Information Processing

A long interview with Stanford professor David Donoho (academic web page ) at the IAS at HKUST . Donoho was a pioneer in thinking about...

This speech emphasizes an under-recognized motivation for US adventurism abroad: local military and geopolitical conflicts enhance the stren...

These recent Nature Genetics papers offer more evidence that group differences in a complex polygenic trait (height), governed by thousands ...

In this earlier post I advocated for cognitive filtering via study of hard subjects Thought experiment for physicists: imagine a professo...

I bought one of these today for the kids -- their 10th birthday is coming up. Very fun to fly -- reminds me a bit of flying kites when I w...

These numbers are derived from aggregate W-2 incomes for 158 million working Americans (see link for full table). The "raw" ave...

Both sides of this issue are well argued in the debate -- in particular by opponents John Mearsheimer and Kevin Rudd. See also The Traged...

For relentless technological advance, powered by high g researchers, venture capitalists, capital markets, and government investment in basi...

I recommend this BBC interview with Robert Plomin . Robert is a consummate gentleman and scholar, working in a field that inevitably attrac...

@9 min: 26 million matches per day on Tinder. Male preferences easy to predict, females more complex! Linear vs Multivariate Nonlinear pre...

MSU will be hiring over 100 new professors (beyond ordinary hiring such as retirement replacements), primarily in science and technology...

The footage in this documentary will appeal to any History or WWII buff. The interviews with the old men, juxtaposed with moving images of...

An essay on  neoreaction and the dark enlightenment from The Awl . See also Fukuyama and Zhang on the China Model  ,  Is there a China mo...

A new paper from the Kruglyak lab at UCLA shows yet again (this time in yeast) that population variation in quantitative traits tends to...

This is an ASHG poster (click for larger version) describing work on predictive modeling of genetic disease using Compressed Sensing. Our...

You can watch the 2+ hour video of the roundtable on YouTube. I enjoyed the discussion but I don't like watching or listening to recordi...

New results on the genetic architecture of autism support Mike Wigler's Unified Theory. See earlier post De Novo Mutations and Autism...

Jason Zweig writes about Philip Tetlock's Good Judgement Project below. See also Expert Predictions , Perils of Prediction , and this po...

This list of the largest repositories of genetic data appeared in the 25 September 2015 issue of Science . Note that the quality and extent ...

I'll be part of this roundtable discussion Saturday, Oct 3 in NYC. It's open to the general public and will be live streamed at th...

James Lee talk at ISIR 2015 (via James Thompson ) reports on 74 hits at genome-wide statistical significance (p < 5E-8) using educational...

From Bobos in Paradise by David Brooks. This part of Bourdieu's oeuvre is, of course, required reading for all academics. By academi...

I grew up out in the country in Iowa. Our address was RR1 = "Rural Route 1" :-)  We had a creek, pond, dirtbike (motorcycle) track...

This Quartz article describes Jonathan Wai's research on the rate at which different universities produce alumni who make great contribu...

Although we have whole genome reconstructions, we don't really know what Neanderthals looked like, exactly. It would be amazing to di...