Information Processing

This is video of an excellent talk on the human connectome by neuroscientist Bobby Kasthuri of Argonne National Lab and the University of ...

AlphaGo Zero was trained entirely through self-play -- no data from human play was used. The resulting program is the strongest Go player...

In this public lecture Weinberg explains the problems with the two predominant interpretations of quantum mechanics, which he refers to as...

Glenn Loury is Merton P. Stoltz Professor of the Social Sciences, Department of Economics, Brown University. John McWhorter is Associate P...

Frozen Spinach (see picture) Handful of frozen blueberries Small handful of nuts (pecans, almonds, etc.) 1/2 scoop protein powder 1-2...

Hassabis refers to AI in the original Blade Runner, but it is apparent from the sequel that replicants are merely genetically engineered h...

This talk discusses, in terms of information theory, how the hidden layers of a deep neural net (thought of as a Markov chain) create a co...

"A gentle introduction to the principles behind neural networks, including backpropagation. Rated G for general audiences." Th...

Alfred W. McCoy holds the Harrington Chair in History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and is the author of nine books, most recentl...

I've waxed enthusiastic before about Thought Vectors : ... the space of concepts (primitives) used in human language (or equivalent...

Slate Star Codex has a new post entitled Against Individual IQ Worries . I write a lot about the importance of IQ research, and I try to d...

Ken Burns' Vietnam documentary is incredibly good. Possibly the best documentary I've ever seen. It's heartbreaking tragedy, w...

I've been posting preprints on arXiv since its beginning ~25 years ago, and I like to share research results as soon as they are written...

James Thompson (University College London) recently blogged about my prediction that with sample size of order a million genotypes|phenotyp...

Heterodox Academy . In my opinion these are reasonable center-left (Haidt characterizes himself as "liberal left") people whose ...

https://www.cbsnews.com/embed/videos/hillary-clintons-not-very-bright-says-steve-bannon/ [ These embedded clips were annoyingly set to aut...

I was pleasantly surprised that New Yorker editor David Remnick and Berkeley law professor Melissa Murray continue to support the First Amen...

AI researcher Yoshua Bengio gives a nice overview of recent progress in Deep Learning, and provides some perspective on challenges that mu...

This Learning Environment will enable researchers to attack the problem of building an AI that plays StarCraft II at a high level. As obse...

Mathematician Peter Lax  (awarded National Medal of Science, Wolf and Abel prizes), interviewed about his work on the Manhattan Project. H...

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...