A COVID-19 Prediction System by Lanzhou University shows that present pandemic in Beijing will be controlled by the end of June with about 300 accumulative confirmed cases. The number of accumulative confirmed cases would be at about 200,000 if no action is taken.

Eric Topol Our World in Data If we look at the confirmed cases per million population, the country most resembling the United States, with a 2nd surge, is Israel Our World in Data

Proportional hazard by COVID-19 for age 45+

Move faster. Slowness anywhere justifies slowness everywhere. 2021 instead of 2022. This week instead of next week. Today instead of tomorrow. Moving fast compounds so much more than people realize.

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Board members are simultaneously seeking a different CEO…

Emmett Shear, the new CEO of OpenAI on a recent podcast.

Three CEOs in three days…

We have reached an agreement in principle for Sam Altman to return to OpenAI as CEO with a new initial board of Bret Taylor (Chair), Larry Summers, and Adam D'Angelo. We are collaborating to figure out the details. Thank you so much for your patience through this.

Sam Altman and everyone on Twitter tonight

Happy ending~ Happy Thanksgiving!

In case you were wondering how superconductors work, this is a good explanation. They are a very interesting phenomenon and may prove economically useful, but are not a hard requirement for a sustainable energy future. Physics has many powerful tools of reasoning to understand

Is OpenAI o1 ready for cutting-edge theoretical research in statistics? I am afraid that the answer is YES. I gave it an unsolved problem in clinical trial design that our team of PhDs and professors had been working on for months. I was blown away when I saw o1’s solution.

This demonstrates how the coding skills of OpenAI models have improved over time, rising from the 11th percentile with 4o to the 99.5th percentile with o3 in just 1.5 years.