继母向你问好 (Jìmǔ xiàng nǐ wènhǎo) Stepmother sends her regards

足智多谋

zú zhì duō móu

(To be full of knowledge and have plenty of ideas, 4 character phrase used to describe mothers of wisdom and intelligence)

“I don't believe it. She emailed me back! She actually emailed me back.”

Dr Jingsheng was shocked, he had never expected this.

“No way! Seriously. Scoot over bro, let me read it!”

His nephew was in his office again, laptop open, watching Starcraft replays whilst pretending to work. So smart but so lazy that kid. That's why his mother wants me to keep an eye on him. Jingsheng scanned the email.

“Yeah sure. Oh man and no way! She took the time to go through everything. Ha, her and the twins did together. She’s offered changes, OK new structures and reorganised SubCon2 and the layering between DreamCon and LongTerm3, woah she reran everything on her servers, we have new weights. Oh we messed up a couple of times, well I did. Oh Tian Na! (Oh my God), how did she do all this?”

“Man this is killer, one of the most famous AI scientists on the planet is sending us emails and helping us out. She loves the Tianyi Ge, ahhhh bro look, she did a little cat thumbs up emoji! Cute.”

“It's the dream for us, we never would have been able to do all this on our own.”

“Bro ask her out, she's single bro, I've read the magazine articles. You're a computer science lecturer bro, come on! She's leaving you cute cat emojis on your work.”

“OK no way 1) I’m a shitty lecturer at a third tier trash college in Chengdu 2) She's one of the most beautiful and famous people in AI 3) Her last boyfriend was like a South American racing car driver or something 4) The cat emojis were on your work nephew not mine.”

“Ahhhhh your loss bro, and look hey read the end bit:

“I have to say I am very impressed. Coming from a small team this is fantastic work. Your little dragon has great potential. I look forward to seeing how this project progresses. Stay in touch Biānmǎ māo 编码猫 (The coding cat).”

继母向你问好

“Ha that is super cute. OK I'm going to email her back and say thank you.”

“Flirt it up bro! Look at that cat. Come on Uncle.”

“No, professional.” Jingsheng paused and smiled again. “OK, maybe just a little flirt at the end.”

“Yeah!! That's it, get your game on.”  

Jingsheng rolled his eyes and started writing his reply. Then looked at the cat image again and smiled one more time.