Information Processing

  The guest for this episode is a recent graduate of Harvard College, now pursuing a STEM PhD at another elite university. We have withheld ...

I've been asked to write something about PRC military buildup and a potential Taiwan (TW) conflict.  1. My perspective and bona fides: M...

Some recent tweets which might be of interest :-) Tsinghua University (dad's alma mater) seems to be the only academic institution in ...

You may have noticed the post earlier today about the episode with Amy Chua of Yale Law School. That episode has been removed by request of ...

This is a short review of our recent work on black hole information for European Physics Letters. A Brief History of Hawking's Informati...

  Richard Lowery is a professor of finance at the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas, Austin. In this conversation, he de...

  As promised , video from my talk in Amsterdam.  Seminar at the Institute of Physics, University of Amsterdam, 17 Jun 2022.  Title: Quantum...

Putting this tweet thread here for future reference. If you read this blog you may want to follow me on Twitter as I sometimes say things th...

  Tim Palmer is Royal Society Research Professor in Climate Physics, and a Senior Fellow at the Oxford Martin Institute. He is interested i...

This is a balanced and informative article in WIRED, excerpted from author Rachael Pells' forthcoming book ,  Genomics: How Genome Seque...

  Fascinating director's commentary by Ridley Scott. Video cued to start at a point where Scott talks about the conceptual background fo...

  Kishore Mahbubani is Distinguished Fellow at the Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore.  Kishore enjoyed two distinct ...

See published version:  https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-022-22637-8 Informal summary : We built a polygenic health index using risk p...

Last week I was in Amsterdam and Utrecht to give seminars on quantum hair and black hole information at the Universities of Utrecht and Amst...

  Gregory Clark is Distinguished Professor of Economics at UC-Davis. He is an editor of the European Review of Economic History, chair of th...

  Von Neumann: The Interaction of Mathematics and Computing, by Stan Ulam.  See  A History of Computing in the Twentieth Century , Edited...

This 20 minute podcast segment is very well done. Congratulations to science journalist Teresa Carey.     Startup offers genetic testing ...

  Transcript .  This interview with John Mearsheimer was conducted in 2020 on the original Manifold podcast with Corey Washington and Steve ...

A nice article in Bloomberg describing polygenic embryo selection in IVF: DNA Testing for Embryos Promises to Predict Genetic Diseases ,...

Theodore A. Postol is professor emeritus of Science, Technology, and International Security at the Massachusetts Institute of Technolog...

  Center for Gravitation and Cosmology, Yangzhou University (May 16 2022)  There were several good questions at the end, and a discussion of...

  May 5 2022 talk in the international seminar series Quantum Gravity and All of That .  The talk is pitched at a slightly more expert audie...

  Raghu Parthasarathy is the Alec and Kay Keith Professor of Physics at the University of Oregon. His research focuses on biophysics, explor...

This is a long interview I did recently with Cactus Chu, a math prodigy turned political theorist and podcaster. (Unfortunately I can't ...

My research group contributed a chapter to this new book on Complex Trait Prediction (see below). The book is somewhat unique, covering a...