Chris Willenken
@CWillenken
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co-founder at Blackwood Healthcare Breakthroughs, where we invest in early-stage MedTech; ex Jane Street; a 2023 world champion at the card game Bridge
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Joined January 2019
“About a month ago, BlackRock deemed the private debt it had extended to Renovo Home Partners… to be worth 100 cents on the dollar. As of last week, the firm had a new assessment: zero.” A great example for @CliffordAsness's "volatility laundering" thesis.
*BLACKROCK EYES 100% LOSS ON PRIVATE LOAN AMID DEBATE OVER MARKS We’re in the golden age of private credit, blah blah, isolated incident, you know the drill
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"OpenAI Wants Federal Backstop for New Investments"- WSJ I guess this was always the plan: 1) make $1.4T in spend commitments (~100x cash on hand) through "partnerships" with MSFT/ORCL/GOOG/NVDA/AMZN 2) become Too Big To Fail 3) demand a federal backstop
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Highly specialized LLMs trained on validated data will dominate in healthcare. Due to the ease of 'poisoning' large models, it will be difficult for their outputs to merit clinical-grade confidence.
New research with the UK @AISecurityInst and the @turinginst: We found that just a few malicious documents can produce vulnerabilities in an LLM—regardless of the size of the model or its training data. Data-poisoning attacks might be more practical than previously believed.
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the fact that medical ethicists think it might have been more ethical for this women to just let herself die from cancer should tell you how fucking brain dead that entire field is
A scientist who successfully treated her own breast cancer by injecting the tumour with lab-grown viruses has sparked discussion about the ethics of self-experimentation
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Bridge has finally made the big time! Thanks @TheShowOnX @ksorbs for shouting out our game. (IRL it's a bit more cutthroat, but the opening scene is spot on!)
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A most impressive example of just how misleading the Mercator projection can be.
It is possible to sail from India to the USA in a straight line.
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Counterpoint: grow AI-based applications as fast as possible and troubleshoot issues as they may arise. Politicaization of AI only benefits established firms and foreign adversaries who are unrestrained by any ethical or pseudo-ethical constraints.
Today, 35+ VC firms, with another 15+ companies, representing hundreds of billions in capital have signed the voluntary Responsible AI commitments from @ResponsibleLabs (RIL), the non-profit I co-founded. As Chairman of RIL, I’m proud to unveil this today with tech leaders and
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Liberalism slowly waking up to the fact that standing back as a neutral groundskeeper of the Marketplace of Ideas, while totalitarian states are active participants, results in liberalism getting p0wned
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It’s obvious that Twitter will be just fine. The hysteria surrounding its supposed demise will make for a good psychological study on groupthink and echo chambers.
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@wonderofscience In 1951, Adelbert Ames created the mind-boggling ‘Ames Window’. It’s so effective that even when you know how it works you can’t break the illusion.
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The James Webb Space Telescope has detected the first clear evidence of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere of a planet outside of our Solar System. WASP-39 B is a gas giant closely orbiting a Sun-like star, 700 light years away from Earth: https://t.co/oCDB4rHKO2
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As you may have heard The James Webb Space Telescope will be releasing "data from its first five targets" on Tuesday. I'm no astronomer but here's what I've gathered about what that means, and what we'll see.
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Dude, what the hell is wrong with you? You are the Vice Chairman of the Select Committee on Intelligence, and a Member of the Foreign Relations Committee. You were specifically asked NOT to share this briefing with Zelensky. Why would you risk his safety for a tweet?
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This is the way: lowering healthcare prices through innovation, not shortage-creating price caps.
Civica is thrilled to announce our plans to manufacture and distribute three insulins at significantly lower prices than insulins currently on the market, in collaboration with industry leading partners.
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The CIA once released a guide on how to sabotage an organization, and I can’t shake the feeling that we’re voluntarily implementing these tactics today
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