Information Processing

  This is a recent interview with the PRC CDC head, which includes:  1. Discussion of various vaccines. He confirms that their vaccine(s) ar...

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...

The videos below are about Lianda, a wartime university located in Kunming that was formed by the merger of Peking University, Tsinghua Univ...

After PPP correction the PRC economy is significantly larger than the US economy, so it's important to understand what nominal GDP and i...

This lifestyle channel delivers daily vignettes from China (~5 minutes each), with an occasional episode from Taiwan. They have English su...

Both panels below are, in my opinion, realistic and focused on the key issues. Good discussion of competition in military technology is, in ...

Professor Di of Renmin University (a top university in Beijing, closely associated with the CCP) is now world famous, after Tucker Carlson a...

  This is a good discussion of DeepMind's AlphaFold 2 , a big breakthrough in protein folding. The details of how AlphaFold 2 works have...

Thursday and Friday (Dec 3 and 4) I will participate in this Ditchley Foundation event , in honor of Henry Kissinger. I'm unsure wheth...

Happy Thanksgiving! :-) Macroscopic Superposition States in Isolated Quantum Systems   https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.11661    Roman V. Bun...

  Post-election observations from Bruno Maçães.  TrumpTV? Spectacle over Substance in 21st century American politics? Ivanka 2024? The Meme ...

Some analysis of the crap polling and poor election prediction leading up to Nov 2020. See earlier post (and comments): Election 2020: quant...

Apologies for my recent inactivity. I've been busy finishing several projects and also distracted by our recent election. Possibly the b...

This recent Cell paper received a lot of attention as it suggests that CRISPR editing can result in chromosome loss. It was cited in the r...

Othram , a DNA forensics company I co-founded, has helped to solve another cold case.  Montana Girl, 5, Was Abducted Near Home an...

The latest from the always entertaining David Goldman , who writes (wrote?) the Spengler column at Asia Times.   See 2018 post David Goldman...

The paper below (senior author at Johns Hopkins University) builds a composite polygenic risk score for mortality (longevity). Outliers (top...

These are two replications of our 2017  height prediction results (also recently validated using sibling data ) that I neglected to blog ab...

Putting these here for future reference. From comments: At minimum the evidence is strong for a CIA JFK coverup -- see last video, for exam...

I think we should ascribe very high uncertainty to polling results in this election, for a number of reasons including the shy Trump voter e...

  This is an excellent discussion of the US-China geopolitical situation with Professor  Lanxin Xiang . Xiang was trained at SAIS (JHU PhD),...

Othram , a DNA forensics company I co-founded, has solved another cold case.  Carla Walker of Fort Worth TX was tortured, raped, and mur...

  This is a recent panel discussion on genomic prediction, and applications in IVF and health systems (e.g., early screening of high risk in...

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...