The Hope You Gave Me: 19-Zhou Ruji
The first week on the job was pretty smooth.
Min Hui's position is Teamleader, leading five programmers to do project design. AI medical imaging is one of the fastest areas for AI to enter medical care, and entrepreneurs are flocking to it. Although the business model is still unclear, hot money has been actively pouring in. As a veteran company, "Yuanlai Medical" did not want to miss out on this fat, so Bai'an Technology was established. The large company has abundant cash flow, and the research and development funds allocated are generous. It is also in the upstream of the industry, with the support of data and equipment behind it, and it is easy to get started.
General Manager He Haixiang is a technical background and has been working in management for a long time. After a few conversations, Min Hui felt that his level was average and he was not very interested in new knowledge and trends in the industry, but the work assigned by the head office was still very good. Passionate, keen to hold meetings, keen to report, and keen to engage in relationships. I am on the way to meetings almost every day, either in the company or out of town.
Min Hui didn't like He Haixiang very much. But it's not too annoying, after all, such leaders are everywhere in the officialdom. In addition, He Haixiang graduated from the military academy, and he always pays attention to organizational discipline. Although the company's male employees account for 83%, no one dares to mess around.
A greasy middle-aged man, as Min Hui defines him. Because the glass thermos cup in his hand is indeed inseparable, and it is indeed soaked in wolfberry.
Cao Mu is different. She has a degree in computer science and an MBA. She has worked in market development for five years in the head office. She is both knowledgeable and capable, and very assertive. Min Hui finally decided to choose Bai'an because she liked Cao Mu. After all, Cheng Qirang's turmoil made her stay away from all male bosses.
Beginning in the second week, the company had a series of incidents.
The customer service department called, and the Bincheng Cancer Hospital, the largest customer of Bai'an's flagship product "MIST", suffered several system crashes. Cao Mu sent a few teams to the site to repair it. The system could be used while the team was there, but it broke again within a day after the team left. After so many times, the customer finally got angry. He called and shouted, and he pulled out the terms of the contract and said that if it was not resolved within seven days, Bai'an would refund 30% of the total contract price.
He Haixiang was a little flustered and hurriedly held a meeting to ask about the situation. MIST is an AI-assisted liver disease automatic segmentation technology platform developed by Yuanlai Medical. It is a product developed by Yuanlai's R&D department for two years. After Bai'an was established, it was handed over to Bai'an for operation. Because of the good results, it was quickly sold to several large hospitals along with the medical equipment.
"The biggest problem is that the project leader of MIST, Dong Hui, has quit." Cao Mu said, "Since he left, my heart has been up and down. He developed an algorithm to solve liver tumor lesions. The accuracy of automatic segmentation of CT images was still very high at that time. When I left my job, I had a very stiff fight with the boss, and now it is impossible to get him back with major repairs.”
When she said this, she glanced at Min Hui and asked, "Min Hui—"
Because of her early pregnancy reaction, Min Hui deliberately sat in a remote corner. She was so drowsy when she heard someone call her, she was startled, and quickly said: "Here!"
Everyone present laughed.
"What are you laughing at? What's so funny!" He Haixiang roared, "I'm still laughing when my eyebrows are burning!"
"How is your health?" Cao Mu said, "Can I go there?"
She had wanted to send Min Hui there for a long time, but it was a cancer hospital and she was pregnant again, so she was too embarrassed to speak.
"Okay, I'll go now." Min Hui stuffed the laptop into the small bag.
"Wait, can you fix it? To the point where the hospital is no longer angry with us?" He Haixiang asked. After all, the male doctors sent earlier all came back in vain.
"It is impossible to completely repair it in such a short period of time. We can only try to repair it as much as possible so that the system can run first, and then come back and think about countermeasures." Min Hui said.
"Seven days. Can you do it in seven days?"
"Yes."
"How many people do I need to go with you?"
"I'll go alone."
