Only about 30% of API manufacturing facilities that supply ingredients for drugs for the US market are themselves based in the US. The rest are spread across places like India, China, and the EU
The Arctic is warming four times faster than the world at large, causing ice to shrink by an area the size of Austria each year. Since the 1980s the volume of ice has fallen by 70% or more. The Arctic’s first ice-free day may occur before 2030.
There is a potentially important source of variance for all of this: we’re running out of internet data. That could mean that, very soon, the naive approach to pretraining larger language models on more scraped data could start hitting serious bottlenecks.
Frontier models are already trained on much of the internet. Llama 3, for example, was... See more
“Most people are interested. Few are truly committed.
Interested people act when it's convenient; committed people act no matter what. Interested people do the minimum; committed people push beyond limits. Interested people wait to be told; committed people take the initiative.
This section includes both healthcare-specific funds, as well as individual investors who exclusively focus on healthcare at funds that invest across multiple industries.
time pressure hinders creativity and problem-solving by prompting people to reach for the simplest option or solution rather than allowing the space to reach a more eloquent one.
According to data gathered by Jason Miller, a professor at Michigan State University who specializes in supply-chain management, China produces more than 70 percent of the world’s lithium-ion batteries, air conditioners, and cookware; more than 80 percent of the world’s smartphones, kitchen appliances, and toys; and about 90 percent of the world’s... See more