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Gwern.net newsletter (Substack subscription page)
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February 2020 News
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‘newsletter’ directory
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Changelog
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Gwern Branwen Creating Essays on Gwern.net
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Calculating The Gaussian Expected Maximum § Probability of Bivariate Maximum
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darkmode.js
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The genetic architecture of the human cerebral cortex
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Genetic Architecture of Complex Traits and Disease Risk Predictors
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Agent57: Outperforming the Atari Human Benchmark
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Agent57: Outperforming the human Atari benchmark
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Never Give Up: Learning Directed Exploration Strategies
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MuZero: Mastering Atari, Go, Chess and Shogi by Planning with a Learned Model
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AutoML-Zero: Evolving Machine Learning Algorithms From Scratch
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AutoML-Zero: Open source code for the paper: "AutoML-Zero: Evolving Machine Learning Algorithms From Scratch"
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AutoML-Zero: Evolving Code That Learns
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Evolution as Backstop for Reinforcement Learning
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15.ai
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2020-04-01-fifteenai-twilightsparkle-telephonecall.mp3
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2020-03-28-fifteenai-ensemble-hellofellowhumans.mp3
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2020-03-30-fifteenai-twilightsparkle-sel-presentdaypresenttime.mp3
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2020-03-06-fifteenai-fluttershy-sithcode.mp3
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2020-03-06-fifteenai-twilightsparkle-sithcode.mp3
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Pony Voice Event—What People Forced Ponies to Say!
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Train Large, Then Compress: Rethinking Model Size for Efficient Training and Inference of Transformers
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Scaling Laws for Neural Language Models
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Rethinking Parameter Counting in Deep Models: Effective Dimensionality Revisited
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Bayesian Deep Learning and a Probabilistic Perspective of Generalization
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On Linear Identifiability of Learned Representations
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A controlled trial for reproducibility: For three years, part of DARPA has funded two teams for each project: one for research and one for reproducibility. The investment is paying off.
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Altering the threshold of an excitable signal transduction network changes cell migratory modes
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Modular and tunable biological feedback control using a de novo protein switch
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De novo design of bioactive protein switches
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Bacterial variability in the mammalian gut captured by a single-cell synthetic oscillator
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Cassiosomes are stinging-cell structures in the mucus of the upside-down jellyfish Cassiopea xamachana
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A long journey to reproducible results: Replicating our work took four years and 100,000 worms but brought surprising discoveries
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Impact of genetic background and experimental reproducibility on identifying chemical compounds with robust longevity effects
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The Ph.D. Grind: A Ph.D. Student Memoir
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What Does Any of This Have To Do with Physics? Einstein and Feynman ushered me into grad school, reality ushered me out
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The most predictable disaster in the history of the human race: This is what Bill Gates is afraid of
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‘It’s Just Everywhere Already’: How Delays in Testing Set Back the US Coronavirus Response: A series of missed chances by the federal government to ensure more widespread testing came during the early days of the outbreak, when containment would have been easier
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Book Review: Hoover [review of Whyte’s Hoover: An Extraordinary Life In Extraordinary Times]
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https://www.amazon.com/Hoover-Extraordinary-Life-Times/dp/030774387X
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Myopic Voters and Natural Disaster Policy
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How Near-Miss Events Amplify or Attenuate Risky Decision Making
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Reddit and the Struggle to Detoxify the Internet: How do we fix life online without limiting free speech?
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Inside the Soviet Union’s secret pornography collection: Off limits to the public but enjoyed by Soviet-era leaders, the Lenin Library collection grew out of erotica confiscated from aristocrats after the revolution
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Russia’s House of Shadows: My apartment building was made to house the first generation of Soviet élite. Instead, it was where the revolution went to die
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In the 1980s, a Far-Left, Female-Led Domestic Terrorism Group Bombed the US Capitol: Historian William Rosenau investigates the May 19th Communist Organization in a new book about the little-known militant group
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Radical Solutions: French mathematician Évariste Galois lived a full life. When he wasn’t trying to overthrow the government, he was reinventing algebra
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Going Critical
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Public health interventions and epidemic intensity during the 1918 influenza pandemic
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How (and How Not) to Battle Flu: A Tale of 23 Cities: Scientists are still studying the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, the deadliest of the 20th century, looking for lessons for future outbreaks
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Is the 1918 Influenza Pandemic Over? Long-Term Effects of In Utero Influenza Exposure in the Post-1940 US Population
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The Lasting Effects of the 1918 Influenza Pandemic
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Why do dozens of diseases wax and wane with the seasons—and will COVID-19?
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The calendar of epidemics: Seasonal cycles of infectious diseases
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Association between viral seasonality and meteorological factors
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Tripping on nothing: placebo psychedelics and contextual factors
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Beliefs About Human Intelligence in a Sample of Teachers and Nonteachers
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Orangutans, Resistance and the Zoo
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The History of the URL
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Old CSS, New CSS
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Zip Files: History, Explanation and Implementation
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Google-Wide Profiling: A Continuous Profiling Infrastructure for Data Centers
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Seeing the World in a Bag of Chips
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How to See the World’s Reflection From a Bag of Chips: Computer scientists reconstructed the image of a whole room using the reflection from a snack package. It’s useful for AR/VR research—and possibly spying
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How Cameo Turned D-List Celebs Into a Monetization Machine: Inside the surreal and lucrative two-sided marketplace of mediocre famous people
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How Cameo Blew Up During Quarantine
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Status as a Service
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The Shadow Of The Torturer: The Master of the Curators
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