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RNN Metadata for Mimicking Author Style
Genome-Wide Complex Trait Analysis
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2016-plomin.pdf
The Genetics of Success: How Single-Nucleotide Polymorphisms Associated With Educational Attainment Relate to Life-Course Development
Genome-wide association study of cognitive functions and educational attainment in UK Biobank (n = 112 151)
Genome-wide association study identifies 74 loci associated with educational attainment
https://www.nature.com/articles/mp2016107
https://static-content.springer.com/esm/art%3A10.1038%2Fmp.2016.107/MediaObjects/41380_2017_BFmp2016107_MOESM351_ESM.pdf
Molecular genetic contributions to social deprivation and household income in UK Biobank (n = 112,151)
2016-hill-ses-health-geneticcorrelations.jpg
Genetic link between family socioeconomic status and children’s educational achievement estimated from genome-wide SNPs
Genome-wide association study of antisocial personality disorder
Genetic Risk for Autism Spectrum Disorders and Neuropsychiatric Variation in the General Population
https://www.nature.com/articles/tp201662
2016-ganna.pdf
Cognitive Performance Among Carriers of Pathogenic Copy Number Variants: Analysis of 152,000 UK Biobank Subjects
Older fathers’ children have lower evolutionary fitness across four centuries and in four populations
Shared genetic aetiology between cognitive functions and physical and mental health in UK Biobank (n = 112,151) and 24 GWAS consortia
Detection and Interpretation of Shared Genetic Influences on 42 Human Traits
An Atlas of Genetic Correlations across Human Diseases and Traits
Phenome-wide Heritability Analysis of the UK Biobank
Genetic relationship between five psychiatric disorders estimated from genome-wide SNPs
Analysis of shared heritability in common disorders of the brain
2016-lo.pdf
Genetic variants associated with subjective well-being, depressive symptoms, and Neuroticism identified through genome-wide analyses
Association between Stressful Life Events and Psychotic Experiences in Adolescence: Evidence for Gene–environment Correlations
https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/genetics/articles/10.3389/fgene.2016.00149/full
https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms9842
Physical and neurobehavioral determinants of reproductive onset and success
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
The Causal Effects of Education on Health, Mortality, Cognition, Well-being, and Income in the UK Biobank
https://academic.oup.com/ije/article/46/2/421/2617257
Educational Attainment and Personality Are Genetically Intertwined
Detection of human adaptation during the past 2000 years
Population structure of UK Biobank and ancient Eurasians reveals adaptation at genes influencing blood pressure
2016-fan.pdf
Genetic evidence for natural selection in humans in the contemporary United States
Improved CRISPR–Cas9: Safe and Effective?
High-Fidelity CRISPR–Cas9 Nucleases With No Detectable Genome-Wide Off-Target Effects
2016-slaymaker.pdf
Introducing Precise Genetic Modifications into Human 3PN Embryos by CRISPR/Cas-Mediated Genome Editing
2016-boeke.pdf
Scientists Announce HGP-Write, Project to Synthesize the Human Genome
The Move by Chinese Scientists Could Spark a Biomedical Duel between China and the United States
Engineering the Perfect Baby: Scientists Are Developing Ways to Edit the DNA of Tomorrow‘s Children. Should They Stop Before It’s Too Late?
Google’s Multilingual Neural Machine Translation System: Enabling Zero-Shot Translation
Found in Translation: More Accurate, Fluent Sentences in Google Translate
Hybrid computing using a neural network with dynamic external memory
Differentiable Neural Computers
Scaling Memory-Augmented Neural Networks with Sparse Reads and Writes
Progressive Neural Networks
Sim-to-Real Robot Learning from Pixels with Progressive Nets
Overcoming catastrophic forgetting in neural networks
Actor-Mimic: Deep Multitask and Transfer Reinforcement Learning
Decoupled Neural Interfaces using Synthetic Gradients
Decoupled Neural Interfaces Using Synthetic Gradients
Outrageously Large Neural Networks: The Sparsely-Gated Mixture-of-Experts Layer
One-shot Learning with Memory-Augmented Neural Networks
Programming with a Differentiable Forth Interpreter
DeepCoder: Learning to Write Programs
Learning to superoptimize programs
http://cl-informatik.uibk.ac.at/cek/holstep/ckfccs-holstep-submitted.pdf
https://proceedings.neurips.cc/paper/2014/file/8bb88f80d334b1869781beb89f7b73be-Paper.pdf
WaveNet: A Generative Model for Raw Audio
Achieving Human Parity in Conversational Speech Recognition
Lip Reading Sentences in the Wild
Lip Reading Sentences in the Wild [Video]
LipNet: End-to-End Sentence-level Lipreading
LipNet: How Easy Do You Think Lipreading Is?
