Information Processing

In a high corner office, overlooking Cambridge and the Harvard campus. How big a role is deep learning playing right now in building ge...

Babbage Podcast by The Economist. (21 minutes. Sorry, can't embed the player.) Economist Senior Editor Kenneth Cukier takes a look...

If I understand correctly the issue is how to realize something like backprop when most of the information flow is feed-forward (as in rea...

Keenan Cornelius is a world class blackbelt in jiujitsu. His skill level is sufficiently high that he can verbalize his tactics in real ti...

Manifold Show Page    YouTube Channel Hossenfelder is a Research Associate at the Frankfurt Institute of Advanced Studies. Her researc...

Compute polygenic EA scores for 3000 US high school students of European ancestry. Track individual progress from 9th to 12th grade, focusin...

Manifold Show Page    YouTube Channel David Skrbina is a philosopher at the University of Michigan. He and Ted Kaczynski published the...

Big chickens ! Modern breeds are about four times larger than those raised in the 1950s. I wonder how many population SDs of change that ...

Polygenic Risk Scores and Genomic Prediction: Q&A with Stephen Hsu In this exclusive interview, Stephen Hsu (Michigan State Unive...

The documentary James Salter: A Sport and a Pastime is now available free to Amazon Prime subscribers. This 54-minute documentary tra...

Remarks at a recent Michigan State University leadership meeting. MSU is currently #1 in the US in annual Department of Energy (DOE) and D...

No, there was never any Russian Collusion. But there was illegal spying on the political opposition by the Obama intelligence services. Wi...

Show Page    YouTube Channel John Hawks on Human Evolution, Ancient DNA, and Big Labs Devouring Fossils – Episode #6 Hawks is the Vi...

David Lubinski kindly shared the recent paper linked below. He and I will both be at ISIR 2019 , the annual meeting of the International Soc...

I've blogged frequently about the impact of the genomic revolution on embryo selection in IVF and precision health ( complex diseas...

I'll be at SXSW for the premiere of this documentary on CRISPR and genetic engineering. First screening is March 10 (Sun) at the Atom ...

Show Page    YouTube Channel Kaiser Kuo of Sinica on Modern China and US-China relations -- Episode #5 Kaiser Kuo is a host and co-f...

See  LIGO Detects Gravity Waves and The Christy Gadget . Techno-pessimists should note that detecting gravity waves is much, much harde...

I have written previously about James Crow and R.A. Fisher . Now to Mootoo Kimura. Wikipedia : Motoo Kimura (木村 資生 Kimura Motō) (Novem...

Dominic Cummings on genomics, healthcare, and innovation in the UK: Britain could contribute huge value to the world by leveraging exis...

When I was in London recently I recorded an interview with editor Tom Standage of The Economist. It's now been released as an Economi...

Chief Science Officer of Genomic Prediction, Dr. Nathan Treff, presents to a packed audience at COGEN 2019 (Paris) on Expanded Preimplant...

Show Page    YouTube Channel Ted Schultz on Ants, Emergent Behavior, and the Molecular Revolution in Systematics – Episode #4 Corey ...

Overly aggressive US foreign and economic policies toward Russia and China are pushing the two into a tighter relationship. US rapprochem...

First UFC victory by a Gracie since 1994! Congratulations to Kron, son of Rickson Gracie. His nickname, Ice Cream Kron, means Cool Under ...