Hearing this, the other people in the room felt a little uncomfortable, feeling like a fool.
He Haixiang was silent for a moment, then suddenly stared into Min Hui's eyes and said, "Arrogance is a disease, and it can be cured. If you can't do it, say it now, and we will find someone else quickly. I know a lot of big names in this industry, affiliated with Huaqing University. There is a team in the hospital that is also doing this, and the person in charge has a good personal acquaintance with me, so I asked for a favor temporarily and gave me more money, no problem.”
"My arrogance is honest. Honest arrogance is better than hypocritical humility." Min Hui smiled faintly and stood up with her bag, "What do you think?"
"If you can't do it in seven days, don't blame me for deducting your year-end bonus."
"OK."
Min Hui took the computer to the cancer hospital, and changed the source code for three days at the scene. On the morning of the fifth day, she went back to the company for a meeting and said that the problem was temporarily fixed, and the hospital should not call in a month or two.
Everyone breathed a sigh of relief.
"Dong Hui is also a veteran, what exactly is he doing?" Cao Mu asked.
"Many bugs. MIST has many problems in data preprocessing and model design, and the selection of loss functions, Post-processing and Refinement are not precise enough. The key is that the algorithm for converting 2D images into 3D is not enough. Good." Min Hui said while seeing He Haixiang's face getting darker and darker. After all, MIST is something he is proud of, and her own evaluation is too negative, so she added, "However, MIST does a lot of work on data. Well done! Rich materials, high standards, and solid foundation. In a project like this, the value of data is greater than the value of the algorithm itself.
"What should I do next? A complete rewrite?" He Haixiang took a sip of tea and looked at her, "Senior has already been described as useless by you."
"If you don't redesign, a customer as big as a cancer hospital will use more things, and problems will appear again. Every bug is a potential hidden danger. If there are similar products on the market, the design will be better than ours. If it is optimized, the hospital will give up MIST and buy someone else's system." Min Hui said, "If it is entrusted to me, I will need a five-person team, and it will take about half a year to a year. I can do it in a few days. Design an API first, then write a prototype."
"Then let's get started." Cao Mu said with a smile, "Babe, did I ask you to buy the decaf last time?"
"I bought it!" Yang Beibei said, "I even bought a new coffee machine for this decaffeinated coffee."
Min Hui looked at Cao Mu and smiled.
After the meeting, Cao Mu walked up to Min Hui and said, "Have a light meal at my house tonight?"
"Okay."
***
It's natural to be busy with tasks. Min Hui came out of the conference room and started working immediately. She didn't realize that it was time for her lunch break until she was hungry, and all the people in the office had left.
She went to the restaurant on the first floor and ordered a salted crispy chicken rice, plus two meat buns, and found a window seat and sat down. She had just started eating when she heard someone say "hi" to her. She looked up and saw that it was Zhou Ruji, a part-time employee of the company, the chief physician of the Oncology Department of the Affiliated Hospital of Bincheng University. This hospital is just across from Xianghe Building.
AI and medicine are actually two completely different worlds, and there is usually little overlap. Generally speaking, those who write programs do not understand medicine, and those who are doctors do not write programs. But project development needed to tie the two groups together, so the company hired some medical consultants and part-time jobs. Zhou Ruji is one of them, in his early thirties, he is the youngest and the most computer-savvy among the doctors.
Zhou Ruji sat down opposite her, looked at her bowl, and said with a smile, "Why is it salted chicken and meat buns again? There are a lot of dishes on the menu, so can't we change it?"
"What did you eat?"
"Celery lily." After saying that, I opened the lunch box, one white and one green, with rice underneath.
"So vegetarian?"
"Occasionally eat meat."
Min Hui's mind was still thinking about how to write the API. She wanted to go back to the office to work early after eating, so she shoved steamed buns into her mouth in two mouthfuls.
