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2020 News

Annual summary of 2020 Gwern.net newsletters, selecting my best writings, the best 2020 links by topic, and the best books/movies/anime I saw in 2020, with some general discussion of the year.

2019-12-26–2024-04-19 notes certainty: log importance: 0 bibliography

This is the 2020 summary edition of the Gwern.net newsletter (archives), summarizing the best of the monthly 2020 newsletters:

  1. January

  2. February

  3. March

  4. April

  5. May

  6. June

  7. July

  8. August

  9. September

  10. October

  11. November

  12. December

  13. end of year summary (here)

Previous annual newsletters: 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015.

Writings

My 2020 writings included:

  1. GPT-3 implications & the scaling hypothesis

  2. GPT-3 Creative Writing

  3. “Danbooru2019: A Large-Scale Crowdsourced & Tagged Anime Illustration Dataset”

  4. Gwern.net major changes: fully-recursive generalized popups; dark mode; local link archives

  5. Sidenotes For Web Design

  6. “Tech Holy Wars are Coordination Problems”

  7. Generating MIDI Music With GPT-2

  8. Preference Learning GPT-2 Music: Null Result

  9. “PALM: The PALM Anime Location Model And Dataset”

Overview

Books

Nonfiction:

Fiction:

TV/movies

Nonfiction movies:

Fiction:

Anime: