Information Processing

It's been a wonderful year and a wonderful decade. All the best to everyone :-) Be of good cheer -- we will prevail !!! A New...

I really enjoyed this conversation. Previous posts on Bruno Maçães. Originally from Portugal, Bruno Maçães earned a PhD in Political Sc...

When asked what I want for Christmas, I reply: Peace On Earth, Good Will To Men :-) No one ever seems to recognize that this comes from ...

I believe that if the full story is told about Obama-era political spying, Admiral Mike Rogers (former head of NSA) will emerge as a hero...

Almost three years of hard work to bring the truth to light. There was no spying   [ WE STARTED HERE ] Okay, there was spying, but it...

Above, Lev Landau. See also F > L > P > S  and  Out on the Tail . An incredible story from The World of Andrei Sakharov : .....

I received this message over the weekend. Dear Dr. Hsu, With great interest I regularly read your excellent Information Processing Bl...

Dominic Cummings has done it again! The scale of ... triumph cannot be exaggerated. He ... had brought about a complete transformation ...

Steve and Corey talk to Ted about his article from the August issue of Harper’s Magazine, The Last Frontier. Ted describes how Trump’s ele...

Great talk on the use of game engines (virtual worlds) for AI/ML agent training. Even if you are already knowledgeable about this topic, t...

Something to share with your normie (i.e., non-technical) friends :-) I can't point to anything specific I learned from the document...

Realism uber alles, please. Video should start at 34:55, where Mearsheimer tallies up the recent foreign policy and military disasters tha...

Happy Thanksgiving! :-) Steve and Corey talk to Jason Snyder (University of British Columbia) about a fundamental question of neuroscie...

From the NY Review of Books, an article entitled Against Economics , which reviews the recent book by Robert Skidelsky . Money and Gove...

Steve and Corey talk to Tim Searchinger about the unintended consequences of biofuels policies. Searchinger argues that these policies do ...

Note Added  in response to 2020 Twitter mob attack which attempts to misrepresent my views : This post discusses a Science News article t...

The graph at bottom says it all. What is it worth to know that you, or your child, or your embryo, are in the top or bottom risk group ...

Blade Runner (1982) was set in November 2019. Yes, progress has been a bit slow. Blade Runner got one thing very right -- the two mos...

Jamie Metzl joins Corey and Steve to discuss his new book, Hacking Darwin. They discuss detailed predictions for the progress in genomic t...

I'm making my way home from the FUTURE INVESTMENT INITIATIVE 2019  in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia​​​. At the moment I am sitting in a Lufthansa...

Published online today! Genomic Prediction of 16 Complex Disease Risks Including Heart Attack, Diabetes, Breast and Prostate Cancer Loui...