Links

Genetics:

• everything is heritable:

  • Gigantic study of Chinese babies yields slew of health data (the Born in Guangzhou Cohort Study: n=33k, increasing to n=50k by 2020)
  • Critical Need for Family-Based, Quasi-Experimental Designs in Integrating Genetic and Social Science Research, D’Onofrio et al 2013 (Correlation≠causation: many maternal smoking effects are simply confounds.)
  • Genealogists Turn to Cousins’ DNA and Family Trees to Crack Five More Cold Cases
  • IQ GWASes beyond Lee et al 2018: Polygenic scores predict >9% of variance in IQ and >15% of variance in educational attainment at age 16. #bga2018 (r=0.30/0.39 respectively)

• recent evolution:

  • Flynn effect and its reversal are both environmentally caused, Bratsberg & Rogeberg 2018 (supplement; more on the anti-Flynn effect in Norway operating since the mid-1970s)

• engineering:

  • Genomic Selection in Dairy Cattle: The USDA Experience, Wiggans et al 2017 (…doubled the rate of genetic progress for traits of economic importance, decreased generation interval, increased selection accuracy, reduced previous costs of progeny testing, and allowed identification of recessive lethals. Figure 1/Table 4/Figure 5.)

AI:

• Adversarial Reprogramming of Neural Networks, Elsayed et al 2018 (NNs as weird machines)
• The challenge of realistic music generation: modelling raw audio at scale, Dieleman et al 2018 (samples; getting surprisingly good and starting to pick up rhythm/melody)

• RL sample efficiency progress:

  • Deep Reinforcement Learning in a Handful of Trials using Probabilistic Dynamics Models, Chua et al 2018
  • Model-Ensemble Trust-Region Policy Optimization, Kurutach et al 2018
  • Sample-Efficient Deep RL with Generative Adversarial Tree Search, Azizzadenesheli et al 2018
  • Learning Real-World Robot Policies by Dreaming, Piergiovanni et al 2018
  • RUDDER: Return Decomposition for Delayed Rewards, Arjona-Medina et al 2018

Statistics/meta-science/mathematics:

Politics/religion:

Psychology/biology:

Technology:

• Ice Poseidon’s Lucrative, Stressful Life as a Live Streamer

Economics:

• The Strange History of the King-Pine
• How to spot a perfect fake: the world’s top art forgery detective
• Myhrvold’s patent troll funds suffering enormous losses (karma)

Philosophy:

Last Call: A Buddhist monk confronts Japan’s suicide culture (how to do good?)

Fiction:

-Tale of an Industrious Rogue: Part I/II/III, by Kroft (A D&D campaign in which humble salt traders eventually wind up destroying the world.)

Misc:

Books

Nonfiction:

• Cat Sense: How the New Feline Science Can Make You a Better Friend to Your Pet, Bradshaw 2013?
• Hanging Out with the Dream King: Conversations with Neil Gaiman and His Collaborators, ed. McCabe 2005 (review)

Fiction:

Film/TV

Live-action:

Animated:

• My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, seasons 1-5?
• Ushio and Tora?

Games

Music

Touhou:

• aquamarine (AnayamaSoh; Have A GoodTrip. {M3-38}) [house]

Doujin:

Vocaloid:

Misc: