Gwern, AIDanbooru2019 released: "A Large-Scale Crowdsourced and Tagged Anime Illustration Dataset" (3.69m images / 108m tags / 3TB total) (gwern.net)
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Gwern, AICrowdsourcing The Best GPT-2-1.5b Poetry (docs.google.com)
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Psychology, Biology"The Catastrophe: Spalding Gray`s brain injury" [TBIs] (newyorker.com)
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Technology, Politics-religion, Economics"‘The intelligence coup of the century’: For decades, the CIA read the encrypted communications of allies and adversaries" [2 internal histories lay bare how the CIA/BND backdoored Crypto AG to achieve global penetration] (washingtonpost.com)
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Biology, Psychology, Politics-religion, Economics"Typologies of Extreme Longevity Myths", Young et al 2010 (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
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Biology, Heritable"Rising Plague" book review (entitledtoanopinion.wordpress.com)
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Statistics, AIPredictive modeling, data leakage, model evaluation (mathbabe.org)
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Misc, Psychology"In 1964, with “Seven Up!” Michael Apted stumbled into making what has become the most profound documentary series in the history of cinema. Fifty-five years later, the project is reaching its conclusion." [regrets & reflections on one of the longest-running documentary projects ever] (nytimes.com)
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Politics-religionFlight and expulsion of Germans (1944–50) (en.wikipedia.org)
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Politics-religion, Economics"The Live-and-Let-Live System in Trench Warfare in World War I", Axelrod 1984 (gwern.net)
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Psychology, Evolution"The reality and evolutionary significance of human psychological sex differences", Archer 2019 (gwern.net)
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Gwern, AI, Fiction2 new GPT-2-1.5b models: Archive of Our Own (Ao3) fanfiction generator, and Video Game Walkthrough generator (twitter.com)
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Misc, Politics-religion, Psychology"The fascinating and ego-killing existence of human wormholes" [on the brevity of contemporary history] (boingboing.net)
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Politics-religion, Economics"This Is Why Your Holiday Travel Is Awful: The long, sordid history of New York’s Penn Station shows how progressives have made it too hard for the government to do big things—and why, believe it or not, Robert Caro is to blame" [tragedy of the anticommons in infrastructure] (politico.com)
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