--- title: December 2019 News description: December 2019 Gwern.net newsletter with links on gene editing, the Replication Crisis, computer latency, and suffering; 4 book reviews, 2 opera/movie reviews, and 2 anime reviews. created: 2019-11-21 status: finished previous: /newsletter/2019/11 next: /newsletter/2019/13 confidence: log cssExtension: dropcaps-de-zs backlink: False ... December 2019's [Gwern.net](/newsletter/2019/12 "'December 2019 News', Branwen 2019") [newsletter](https://gwern.substack.com/ "'Gwern.net newsletter (Substack subscription page)', Branwen 2013") is now out; previous, [November 2019](/newsletter/2019/11 "'November 2019 News', Branwen 2019") ([archives](/doc/newsletter/index)). This is a collation of links and summary of major changes, overlapping with my [Changelog](/changelog); brought to you by my donors on [Patreon](https://www.patreon.com/gwern). # Writings - [GPT-2 Folk Music](/gpt-2-music "Generating Irish and folk music in ABC format using GPT-2-117M, with good results.") - [On Correlation & Causality in the Social Sciences](/causality#overview-the-current-situation) (see also my [Replication Crisis bibliography](/replication#further-reading)) - ["Hydrocephalus and Intelligence: The Hollow Men"](/hydrocephalus "Some claim the disease hydrocephalus reduces brain size by 95% but often with normal or even above-average intelligence, and thus brains aren't really necessary. Neither is true.") - ["The Most Abandoned Books on GoodReads"](/goodreads "Which books on GoodReads are most difficult to finish? Estimating proportion gives an entirely different result than absolute counts.") - **Gwern.net**: [Tufte-CSS](https://edwardtufte.github.io/tufte-css/#sidenotes) margin notes support (glossing experiment---demonstrations in Folk-Music/Hydrocephalus/GoodReads/[Internet Search Tips](/search "A description of tips and tricks for effective Internet search of papers/books for research.")) # Media ## Links **Genetics**: - [Everything Is Heritable]{.smallcaps}: - ["Genome-wide analysis identifies molecular systems and 149 genetic loci associated with income"](https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-019-13585-5), Hill et al 2019 - ["Predicting educational achievement from genomic measures and socioeconomic status"](https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/desc.12925), von Stumm et al 2019 - ["Multivariable G-E interplay in the prediction of educational achievement"](https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/865360.full), Allegrini et al 2019 (little GxE but much rGE: ["the environment is genetic"](/doc/genetics/heritable/adoption/2016-plomin.pdf#page=10 "'Top 10 Replicated Findings From Behavioral Genetics', Plomin et al 2016")) - [Recent Evolution]{.smallcaps}: - ["A genome-wide Approximate Bayesian Computation approach suggests only limited numbers of soft sweeps in humans over the last 100,000 years"](https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2019.12.22.886234.full), Laval et al 2019 ("∼80 sweeps in average across fifteen 1000G populations when assuming incomplete sweeps only and ∼140 selective sweeps in non-African populations when incorporating complete sweeps in our simulations"; wonder what they all do?) - [Engineering]{.smallcaps}: - ["Extensive Mammalian Germline Genome Engineering"](https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2019.12.17.876862.full), Yang et al 2019 ([media](https://www.science.org/content/article/eyeing-organs-human-transplants-companies-unveil-most-extensively-gene-edited-pigs-yet "Eyeing organs for human transplants, companies unveil the most extensively gene-edited pigs yet")---"engineering 18 different loci using multiple genome engineering methods" in pigs; followup to [Niu et al 2017](/doc/genetics/editing/2017-niu.pdf "Inactivation of porcine endogenous retrovirus in pigs using CRISPR-Cas9")) - ["Functional Oocytes Derived from Granulosa Cells"](https://www.cell.com/cell-reports/fulltext/S2211-1247\(19\)31571-2), Tian et al 2019 (towards [massive embryo selection](/embryo-selection#limiting-step-eggs-or-scores)/[IES](/embryo-selection#iterated-embryo-selection): cell → egg → mouse; ["It got us thinking, what if we can utilize these granulosa cells? Since