#120 - AI for Antibodies, Founding for Good, and Inkjet Printers!
#120 - AI for Antibodies, Founding for Good, and Inkjet Printers!
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In the News
👶 For the first time since the data has been recorded, the number of children dying before their 5th birthday has fallen below 5 million worldwide. That’s a staggering decrease and an incredible public health victory, but there’s still so much more to go.
💸 MacKenzie Scott continues to surprise us with her philanthropic commitments. Go off, queen!
💾 Nvidia’s new chip further entrenches itself as the only game in town, at least for now.
🦠 Researchers at the University of Washington are using AI to design antibodies from scratch.
Opportunities
Ambitious Impact is launching a new incubator for entrepreneurs who want to start companies that will then direct their profits to charities upon a successful exit. The program takes no equity and demands no board seats. The founders of AIM are dear friends of Impact Labs, so if you apply, tell them we sent you!
Animal Empathy Philippines is looking for a remote-based project lead to help them shine a light on the effects and scale of factory farming in the Philippines. This would be a 4-month bounded opportunity for someone who is interested in the region and reducing animal suffering.
The Future Society is looking for a comms manager, among other roles. In their words: “Our work sits at the nexus of governance and emerging technology. We take a systematic approach to developing projects that address institutional barriers in AI governance: undergoing prioritization and impact-planning exercises to define promising AI governance projects, conducting applied research and collective intelligence exercises to design select projects, and building coalitions and advocacy campaigns to deploy projects with high impact.”
“CommonLit is a nonprofit EdTech organization dedicated to providing high-quality literacy instruction to low-income students and students of color to prepare them for success in college and careers. We operate a free online reading and writing program, www.commonlit.org, that is used by millions of teachers and students worldwide each month. We are a quickly growing team of passionate professionals - many of whom are former teachers. Our team is now over 120 full-time employees spread across ~30 states.” They’re looking for a support engineer who’s good at Ruby to join their team!
What We’re Watching
Twitter is bad for you. Get it off your phone and out of your life if you can.
John Green gives us a crash course on Tuberculosis
Researchers have used a network of drones and ground cameras to further refine facial recognition algorithms. We wonder how long it will take before the military scoops this one up.
Inkjet printers are powerful inventions, but you can do so much more with them
Quotes We Love
“Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night."
-Edgar Allan Poe
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