Hammer of Technology

Ning Wei's judgment was correct. When the old Mr. Sackler called him, there were indeed many auxiliary staff around him, but no one seemed to be able to answer this question, and several people were looking at each other...

After all, everyone is used to the arrogance of the old man who makes others dare not to obey. Just now, even the old man's tone can't be faulted. It can even be said to be a gentleman. I really can't figure out which sensitive nerve he touched. .

It took a long time for someone to respond: "Maybe it's because he thinks you've retired... Chinese culture is like this. They have an idiom that says that when people leave, the tea will be cold. Well, this sentence must be combined with theirs. I like hot tea to explain that no one drinks cold tea, which means that when a person steps back from his original position, he is no longer in control of power, and naturally no one will give him hot tea."

The assistant of Sackler who spoke, this answer somewhat has the meaning of Huaxia Tong.

The old man remained calm, but frowned slightly, and asked, "You mean, Ning thinks I'm deceiving him? Or does he think I'm retired, so I can't keep my promise?"

The assistant nodded.

In the absence of other possibilities, this sounds like a very reasonable answer.

Most of the time, big shots don’t think in such a detailed way, and it’s hard to think about it in a different position, especially because Ning Wei’s reason for hanging up the phone is still so arrogant and weird, simply because he feels that he, as one of the group of mathematicians, was rejected by a Capitalists are offended that they can control where the International Mathematical Congress is held...

In a sense, Ning Wei also lacks empathy in this regard.

Although great mathematicians are generally not short of money.

But after all, it costs money to hold such a world-wide conference. Not everyone can live without fireworks, or like Ning Wei, he is already a quasi-billionaire at a young age, and he doesn't know where the money is spent. where……

The vast majority of mathematicians who have not won world-class awards or outstanding achievements do not actually earn very high incomes. After all, as far as the United States is concerned, the median income of college professors is not high. At least before achieving achievements, they can only I'm a middle-class person, so if I want to live a better life, some non-principal things can be compromised.

"Well, maybe that's the reason. It seems that we need to send an email to that Huaxia kid to let him understand how the world works, not just like Huaxia...Of course he saw this email Knowing that, we need to think of something else. We should let him know that keeping promises is a virtue, and everyone should!"

"Yes, Mr. Sackler!"

……

After hanging up Sackler's phone and blacklisting the old man's phone number, Ning Wei thought that he would be bombarded by phone calls as usual, but the reality was that no one bothered him anymore. It was as if he had been forgotten by the world.

This once made Ningwei feel a little unaccustomed, and he was a little uneasy when deriving theorem.

So after being stuck with a question, Ning Wei gave up on deriving those cumbersome formulas, but glanced at the notebook next to him, and called out: "March."

The kitten flew from the upper right corner of the screen to the center of the screen, and then lay down, looking at Ning Wei with lively eyes.

"How is the promotion of the new Hongmeng system?"

"Meow... the publicity is very good. The free download address of the new Hongmeng system should be known to all the places with Internet access all over the world. It's just that some places have blocked the download link of the official website, but I have shared the resources to all unsupervised servers. .”

"Oh, that's great! By the way, how are the preparations for the Olympic Opening Ceremony going?"

"Meow... It's been coordinated. I have completed the automation and collaboration plan for the entire process. The hoisting screen specially customized by the [-]D laboratory for the Olympic opening ceremony is already in production, and the ceiling has been completed according to the internal structure of the honeycomb. With the lighting modification plan."

"Oh!" Ning Wei nodded, and then asked him a very confused question: "Since you have done so well and received such a big response, why is no one looking for me now?"

"Meow... Maybe it's because the master has blacklisted them all!"

"No, at least I didn't blacklist Director Tian, ​​did I? They couldn't find me in the past, didn't they always ask Director Tian, ​​Mr. Yan, Senior Brother Lu to put pressure on them? Why didn't they find me this time? What's up?"

"Meow……"

Countless numbers began to jump around...

Then the kitten lay down on the ground, with a look of lovelessness...

"Meow...Master, you have stumped me..."

"Forget it... By the way, the day after tomorrow is May Day. You can arrange to give a bonus of 1 yuan to the students who need to work overtime in the laboratory. Go."

Ning Wei dismissed his most capable assistant, thought for a while, picked up his phone, found Director Tian's number, and dialed it.

He chose to take the initiative only because Ning Wei felt that he still had to ask a question in order to feel at ease.

The phone was busy, but Ning Wei didn't hang up, as expected, Director Tian suspended the call with others, and transferred to his phone...

"Academician Ning, do you have any advice?"

Joking tone, seems to be in a good mood?

