levsha

for the under-brought-ups, pls say thank you😂

anyone applied rd to nyuad?

according to my sources, cw invitations are coming out within a few days

the darty interview is scheduled to be offline!

how cute

my student finished his interview with harvard (and right after he finished, got an invitation from dartmouth 😂🥲)

if you want to get questions he was asked, follow my instagram, and send the screenshot of following to @levshamain

if you made the payment, pls write "i paid" to me because i lost the sheet with the data

continuation:

Many companies are already adopting the technology. Tencent, an internet and gaming group, is said to be testing it in Weixin, an application universe for messaging, payments, shopping and entertainment, in the hope of creating an ai “super app”. AI could also boost demand for cloud-services providers, such as Alibaba, Huawei and Tencent. They, in turn, will have to invest more in building server farms, benefiting the suppliers of AI data-centre components. Alibaba is also said to be working with Apple to put AI capabilities into iPhones sold in China.

Yet despite all that, wider sentiment has still been weak. The Business Confidence Index, a monthly survey of more than 300 senior executives at corporations across China, showed slight improvements in January. But several important components of the index, such as the outlook for corporate financing and inventory, are still contracting. In January compilers of an index that tracks business sentiment at Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business in Beijing surmised that “fairly significant levels of instability continue to inhibit China’s business sphere”.

That helps explain Mr Xi’s appearance at the symposium; according to reports of the meeting, he underlined the importance of the private sector for China’s economy and acknowledged some of the problems facing it. Mr Xi’s reign has been an experiment in how best to guide entrepreneurs while limiting their influence over policy and society. Officials have never found a comfortable balance. Between 2013 and 2019 big companies dominated investment and many areas of economic growth, putting officials in the passenger seat of development.

The crackdown in 2020 reversed things sharply, wiping around $2trn off the value of China’s stockmarkets in the process. More recently the party has sought to guide entrepreneurs without extinguishing their innovation. This works for some companies such as Huawei, a telecoms giant, Cambricon, a chip designer, and iFlyTech, an AI company. But the result is often a murky hybrid.

Given all this, the love-in can only do so much to restore sentiment. Chinese private-sector elites want more than symposiums. Big problems afflict their companies.

For example: when, asks a Hong Kong-based venture capitalist, might regulators loosen the controls of IPOs? Since the crackdown, approval processes for listing overseas have been introduced. Startups such as Shein, a fast-fashion firm, have been forced to seek informal approval from Chinese regulators on national-security grounds. The securities watchdog has taken upon itself to manage the listing expectations for some companies, reportedly halting the IPO in Hong Kong of a tea and ice-cream shop last year because valuations were too low.

Other problems abound. Rather like many tech firms, the financial system has also become a public-private hybrid. China’s venture-capital and private equity-industry have been permeated by the state. For many startups state capital, with irreconcilably different goals from the professional investors, has become the main form of funding. Businessmen once laughed off the influence of Communist Party cells in private firms, which have been around for ages. Yet over the past five years these cells have amassed much more power. There are few signs that this trend will reverse.

In some quarters the return of Mr Ma has been portrayed as a big win for the private sector—or even a concession to it. But it might also be seen as a victory lap for Mr Xi. Over the past five years China’s entrepreneurs have become much more subservient to the Communist Party. They must play by Mr Xi’s rules or face the consequences. The symposium is a confirmation that China’s once-mighty entrepreneurs have fallen into line. 🇨🇳

i hate instagram.

i hate instagram because it was an app where you used to check what your friends were up to. you would see their funny pictures with cringy descriptions. that weirdly seductive nature was why you would check the app. it was about feed — you saw posts by people you followed.

with the advent of modern algorithms, it was understandable that Meta had to bring in more personalization. platforms are dying for attention and it was fine. but as they became more hungry, they went as far as to demolish the relationship with who the accounts follow.

i currently have 30 thousand followers but neither my post nor stories will likely get anywhere close to 10% of that number in view count. it is because following doesn't matter much anymore. if you don't engage with stories, posts and reels, it simply doesn't show up again.

but the assumption that if you aren't engaging with (by liking, commenting, or sharing) the post of who you follow means you don't want to see it is wrong.

i'll tell you a story. i usually dont have time to read individual posts on my friends' channels on telegram. and i don't expect them to read mine, even though we both follow each other. we often don't even respond in dms. and its fine. we are all busy. but a few hours ago, i got a message from my friend alluding to a post on my channel. he was not responding to my private messages, but even mildly enough, he checked on my channel posts. did he read all of them? no. he probably even skipped 90% of posts. liking and commenting is obviously out of question. yet he still checked — and that's what instagram took away from us - checking who you follow because you don't follow for nothing.

i personally use instagram because it is an incomparable tool for upward mobility. there's not a thing on earth that can help you go up from low-middle income to high income faster than reels. with a single reels you can see unprecedented inflows of traffic to your store. and i think this is one of the primary benefits.

still, i'd much rather prefer to see recommendations in recommendations and not in feed. let me see people i follow and not others.

guess what i am eating

i feel like my memory and productivity have gone down

i should start
a) getting up early
b) remove all toxic meals like chips and everything other than meat, smetana, bread, and eggs
c) eat and drink more honey
d) eat more dry products like walnuts
e) reduce running and do more weights
f) reduce telegram time
g) and not skip lectures no matter how boring they are

i know a path. i know how to do it. i know i can do it. i just have to do it.

most of the time, people know how to do it, but they ask about guidance. why? because they need validation. i dont. neither should you.

it is granT, not granD!

i see so many agencies and friends confusing it

grand means large scale, grant means something like scholarship

it is fergana, not fergHana!!!