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Martin Shkreli: Big Pharma's Blind Spot, Betting Against Quantum & What Prison Taught Him

(0:00) Martin Shkreli joins the Besties! (0:55) Why quantum computing is a one-trick business and why he's betting against it (7:42) The drugs big pharma sells too cheap and his journey from hedge fund trader to pharma (11:37) AI, drug discovery, and who actually wins (21:32) Brilliance and rule-breaking, the gifted-kid trap & what prison taught him Thanks to our partners for making this possible! IREN is a vertically integrated AI Cloud platform, delivering data centers, compute and software...

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Education

Cornell’s Secret History

The editors discuss the NatCon in Jerusalem, the scandal at Cornell University and its broader implications, and whether AI could ever be considered to be conscious. Further reading: The. The post Cornell’s Secret History appeared first on First Things

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Environment

The ecologist revealing the invisible networks that revive rainforests

In a research station in central Panama, you can walk through a century of forest time, watching scrubby plots of adolescent trees give way to cathedral-­like canopies of mature growth. Forest ecologist Daisy Dent, a senior scientist at ETH Zurich, oversees this sequence of plots across the Barro Colorado Nature Monument, some of which date…

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Geopolitics

Mars may be a hellhole, but the moon is not far behind

Welcome to the second space race. You can be forgiven for experiencing déjà vu. Last time, it was the Soviet Union and the United States vying to be the first to plant some flags. Now it’s a sprint to the lunar surface between America and China—alongside a host of varyingly friendly and rival nations—plus a…

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Technology

The Download: moon city problems and drone traffic controllers

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Mars may be a hellhole, but the moon is not far behind The US and China are racing to build bases on the moon, with NASA hoping to establish a small…

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