‘small groups’ directory
- See Also
- Gwern
- “Internet Community Design: Slow To Fast”, Gwern 2021
- “Movie Reviews”, Gwern 2014
- “What Is The Morning Writing Effect?”, Gwern 2011
- “Origins of Innovation: Bakewell & Breeding”, Gwern 2018
- “ARPA and SCI: Surfing AI”, Gwern 2018
- “Local Optima & Greedy Choices”, Gwern 2021
- “On Really Trying”, Gwern 2009
- Links
- “Accurate Maps, Wrong Country: Notes on Trying to Get Things Done inside the British State § What You Should Do About It”, Westgarth 2026
- “35 Theses on the WASPs”, Greer 2026
- “Why the New Leisure Class Enjoys Activism and Philanthropy”, Landau-Taylor 2025
- “Conquest of the Incas”, Lakeman 2025
- “A Pivotal Page in Climbing Gym History: Peter Mayfield & City Rock”, Hildenbrand 2025
- “#147: Forging the MRNA Revolution—Katalin Karikó § Education & Ambition”, Karikó & Walker 2023
- “You And Your Research”, Hamming 2023
- “The Charming Bloke Who Dominates GeoGuessr: Tom Davies Has Become a Beloved Icon of the Google Maps Guessing Game”, Norman 2022
- “Streamers Teaching Programming, Art, and Gaming: Cognitive Apprenticeship, Serendipitous Teachable Moments, and Tacit Expert Knowledge”, Drosos & Guo 2021
- “The Politics of Alignment and the ‘Quiet Transgender Revolution’ in Fortune 500 Corporations, 2008–2017”, Ghosh 2021
- “One Man’s Amazing Journey to the Center of the Bowling Ball: Mo Pinel Spent a Career Reshaping the Ball’s Inner Core to Harness the Power of Physics. He Revolutionized the Sport—And Spared No Critics along the Way”, Koerner 2021
- “The Effectiveness of Unreasonable Small Groups”, Gwern 2021
- “The Revolution in Classic Tetris: How a Younger Generation Used the Internet to Master the Falling Blocks”, Sweet 2021
- “Skeb Artwork Commissioning Website: Review: Commission Your Favorite Japanese Artists With Auto-Translation”, Worboys 2020
- “How Flash Games Shaped The Video Game Industry: Flash Is Dead. But the Influence of Flash Games on Modern Gameplay Is Inescapable”, Richner 2020
- “The Social Subsidy of Angel Investing”, Danco 2019
- “On Bloom’s Two Sigma Problem: A Systematic Review of the Effectiveness of Mastery Learning, Tutoring, and Direct Instruction”, Ricón 2019
- “Knitting Community: Human and Social Capital in the Transition to Entrepreneurship”, Kim 2018
- “Construction of Arbitrarily Strong Amplifiers of Natural Selection Using Evolutionary Graph Theory”, Pavlogiannis et al 2018
- “The Tim Ferriss Show Transcripts: Assessing Risk and Living Without a Rope—Lessons from Alex Honnold (#160) § The Climbing Industry”, Ferriss & Honnold 2018
- “The Unrecognised Simplicities of Effective Action #2: ‘Systems Engineering’ and ‘Systems Management’—Ideas from the Apollo Programme for a `systems Politics`”, Cummings 2017
- “Better All the Time: How the ‘Performance Revolution’ Came to Athletics—And Beyond”, Surowiecki 2014
- “Imre Festetics and the Sheep Breeders’ Society of Moravia: Mendel’s Forgotten ‘Research Network’”, Poczai et al 2014
- “Is The NIH A Cult?”, Eisen 2012
- “Personal Best: Top Athletes and Singers Have Coaches. Should You?”, Gawande 2011
- The Secret History of Star Wars, Kaminski 2008
- “Taste for Makers”, Graham 2002
- “Bloomberg on Bloomberg § on Philanthropy and Political Activism”, Bloomberg & Winkler 2001
- “Making Mathematics: The Coffee Connection”, Wieschenberg 1999
- “The Power and the Gory”, Solotaroff 1990
- “Augmenting Human Intellect: A Conceptual Framework § Pg82”, Engelbart 1962 (page 82)
- “Rock Climbing and the Economics of Innovation”
- “Roadmap to the Renaissance”
- “What A Long, Strange Trip It’s Been: EleutherAI One Year Retrospective”
- “S02 Episode 3: Subor Smash Brothers Ultimate: China’s Videogame Historians + Flash in the Pandemic + Gold Miner: Absolution + High IQue Society + Nintendo’s and Don’ts”
- “Desystemize #9”
- “On the Referendum #31: Project Maven, Procurement, Lollapalooza Results & Nuclear/AGI Safety”, Cummings 2026
- “What Hacking AOL Taught a Generation of Programmers: The Open Source Ethos behind Rogue AOL Add-Ons”
- “Scenius, or Communal Genius”
- “The Phantom Tyler Cowen”
- “The High-Return Activity of Raising Others’ Aspirations”
- “Jena, 1800”
- “Pioneer”
- “The YouTube Revolution in Knowledge Transfer”
- “The Atomic Bomb Considered As Hungarian High School Science Fair Project”, Alexander 2026
- “Book Review: History Of The Fabian Society”, Alexander 2026
- “Submission #6347: Chef Stef’s NES Arkanoid