every egg has thousands of granulosa cells surrounding it, if we can induce them into pluripotent cells and turn those cells into oocytes, aren't we killing two birds with one stone?"](https://phys.org/news/2019-12-mouse-pups-born-eggs-derived.html "Mouse pups born from eggs derived from the granulosa cells that surround oocytes")) - [He Jiankui sentenced to 3 years prison](https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/30/business/china-scientist-genetic-baby-prison.html "Chinese Scientist Who Genetically Edited Babies Gets 3 Years in Prison: He Jiankui’s work was also carried out on a third infant, according to China’s state media, in a new disclosure that is likely to add to the global uproar over such experiments.") in secret trial for CRISPR editing of babies (2 associates sentenced to 2 & 1.5 years) **AI**: - [/r/AIDungeon](https://www.reddit.com/r/AIDungeon/): a subreddit for sharing [AI Dungeon 2](https://colab.research.google.com/github/nickwalton/AIDungeon/blob/master/AIDungeon_2.ipynb "'AI Dungeon 2 Colab notebook', Walton 2019") games (a GPT-2-1.5b finetuned on RPG/text adventure stories eg. ["My Musical Troupe of Orcs Uses Music to Advance Orc Rights"](https://web.archive.org/web/20191127163535/http://www.aidungeon.io/2019/11/my-orc-band-and-our-quest-for-equal.html "'AI Dungeon 2: My Musical Troupe of Orcs Uses Music to Advance Orc Rights', Walton 2019")) - [Matters Of Scale]{.smallcaps}: - ["Dota 2 with Large Scale Deep Reinforcement Learning"](https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.06680#openai), Berner et al 2019 ([blog](https://openai.com/research/openai-five-defeats-dota-2-world-champions "'OpenAI Five: 2016–2019', OpenAI 2019"); OpenAI final report on OA5, with many tips & tricks & glitches; cf. [Tencent's 1v1 MOBA paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.09729#tencent "'Honor of Kings: Mastering Complex Control in MOBA Games with Deep Reinforcement Learning', Ye et al 2019"): "To train one hero, we use 48 P40 GPU cards and 18,000 CPU cores.") - ["Reformer: The Efficient Transformer"](https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.04451#google), Kitaev et al 2019 ([blog](https://blog.research.google/2020/01/reformer-efficient-transformer.html "Reformer: The Efficient Transformer [blog]"); handling sequences up to length=64,000 on 1 GPU, which break GPT-2's 1024 context window bottleneck & would be great for [MIDI music generation](/gpt-2-music "'GPT-2 Folk Music', Branwen & Presser 2019") etc; [see all the other alternatives](/note/attention "'Efficient Attention: Breaking The Quadratic Transformer Bottleneck', Branwen 2020") as well) - StyleGAN 2: ["Analyzing and Improving the Image Quality of StyleGAN"](https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.04958#nvidia), Karras et al 2019 (eliminating the blob artifacts---this will make a nice upgrade for [TWDNEv3](/twdne#twdnev3 "'This Waifu Does Not Exist § TWDNEv3', Branwen 2019")) **Statistics/Meta-Science**: - ["Comparing meta-analyses and preregistered multiple-laboratory replication projects"](/doc/statistics/bias/2019-kvarven.pdf), Kvarven et al 2019 - ["The maddening saga of how an Alzheimer’s ‘cabal’ thwarted progress toward a cure for decades"](https://www.statnews.com/2019/06/25/alzheimers-cabal-thwarted-progress-toward-cure/) (apropos of the latest blow to the amyloid hypothesis: [amyloid does not even predict cognitive decline](/doc/psychiatry/alzheimers/2019-thomas.pdf "'Objective subtle cognitive difficulties predict future amyloid accumulation and neurodegeneration', Thomas et al 2019")) - ["Snow Crystals"](https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.06389), [Libbrecht](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth_G._Libbrecht) 2019 (the complete monograph by the [SnowCrystals.com](http://www.snowcrystals.com/ "Snowflakes and Snow Crystals") man: the history of snow crystal studies, how to create & photography them, how they grow, how to simulate them...) - ["NP-complete Problems and Physical Reality"](https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0502072), Aaronson 2005 - ["Do GRE scores help predict getting a physics Ph.D.? A comment on a paper by Miller et