#121 - Powerful MRIs, Fusion breakthroughs, and Existential Dread!

Apr 10, 2024

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In the News

Scientists at Oxford are developing a new vaccine for lung cancer.

A new MRI in Paris can scan the human brain with an order of magnitude more precision.

Here’s a new potential therapy for schistosomiasis, a neglected tropical disease that affects millions of people each year.

Have you heard of all the breakthroughs in fusion recently? Here’s the latest: a reactor in Korea can withstand 100-million degree plasma for almost 50 seconds, which is a huge step forward.

Opportunities

The McGovern Foundation is looking for software engineers, front end developers, ops people, and more to join their team! They support technologists and other non-profits working in the AI and tech-for-good space with grants, advocacy, and tools.

“WattTime is a non-profit tech startup. We conduct and coordinate original research into emissions datasets with unusual potential to rapidly drive emissions reductions at scale, then help implement those reductions. Our best known innovation is Automated Emissions Reduction (AER), the technique currently used by over 600 million devices daily (e.g. all Nest thermostats, U.S. iPhones, Toyota EVs, etc.) to slash their carbon footprints.” They’re looking for data scientist to join their growing team!

The World Resources Institute is seeking a geospatial data engineer to join them in their Data Lab. “The Data Lab is WRI’s core data innovation and delivery unit. We are a team of over 35 engineers, product managers, and data scientists with deep experience setting data strategy, doing quantitative research, and building data tools and products.  We work across WRI’s programs, centres, and international offices to use advances in data and technology to help our community improve lives, protect nature, and ensure just transitions.  Data of all kinds sits at the heart of how WRI achieves impact in the world, and our world-class research is used by governments, policymakers, NGOs and local communities around the world to improve lives, protect nature, and ensure just transitions.”

What We’re Watching

3Blue1Brown is in the middle of a multi-part series on transformers. Here’s the most recent one, but it’s honestly worth watching all of his stuff. It’s SO GOOD!

Have you heard of the School of Life before? They make excellent videos about how it’s hard to be a human sometimes. Their recent video is touching and true.

Here’s a delightful journey of existential dread.

All you ever wanted to know about E-Rickshaws

Quotes We Love

“A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.”

- Oscar Wilde

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