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created: 28 Jan 2015; modified: 11 Sep 2019; status: finished; confidence: log; importance: 0
This is the February 2015 edition of the gwern.net
newsletter; previous, January 2015.
This is a summary of the revision-history RSS feed, overlapping with Changelog & including material from /r/gwern/. This broadcast has been brought to you by Royal Kooparillo and my donors on Gratipay.
Writings
- Darknet markets arrests: split out of Silk Road page & began bringing up-to-date with all known incidents across all markets
- electric vs stove kettle boiling-time analysis: collected some simple data on my kettles & demonstrated some statistics tools on the dataset like a Bayesian measurement-error model
Media
Links
Everything is heritable:
“Genetic contributions to variation in general cognitive function: a meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies in the CHARGE consortium (n=53949)”
, Davies et al 2015“Genetic influence on family socioeconomic status and children’s intelligence”
, Trzaskowski et al 2014“Comparative analysis of the domestic cat genome reveals genetic signatures underlying feline biology and domestication”
, Montague et al 2014 (commentary; complex behavioral traits can be modified by relatively small shifts in many genes)
Politics/religion:
“What Politicians Believe About Their Constituents: Asymmetric Misperceptions and Prospects for Constituency Control”
, Broockman & Skovron 2013“The Deflationist: How Paul Krugman found politics”
/“Paul Krugman Is Brilliant, but Is He Meta-Rational?”
“Father, Son and the Double Helix”
(Gender politics of maternity/paternity DNA testing in India.)- ‘Wittgenstein’s
“Remarks on Frazer’s Golden Bough”
’ “North Korean border guards prefer married women?”
(commentary)
Statistics/AI/meta-science:
“50 Years of Deep Learning and Beyond: an Interview with Jürgen Schmidhuber”
“Interpreting observational studies: why empirical calibration is needed to correct p-values”
, Schuemie et al 2012“Large-Scale Simultaneous Hypothesis Testing: The Choice of a Null Hypothesis”
, Efron 2004
Psychology/biology:
“The Trip Treatment: Research into psychedelics, shut down for decades, is now yielding exciting results”
“Intelligence: Is it the epidemiologists’ elusive ‘fundamental cause’ of social class inequalities in health?”
, Gottfredson 2004“Low-dose paroxetine exposure causes lifetime declines in male mouse body weight, reproduction and competitive ability as measured by the novel organismal performance assay”
, Gaukler et al 2015“There is Only Awe”
(on Jaynes’s Bicameral Mind Theory)“A Novel BHLHE41 Variant is Associated with Short Sleep and Resistance to Sleep Deprivation in Humans”
, Pellegrino et al 2014“Refugees of the Modern World: The ‘electrosensitive’ are moving to a cellphone-free town. But is their disease real?”
“How fast does the Grim Reaper walk? Receiver operating characteristics curve analysis in healthy men aged 70 and over”
, Stanaway et al 2011
Technology:
“If the NSA has been hacking everything, how has nobody seen them coming?”
“Freedom Zero”
(“In the long run, the utility of all non-Free software approaches zero. All non-Free software is a dead end.”
)“The Well Deserved Fortune of Satoshi Nakamoto, Bitcoin creator, Visionary and Genius”
- Project Iceworm
“The Postmodern Ponzi Scheme: Empirical Analysis of High-Yield Investment Programs”
, Moore 2012- Reed Richards Is Useless
Economics:
“Automation and Employment”
, Richard Posner“Does Affirmative Action Do What It Should?”
“Brickyard Blues: Numbed by cold, pelted by rain, enduring smashed fingers and toes, poorly paid brick salvagers keep coming back for more”
“How the recession turned middle-class jobs into low-wage jobs”
Philosophy:
“What is Wrong with Our Thoughts? A Neo-Positivist Credo”
, Stove 1991“Scientists discover that atheists might not exist, and that’s not a joke”
Misc:
Books
Nonfiction:
- Life in Our Phage World (review)
- Cool Tools: A Catalog of Possibilities (website; review)
- Peopleware
- Japanese Love Hotels: A Cultural History (review)
- Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams
- Theological Incorrectness: Why Religious People Believe What They Shouldn’t, Slone (review)
- Japan Edge: The Insider’s Guide to Japanese Pop Subculture
Fiction:
- Palimpsests, Scholz & Harcourt
Film/TV
Live-action:
Anime:
Music
Misc:
“Lufthan”
(Magyar Posse; We Will Carry You Over The Mountains) [postrock]“Sobe(Original Mix)”
(Jordan F) [electronic]
Doujin:re
“秋桜の終わりの季節によせる抒情詩〜ピアノとオーケストラのために〜”
(masaki kawasaki; AD:PIANOⅢ {C87}) [electronic/instrumental]“Too much for a nightcap”
(Casket; Musicatlas P. II {M3-34}) [Celtic]“Home”
(Kaname Shigeyoshi; AD:PIANOⅢ {C87}) [instrumental]“Sicureada”
(ジャージと愉快な仲間たち; Musicatlas P. II {M3-34}) [folk]“満たされた時”
(もふ@ feat. In The Blue; merrow -in the blue Vocal Collection- {M3-34}) [vocal]
Touhou:
“Wanna be free”
(Rei Shimizu; Cafe de Touhou 6 {C87}) [jazz]“Brilliant Girls”
(Okawa Tomoya; Cafe de Touhou 6 {C87}) [jazz]“地獄でお茶を”
(sisimai-3go; Cafe de Touhou 6 {C87}) [jazz]“The Eternal Steam Engine”
(あきやまうに; Thermonuclear Titan Hisoutensoku ~ Touhou Hisoutensoku ORIGINAL SOUND TRACK {C77}) [orchestral]“The Eternal Steam Engine”
(Kou Ogata; 東方Projectごちゃまぜアイリッシュ風プレ版楽曲CD {R10}) [folk]“Temperature Difference”
(deitarabotchi feat. senya; The time my thoughts turned into history {C87}) [electronic]“Viva Evolution Introduction”
(sumijun feat. 長尾ちえみ; Viva Evolution {C87}) [Jpop/electronic]“Don’t let you down”
(sumijun feat. 長尾ちえみ; Viva Evolution {C87}) [Jpop/electronic]