Information Processing

At Oregon I was part of an interdisciplinary institute that included theoretical physicists and chemists, mathematicians, and computer sci...

Chris Contag is the founding director of the Institute for Quantitative Health Science and Engineering and the chairperson of the new Depa...

Science reports on MSU's Facility for Rare Isotope Beams, which will probe the properties of nuclear matter. Science : Last month, ...

Some gloomy remarks on the decline of the American Empire. 1. US foreign policy over the last decades has been disastrous -- trillions o...

“Elections have consequences..." -- Barack Obama See 20 years @15 percent: does Harvard discriminate against Asian-Americans? CN...

MSU Global Impact Initiative : 100 new faculty positions, mostly filled in last 3 years. $300M+ in new research buildings, new department...

In a previous post Half of all jobs (> $60k/y) coding related? I wrote In the future there will be two kinds of jobs. Workers will ...

Hmm... how do they compute the Net Merit and GTPI ? (But, but, what about all of that missing heritability ?) See also Applied genomi...

I'm in Mountain View to give a talk at 23andMe. Their latest funding round was $250M on a (reported) valuation of $1.5B. If I jus...

I need to replace my old iPhone 6, and, predictably, this led me down the rabbit hole of learning about mobile phones, the mobile industry, ...

MIT Technology Review reports on our startup Genomic Prediction . Some basic points worth clarifying: 1. GP's first product, announ...

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...