Stephen Hsu’s startup Genomic Predictions analyzes genetic data to predict the chance of diseases like diabetes and cancer — and forecast IQ — For years, hopeful parents pursuing in vitro fertilization (IVF) treatment have had the option of screening embryos for severe heritable diseases like cystic fibrosis, hemophilia, and Tay-Sachs disease. These rare and often deadly conditions, known as monogenic disorders, can be easily identified through genetic screening because they arise due to…

Even when editors disagree sharply, the site’s firm rules enable them to produce accurate entries — Is there an upside to political polarization? A cursory glance at the state of social media would suggest not: Twitter is a cesspool of abuse, Facebook a repository of viral misinformation, and YouTube a broadcaster of conspiracy theories and vicious trolling. Given the lamentable state of political discourse online, one…

To Ought We Automate Poetry and the Art of Automation Can computers write poetry? This is the question I’ve been exploring in my thesis for the past two years. In an attempt to answer this question I developed bot or not, a website that acts as a Turing Test for poetry. Basically, the website has a database of 300 poems…