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September 2018 News
‘newsletter’ directory
Changelog
Gwern Branwen Creating Essays on Gwern.net
MLP: Immanetizing The Equestrian
Origins of Innovation: Bakewell & Breeding
embryo-selection#overview-of-major-approaches
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Open Questions
What Is The Morning Writing Effect?
Genes, Education, and Labor Market Outcomes: Evidence from the Health and Retirement Study
Polygenic Score Analysis Of Educational Achievement And Intergenerational Mobility
Genetic Consequences of Social Stratification in Great Britain
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-018-32621-w
Refining the Accuracy of Validated Target Identification through Coding Variant Fine-Mapping in Type 2 Diabetes
https://web.archive.org/web/20181012051655/https://mccarthy.well.ox.ac.uk/2018/10/gwas-gift-keeps-giving/
Matt Hancock Announces Ambition to Map 5 Million Genomes
The First Successful Transplants in Man
The genetic relationship between female reproductive traits and six psychiatric disorders
An evolutionary compass for elucidating selection mechanisms shaping complex traits
Logo-Ativ
Embryo Selection For Intelligence
LifeView - PGT-P
Same-Sex Mice Parents Give Birth to Healthy Brood
De Novo Domestication of Wild Tomato Using Genome Editing
Gene editing restores dystrophin expression in a canine model of Duchenne muscular dystrophy
R2D2: Recurrent Experience Replay in Distributed Reinforcement Learning
Multi-task Deep Reinforcement Learning with PopArt
Preserving Outputs Precisely While Adaptively Rescaling Targets
Exploration by Random Network Distillation
Reinforcement Learning With Prediction-Based Rewards
Large Scale GAN Training for High Fidelity Natural Image Synthesis
BigGAN-PyTorch: The Author’s Officially Unofficial PyTorch BigGAN Implementation
https://x.com/search?f=tweets&vertical=default&q=BigGAN&src=typd
https://colab.research.google.com/github/tensorflow/hub/blob/master/examples/colab/biggan_generation_with_tf_hub.ipynb#scrollTo=Cd1dhL4Ykbm7
Artbreeder
https://x.com/quasimondo/status/1064230996793614338
WBE & DRL: a Middle Way of imitation learning on brains
https://www.reddit.com/r/SelfDrivingCars/comments/9rkwet/alphabets_waymo_begins_charging_passengers_for/
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aaf0918
https://www.science.org/content/article/about-40-economics-experiments-fail-replication-survey-rev2
https://ecommons.cornell.edu/server/api/core/bitstreams/1ea8a5a0-76f9-46ed-bf60-f6aa7b3413ca/content
Disentangling Bias and Variance in Election Polls
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/2515245917747646
Logging Hypotheses and Protocols Before Performing Research Seems to Work As Intended: to Reduce Publication Bias for Positive Results
Social Processes and Proofs of Theorems and Programs
Fidelity in Mathematical Discourse: Is One and One Really Two?
Some Proposals for Reviving the Philosophy of Mathematics
The Existential Risk of Math Errors
Book Review: History Of The Fabian Society
Violence and the Sacred: College as an incubator of Girardian terror
Sort By Controversial
Great Expectations: The Case of Horatio Nelson and the Role of Confidence in Military Genius
Why Do Humans Reason? Arguments for an Argumentative Theory
An Evaluation (and Vindication?) of Lewis Terman: What the Father of Gifted Education Can Teach the 21st Century
https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/cw9qs
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1617102114
The Wax and Wane of Ovulating-Woman Science: Evolutionary Psychology Has Long Been Mocked for Its Weird Obsession With the Menstrual Cycle, but at Least a Sliver of That Work Has Held up to Scrutiny
Psychedelic Psilocybin Therapy for Depression Granted Breakthrough Therapy Status by FDA
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/5GnwjxbL3SQ7gjRn6/open-thread-july-16-22-2013?commentId=gFRKkcyXDTiKkug56
The Darwin Awards: Sex Differences in Idiotic Behaviour
The New Science of Seeing Around Corners: Computer Vision Researchers Have Uncovered a World of Visual Signals Hiding in Our Midst, including Subtle Motions That Betray What’s Being Said and Faint Images of What’s around a Corner
Project Strobe: Protecting Your Data, Improving Our Third-Party APIs, and Sunsetting Consumer Google+
The Second Century CE Roman Watermills of Barbegal: Unraveling the Enigma of One of the Oldest Industrial Complexes
Economic Growth in Ancient Rome
The Invisible Library: Can Digital Technology Make the Herculaneum Scrolls Legible After Two Thousand Years?
The Long Shot
https://www.antonhowes.com/uploads/2/1/0/8/21082490/howes_innovator_skills_working_paper_may_2017.pdf
How Technology Grows (A Restatement of Definite Optimism)
https://www.kalzumeus.com/2018/10/19/japanese-hometown-tax/
https://www.wsj.com/world/asia/taxes-japan-thank-you-gifts-dcfec436
Collecting and the Age of Memeing
So You Want to Open a Small Press…
Rob Wiblin Interviews Tyler on Stubborn Attachments (BONUS)
The Comforting Fictions of Dementia Care
Doing Enough
The Making of Final Fantasy VII
Vectors 3.0: Even More Aphorisms and Ten-Second Essays
The Slaughterhouse of Literature
Graphs, Maps, Trees: Abstract Models for a Literary History § Chapter 3: Trees
https://www.amazon.com/Graphs-Maps-Trees-Abstract-Literary/dp/1844671852
Adventures of a Man of Science
Losing Your Grip: Futility and Dramatic Necessity in Shadow of the Colossus
Well Played 1.0
The Last Samurai
https://www.amazon.com/Donald-Michie-Machine-intelligence-biology/dp/0199573042
book#donald-michie-michie-2009
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anime#incredibles-2
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MLP: Immanetizing The Equestrian
mlp#music
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