Showing posts with label brainpower. Show all posts
Showing posts with label brainpower. Show all posts
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...
Thursday, October 26, 2023

Paradise Lost - Migdal, Polyakov, and Landau

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This is a placeholder for a longer post I hope to expand on in the future, based on this essay:  Paradise Lost - Alexander Migdal   Migdal a...
Sunday, October 22, 2023

Abdus Salam and the Pakistan Nuclear Weapons Program

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After my conversation with Bharat Karnad about the Indian nuclear arsenal I became curious about Pakistan's nuclear program.  See Bharat...
Tuesday, October 10, 2023

SMPY 65: Help support the SMPY Longitudinal Study

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The Study of Mathematically Precocious Youth (SMPY) needs your help to support the Age-65 phase of their unique longitudinal study.  For...
Wednesday, August 30, 2023

The World of Yesterday: Steve Hsu on polygenic scores, gene editing, human flourishing

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  I really enjoyed this long conversation with Dan Schulz, an MSU engineering grad who works in tech. Dan did his homework and we covered a ...
Thursday, August 10, 2023

AI on your phone? Tim Dettmers on quantization of neural networks — Manifold #41

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  Tim Dettmers develops computationally efficient methods for deep learning. He is a leader in quantization: coarse graining of large neural...
Tuesday, September 20, 2022

Sibling Variation in Phenotype and Genotype: Polygenic Trait Distributions and DNA Recombination Mapping with UK Biobank and IVF Family Data (medRxiv)

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This is a new paper which uses Genomic Prediction IVF family data, including genotyped embryo samples. Sibling Variation in Phenotype and G...
Sunday, August 14, 2022

Tweet Treats: AI in PRC, Semiconductors and the Russian War Machine, Wordcels are Midwits

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Some recent tweets which might be of interest :-) Tsinghua University (dad's alma mater) seems to be the only academic institution in ...
Tuesday, May 03, 2022

How We Learned, Then Forgot, About Human Intelligence... And Witnessing the Live Breakdown of Academia (podcast interview with Cactus Chu)

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This is a long interview I did recently with Cactus Chu, a math prodigy turned political theorist and podcaster. (Unfortunately I can't ...
Monday, March 14, 2022

"The Pressure to Conform is Enormous": Steve Hsu on Affirmative Action, Assimilation and IQ Outliers (CSPI Podcast with Richard Hanania)

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  Another great conversation with Richard Hanania.  Some rough timestamps:  Begin: American society, growing up as child of immigrants  18m:...
Friday, December 03, 2021

Adventures of a Mathematician: Ulam, von Karman, Wiener, and the Golem

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  Ulam's Adventures of a Mathematician  was recently made into a motion picture -- see trailer above.  I have an old copy purchased from...
Thursday, October 21, 2021

PRC Hypersonic Missiles, FOBS, and Qian Xuesen

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There are deep connections between the images above and below. Qian Xuesen  proposed the boost glide trajectory while still at Caltech. Back...
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...
Monday, July 26, 2021

Farewell, Big Steve

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Steven Weinberg , a giant of theoretical physics, passed on July 23, 2021 -- he was 88 years old. His best known work, for which he receiv...
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...
Wednesday, February 03, 2021

Gerald Feinberg and The Prometheus Project

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Gerald Feinberg (1933-1992) was a theoretical physicist at Columbia, perhaps best known for positing the tachyon -- a particle that travel...
Monday, January 11, 2021

Global AI Talent Flows

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The illustration above describes a global population of ~5k researchers whose papers were accepted to the leading 2019 conference in deep ...
Wednesday, December 02, 2020

Ditchley Foundation meeting: World Order Today

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Thursday and Friday (Dec 3 and 4) I will participate in this Ditchley Foundation event , in honor of Henry Kissinger. I'm unsure wheth...
Tuesday, September 15, 2020

Schrodinger's Cat and the Normaliens

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Yesterday I had cause to look something up related to macroscopic superposition states ("Schrodinger cat states") in Serge Haroche...
Friday, April 17, 2020

The von Neumann-Fuchs bomb, and the radiation compression mechanism of Ulam-Teller-Sakharov

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Some useful references below on the Ulam-Teller mechanism , Sakharov's Third Idea, and the von Neumann-Fuchs thermonuclear design of ...