Information Processing

In social science a correlation of R = 0.4 between two variables is typically considered a strong result. For example, both high school GPA ...

This documentary is about autistic savant Daniel Tammet . @41:45 you can see him learn Icelandic (language) in one week. See also Anothe...

Burkhard Bilger, science, nature and technology staff writer at The New Yorker. Bryant Walker Smith, fellow at the Center for Internet a...

I thought it worthwhile to re-post my 2008 slides on the credit crisis. I wrote these slides just as the crisis was getting started (rig...

Note most of the research for the book from which this article originates took place during the post-credit crisis bust for financiers. Stil...

Freeman Dyson discusses Darwin's failure to discover Mendelian inheritance. Had Darwin a stronger grasp of statistics (then under develo...

New York magazine on what people make in the Big Apple. Doctors, financiers, escorts, drivers, editors, cops, attorneys, etc. If the figures...

A detailed inside look at the founders and early days of the startup. The team is only 50 people. Over half of the $19 billion from Facebook...

I hope this isn't true! From Seth Roberts' blog: Cheating at Caltech Caltech has a serious problem with undergraduates cheating o...

This is video of a talk given to cognitive scientists about a year ago ( slides ). The original video had poor sound quality, but I think I...

The study below is sensitive to rare variants which are implicated in schizophrenia risk. These rare variants add to the heritability alread...

This paper (click link below) has data on SAT, HSGPA, level of HS math and science completed, etc. from 1972 to 2004, binned by SES. Runni...

President Obama toured the Michigan Biotechnology Institute today before signing the Farm Bill on the MSU campus. I'll post a photo of ...

New report on higher education costs and staffing trends based on Delta Cost Project data, including IPEDS input. Also discussed at the Ch...

Two recent articles in the Times on Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis, or PGD . The first article focuses on ethical issues and a couple in ...

For earlier CRISPR posts, see here . Off-target mutations seem to be under control in this study. Technology Review . Generation of Gene-Mo...

Amasa Delano on China in the late 1700s, from his Narrative of Voyages and Travels in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres: Comprising ...

New paper! Locality and Nonlinear Quantum Mechanics ( http://arxiv.org/abs/1401.7018 ) Chiu Man Ho, Stephen D.H. Hsu Nonlinear modifi...

from THE REEM on Vimeo . Great documentary of Overeem fighting in Boston and training in Ko Samui. The locations look very familiar t...

From a new paper by Stanford economist Caroline Hoxby. She doubts the utility of MOOCS for elite institutions within the model she advocates...

Interesting comments from Kari Stefansson of deCODE (2012). See also this earlier video ; Kong notes that multiple common variants can ...

An oral history of Swingers (Grantland). Jon Favreau (Mike):  When I set out to write  Swingers , I didn’t know I was even writing a ...

Peak annual earnings for engineering graduates were even higher at $98k. Source: How Liberal Arts and Sciences Majors Fare in Employment: A ...

We placed a new version of our compressed sensing and genomics paper on arxiv. For earlier discussion see here and here . New results conc...