Links for 2023-08-04
Small molecule oral cancer drug kills 100% of solid tumors across 70 evaluated cancer types in vitro and in animal models with a therapeutic index of 6 and no discernible side effects. https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2023/08/promising-drug-that-can-kill-all-solid-tumor-cancers.html (paper: https://www.cell.com/cell-chemical-biology/pdfExtended/S2451-9456(23)00221-0 / prediction market: https://manifold.markets/RatUziCat/is-the-pcnatargeting-cancer-drug-pa)
“AudioCraft, a new family of generative AI models built for generating high-quality, realistic audio & music from text. AudioCraft is a single code base that works for music, sound, compression & generation — all in the same place.” https://audiocraft.metademolab.com/
Tracking Anything in High Quality https://github.com/jiawen-zhu/HQTrack
Nvidia's AI GPUs Are Selling for up to $70,000 in China https://www.tomshardware.com/news/price-of-nvidia-compute-gpu-can-hit-70000-in-china
AMD considers making a specific A.I. chip for China to comply with export controls https://www.cnbc.com/2023/08/02/amd-considers-specific-china-ai-chip-to-comply-with-us-export-curbs.html
CoreWeave came ‘out of nowhere.’ Now it’s poised to make billions off AI with its GPU cloud https://venturebeat.com/ai/coreweave-came-out-of-nowhere-now-its-poised-to-make-billions-off-of-ai-with-its-gpu-cloud/
Robotically manufactured timber construction as a model for resource-efficient construction https://kommunikation.uni-freiburg.de/pm-en/press-releases-2023/robotically-manufactured-timber-construction-as-a-model-for-resource-efficient-construction
The Jolly Roger Telephone Company has developed GPT–4-based voicebots that you can hire to answer your phone when telemarketers call. https://www.theregister.com/2023/07/03/jolly_roger_telephone_company/
Why no Roman Industrial Revolution? https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/yNLrpBBCcJYphjmk9/why-no-roman-industrial-revolution
The Current State of Social Psychology https://unsafescience.substack.com/p/the-current-state-of-social-psychology
New insights into the origin of the Indo-European languages https://www.mpg.de/20666229/0725-evan-origin-of-the-indo-european-languages-150495-x
“Both radiation and chemotherapy work by damaging DNA, taking advantage of a vulnerability specific to cancer cells. Healthy cells are more likely to survive radiation and chemotherapy since their mechanisms for identifying and repairing DNA damage are intact. In cancer cells, these repair mechanisms are compromised by mutations. When cancer cells cannot adequately respond to the DNA damage caused by radiation and chemotherapy, ideally, they undergo apoptosis or die by other means.” https://news.mit.edu/2023/making-sense-cell-fate-0727
“On average, right-wing media is much more biased than the mainstream media…However, the mainstream media is also much larger than the right-wing media.” https://www.natesilver.net/p/twitter-elon-and-the-indigo-blob