Information Processing

ALGOS BAD!!!  ... and these instances prove it ... ;-)

AlphaGo Zero was trained entirely through self-play -- no data from human play was used. The resulting program is the strongest Go player...

A long interview with Stanford professor David Donoho (academic web page ) at the IAS at HKUST . Donoho was a pioneer in thinking about...

"... these changes accelerate most operations by 1-4 orders of magnitude, and allow the program to handle datasets too large to fit in ...

I've been trying to get my kids interested in coding. I found this nice game called Lightbot , in which one writes simple programs that ...

Nice article on the progress of computer Go. See also The Laskers and the Go master : "While the baroque rules of Chess could only ha...

This Atlantic article discusses the application of genomic prediction to cattle breeding. Breeders have recently started switching from pedi...

Nanex research on algo vs algo activity during Facebook's IPO (via zerohedge ). Do we need to impose a small random delay on all tran...

Donald MacKenzie writes on high frequency trading in the London Review of Books. Earlier posts: MacKenzie on the credit crisis , two book r...

Last week we had AI researcher and former physicist Eric Baum here as our colloquium speaker. (See here for an 11 minute video of a simila...

Speaking of high frequency trading, here's Zero Hedge on the Renaissance vs. Volfbeyn and Belpolsky matter. Related posts here and her...

Because there is money to be made at this game (estimated in the article to be in excess of $8 billion per year), it is attracting both fina...

Some time ago I posted about two MIT-trained former physicists who were sued by Renaissance for theft of trade secrets related to algorithm...

A review of E.O. Wilson's latest in The NY Review of Books. Ants seem to get a lot done based on a few simple capabilities: they can la...

Last week we had Jiawei Han of UIUC here to give a talk : Exploring the Power of Links in Information Network Mining . He's the author ...

In this post NYTimes science reporter John Tierney, who writes the blog Tierny Lab , does a little experiment on the dating site eHarmony....