This is the May 2015 edition of the Gwern.net newsletter; previous, April 2015. This is a collation of links and summary of major changes, overlapping with Changelog; brought to you by my donors.
Writings
- Darknet market arrests compilation finished & summaries calculated
- analysis of Effective Altruists’ donations as reported in the LW survey
Media
Links
Genetics:
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Everything Is Heritable:
Politics/religion:
- “Misperceiving Inequality”, Gimpelson & Treisman 2018 (excerpts)
- “Land without Plea Bargaining: How the Germans Do It”, Langbein 1979 (how the German legal system avoids our own reliance on plea-bargaining to send most defendants to jail without trial)
- “The Nitrous Oxide Philosopher”
- “The Science of Sex Abuse: Is it right to imprison people for heinous crimes they have not yet committed?”
- “Why the future won’t be genetically homogeneous”
- “Aged Heterogeneity: Fact or Fiction? The Fate of Diversity in Gerontological Research”, Nelson & Dannefer 1992
Statistics/AI/meta-science:
- “End-to-End Training of Deep Visuomotor Policies”, Levine et al 2015 (demo; talk)
- “The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Recurrent Neural Networks”
- “Using N-of-1 Trials to Improve Patient Management and Save Costs”, Scuffham 2010
- “Assessing Kurzweil: the results”
- “A survey of Bayesian predictive methods for model assessment, selection and comparison”, Vehtari & Ojanen 2012
- “The Nine Circles of Scientific Hell”, Neuroskeptic 2012
- “Leaving Office Feet First: Death In Congress”, Maltzman et al 1996
- “Nuclear weapon statistics using monoids, groups, and modules in Haskell”
- “Flat Priors and Other Improbable Tales”
Psychology/biology:
- “Persistence of Long-Term Memory in Vitrified and Revived C. elegans”, Vita-More & Barranco 2015
- “The effects of oral iron supplementation on cognition in older children and adults: a systematic review and meta-analysis”, Falkingham et al 2010
- “Historical Review and Appraisal of Research on the Learning, Retention, and Transfer of Human Motor Skills”, Adams 1987
- “Programmer Interrupted”
- “E unibus pluram: Television And U.S. Fiction”, David Foster Wallace 1993
- 2,4-Dinitrophenol
- “What’s in a Color? The Unique Human Health Effects of Blue Light”, Holzman 2010
- “Diving Deep into Danger”
- “Late Night Thoughts on Reading Scientology”
Technology:
- “Epigrams in Programming”, Alan Perlis 1982
- “Implications of Historical Trends in the Electrical Efficiency of Computing”, Koomey et al 2011
- “How Much of the Web Is Archived?”, Ainsworth et al 2012
- “Actual Facebook Graph Searches”
Economics:
- “Overkill: An avalanche of unnecessary medical care is harming patients physically and financially. What can we do about it?”
- “The Insourcing Boom”; “The March of Robots Into Chinese Factories”
- “Jerven on Measuring African Poverty and Progress”
- “Online price discrimination: Conspicuous by its absence”/“Price Discrimination and the Illusion of Fairness”
- “On the front lines of humanity’s high-tech, global war on rats”
- “Smart Machines and Long-Term Misery”, Sachs & Kotlikoff; “The Ricardo effect in Europe (Germany fact of the day)”; “Four Futures: One thing we can be certain of is that capitalism will end”; “Has the ideas machine broken down?”; “The Post-Productive Economy”
- “Harder Choices Matter Less”
Philosophy:
Fiction:
- “Man And The Echo”, Yeats
- “Single-Bit Error”
- “Toward an Algorithmic Criticism”, Ramsay 2003
Misc:
Books
Fiction:
- Ready Player One, Cline 2011 (review)
- A Shropshire Lad, Housman 1896 (review)
- Floornight, nostalgebraist (recommended on SSC; overall cool—interesting concepts and developments and various bright spots compensate for some of the issues like pacing and wooden writing)
Nonfiction:
- Drift into Failure, Dekker (review)
Film/TV
Live-action:
- (review)
Anime:
Music
Touhou:
- “Old Fantasia” (Sound of Swing; In Walked Cat’s {C86}) [jazz]
- “恋と水と石炭と” (ししまい三号; 大楽符 {C77}) [classical]
- “水彩人形” (ししまい三号; 大楽符 {C77}) [classical]
- “空の間に間に” (ししまい三号; 大楽符 {C77}) [classical]
- “Dazzling You” (Maurits”禅”Cornelis feat. Vivienne; Origin of Love {C87}) [jazz]
- “少女綺想曲” (TAM×KEIGO KANZAKI; 東方バイオリンロック永-NAGARAE- {C87}) [instrumental rock]
- “エクステンドアッシュ” (TAM×KEIGO KANZAKI; 東方バイオリンロック永-NAGARAE- {C87}) [instrumental rock]
- “月見草” (TAM×KEIGO KANZAKI; 東方バイオリンロック永-NAGARAE- {C87}) [instrumental rock]
Kantai Collection:
- “鎮守府の序曲” (伊藤 翼; Kantai Philharmonic Orchestra {C86}) [orchestral]