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April 2020 News
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Changelog
Gwern Branwen Creating Essays on Gwern.net
Making Anime With BigGAN § Danbooru2019+e621 256px BigGAN
Anime Crop Datasets: Faces, Figures, & Hands § Danbooru2019 Figures
https://groups.google.com/g/hakyll/c/aFH9LHKyDZ8/m/-zY0SHdUBAAJ
Design Graveyard § srcset Mobile Optimization
popups.js
GPT-3: Language Models are Few-Shot Learners
GPT-3 paper § Figure F.1: Four uncurated completions from a context suggesting the model compose a poem in the style of Wallace Stevens with the title ‘Shadows on the Way’
GPT-3 Creative Fiction
GPT-2 Neural Network Poetry
GPT-3 Github JSON Dump Reformatted to Readable HTML
OpenAI API
The Scaling Hypothesis
scaling-hypothesis#human-perplexity
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Measuring the Algorithmic Efficiency of Neural Networks
AI and Efficiency: We’re releasing an analysis showing that since 2012 the amount of compute needed to train a neural net to the same performance on ImageNet classification has been decreasing by a factor of 2 every 16 months
Danny Hernandez on forecasting and the drivers of AI progress
Solving Real-World Linear Programs: A Decade and More of Progress
Algorithmic Progress in Six Domains
Intelligence Explosion Microeconomics
R2D2: Recurrent Experience Replay in Distributed Reinforcement Learning
IntelliCode Compose: Code Generation Using Transformer
ZeRO-2 & DeepSpeed: Shattering barriers of deep learning speed & scale
GrokNet: Unified Computer Vision Model Trunk and Embeddings For Commerce
Powered by AI: Advancing product understanding and building new shopping experiences
Deep neuroethology of a virtual rodent
AI-Powered Rat Could Be a Valuable New Tool for Neuroscience: Researchers from DeepMind and Harvard are using a virtual rat to see what neural networks can teach us about biology
Go-Explore: First return, then explore
Learning to Simulate Dynamic Environments with GameGAN
Learning to Simulate Dynamic Environments with GameGAN [homepage]
Learning to Simulate Dynamic Environments With GameGAN (CVPR 2020)
Neural Turing Machines
Exploring Bayesian Optimization: Breaking Bayesian Optimization into small, sizeable chunks
This Word Does Not Exist
This Fursona Does Not Exist
This Fursona Does Not Exist—Fursona Editor (Tensorflow Version)
Making Anime Faces With StyleGAN
Artbreeder
The Internet Furry Drama Raising Big Questions About Artificial Intelligence
Local genetic correlation analysis reveals heterogeneous etiologic sharing of complex traits
Identification of 370 genetic loci for age at first sex and birth linked to externalizing behavior
Genome-wide association study of school grades identifies a genetic overlap between language ability, psychopathology and creativity
GWAS of Depression Phenotypes in the Million Veteran Program and Meta-analysis in More than 1.2 Million Participants Yields 178 Independent Risk Loci
A Single Gene Causes Thelytokous Parthenogenesis, the Defining Feature of the Cape Honeybee Apis mellifera capensis
Insights into the genetic architecture of the human face
Sex-biased reduction in reproductive success drives selective constraint on human genes
Genome-wide analysis identifies genetic effects on reproductive success and ongoing natural selection at the FADS locus
Genome-wide analysis identifies 12 loci influencing human reproductive behavior
Mega-analysis of 31,396 individuals from 6 countries uncovers strong gene-environment interaction for human fertility
Sexual dimorphism in the genetic influence on human childlessness
Disentangling selection on genetically correlated polygenic traits using whole-genome genealogies
Recent advances in bovine in vitro embryo production: reproductive biotechnology history and methods
Variability in the analysis of a single neuroimaging dataset by many teams
