Although the rumor on Weibo that Ah Li offered a million yuan annual salary was answered by Meng Fanqi himself as false information.
But the number 800,000 still had a great impact on the several college students present.
800,000... they couldn't help but wonder how much annual salary they could get if they graduated and found a job.
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For several ordinary undergraduate students who had only completed half of their studies, a number exceeding 500,000 was already difficult for them to feel any difference.
Whether it was 800,000, 1 million, or 100 million, it was all a lot of money that they couldn't get their hands on.
Among the people present, only Tang Huang had seen Meng Fanqi's Google offer, so he remained calm when he heard 800,000.
"What's a few bucks? It's not even enough for Google's signing fee!"
At that time, this guy couldn't believe it and counted the number 10,000,000 more than ten times.
Meng Fanqi found it funny, "I put a comma every three digits in the number to make it easier for you to count. Is it that difficult to count?"
Tang Huang didn't know how to respond, but he couldn't give up and asked again, "Did they add an extra 0? Or maybe two 0s?"
Meng Fanqi felt speechless. "Even if the number is wrong, how do you explain the 'TenMillions' next to it?"
"...Uh"
After a while, Tang Huang finally digested this fact. He got up without saying a word and bowed.
"Tang Huang, drifting through half of my life, I only regret not meeting a wise lord. If you don't abandon me, I am willing to bow as my adoptive father.
With my adoptive father above, I will follow as a son from now on. I will not hesitate to go through fire and water and will not refuse to assist my adoptive father in achieving great things!"
This was just the beginning stage, and Meng Fanqi had already obtained such astronomical numbers before even getting in touch with Google's platform.
Tang Huang believed that the future was already self-evident.
With them working together to build a computer, such a simple workshop could produce world-class results. What more after joining Google?
He must firmly hold onto this strong and sturdy thigh. Even if it's not 10 million US dollars, even if it's one-tenth or one-hundredth, Tang Huang would be satisfied.
"Climb up, treating me like Dong Zhuo, huh."
Meng Fanqi cursed, but he indeed intended to gradually establish a familiar small team.
This team didn't need to have particularly high technical skills, they just needed to be familiar with each other. The tasks they needed to do were just collecting and organizing data, nothing major.
Most of it was unpaid dirty work, with low technical content, but not tiring.
Of course, as a repayment, Meng Fanqi's salary offer would definitely be much higher than the jobs they could find themselves.
"Next month, Tang Huang and I will go to Australia to attend a conference and introduce the championship algorithm. If you are interested in this field, you can come with us and take a look."
This IMAGENET competition was a workshop under the top computer vision conference ICCV. As one of the three major computer vision conferences, many prestigious universities and technology institutions invested a lot of manpower and resources here.
For the others to come and see the conference was actually worth more than a thousand words. By experiencing it and understanding it, they would naturally understand that Meng Fanqi's words were not false.
"Of course, you don't need to worry about the round-trip tickets, hotel, and living expenses. The organizing committee will take care of them." When it came to work-related matters, Meng Fanqi's thoughts returned to his previous job, almost forgetting that the people in front of him were just poor students. He added.
"A round-trip ticket and hotel alone would cost at least ten to twenty thousand... Isn't this too much?" Even the easy-going Mai Mang felt a bit embarrassed.
"Our championship team has hospitality quotas. Other teams have five or ten people, but we only have two. So there are some extra slots available for us to attend. The organizers will take care of these things." Tang Huang glanced at Meng Fanqi and explained.
This was, of course, a made-up story. The organizers did provide preferential treatment to participating teams, but it wouldn't go as far as providing all expenses for round-trip tickets, hotel, and living expenses. Are they doing charity?
In reality, attending academic conferences still required paying fees! Many low-level conferences didn't even care about academics, they just wanted more people to come so they could charge per person. They organized the conference for the sake of this money.
But since Tang Huang already knew that Meng Fanqi was preparing to sign with Google, and the signing fee could be in the millions of dollars, this amount of money was nothing.
