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2. ​ ‘newsletter’ directory

3. ​ January 2019 News

4. ​ February 2019 News

5. ​ March 2019 News

6. ​ April 2019 News

7. ​ May 2019 News

8. ​ June 2019 News

9. ​ July 2019 News

10. ​ August 2019 News

11. ​ September 2019 News

12. ​ October 2019 News

13. ​ November 2019 News

14. ​ December 2019 News

15. ​ 2018 News

16. ​ 2017 News

17. ​ 2016 News

18. ​ 2015 News

19. ​ changelog#section-2

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20. ​ Making Anime Faces With StyleGAN

21. ​ GPT-2 Neural Network Poetry

22. ​ Danbooru2018 Is a Large-Scale Anime Image Database With 3.3m+ Images Annotated With 92.7m+ Tags; It Can Be Useful for Machine Learning Purposes such as Image Recognition and Generation.

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23. ​ How Should We Critique Research?

24. ​ One Man’s Modus Ponens

25. ​ Timing Technology: Lessons From The Media Lab

26. ​ Everything Is Correlated

27. ​ On Seeing Through and Unseeing: The Hacker Mindset

28. ​ Dog Cloning For Special Forces: Breed All You Can Breed

29. ​ Dog Cloning For Special Forces: Breed All You Can Breed § NBA Screening Scenario

30. ​ Rubrication Design Examples

31. ​ Design Of This Website

32. InflationAdjuster

33. popups.js

34. sidenotes.js

35. ​ Sidenotes In Web Design

36. ​ July 2019-January 2020 Gwern.net Traffic Statistics

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37. 2019 Gwern.net Site Traffic (Comparison With 2018)

38. Administrators of DeepDotWeb Indicted for Money Laundering Conspiracy, Relating to Kickbacks for Sales of Fentanyl, Heroin and Other Illegal Goods on the Darknet: Prior to the Website’s Seizure by the Federal Government, the Defendants Allegedly Referred Hundreds of Thousands of Users to Darknet Marketplaces, Who in Turn Completed Hundreds of Millions’ of Dollars’ Worth of Transactions in Drugs, Firearms and Other

39. ​ ‘OKCupid’ directory

40. The Rotten Library archives

41. MuZero: Mastering Atari, Go, Chess and Shogi by Planning with a Learned Model

42. ​ scaling-hypothesis#blessings-of-scale

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43. The Bitter Lesson

44. AI-GAs: AI-generating algorithms, an alternate paradigm for producing general artificial intelligence

45. Animal Breeding Plans, Lush 1943: ‘How Selection Changes A Population: Summary Of Results Expected From Mass Selection For Net Merit’, Pg161

46. The Efficiency of 3 Methods of Selection

47. Recovery of trait heritability from whole genome sequence data

48. The causal influence of brain size on human intelligence: Evidence from within-family phenotypic associations and GWAS modeling

49. Genetic analysis identifies molecular systems and biological pathways associated with household income

50. Genome-wide analysis identifies molecular systems and 149 genetic loci associated with income

51. Comparing within-family and between-family polygenic score prediction

52. Large-scale GWAS reveals insights into the genetic architecture of same-sex sexual behavior

53. Repurposing large health insurance claims data to estimate genetic and environmental contributions in 560 phenotypes

54. Extreme inbreeding in a European ancestry sample from the contemporary UK population

55. Controversial DNA screening technique used for at least one pregnancy

56. Total synthesis of Escherichia coli with a recoded genome

57. Technological challenges and milestones for writing genomes: Synthetic genomics requires improved technologies

58. Extensive Mammalian Germline Genome Engineering

59. Enabling large-scale genome editing by reducing DNA nicking

60. Functional Oocytes Derived from Granulosa Cells

61. Controlled modeling of human epiblast and amnion development using stem cells

62. Amid animal cruelty debate, 80% of South Korea’s sniffer dogs are cloned

63. Synthetic glycolate metabolism pathways stimulate crop growth and productivity in the field

64. Super-Mendelian inheritance mediated by CRISPR-Cas9 in the female mouse germline

65. Livestock 2.0—genome editing for fitter, healthier, and more productive farmed animals

66. Chinese Scientist Who Genetically Edited Babies Gets 3 Years in Prison: He Jiankui’s work was also carried out on a third infant, according to China’s state media, in a new disclosure that is likely to add to the global uproar over such experiments.

