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Sunday, May 12, 2024

Information Processing (this blog) has moved to Substack!

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Thanks to Google and Blogspot for many happy years hosting this blog. However, Google has gradually stopped supporting this platform. The en...
Thursday, April 18, 2024

Glenn Luk: China’s economic evolution, GDP, and high speed rail — Manifold #58

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  Glenn Luk has worked as an investment banker, private equity investor, and startup founder. He has closely analyzed aspects of the Chinese...
Friday, April 05, 2024

Replica Wormholes and Quantum Hair

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Replica Wormholes and Quantum Hair   https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.02331 Xavier Calmet, Stephen D.H. Hsu  We discuss recent applica...
Thursday, April 04, 2024

Casey Handmer: Terraform Industries and a Carbon-Neutral Future — Manifold #57

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  Casey Handmer (PhD Caltech, general relativity) is the founder of Terraform Industries. He is one of the most capable and ambitious geo-en...
Friday, March 29, 2024

Razib Khan's Unsupervised Learning podcast

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  Recent interview with Razib Khan. We've known each other IRL for about 20 years now, so this conversation has a slightly different cha...
Thursday, March 21, 2024

Russell Clark: Japan, China, and USD reserve status — Manifold #56

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  Russell Clark is a hedge fund investor who has lived and worked in both Japan and China. He writes the widely followed Substack Capital Fl...
Monday, March 11, 2024

Solving the Hallucination Problem - interview with AppliedAI

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  Recent podcast interview with AppliedAI.  We discuss SuperFocus.ai Enterprise GPT.  Good intro to how customer-defined AI/LLM memory elim...
Thursday, March 07, 2024

Stephen Grugett: Predicting the Future with Manifold Markets — Manifold #55

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  Stephen Grugett is the co-founder of Manifold Markets, the world's largest prediction market platform where people bet on politics...

Elizabeth Carr (first US IVF baby) and Genomic Prediction in WSJ

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Elizabeth Carr (first US IVF baby) and Genomic Prediction in the Wall Street Journal . Elizabeth Carr has always been a living symbol of fe...
Wednesday, February 28, 2024

Awakening Siddhartha (podcast interview)

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  Really fun conversation!  Timestamps:  00:00 Introduction  02:21 Steve's Encounter with Richard Feynman  03:31 Discussion on Genetics ...
Thursday, February 22, 2024

Ray McGovern: CIA, JFK, Deep State, and Ukraine Crisis — Manifold #54

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  Raymond McGovern is a former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) analyst, serving from 1963 to 1990.  His CIA career began under President J...
Thursday, February 08, 2024

Lecture: Fermi Paradox, AI, Simulation Question — Manifold #53

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  This lecture covers DNA and the origin of life on Earth, the Fermi Paradox (is there alien life?), AI and its implications for the Simulat...
Monday, February 05, 2024

Superhumans and the Race for AI Supremacy - Hidden Forces podcast Episode 351

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  I've been listening to Hidden Forces with Demetri Kofinas for years now. He's an excellent interviewer with interests in finance, ...
Thursday, January 25, 2024

Utah AG Sean Reyes: “Sound of Freedom” and Human Trafficking — Manifold #52

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  Sean Reyes is Utah Attorney General and a producer for the movie “Sound of Freedom.”  Steve and Sean discuss his personal story, human tra...
Wednesday, January 24, 2024

SuperFocus, AI, and Philippine Call Centers: Part 2

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This is the sequel to the  earlier conversation with Dominic Ligot, an AI expert who works with the IT and Business Process Association ...
Tuesday, January 16, 2024

Upstream podcast with Erik Torenberg: Steve Hsu on the Future of Everything

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  Great conversation with Erik, a well-known SV Founder and investor.  TIMESTAMPS:  (00:00) Intro  (02:01) Political polarization in academi...
Thursday, January 11, 2024

Military Technology and U.S.-China War in the Pacific — Manifold #51

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  TP Huang returns for the third time to discuss US-China strategic competition and military technology.  Audio-Only version and Transcript:...
Wednesday, January 03, 2024

SuperFocus, AI, and Philippine Call Centers

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  This is a conversation with Dominic Ligot, an AI expert who works with the IT and Business Process Association of the Philippines (IBPAP),...
Sunday, December 24, 2023

Peace on Earth, Good Will to Men 2023

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When asked what I want for Christmas, I reply: Peace On Earth, Good Will To Men :-) No one ever seems to recognize that this comes from...
Saturday, December 16, 2023

Louis-Vincent Gave: Understanding China’s Economy, and U.S. Competition — Manifold #50

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  Louis-Vincent Gave of Gavekal discusses China's economic growth, its focus on education, and the global implications of its economic a...
Wednesday, December 13, 2023

PISA 2023 and the Gloomy Prospect

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I'm in the Philippines now. I flew here after the semester ended, in order to meet with outsourcing (BPO = Business Process Outsourcing)...
Thursday, November 30, 2023

Charles Miller: Satellite Technology and the Future of Mobile Connectivity — Manifold #49

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  Charles Miller is co-founder and CEO of Lynk. He is a serial space entrepreneur with 30 years of experience in the space industry.  Lynk -...
Thursday, November 16, 2023

China's EV Market Dominance and the Challenges Facing Tesla — Manifold #48

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  TP Huang is a computer scientist and analyst of global technology development.  He posts often on X: https://x.com/tphuang .  The EV tippi...
Thursday, November 09, 2023

Hypersonic Weapons and Missile Defense

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Detailed analysis of boost-glide (BGV) and Maneuverable Re-entry Vehicles (MaRV): physics of interception by US SM-2,3 etc. Hypersonic Weap...
Thursday, November 02, 2023

Taylor Ogan, Snow Bull Capital: China's tech frontier, the view from Shenzhen — Manifold #47

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  I really enjoyed this conversation. Taylor is a very unique investor who relocated his fund to Shenzhen in order to have direct access to ...
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