“Although you did get picked due to Dave’s recommendation… Is it really possible?”
“…Hmm.”
There was no room for doubt about Dave’s ability. However, there were a few questions left on this person called YongHo, who Dave recommended.
Although he agreed to a certain point that YongHo’s personal ability was sufficient, he questioned if he really had to select a person who they couldn’t even communicate with.
With his lacking language ability, he couldn’t even communicate with his colleagues well.
He couldn’t even express an algorithm in a mathematical formula, and when they urged him to, he always dodged the topic.
“As Dave’s the one to recommend you, I will keep watch for a little longer. However, as you know, we can’t do it for too long. We picked an experience person, who can work straight away, and not a newbie, who wants to learn from this place.”
At the manager’s words, Dave’s expression became sullen. This happened a few days ago.
Dave was also shocked at YongHo’s bomb sentence. As he didn’t speak a lot anyway, YongHo’s statement was even more shocking.
Perhaps the tutoring until now was effective as YongHo, despite not fully fluent, was at a level he could express his intention while stuttering.
“So?”
YongHo spoke while asking a few words to Jessie from time to time. Just the fact that he didn’t require Jessie to translate his entire sentence, it could be considered a huge development.
“I think that what you’re requiring of me is to play a role in in increasing the RMSE value and increase the sales. In conclusion, I have spoken since if I could increase it by 0.1, around 10% would increase.”
They were all nodding their heads quietly. Dave, who was absorbed in thinking for a moment, looked at YongHo.
“Of course. You also know how much percentage enhancement I made in the NetFlax Prize.”
The rain clouds gathering in Dave’s heart also seemed to be lessening a bit.
RMSE Score 0.961
After his shocking announcement, YongHo couldn’t get into work due to the sharp gazes on the back of his head. A few team members were watching him how he enhanced the performance in rotation.
“Why do you do it that way?”
“Oh, this is because… this variable will act as a value used in a later calculation……”
“How it works is……”
Moreover, the thing he was doing was coding.
The team member behind YongHo tilted his head as he felt that YongHo was trying to hide the logic.
When the team members asked, YongHo could only excuse himself with that he was busy.
A few team members called Dave alone. Dave’s position within the team was solid.
There was another reason why the team members called Dave.
The team members were dissatisfied with one thing.
The first thing done when making a program was the design. During the design, it would be decided how the program will be made. Coding was a process of implementation according to those designs.
And so, they had asked how the algorithm worked.
Dave didn’t think much about it. Each person had their styles while working, and if YongHo’s style was silently coding, he thought that he would just acknowledge that.
From the man’s face, disappointment could be seen. He knew that each person had their own style.
The good thing about working with colleagues with high skill was that they could develop themselves by influencing each other while exchanging information.
“I will try talking to him.”
The team members had just as much desire to develop themselves as YongHo. Moreover, YongHo had stepped in, saying that they could solve their problems. They couldn’t help but be curious of the method.
“YongHo!”
YongHo had noticed the strange atmosphere around him. Moreover, the people who annoyed him with questions about the method of enhancing the performance of the recommendation algorithm everyday, weren’t asking him anymore.
Dave had even brought Jessie, fearing that YongHo couldn’t understand.
He could explain the general outline with the things he had learnt until now. However, what the team members wanted wasn’t that. It was the mathematical formulae that was at the basis of the coding, and the detailed explanations about those mathematical formulae.
Although YongHo knew that it wouldn’t work, he tried anyway.
“I want to know how you are enhancing the performance of the recommendation algorithm.”
“If it’s uncomfortable here, shall we go to the conference room?”
Dave pressured him with his eyes. The excuse of being busy also didn’t work YongHo could only stand up like a cow being dragged to a slaughterhouse.
It wasn’t only Dave who was in the conference room. Dave had messaged that all people who had time should gather in the conference room.
‘Oh… Dave, this guy. I didn’t even tell him to……”
The part he wrote on the whiteboard was the part where he set the values necessary to produce a result.
People who read while resting their chin on their hands, those who stared at the whiteboard while standing up, and those who nodded with a serious face.
A little bit of annoyance.
“YongHo, how about we bring the computer instead?”
“As expected, it should be better that way, right?”
The trust in YongHo was cracking, albeit minutely.
It wasn’t that YongHo didn’t feel the atmosphere inside the conference room. The minute changes in the moods of the employees – YongHo knew very well that he needed a breakthrough.
“Please wait for a moment.”
YongHo’s coding speed rejected all peers. Moreover, he also had the guidance from the bug window.
The people who rested their chins on their hands and the people who walked around as if bored, all started focusing on the screen that YongHo had projected.
‘I should just show them the result.’
“YongHo?”
However, YongHo was in a focused state to the point that he couldn’t even hear Dave’s such call.
How much time had passed? YongHo, who exhaled his breath, relaxed his body and looked at the monitor.
Now, he had only left the last command.
.jrs-rmse-check.sh
And one line of result appeared on the screen.
The value that the company’s engineers wanted so much was in front of them.
Translator’s notes
Regular Chapter 1/3
Woops, I have no chapters anymore, shit. I’m back to translating. Cya on Wednesday
Nice reading~