400 billion (≈350 million USD) in annual sales.
This was the poor result of the Shinseki Mall.
One part of the breakthrough was the PS System.
Of the 2 months of the competition, when about half of the time had passed, the goddess of victory seemed to be waving her hand at Mirae IT.
“Yes. This is the sales produced due to our recommendation system.”
“About 1.3 billion (≈1.13 million USD), sir.”
Out of the 2 months of the competition, the end of the first month was nearing.
Kim ManHo made a sneaky smile at the reporting man.
“I understand.”
Until now, Mirae IT was in an absolutely superior position.
Dave wrapped his head with his hands, while screaming, after having a look at the Leaderboard notice.
RMSE Score : 0.8655.
1. Shinseki Maut.
The Dark Forces, with Dave at the core, had come down to 2nd place.
“It should be, if you can’t believe it, then call the hosts or something.”
Jessie smiled while looking at Dave, who had a fierce reaction, interestingly. The smelly office seemed to have become brighter due to the smile of the person called Jessie.
“He had the exact same reaction, and he seemed to write e-mails to various places?”
The NetFlax Prize took a ‘Winner takes all’ structure.
2nd place had no meaning anyway.
The office was never quiet that day due to Dave’s fuss.
After the system was edited, code committing was split into two stages. First, the developers would upload the source on to the SVN.
YongHo, who was looking at the code, scratched his head as if he didn’t understand something.
He had told Lee HyunGu through Son SeokHo but there was no change.
However, Lee HyunGu was different from even them.
‘It won’t do like this.’
YongHo looked for Son SeokHo again, in the intra-company messenger app.
Adjusting the recommendation system, which showed a 10% increase in performance in the NetFlax Prize, into Shinseki’s PS System was by no means, easy.
“The point of the system for the NetFlax Prize lies in estimating what star the customer would give.”
“However, we need to go another step further for the PS System.”
“…I think you’re ready to go into the world now.”
“No, I have a lot more to learn from the head researcher.”
“It was already implemented on maut though?”
“Of course I did. It’s made by our head researcher, who is the core of the project.”
If one goes into gethub, programmers could find most sources that they were thinking about in their heads.
The paradigm was shifting from implementation to combination.
There were a lot of instances where the people only use the implemented sources so their ability to create new things decreased. Son SeokHo was wary of this fact so he made YongHo keep this fact in mind.
YongHo said with a suppressed voice. His teeth clattered when he thought about the code review with Son SeokHo.It definitely helped him in regards to raising his ability and it was also partially fun, but it remained inside his memory as a difficult time.
YongHo could only grit his teeth at Son SeokHo, who pretended that such thing never happened.
“Oh, ok. Then let’s get on with the changing the system. We can’t lose to Mirae IT right?”
If they applied YongHo’s results with the 10% increase, then the difference in sales could be reversed in just one night.
Preference shooting.
The upgrade of the PS System began.
Oh My God!
When looked from the side, one would think ‘What kind of madman is this?’ – automatically.
“Jessie! This… is just not possible. It can’t be like this, right?”
She had white skin, as expected of a white person. And so, the red lips were accentuated. However, Jessie’s such charming lips weren’t seen by Dave.
“So what?”
Dave opened the Leaderboard noticeboard after accessing the NetFlax Prize website, again.
2. The Dark Forces.
With a value of 0.8581, Shinseki Maut was still in first place.
“I think you’re not seeing things, though.”
Dave muttered like a psychopath. Jessie seemed to judge that she shouldn’t leave him like this, so she put her hands up.
And smacked Dave’s head.
“You seemed out of your mind, so I called you back to reality.”
“Yes.”
“I think it was California.”
After speaking, Dave packed his bag, when he had no choice but to put down his packed bag.
“You’re going without even applying for a leave? What are you going to do, when you get there? They are monsters so you are planning to shoot GomuGomu no Pistol like Luffy?”
“Why? Just leave the company and leave however you want then.”
“Hey!”
Dave threw away the bug he was holding, and threw himself forward and slid on the floor to catch the Luffy action figure.
“So let’s get yourself together. There’s a confirmation process anyway. And there’s also time to call the award winner to the main company of NetFlax. So the award ceremony is in one month. Relax, okay?”
At Jessie’s words, Dave nodded like a little pup that listened to orders. It was Jessie’s most sure-fire method to control Dave.
A man is typing on the keyboard one at a time while trembling his hands. Perhaps he was sweating cold sweat, but droplets of water kept dropping on to the keyboard.
fdisk / dev/hda.
After putting the command on the console window, the screen changed. The root account was shared by all the people participating in the project anyway.
The man thought that he wouldn’t be found out doing this, by anyone.
Command (m for help) : (<- that is the blinking cursor/caret)
Screen where you can input commands.
The man barely moved his trembling hands atop the keyboard.
D.
And Enter
It was the option to delete the partition.
He was acknowledged in his own way, within the company, and was promoted to manager status.
However, manager was his limit.
To become a general manager, he needed to raise his capability as a management personnel rather than his ability as a programmer, and the man started straying from his path from then.
-10%.
Considering 3.4% inflation, then around 13.4% of his annual salary was taken away.
He considered coming to the smart shopping strategy team his last opportunity.
However, the spotlight was always pointing towards Son SeokHo.
However, whenever he interacted with Son SeokHo, all he felt was misery that he was standing still at the starting line.
And when he looked at the existence called YongHo, who appeared out of nowhere, that worry only increased.
Can I really survive in this industry?
Worry turned into self-loathing, and not a long time passed before it changed into wrath and hostility.
When he decided, he became calm.
And there was a fine opportunity for this too. From what he thought was the last opportunity, an unexpected rope was thrown at him.
Partition number(1-8) :
The monitor was urging to go to the next stage.
The man participated in the project from the beginning so he knew which partition contained the code for the current recommendation system.
*Tap*
The strong-looking rope dropped down without any strength.
From Lee HyunGu’s forehead, not a drop of water could be find. It was a face that paled white.
After he spasmed with the pale face, he started shedding tears.
Translator’s notes
Regular Chapter 1/3
[1] This might sound confusing so I will explain this here:
Person A and Person B gives Movie X a 1 star and 5 stars each. Then, they will be put into 2 groups, 1 group being people who gave 1 star for that movie, and the other group being people who gave 5 stars to that movie. And so on…
Dave was an Otaku…. lol. Guess who else is, and who that guy is crazy about.
One was Dave, so the other is ……
Dave likes Luffy, the other guy likes ……..
Oh, and what do people think of the google drive folder (Devouring Monarch) I posted in previous chapter? Any good?
Tiny spoiler since people are asking ‘when will MC get a backbone?’
Something interesting happens around chapter 75, and he will get a backbone then. Well, in my opinion anyway.
Nice reading~
Translator : Chamber