Wednesday, June 30, 2021

Six Ways From Sunday: Tucker vs NSA

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  Chuck Schumer: You take on the intelligence community, they have six ways from Sunday to get back at you .   Tucker Carlson has potent...
Tuesday, June 29, 2021

Machine Learning Prediction of Biomarkers from SNPs and of Disease Risk from Biomarkers in the UK Biobank (published version)

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This is the published version of our MedRxiv preprint discussed back in April 2021. It is in the special issue Application of Genomic Techn...
Sunday, June 27, 2021

Othram CEO David Mittelman interview with Razib Khan

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  Razib Khan interviews Othram CEO David Mittelman.  See  Othram: the future of DNA forensics for some lab photos and analysis of relative ...
Saturday, June 19, 2021

LEO SAR, hypersonics, and the death of the naval surface ship

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  Duh... Let's spend ~$10B each for new aircraft carriers that can be easily monitored from space and attacked using hypersonic missiles...
Monday, June 14, 2021

Japan and The Quad (Red Line geostrategy podcast)

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  I recommend this episode of The Red Line geostrategy podcast: Japan and The Quad .  Serious analysts from the Asia-Pacific region (e.g., A...
Sunday, June 13, 2021

An Inconvenient Minority: The Attack on Asian American Excellence and the Fight for Meritocracy (Kenny Xu)

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Kenny Xu is a brave young man. His new book An Inconvenient Minority: The Attack on Asian American Excellence and the Fight for Meritocrac...
Thursday, June 03, 2021

Macroscopic Superpositions in Isolated Systems (talk video + slides)

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  This is video of a talk based on the paper Macroscopic Superpositions in Isolated Systems   R. Buniy and S. Hsu  arXiv:2011.11661, to a...
Wednesday, May 26, 2021

How Dominic Cummings And The Warner Brothers Saved The UK

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Photo above shows the white board in the Prime Minister's office which Dominic Cummings and team (including the brothers Marc and Ben Wa...
Saturday, May 22, 2021

Feynman Lectures on the Strong Interactions (Jim Cline notes)

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Professor James Cline (McGill University) recently posted a set of lecture notes from Feynman's last Caltech course, on quantum chromo...
Sunday, May 16, 2021

Ditchley Foundation meeting: China Today and Tomorrow

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China Today and Tomorrow   20 MAY 2021 - 21 MAY 2021  This Ditchley conference will focus on China, its internal state and sense of s...
Wednesday, May 12, 2021

Neural Tangent Kernels and Theoretical Foundations of Deep Learning

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A colleague recommended this paper to me recently. See also earlier post Gradient Descent Models Are Kernel Machines . Neural Tangent Kerne...
Saturday, May 08, 2021

Three Thousand Years and 115 Generations of 徐 (Hsu / Xu)

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Over the years I have discussed  economic historian Greg Clark's groundbreaking work on the persistence of social class. Clark found t...
Sunday, May 02, 2021

40 Years of Quantum Computation and Quantum Information

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This is a great article on the 1981 conference which one could say gave birth to quantum computing / quantum information. Technology Revie...