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The critics of Shorism are myopic
Politico has a story up about infighting in Democratic party politics, Drinking Enemies: Two Cocktail Parties that Reveal the Schism in the Millennial Left. It’s pretty interesting. On the merits, […]
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Erik Hoel: neuroscience is dead, long live neuroscience!
Today, on the Unsupervised Learning podcast Razib talks to Erik Hoel, author of the novel The Revelations, and host of The Intrinsic Perspective Substack. Hoel is a neuroscientist at Tufts who is interested in the problem of consciousness. Hoel admits…
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Nikolai Yakovenko: a Twitter engineer on machine learning and his former company’s prospects
Listen now (78 min) | Deep neural networks, why do they matter for social media?
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Being anti-Brown is anti-Hindu
In one section of the Washington Post piece Cal State banned caste discrimination. Two Hindu professors sued an activist professor states: Sundaram, who supports making caste a protected characteristic, said critiquing Hinduism — even in a country where Hindus are a minority — is not akin to promoting Hinduphobia. She said most discrimination against Hindus…
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Open Thread – 10/31/2022 – Gene Expression
Reading two books this month in prep for two podcasts, The Culture Transplant: How Migrants Make the Economies They Move To a Lot Like the Ones They Left and Don’t […]
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Caste and California: the lawsuits are in!
Cal State banned caste discrimination. Two Hindu professors sued: Two Hindu professors are suing the head of their university system to oppose the addition of caste to an anti-discrimination policy amid a broader battle over whether colleges should explicitly call out caste-based bias. The California State University System professors argue that naming caste as a…
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Anatolia!
In case you haven’t seen, in October I posted three essays and one podcast on Anatolia’s history and genetics: 1. Ararat’s long shadow: Asia Minor’s major impact on humanity 2. […]
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The two Pleistocene people of Europe
Dual ancestries and ecologies of the Late Glacial Palaeolithic in Britain: Genetic investigations of Upper Palaeolithic Europe have revealed a complex and transformative history of human population movements and ancestries, […]
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The Turkification of Anatolia: tales of Rome’s last conquerors
1,000 years on the western frontier of the Turkic world
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Jonathan Haidt: Social media kills the internet utopia
Jonathan Haidt is the author of The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure, The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion and The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding…
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Anatolia over 10,000 years
Listen now (60 min) | From first farmers to the Turks
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Rishi and the past
Rishi Sunak will lead the nation just below India in the world GDP nations. Racial or cultural triumphalism is gauche, so nice to see that that’s low-key so far. But I personally hope that this will be an opportunity for Indian elites to fixate less on the British past and engage more forthrightly with their…
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Religion in China, India and the West
On this monologue episode of Unsupervised Learning, Razib considers the different roles religion plays in various world civilizations. To explore this topic, he contrasts religion in the West (which includes Christendom and the Dar-al-Islam), on the In…
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Erik Hoel: neuroscience is dead, long live neuroscience!
Listen now (76 min) | The problem of consciousness, the utility of dreams and writing on the web
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The Genetic Correlation strikes again
How the ‘Black Death’ Left Its Genetic Mark on Future Generations: They found DNA in the skeletons of 198 Danes who lived between 850 and 1800. Mutations in immune genes […]
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Genetic distances across the world
There was some discussion online about variation among South Asians. I decided to compute a few pairwise Fst statistics (measures between population variation) with some South Asian, European and East Asian populations (along with Iranians). I plot them below in two graphs. Also I ran Treemix. I don’t have any major conclusion, just draw your…
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Genetic distances across the world
There was some discussion online about variation among South Asians. I decided to compute a few pairwise Fst statistics (measures between population variation) with some South Asian, European and East Asian populations (along with Iranians). I plot them below in two graphs. Also I ran Treemix. I don’t have any major conclusion, just draw your…
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Hittite Words, Byzantine Walls: what the West as we know it owes Anatolia’s empires
2,000 years of Anatolian biological continuity and cultural significance
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Open Thread – 10/14/2022 – Brown Pundits
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Oliver Traldi: welcome to the intellectual dark web
On this episode of Unsupervised Learning Razib discusses approaching politics through philosophy, political philosophy, and what it’s like being an excessively online academic in 2022 with Oliver Traldi. Currently working on a book on understanding pol…