming the content that the AI couldn't recognize, and modifying it into a format that the AI could understand.
The local data of internet cafes in 2002 was just so wild and unrestrained. By the time he finished processing the collaborative data, Song Han felt that the harsh white light emitted by the computer screen in front of him had turned into a gentle green.
"Restrict free use of the Internet. Open IPs:
154.83.15.45
112.121.162.67
38.163.35.207
...
Freely browse, download, and iterate the website data within these IPs. Establish a task for iterative upgrade to become a programming master!"
"The task is being created. Please wait..."
Five minutes later...
"The task has been created successfully. Connecting to the local network. Please wait..."
Ten minutes later...
"What are you doing?"
Seeing that Song Han hadn't made any movement for a long time, Wang Wei couldn't help but lean over.
Trying hard to suppress the urge to smash the computer, Song Han grabbed his hair irritably and said,
"If the foundation isn't well - laid, it's so frustrating to build a building on it!"
"What do you mean?"
Song Han didn't answer. Instead, he turned his head and asked,
"Have you moved all the new computers I bought in?"
Wang Wei asked in surprise,
"The ones I just moved in are the computers you bought. But where are the computer cases and monitors?"
"Of course, they're not needed!"
Not bothering about the progress bar that was advancing more slowly than a crawling ant, Song Han turned around and started to sort out those boxes.
The deliveryman beside him asked,
"The goods are to be paid on delivery. Who should I get the payment from?"
Song Han stepped forward, looked at the pile of boxes beside him, and asked,
"How much?"
"One hundred and twenty thousand yuan!"
"How much?"
Wang Wei's voice suddenly rose an octave!
The deliveryman shrugged and said,
"One hundred and twenty - four thousand, three hundred and fifty - six yuan and eight jiao! Here's the delivery note. Check it!"
"What on earth costs so much money?"
Ignoring the surprised expressions of the two beside him, Song Han took the delivery note and started to check.
"Sixty NVIDIA GeForce 2 graphics cards.
Fifteen AMD Athlon CPUs."
Fifteen alien - shaped motherboards, three composite computer cases, three main power supplies, and fifteen auxiliary power supplies.
"No problem!"
Song Han paid the money readily. The accompanying technician beside him asked curiously,
"Are you going to build a personal server? Why don't you just buy a ready - made one?"
'Why not buy a ready - made one? Of course, it's because of being short of money.'
In 2003, even if he spent all the more than one million yuan he just got, the computing power of a ready - made server might not be as strong as that of these three assembled ones.
Song Han silently complained in his heart but didn't explain. He just smiled and saw the technician off.
The technician was still worried. Before leaving, he didn't forget to remind them,
"Let me tell you in advance. Building a personal server isn't that simple. Once you open the boxes of these accessories we delivered, you can't return them!"
Song Han nodded in agreement. After the technician left, he turned around and went into the internet café to start the boring overtime work.
For a high - order primary AI model, a server with a complete system and smooth operation and a pile of electronic hardware composed of stacked GPUs and CPUs, the latter can actually give full play to more powerful computing power.
In this way, building the server for Song Han was just a manual job of plugging and installing.
After working overtime all night, it was no surprise that Song Han was late again the next day.
The head teacher looked at the familiar face outside the classroom door and calmly asked,
"What's your excuse for being late today?"
With a straight face, Song Han said,
"I studied by myself too late last night and forgot to change the battery of the alarm clock."
The homeroom teacher nodded.
"Okay, that's good. At least your excuse is consistent with yesterday's. I hope your mid - term exam results can match the 'effort' you've put into being late these days!
And you, An Jian. Were you late again because you were working part - time?"
Song Han turned his head to look at the little girl with her head down beside him. Somehow, there were a few more Band - Aids on her little hands that were constantly twisting together.
The homeroom teacher said in frustration,
"You were specially recruited into our school as a poverty - stricken student. Your tuition and miscellaneous fees are all waived!
With such good benefits, instead of studying hard, you go out to work part - time. How much money can you earn?
Study hard now. When you get into high school and then college in the future, that's when you can really make big money!
Come in!
You're just so annoying every day!"
