September 2018 gwern.net newsletter with links on TODO (newsletter)
created: 2 Sep 2018; modified: 17 Sep 2018; status: in progress; confidence: log; importance: 0

This is the September 2018 edition of the gwern.net newsletter; previous, August 2018 (archives). This is a summary of the revision-history RSS feed, overlapping with my Changelog & Google+; brought to you by my donors on Patreon.

Writings

SMPY bibliography
International catnip survey results?
Amusing Ourselves to Death?
Long Bets analysis?
How Complex Are Individual Differences?

Media

Links

Genetics:

everything is heritable:
- Genomic prediction of cognitive traits in childhood and adolescence, Allegrini et al 2018 (More replication of Lee et 2018: 11% IQ/16% education, boosted by genetic correlations - Figure 2: multi-trait boosted PGSes)
- A Polygenic Score for Higher Educational Attainment is Associated With Larger Brains, Elliott et al 2018
recent evolution:
engineering:

AI:

Statistics/meta-science/mathematics:

Two curious integrals and a graphic proof, Schmid 2014 (perils of induction: the 2*cost(t) integral)
Victorian vibrators: https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2018/09/victorian-vibrators-orgasms-doctors/569446/

Politics/religion:

Psychology/biology:

Technology:

Economics:

Philosophy:

Fiction:

Misc:

Books

Nonfiction:

Cat Sense: How the New Feline Science Can Make You a Better Friend to Your Pet, Bradshaw 2013?

Fiction:

Film/TV

Live-action:

Animated:

My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, seasons 1-8?
Ushio and Tora?
Miss Kobayashi’s Dragon Maid?

Games

Music

Touhou:

Doujin:

Vocaloid:

Misc: