Information Processing

Figure via Calculated Risk . Larger version here I believe the outlines of the bust are becoming as visible as the bubble itself was to any ...

To get a feel for the reaction of average Chinese towards criticism from the West, read the excerpt below from a poem now circulating on the...

The Financial Crisis: An Interview with George Soros with Judy Woodruff on Bloomberg TV. According to his estimates (see below), housing st...

Slide from this talk . Survey questions: 1) Could you be Gork the robot? (Do you split into different branches after observing the outc...

A couple of years ago I gave a talk at the Institute for Quantum Information at Caltech about the origin of probability -- i.e., the Born r...

Moody's walks Roger Lowenstein (writing for the Times Sunday magazine) through the construction, rating and demise of a pool of subprime...

In an earlier post I discussed a survey of honors college students here at U Oregon, which revealed that very few had a good understanding ...

Take with boulder-sized grain of salt. Cause and effect? Only an eight day interval? Couldn't that have been an exceptional period over ...

Having played a lot of sports and done a lot of physical training, it's not often that I see something in the gym that shocks me. But re...

This NYTimes article covers recent results in happiness research, which shows that money does buy happiness after all ;-) The new data see...

John Archibald Wheeler, one of the last great physicists of a bygone era, has died. He outlived most of his contemporaries (Bohr, Einstein, ...

Looks like a fascinating documentary, profiling nine young people trying to make it in modern China. Among those profiled are a US-educated ...

We've had $200B in write-downs so far. The Fed has taken about $300B of shaky debt onto its balance sheet. The IMF is talking about a gl...

Alpha magazine has a long article on the current state of quant finance. It may be sample bias, but former theoretical physicists predomina...

Here is a 40 minute discussion of the credit crisis on NPR's Fresh Air. The "expert" is a law professor with a tenuous grasp ...

I donated a number of shares in my previous startup (SafeWeb, Inc., acquired by Symantec in 2003) to endow a permanent undergraduate schol...

New paper! http://arxiv.org/abs/0803.4212 This follows up on our earlier work on "monsters" (see here and here ) -- semiclassical...

Roger Lowenstein, author of When Genius Failed : the rise and fall of Long Term Capital Management , writes cogently about the credit cris...

Here is the text of an interesting talk given by Charlie Munger entitled Academic Economics: Strengths and Faults After Considering Interd...