Sitting back at his desk, Song Han turned his head to look at the figure rummaging through the schoolbag in a hurry behind him. Suddenly, he seemed to think of something and turned back to ask.
"How much do you earn a day from working part - time at the breakfast shop?"
"No... no money..."
"No money?"
Song Han looked at her in surprise.
"If you don't get paid, why do you go there every day?"
The little girl lowered her head and said,
"They provide meals..."
"Breakfast?"
She added,
"And lunch..."
"Why don't you go home for meals? Are you so poor that you can't afford to eat?"
Song Han's words made the little girl's already flushed face turn even redder. She lowered her head, as if looking for something, and used her frayed burlap schoolbag to cover her face.
"There are many people in my family... I can work to earn myself something to eat."
Song Han looked at the little girl who was about the same height as him. His height was below average in the class. Generally, female students develop and grow faster than male students. For her to be just as tall as him and yet so thin, if this were a hundred years later, he didn't know how many people would be sued for child abuse.
Song Han shook his head and said,
"I'll find you a part - time job in a few days. Don't go to that breakfast shop anymore."
After school, he rushed to the internet café without a moment's rest. After following Song Han and being busy for several days, watching Song Han spend money like water and throw in more than a hundred thousand yuan in a short period, Wang Wei finally couldn't hold it in anymore.
"By the way, what on earth do you want to do with this internet café you bought?"
His monthly salary was only 800 yuan!
Song Han let out a sigh of relief as he saw the six computer cases serving as the computing power pool in the storage room he had set up light up.
He turned on the air - conditioner and set the temperature to the lowest. Without turning back, Song Han explained,
"What else can you do with an internet café besides opening it for business?"
"For business?"
Wang Wei clearly didn't believe Song Han's words.
"The previous landlord spent 130,000 yuan on this internet café and ended up losing everything. You've thrown in more than 300,000 yuan. Where do you get the confidence that you can make the money back by running this internet café?"
"I can't help it if you don't believe me!"
Song Han spread his hands, pulled down the rolling shutter door, and walked away.
With the expansion of the computing power in the internet café, the progress of the tasks in the computer, which had been advancing at a snail's pace before, suddenly started to speed up.
After school one day, Song Han said to the classmate who followed him back to the internet café,
"I'll pay you 8 yuan an hour. The café closes at 2 a.m. every night after school. I've bought a single - person chair. You can use it as a bed by bringing a quilt. If it's too late at night, you don't have to go back."
However, An Jian just timidly followed behind Song Han. Looking at the empty internet café and the unfamiliar machines, she seemed extremely panicked.
"But, but I don't know how to use a computer..."
Song Han explained,
"It's very simple! When someone comes to surf the Internet, just keep a record. It's 4 yuan an hour on the first floor and 8 yuan an hour on the second floor. Let them surf the Internet for as many hours as the money they pay. When the time is up, just put their account on hold and settle the bill!"
An Jian worriedly asked,
"What if I make a mistake in the record?"
Song Han shook his head and said,
"I'll install management software in a few days. Then you don't have to worry about making mistakes."
After giving the instructions and showing her the process once, Song Han ran upstairs to get busy with his own business, leaving An Jian sitting alone in front of the bar, feeling at a loss in the empty internet café.
Ding - dong...
The task is completed.
Achievement unlocked: Programming Expert.
Task to be executed: Unattended management software for the internet café.
The task has been successfully created. It is expected to be completed in 8 hours.
Open IP addresses:
153.82.15.45
111.111.182.69
58.153.25.407
New learning task: Web crawler
Unknown data: 432G
Data pending collaborative processing: 654G"
Warning: Warning: Memory usage exceeds 80%. Please expand the memory in time.
Looking at the feedback information in the dialog box, Song Han couldn't help but fall into deep thought.
In 2023, a single training iteration of a large - language AI model cost tens of millions of US dollars.
The basic AI model he was using now was from 2110. Although the progress of the algorithm had offset some of the costs, it wasn't all of them.
At least in the early stage of AI iteration, manual intervention and collaborative processing were essential.
But it was 654G of files!!!
He couldn't finish manually processing them even if he worked himself to death!