Information Processing

Niowave , a Lansing company with roots in MSU's number 1 ranked nuclear physics program. The founder is shown smoking a cigar in the wed...

Andrei Sakharov with daughter, 1948. Excerpts below from  The World of Andrei Sakharov  (link goes to full text) by Gennady Gorelik. Se...

Olivier Desbarres is (now former) head of Asia FX strategy at Barclays. Condolences to my friends in finance who have to work with people li...

This is creepy to watch given the recent news about Paula Broadwell's affair with (now former) CIA director Petraeus -- her husband is a...

Great training footage here of Carlos Condit and Georges St. Pierre. It's incredible how far MMA has come in the last 15 years. I'd ...

Opening of the Broad Art Museum at MSU. Senator Levin, Governor Snyder and Eli Broad. Senator Levin and Eli Bro...

The timescale is now down to weeks, not seasons. See also Pronto moda  and  Globalization and high fashion  (from 2005!). NYTimes : .....

The touching essay I quote from below is by Eddie Frenkel, a noted Berkeley mathematician. I recommend the whole thing. Eddie and I used to ...

Pundit idiocracy : "Close race", "Too close to call", "Neck and neck". (I heard this all day long.) Quants a...

At least, according to the quants who performed the mind boggling, incomprehensible, mysterious, nearly impossible task of averaging sta...

A tour of some animal facilities. My office. MSU Technologies -- exterior and some startup space.

I predicted in my earlier post Whither higher education?  that the main beneficiaries of MOOCs would be people who are well above average ...

The NYTimes on Asian-Americans and affirmative action. Asians rated only a couple of mentions in the Fisher v Texas oral arguments, and alwa...

Big data, analytics, randomized experiments and modern political campaigns. "... the most advanced political marketers are ahead of com...

Autumn in East Lansing (near Lyman Briggs residential college on the MSU campus). Senator Levin visits an MSU lab. The device they ...