warplessin 11:11.18” - “Better Eats”
- “What the Success of Rock Climbing Tells Us about Economic Growth”
- “Tool-Assisted Speedrunning”
- “One of Civilization’s Greatest Accomplishments”
- “EleutherAI”
- “The Man Who Broke Bowling”
- “Apprenticeship Online”
- “Why Sweden Punches above Its Weight in Music”
- “Mentorship, Management, and Mysterious Old Wizards”
- “Analysis of World Records in Speedrunning [LINKPOST]”
- “Studying the Limits of Human Perfection, Through Darts”
- “Warrens, Plazas and the Edge of Legibility”
- “A Pair of Recent Cheating Scandals—One in the ‘Speedrunning’ Community of Gamers, and One in Medical Research—Call Attention to an Alarming Contrast”
- “PBA Televised 300 Game #35: Jason Belmonte”
- Wikipedia (64)
- Miscellaneous
- Bibliography
See Also
Gwern
“Internet Community Design: Slow To Fast”, Gwern 2021
“Movie Reviews”, Gwern 2014
“What Is The Morning Writing Effect?”, Gwern 2011
“Origins of Innovation: Bakewell & Breeding”, Gwern 2018
“ARPA and SCI: Surfing AI”, Gwern 2018
“Local Optima & Greedy Choices”, Gwern 2021
“On Really Trying”, Gwern 2009
Links
“Accurate Maps, Wrong Country: Notes on Trying to Get Things Done inside the British State § What You Should Do About It”, Westgarth 2026
“35 Theses on the WASPs”, Greer 2026
“Why the New Leisure Class Enjoys Activism and Philanthropy”, Landau-Taylor 2025
“Conquest of the Incas”, Lakeman 2025
View External Link:
“A Pivotal Page in Climbing Gym History: Peter Mayfield & City Rock”, Hildenbrand 2025
A Pivotal Page in Climbing Gym History: Peter Mayfield & City Rock
“#147: Forging the MRNA Revolution—Katalin Karikó § Education & Ambition”, Karikó & Walker 2023
#147: Forging the mRNA Revolution—Katalin Karikó § Education & Ambition
“You And Your Research”, Hamming 2023
“The Charming Bloke Who Dominates GeoGuessr: Tom Davies Has Become a Beloved Icon of the Google Maps Guessing Game”, Norman 2022
“Streamers Teaching Programming, Art, and Gaming: Cognitive Apprenticeship, Serendipitous Teachable Moments, and Tacit Expert Knowledge”, Drosos & Guo 2021
“The Politics of Alignment and the ‘Quiet Transgender Revolution’ in Fortune 500 Corporations, 2008–2017”, Ghosh 2021
“One Man’s Amazing Journey to the Center of the Bowling Ball: Mo Pinel Spent a Career Reshaping the Ball’s Inner Core to Harness the Power of Physics. He Revolutionized the Sport—And Spared No Critics along the Way”, Koerner 2021
“The Effectiveness of Unreasonable Small Groups”, Gwern 2021
“The Revolution in Classic Tetris: How a Younger Generation Used the Internet to Master the Falling Blocks”, Sweet 2021
“Skeb Artwork Commissioning Website: Review: Commission Your Favorite Japanese Artists With Auto-Translation”, Worboys 2020
“How Flash Games Shaped The Video Game Industry: Flash Is Dead. But the Influence of Flash Games on Modern Gameplay Is Inescapable”, Richner 2020
“The Social Subsidy of Angel Investing”, Danco 2019
“On Bloom’s Two Sigma Problem: A Systematic Review of the Effectiveness of Mastery Learning, Tutoring, and Direct Instruction”, Ricón 2019
“Knitting Community: Human and Social Capital in the Transition to Entrepreneurship”, Kim 2018
Knitting Community: Human and Social Capital in the Transition to Entrepreneurship
“Construction of Arbitrarily Strong Amplifiers of Natural Selection Using Evolutionary Graph Theory”, Pavlogiannis et al 2018
Construction of arbitrarily strong amplifiers of natural selection using evolutionary graph theory
“The Tim Ferriss Show Transcripts: Assessing Risk and Living Without a Rope—Lessons from Alex Honnold (#160) § The Climbing Industry”, Ferriss & Honnold 2018
“The Unrecognised Simplicities of Effective Action #2: ‘Systems Engineering’ and ‘Systems Management’—Ideas from the Apollo Programme for a `systems Politics`”, Cummings 2017
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“Better All the Time: How the ‘Performance Revolution’ Came to Athletics—And Beyond”, Surowiecki 2014
Better All the Time: How the ‘performance revolution’ came to athletics—and beyond
“Imre Festetics and the Sheep Breeders’ Society of Moravia: Mendel’s Forgotten ‘Research Network’”, Poczai et al 2014
Imre Festetics and the Sheep Breeders’ Society of Moravia: Mendel’s Forgotten ‘Research Network’
“Is The NIH A Cult?”, Eisen 2012
“Personal Best: Top Athletes and Singers Have Coaches. Should You?”, Gawande 2011
Personal Best: Top athletes and singers have coaches. Should you?
