Information Processing

Thanks to a reader for sending the video to me. The first clip is of Feynman discussing AI, taken from the longer 1985 lecture in the second...

Four recommended discussions, with perspectives largely absent from US media and establishment sources.  1. US, Russia, China, Iran: Geopoli...

  I recently came across this video on YouTube.  Hard to believe it's been over a year since the conference. 2020 versions of these meet...

Yesterday I had cause to look something up related to macroscopic superposition states ("Schrodinger cat states") in Serge Haroche...

George Orwell 1944 Letter foreshadows 1984, and today: ... Already history has in a sense ceased to exist, i.e. there is no such thing ...

   London Review of Books (LRB) lecture: The history of American power, as it is commonly written, is a weighty subject, a matter of milita...

  This is an interesting discussion of PRC Anti-Ship Ballistic Missiles (ASBM), including the DF21, DF26, and DF17 systems. You can set the...

Some time ago I posted about The Grisly Folk by H.G. Wells, an essay on Neanderthals and their encounters with modern humans. See also The ...

Othram , a DNA forensics company I co-founded, continues to solve cold cases around the world.  Murder victim Rodney Peter Johnson was i...

I built this using a $35 1080p web camera and a $20 LED lamp I already had in my office.  I've tested on Google Meet and Zoom, it allo...

  This is a good panel on US-China decoupling, from June 2020. I especially recommend the discussion between 1h and 1h30m. Regarding semic...

This is the published version of our paper which uses tens of thousands of siblings to validate polygenic trait and risk prediction. We show...

This is a new paper which I only recently found the time to write up, although I have been thinking about the ideas off and on for some t...

From the FOUNDATION FOR INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS IN EDUCATION: "FIRE’s mission is to defend and sustain the individual rights of students and ...

The published version of the paper below is now available here: www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-68881-8 Genetic architecture of comple...

Theoretical Physicist Lawrence Krauss writes in the Wall Street Journal. WSJ : In the 1980s, when I was a young professor of physics and as...

Professor Cesario and co-authors have retracted their PNAS paper Officer characteristics and racial disparities in fatal officer-involved sh...

"Steve Hsu is professor of theoretical physics at Michigan State University. Until recently, he was vice president for research and ...