67. A genome-wide Approximate Bayesian Computation approach suggests only limited numbers of soft sweeps in humans over the last 100,000 years

68. Highly Heritable and Functionally Relevant Breed Differences in Dog Behavior

69. Absolute brain size predicts dog breed differences in executive function

70. Breed differences of heritable behavior traits in cats

71. Evolutionary Perspectives on Genetic and Environmental Risk Factors for Psychiatric Disorders

72. Thinking About the Evolution of Complex Traits in the Era of Genome-Wide Association Studies

73. Genetic contributions to variation in human stature in prehistoric Europe

74. Better Language Models and Their Implications

75. Language Models are Unsupervised Multitask Learners

76. MegatronLM: Training Billion+ Parameter Language Models Using GPU Model Parallelism

77. T5: Exploring the Limits of Transfer Learning with a Unified Text-to-Text Transformer

78. Huggingface: transformers repo

79. EfficientNet: Rethinking Model Scaling for Convolutional Neural Networks

80. Adversarial Examples Are Not Bugs, They Are Features

81. https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/bm7iix/r_adversarial_examples_arent_bugs_theyre_features/

82. MuseNet: a deep neural network that can generate 4-minute musical compositions with 10 different instruments, and can combine styles from country to Mozart to the Beatles

83. Generating Long Sequences with Sparse Transformers

84. Waifu Labs

85. Real-time Continuous Transcription with Live Transcribe

86. Reddit: Reinforcement Learning subreddit

87. Grandmaster level in StarCraft II using multi-agent reinforcement learning

88. AlphaStar: Grandmaster Level in StarCraft II Using Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning

89. Solving Rubik’s Cube with a Robot Hand

90. Solving Rubik’s Cube with a Robot Hand [blog]

91. Dota 2 with Large Scale Deep Reinforcement Learning

92. OpenAI Five: 2016–2019

93. Pluribus: Superhuman AI for multiplayer poker

94. Meta-learning of Sequential Strategies

95. Reinforcement Learning, Fast and Slow

96. Meta-learners’ learning dynamics are unlike learners’

97. Ray Interference: a Source of Plateaus in Deep Reinforcement Learning

98. Meta Reinforcement Learning

99. Learning to Predict Without Looking Ahead: World Models Without Forward Prediction [blog]

100. Learning to Predict Without Looking Ahead: World Models Without Forward Prediction

101. ICML 2019 Notes

102. Reward Tampering Problems and Solutions in Reinforcement Learning: A Causal Influence Diagram Perspective

103. Rigorous Large-Scale Educational RCTs Are Often Uninformative: Should We Be Concerned?

104. Meta-Research: A comprehensive review of randomized clinical trials in three medical journals reveals 396 medical reversals

105. Comparing meta-analyses and preregistered multiple-laboratory replication projects

106. The Big Crunch

107. 1960: The Year The Singularity Was Cancelled

108. We Need a New Science of Progress: Humanity needs to get better at knowing how to get better

109. Ingredients for creating disruptive research teams

110. Evidence on good forecasting practices from the Good Judgment Project

111. The maddening saga of how an Alzheimer’s ‘cabal’ thwarted progress toward a cure for decades

112. Objective subtle cognitive difficulties predict future amyloid accumulation and neurodegeneration

113. Registered reports: an early example and analysis

114. bioRxiv: the preprint server for biology

115. Constitutional Hardball

116. The Real War 1939–1945

117. Why Men Love War: Like all lust, for as long as it lasts it dominates everything else

118. Book Review: The Secret Of Our Success, Joseph Henrich

119. How Gullible are We? A Review of the Evidence from Psychology and Social Science

120. The Most Senseless Environmental Crime of the 20^th Century: Fifty years ago 180,000 whales disappeared from the oceans without a trace, and researchers are still trying to make sense of why. Inside the most irrational environmental crime of the century.