Remembering John Conway’s FRACTRAN, a ridiculous, yet surprisingly deep language
FRACTRAN: A Simple Universal Programming Language for Arithmetic
Tumbling toast, Murphy’s Law and the fundamental constants
The Science of Murphy’s Law: Life’s little annoyances are not as random as they seem: the awful truth is that the universe is against you
Man’s size in terms of fundamental constants
A closer look at tumbling toast
On the tumbling toast problem
The Voluntariness of Voluntary Consent: Consent Searches and the Psychology of Compliance
It’s All about the Benjamins: An Empirical Study on Incentivizing Users to Ignore Security Advice
Everyday Life as an Intelligence Test: Effects of Intelligence and Intelligence Context § Conspiracy Rumors in Everyday Life
Progress Studies for Aspiring Young Scholars: An online summer program in the history of technology for high school students
Jason Crawford
Understanding Immunity through the Lens of Disease Ecology
Experimental Epidemiology
Experimental Epidemiology
Population biology of infectious diseases: Part I
Population biology of infectious diseases: Part II
Coevolution of hosts and parasites
Experimental Evolution of Parasites
History of Sabin attenuated poliovirus oral live vaccine strains
The Acquired Immune System: A Vantage from Beneath
The Greatest Host
Draining the swamp: How sanitation conquered disease long before vaccines or antibiotics
Everyday Life as an Intelligence Test: Effects of Intelligence and Intelligence Context
Objective and subjective experiences of child maltreatment and their relationships with psychopathology
Brainless but Multi-Headed: Decision Making by the Acellular Slime Mould Physarum polycephalum
I’m paid biweekly, just not by leprechauns: Evaluating valid-but-incorrect response rates to attention check items
‘Lizardman survey constant’ directory
Reflections on How Designers Design with Data
How Does the Adoption of Ad Blockers Affect News Consumption?
Banner Ads Considered Harmful
The 1-Bit Instrument: The Fundamentals of 1-Bit Synthesis, Their Implementational Implications, and Instrumental Possibilities
In Ohio, the Amish Take On the Coronavirus: A famously traditional community has mobilized to help hospitals with medical supplies, even as it struggles with reconciling its communal way of life with the dictates of social distancing.
The Great Paper Caper: Years of running drugs and boosting cars left Frank Bourassa thinking: There’s got to be an easier way to earn a dishonest living. That’s when he nerved up the idea to make his fortune. (Literally.) Which is how Frank became the most prolific counterfeiter in American history—a guy with more than $200 million in nearly flawless fake twenties stuffed in a garage. How he got away with it all, well, that’s even crazier.
My Immortal As Alchemical Allegory
Dead Reckoning: The 18th century misadventures of HMS Wager and her reluctant crew
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1589881427/
Book Reviews § The Battle Between the Frogs and the Mice, Stallings2019
Review Of The Cultural Revolution, Dikötter 2016
https://www.reddit.com/r/TOUHOUMUSIC/search/?q=author%3Agwern&sort=new&restrict_sr=on&t=all
Sept Jours sans Elle (Septette for the Dead Princess)
Une Semaine chez Les Écarlates (Embodiment of Scarlet Devil)
[Touhou Vocal] Raven’s Jig—Un Jour Joueur (Tomboyish Girl in Love)
Bons Et Mauvais Jours (Apparitions Stalk the Night)
II. The Journey [The Quest of the Lost Sapphire—Ep. 2]
Love And Reflection
Ignite
Etherium Apex—Second Prances (Vocal VIP) Ft. Nicole Carino
The Wasteland Wailers—Spun
Carbon Maestro—Equiterian Empire (Celestial Divide OST)
The Storm Is Coming VIP
Mare Cognitum (Feat. Velvet R. Wings)
https://poniesatdawn.bandcamp.com/album/dreamwalkerstrack/fire-city-day-night
What Remains
Anime Jazz Cover
https://www.amazon.com/Anime-Standards-Vol-Platina-Jazz/dp/B07YG536TT
SHINNN—Hope