There are ways we can learn from China (& Australia): streamlining the regulatory process for getting Phase I trials. This was an item in this year’s President’s budget. Yesterday, the FDA submitted a request for information regarding an expedited pathway for Phase I trials.
This is the earliest stage of the rulemaking process. The FDA is essentially asking "how should we design this pilot program?" before drafting any actual rule. There is a long road ahead, but the fact that this is moving forward is a very positive sign.
novel compound creation and drug discovery are becoming easier and easier
a brilliant kid in his basement, given tech, can make meaningful progress in treating a disease with no cure
the bottleneck to explosive health progress is trials. who's fixing?
this is something beautiful about this era
there are so many dead simple ideas that will just work
i dont know if i was just overthinking everything before, or if the world actually reverted back to this state.
either way, the simple stuff just works again
Uważam, że ta zgraja Eurowizji, która nadaje się do pchania taczki na karuzeli, fałszuje wyniki głosowania widzów.
To jest niemożliwe, że te mendy żydowskie dostają tyle punktów. A to, że my do tego dołożyliśmy cegiełkę powoduje, że zbiera mnie na wymioty.
A big pivot from Ken Griffin on AI:
“Number one is, in the last few months, there has been a step change in the productivity of the AI toolkit. It is profoundly more powerful than it was just nine months ago.
And for us at Citadel, that has allowed us to unleash a much broader array of use cases for AI. And it has been really interesting to watch, to be blunt, work that we would usually do with people with masters and PhDs in finance over the course of weeks or months being done by AI agents over the course of hours or days.
These are not these are not mid-tier white collar jobs. These are like extraordinarily high skilled jobs being, I'm going to pick a word, automated by agentic AI. And I gotta tell you, I went home one Friday actually fairly depressed by this because you could just see how this was going to have such a dramatic impact on society.
When you witness it in your own four walls, when you see work that used to be man years of work being done in days or weeks, it's like, wow, like that's the first time I've seen real impact in our four walls.”
This echoes my own experience with agents and the conversations I am having with students, friends & clients. The toolkit has dramatically transformed and it feels like in finance, for the first time, AI is real.