121. Avoid News: Towards a Healthy News Diet

122. Aztec Political Thought

123. Notes on Nggwal

124. https://teageegeepea.tripod.com/maumau.html

125. Anthropology’s Science Wars: Insights from a New Survey

126. https://public.tableau.com/app/profile/jurijfedorov#!/vizhome/AnthropologysScienceWars/Field

127. Dying the Christian Science way: the horror of my father’s last days; The anti-medical dogma of Christian Science led my father to an agonising death. Now the church itself is in decline—and it can’t happen fast enough

128. A century of research on Conscientiousness at work

129. How Replicable Are Links Between Personality Traits and Consequential Life Outcomes? The Life Outcomes of Personality Replication Project

130. The impact of background music on adult listeners: A meta-analysis

131. On Bloom’s two sigma problem: A systematic review of the effectiveness of mastery learning, tutoring, and direct instruction

132. Stereotype threat effects in settings with features likely versus unlikely in operational test settings: A meta-analysis

133. Debunking the Stanford Prison Experiment

134. Stanford professor who changed America with just one study was also a liar

135. A real-life Lord of the Flies: the troubling legacy of the Robbers Cave experiment; In the early 1950s, the psychologist Muzafer Sherif brought together a group of boys at a US summer camp—and tried to make them fight each other. Does his work teach us anything about our age of resurgent tribalism? [an extract from The Lost Boys]

136. What’s Wrong With Psychology Anyway?

137. What the voice inside your head says about you: We tend to assume that our internal monologue ‘speaks’ in words—but it turns out that, for many of us, it’s much more complicated

138. Toward a phenomenology of inner speaking

139. Doing Despite Disliking: Self-regulatory Strategies in Everyday Aversive Activities

140. Structured Procrastination

141. Enjoy it again: Repeat experiences are less repetitive than people think

142. Restoration of brain circulation and cellular functions hours post-mortem

143. A Look Back at 2019: Progress Towards the Treatment of Aging as a Medical Condition

144. Widespread associations between grey matter structure and the human phenome

145. Deep Intellect

146. Invisible Designers: Brain Evolution Through the Lens of Parasite Manipulation

147. The Family That Feels Almost No Pain: An Italian clan’s curious insensitivity to pain has piqued the interest of geneticists seeking a new understanding of how to treat physical suffering

148. Congregations of Tear Drinking Bees at Human Eyes: Foraging Strategies for an Invaluable Resource by Lisotrigona in Thailand (Apidae, Meliponini)

149. STEPS Toward Expressive Programming Systems: "A Science Experiment"

150. How Can We Develop Transformative Tools For Thought?

151. Andy Matuschak

152. Michael Nielsen

153. How Complex Systems Fail: Being a Short Treatise on the Nature of Failure; How Failure is Evaluated; How Failure is Attributed to Proximate Cause; and the Resulting New Understanding of Patient Safety

154. The Cosmic Distance Ladder

155. Why did we wait so long for the bicycle?

156. Hall’s Law: The 19^th Century Prequel to Moore’s Law

157. Measuring Long-term Impact of Ads on LinkedIn Feed

158. Cool Links of the Decade: 2010s

159. Kicks Condor

160. Chain Letter Evolution

161. Mother Earth Mother Board

162. Roads and Bridges: The Unseen Labor Behind Our Digital Infrastructure

163. The Changing Structure of American Innovation: Some Cautionary Remarks for Economic Growth

164. End-To-End Arguments In System Design

165. Observations on Errors, Corrections, & Trust of Dependent Systems

166. ​ ‘end-to-end’ directory

167. Anthropological invariants in travel behavior

168. Labour repression & the Indo-Japanese divergence

169. The Optimistic Thought Experiment

170. https://neojaponisme.com/2011/11/28/the-great-shift-in-japanese-pop-culture-part-one/