"Director Tian, ​​don't be joking, I just want to ask you, did you receive any calls about me?"

"How could it be possible that you didn't receive it? Since yesterday, people have been unable to find you, and then they called me. They want me to help you with all kinds of words, and want me to connect you so that you can talk directly. And maybe I want to wake you up... all kinds of attitudes. Why? You ask these people to have a good chat with some people?"

"I don't mean that, I'm just curious, you didn't look for me..."

"Well, yes, it's useless to look for you, why should I look for you? Besides, this is not my business? I'm already at this age, why bother with these things? Anyway, I will answer the phone, old friend If you want to chat with me a few words, I will chat, and I will cooperate with what he wants to say, which is also very good. Many friends who haven’t contacted for a long time have called. There are students like you, and the teacher likes it very much. Really , I also figured it out, if you want to talk about how to maintain contact with old friends, it depends on you!"

Does that sound like it's being sincere?

Anyway, Ning Wei couldn't hear any irony, and seemed quite happy...

But after all, it was causing trouble for the instructor. Ning Wei still explained very sincerely: "I am relieved when you say that. Director Tian, ​​​​you also know that if we want to promote Ning Xin now, we need more people who can accept New Hongmeng. The system, my students are also under a lot of pressure. As a teacher, I promised Jingwen early on that I would try my best to cooperate with the new Hongmeng Lab to promote it."

"Don't explain it to me. Ning Wei, you have graduated for so many years, and you should boldly do what you think you can do. I actually really want to see how far you can do it. So I Don't worry, I won't make trouble for you. Besides, I plan to retire next year, so I can't manage these things even if I want to. You are different. You are young and energetic. Facts have proved that you are actually very good at doing things. Proper, so I just need to stand on the last post for you. Right?"

Really, with these words, Tian Yanzhen's image in Ning Wei's heart grew infinitely taller.

This responsibility... I really don't have to say...

"Director Tian..."

"Well, it's okay. You are also an academician now, and you have started to lead students. Even if you cause a big disaster, you can handle it yourself. The most I can do is answer a few calls and pretend to be confused. It's a trivial matter, and I also told those old friends that although I can't get through to your phone number, I will still check your mailbox regularly. If there is anything I need to ask you, you can send an email directly, although the communication efficiency is a bit low , but you’ll be fine if you get used to it. Anyway, keep going! Hang up, I still want to chat with my old friends..."

After finishing speaking, Tian Yanzhen hung up the phone neatly.

……

Ok……

Anyway, the mood is still relaxed a lot.

However, Tian Yanzhen also reminded Ning Wei that he hadn't read emails for several days, and it was time to clear up unread emails.

Let March open the mailbox, and what he sees is the email from the old man who was just blacklisted.

It's more or less a lingering smell...

After carefully reading the contents of the email, Ning Wei felt a little confused...

Looking at the whole story, it seems that Lord Sackler has been showing off his family's control?

For example, even though he has retired, his nephews are still in the position of the Federal Reserve. Not only that, but their influence spreads all over the world, for example, they are the guests of many high-ranking and powerful figures.Of course, none of these big shots are in Huaxia...

This once made Ning Wei feel very confused. If you say it is a threat, but those foreign bigwigs seem to be unable to control him, a small Chinese citizen, and the boss of the Federal Reserve should not be able to threaten his deposits in China. It's not a threat, it's a bit of bragging rights, so what exactly is the meaning of this email?

Well, the difference in culture and way of thinking made it impossible for the two of them to get what the other wanted to express. After thinking for a while, Ning Wei gave up. Of course, an email still needs to be answered, which is a basic social etiquette.

After deliberating for a while, Ning Wei decided to invite this big shot to China to participate in this year's Olympic opening ceremony.

"Dear Your Excellency Sackler, I have received your email, thank you for your email, let me know the strong strength of the Sackler family, and I invite you to come to China to participate in the opening ceremony of this year's Olympic Games in August this year. To be honest You said that this year’s Olympic opening ceremony also has my contribution. I hope to meet you at this world feast. Of course, I will definitely welcome you and your friends with the highest standard of etiquette!”

The final signature: "Your friend, Ningwei."

After replying to this email, Ning Wei suddenly felt that this kind of invitation was almost omnipotent. No matter what the other party said in the email, it seemed that he could be invited to watch the opening ceremony of this year's Olympic Games. It could be very polite and show goodwill...

then……

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428 The New Trillionaire

It's hard to say how many bigwigs felt when they received Ningwei's email.

Enthusiastic words, inviting everyone to come to China in August to enjoy the Olympic feast together, as if nothing happened now, which will make many people feel at a loss.