Mastering the game of Go with deep neural networks and tree search
Neural Architecture Search with Reinforcement Learning
Designing Neural Network Architectures using Reinforcement Learning
Learning to reinforcement learn
Value Iteration Networks
The Predictron: End-To-End Learning and Planning
Unifying Count-Based Exploration and Intrinsic Motivation
Playing Montezuma’s Revenge With Intrinsic Motivation
Asynchronous Methods for Deep Reinforcement Learning
Reinforcement Learning with Unsupervised Auxiliary Tasks
Loss is its own Reward: Self-Supervision for Reinforcement Learning
https://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/people/yarin.gal/website/blog_2248.html
Learning Hand-Eye Coordination for Robotic Grasping with Deep Learning and Large-Scale Data Collection
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXaic_k80uM
Deep Reinforcement Learning for Robotic Manipulation with Asynchronous Off-Policy Updates
https://sites.google.com/site/deeproboticmanipulation/
How Robots Can Acquire New Skills from Their Shared Experience
When Quality Beats Quantity: Decision Theory, Drug Discovery, and the Reproducibility Crisis
https://www.exp-platform.com/Documents/2012-09%20ACMRecSysNR.pdf
2015-franco.pdf
Publication bias in the social sciences: Unlocking the file drawer
How Often Does Correlation=Causality?
Comparison of Evidence of Treatment Effects in Randomized and Nonrandomized Studies
2006-shikata.pdf
A Comparison of Approaches to Advertising Measurement: Evidence from Big Field Experiments at Facebook
https://www.nature.com/articles/532306a
Saving Science
For Decades, Some Psychologists Have Claimed That Bilinguals Have Better Mental Control. Their Work Is Now Being Called into Question.
How Kalman Filters Work, Part 1
Generalized Network Psychometrics: Combining Network and Latent Variable Models
Statistically Controlling for Confounding Constructs Is Harder than You Think
Evaluating the Effect of Inadequately Measured Variables in Partial Correlation Analysis
Regression Fallacies in the Matched Groups Experiment
Control of Spurious Association and the Reliability of the Controlled Variable
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When Lightning Strikes Twice
Anne Roe’s Scientists: Original Published Papers
From Terman to Today
Heads or Tails: The Impact of a Coin Toss on Major Life Decisions and Subsequent Happiness
2016-orquin.pdf
Replicability Report #1: Is Ego-Depletion a Replicable Effect?
Smarter Than The Average Bug
Iterating Towards Bethelhem
‘𝑃𝑜𝑟𝑡𝑖𝑎 spider’ directory
Childhood forecasting of a small segment of the population with large economic burden
2016-caspi-figure4-dunedin-highvslowiq-socialcosts.jpg
Clustering of health, crime and social-welfare inequality in 4 million citizens from two nations
The Life-Changing Magic of Mushrooms: A Single Dose of Magic Mushrooms Can Make People With Severe Anxiety and Depression Better for Months, according to a Landmark Pair of New Studies.
2016-carhartharris.pdf
2016-griffiths.pdf
2016-ross.pdf
Survey Study of Challenging Experiences After Ingesting Psilocybin Mushrooms: Acute and Enduring Positive and Negative Consequences
2016-nutt.pdf
Aldehyde-Stabilized Cryopreservation
Small Mammal BPF Prize Winning Announcement
Aldehyde Stabilized Cryopreserved Rabbit Brain Evaluation Images
The Brain Preservation Foundation’s Small Mammalian Brain Prize Won
2015-gepner.pdf
Long-Term Outcomes Associated with Traumatic Brain Injury in Childhood and Adolescence: A Nationwide Swedish Cohort Study of a Wide Range of Medical and Social Outcomes
2016-martin.pdf
Evolution of the Human Brain: From Matter to Mind
An Evolutionary Burst 540 Million Years Ago Filled the Seas With an Astonishing Diversity of Animals. The Trigger behind That Revolution Is Finally Coming into Focus.
