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On biotech and neurotech in China, Q3 2026 https://milan.cvitkovic.net/china_notes_q3_2026/

Notes from China, Q3 2026
Context: I recently spent 2.5 weeks in China visiting universities, research institutes, clinical sites, companies of all sizes, and investors. Most meetings focused on biotech, neurotech, and AI. Conventional wisdom my trip corroborated US cities feel medieval compared to Chinese cities. I was expecting the cleaner, safer, greener cities with better trains, EVs, consumer electronics, etc. But I was surprised that Chinese cities didn’t feel bleak. I thought that would be the required tradeoff…

We now have wildfire layers for maps… sigh.
Happy to see it, angry that we need it.
https://theradavist.com/ride-with-gps-new-wildfires-layer-see-fire-smoke-and-wind-before-you-ride

Ride with GPS: New Wildfires Layer – See Fire, Smoke, and Wind Before You Ride
Fire season doesn't have to mean guessing. Available across web, iOS, and Android, RWGPS' new Wildfires Layer shows you exactly where fires are burning, so you can avoid wildfire smoke while cycling and adjust your plans before you take off on a ride or extended tour... New Wildfires Layer The Wildfires Layer shows active fire perimeters across the US and Canada, refreshed every hour. That means you're never looking at stale data when you're deciding whether a route is worth riding. On the map,…

AI CRM software startup Lightfield raised a $47M Series A led by a16z; formerly Tome, it had raised $80M across earlier Series A and B rounds (Alex Konrad/Upstarts Media)
https://www.upstartsmedia.com/p/ai-sales-startup-lightfield-raises-47m

AI CRM Startup Lightfield Raises $47M Series A Led by a16z
CEO Keith Peiris took Lightfield from a painful pivot as Tome to 5,000 business customers, and 400% net dollar retention for his 'business world model.

from my link log —
SLOG: cheating the low-latency vs. strict serializability tradeoff.
http://dbmsmusings.blogspot.com/2019/10/introducing-slog-cheating-low-latency.html
saved 2019-10-07

I can go full circle now. Map TrueType fonts into GDOS, then expose a printer via VDI and get the output to CUPS.
#tosemu #atari #retro

RE: https://framapiaf.org/@JBrickelt963/117054627440544048
Je sais pas trop depuis quand c'est indisponible (easybnf) car entre l'indisponibilité de europresse Š la suite de scramping IA et le renouvelleement tardif de mon Pass j'ai pas forc…

Programming language tradeoffs.
https://www.garfieldtech.com/blog/language-tradeoffs

Programming language trade-offs
This article is also available in Serbo-Croatian This article is also available in Dutch There has been much discussion of late in Drupal about Object-Oriented Programming. That's not really surprising, given that Drupal 7 is the first version that has really tried to use objects in any meaningful way (vis, as something…

Almost every year since 2015, Idaho children in a faith-healing sect have died of treatable conditions such as pneumonia and bacterial infections that turned to sepsis. 

Church Doctrine: Former members of the Followers of Christ sect say parents are pressured to follow doctrine that forbids medical care. Those who stray risk shunning, they said.

No Legal Pressure: Oregon officials say after the state put legal boundaries on faith healing, more parents sought care for …

These Children’s Deaths Were Preventable. Their Parents Prayed Instead of Seeking Medical Care.
For decades, Idaho laws have allowed parents who belong to the Followers of Christ and other faith-healing sects to pray rather than seek medical care. Since 2015, at least 15 children have died of treatable conditions.

$10M from 67 investors ... cool $150k each on avg. What a waste of money:
https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/nft-startup-founder-charged-fraud
Just ran the indictment through an LLM, this was funny:
"Buried in the asset-dissipation paragra…

Capitolis, which develops tech for banks and financial institutions, raised $220M, including a $120M Series E at a $1.9B valuation, up from $1.6B in 2022 (Meir Orbach/CTech)
https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/b1aq11vfime

Capitolis raises $220 million from Wall Street giants at $1.9 billion valuation
Citi, Bank of America, Nomura, Tradeweb, J.P. Morgan, UBS and other major financial institutions are backing the fintech as it expands into securities lending through its eSecLending acquisition.