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August 2016 News
Changelog
Gwern Branwen Creating Essays on Gwern.net
Catnip immunity and alternatives
Catnip Survey, 2016
Genome-wide association study of antisocial personality disorder
The Causal Effects of Education on Health, Mortality, Cognition, Well-being, and Income in the UK Biobank
https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms9842
Genomic analyses for age at menarche identify 389 independent signals and indicate BMI-independent effects of puberty timing on cancer susceptibility
Evidence that lower socioeconomic position accentuates genetic susceptibility to obesity
https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-uncounted-surveillance/
The Iron Law Of Evaluation And Other Metallic Rules
The Terrorism Delusion: America’s Overwrought Response to September 11
The Disappeared
The Autobiography of Malcolm X Book Club, Part 2
WaveNet: A Generative Model for Raw Audio
Target-driven Visual Navigation in Indoor Scenes using Deep Reinforcement Learning
Target-Driven Visual Navigation in Indoor Scenes Using Deep Reinforcement Learning [Video]
Deep Neural Networks for YouTube Recommendations
Photo-Realistic Single Image Super-Resolution Using a Generative Adversarial Network
HyperNetworks
Hypernetworks [Blog]
https://web.archive.org/web/20170104185622/http://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~junyanz/projects/gvm/
https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/9ae8/65620a9a3565e8e4ce8ea988d4af598c0e81.pdf
The Neural Network Zoo
Saving Science
Probing the Improbable: Methodological Challenges for Risks with Low Probabilities and High Stakes
https://eml.berkeley.edu/~sdellavi/wp/expertsJul16.pdf
https://www.math.uvic.ca/faculty/diacu/diacuNbody.pdf
Droppings
https://www.reddit.com/r/estimation/top/?sort=top&t=all
Morphometricity as a measure of the neuroanatomical signature of a trait
Morphometric Similarity Networks Detect Microscale Cortical Organization and Predict Inter-Individual Cognitive Variation
Intact Connectional Morphometricity Learning Using Multi-View Morphological Brain Networks With Application to Autism Spectrum Disorder
Phenomic selection: a low-cost and high-throughput alternative to genomic selection
2006-harris.pdf
How to Raise a Genius: Lessons from a 45-Year Study of Supersmart Children
Does Reading a Single Passage of Literary Fiction Really Improve Theory of Mind? An Attempt at Replication
Failing Your Goals With Beeminder
https://www.cs.toronto.edu/~sme/papers/2016/icer_2016_bimodal.pdf
Thomas Jefferson’s Moose: How the Founding Fathers Debunked Count Buffon’s Offensive Theory of New World Degeneracy
Syphilis in renaissance Europe: rapid evolution of an introduced sexually transmitted disease?
https://www.nature.com/articles/nature.2012.11447
2012-eckerberg.pdf
Capacity-approaching DNA storage
https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~sps32/ches2012-backdoor.pdf
https://dwheeler.com/trusting-trust/
Turning 8-Bit Sprites into Printable 3D Models
Magic: the Gathering Is Turing Complete
https://web.archive.org/web/20200210003605/https://evonomics.com/do-immigrants-import-their-economic-destiny-garrett-jones/
https://static1.1.sqspcdn.com/static/f/884336/27221040/1472677302137/MortonSalt_aug2016.pdf
Signaling and Productivity in the Private Financial Returns to Schooling
China’s Gold Rush in the Hills of Appalachia
https://static1.squarespace.com/static/56afbfd58a65e261b705f1f9/t/56b3b47d4d088e094eb0d31f/1454617726047/goodluck.pdf
Ramit Sethi and Patrick McKenzie on Getting Your First Consulting Client
Lehman Brothers, We Heard You Were Dead
New Paper: "Logical Induction"
Not By Empathy Alone
2012-alexander-thewiseststeelman.html
Exhalation - Lightspeed Magazine
The Merchant and the Alchemist’s Gate
https://www.amazon.com/Modern-Japanese-Diaries-Donald-Keene/dp/0231114435
book#modern-japanese-diaries-keene-1999
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https://www.amazon.com/Bridge-Lucy-Dunne-Exurb1a-ebook/dp/B01F7IQEHC
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anime#ringing-bell
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anime#soul-eater
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