Information Processing

I'm one of the laggards in returning my DNA kit. It's been sitting on my desk for months -- a miracle that my kids haven't rippe...

My daughter made this puppet at school. Apparently it's a Pikachu -- a type of Pokemon :-) Here's the official Pikachu: ...

I'm really looking forward to this  prequel  (sort of) to Alien. It promises to reveal the secret of the space jockey :-) You'...

Nanex research on algo vs algo activity during Facebook's IPO (via zerohedge ). Do we need to impose a small random delay on all tran...

 A short science fiction story by one of my collaborators :-) The common app   Robert Scherrer   Nature 485, 540 (24 May 2012)   ....

Sorry for the lack of posts -- I've been traveling. Here are some shots of the Westin Hotel inside the Detroit airport. My room had a g...

Two years ago I was asked by someone at the Securities Exchange Commission to post a job ad for quant risk analysts. During some of my conv...

The figure and excerpt below are from Five Years of GWAS Discovery , Visscher, Brown, McCarthy, and Yang, American Journal of Human Genet...

Kruggy joins the Euro doomers. If this plays out as below I'll be kicking myself in 6-12 months for not hedging more aggressively agains...

Carson Chow in the NYTimes. Somehow I can't believe Carson didn't know what a calorie was since one of the MIT grad students he and...

Ken Auletta writes in the New Yorker. I think Stanford is the only university with the long-run potential to compete with Harvard for global...

My preprint http://arxiv.org/pdf/1205.1584v1.pdf (which appeared yesterday evening on arxiv) has already elicited a response from the bril...

This paper will be available tomorrow at the link. http://arxiv.org/abs/1205.1584   Everything is Entangled  Roman V. Buniy, Stephen ...

The excerpt below is from the Kauffman Foundation's report on venture investing. I'd like to see a similar report for hedge and pri...

I was pleasantly surprised by the recent NRC rankings of physics departments. In the research output ranking , UO did quite well. NRC uses ...

Participants in the previous discussion thread may be interested in David Lubinski's paper Exceptional Cognitive Ability: The Phenotype...

I found the excerpt below in the comments here . Mega Questions for Renowned Psychologist Dr._Arthur R. Jensen - Interview by Christophe...

From the autobiography Alvarez: Adventures of a Physicist . See also  Alvarez quotes , and related posts . Chapter 4: I learned about the ...

At least the incentives and cultural support for risk taking are better in the US than in other countries. NYTimes ... In a competitive m...

In an earlier post I mentioned meeting Peter Higgs at Erice in 1990. An alert reader sent me the picture below, which was taken at the Scho...

Bill Unruh's KITP seminar on information loss and energy non-conservation stimulates a vigorous discussion of one of the key aspect...

The iphone is our main method of preserving the flood of creative works generated by the kids :-) The boy is starting to learn algebra...

I should have put this up earlier in case anyone in the LA area wanted to attend. But I was too busy at KITP and forgot. UCI Physics Colloq...

Listen to this interview . [In contrast to the Russians ...] "We thought because we had good intentions, and if we treated people nic...

This is from Stanford's CS183 course on startups. The lecturers include Peter Thiel, Max Levchin and Stephen Cohen of Palantir . Steph...