Links

Genetics:

• everything is heritable:

  • Genetics and Crime: Integrating New Genomic Discoveries Into Psychological Research About Antisocial Behavior, Wertz et al 2018 (IQ/EDU PGS predicts juvenile delinquency & crime; previously: Rautiainen et al 2016/Tielbeek et al 2017/Tielbeek et al 2018)
  • Predicting educational achievement from genomic measures and socioeconomic status, von Stumm et al 2019

• recent evolution:

  • The growth of tea: Genetic studies of today’s tea plants are providing clues to how the plant was first domesticated

• engineering:

  • The Death of a Dreamer—Austen Heinz and Cambrian Genomics (what happened to an early genome synthesis pioneer)
  • The DIY designer baby project funded with Bitcoin: Cryptocurrency, biohacking, and the fantastic plan for transgenic humans (Bryan Bishop’s startup for genetic editing of human embryos/sperm)

AI:

• Real-time Continuous Transcription with Live Transcribe/Making audio more accessible with two new apps (NN-powered Android app for live speech-to-text transcription, piloted at Gallaudet University for the deaf; great news for the hard-of-hearing too)
• StyleGAN source code & models released
• ProGAN generation of 128px anime faces, results (~3 weeks training on Danbooru2017)

Statistics/meta-science/mathematics:

• Most Rigorous Large-Scale Educational RCTs are Uninformative: Should We Be Concerned?, Lortie-Forgues & Inglis 2019 (the metallic laws strike again)

Politics/religion:

• Avoid News: Towards a Healthy News Diet, Dobelli 2010

• Abandoned Footnotes blog recommendations

  • Ten thousand melodies cannot express our boundless hot love for you: the Cult of Personality in Mao’s China
  • Propaganda Art as Signaling (on Veyne 1988)
  • The Saudi Monarchy as a Family Firm

• Suppression of the Society of Jesus

Psychology/biology:

• Deep Intellect: the mind of an octopus
• MEMORIZE: a randomized review algorithm derived using principles from control theory
• A Suspense Novelist’s Trail of Deceptions (psychopath case study)

Technology:

• Crinkler secrets: 4k-intro executable compression at its best

• Typography in Alien

• Typography in Blade Runner

Economics:

• The true story of Russia’s weakness [stifled by bad planning, bureaucratic inefficiency, and lack of any real incentive], Nutter 1957 (prescient)
• The Borderlands Gun Collector’s Club, Steve Yegge 2012 (an emergent token economy in a video game)

Philosophy:

• The Force That Drives the Flower, Dillard 1973 (existential horror)

Fiction:

• A Colder War, Charles Stross 2000
• The Proverbial Murder Mystery, SSC, SSC (see also The Study of Anglophysics)

Misc:

• The terribly tragic life of the terrible painter Benjamin Haydon
• The Gravity Research Foundation (dedicated to the war on gravity)

Books

Nonfiction:

• The Cultural Revolution: A People’s History, 1962-1976, Dikötter 2016
• Practical Typography, Matthew Butterick 2013

Fiction:

Film/TV

Live-action:

• Carmen opera (part of the Metropolitan Opera Live in HD series, distributed through Fathom Events)

Animated:

• Ushio and Tora?

Games

Music

Touhou:

Doujin:

Vocaloid:

MLP:

Misc: