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July 2020 News
‘newsletter’ directory
Changelog
Gwern Branwen Creating Essays on Gwern.net
Sidenotes In Web Design
Highly Potent Drugs As Psychological Warfare Weapons
‘Lizardman survey constant’ directory
The Bitter Lesson
Accuracy and Performance Comparison of Video Action Recognition Approaches
A Metric Learning Reality Check
Self-supervised learning through the eyes of a child
SAYCam: A large, longitudinal audiovisual dataset recorded from the infant’s perspective
Deep neuroethology of a virtual rodent
dm_control: Software and Tasks for Continuous Control
The remarkable, yet not extraordinary, human brain as a scaled-up primate brain and its associated cost
The Node Is Nonsense: There are better ways to measure progress than the old Moore’s law metric
Measuring hardware overhang
Sibling validation of polygenic risk scores and complex trait prediction
Polygenic Scores for Cognitive Abilities and their Association with Different Aspects of General Intelligence—a Deep Phenotyping Approach
Genetic testing of dogs predicts problem behaviors in clinical and nonclinical samples
Highly Heritable and Functionally Relevant Breed Differences in Dog Behavior
Objecting to experiments even while approving of the policies or treatments they compare
Epigenetic clocks: A review
TRIIM: Reversal of epigenetic aging and immunosenescent trends in humans
Reversal of Epigenetic Age with Diet and Lifestyle in a Pilot Randomized Clinical Trial
The quest to slow ageing through drug discovery
Atribacteria reproducing over millions of years in the Atlantic abyssal subseafloor
Exploring the persome: The power of the item in understanding personality structure
Everything Is Correlated
Better All the Time: How the ‘performance revolution’ came to athletics—and beyond
Personal Best: Top athletes and singers have coaches. Should you?
Does Management Matter? Evidence from India
The Impact of Consulting Services on Small and Medium Enterprises: Evidence from a Randomized Trial in Mexico
95%-ile isn’t that good
Worker Rush: Descent to Bronze
Playing to Win Overview
The Scent of the Nile: Jean-Claude Ellena creates a new perfume
Computer Optimization: Your Computer Is Faster Than You Think
There’s plenty of room at the Top: What will drive computer performance after Moore’s law?
‘end-to-end’ directory
Why Tool AIs Want to Be Agent AIs
Seymour Cray Was Famous for Packing, Powering, and Cooling Circuits Incredibly Densely. Classic Crays Were Made Obsolete by Microprocessors, but We May yet Do Similar Things at a Larger Scale. Hyperscale Data Centers and Even National Supercomputers Are Loosely Coupled Things Today, but If Challenges Demanded It, There Is a World With a Zetta Scale, Tightly Integrated, Low Latency Matrix Dissipating a Gigawatt in a Swimming Pool of Circulating Fluorinert.
Scalability! But at what COST?
You’re Doing It Wrong: Think you’ve mastered the art of server performance? Think again.
Sample Factory: Egocentric 3D Control from Pixels at 100,000 FPS with Asynchronous Reinforcement Learning
What Every Programmer Should Know About Memory
What it takes to run Stack Overflow
It’s the Latency, Stupid
Computer latency: 1977–2017
Keyboard latency
Terminal Latency
Local-first software: You own your data, in spite of the cloud [web]
Local-First Software: You Own Your Data, in spite of the Cloud [paper]
Web Bloat
Inukshuk: Caribou Drive Lanes on Southern Victoria Island, Nunavut, Canada
The case of the barnacled crystal
Moving off the Map: How Knowledge of Organizational Operations Empowers and Alienates
The Age of Reason: Financial Decisions over the Life Cycle and Implications for Regulation
An Autobiographical Essay
Singular: Possible futures of the singularity
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ENS-0038 / Sprout Intention(スプラウト・インテンション)
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