Links for 2023-06-13
Mind2Web: Towards a Generalist Agent for the Web https://osu-nlp-group.github.io/Mind2Web/
Caltech prototype funded by O.C. donor beams solar power from space: "A small prototype launched into orbit in January by a team of Caltech researchers and engineers has successfully demonstrated solar energy can be harvested in space and beamed down to Earth in an endless supply." https://www.latimes.com/socal/daily-pilot/news/story/2023-06-01/caltech-prototype-funded-by-o-c-donor-beams-solar-power-from-space-a-terrestrial-first
“share of the world’s people living in extreme poverty has plunged from 38 percent in 1990 to about 8 percent now.” [New York Times] https://archive.is/7Gqi0
Treatment Breakthrough for an Intractable Brain Cancer [Wall Street Journal] https://archive.is/fWMAX
‘Extraordinary’ survival data for lung cancer patients is seen as boost for AstraZeneca drug https://www.statnews.com/2023/06/04/lung-cancer-tagrisso-astrazeneca-survival-benefit/
“Galleri is Grail's test for asymptomatic patients priced at $1000. Galleri predicted 323 had cancer. Of this cohort, 244 actually had cancer (determined by a physician).” https://grail.com/press-releases/grail-and-university-of-oxford-to-present-results-from-first-prospective-study-of-multi-cancer-early-detection-in-a-symptomatic-patient-population-at-2023-asco-annual-meeting/
“In spite of the allegedly better schools of the host countries, the learning of the newcomers remains at the level of their origin countries not only in the first generation, but also in the second and even later on.” https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-94-6091-740-0_14
These 60 gut microbes have evolved alongside humans since we first left Africa https://cosmosmagazine.com/people/these-60-gut-microbes-have-evolved-with-us-for-200000-years-africa/
“Some have claimed that UFO reports are too compelling to be dismissed as mistakes. Extremely skeptical of this claim, I tried to look for such reports. This post is a collection of the best UFO evidence I could find. I admit, it's better than I expected.” https://magnusvinding.com/2023/06/11/what-credible-ufo-evidence/
A whistleblower says that US partners of the Wuhan Institute of Virology said the experiments to put furin cleavage sites into SARS-like viruses (as close as you can get to a recipe to create the Covid-19 virus) were done in 2019. [The Sunday Times] https://archive.is/OP7rh
"Raytheon Technologies, the Patriot’s main contractor, is increasing production to 12 a year and plans to deliver **five** more to Ukraine by the end of next year, said Chief Executive Greg Hayes." [Wall Street Journal] https://archive.is/c6rFA