𝔊𝔴𝔢𝔯𝔫@gwernDec 6I shouldn't need to write about this, but if you've ever run into those fringe claims that hydrocephalus shows brains don't matter or that it can increase intelligence, I've written up why it's pretty bunk: gwern.net/Hydrocephalus
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𝔊𝔴𝔢𝔯𝔫@gwernDec 15Or biting. Aggressive licking like that seems to be one of the ways that cats say 'stop doing that!' and then if you don't fix it, they escalate.
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𝔊𝔴𝔢𝔯𝔫@gwernDec 9I've written a mini-essay summarizing how I think causality & correlation work in the softer sciences, how experiments show correlation≠causation, and why we do a bad job at internalizing that: gwern.net/Causality#over…
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𝔊𝔴𝔢𝔯𝔫@gwernDec 11Something more lighthearted: what's the most-tagged-as-'abandoned' book on GoodReads?
gwern.net/GoodReads
Looks like it's Marlon Jame's _Black Leopard, Red Wolf_ (2019) fantasy novel.
𝔊𝔴𝔢𝔯𝔫@gwernDec 10Sidenote: /Hydrocephalus is also an experiment with a new kind of sidenotes, 'margin notes', used for summaries/glossing, to help skimming. Loosely modeled in style after Tufte-CSS, use inspired by ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/c/coleridge/sa… , implemented as a Pandoc plugin (eg '^[!Margin: foo]').
𝔊𝔴𝔢𝔯𝔫@gwernDec 16Serious startup idea: 'hearing aids which are better than normal ears'.
This is a huge opportunity between dereg of hearing aids, deep learning signal processing+ASICs, steady battery life improvements, world aging, & Apple making Airpods cool.
Young people just don't get this.
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𝔊𝔴𝔢𝔯𝔫@gwernDec 19An interesting part to highlight is that he could do it for free: the model is public (and free), and he finetuned it on the (also free) Google Colab service, which he could then use to generate all the text samples. Didn't even need his own GPU or anything.
𝔊𝔴𝔢𝔯𝔫@gwernDec 7"Gilfoyle is my name,
And SV my station.
Google my captain, and Siri my chaplain;
The cloud is my dwelling place,
And the stars my destination!"
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𝔊𝔴𝔢𝔯𝔫@gwernDec 16The (16GB, n=302,652 512px 'portrait' face crops) is now available for download:
`rsync --verbose --recursive rsync://78.46.86.149:873/biggan/portraits/ ./portraits/`
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𝔊𝔴𝔢𝔯𝔫@gwernDec 16At least with puns, it's basically a kind of en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeigarnik… I suspect. You need to tell it to someone to finish telling the joke - telling yourself is incomplete. So it sticks around indefinitely, like an earworm, which has no conclusion but loops, catchily.
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