EFB Chapter 57 Mu Yan's Attention
Chapter 57 Mu Yan's Attention
"Are you trying to comfort me?" Sun Xiaowen's tone betrayed a lack of confidence. "After all, Baihe.com is an industry leader; its size speaks for itself."
"Whether it's comforting or not, you'll know once President Li demonstrates it for you later." Geng Zhi smiled and gestured with his chin towards Li Haipeng. "President Li is a senior member and has personally experienced it."
"...Hmm." Li Haipeng responded vaguely, his voice barely audible, like a mosquito's hum.
"Huh? Brother Peng... President Li, you also use Baihe.com?" Yang Mingxia's eyes widened as she looked at him curiously.
Seeing this, Li Haipeng quickly waved his hand and explained, "Don't misunderstand, that was in the past! A long time ago! It's not used anymore."
"Baihe.com's 'mind matching' is just a marketing gimmick, to put it bluntly, they are simply..." Before Geng Zhi could finish speaking, he was interrupted by Sun Xiaowen.
"Their platform is so big, with tens of millions of registered users, how could it just be a gimmick?" Sun Xiaowen still refused to believe it.
Geng Zhi smiled and looked at her, posing a question: "Senior, what are the core criteria for evaluating whether a matching model is excellent?"
After a moment's thought, Sun Xiaowen replied, "We'll see how it goes."
She further explained: "For example, if we judge that two people have a high CP value, in the short term we need to see if they can successfully hold hands, and in the long term we need to see how long the relationship can be maintained and what the quality of the relationship is... these follow-up feedbacks."
"That's right." Geng Zhi nodded, then changed the subject, "But Baihe.com dares to claim 'soul matching' and recommend products to users based on only a dozen or so basic pieces of information filled in by the users."
"They don't care at all whether the two people they recommended later chatted, met, successfully paired up, or even got married or divorced... The whole model is 'open-loop,' with no feedback to correct it."
He looked at Sun Xiaowen and asked in return, "Senior, do you think this kind of model, which is purely aimed at guiding users to pay and doesn't care about the actual matching results, can be considered excellent?"
"If that's really the case... then it's truly rubbish." Sun Xiaowen answered without hesitation this time.
Hearing this, Song Qing, who hadn't paid much attention to the model's details before, couldn't help but interject:
"Junior brother, from what I've heard, to truly perfect the matching model, we'd need machine learning or even deep neural networks, right? And it would require massive amounts of user behavior data for continuous training... That's a monumental undertaking!"
"Senior brother has hit the nail on the head."
Geng Zhi gave Song Qing a thumbs up and continued to explain:
"Sun Xuejie's current model is already being trained based on data from dozens of dimensions, including user demographics, values, Big Five personality traits, interests, social patterns, and behavioral collaboration. More dimensions will be incorporated in the future."
"I understand that. But where does the 'massive data' come from?" Song Qing questioned. "You need at least a million user samples to train a decent model, right? We simply can't do that with just the people at our 'Jiaotong University Matchmakers' offline events."
"Song Qing!" Huang Haitang, who was next to him, quickly gave him a wink, signaling him not to dampen morale.
"Sorry, sorry," Song Qing scratched his head and chuckled awkwardly, "I've been doing academic work with the boss for so long that I've become too straightforward and my emotional intelligence has dropped, hehe."
Geng Zhi smiled and thanked Huang Haitang first, then looked at Song Qing seriously: "Senior brother asked a very good question. When starting a business, you have to be realistic. Ask questions as soon as possible to avoid falling into big pits later."
He went on to explain, "Sister Sun's model will continue to be iterated. Right now, we're doing testing and laying the foundation. In the future, it will be applied online to reach tens of millions, or even hundreds of millions, of users."
"Um??"
Seeing that Geng Zhi didn't seem to be joking, Song Qing exchanged a glance with Huang Haitang and asked doubtfully, "Junior, this time you're starting a business...aren't you planning on a small-scale operation? Will your boss...agree to that?"
"Ahem, we've gone off-topic." Geng Zhi gave Song Qing a rather amused look, quickly steer the conversation back on track:
"In short, senior, don't underestimate yourself. Our current model is already better than Baihe.com, and it will only get stronger in the future. I'll find two more computer science graduate students to assist you later."