al"](https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.09442), Weissman 2019 (yes; the problems with the Miller GRE paper go well beyond just range restriction to [conditioning on a collider](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collider_\(statistics\)) and others) - ["Matthew Walker's _Why We Sleep_ Is Riddled with Scientific and Factual Errors"](https://guzey.com/books/why-we-sleep/ "'Matthew Walker’s Why We Sleep Is Riddled with Scientific and Factual Errors', Guzey 2019"), [Alexey Guzey](https://guzey.com/) (Andrew Gelman discussions: [1](https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2019/11/18/is-matthew-walkers-why-we-sleep-riddled-with-scientific-and-factual-errors/ "Is Matthew Walker’s 'Why We Sleep' Riddled with Scientific and Factual Errors?")/[2](https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2019/11/24/why-we-sleep-update-some-thoughts-while-we-wait-for-matthew-walker-to-respond-to-alexey-guzeys-criticisms/ "'Why We Sleep' update: some thoughts while we wait for Matthew Walker to respond to Alexey Guzey’s criticisms")/[3](https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2019/12/26/whassup-with-why-we-sleep/ "Whassup with 'Why We Sleep'?")/[4](https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2019/12/27/why-we-sleep-data-manipulation-a-smoking-gun/ "'Why we sleep' data manipulation: A smoking gun?"); [apologist](https://www.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/dwtr0m/matthew_walkers_why_we_sleep_is_riddled_with/#thing_t1_f7mid7m "'[Comment on Guzey post]', Kinkajoe 2019"): "I study sleep...I think they are within reason and [justified by the important message](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noble_lie) he is trying to convey." cf. my [Rosenthal review](#gwern-rosenthal-review) below) **Politics/religion**: - ["Animal welfare in Nazi Germany"](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_welfare_in_Nazi_Germany) - ["‘Shattered’: Inside the secret battle to save America’s undercover spies in the digital age"](https://news.yahoo.com/shattered-inside-the-secret-battle-to-save-americas-undercover-spies-in-the-digital-age-100029026.html) **Psychology/biology**: - ["A Look Back at 2019: Progress Towards the Treatment of Aging as a Medical Condition"](https://www.fightaging.org/archives/2019/12/a-look-back-at-2019-progress-towards-the-treatment-of-aging-as-a-medical-condition/), Reason - ["A real-life Lord of the Flies: the troubling legacy of the Robbers Cave experiment"](https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/apr/16/a-real-life-lord-of-the-flies-the-troubling-legacy-of-the-robbers-cave-experiment "'A real-life Lord of the Flies: the troubling legacy of the Robbers Cave experiment; In the early 1950s, the psychologist Muzafer Sherif brought together a group of boys at a US summer camp—and tried to make them fight each other. Does his work teach us anything about our age of resurgent tribalism? [an extract from The Lost Boys]', Shariatmadari 2018") (manipulation & selective reporting) - ["Freedom From Fungus: Why Don’t Humans Have Chestnut-Style Blights and White Nose-Style Syndromes?"](https://www.discovermagazine.com/planet-earth/freedom-from-fungus-why-dont-humans-have-chestnut-style-blights-and-white-nose-style-syndromes) - ["Social context of shell acquisition in _Coenobita clypeatus_ hermit crabs"](https://academic.oup.com/beheco/article/21/3/639/220022), Rotjan et al 2010 (hermit crab [bubble sort](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bubble_sort) for [vacancy chains](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vacancy_chain); [_SciAm_](https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/vacancy-hermit-crab-social-networks/ "On a Tiny Caribbean Island, Hermit Crabs Form Sophisticated Social Networks [Video]: Hermit crabs have evolved sophisticated social strategies to exchange resources so that everyone benefits")) - ["Instinctive sleeping and resting postures: an anthropological and zoological approach to treatment of low back and joint pain"](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1119282/), [Tetley](https://www.stalbansreview.co.uk/news/4125149.blind-veteran-tells-tales-from-war-and-life-since/ "Blind veteran tells tales from war and life since: An ex-serviceman blinded in battle has spoken exclusively to reporter Alexandra Barham about the horrors of war and the trials and tribulations of life that followed without sight.") 