Information Processing

No, that's not a typo: it's black holes, not Black Scholes :-) I posted the following comment on Brad Setser's blog (mostly rea...

The Economist has a nice survey on patents and IP. As I mentioned in an earlier post , the US patent system (esp. for software) is pretty b...

Nice article in the NYTimes describing Google's main revenue source: advertising. As a veteran of this era, I witnessed advertising as ...

Sorry for the lack of posts. I've been a bit busy with some new additions to the family :-)

Wow! My blog is one year old now. The first post was 10/24/04, on revealed preferences and college rankings , and there have been 319 posts ...

We already have a favorite prescient cartoon , now for our favorite prescient book. (See here for the latest developments. Has Fitz flipped...

For anyone who hasn't played with this new tool , I highly recommend it. It is a shame that publishers are suing to prevent the further...

I'm sure current defenders of Bushco would have been just as quick to defend Ehrlichman and co-conspirators back in 1973, until admittin...

In an unguarded moment during the last campaign, John Kerry said (not knowing a microphone was on): "These guys are the biggest bunch o...

Will Cheney be indicted? Will there be a conspiracy charge against members of the White House Iraq Group (WHIG)? Did Fitzgerald flip one or ...

More on Delphi's bankruptcy from the WSJ. For those who don't follow globalization, Delphi (a huge auto-parts supplier spun out of G...

I guess I should reevaluate my investment in PIMCO's emerging markets bond fund, made mostly based on El-Erian's reputation :-) I ca...

Andre Linde (Stanford) sends some interesting comments on our paper Message in the Sky. He points to an earlier paper of his, and a nice int...

New paper! To appear 10/12 (evening) on arxiv.org. It sounds a bit like science fiction, but the basic observation is true: by fine-tuning t...

In an earlier post we discussed GM parts supplier Delphi's problems, stemming from global competition. Now Delphi is about to enter Cha...

Did I mention Matt Groening is a genius too? This cartoon is more relevant than ever... let's see what happens to the unindicted co-cons...

William Blake (1757-1827) The Tyger Tyger! Tyger! burning bright In the forests of the night, What immortal hand or eye Could frame thy fear...

New paper! Available on arxiv.org: http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0510021 . Slides for a related talk . Entanglement entropy, black holes and h...

Brad Setser writes on how France and Germany are adapting to economic globalization. My colleague Mark Thoma (Economist's View blog) r...

Harvard and Yale announce another stellar year of endowment returns. Harvard, though, is losing its star manager to a hedge fund -- perhaps ...

Could the contrast be greater? Sony announces layoffs of 10k workers, but no dramatic strategy changes. Meanwhile, Samsung announces $33B in...

Freeman Dyson reviews the recently published collection of Feynman's letters, collected by his daughter Michelle. The essay is long, bu...

Predictably, even the high fashion industry has started producing in low-cost countries. I notice in Eugene that the $3k Natuzzi Italian lea...

"When I got back from India I went to a party thrown by a poet friend in Bolinas. He put on an album by this new folk singer Bob Dylan....

Are these the thoughts of a pulp SF writer, or a serious and underappreciated thinker ? "I am a fictionalizing philosopher, not a novel...