Information Processing

I'll be giving the talk below to an audience of oligarchs in Los Angeles next week. This is a video version I made for fun. It cuts off ...

A great ~20 minutes starting at ~1:01 with UFC 155 contender Kevin Lee. Lee talks about self-confidence, growing up in an all-black part o...

Science writer Philip Ball, a longtime editor at Nature, writes a sensible article about the implications of rapidly improving genomic predi...

Intelligence researcher Stuart Ritchie interviewed by genomicists Razib Khan and Spencer Wells. Highly recommended! Thanks to a commenter ...

For mysterious reasons, this old tweet has attracted almost 200k impressions in the last day or so: Nature, Nurture, and Invention: analys...

Comparison to dot com bubble of 2000 probably not appropriate as global pool of startup innovation is order of magnitude larger now. WS...

Scientific publications of the founder and CEO Li Xu. Bloomberg Technology : SenseTime Group Ltd. has raised $600 million from Alibaba ...

Highly recommended -- covers the matches with European Go Champion Fan Hui and 18 time World Champion Lee Sedol. It conveys the human side...

We recently used machine learning techniques to build polygenic predictors for a number of complex traits . One of these traits is bone...

If you use the term Deep State in the current political climate you are liable to be declared a right wing conspiracy nut. But it was Senato...

Harvard geneticist David Reich writes below in the New York Times. The prospect that human ancestry clusters ("races") might diffe...

My office will be recording some of the most interesting of the many talks that happen at MSU. I will post some of my favorites here on th...

Just for fun, Google John Brennan perjury  and follow the trail. Here is former CIA Director Brennan raging at President Trump: When t...

Roger Penrose writes in the Guardian, providing a scientifically precise summary of Hawking's accomplishments as a physicist (worth r...

Risk = space of outcomes and probabilities are known. Uncertainty = probabilities not known, and even space of possibilities may not be kn...

This is a bedtime story I made up for my kids when they were small. See also Isabel and the dwarf king . Once upon a time, there was a tin...

The arXiv paper below looks at stochastic dynamical models that can transform initial (e.g., Gaussian) talent distributions into power law o...

I don't work in Big Tech so I don't know whether his numbers are realistic. If they are realistic, then I'd say careers in Big...

Anyone who is paying attention knows that the Obama FBI/DOJ used massive government surveillance powers against the Trump team during and ...

From 10 Breakthrough Technologies 2018 : One day, babies will get DNA report cards at birth. These reports will offer predictions about...

When I was in Japan in the mid-1990s almost no one outside of a small group of MMA fans had ever heard of BJJ or Gracie Jiujitsu. Sometim...

I am searching for a new postdoc. Please refer applicants to this MSU HR posting . Postdoc in Theoretical Physics and Machine Learning S...

See also The History of Synth Pop . Wikipedia : In 1977 ... he co-wrote and produced the seminal Donna Summer hit single "I Feel L...