Since his brothers were willing to pay, Tang Huang saw that Mai Mang hesitated due to expenses and pushed the responsibility onto the organizers of the event.
Saying this might not make most people believe it, but whether they believed it or not was one thing, and whether the task could be accomplished was another.
Tang Huang's words just gave the others an excuse and reason to accept it.
The topic in the room changed too quickly, and Han Ci felt a bit dizzy.
After talking about some past events, since Mai Mang asked about salary and benefits, the topic suddenly became more realistic and the pace accelerated.
Suddenly, there was an invitation to treat everyone and go to Australia together in December to attend the conference.
Han Ci had already seen through Tang Huang's lie just now. It was fine to deceive others, but that little look before and after speaking had already been noticed by Han Ci.
Treating everyone to a hot pot was nothing, but asking others to cover all expenses for their own trip was a bit too thick-skinned.
However, at this moment, it was obvious that Mai Mang was already interested.
Going to school is so tiring, where is there any fun in going out!
But since Meng Fanqi proposed this, Mai Mang was not familiar enough with him. Since Han Ci was originally going with him, Mai Mang didn't want to bypass Han Ci and express her desire to go.
She could only stare at Han Ci with anticipation.Han Ci glared at her fiercely, the look in her eyes saying, "How can you have the nerve to ask for all the benefits?!"
Then, she turned her head and said, "You and Tang Huang are no longer students, but we others still are. It's December and the end of the semester is approaching. Going to Australia at this time seems a bit inappropriate, doesn't it?"
"What's so important about the courses in the first and second year? Anyway, we won't listen even if we go." Tang Huang waved his hand dismissively, "Don't worry about formalities. It's fine, Mai Mang, I'll handle your parents."
Mai Mang's father was a coach in the ping pong team at the time, and Tang Huang was very familiar with Uncle Mai.
"Great!" Mai Mang jumped three feet high. With Tang Huang taking charge, she didn't need to pretend anymore.
"The school's vacation..." Han Ci was still not giving up.
"It's okay, I'll ask President Fu to help coordinate and approve a leave of absence." Meng Fanqi looked at Han Ci, who was racking her brains for reasons, and chuckled inwardly, "After all, this time it's officially the Yan Jing Electric Power University team, and it's a matter of winning glory for the school. I think the teachers will understand."
"Han Ci, are you going?" Mai Mang tugged at Han Ci's sleeve and asked cautiously.
Although Mai Mang didn't quite understand why, it seemed that Han Ci was a bit unhappy.
"I'm not going, what am I going for." Han Ci's reasons were always cut off by Meng Fanqi and Tang Huang, and there was a hint of annoyance in her voice.
"That's an academic conference, of course you're going to share your academic achievements." Meng Fanqi's invitation was well-prepared, and only now did he reveal his true purpose.
"I'm going to share the technology of residual-related algorithms, and you've done some research on its principles and interpretability, haven't you?" Meng Fanqi spoke as if it was a matter of course.
"They can be presented together. After I introduce the structure and implementation, you can talk about the theoretical part. Of course, the premise is that you can complete the relevant theory within this month."
"You're waiting for me here, aren't you?" Han Ci was smart and quickly understood. Whether it was needing someone to help in China or inviting a few people to attend a conference in Australia.
Although it wasn't exactly a lie, there was a hint of ulterior motive.
"Don't you want to take this opportunity to showcase your achievements on the most suitable platform?" Instead of responding directly to Han Ci, Meng Fanqi asked her a very profound question.
Not all papers are read, even good ones.
The attitude of master's and doctoral students towards their papers is actually the same as that of web novel authors towards their novels. They ultimately hope to have readers or to be recognized.
And a research and theoretical exploration based on the residual idea of DreamNet, could there be a more attention-grabbing, historically significant occasion than "presenting alongside DreamNet in the same report"?
Especially since this report is DreamNet's debut, after whetting the world's appetite for a whole month, it's the first time to unveil its mysterious veil to the world.
"I... I want to go." Only Han Ci knew what a great gift it was to present this achievement on the same stage. She muttered helplessly, "Your map of Yan Jing is really long..."