2000 (idiosyncratic memoir/analysis of sleeping postures used by other primates/tribal societies) - ["Plumbing Stanley Kubrick"](https://www.ianwatson.info/plumbing-stanley-kubrick/), [Ian Watson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Watson_\(author\)) 1999 (writer's memoir of years working on [_A.I. Artificial Intelligence_](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A.I._Artificial_Intelligence) & coping with [Kubrick's](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley_Kubrick) eccentricities) - ["Audiogenic reflex seizures in cats"](https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/1098612X15582080), Lowrie et al 2016 (not as amusing as YouTube videos would lead one to assume) **Technology**: - ["href.cool: Links of the 2010s"](https://href.cool/2010s/ "'Cool Links of the Decade: 2010s', Condor 2019"), [Kicks Condor](https://www.kickscondor.com/) (link compilation: selected subcultures, tech demos, viral content, and all things '10s Internet—from the [NSA](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_surveillance_disclosures_\(2013%E2%80%93present\)) to [nyancat](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QH2-TGUlwu4) or [SCP](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCP_Foundation) to [space football](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/17776)) - ["Up and Then Down: The lives of elevators"](https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2008/04/21/up-and-then-down), Paumgarten 2008 (elevator safety, technology, and economics) - [Ben Carlin](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Carlin): circumnavigated the world in a [failed amphibious jeep](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_GPA) (1948--1958) - [Why are modern computers so slow?]{.smallcaps} ["It’s the Latency, Stupid."](http://www.stuartcheshire.org/rants/latency.html) - ["Keyboard Latency"](https://danluu.com/keyboard-latency/ "'Keyboard latency', Luu 2017"), Dan Luu (Measuring how slow modern keyboards are---they differ a lot) - ["Terminal Latency"](https://danluu.com/term-latency/), Dan Luu (How slow are terminal emulators? Kinda slow, and degrading badly under system load) - ["Web Bloat"](https://danluu.com/web-bloat/), Dan Luu (Bloated webpages interact badly with latency inherent to the Internet & the HTML/browser architecture; the mentioned Google anecdote was [YouTube](https://blog.chriszacharias.com/page-weight-matters "Page Weight Matters")) - ["Computer latency: 1977--2017"](https://danluu.com/input-lag/), Dan Luu; ["Slow Software"](https://www.inkandswitch.com/slow-software.html), Ink & Switch 2018; ["Typing with pleasure"](https://pavelfatin.com/typing-with-pleasure/), Pavel Fatin (total latency---where all the latency in the stack comes from) - ["Local-first software: You own your data, in spite of the cloud"](https://www.inkandswitch.com/local-first.html "'Local-first software: You own your data, in spite of the cloud [web]', Kleppmann et al 2019"), Ink & Switch 2019 ([Kleppmann et al 2019](/doc/cs/algorithm/2019-kleppmann.pdf "Local-First Software: You Own Your Data, in spite of the Cloud"); apps & clients which do all work locally but use [[CRDTs]{.smallcaps}s](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conflict-free_replicated_data_type) for distributed synchronization with your other devices, eliminating networking latency) - ["The Wheel of Reincarnation"](http://www.cap-lore.com/Hardware/Wheel.html), Norman Hardy (on [Meyer & Sutherland 1968](http://cva.stanford.edu/classes/cs99s/papers/myer-sutherland-design-of-display-processors.pdf "On the Design of Display Processors")---["how many computers are in your computer?"](/computers)) - [Christophe Plantin](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christophe_Plantin): mortgaged home to print the [Plantin Polyglot Bible](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plantin_Polyglot) for the [King of Spain](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_II_of_Spain) to prove he wasn't a heretic---but he was, a [Familist](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Familia_Caritatis); it is an elegant text, using [multi-lingual dropcaps & a parallel layout of the 6 texts](/doc/design/1573-christoffelplantijn-bible-plantinpolyglot-genesis.jpg "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Biblia_sacra_Hebraice,_Chaldaice,_Graece,_%26_Latine_-_Christoffel_Plantijn_-_clvd-644354.jpg"){.invert} - ["The Floppy Toast"](https://www.buttersafe.com/2012/05/24/the-floppy-toast/), Buttersafe (PEBKAC) **Economics**: - ["How a cabal of romance writers cashed in on Amazon Kindle Unlimited"](https://www.theverge.com/2018/7/16/17566276/cockygate-amazon-kindle-unlimited-algorithm-self-published-romance-novel-cabal "'Bad romance: To cash in on Kindle Unlimited, a cabal of authors gamed Amazon’s algorithm', Jeong 2018") **Philosophy**: - ["Two Arms and a Head: The Death of a Newly Paraplegic Philosopher"](http://www.2arms1head.com/), Atreus 2008 ([_memento mori_](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memento_mori)---one of the saddest things I have ever read, this is the suicide note of a grad student crippled in a motorcycle accident; not entirely reasonable, but what is reasonable to expect of a man in unreasonable circumstances? [Original forum thread](https://www.advrider.com/f/threads/seattle-to-argentina-on-a-klr650.136505/); [comments](https://www.reddit.com/r/TheMotte/comments/e79pzs/2_arms_1_head_not_nsfw/); cf. ["How Do People Communicate Before Death? Insights into the little-studied realm of last words"](https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2019/01/how-do-people-communicate-before-death/580303/ "What People Actually Say Before They Die")/[who by slow decay...](https://slatestarcodex.com/2013/07/17/who-by-very-slow-decay/ "Who By Very Slow Decay")) - ["In praise of self-deprecation"](https://emptypath.wordpress.com/2011/12/16/in-praise-of-self-deprecation/), [Wisława Szymborska](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wis%C5%82awa_Szymborska) 1976; ["The Kingfisher"](http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/mary_oliver/poems/15844), Mary Oliver 1990 (_House of Light_); ["Conversation with Jeanne"](https://www.ibiblio.org/ipa/poems/milosz/a_conversation_with_jeanne.php "'A Conversation With Jeanne', Miłosz 1984"), [Czesław Miłosz](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Czeslaw_Milosz) 1984 (_Provinces_ 1991) - ["Hypothermia"](https://moxie.org/stories/brink-of-death/) (how security researcher [Moxie Marlinspike](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moxie_Marlinspike) almost died of hypothermia & drowning in the San Francisco Bay while simply moving his catamaran boat to save docking fees) - [When a white horse is not a horse](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/When_a_white_horse_is_not_a_horse) ([_Ceci n'est pas une pony._](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Treachery_of_Images)) ## Books **Nonfiction**: - ['Small multiples' show change across variables.]{.marginnote}
[_Visual Explanations: Images and Quantities, Evidence and Narrative_](https://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/books_visex "'Visual Explanations: Images and Quantities, Evidence and Narrative, Tufte 1997', Tufte 1997"), Tufte 1997 (less of a hodge-podge than _Envisioning Information_, Tufte walks through, as usual, graphs: how to show multiple versions of things, such as 4D data, on 2D paper? Key case studies are John Snow's cholera maps of infections vs location vs time, the Challenger disaster's obscuration of problems vs temperature over the course of Space Shuttle launches, stage magician diagrams of tricks, which illustrate change over time; Tufte then considers showing parallel versions which differ in some abstract dimension; then graphs which must show change in both space & time, such as sunspots or Saturn's rings, representing Tufte's usual concept of "small multiples"; in a final section, Tufte highlights favorite art pieces of his which are diagrammatic or symbolic in some sense akin to the foregoing chapters. As usual, a pleasure to read, and it furnished some examples for my [page on rubrication too](/red "'Rubrication Design Examples', Branwen 2019").)
