Information Processing

I'm in Palo Alto for this annual meeting of scientists and entrepreneurs at Google. If you read this blog, come over and say hello! ...

Seventeen year old Julian Schwinger meets Columbia professor I. I. Rabi (Nobel Prize 1944) and explains the EPR paper to him. Climbing the...

"Forgive him anything, he writes like an angel." Remember that the life of this world is but a sport and a pastime.   NYTimes...

Theoretical physicist John Hopfield , inventor of the Hopfield neural network , on the differences between physics and biology. Hopfield mig...

New paper! We hypothesize that rapid growth of entanglement entropy between modes in the central region and other scattering degrees of f...

This nice review gives a history of the last 100 years in statistical genetics as applied to animal breeding (via Andrew Gelman ). One Hund...

This is a talk from ESHG 2015 , which just happened in Glasgow. The abstract is old; at the talk the author reportedly described somethi...

Note the estimate of few to ten thousand causal SNP variants, consistent with my estimates for height and cognitive ability. Sparsity (nu...

See Ioannidis at MSU for video discussion of related topics with the leading researcher in this area, and also Medical Science? Is Science...

Alfred W. McCoy , Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, writes on global geopolitics. The brief excerpts below do ...

The three shows I've been following in recent years are Game of Thrones, Silicon Valley, and Mad Men (now over). Some of the Amazon Pr...

A great interview with Jim Simons. From academic mathematics to code breaking to financial markets :-)

Featuring Evan Osnos, Kaiser Kuo, and Jeremey Goldkorn (of the Sinica podcast ).

The original title of this post was For this you won a Nobel (Memorial) Prize? But see sad news at bottom. A Beautiful Mind : Nash wen...

These videos are from an interview I did with John Ioannidis when he visited Michigan State earlier this month. The whole thing (29 min) an...

As an experiment I recorded this video using slides from a talk I gave last week at NIH. I will be giving similar talks later this spring...

The most interesting aspect of these results is that for many traits there is no detectable non-additivity. That is, gene-gene interactions ...

The dangers of rent seeking and the educational signaling trap. Although the imperial examinations were probably g loaded (and hence supplie...

H.G. Wells on the first encounters between modern humans and Neanderthals. See also The Neanderthal problem  and Neanderthals dumb? The...

These make me happy and sad at the same time.

An even better visualization would be the state vector of our universe rotating in a vast Hilbert space . Too bad my brain can't pict...

WSJ reports on institutional interest in blockchain technologies. WSJ : Nasdaq OMX Group Inc. is testing a new use of the technology t...

Nick Lemann reviews Our Kids: The American Dream in Crisis by Robert D. Putnam. At the descriptive level, Putnam's conclusions seem...

I was surprised at how easily Luke Rockhold beat Lyoto Machida a few weeks ago. Once it went to the ground Rockhold completely dominated the...

Another good talk from the Genomics, Big Data, and Medicine Seminar Series at the Icahn School of Medicine (Mt. Sinai). Peter starts his t...