Information Processing

Indian software engineer Nimbupani writes about his experience as an expat living in Shanghai. He provides some comparative insight on Indi...

Congratulations to Anshe Chung (in real life: Ailin Graef, a German citizen originally from Hubei, China), the first capitalist whose virtua...

Two worthwhile observations from the blog QuantLogic . 1) A quote from Charles Munger: I have said that in my whole life, I've known no ...

Another article on the theme of rich vs super-rich in the NYTimes. The article profiles an MD and a PhD in economics, each of whom left the...

More evidence that, in today's gilded age, all roads lead to hedge funds. Ray Kurzweil, inventor and AI optimist, is now running a fund ...

The Haves against the Have Mores. Pity the poor doctors, lawyers and management consultants. Even the I-bankers, now that hedge fund managem...

Brad Setser and Nouriel Roubini made a call that Bretton Woods 2 - an international monetary system based on central bank financing of the ...

The WSJ covers the demographic and economic forces at work in Russia's Far East, where a dynamic and populous China threatens to overwhe...

Last week I hosted our colloquium speaker -- a condensed matter theorist who is currently chairman of the Yale physics department. Upon seei...

Daniel Golden reports on discrimination against Asian-Americans in admissions to elite universities. I discussed his recent book here , and ...

China's trillion dollars in FX reserves is just too big to diversify out of without moving markets. At the moment, "diversification...

The Economist discusses some proposals for cheap replication of hedge fund strategies. The first paper mentioned below is by Andy Lo of MIT....

Bruce Lahn is at it again. Earlier work from his lab showed that the microcephalin gene (MCPH1), which plays a role in brain development, h...

Someone at Discover Magazine invited me to chat with Lisa Randall tomorrow -- Thursday 11/9 -- at 2 PM EST. Lisa is a leading particle theo...

I don't have a link for the following data, it came in an investment advisory called the Gartman Letter. You can read this data in two w...

Sorry for lack of posts. I gave a colloquium at University of Illinois at Chicago yesterday, and today I'm headed to Montreal to do the...

OK, I have to admit I've been suffering from gizmo envy for some time now. How is it that a connected guy like me has no mobile device w...

Michael Steinhardt, one of the most successful hedge fund managers ever, is from the old school. In this WSJ interview , he has a few things...

New paper! See here for related discussion. The first two pragraphs: If, as suggested by recent results [1], string theory exhibits a lands...

If you're a young tech entrepreneur, move to Silicon Valley. The Times article I've excerpted from below is not exaggerating in any...

Here it is, broken down by level of education. Note that even the PhD income increase from 2000-2005 is only slightly positive in real terms...

I was expecting a bigger negative correction in Korea indices from the recent nuclear test. The KOSPI index trades at a price/earnings disco...

At my startup RobotGenius, Inc. , we've been building new technologies to fight malware, spyware and adware. Our "Spyberus" so...

Another nice review in the Economist. I think it was Kleiner Perkins venture capitalist John Doerr who suggested that every PhD awarded in ...

My collaborator A. Zee was interviewed about our paper Message in the Sky (see also here ) on last Friday's broadcast of NPR's All...