Oops, the link:https://www.businessinsider.com.au/bill-gates-factories-7-different-vaccines-to-fight-coronavirus-2020-4 …
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Bill Gates is setting up factories to manufacture 7 leading vaccine candidates before we know which is best & safest; we can test the vaccines in parallel, and then throw away all but the factory for the best vaccine. May save many months. Just extraordinary.pic.twitter.com/JGjkJ6FKNa
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(I have a tremendous amount of admiration for this, and many of his other efforts, & general thoughtfulness. But I must admit, I do get a chuckle out of all the "Bill has decades of experience with viruses!" Windows and MS-DOS jokes.)
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Just to be clear, when I said "throw away" the factory I was speaking figuratively. I'm sure the space will be used, and may even be repurposed for vaccine production. But there will still have been billions in sunk costs.
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https://twitter.com/kimmaicutler/status/1246524025016221696 … (It's usually a mistake to generalize from one data point. And, in any case, false dichotomies like "state xor private sector" are, well, false.)
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Love it. Wishing him best of luck. Hopefully they have easily shared classical compute problems the ML and even QC community can help with
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I’m genuinely aftaid ML would create a vaccine that wouldn’t work on women.
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from a press release?
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It's like Americans have forgotten how rich our country is. America should be doing this. America is infinitely richer than Bill Gates (bc we make money appear w the stroke of a key). Or maybe we're just getting stupid.
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