Information Processing

NYTimes reports: DNA Sequencing Caught in Deluge of Data . Spooks and other scientists have similar problems . See also here . NYTimes : BGI...

This paper presents evidence in favor of the signaling (as opposed to human capital building) model of elite higher education. Of course, th...

This detailed study concludes that law school grades, not prestige, have the strongest correlation with career success. I'd be intereste...

I found this here , but it is originally due to Raymond Smullyan . I first learned about Godel's theorem when I read Douglas Hofstader ...

This talk has been cancelled, for complex reasons that I will not discuss.

Gary Taubes discusses fat, sugar, cholesterol and nutrition on Econtalk. See also medical science? Progress in the age of Obama -- Nation ...

This is a nice result. I haven't checked the calculations, but I like the logic very much. I'm kicking myself for not having tried ...

I came across this table in Intelligence by N. Brody. Berkeley Growth Study (61 participants). See earlier post predictive power of early ...

Nice discussion on Econtalk. I suspect Baumeister has slightly stronger opinions than he expressed to Russ. Roy Baumeister of Florida State...

My vote for best recent dystopian fiction featuring genetic engineering goes to the An Orison Of Sonmi 451 chapters of David Mitchell's ...

Perhaps we will meet the ghosts of Stephen J. Gould.

I've always hated Joe Paterno and Penn State's holier than thou sham. Careful scrutiny suggests it's mostly sociopaths at the to...

Look for intergenerational conflict to get worse as more boomers retire. Figure via Atlantic Monthly . 2001 net worth by age group .

Two good articles on the state of higher education. The first dares broach the "higher education bubble" question. ">NY Re...

I always enjoyed interacting with Sidney Coleman (sadly, now deceased) when I was a postdoc. I was quite pleased to find this interview , ...

A nice interview with science writer Lone Frank about her book My Beautiful Genome . Click below for audio.

Here are the "official" video links from the Festival della Scienza in Genova: my public lecture , interview . I had a wonderful ...

Walter Isaacson, biographer of both Einstein and Steve Jobs, on smarts, intuition and innovation. NYTimes : ONE of the questions I wrestled ...

Notice anything funny about the trends? Source : tax data (complete tables at the link; what I display below is truncated). Click for larger...

Daniel Kahneman claims that differences in the performance of professional investors are mostly due to luck, whereas compensation is awarded...

Video of my public lecture and an interview , both available in English or Italian translation. The slides for my talk are here . Some more...

The lecture hall. See here for video and a short interview. (Not up at the moment but should appear later today.) Translator booth. Most pe...

Views from my hotel in central Genova: Cattedrale di San Lorenzo and Via San Lorenzo: Palazzo Ducale, where I will give my lecture later to...

This paper got a lot of attention in the press. I don't have time to discuss it in detail, but it is worth emphasizing that the correlat...

There's an interesting discussion of height and selection at Razib's blog Gene Expression. I can think of lots of plausible tradeof...