Monday, October 18, 2021

Embryo Screening and Risk Calculus

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Over the weekend The Guardian and The Times (UK) both ran articles on embryo selection.  Polygenic screening of embryos is here, but is i...
Saturday, October 16, 2021

Dune 2021

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I have high hopes for this new version of Dune.   Below, a re-post with two Frank Herbert interviews. Highly recommended to fans of the no...
Saturday, October 09, 2021

Leo Szilard, the Intellectual Bumblebee (lecture by William Lanouette)

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  This is a nice lecture on Leo Szilard by his biographer William Lanouette. See also ‘An Intellectual Bumblebee’  by Max Perutz. Wikipedia...
Friday, October 01, 2021

DNA forensics, genetic genealogy, and large databases (Veritasium video)

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  This is a good overview of DNA forensics, genetic genealogy, and existing databases like GEDmatch (Verogen). @15:35 " Multiple law e...
Sunday, September 26, 2021

Picking Embryos With Best Health Odds Sparks New DNA Debate (Bloomberg Technology)

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Bloomberg Technology covers polygenic embryo screening. Note, baby Aurea is well over a year old now.  I am informed by Genomic Prediction&#...
Saturday, September 18, 2021

War Nerd on US-China-Taiwan

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Highly recommended. Read this article , which will enable you to ignore 99% of mass media and 90% of "expert" commentary on this...
Thursday, September 16, 2021

Men Without Women

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This short story has it all -- genetic genealogy, ultra high net worth physics quant banker, stripper, cop, marriage, family, New Yorker wr...
Tuesday, September 14, 2021

PGT-P with Elizabeth Carr and Dr. Serena Chen

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  This is a discussion of Preimplantation Genetic Testing in IVF with Dr. Serena Chen (IRMS and Rutgers medical school) and Elizabeth Carr (...
Friday, September 10, 2021

Chinese Air Power: Justin Bronk RUSI UK

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  This is a good overview. Bronk (Research Fellow for Airpower and Technology in the Military Sciences team at Royal United Services Institu...
Tuesday, September 07, 2021

Kathryn Paige Harden Profile in The New Yorker (Behavior Genetics)

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This is a good profile of behavior geneticist Paige Harden (UT Austin professor of psychology, former student of Eric Turkheimer), with a...
Sunday, September 05, 2021

US debt, dollar-rmb, digital rmb (Gavekal)

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  I agree with Louis Gave's take on most of the topics discussed. Gavekal manages a China fixed income fund and some other China-focused...
Monday, August 30, 2021

Finitism and Physics

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New paper on arXiv today. A brief precis: Gravitational collapse limits the amount of energy present in any space-time region. This in turn ...
Friday, August 27, 2021

Tragedy of Empire / Mostly Sociopaths at the Top

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  Ecclesiastes 1:9 (KJV) The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and th...
Wednesday, August 25, 2021

Resistance fighter negotiates with former torturer (Afghanistan edition)

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The Taliban could easily turn Kabul airport into a trap, creating another Dien Bien Phu for the US. However I suspect they are advised by t...
Tuesday, August 17, 2021

John Preskill interview by Sean Carroll

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  This is a great interview of John Preskill by Sean Carroll.  Both are many worlders. At about 20 minutes John says: I'm an Everettia...
Saturday, August 14, 2021

Tears before the Rain: An Oral History of the Fall of South Vietnam (Afghanistan darkness over Kabul edition)

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Ecclesiastes 1:9  (KJV) The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there i...