171. Part Two: The Implosion of Cultural Markets

172. Part Three: Mainstream Consumers versus Marginal Subcultures

173. Part Four: The Rise of Marginal Subcultures

174. Part Five: The Difficulty of Exporting Marginal Subcultures

175. Managing an iconic old luxury brand in a new luxury economy: Hermès handbags in the US market

176. https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1142799627600584704.html

177. Birkin Demand: A Sage & Stylish Investment

178. The Price of Nails since 1700: Even Simple Products Experienced Large Price Declines

179. The corporate governance of Benedictine abbeys

180. What Color are your bits?

181. Two Arms and a Head: The Death of a Newly Paraplegic Philosopher

182. Possible Girls

183. The Force That Drives the Flower

184. Consider the Lobster: For 56 years, the Maine Lobster Festival has been drawing crowds with the promise of sun, fun, and fine food. One visitor would argue that the celebration involves a whole lot more

185. https://www.infinityplus.co.uk/stories/colderwar.htm

186. The Proverbial Murder Mystery

187. The Study of Anglophysics

188. A science fiction writer of the Fifties

189. ​ Killing Rabbits

190. The First Sally (A), Or, Trurl’s Electronic Bard

191. How a Literary Prank Convinced Germany That ‘Hansel and Gretel’ Was Real: A 1963 book purported to prove that the siblings were murderous bakers

192. Neon Genesis Evangelion: Graphic designer Peiran Tan plumbs the typographic psyche of the celebrated anime franchise

193. Alien (Typeset In The Future)

194. Blade Runner (Typeset In The Future)

195. The Inner Life of Chinese Teenagers

196. https://www.amazon.com/Cultural-Revolution-Peoples-History-1962_1976/dp/1632864231

197. ​ Review Of The Cultural Revolution, Dikötter 2016

198. Visual Explanations: Images and Quantities, Evidence and Narrative, Tufte 1997

199. ​ December 2019 News § Visual Explanations: Images and Quantities, Evidence and Narrative

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200. ​ movie#free-solo

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201. ​ movie#weiner

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202. ​ Opera Reviews § Carmen

203. ​ opera#akhnaten

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204. ​ movie#stalker

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205. ​ movie#freaks

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206. ​ Opera Reviews § Manon

207. ​ Opera Reviews § Die Walküre

208. ​ Opera Reviews § Madama Butterfly

209. ​ movie#invasion-of-the-body-snatchers

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210. ​ anime#rurouni-kenshin-2014

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211. ​ anime#the-thief-and-the-cobbler

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212. ​ anime#redline

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213. ​ anime#made-in-abyss

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214. ​ anime#concurrency

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215. ​ anime#battle-angel-alita

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216. ​ MLP: Immanetizing The Equestrian

217. ​ anime#mlp-fim

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218. Wikipedia Bibliography:

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     2. Oculus Quest  :

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     3. Beat Saber  :

        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beat_Saber

     4. David Foster Wallace

     5. Gene Wolfe

     6. Brad Leithauser

     7. Roar (film)  :

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     8. Frank Dikötter  :

        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Dik%C3%B6tter

     9. Edward Tufte

     10. Free Solo

     11. Weiner (film)  :

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     12. Carmen  :

         https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carmen

     13. Akhnaten (opera)  :

         https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akhnaten_(opera)

     14. Stalker (1979 film)

     15. Sicario (2015 film)  :

         https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sicario_(2015_film)

     16. Freaks (1932 film)

     17. Manon  :

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     18. Die Walküre  :

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     19. Madama Butterfly  :

         https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madama_Butterfly

     20. Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978 film)  :

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     21. Rurouni Kenshin (film)  :

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     22. Rurouni Kenshin: Kyoto Inferno  :

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     23. Rurouni Kenshin: The Legend Ends  :

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     24. The Thief and the Cobbler  :

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     25. Redline (2009 film)  :

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     26. Made in Abyss

     27. The Tatami Galaxy

     28. Porco Rosso

     29. Alita: Battle Angel

     30. My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic

     31. My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (season 9)