The Secret History of Star Wars, Kaminski 2008
“Taste for Makers”, Graham 2002
“Bloomberg on Bloomberg § on Philanthropy and Political Activism”, Bloomberg & Winkler 2001
Bloomberg on Bloomberg § on philanthropy and political activism
“Making Mathematics: The Coffee Connection”, Wieschenberg 1999
Making Mathematics: The Coffee Connection :
View PDF:
“The Power and the Gory”, Solotaroff 1990
“Augmenting Human Intellect: A Conceptual Framework § Pg82”, Engelbart 1962 (page 82)
“Rock Climbing and the Economics of Innovation”
“Roadmap to the Renaissance”
“What A Long, Strange Trip It’s Been: EleutherAI One Year Retrospective”
What A Long, Strange Trip It’s Been: EleutherAI One Year Retrospective
View External Link:
“S02 Episode 3: Subor Smash Brothers Ultimate: China’s Videogame Historians + Flash in the Pandemic + Gold Miner: Absolution + High IQue Society + Nintendo’s and Don’ts”
“Desystemize #9”
“On the Referendum #31: Project Maven, Procurement, Lollapalooza Results & Nuclear/AGI Safety”, Cummings 2026
On the referendum #31: Project Maven, procurement, lollapalooza results & nuclear/AGI safety
“What Hacking AOL Taught a Generation of Programmers: The Open Source Ethos behind Rogue AOL Add-Ons”
What hacking AOL taught a generation of programmers: The open source ethos behind rogue AOL add-ons
“Scenius, or Communal Genius”
View External Link:
“The Phantom Tyler Cowen”
“The High-Return Activity of Raising Others’ Aspirations”
“Jena, 1800”
“Pioneer”
“The YouTube Revolution in Knowledge Transfer”
“The Atomic Bomb Considered As Hungarian High School Science Fair Project”, Alexander 2026
The Atomic Bomb Considered As Hungarian High School Science Fair Project
“Book Review: History Of The Fabian Society”, Alexander 2026
“Submission #6347: Chef Stef’s NES Arkanoid warpless in 11:11.18”
Submission #6347: Chef Stef’s NES Arkanoid warpless in 11:11.18
“Better Eats”
“What the Success of Rock Climbing Tells Us about Economic Growth”
What the Success of Rock Climbing Tells Us about Economic Growth
“Tool-Assisted Speedrunning”
“One of Civilization’s Greatest Accomplishments”
One of Civilization’s Greatest Accomplishments
View External Link:
https://www.econlib.org/one-of-civilizations-greatest-accomplishments/
“EleutherAI”
“The Man Who Broke Bowling”
View External Link:
“Apprenticeship Online”
“Why Sweden Punches above Its Weight in Music”
“Mentorship, Management, and Mysterious Old Wizards”
“Analysis of World Records in Speedrunning [LINKPOST]”
“Studying the Limits of Human Perfection, Through Darts”
“Warrens, Plazas and the Edge of Legibility”
“A Pair of Recent Cheating Scandals—One in the ‘Speedrunning’ Community of Gamers, and One in Medical Research—Call Attention to an Alarming Contrast”
“PBA Televised 300 Game #35: Jason Belmonte”
Wikipedia (64)
Miscellaneous
https://aeon.co/essays/english-romanticism-was-born-from-a-serious-germanomaniahttps://patrickcollison.com/labsView External Link:
https://web.archive.org/web/20140725112211/https://www.wired.com/2012/06/ff_superhumans/https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=224735391342335&id=100014176268390https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-quest-to-decode-the-mandelbrot-set-maths-famed-fractal-20240126/
Bibliography
1986-hamming: “You And Your Research”,https://www.newyorker.com/culture/rabbit-holes/the-charming-bloke-who-dominates-geoguessr: “The Charming Bloke Who Dominates GeoGuessr: Tom Davies Has Become a Beloved Icon of the Google Maps Guessing Game”,2018-kim.pdf: “Knitting Community: Human and Social Capital in the Transition to Entrepreneurship”,https://www.nature.com/articles/s42003-018-0078-7: “Construction of Arbitrarily Strong Amplifiers of Natural Selection Using Evolutionary Graph Theory”,