Do you mind going to Huaxia again in August?

In fact, if a good result can be negotiated, even if it takes a few more trips to Huaxia, it will be fine.

It's just real problems that have to be solved.

No one understands better than these Internet moguls how damaging it can be when the emotions of what they say are mobs are stirred up.However, this group's cognition of the world often comes from repeated brainwashing of information.

And now they have a rival.

When an artificial intelligence program pushes the concept of big data algorithm invasion of privacy to the mob in their eyes, many companies can no longer hold on. .

In just a few days, lawyers in almost every city in the [-] states of the United States are calling on the public to sign up to initiate class action lawsuits against Facebook, Google, Twitter, Microsoft, Tiktop and other major Internet companies for continuous infringement.

Maybe these people are not very interested in the Huaxia people's system, but when many people learn that as long as they unite and win this lawsuit, or force these trillion-dollar companies to settle out of court, maybe each of them has When thousands of dollars were credited, many people showed great enthusiasm.

The legal departments of large companies are indeed strong, but when the anger of ordinary people begins to gather, and even large-scale demonstrations begin to erupt across the country against the issue of privacy violations, it is difficult to say that this is a purely legal issue.

So even if it’s just pretending, these large Internet high-tech companies, as well as advertisers, have to go all out and start recording various videos, trying to explain to the public that their information collection is purely for better serving users.

Some companies have even begun to compromise, such as Facebook. While the official is struggling to explain, it also announced that it will provide options in the future, allowing users to choose whether to allow Facebook to read certain sensitive information to determine user habits and push related information. content……

These measures reflected that Wall Street may have ushered in unprecedented panic in Internet concept stocks.

Google, Facebook, Twitter, Microsoft and even Amazing, Uber, one counts as one, and they generally fell by more than 30.00% in just one week. They are either on the way of melting or being blown during the trading hours...

The plummet of the high-cap stock market made it almost impossible to see the entire technology sector. It was the first time that short sellers made money, which made me unimaginable.

About three days ago, no one believed that a public opinion war that is not a public opinion war will make these Internet giants burnt out.Of course, these high-tech stocks in the United States are not the only ones, and Internet companies related to Huaxia are not much better.

The influence of this wave of publicity for the new Hongmeng system is indeed strong, and it has gone viral smoothly.Now it is no longer the discussion of the new Hongmeng system in the small circle of black technology enthusiasts, but directly zoomed in on the financial circle, and even appeared on social hot news.

After all, there is really no trace of man-made manipulation in this big drop, and it is completely a black swan event.No one expected that so many years have passed since the "persuading students" incident back then, and in the most important Internet propaganda position, these companies with high hopes can still perform so well in preventing the intrusion of artificial intelligence content.

Of course, these people are probably used to it, because this is not the first time that Ning Wei has caused trouble for everyone.

Probably because the stock price has fallen so much, the mentality is also buddhist. Facebook took the lead in announcing that in order to ensure user experience and account security, all its products will implement real-name registration, and the requirements are extremely strict. New user registration must not only submit In addition to real and valid documents, face authentication is also required.And to fulfill the promise simultaneously, users will be provided with options, and data that users consider private will no longer be recorded.

The scope of impact of this upgrade is for global customers.

If you do not provide legal identification and facial authentication, you will no longer be allowed to use Facebook-owned products.

At the same time, accounts that have been applied for within five years and have not undergone any real-name authentication will also be restricted from service.Specifically, these accounts can browse content normally, but are not allowed to upload or publish any content. Previously uploaded and published content will also be temporarily blocked, and will be released one after another after manual review.

How should I put it, once this version comes out, the effect is still very good.

In my conscience, March is really a model of law-abiding. Although there are still ways to break through these restrictions, there is no such thing.So the effect is perfect, all kinds of fancy advertisements of the new Hongmeng system are at least decreasing at a speed visible to the naked eye on Facebook, and many Sanwu trumpets have automatically begun to fall silent...

Although Facebook has been very restrained, for example, accounts that have applied for more than five years will not be affected even if they have not submitted verification, but because of the compromise of data collection, future advertising revenue may experience negative growth, and the strict implementation of the real-name system may bring The growth of users has stagnated or even regressed, and the capital market has quickly given feedback.

Although this announcement was made after the market was closed on Friday afternoon, leaving two days for the market to accept the news, on Monday, the stock of Facebook’s parent company still encountered the strongest Waterloo in history, and it melted at the opening. It created the largest single-day drop in Facebook's history throughout the day, falling 33% in one day, from 161.86 at Friday's close to 108.42.

