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Open Thread – 3/19/2024 – Brown Pundits
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Razib Khan
Razib Khan is a Bangladeshi-American geneticist and writer. He is co-founder of Brown Pundits and runs Unsupervised Learning, a Substack on population genetics, evolution, history, and politics with more than 55,000 subscribers, alongside the accompanying podcast. He has blogged at Gene Expression since the early 2000s. His writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Guardian, National Review, Slate, India Today, Quillette, and UnHerd. He is Director of Operations at FUTO in Austin, Texas, and co-founder of GenRAIT, a life-sciences platform company. Earlier in his career he developed ancestry algorithms for Gene by Gene, the Genographic Project, and Insitome, and was among the first employees at Embark Veterinary. Born in Dhaka and raised in upstate New York and eastern Oregon, he holds degrees in biochemistry (2000) and biology (2006) from the University of Oregon, and undertook doctoral work in genomics and genetics at UC Davis. He lives in Austin. View all posts by Razib Khan
hmmm, election season in india. bjp is becoming big and some of its extreme elements are being left out. many are seeing either a ginger group like the ‘tea party’ or even a second ‘hindu’ party. interesting times…
good morning, my prediction of agi coming soon has now has many mainstream thinkers betting the same. But I was first here.
Kind of random but half-way through reading Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children, its a fun read especially if you are into the stuff we discuss here you will enjoy it.
Since the story runs parallel through post-Independence history of India / Pakistan and the creation of Bangladesh. And the main character’s childhood seems loosely based on Salman himself who was also born in 1947 just a bit before independence so the details are very well fleshed out.
AGI in 5 yrs seems likely, I can think of a possible way perhaps. But I am sure, they will also find it. But with more compute available in next 10 yrs, it will easily be found.
anyone following tam bram backlash at t m krishna ( one of them , ofcourse)? at last the tam brams have gotten courage to speak against e v r aka periar.
Any news on Indian ancient DNA.
New pottery finds from a dig on the coast of Queensland 2-3000years old have turned over the longstanding assumption that the Indigenous Australians did not create pottery.
my prediction of congress trying dmk style politics is now become clear. Anti Hindu, trying to bring new caste reservations breaking 50% barrier. They have gone even further, promising wealth distribution.
Is gnxp really gone now?
wtf, just checked and seems that is true, whatever happened Razib?