The Iron Law Of Evaluation And Other Metallic Rules
The Strategic Consequences of Chinese Racism: A Strategic Asymmetry for the United States
A Bigger Problem Than ISIS?
https://www.cia.gov/static/87bb92c0a274fdf9beb87b5163efd4ef/Okhrana-The-Paris-Operations.pdf
https://web.archive.org/web/20160130041021/http://reprints.longform.org/perry-once-upon-a-jihad
Experiencing Ecstasy
My Year in San Francisco’s $2 Million Secret Society Startup
Introduction to the Economics of Religion
How a Detachment of U.S. Army Soldiers Smoked out the Original Ku Klux Klan
Did Jesus Have a Wife?
Karen King Says the ‘Jesus's Wife’ Papyrus Fragment Is Likely a Forgery
Wealth, Health, and Child Development: Evidence from Administrative Data on Swedish Lottery Players
At Tampa Bay Farm-To-Table Restaurants, You’re Being Fed Fiction
The Mastermind Episode 1: An Arrogant Way of Killing
https://web.cs.ucdavis.edu/~rogaway/papers/moral-fn.pdf
Stargate Physics 101
https://cacm.acm.org/research/lessons-learned-from-30-years-of-minix/
https://www.usenix.org/system/files/1309_14-17_mickens.pdf
Joel on Software: Strategy Letter V
DDoSCoin: Cryptocurrency with a Malicious Proof-of-Work
https://eprint.iacr.org/2016/464.pdf
Sam Altman’s Manifest Destiny: Is the head of Y Combinator fixing the world, or trying to take over Silicon Valley?
The Distribution of Users’ Computer Skills: Worse Than You Think
The Life of American Workers in 1915
2016-beach.pdf
https://static1.1.sqspcdn.com/static/f/884336/27221040/1472677302137/MortonSalt_aug2016.pdf
https://scholar.harvard.edu/files/fryer/files/handbook_fryer_03.25.2016.pdf
Going for the Gold: The Economics of the Olympics
https://economics.stanford.edu/sites/default/files/djprice_jmp.pdf
Inside The Global ‘Club’ That Helps Executives Escape Their Crimes
The View from Above: Applications of Satellite Data in Economics
2016-kelly.pdf
What Do Criminal Records Tell Us about Adam Smith and the Industrial Revolution?
2016-moser.pdf
American Economic Association
The Case Against Everyone’s Favorite Tax Break: The Mortgage Interest Deduction
New Paper: "Logical Induction"
Time Travel and Computing
Towards an integration of deep learning and neuroscience
Probing the Improbable: Methodological Challenges for Risks with Low Probabilities and High Stakes
Not By Empathy Alone
Technology Will Destroy Human Nature
2012-sistery-tryingtoseethrough.html
Exhalation - Lightspeed Magazine
https://web.archive.org/web/20010802144026/http://www.tor.com/72ltrs.html
https://web.archive.org/web/20161021035119/http://www.ibooksonline.com/88/Text/hell.html
The Merchant and the Alchemist’s Gate
https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/qntm-s-author-page#toc2
Spring and Fall
The Manyoshu: The Nippon Gakujutsu Shinkokai Translation of One Thousand Poems With the Texts in Romaji § Pg197
Poverty
Design by Robert Frost - Poems
Sanderson’s First Law
https://www.amazon.com/Dont-Sleep-There-Are-Snakes/dp/0307386120
https://www.amazon.com/Life-Sir-Francis-Galton-Exploration/dp/0195143655
The Sports Gene
https://www.amazon.com/Fortunes-Formula-Scientific-Betting-Casinos/dp/0809045990
The Theory of Special Operations
https://www.amazon.com/Titan-Life-John-Rockefeller-Sr/dp/1400077303
https://www.amazon.com/Genius-Factory-Curious-History-Nobel/dp/0812970527
https://www.amazon.com/Riddle-Labyrinth-Quest-Crack-Ancient/dp/0062228862
Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins by Gerard Manley Hopkins
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