Information Processing

Via Jess Riedel , an excellent talk by Naftali Tishby given recently at the Perimeter Institute. The first 15 minutes is a very nice summa...

Vinyl + Vacuum Tubes ... Still unsurpassed for warmth and richness of sound. When I lived in New Haven in the 90s I took the train ...

This is the kind of thing I fantasize about doing after I retire :-)

An updated analysis of discrimination against Asian-American applicants at elite universities. Figures below are from the paper. See also Th...

Another great post from Dom. Once something has become widely understood, it is difficult to recreate or fully grasp the mindset that prev...

It's been clear for well over a year now that the Obama DOJ-FBI-CIA used massive surveillance powers (FISA warrant, and before that, n...

WSJ: "Are they ahead of us here?" UK Expat in Shenzhen: "It's a strange realization, but Yes."

Chart shows the total amount of compute, in petaflop/s-days, used in training (e.g., optimizing an objective function in a high dimensio...

They might all look alike to us, but not to the algos ;-)

A nice profile of AI researcher Jurgen Schmidhuber in Bloomberg. I first met Schmidhuber at SciFoo some years ago . See also Deep Learnin...

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A good long read in The New Yorker on AI, AGI, and all that. Note the article appears in the section "Dept. of Speculation" :-)...

Click this link and listen to the brief conversation. No cheating! Which speaker is human and which is a robot? I wrote about a "str...

Two recent FT podcasts: China and the US fight for AI supremacy  (17min) In the race to develop artificial intelligence technology, Ameri...

Two excellent longform articles. Both highly recommended. One lesson from Jordan Peterson's recent meteoric rise: the self-help market...

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...