"That's great!" Sun Xiaowen's eyes lit up, and she nodded emphatically.
Seeing that Song Qing was about to press further, Geng Zhi preemptively asked, "Senior brother, what are the current real-time data for the CP rankings? What are the PV (page views), UV (unique visitors), and the percentage of users who voted?"
"Wait a minute! Let me refresh the backend data again."
Song Qing manually clicked the refresh button, and the data was displayed:
"In the first hour since the event launched, the page views (PV) have reached 1949 and the unique visitors (UV) have reached 1644. A total of 960 people have participated in the voting, including 25 who cast only one vote, 317 who cast two votes, and 618 who cast all three votes."
He then quickly calculated in Excel and added, "The user voting rate is 58%."
"Wow, these numbers are pretty good! The voting enthusiasm is very high!" Sun Xiaowen smiled.
"It's a weekday evening now, many people have classes or other commitments. The peak traffic period is after 9 PM, and the data will increase then," Geng Zhi analyzed, then asked, "What about the distribution of traffic sources?"
"Let me check." Song Qing typed a few lines of SQL and quickly replied, "58% of the users are from Jiaotong University BBS, 40% are from Renren.com, and the remaining 2% are from other channels."
"Huh? I only posted official posts and links on BBS and Renren.com, so why are people from 'other channels' visiting my site?" Yang Mingxia was very puzzled.
"These people...could they be from outside the school? Why are people from outside the school paying attention to us? Could they be...competitors?" Shu Beibei's imagination ran wild.
"It's also possible that a classmate on the CP ranking secretly sent the link to relatives and friends to solicit votes," Yang Mingxia guessed.
"Whether they're from inside or outside the school, let's not worry about that for now. The more visits, the better!" Li Haipeng concluded.
"That's right. The high participation rate in this vote is largely thanks to the promotional copy written by Mingxia!" Sun Xiaowen praised Yang Mingxia with a smile.
"No, it's all thanks to the boss's great ideas. I just executed them well." Yang Mingxia said modestly, but the corners of her mouth couldn't be suppressed as she smiled.
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Meanwhile, on the Drinking Water Source BBS, the official post titled "The 'Soulmate Couples' of 64 Elites from Jiaotong University Await Your Voting!" is gaining increasing popularity.
The enticing sentences in the post precisely captured the hearts of the onlookers:
"The first ever online dating experiment that prioritizes feelings over looks."
"The 'chosen couple' you personally voted for will receive a mysterious double surprise on Singles' Day."
Shortly after the official post was published, a series of unofficial analytical posts sprang up like mushrooms after rain:
A Rational Analysis of the 7th Couple: The Complementary Philosophy of a STEM Man and an Artsy Woman
Shocking! The third criterion for choosing a partner for male student number 15 seems to allude to a famous beauty from the Foreign Languages Department?
In-depth Decoding: Deducing the True Identity of Applicants from Their Mate Selection Criteria (Purely for Entertainment)
In the comments section, the thread was being built up incredibly fast:
"These couple nicknames are absolutely brilliant! 'Logical Poet' paired with 'Starry Sky Painter,' 'Code Knight' paired with 'Ancient Style Pharmacist'... Just from the names, I've already imagined a ten-thousand-word novel!"
"That couple in group 5 is a shoo-in! The boy is 185cm tall and a star player on the school basketball team, the girl is 158cm tall and has a queen-like aura. The cutest height difference plus contrasting personalities—I'm giving you all my votes!"
"Look at the criteria for choosing a partner set by group 18! 'I hope he's Sheldon from The Big Bang Theory, but someone who remembers to bring an umbrella on rainy days'... What a perfect description that's both romantic and practical, I'm crying!"
"That guy nicknamed 'Fourier Doesn't Understand Love,' isn't he that legendary competition genius from the School of Telecommunications Engineering? I think I know who he is!"
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On the other side of the traffic frenzy, in the headquarters office of Baihe.com in Zhongguancun, Haidian District, Beijing.
CEO Mu Yan was staring at the anonymous CP list on the screen, his eyes unreadable.