Information Processing

I always wondered how Dick's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? became Ridley Scott's cyberpunk noir Blade Runner. Watch this docu...

Sorry again for the pause in blogging -- I've been on the road. These are photos from meetings I attended in Los Angeles and on the east...

I think I've made this Google drive folder publicly readable. It contains slides for many talks I've given over the years, going ba...

I came across this 1964 UCLA talk by Oppenheimer, on his hero Niels Bohr. Oppenheimer: Mathematics is "an immense enlargement of la...

Dominic Cummings begins a new series of blog posts. Highly recommended! It's worth noting a few "factor of a million" advan...

It's not entirely an exaggeration to say that my friend Dominic Cummings both kept the UK out of the Euro, and allowed it to (perhaps...

The novella Gulf predates almost all of Heinlein's novels. Online version . The book  Friday  (1982) is a loose sequel. Wikipedia ...

Minxin Pei is an exceptional observer of modern Chinese politics, although he tends toward the pessimistic. In his new book he has assemb...

Rumors over the summer suggested that AlphaGo had some serious problems that needed to be fixed -- i.e., whole lines of play that it pursued...

The Chronicle of Higher Education has a nice article on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the Sokal hoax. Has anything changed in the ...

This video might help you with your New Year's resolution! The claim that one has a fixed budget of will power or self-discipline (...

My kids have been reading lots of books over the break, including an adventure series that involves time travel. Knowing vaguely that dad...

Over the holiday I started digging through my mom's old albums and boxes of photos. I found some pictures I didn't know existed! R...

For years, when asked what I wanted for Christmas, I've been replying: peace on earth, good will toward men :-) No one ever seems...

Apologies for the blogging hiatus -- I'm in California now for the holidays :-) In case you are looking for something interesting ...

This NYTimes Magazine article describes the implementation of a new deep neural net version of Google Translate. The previous version us...

I was on this show last week. Click the link for audio. We Are Nowhere Close to the Limits of Athletic Performance (16:46) Dr. Stephen ...

In October, I wrote AI, Westworld, and Electric Sheep : I'm holding off on this in favor of a big binge watch. Certain AI-related ...

Funny, I can remember the days when Silicon Valley was the Silicon Valley of hardware! It's hard to believe I met Bunnie Huang (one...

A quiet revolution has begun. We now know enough about the genetic architecture of human intelligence to make predictions based on DNA alone...

Ghost city or $100 billion paradise adjacent to Singapore? Chinese developers build gigantic "Forest City" in Malaysian Special Ec...