Information Processing

By now you've probably heard that Moore's Law is really dead. So dead that the semiconductor industry roadmap for keeping it on trac...

Someone sent me a link to this 1990 Playboy interview with Donald Trump . There's much more in the interview than what I have excerp...

Please help me fill this position! This search is a bit out of sync with the regular postdoc application process, so I need some help spread...

Trump Unstoppable? Matt Taibbi writes in Rolling Stone. (Does Rolling Stone still exist? It's only a matter of time as the lawsuit(s)...

5 foot 9 180 lbs of robot genius :-)

Recent profile in the Guardian; 15 facts about Hassabis. The mastery of Atari games through reinforcement learning deep neural nets is d...

GCTA is a statistical method for estimating the heritability of a complex trait using (phenotype | genotype) data from unrelated individuals...

In mixing together the truly talented with the rich and powerful, elite US universities perform a useful service to both groups. Khan ...

The impacts of studies ranked in the 3rd to 20th percentile are more or less statistically indistinguishable. With current funding lines as...

The graph below shows changes in the number of Harvard students by ethnic group, relative to the total college age US population of that gr...

Short summary: To first approximation we can ignore gene-gene interactions in the prediction of complex traits. This paper examines specific...

Live-blogging the LIGO announcement of detection of gravity waves. Detection of an event in 2015 (initial science run of advanced LIGO) is g...

We received confirmation from Harvard today that our petitions have been accepted and that our slate will appear on the Overseer ballots. Fo...

Scott Alexander (Slate Star Codex) on Philip Tetlock 's Superforecasting : Book review Highlighted passages . I especially liked t...

The best bit, with Jon Hamm, starts @29min :-) Recommended by Auren Hoffman .

Dilbert creator Scott Adams on Trump -- the Master Persuader :-) Donald Trump has a way with words—and with people. Yet despite his popu...

Two groups (Zhang lab at MIT and Joung lab at Harvard) announce improved "engineered" Cas9 variants with reduced off-target editin...

I'm surprised that this happened so fast. I guess I need to update some priors :-) AlphaGo uses two neural nets: one for move selectio...

The petitions are in! Thanks to everyone who worked so hard to collect ~300 signatures in just the past two weeks. It appears we'll b...

I'm posting the job ad below for David Lubinski. The Study of Mathematically Precocious Youth (SMPY) is the most systematic long term s...

We are rapidly approaching the February 1 deadline for petition signatures supporting our Free Harvard, Fair Harvard  (FHFH) campaign. ...

[[ Flash video here ]] See also De novo mutations and autism and Disruptive mutations and the genetic architecture of autism . Nature...

A recent paper by Hawking, Perry, and Strominger ( Soft Hair on Black Holes ) proposes a new kind of soft hair (i.e., soft gravitons or phot...

Via Peter Woit at Not Even Wrong . I think it's hysterical and also incisive. See also A Tale of Two Geeks and Voting and Weighing ...

Testing Theories of American Politics: Elites, Interest Groups, and Average Citizens Martin Gilens and Benjamin I. Page Each of four ...