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「Podcast of the Week」Dog and Human Oncology Connection

Veterinary oncology can be very informative and unveil some otherwise unseen connections and undiscovered research path.

For one thing, pets are exposed to the similar environment as their human owners.

Also their immune systems are better a research/drug development target than lab mice.

And eventually, we will need cancer drugs for pets. They could be developed along with drugs for humans.

And cancer is more than a genetic mutation. It is a systematic disease and needs a comprehensive context study.

A Note on 5G & Its Slicing as a Real Estate Play

【推荐读物】Recommending this insightful and objective article by Benedict Evans from a16z – 5G: if you build it, we will fill it.

Below is an excerpt of his comments on slicing…

One of the cooler features of 5G is that it lets you split out dedicated capacity for particular use cases – so-called ‘network slicing’. Today (to simplify hugely), although network operators try to do traffic management, all traffic in the cell is fundamentally using the same capacity. 5G lets you create dedicated private capacity in the radios network with specific characteristics. So, you could sell a truck operator dedicated capacity on the two miles between a specific freeway exit and a specific warehouse. Or, you could offer an IoT operator (or alarm company) much lower bandwidth but over a wider area.

 

 

「Video of the Week」Tesla Gigafactory

As Elon Musk went to Shanghai for the groundbreaking of Tesla’s first international factory on Jan 6, this video about Gigafactory by Verge is worth watching to refresh the basic understanding of its status and future.

“This is Elon Musk’s key to Tesla’s future”