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Friday, April 28, 2017

Alone on a Mountain

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Reminds me of my years in Oregon :-) See also Off the Grid in British Columbia .

CNGB: China National Gene Bank

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Unbeknownst to me I've been skyping with a collaborator who has been working from this location. SCMP : China opens first national ...
Wednesday, April 26, 2017

Amazon unstoppable?

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Over 50% of Americans, and 70% with household income over $100k, are Amazon Prime users. Amazon is killing malls, retailers, brands, and...
Friday, April 21, 2017

Von Neumann and Realpolitik

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"Right, as the world goes, is only in question between equals in power. The strong do what they will and the weak suffer what they must...
Tuesday, April 18, 2017

Michael Anton: Inside the Trump White House

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Michael Anton is head of strategic communications for the National Security Council. See related Politico article . The Atlantic : Mich...
Sunday, April 16, 2017

Yann LeCun on Unsupervised Learning

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This is a recent Yann LeCun talk at CMU. Toward the end he discusses recent breakthroughs using GANs (Generative Adversarial Networks, see...
Saturday, April 15, 2017

History of Bayesian Neural Networks

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This talk gives the history of neural networks in the framework of Bayesian inference. Deep learning is (so far) quite empirical in nature...
Friday, April 14, 2017

The Rise and Fall of the Meritocracy (BBC podcast)

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British socialist Michael Young coined the term meritocracy in his 1958 dystopian satire The Rise of the Meritocracy . He realized even t...
Thursday, April 13, 2017

Penalized regression from summary statistics

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One of the difficulties in genomics is that when DNA donors are consented for a study, the agreements generally do not allow sharing (aggreg...
Sunday, April 09, 2017

National Geographic: How Humans Are Shaping Our Own Evolution

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See also A Brief History of the Future, as told to the Masters of the Universe and Super-Intelligent Humans are Coming . National Geog...
Thursday, April 06, 2017

Chomsky: Russia conspiracy theories "a joke"

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Chomsky on the current media / left obsession with anti-Russia conspiracy theories. I guess he and Trump are both Putin puppets... Oops, e...
Wednesday, April 05, 2017

Sex Differences In The Adult Human Brain: UK Biobank data

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Male brains exhibit larger variance across all morphological measures. (Don't tell Larry Summers! ;-) Note, as far as I can tell the a...
Tuesday, April 04, 2017

Susan Rice and U.S. person information "derived solely from raw SIGINT"

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I hope this scandal will focus additional attention on massive bulk collection and preservation of private communications of US citizens by ...
Tuesday, March 28, 2017

The brute tyranny of g-loading: Lawrence Krauss and Joe Rogan

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I love Joe Rogan -- he has an open, inquisitive mind and is a sharp observer of life and human society. See, for example, this interview w...

Just Like Heaven

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Musical intermission. Choose your favorite! For me it's not the same without that 80's synth...
Saturday, March 25, 2017

Robots Proctor Online Exams

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For background on this subject, see How to beat online exam proctoring . It is easy for clever students to beat existing security systems...
Thursday, March 23, 2017

The weirdest academic seminar ever

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... but in a good way! :-) Beijing-based economist and rapper Andrew Dougherty ("Big Daddy Dough") presents The Redprint : Rhyme...

With Kasparov in NYC

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We were together on a panel talking about AI. I challenged him to a quick game of blitz but he declined ;-)  The moderator is  Josh Wolfe...

Nunes, Trump, Obama and Who Watches the Watchers?

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I've made this separate entry from the update to my earlier discussion FISA, EO 12333, Bulk Collection, and All That . I believe the N...
Tuesday, March 21, 2017

FISA, EO 12333, Bulk Collection, and All That

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Some basic questions for the experts: 1. To what extent does EO12333 allow surveillance of US individuals without FISA warrant? 2. To...
Monday, March 20, 2017

Everything is Heritable

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The figure above comes from the paper below. A quick glance shows that for pairs of individuals: 1. Increasing genetic similarity implies i...
Wednesday, March 15, 2017

Ginormous Neural Nets and Networks of Networks

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Now that we have neural nets that are good at certain narrow tasks, such as image or speech recognition, playing specific games, translating...
Sunday, March 12, 2017

Dalton Conley: The Bell Curve Revisited and The Genome Factor

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Dalton Conley is the Henry Putnam University Professor of Sociology at Princeton University. He is unique in having earned a second PhD in ...
Wednesday, March 08, 2017

"We need to encourage real diversity of thought in the professoriate"

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John Etchemendy is a former Provost of Stanford University. The Threat From Within ... Over the years, I have watched a growing intol...

Examples of Perverse Incentives and Replication in Science

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In an earlier post ( Perverse Incentives and Replication in Science ), I wrote: Here's a depressing but all too common pattern in scie...
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