Information Processing

Google knows enough about me that my YouTube feed now routinely suggests content of real interest. A creepy but positive development ;-) ...

Highly recommended! Scott Alexander reviews and summarizes Albion's Seed . The copy I read years ago belonged to the university library....

This is a fairly balanced account of recent progress in epigenetics (at least the part I excerpt below). But see here for negative reaction...

If you're a true fan, and like guitar, you'll enjoy this 20 minute live version of Purple Rain. The whole concert . Prince was a...

I think these are the slides . One of the topics which I've remarked on before is the absence of local minima in the high dimensiona...

If this account is true, it's simply amazing. NY Magazine: What It’s Like to ‘Wake Up’ From Autism After Magnetic Stimulation ... T...

In this excerpt from his 2014 book, Julian Assange analyzes Google CEO Eric Schmidt and his sidekick Jared Cohen. See also Chief Execut...

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George Dyson is Freeman's son. I believe this talk was given at SciFoo or Foo Camp. More Ulam  (neither he nor von Neumann were real...

This figure and the excerpt below come from the genomics column of The Bullvine, a publication aimed at dairy breeders (via Carl Shulman...

Ralph Nader and Ron Unz discuss the Free Harvard, Fair Harvard Overseer campaign . The discussion starts about 4 minutes in. Previous pos...

Harvard Overseer ballots have been mailed. Please vote for the Free Harvard, Fair Harvard ticket ! Earlier posts  here . Below is my can...

This paper is based on analysis of UK Biobank data. The phenotypes (cognitive scores) were obtained via brief on-screen tests. Although ther...

Starting @15:20 you can watch the 2016 Vice documentary Unnatural Selection. Among the topics covered: CRISPR, PGD (Preimplantation Geneti...

[ See here for added detailed discussion of this topic. ] Scott Alexander ( Slate Star Codex ), Garett Jones (Hive Mind), and Razib Kha...

My old friend Mark Alford (WUSTL) was on campus last week for the inaugural meeting of the FRIB-TA (Facility for Rare Ion Beams Theory All...

This is promo footage for Polaris, a professional BJJ competition. The four competitors profiled train in Toulouse (France), Florida, San ...

Rutgers Historian Jochen Hellbeck, author of Stalingrad: The City that Defeated the Third Reich . LA Review of Books : ... The archive ...

Highly recommended: a great conversation ( transcript ) between Tyler Cowen and NYU psychology professor Johnathan Haidt. More Haidt . ...

New Yorker : ... Khruangbin plays a spellbinding twist on surf rock and soul that would be considered trite if it weren’t so appetizing. ...

Left: Samuel Butler, Right: Frank Herbert. And when that which was foretold shall come to pass, for behold it is coming, then shall the...

This manuscript is based on the Presidential Address that Alice H. Eagly (Professor of Psychology and of Management at Northwestern Universi...