In the suburbs of a metropolis like Sydney, a large number of satellite towns had sprung up in the past two to three decades. These new satellite towns were larger and more prosperous, but the density of the Chinese was not as high.
However, the number of Chinese was still not small, especially in the past two years.
Of course, Chinatown was still the most populated place, mainly as a base for the old expatriates. In addition, there were some newcomers with a lower level of education, new immigrants or stowaways who did not know English. They still liked to use Chinatown as a foothold for the first time in Australia, because it was easier to find help from relatives and friends here.
The difference between the Chinese in these two places was that the Chinese in Chinatown were poorer, and the Chinese in the satellite towns were richer.
However, in the eyes of the pub owner, the Chinese in these two places were no different. They were all working hard to earn and save money, and he did not see them being stingy with money. Since his pub opened, the number of Chinese people he had served was pitifully small!
Of course, tourist groups waving different flags were not included!
"Waiter, a dozen beers." While the pub owner was still puzzled, he heard a fluent English in the midst of the noise. It seemed to be a London accent, but he was not so sure.
He stared at the Chinese man with a crew cut who spoke.
"Please hurry up, thank you." Li He saw that the pub owner actually had the time to look at him, so he urged him again.
It was a fluent Dutch version of a London accent.
"Wait a moment." The pub owner waved to the waiter, indicating for him to speed up.
The beers were brought over, and Li He and the others poured a glass for each of them. Without saying a word, they drank it first. Obviously, they did not feel good.
Li He finished another glass and said, "If you have something to do, go back first. Buy the fastest plane tickets and don't delay things. I will stay here for a few more days, and then bring the mother and daughter back with me."
Meng Jianguo, Hu Dayi, and the others looked at each other and nodded. They did not object. After all, there was not much meaning for them to stay here. The person had passed away.
They could leave the rest to Li He to handle.
Hu Dayi suddenly said, "The happiest days of my life were when we were teachers and lived in the dormitory."
"I agree wholeheartedly!" Meng Jianguo gave a thumbs up and said, "Every day after class, I would play basketball, read books, play cards, and drink wine. Those days are really wonderful."
Hu Dayi sighed. "It's a pity that we can't go back. Think about it, there were not only you guys, but also Li Ke and Hu Yuanchao. Everyone was so carefree when we were together. It's not like now, where we are so vexed and noisy, dealing with this and that, and none of it is related to money!"
For people like them, anything that could be solved with money was no longer a problem!
"Boss, if you can't finish spending the money, you can sponsor scientific research!" Liu Yibo was the only one who insisted on staying at the school all these years. "It can also be considered as contributing to the country's technological progress."
Meng Jianguo pointed at Li He. "The rich man is here. Even if you want to take advantage of him, you have to see where he is coming from."
Liu Yibo said, "Aren't you embarrassed to ask him to donate again? You didn't even count how much he donated. It's at least a few hundred million a year."
"That's true." Meng Jianguo was noncommittal.
"Why is your philology research also lacking in funding?" Li He asked Liu Yibo. Seeing that Liu Yibo seemed to be angry, he quickly smiled and said, "Alright, I know. What you guys are doing is not just the work of reading words. You guys have contributed a lot to the computer field."
Liu Yibo sighed again and said, "My daily task now is to annotate, do error analysis, increase the number of phonemes and phonemes, and finally write and test the finite state grammar.
But actually, like you said, these tasks don't really require a lot of funding.
But do you know what the foreign countries with funding are doing? "
"I really don't know about this." Li He spread his hands awkwardly. He knew that he accidentally provoked Liu Yibo again. "I'm a layman."
Liu Yibo snorted coldly. "You know Chomsky, right?
He is one of the most important linguists and philosophers of our time. Of course, from my point of view, his contribution to linguistics is even greater. He published a book called 'Syntax Structure', which is the first transformational generative grammar.
Don't look down on linguistics. As long as you guys talk about compilers, you won't be able to jump out of this person's theory. This is because compilers must involve grammar. In computer science, grammar is the basis of the principle of compilation. It is the method to describe a programming language and implement its compiler.
Now, rich foreign research labs are doing artificial intelligence research based on the theoretical framework that he established to solve artificial intelligence problems closely related to linguistics!
And in the 1980s, the United States already had initial results in the research of human-computer communication!
What about us? We're still stuck at the surface level of intelligent power systems, intelligent chemical engineering, intelligent steelmaking!
And this is the system that was bought with money from abroad. "
He said the last sentence with a bit of bitterness.
"Why don't you come out and I'll just invest a few hundred million for you!" Li He smiled. "You also know that if I really donate it to you, your language research lab might not get that much. After all, there are too many monks and not enough gruel."
Liu Yibo said, "Artificial intelligence is just one of the examples I gave, but this involves many other disciplines. It's an interdisciplinary discipline to begin with. Computer science, informatics, mathematics, neurophysiology, linguistics … All of them have to be taken into account. It's not enough to rely on linguistics alone."
Li He patted his shoulder and smiled. "When I go back, I'll look for your principal and ask him to donate 100 million to the school's laboratory."
"Don't." Liu Yibo waved his hand. "I'm just joking with you guys. I know you guys have money, but it's yours. Don't be so impulsive because of me."
Li He smiled. "My alma mater nurtured me, so I'm donating to my alma mater. It has nothing to do with you."
"You really want to donate?" Liu Yibo asked with uncertainty this time.
"Of course, this kind of thing is not a joke." Li He replied seriously, "As long as it's something that can advance China's science and technology, he's willing to do it."
Recently, a new thing happened. A small township enterprise that originally produced agricultural machinery parts, because of the foreign trade support from the Commercial Bank and the technical support and patent authorization from some experts from the Soviet Union, began to copy the products of an American lawnmower company and then exported them. The company grew bigger and bigger, with an annual output of more than 100 million!
However, in the end, because the quality of the original factory was too poor, the brand's reputation dropped, which affected the sales of their counterfeit products!
The uncle couldn't stand it, and the aunt couldn't stand it either!
In a rage, the township enterprise acquired the American lawnmower company!
Such a small matter made him, Li Lao Er, proud for a long time!
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