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April 2016 News
Changelog
Gwern Branwen Creating Essays on Gwern.net
Genome-Wide Complex Trait Analysis
Candy Japan’s new box A/B test
Genome-wide association study identifies 74 loci associated with educational attainment
Everything Is Correlated
Genetic link between family socioeconomic status and children’s educational achievement estimated from genome-wide SNPs
LD Hub: a centralized database and web interface to perform LD score regression that maximizes the potential of summary level GWAS data for SNP heritability and genetic correlation analysis
https://ldsc.broadinstitute.org/about/
LD Score regression distinguishes confounding from polygenicity in genome-wide association studies
Detection and Interpretation of Shared Genetic Influences on 42 Human Traits
An Atlas of Genetic Correlations across Human Diseases and Traits
Genetic contributions to self-reported tiredness
Detection of human adaptation during the past 2000 years
Population structure of UK Biobank and ancient Eurasians reveals adaptation at genes influencing blood pressure
Quantitative Genetics in the Postmodern Family of the Donor Sibling Registry
Genetic evidence for natural selection in humans in the contemporary United States
2011-ciani.pdf
https://www.nature.com/articles/tp201662
2016-simonti.pdf
The MC1R Gene and Youthful Looks
Molecular genetic contributions to self-rated health
Continuous Evolution of Bacillus Thuringiensis Toxins Overcomes Insect Resistance
https://www.rifters.com/crawl/?p=6697
https://www.rifters.com/real/articles/God-has-sent-me-to-you-Right-temporal-epilepsy-left-prefrontal-psychosis.pdf
At Tampa Bay Farm-To-Table Restaurants, You’re Being Fed Fiction
One-shot Learning with Memory-Augmented Neural Networks
Programming with a Differentiable Forth Interpreter
FractalNet: Ultra-Deep Neural Networks without Residuals
Artistic style transfer for videos
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQk_Sfl7kSc
Deep Reinforcement Learning: Pong from Pixels
Book Review: Age of Em
What Should We Learn from Past AI Forecasts?
Jeffreys’ Substitution Posterior for the Median: A Nice Trick to Non-Parametrically Estimate the Median
When Lightning Strikes Twice
Dogs Test Drug Aimed at Humans’ Biggest Killer: Age
2016-martin.pdf
Could a Neuroscientist Understand a Microprocessor?
2002-lazebnik.pdf
The Brain As an Engineering Problem
https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2016.00642/full
A Second Year of Spaced Repetition Software in the Classroom
https://eprint.iacr.org/2016/464.pdf
The Mastermind Episode 1: An Arrogant Way of Killing
The Father of Modern Metal
Have I Been Pwned: Check If Your Email Has Been Compromised in a Data Breach
Going for the Gold: The Economics of the Olympics
Results of an international drug testing service for cryptomarket users
Railway Paradise: How a Fine-Dining Empire Made the Southwest Palatable to Outsiders
Spring and Fall
https://www.amazon.com/Titan-Life-John-Rockefeller-Sr/dp/1400077303
Gwern’s Review of Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr.
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Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins by Gerard Manley Hopkins
book#the-poems-of-gerard-manley-hopkins-hopkins-1976
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CORDYCEPS: Too Clever for Their Own Good - Chapter 1
book#the-empty-box-and-the-zeroth-maria-mikage-2009
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Anarchy Is Hyperbole: Significant Digits
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sUPoqaL-vs4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XG36h8Ow04g
Ringing Volcano
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aU7O_EEqXmU
This Apple Is Bad [~Bad Apple!!~]
[ComicMarket89] (Thj.quartet) Jazz Funk Live!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzHb608BOT0
Autumn Beat Adidkh Feat. Hatsune Miku
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=le-mO-ktiOU