Top Student at Their Peak

Inside the Beijing Institute of Applied Physics and Computational Mathematics, Luo Jingren heavily put down the phone.

Ma Botao was not feeling happy, and at this moment, he felt even more unhappy.

Currently, regardless of chemistry, physics, or mathematics, there are too many interdisciplinary research projects.

As units under the Hua Science Academy, both the Huairou Institute and the Huaxia Science Academy Mathematics and System Science Research Institute, as well as the Beijing Institute of Applied Physics and Computational Mathematics, maintain collaborations.

Especially in areas like quantum chemistry, chemical reaction dynamics, and molecular design. Everyone has been collaborating fairly pleasantly.

Likewise, some mathematical modeling of chemical reactions and computational methods in materials science are provided to the Huairou Institute by them.

Now this Ma Botao, after securing projects upon his arrival, actually went outside to hire a consultant?!

How much must he look down on them?

Fine, let him look down on them. According to Ma Botao, did they indeed solve the current problems on the other side?

After the anger subsided, Luo Jingren sat down in front of the computer, logged back into the backend database, and pulled out all the materials for the temperature-responsive smart gel project transmitted from the lab.

Then he began to carefully study them while starting to print.

The data were clearly organized. This shows that they didn't do nothing.

After reviewing this data, Luo Jingren was almost sure that it would be difficult to analyze something useful from it.

The reason is simple. Mathematics is a science that studies regularities. In the absence of sufficient data, it's hard to find the needed patterns from this chaotic data, which is common mathematical knowledge!

Luo Jingren really wanted to rush up to Ma Botao and ask him if he understood what "sample size effect" meant.

Let alone that small datasets are easily affected by noise, which might obscure potential patterns in the data.

In large datasets, the effect of noise can usually be reduced by statistical methods, but when the data is sparse, this interference is more evident.

Moreover, in data-driven modeling, both the quality and quantity of data are crucial. Insufficient data means the resulting model might be underfitted, unable to truly reflect the underlying patterns in the data.

Really, the more Luo Jingren looked, the angrier he became...

This man named Ma is so unscrupulous! It's one thing to urge them to work with this broken data, but to even play tricks like forcing their hand?

Moreover, he used Tian Yanzhen and his apprentice as a shield. Others might fear Tian Yanzhen, but would he? He hasn't even figured out his own sect's issues.

Fine, it was only recently that there was a reconciliation with Old Yuan, which caused quite a stir. But Old Yuan is already a senior academician. They are not even in the same system.

Really giving that man named Ma face!

In the midst of his bubbling anger, he added three stacks of paper to the printer, and finally, the printing was almost done.

Looking at those thick stacks of materials, Luo Jingren picked up the phone and called his student.

"Xiao Zhou, get a couple of people to help me move these materials! Yes, I'm in the office, move them directly to Academician Liu's office. Hurry up!"

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Ten minutes later, Liu Zhao Yuan looked at the pile of materials on his desk and glared at Luo Jingren.

"What's going on? It's so inexplicable, do you have nothing to do? Or do you have too much funding to waste like this? Even if you want me to read the materials, couldn't you just upload the files?"

Luo Jingren replied indignantly: "Indeed, we're almost out of things to do! That new Ma Botao at the Huairou Institute is simply too overbearing. Don't ask why, just please read these materials and judge for yourself!

Is it that we're delaying analyzing the materials, or are the data themselves problematic, or can we really not produce anything useful? It's one thing for the data to be insufficient, but they are also not clearly directed.

I spoke well with him, and as a result, he got some consultant from outside to help them produce data! And not only that, they said the consultant was Qiao Yu, Tian Yanzhen's student.

This Ma Botao either packaged other data to the other side, or he's just blatantly lying! This technique, let alone us, even MIT can't do it."

Liu Zhao Yuan glanced at Luo Jingren across from him, didn't reply, but picked up the materials and started flipping through them.

This year, at fifty-eight, Liu Zhao Yuan is at a very vigorous age for the level of an academician. Barring any accidents, he could at least serve at a similar position for another twenty-plus years.

At least in Huaxia, reaching this level by sixty is very difficult, even under the increasingly strict age requirements nowadays, it's still very challenging.

After flipping through a few pages, Liu Zhao Yuan put the materials back. So much data would take even him a week to read. Obviously, Luo Jingren was here to vent his frustration.

"Alright, I understand the situation. What's the point of being angry? What if Qiao Yu's analysis of the laboratory's results is indeed useful?"

Liu Zhao Yuan said with a furrowed brow.

Luo Jingren replied loudly: "With insufficient data and unclear direction, if they can still produce useful results, I promise to apologize to Ma Botao and Qiao Yu in person! But do you think that's possible?

But if Ma Botao gave them more data to exclude us, combined with Yanbei and Huaqing wanting to push Qiao Yu, and trying to take advantage of us, I definitely won't agree!"

Liu Zhao Yuan glared at Luo Jingren again, pondered for a moment, then said: "Alright, Tian Yanzhen shouldn't be like that, let alone Qiao Yu is still so young, he wouldn't be in such a rush.