Information Processing

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...

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

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

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

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...

  This 1966 documentary on von Neumann was produced by the Mathematical Association of America. It includes interviews with Wigner, Ulam, Ha...

  I came across this panel discussion recently, with Yuri Milner (former theoretical physicist, internet billionaire, and sponsor of the Bre...

Perhaps the most fundamental question in thermodynamics and statistical mechanics is: Why do systems tend to evolve toward thermal equili...

He was 96 when he passed last Friday, one of the last giants who participated in the creation of Quantum Electrodynamics and modern quantu...

It's been a wonderful year and a wonderful decade. All the best to everyone :-) Be of good cheer -- we will prevail !!! A New...

Above, Lev Landau. See also F > L > P > S  and  Out on the Tail . An incredible story from The World of Andrei Sakharov : .....

Dominic Cummings has done it again! The scale of ... triumph cannot be exaggerated. He ... had brought about a complete transformation ...

Ulam expresses so much in a few sentences! From his memoir, Adventures of a Mathematician . Above: Einstein and Godel. Bottom: von Neuma...

Show Page    YouTube Channel Noor Siddiqui, Thiel Fellow, on Stanford and Silicon Valley – Episode #3 Corey and Steve interview Noor...

Dinner with two old Harvard friends -- mathematician Noam Elkies and MSU physicist Dean Lee . Noam is in town this week to give a lecture...

I came across this interview with Fields Medalist Alain Connes  (excerpt below) via an essay by Dominic Cummings (see his blog here ). ...

Roger Penrose writes in the Guardian, providing a scientifically precise summary of Hawking's accomplishments as a physicist (worth r...

Today I came across a recent  interview with Ed Witten in Quanta Magazine . The article has some nice photos like the one above. I was st...

Slate Star Codex has a new post entitled Against Individual IQ Worries . I write a lot about the importance of IQ research, and I try to d...