- [Surprisingly entertaining if not immediately useful.]{.marginnote} _[The Elements of Typographic Style](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Elements_of_Typographic_Style)_ (third edition), [Bringhurst](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Bringhurst) 2004 (I decided to read this based on Rutter's web version of it; Bringhurst is unexpectedly amusing---I wish I cared about anything as much as Bringhurst cares about typography. No comparison is too strong to condemn a typographical sin: editing fonts, for example makes it "easy for a designer or compositor with no regard for letters to squish them into cattle trains and ship them to the slaughter"---with another author, one would assume the Holocaust connotations were unintentional, but with Bringhurst... Like Rutter, there is a great of material on ratios and page layout which smacks of numerology, but that can be skipped easily, and the rest of the material is useful. The book itself is, of course, nice typographically, exemplifying the use of [sidenotes](/sidenote "'Sidenotes In Web Design', Branwen 2020"), and although he surprisingly doesn't cover it at length (like he does what seems like everything else), he even provides two nice examples of rubrication for my page.) - [A deeply dishonest harbinger of the Replication Crisis.]{.marginnote} [_Experimenter Effects In Behavioral Research_](/doc/statistics/bias/1976-rosenthal-experimenterexpectancyeffects.pdf "'Experimenter Effects in Behavioral Research: Enlarged Edition', Rosenthal 1976"), Rosenthal 1976 ([long review](/review/book#experimenter-effects-in-behavioral-research-rosenthal-1976 "'Book Reviews § Experimenter Effects In Behavioral Research, Rosenthal 1976', Branwen 2013"){#gwern-rosenthal-review}; consider also Rosenthal's own description in ["Citation Classic"](https://garfield.library.upenn.edu/classics1979/A1979HZ32400001.pdf "CC/Number 27, 1979-07-02: This Week's Citation Classic")) **Fiction**: - [Well-intentioned but fatally self-undermined.]{.marginnote} [_String of Beads: Complete Poems of Princess Shikishi_](https://www.amazon.com/String-Beads-Complete-Princess-Translations/dp/B005ZOI7Q0), [Shikishi](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princess_Shikishi) trans. Sato 1993 ([review](/review/book#string-of-beads-complete-poems-of-princess-shikishi-shikishi-1993 "'Book Reviews § String of Beads: Complete Poems of Princess Shikishi, Shikishi 1993', Branwen 2013")) ## Film/TV **Live-action**: -
[_Rurouni Kenshin_](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rurouni_Kenshin_\(film\)) 2012/[_Rurouni Kenshin: Kyoto Inferno_](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rurouni_Kenshin:_Kyoto_Inferno) 2014/[_Rurouni Kenshin: The Legend Ends_](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rurouni_Kenshin:_The_Legend_Ends) 2014 ([review](/review/anime#rurouni-kenshin-2014))
- [_The Magic Flute_](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Magic_Flute) ([review](/review/opera#the-magic-flute "'Movie Reviews § The Magic Flute', Branwen 2014")) **Animated**: -
[_[MLP:FiM]{.smallcaps}_](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Little_Pony:_Friendship_Is_Magic): [season 9](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Little_Pony:_Friendship_Is_Magic_\(season_9\)) ([s1--8 review](/review/mlp "'MLP: Immanetizing The Equestrian', Branwen 2018"); [season 9 review](/review/anime#mlp-fim))
- [_Owarimonogatari_](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Monogatari_episodes#Owarimonogatari_I) ([review](/review/anime#owarimonogatari)) ## Music **MLP**: - ["Heartfire"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ko0fT6CEWag) (John Kenza; _Compass Rose_ {2017}) [house] **Doujin**: - ["Cute Swing"](https://soundcloud.com/mihonymusic/mihony-cute-swing) (Mihoney; {2019}) [house]