Information Processing

Let me put it very simply: there is NO genomic "dark matter" or "missing heritability" -- it's merely a matter of sa...

John Danaher discusses his coaching philosophy. Danaher trained UFC champions Georges St. Pierre and Chris Weidman, among others. Danah...

Say what you want about Trump, he's one of the only candidates who isn't beholden to oligarch campaign contributors. Below he goes a...

These are some of my favorite panels from Frank Miller's graphic novel The Dark Knight Returns  (1986). See also I Love Jack Kirby . Cli...

This recent talk by Harvard economist and education researcher Roland Fryer reviews studies of student incentives, charter schools, best edu...

Spencer Stone (left) is a blue belt at Gracie Lisboa . He choked out the terrorist gunman on the Amsterdam-Paris train yesterday. NYTim...

This essay is an entertaining read, if somewhat wrong headed. See here for an earlier post that discusses Steve Pinker's response to...

Some great highlights.

Progress in biomedical research is slow enough. It does not need to be slowed down even further. Boston Globe : A POWERFUL NEW technique fo...

An MIT Technology Review reporter interviewed me yesterday about my Nautilus Magazine article Super-Intelligent Humans Are Coming . I had to...

I watched this on the flight back from Asia. It's a kid movie but it operates at more than one level. The girl robot Athena is really fu...

[ See updated version . ] A few years ago I posted a list of number of Nobel prizes aggregated by undergraduate institution of the winner...

When I travel I often carry a stack of issues of Nature and Science to read (and then discard) on the plane. The article below is a nice ...

I'll be at the Institute for Nuclear Theory at the University of Washington tomorrow to discuss quantum thermalization in heavy ion col...

Third wave coffee in Niles Canyon.

So long, Hong Kong... Foo Camp! Someone is mining ether !

By constructing haplotypes using adjacent SNPs the authors arrive at a superior set of genetic variables with which to compute genetic simil...

Meetings with BGI, HKUST, and financiers. Will stop in SV and Seattle (Allen Institute) on the way back.

I saw this video at one of the Scifoo sessions on drones. Beautiful stuff! I find this much more pleasing than fireworks. The amount of ...

Editorial in the Lancet, reflecting on the Symposium on the Reproducibility and Reliability of Biomedical Research held April 2015 by the W...

Regular readers will know that I've been interested in the so-called Teller-Ulam mechanism used in thermonuclear bombs. Recently I read ...

A correspondent updates us on advances in genomic cattle breeding. See also Genomic Prediction: No Bull and It's all in the gene: co...

These slides are from one of the best sessions I attended at scifoo. Bill Janeway's perspective was both theoretical and historical, but...

"I think human consciousness is a tragic misstep in evolution. We became too self-aware. Nature created an aspect of nature separate...

The tail of the (green) 2000 curve seems slightly off to me: ~10 million individuals with >$100k annual income? (~ $400k per annum for ...