After the market closed that day, the U.S. market regulator, who finally couldn't bear it, issued an emergency order and issued a 30-day ban on short-selling in the technology sector.Well, seeing this ban, the big Internet companies finally stood up.

On Monday, Google, Twitter, and other large and small companies simultaneously announced that they will implement real-name authentication for new users, which will affect new user registration and users within five years. Unlike Facebook, Google still failed to make up its mind and completely give up on big data. The collection, just reiterated in the statement that the protection of user privacy is listed as a recent priority...

When these news reached Huaxia the next day, the majority of netizens once again realized what Huo Jiu Jian is...

Let’s put it this way, it’s hard to say that there is a certain product that can make a lot of world-class technology companies’ stocks fall into dogs just for advertising. These big companies have changed their business strategies. We must know that in many areas of the world where technology is relatively backward, it is not easy to ensure the implementation of real-name authentication...

This feast triggered by the slump of the capital market was also named by Chinese netizens as the "Butterfly's Wings-New Hongmeng System Advertising Event".

After all, when the new Hongmeng Lab release system began to provide downloads, no one would have thought that it would affect the collective decline of the world's mainstream technology stocks.For Ning Wei, who was in the center of the storm, it still had some influence.

Many influential financial bloggers have given him the title of the world's largest short-seller in technology stocks.

It’s not that Ningwei used a huge amount of money to short-sell, people also made it very clear, probably that as long as Ningwei and those related to Ningwei do anything, it will always trigger a series of black swan events, which is extremely unfriendly to the stock market .

Really, none of this can be considered slander, because what they said is very reasonable, and Ning lives for this person seems to be making life difficult for the majority of technology stocks.

For example, Ning Wei didn't know what was going on back then, and ran Weibo to question the sentence that the metaverse was bragging, and it is impossible to realize it now.It was just such a microblog that anyone could complain about, but because of his identity at the time, it caused an uproar.

While attracting countless insults, it actually really affected the elites on Wall Street, which directly caused the technology stocks to plummet.That's all, who would have thought that things in this world are such a coincidence. That afternoon, Penang, which was not in the earthquake zone at all, suddenly had a tsunami, which affected chip packaging. Therefore, except for a few companies related to chip production, the stock prices rose. Those Internet concepts that rely on chips have plummeted again...

The turbulence algorithm was exposed to use a special anti-theft system, causing the stock prices of many Internet equipment companies to plummet.

Forget about it, followed by the so-called artificial intelligence public beta and got on the fence with Musk again. At that time, dozens of microblogs bombarded Musk, causing Tesla's stock to plummet again, and then verified the heterogeneity of the silicon body The introduction of chip technology and the 5G chip supported by the new technology have caused a lot of chip technology companies to cry wolf, and Intel and AMD are the first to bear the brunt of it...

In March of that year, I ran around the Internet and advised everyone to study hard and not to make troubles, which caused those social companies to be extremely embarrassed and at the same time fell through...

Now that the new Hongmeng system makes an advertisement, it can also create another black swan incident...

Really, there is already such a bit of anger between man and god.

After all, for most financial professionals who play US stocks, they still hope that stocks will rise to make money.Although there is a short-selling mechanism in US stocks, the risk of short-selling is obviously relatively large.The simplest, theoretically speaking, the stock price can go up or down, but there is a price limit, which is 0.

Even if a $100 stock falls to 0, you can only earn $100 by shorting it, but if it rises to $300, you will lose $200, and if it rises to $500, you will lose $400.Therefore, it is really possible for short sellers to be forced to death under extreme market conditions.

So many people suffered heavy losses, which of course caused Ning Wei to be criticized by many people.After all, it is not only the technology companies on the U.S. stock market that are affected this time. In fact, the stock prices of some Internet companies in China have also been miserable recently, such as Baidu, Libaba, and Penguin...

But no one really doubts that Ningwei made money in this wave of sharp market declines. From the understanding of many people, this is probably Ningwei’s real purpose of promoting his own operating system, although this kind of gameplay is a bit too much , but in fact there is nothing to criticize.After all, it is a commercial activity, and there is nothing wrong with it as a product that a tutor supports his own students to research.

Not to mention that the essence of modern Internet business is actually a crazy test of the bottom line of human nature. Whether it is stepping on friends or promoting itself, it is understandable, so the title given to Ningwei by these financial bloggers is probably a kind of complaint after helplessness , has no practical significance, but it feels comfortable to spit it out.

Ning Wei thought so too...

Until this afternoon, he was doing research quietly, without calling out to the computer screen, but the screen of the notebook next to him suddenly lit up by itself, and the little cat ran out of the screen by itself: "Meow...Master..."

This movement startled Ning Wei.