Links

Genetics:

• Everything Is Heritable:

  • “GWAS of 78,308 individuals identifies new loci and genes influencing human intelligence”, Sniekers et al 2017

  • “Metabolic basis to Sherpa altitude adaptation”, Horscroft et al 2017 (media)

  • “Genetic Predisposition to Obesity and Medicare Expenditures”, Wehby et al 2017

  • “Behavioural individuality in clonal fish arises despite near-identical rearing conditions”, Bierbach et al 2017 (What is non-shared-environment? It’s random development noise.)

  • “Babies From Skin Cells? Prospect Is Unsettling to Some Experts” (progress towards IES)

AI:

• “Inferring and Executing Programs for Visual Reasoning”, Johnson et al 2017

• “Bayesian Reinforcement Learning: A Survey”, Ghavamzadeh et al 2016

  • reinforcement learning research is coming out too frequently to single out more than a few papers; see subscribe to the /r/ReinforcementLearning & /r/DecisionTheory subreddits for updates

• “Deep Voice 2: Multi-Speaker Neural Text-to-Speech”, Arik et al 2017 (another one already)

• “CaloGAN: Simulating 3D High Energy Particle Showers in Multi-Layer Electromagnetic Calorimeters with Generative Adversarial Networks”, Paganini et al 2017

• “DeepXplore: Automated Whitebox Testing of Deep Learning Systems”, Pei et al 2017

• “Visual Semantic Planning using Deep Successor Representations”, Zhu et al 2017 (video)

• “AIXIjs: A Software Demo for General Reinforcement Learning”, Aslanides2017 (source repo; live demos); demo of some AI risk scenarios using AIXIjs: “Categorizing Wireheading in Partially Embedded Agents”, Majha et al 2019

• “When Will AI Exceed Human Performance? Evidence from AI Experts”, Grace et al 2017

• “Sukiyaki in French style: A novel system for transformation of dietary patterns”, Kazama et al 2017 (word2vec)

• Matters of Scale:

  • “Hard Mixtures of Experts for Large Scale Weakly Supervised Vision”, Gross et al 2017 (scaling CNNs to 500m+ images by sharding)

Statistics/Meta-Science:

• “Proceeding From Observed Correlation to Causal Inference: The Use of Natural Experiments”, Rutter2007

• “Daryl Bem Proved ESP Is Real—which means science is broken” (Apparently Bem was serious. But one man’s modus ponens is another man’s modus tollens.)

• New n-body choreographies have been discovered: “152 new families of Newtonian periodic planar three-body orbits”

Politics/religion:

• “Self-Censorship in Public Discourse: A Theory of ‘Political Correctness’ and Related Phenomena”, Loury1994

• “Some Case Studies in Early Field Growth” (how did “bioethics” so successfully hijack medicine & biology?)

Psychology/biology:

• “The Effects of Education, Personality, and IQ on Earnings of High-Ability Men”, Gensowski et al 2011

• On child psychopathy

• “Cleaning up the big muddy: a meta-analytic review of the determinants of escalation of commitment”, Sleesman2012 (Sunk cost bias may not be any one thing but a variety of things driving the same apparent behavior in various contexts, especially organizational.)

Technology:

• “Eternity in six hours: Intergalactic spreading of intelligent life and sharpening the Fermi paradox”, Armstrong & Sandberg2013

• “An empirical study on the correctness of formally verified distributed systems” (Who verifies the verifiers?)

• “A Thinking Ape’s Critique of Trans-Simianism”

• List of Greek and Roman architectural records

• “The Tinkerings of Robert Noyce: How the Sun Rose on Silicon Valley”, Wolfe1983

• “carpalx—design your own keyboard” (Simulated annealing for optimizing keyboard layout.)

Economics:

• “The Fall Of Intrade And The Business Of Betting On Real Life”

• “Economies of density in e-commerce: a study of Amazon’s fulfillment center network”, Houde et al 2017 (Amazon’s sales tax vs shipping cost tradeoff in scaling warehouses)

• “Algorithmic Entities”, LoPucki2017 (followup to Bayern2016: decentralized autonomous corporations are doable de jure and not just de facto.)

• Richer people are happier

Philosophy:

• “What Do Philosophers Believe?”, Bourget & Chalmers2013

• “Carvaka”

Fiction:

• “Alpha (A translation of Genesis 1)” (word2vec for computer-assisted creation of rhyming definitions & Book of Genesis with only words starting with “a”)

Books

Nonfiction:

• Indiscrete Thoughts, Gian-Carlo Rota1997 (review)

Fiction:

• Unsong, Scott Alexander (review)

Film/TV

Animated:

• Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood (review)

• Blood Blockade Battlefront (review)

Live-action:

• Breaking Bad (review)

Music

Touhou:

• “マーキュリー” (中迫酒菜、茶畑、水橋ゆっきー; 私の紅魔館 {C91}) [folk]

• “おやすみ” (中迫酒菜、茶畑、水橋ゆっきー; 私の紅魔館 {C91}) [folk]

• “酔夢奇譚” (SOUND HOLIC; TOHO PIANISM III {C91}) [classical]

• “Desire=desirE” (SOUND HOLIC; TOHO PIANISM III {C91}) [classical]

• “Lost ■” (RD-Sounds feat. めらみぽっぷ; Void {C91}) [vocal]

• “感情の摩天楼 [Tropical House]” (Spacelectro; 東方インストEDM3 {C90}) [house]

• “The White Sea” (LEMiao feat. 瑶山百霊 (Yaoshanbailing); 無名の楽園 〜 Piano Arrange Collection Vol.1 {C91}) [classical]

• “無名の楽園” (LEMiao feat. 瑶山百霊 (Yaoshanbailing); 無名の楽園 〜 Piano Arrange Collection Vol.1 {C91}) [classical]

• “The Gensokyo The Gods Loved” (LEMiao feat. 流月; 無名の楽園 〜 Piano Arrange Collection Vol.1 {C91}) [classical]

• “Rosarium (Piano Arrange Ver.)” (LEMiao feat. 瑶山百霊 (Yaoshanbailing); 無名の楽園 〜 Piano Arrange Collection Vol.1 {C91}) [classical]

• “Innocent Memory (Piano Arrange Ver.)” (LEMiao feat. 瑶山百霊 (Yaoshanbailing); 無名の楽園 〜 Piano Arrange Collection Vol.1 {C91}) [classical]

• “埃に埋もれた詩” (LEMiao feat. 瑶山百霊 (Yaoshanbailing); 無名の楽園 〜 Piano Arrange Collection Vol.1 {C91}) [classical]

Doujin:

• “マトーヤの洞窟” (いんやん; Life of Ishgard {C91}) [electronic]

• “White Bleath and Brilliant Star” (Syuichi.K; Life of Ishgard {C91}) [electronic]

Vocaloid:

• “OPENINGTHEME” (Calla Soiled feat. Miku; THREELAYERSTRUCTURETHEORY {2012}) [trance]