[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-marvel-a-lazy-ass-superman":3,"chapter-marvel-a-lazy-ass-superman-marvel-a-lazy-ass-superman-chapter-429":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","Marvel: A Lazy-Ass Superman",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},1721935,2198,"Chapter 429 429 — Reporting Matters","marvel-a-lazy-ass-superman-chapter-429",429,"\u003Cp>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For 40 advanced chapters, visit my Patreon:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Patreon - Twilight_scribe1\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even with all twenty rental editing suites running at full capacity, they used less than one-third of the theoretical computing power of the supercomputer \"Hollywood Kid.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Of the remaining processing capacity, about half was allocated to the old film digital restoration team, while the rest went to the R&D department.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, Stark Pictures' R&D team still lacked the ability to fully utilize the remaining computing power. Their usage required submitting requests and scheduling time slots.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In reality, those requests were almost always approved. The scheduling system mainly served to notify others what tasks would be running and how long they might take.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But the ones who truly consumed the machine's power were still Henry and Tony Stark.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And what they ran on it were mostly private projects.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Although Tony Stark spent most of his time in New York on the East Coast, he could still remotely control the supercomputer's virtual machines over the network.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Back in July 1995, Tatu Ylönen of the Helsinki University of Technology in Finland released a new encrypted communication protocol:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Secure Shell Protocol (SSH).\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This protocol replaced insecure systems like Telnet, FTP, and rsh, quickly becoming the preferred remote access method for server users.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because SSH used a lightweight text-based interface, even dial-up connections allowed Tony Stark on the East Coast to smoothly operate the supercomputer located on the West Coast.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At that time, SSH was still open-source software, so the version used by Hollywood Kid had been jointly modified and improved by Henry and Tony Stark.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Originally, the two communicated through a separate email server.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Later, they switched to leaving messages on a hidden bulletin board inside a private Docker container.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In other words, as computing technology improved, both their security systems and firewalls were constantly being upgraded.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After all, whenever the two of them got bored, they would run stress tests or edge-case experiments on each other's code, poke at one another's systems, and then upgrade the defenses again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>---\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, the message board was primarily used by Henry.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He used it to submit work reports and summarize West Coast intelligence.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Tony Stark rarely left messages or replies.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So Henry never knew whether that billionaire actually read any of it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Normally, Henry submitted a weekly report.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Anything that wasn't in the newspapers—or differed from what the media reported—would be included.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>How to analyze or use that intelligence was Tony Stark's responsibility.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Today wasn't the usual reporting day.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Henry had come to the Hollywood Kid service center specifically to report the information he had just learned about vampires.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Although the invitation was addressed to him, the real target was clearly the owner of Stark Industries.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If this wasn't reported early, things might spiral out of control later.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because this wasn't a scheduled report, Henry had no idea how long it would take for Tony Stark to read it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Or whether these reports simply vanished into the void after being posted.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Honestly, that wasn't Henry's problem.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As an employee, doing the job well enough to justify his salary was sufficient.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even if Stark Industries doubled its fortune, Henry wouldn't get a share of it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>---\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Organizing the report took only a few microseconds.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The real delay came from typing it out.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After all, keyboards had physical speed limits.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If Henry had written it by hand, it wouldn't have taken even a minute.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After sending the report, Henry followed his usual habit.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He quietly slipped into Tony Stark's virtual machine to see what the genius billionaire had been working on lately.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No surprise there.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Artificial intelligence.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Tony Stark had begun studying AI years earlier.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His MIT graduation project—the robotic arm Dum-Dum—primarily demonstrated achievements in mechanical engineering, but it already contained early AI elements.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After earning:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>a PhD in Engineering Physics at MIT,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>and a PhD in Aeronautical Engineering at Caltech,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Tony Stark had recently returned to MIT to pursue a third doctorate—Artificial Intelligence.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, Stark's current AI research differed greatly from the data-driven machine learning models that would become popular in the future.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His system relied instead on:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>large numbers of automated procedures,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>image tracking,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>and fuzzy logic decision-making.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In simple terms, this type of AI couldn't truly learn.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It simply kept adding more and more exception cases into its decision tree, creating the illusion of an all-purpose intelligence.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That was why the robotic arm Dum-Dum often behaved strangely.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Those odd actions were usually the result of misjudged environmental conditions.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Stark's current AI work on the Hollywood Kid supercomputer focused primarily on interactive responses—in other words, conversation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His research questions included:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>How to recognize voice input\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Convert speech into text\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Extract actionable commands from the text\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Execute those commands\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Provide appropriate responses if execution failed\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Another challenge was determining which voices should trigger responses and which should not.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Different speakers might require different logic paths.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>All of these were part of Stark's research.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Perhaps this was the prototype of his future AI butler:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>JARVIS.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The only problem?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He was running these AI experiments on a supercomputer designed mainly for graphics processing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>---\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Henry started writing a program that could allow the GPU to share computational workloads with the CPU, improving overall performance.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He planned to install it in his own virtual machine.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Whether Tony Stark noticed the hint or not wasn't Henry's concern.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At that moment, a notification sound interrupted his thoughts.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The secret message board had a reply.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Henry immediately dropped the half-finished program and jumped into the message board server.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sure enough—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There was a new message.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>---\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Philanthropic Billionaire:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So vampires contacted you, but the real target is me.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>You're sure about that?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>West Coast Wage Slave:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Intel from the Continental. Reliability is high.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Young Playboy Spreading Love Everywhere:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But from what you described, they targeted you first and are trying to drag me in.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Can't you just block this on your side?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>West Coast Wage Slave:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They're vampires.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If they don't achieve their real objective, do you think they'll give up—or create more trouble?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Either way this will reach you sooner or later. I'm just informing you in advance so you don't complain later.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Young Playboy:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Fuck! You changed my ID again!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Stop doing childish things!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>West Coast Idiot:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Oh, you can see that?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I thought I only changed how the name displays on my end. Sorry.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Playboy With Insufficient \"Essence\" Left to Spread Love:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>How did you even get in here? I encrypted my user data!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Playboy:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Fuck! You changed it again!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>West Coast Donkey:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Your encryption is garbage.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Did you forget this host is a supercomputer?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Brute-force cracking doesn't take long.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Furious Professor Tony:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>You're stealing computing resources again!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Fine, whatever.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But do you actually believe vampires exist?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>West Coast Pig:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If refusing to believe would make them disappear, I'd happily deny it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Unfortunately reality doesn't bend to my beliefs, so debating that question is pointless.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Great Professor Tony:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I originally thought those creatures were just mutants with certain abilities.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But mutant powers rarely repeat themselves.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If what you're saying is true, then groups of vampires and werewolves wouldn't be surprising.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So tell me—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Do you believe in magic?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>🎉 Power Stone Goal Announcement! 🎉\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I'll release one bonus chapter for every 500 Power Stones we hit!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Let me know what should I do\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Your support means everything—let's crush these goals together! Keep voting, and let the stones pile up! 🚀\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~\u003C\u002Fp>",1234,"2026-06-06T15:31:22.542Z",1,"novelbin.me","d3671e9c4f3e20a1c3cb341734366cc3109aecfce81c6b173e4541ce87e18e41","marvel-a-lazy-ass-superman-chapter-430","marvel-a-lazy-ass-superman-chapter-428",556,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fmarvel-a-lazy-ass-superman-cover.jpg"]