This is the website of Gwern Branwen, writer & independent researcher. I am most interested in psychology, statistics, and technology; I am best known for my writings on the darknet markets & Bitcoin, blinded self-experiments & Quantified Self analyses, dual n-back & spaced repetition, and modafinil.

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Statistics

Crypto/Bitcoin

AI

CS

Psychology

Practical

Politics

Philosophy

Anime

Docs

Radiance (annotated Scholz novel)
Metamagical Themas: “Sanity and Survival” (Hofstadter)
“The Iron Law of Evaluation And Other Metallic Rules” (Rossi)
John Nash on cryptography & P=NP (1955)
“Ups & Downs of the Hope Function In a Fruitless Search”
Wei Dai/Satoshi Nakamoto 2009 Bitcoin emails
“The Crypto-Currency: Bitcoin & its mysterious inventor”
“Shiny balls of Mud” (Gibson)
“Nor the Summers as Golden: Writing Multivolume Works” (Wolfe)
“Loyal to the Group of Seventeen's Story—The Just Man” (Wolfe)
“The Sword of Achilles” (Asimov)
Drugs 2.0: “Your Crack’s in the Post” (Mike Power)
2014 Jed McCaleb MtGox interview
Research Bounties On Documents

Anime docs

Evangelion sources anthology
The Notenki Memoirs (Takeda)
NGE 2.0 Complete Records Collection (CRC)
“Conscience of the Otaking” (Okada)
“Gainax translator Michael House interview”
1996 Hideaki Anno interview
1997 Hideaki Anno interview (French)
“Talk About RahXephon”
“Special Talk: Yutaka Izubuchi x Hideaki Anno”
“Otaku Talk” (Okada, Morikawa etc)
“Earth in My Window” (Murakami)
Utena 2011 Boxset Commentary
“On The Battlefield of ‘Superflat’” (Sawaragi)
“Ero-Anime: Manga Comes Alive” (Sarrazin)

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