Thursday, July 22, 2021

Embryo Screening for Polygenic Disease Risk: Recent Advances and Ethical Considerations (Genes 2021 Special Issue)

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It is a great honor to co-author a paper with Simon Fishel , the last surviving member of the team that produced the first IVF baby (Louise ...
Monday, July 19, 2021

The History of the Planck Length and the Madness of Crowds

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I had forgotten about the 2005-06 email correspondence reproduced below, but my collaborator Xavier Calmet reminded me of it today and I was...
Tuesday, July 13, 2021

Peter Shor on Quantum Factorization and Error Correction

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  This talk by Peter Shor describes the discovery of his quantum algorithm for prime factorization, and the discovery of quantum error corr...
Sunday, July 11, 2021

Winner Take All in Global E-Commerce? Alibaba vs Amazon

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  Alibaba and Amazon are set to fight it out for global e-commerce dominance. Both are building out distribution networks all over the world...
Tuesday, July 06, 2021

Decline of the American Empire: Afghan edition (stay tuned for more)

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There are photos and video to remind us of the ignominious US withdrawal from S. Vietnam after twenty years of conflict and millions of de...
Friday, July 02, 2021

Polygenic Embryo Screening: comments on Carmi et al. and Visscher et al.

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In this post I discuss some recent papers on disease risk reduction from polygenic screening of embryos in IVF (PGT-P). I will focus on the ...
Wednesday, June 30, 2021

Six Ways From Sunday: Tucker vs NSA

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  Chuck Schumer: You take on the intelligence community, they have six ways from Sunday to get back at you .   Tucker Carlson has potent...
Tuesday, June 29, 2021

Machine Learning Prediction of Biomarkers from SNPs and of Disease Risk from Biomarkers in the UK Biobank (published version)

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This is the published version of our MedRxiv preprint discussed back in April 2021. It is in the special issue Application of Genomic Techn...
Sunday, June 27, 2021

Othram CEO David Mittelman interview with Razib Khan

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  Razib Khan interviews Othram CEO David Mittelman.  See  Othram: the future of DNA forensics for some lab photos and analysis of relative ...
Saturday, June 19, 2021

LEO SAR, hypersonics, and the death of the naval surface ship

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  Duh... Let's spend ~$10B each for new aircraft carriers that can be easily monitored from space and attacked using hypersonic missiles...
Monday, June 14, 2021

Japan and The Quad (Red Line geostrategy podcast)

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  I recommend this episode of The Red Line geostrategy podcast: Japan and The Quad .  Serious analysts from the Asia-Pacific region (e.g., A...
Sunday, June 13, 2021

An Inconvenient Minority: The Attack on Asian American Excellence and the Fight for Meritocracy (Kenny Xu)

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Kenny Xu is a brave young man. His new book An Inconvenient Minority: The Attack on Asian American Excellence and the Fight for Meritocrac...
Thursday, June 03, 2021

Macroscopic Superpositions in Isolated Systems (talk video + slides)

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  This is video of a talk based on the paper Macroscopic Superpositions in Isolated Systems   R. Buniy and S. Hsu  arXiv:2011.11661, to a...
Wednesday, May 26, 2021

How Dominic Cummings And The Warner Brothers Saved The UK

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Photo above shows the white board in the Prime Minister's office which Dominic Cummings and team (including the brothers Marc and Ben Wa...
Saturday, May 22, 2021

Feynman Lectures on the Strong Interactions (Jim Cline notes)

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Professor James Cline (McGill University) recently posted a set of lecture notes from Feynman's last Caltech course, on quantum chromo...