"Eat slowly, okay?" Zhou Ruji couldn't stand it any longer, "If you eat this starchy staple food so fast, you can imagine how fast your blood sugar will rise and the pressure on your pancreas. You don't have enough chewing in your mouth. , if the saliva is not full of stirring, some toxic and harmful substances will not be eliminated, and all of them will enter your body."
The threat of an expert is the most useful, and Min Hui suddenly becomes chomping.
"Well. It's almost the same. Don't sit down immediately after eating, go out for a walk, otherwise it's easy to get fatty liver, diabetes, hyperlipidemia..."
Min Hui couldn't help interrupting him: "I'm not your patient, so why talk so much."
"Mr. Cao said that the company intends to develop an imaging AI screening system for breast cancer, and I hope that I will be the consultant in this regard. The technical side...is probably the person in charge?"
"Mr. Cao didn't tell me." Min Hui sucked her finger, "She has several teams under her command, maybe she was assigned to someone else."
"It must be you." Zhou Ruji chewed the celery slowly, "They all say you are very good, oh no, you are the best."
"Then I'll ask her when I see her tonight."
"Are you going to her house tonight?"
"Yes."
"She also let me go."
"Oh." Min Hui thought to herself, since when did talking about work change to talking at the boss's house, and she couldn't help but wonder, "Why? Talking about breast cancer during dinner is so bad."
"She should be trying to match us." Zhou Ruji blinked, "Yesterday she asked me specifically if I had made progress on personal issues."
Min Hui glanced at his finger: "Are you single?"
"I've been divorced once." Zhou Ruji pouted, "My wife thinks I work too long and says I don't care about my family at all. I fall asleep after work and ignore her at all."
Really straightforward.
Min Hui smiled and said, "How many hours do you work a month?"
"Three hundred hours."
"I'm about as busy."
"So I think it's good for us to be together. You ignore me, I ignore you, and don't complain to each other."
"Since ignoring each other, why are we together? Wouldn't it be better to live alone?"
"When I'm free, I still feel lonely. Life can't be all work, it also needs some rest and fun, right?"
"Agree."
"What about you?" He changed the subject, "Also single?"
"Pregnancy out of wedlock."
"I don't mind."
“What?”
"I don't mind you getting pregnant out of wedlock. I like children, the more the merrier."
Min Hui raised her head, thinking he was joking, and couldn't help looking at him seriously: Although she wasn't handsome at the textbook level, Zhou Ruji was burly, with tough facial features and a kind of masculine beauty. A pair of lying silkworm eyes are like a pair of crescent moons, and they are particularly flattering when they smile. Yang Beibei said he was arrogant, but Min Hui felt approachable. Only then did she realize that as long as she was in the company, she would "encounter" Zhou Ruji in the restaurant at noon almost every day.
She didn't want to give him any hope, and said lightly: "I'm busy and don't have time to fall in love."
"Strange," Zhou Ruji smiled faintly, "then how did you get pregnant?"
“…”
"Are you going to raise this child alone?"
"Yes."
"I can help you."
"No, thank you."
There was a little worry in his eyes: "I heard that your parents have passed away. Do you have any siblings? Do you have good friends? Like girlfriends or something?"
"Neither."
"Never, or did it fall out?"
"Never."
"That night we have to go to Mr. Cao's house for dinner together, what do you think?" Seeing her tone of voice was slightly contradictory, Zhou Ruji immediately changed the subject, "After all, they are also kind."
"Of course, we can discuss work, anyway, we'll be working on projects together in the future," Min Hui said in a business-like manner.
"Then I'm going to talk a lot about lymph node metastasis of breast cancer." He laughed, "I know, you people who work on computers, the ultimate purpose of making this product is to eliminate doctors."
"Of course not," Min Hui corrected, "to ease your work."
After dinner, the two took the elevator back to the office together, chatting and laughing along the way, as if nothing had happened, and they were not embarrassed by what happened just now.
This is the first time Min Hui has seen such a man who can advance and retreat freely.