Memory inheritor

Chapter 72 Translating Dreams

Once the neural signal interpretation scheme for Mujie was finalized, the related requirements became clearer.

That evening, Director Shi reported the situation to the municipal bureau leaders and asked them to communicate with Yuecheng University in advance.

Previous communications with Feng Weixu and Dai Mengqi were merely technical consultations; formal cooperation requires agreement with Yuecheng University. Considering the principle of equal standing, I'll have to trouble the leadership.

The core support for this collaboration is the High Performance Computing and Data Science Center of Yuecheng University, which is what Feng Weixu and his colleagues call the supercomputing center.

All high-density computing and multimodal data processing tasks in the solution, including the subsequent translation and analysis of dream narratives, must rely on the dedicated computing power of the supercomputing center and require the university's overall cluster scheduling to ensure computing efficiency.

In addition, the key software resources required for the collaboration must also be provided by Yuecheng University.

For example, Dai Mengqi's "Basic Semantic Stimulation Library" and Jiang Haiyang's "Neural Dictionary" algorithm model were research outputs completed by the two of them during their studies at the university, relying on the resources of the supercomputing center, and the research and development funding was also provided by the university.

Therefore, as a matter of convention, they, as the core contributors to the results, enjoy the right to be the first author, as well as the priority right to use the results for subsequent research, the right to share the profits after the results are commercialized, etc., while the ownership of the results belongs to Yuecheng University.

The next morning, Director Shi led a team to Yuecheng University and signed a cooperation agreement with the university.

The purpose of this collaboration between the two parties is to solve the case. Yuecheng University is also giving its full support, not only prioritizing the resource needs of the task force, but also assigning two technical experts from the supercomputing center to provide operational support.

Subsequently, this special collaboration, named "Dream Translation Project," was carried out intensively according to the established plan.

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In the northwest corner of Yuecheng Municipal Third Hospital, there is an independent courtyard separated by a wall. Inside the courtyard is a three-story building, where the exclusive medical monitoring center of the Municipal Criminal Investigation Corps is located.

In the intensive monitoring ward on the second floor of the small building, there is a bed surrounded by various monitoring devices, and the person lying on it is Mu Jie.

Mu Jie was sent here shortly after his arrest, and it was here that Zheng Han and Yu Xiufeng discovered the abnormal neural signals in his brain.

After the "Dream Translation Project" began, this place underwent corresponding upgrades.

The entire ward underwent electromagnetic shielding modifications and further soundproofing. The indoor lighting uses warm yellow, low-light conditions to minimize environmental interference.

On Mu Jie's bald head, there are high-density flexible EEG caps to collect EEG signals of more than 256 channels; on his forehead, temporal lobe (above the ears), and other places, there are miniature near-infrared spectral array patches to monitor changes in blood oxygenation in key areas of the brain; and a quantum magnetoencephalography helmet is loosely attached around his head to capture extremely weak brain magnetic signals without contact.

These devices form a neural signal capture array.

In addition, there are physiological and behavioral monitoring arrays, including high frame rate infrared eye trackers (used to track subtle eye movements), electromyography electrodes on the face and limbs (used to monitor dream-related micro-expressions and muscle twitches), and integrated vital signs monitors.

Separated from the ward by only one wall is the on-site monitoring room, through which the situation inside the ward can be seen through a special glass wall.

There are four regular staff members on duty here.

One is a neuroelectrophysiology engineer responsible for real-time monitoring of the calibration, wearing, and signal quality of all devices; the other is a attending physician responsible for ensuring Mujie's medical safety and assessing the physiological risks that any stimulation may cause.

The other two are technicians responsible for encrypting and packaging local data, and transmitting the raw multimodal data stream in real time to the receiving server located at the Yuecheng University Supercomputing Center via a dedicated ultra-high-speed fiber optic link.

After receiving data from the server, it distributes the data to multiple processing modules in real time to filter out noise and fuse data from different modalities. The fused, clean neural signals are then input into the "Neural Translation Package" AI model to analyze neural activity within a short time window (typically 2 to 3 seconds) and output a set of semantic labels with probabilities.

A continuous stream of semantic tags is fed into the narrative reconstruction AI, which synthesizes dream fragments described in natural language, thus forming a text-based live broadcast of Mu Jie's dream.

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As the new week began, Wei Hongsi had an additional task in his spare time: to participate in the decoding work of the "Dream Translation Project" at the old campus of Yuecheng University.

This work has become a collective activity among all the disciples, and it was organized by him, so naturally he cannot stay out of it. Moreover, it is related to his unfinished "system" task.

In the first two days, there were many issues to deal with, such as adjusting the "basic semantic stimulus library", upgrading the "neural dictionary" algorithm, building the neural decoding model, cross-module collaboration, etc., all of which were aimed at adapting to Mu Jie as the test subject. Everyone was extremely busy.

However, by the third day, once everything was in order, there was very little need for manual intervention. So Feng Weixu arranged for everyone to take turns on duty, engaging in a war of attrition with Mu Jie's brain until the final result was obtained.

Wei Hongsi could only come after get off work because he had to work during the day. Fortunately, both project teams at the company had entered a stable phase of progress, and no more overtime was needed.

Despite some objective reasons, he still felt that the participation rate was somewhat low.

So on Saturday morning, before eight o'clock, he left his dormitory and took a taxi to the old campus.

Upon entering the campus, one can see students everywhere reading aloud, even more than usual. It's the final stage of the semester's exams, and even the most playful students are now working hard, beginning their final sprint.

For their "Dream Decoding Project," a crucial juncture has arrived. Based on the progress over the past two days, there is a good chance that they will be able to complete the decoding of that special neural signal in Mu Jie's brain today.

Wei Hongsi first ate breakfast in the cafeteria, and then went to the supercomputing center.

The supercomputing center is located in the northern part of the campus. It is an inconspicuous five-story building, but the core part is underground. Apart from dedicated management and maintenance personnel, no one else can access it.

This is a national-level supercomputing node, a regional core of multidisciplinary research computing power, and a research and development base for cutting-edge interdisciplinary fields.

The supercomputing center has set up a separate operations room for "Operation Dream Translation," which is the main battlefield for decoding work. The task force has also stationed several plainclothes officers here to handle emergency coordination and security control, working in shifts of two.