Information Processing

This interview with the Irish Times (not Ezra Klein) is much better than the one I originally linked to below. ############### Ezra...

A VC-funded genomics startup I am familiar with is searching for someone to apply computational methods to complex human traits (e.g., po...

The paper below has something like 200 authors from over 100 institutions worldwide. Many people claimed just a few years ago (or more rec...

The joke below is making the rounds on Chinese social media. See  Struggles at Yale  and  Baizuo = Libtard . Also circulating on Chinese...

Rumor has it that Bannon will start a Breitbart TV channel to rival Fox News. Given the success of YouTube- / pod-casters like Joe Rogan (5...

China’s embrace of embryo selection raises thorny questions     Nature vol 548, pp272–274 (2017) Fertility centres are making a mass...

OpenAI has created a Dota 2 bot that plays at the level of human professionals. Humans can look forward to coexistence with increasingly c...

These authors extrapolate from existing data to predict sample sizes needed to identify SNPs which explain a large portion of heritability i...

Note Added  in response to 2020 Twitter mob attack which attempts to misrepresent my views : This blog post discusses the firing of James D...

Watch a few minutes of this Bloomberg interview and I think you'll agree he's both sincere and well-meaning, if a bit naive about ...

Note Added  in response to 2020 Twitter mob attack which attempts to misrepresent my views : This blog post discusses the firing of James D...

James Damore, Harvard PhD* in Systems Biology, and (until last week) an engineer at Google, was fired for writing this memo: Google’s Id...

The figures below are from the recent paper Robots and Jobs: Evidence from US Labor Markets , by Acemoglu and Restrepo. VoxEU discussion :...

Data from the  2016 NSF report on global Science & Engineering Indicators  shows the rapid rise of China in both academic science and ap...

This is a Caltech TEDx talk from 2013, in which Doris Tsao discusses her work on the neuroscience of human face recognition. Recently I bl...

It's only a matter of time... Note this kind of work can be done very secretly and with very modest resources -- it does not require ...

Prior to the modern era of genomics, it was claimed (without good evidence) that divergences between isolated human populations were almost ...

This paper suggests that some genetic variants which increase risk of coronary artery disease (CAD) have been maintained in the population b...

Under what circumstances should humans override algorithms? From what I have read I doubt that a hybrid team of human + AlphGo would pe...

Largest component of genetic variation is a N-S cline (phenotypic N-S gradient discussed here ). Variance accounted for by second (E-W) PC ...

The Loveless (free now on Amazon Prime ) was the first film directed by Kathryn Bigelow (Point Break, Zero Dark Thirty) and also the fir...

These neural nets reached super-human (better than an average human) performance on tasks requiring relational reasoning. See the short vi...

See also AI knows best: AlphaGo "like a God" : Humans are going to have to learn to "trust the AI" without understan...

Romero is 40 years old! He is a former World Champion and Olympic silver medalist for Cuba in freestyle wrestling. Watch the video -- it...

I'm old enough to have been aware of Donald Trump since before the publication of Art of the Deal in 1987. In these decades, during w...