Information Processing

  Steve discusses the AI competition between Microsoft and Google, the competition between the U.S. and China in STEM, China’s new IVF polic...

  Steve discusses Large Language Model AIs such as ChatGPT.  0:00 How do LLMs work?  10:22 Impact of ChatGPT  15:21 AI landscape  24:13 Hall...

  Dominic Cummings is a major historical figure in UK politics. He helped save the Pound Sterling, led the Vote Leave campaign, Got Brexit D...

  Sahil Lavingia founded Gumroad at the age of 19 and built it into a leading digital commerce platform. He is the author of The Minimalist ...

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...

  Geoffrey Miller is an American evolutionary psychologist, author, and a professor of psychology at the University of New Mexico. He is kno...

This is an elementary lecture for students which discusses quantum measurement from the modern perspective of decoherence. Decoherence and...

  Anna I. Krylov (Russian: Анна Игоревна Крылова) is Professor of Chemistry at the University of Southern California (USC), working in the f...

  Abdel Abdellaoui is Assistant Professor of Genetics in the Department of Psychiatry, Amsterdam UMC, University of Amsterdam.  Abdel Abdell...

Smart Leftists vs Dumb Leftists: Who qualifies as former? How about Soros, the top donor to the Democratic Party? A few years ago I gave a t...

From this interview with Robert Nozick : I had been at Harvard as an Assistant Professor in the mid-​sixties and then came back in 1969 as a...

  Richard Sander is Jesse Dukeminier Professor at UCLA Law School. AB Harvard, JD, PhD (Economics) Northwestern.  Sander has studied the str...

New results from Taiwan Precision Medicine Initiative, a mega-biobank (>500k already genotyped). Diabetes predictor trained in TW as powe...

  Peter Byrne is an investigative reporter and science writer based in Northern California. His popular biography, The Many Worlds of Hugh E...

This is a very nice article on polygenic embryo screening and its prospects in Israel. Worth reading in full. Leading statistical genetici...

  Jeffrey D. Sachs is a world-renowned economics professor, bestselling author, innovative educator, and global leader in sustainable develo...

The state of Michigan required all public HS seniors to take the SAT last year (~91k out of ~107k total seniors in the state). This generate...

The transcript excerpts below are from my recent conversation with Brian Chau (aka Cactus Chu) on his podcast. Segments begin at 47m and 1h0...

New paper! Quantum Hair in Electrodynamics and Gravity   Xavier Calmet, Stephen D. H. Hsu  arXiv:2209.12798  We demonstrate the ex...

  Rob Henderson grew up in foster homes in California, joined the Air Force at 17, attended Yale on the G.I. Bill, and is currently a Gates ...

This is a new paper which uses Genomic Prediction IVF family data, including genotyped embryo samples. Sibling Variation in Phenotype and G...

  Professor Goldstein recently retired after 20 years of service on the faculty of the U.S. Naval War College (NWC). During his career at NW...

  Dwarkesh did a fantastic job with this interview. He read the scientific papers on genomic prediction and his questions are very insightfu...

  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...