SFS Chapter 128 A Huge Duck Farm
Chapter 128 A Huge Duck Farm
Just a few hours later.
The campus anonymous forum was completely blown up.
A highly popular post, highlighted in red and bold, was quickly pushed to the front page:
[Holy crap! The washing machine app was really created by those student council guys themselves?!]
[OP: This smoothness and the sub-second response time are just amazing! It's unbelievably silky smooth!]
I even suspect that the student council might have embezzled activity funds and secretly outsourced the work to a large, professional internet company at a high price!
--- 1st Floor: OP, are you from the same village? The student council already issued a notice. The production credits clearly state Bit Forge Club & Su Hao!
--- 2nd floor: My buddy told me that the core algorithm of this app was all handled by DuckGod by himself, which completely crushed the previous system!
--- 3rd floor: The original poster is so slow, haha. As soon as I saw the minimalist interface with only two buttons and the transition animation of the duck carrying the clothes after washing, I understood everything. It must have been done by the genius of our school. No outsourcing company would have such a unique idea!
--- 4th Floor: Indeed. Without realizing it, I've almost been brainwashed and now consider that cute duck our school's mascot!
--- 5th Floor: A miserable soul who has to do laundry every day, passing by. The current experience is so much smoother than that old, crappy system! Go, Duck God!
--- 6th floor: Am I the only one who thinks it's so funny when the reservation is successful that it makes a "ga ga" sound? Hahaha, it's so addictive!
--- 7th Floor: There's something even funnier! There's a sound effect when the capture fails, and the duck will say a very confused "Quack?" It cracked me up!
--- 8th floor: Yeah, its flapping wings are so cute! I even washed two clean pieces of clothing today just to watch the cartoon, haha!
In less than a day, students across the campus began affectionately calling this laundry app, which was worthy of being recorded in the school's history, "Duck Duck".
Over the next few days, the entire campus changed its atmosphere.
"Ah! The pile of clothes is full, I need to do laundry. Let me check if there's any space on the duck first."
"Dude, how many points have you accumulated on YaYa?"
As night fell, a series of slightly comical "quack quack" notification sounds emanated from various corners of the dormitory building...
This caused students carrying washbasins to pass by in the corridor to burst into laughter, and the entire campus seemed to have turned into a giant duck farm.
however.
The system was officially deployed and launched just one week later.
Everything seemed to be proceeding smoothly and calmly.
But a problem that even Su Hao's genius brain had never conceived of was brewing in the shadows, and then it exploded in the background data.
I don't know when it started, but the monitoring charts in the system backend...
The overall equipment utilization rate of the washing machines on the back-end panel has started to show a shockingly sharp decline!
After investigating the cause, the result was utterly absurd.
Even though most washing machines are just sitting there unused, during the peak evening hours when people really need to do laundry...
These resources are monopolized by a few extremely active groups, making it impossible for ordinary students to get them!
When Su Hao first saw the abnormal data displayed on the panel, he frowned, completely unable to understand this illogical situation.
In his mathematical model, if it is assumed that all individuals in the system will adopt a rational and optimal strategy to wash clothes, this situation is impossible.
Su Hao immediately typed on the keyboard and brought up the underlying logs of the server backend during the time slot that was being occupied.
[Reservation successful from 19:00 to 21:00 → Group on the 3rd floor of Building A]
[Multiple cancellation logs triggered → Same user repeatedly calling the API]
[System determines to relinquish resources: Earn +1 point]
With just a glance at the continuous transaction records, Su Hao keenly spotted an extremely clear and malicious act.
Someone has exploited a loophole in the system's rules!
They used scripts to deliberately occupy washing machine slots during prime time.
However, before the countdown ended, I immediately clicked cancel to release the resources.
The vacated resources will be re-locked by other members of the same group in less than a second.
This frantic cycle repeated itself, like a game of musical chairs.
Why do this?
Because when Su Hao designed the system, in order to encourage everyone not to waste resources, he set a rule:
Actively "giving up resources" during peak hours can trigger positive incentives from the system and earn system points (which can be used for privileges such as priority queuing).
Su Hao stopped typing and stared blankly at the screen.
He had gone through countless iterations, and the algebraic model of the algorithm itself was flawless.
Reward those who give up resources, and punish those who breach the contract by exceeding the time limit.
This is a core underlying rule derived from game theory in order to maintain fairness for all under limited resources.
However, he never expected that these rules, originally intended to highlight fairness and mutual assistance...
However, some self-proclaimed clever students took this as a loophole in the system and exploited it maliciously and without restraint.
For this group of people, the so-called "concessions" are not for any consideration of mutual help and benefit among classmates, but have completely degenerated into a "mining" operation to maliciously farm APP points!
Li Xiangyu walked over with a cup of coffee, followed Su Hao's gaze to the screen, and his expression instantly darkened.
"Damn it! These bastards are forming cliques to fleece our system!"
Li Xiangyu gritted his teeth.
"They're mutually canceling the points-collecting scheme to monopolize prime time slots. Do they really think they're the wolves of Wall Street?"
"To simplify the system and reduce the computing load."
Su Hao spoke softly, his tone carrying a rare hint of confusion.
I define the boundary condition for "cancel reservation" as equivalent to "give up resources".
In a purely mathematical model and under ideal conditions, these two should be indistinguishable.
"But in real-world sociological practice..."
Li Xiangyu patted Su Hao on the shoulder, sighed with a wry smile, and
"This turned into a farm where they could AFK farm without any restraint."
At that moment, a strange sense of sorrow welled up in Su Hao's heart.
His mathematical modeling framework is built upon an axiomatic assumption:
That is, "all individuals will make the most rational choice in order to maximize the total utility of the whole society."
However, in reality, people are willing to form cliques and trample on the very foundation of the system's order for the sake of a tiny, insignificant amount of personal gain.
Tap, tap.
Seeing Su Hao's dejected face as he bent over and began rewriting the underlying code, Li Xiangyu irritably ruffled his hair, sighed, and offered a word of comfort:
"Don't be too discouraged. Only a minority of people take advantage of loopholes; the vast majority of students follow the rules. Everyone is very grateful to you."
Su Hao stared at the large amount of deleted code on the screen for a long time before nodding heavily.
"Yes. But I learned a very important lesson today!"
His eyes sharpened again.
"When designing systems for human use, we must never allow for human greed or leave any redundant vectors that could interfere with the system's operation!"
......
In the dead of night, all was quiet.
The room was pitch black after the lights were turned off.
Only the cold blue light emanating from the monitor cast a blurry and mysterious halo on Su Hao's slightly thin profile.
Su Hao didn't go to sleep. He sat quietly in his chair, staring at the endless stream of binary data falling like a green waterfall on the screen.
The garbled code that would make an ordinary person dizzy at first glance was undergoing an incredible reconstruction in Su Hao's mind.
The infinite matrix was automatically analyzed within his consciousness and instantly transformed into extremely precise numerical values and symbols.
On the black terminal, those 0s and 1s jumped wildly, gathering and dispersing, creating and disappearing...
At a critical moment, it suddenly transformed into a series of grand geometric coordinates, intricate topological diagrams, and exquisite functional expressions!
There is nothing that mathematics cannot solve.
If so, then add another constraint!
Su Hao stared at the screen, and a faint smile finally appeared on his lips.
"Come out, Psyduck!"