This is the March 2014 edition of the Gwern.net ML; the previous was February.
This is a summarized version of the revision-history RSS feed, overlapping with the Changelog page. It also includes material from my Google+ & LW media threads.
Writings
Bitcoin:
Tech:
Media
Links
Politics/religion:
- “How Interest Rates Were Set, 2500 BC–1000 AD”
- “How Successful Was Christianity?”
- “How is the biomarker ID aid plan going in India?”
- “The Chaos Company: Wherever governments can’t—or won’t—maintain order, from oil fields in Africa to airports in Britain and nuclear facilities in America, the London-based ‘global security’ behemoth G4S has been filling the void”
- “Book Review: A Poisonous Affair: America, Iraq, and the Gassing of Halabja, by Joost R. Hiltermann”
Statistics:
- “Laplace the Bayesianista and the Mass of Saturn”
- “Why do Phase III Trials of Promising Heart Failure Drugs Often Fail? The Contribution of ‘Regression to the Truth’”, 2003
- “The Efficacy of Psychological, Educational, and Behavioral Treatment: Confirmation From Meta-Analysis”, 1993 (I love these meta-meta-analyses, since they let you say things like ‘Published studies yield mean effects 0.14 SDs larger than unpublished studies.’ Isn’t that useful to know?)
Literature:
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“Sanderson’s First Law” of fantasy
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Ted Chiang:
Medicine:
- “Biomarkers and Long-term Labour Market Outcomes: The Case of Creatine”, et al 2014
- Caloric restriction, evidence pyramid, and drug risks
- “Meta-Regression Analyses, Meta-Analyses, and Trial Sequential Analyses of the Effects of Supplementation with Beta-Carotene, Vitamin A, and Vitamin E Singly or in Different Combinations on All-Cause Mortality: Do We Have Evidence for Lack of Harm?”, et al 2013
Psychology:
- “The poor neglected gifted child: Precocious kids do seem to become high-achieving adults. Why that makes some educators worried about America’s future” (SMPY)
- “The Overprotected Kid: A preoccupation with safety has stripped childhood of independence, risk taking, and discovery—without making it safer. A new kind of playground points to a better solution” (Playgrounds, risk, and childrearing.)
- Frederik Pohl & cryonics
Science/technology:
- “Dorian Nakamoto has vehemently denied being Bitcoin’s creator. Did Newsweek act irresponsibly in pursuit of a scoop? Could they have known, prior to the denials, that Dorian wasn’t Satoshi?”
- “A Randomized Experimental Study of Censorship in China”, et al 2014
- Tweets which are anagrams of each other
- “A Fistful of Bitcoins: Characterizing Payments Among Men with No Names”, et al 2013
Philosophy:
- “Searching For One-Sided Tradeoffs” (Optimality/equilibrium reasoning.)
- “SCP-988”
Business:
Misc:
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- “Longing for His Son Furuhi” (Yamanoue no Okura mourns)
- Gensen’s death poems
- “Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night”
- Heraclitus
- Montaigne, “To Philosophize Is to Learn to Die”
- “The Masque of the Red Death”
- “Gertrude Bell Survives a Plague”
- John Stuart Mill’s diary
- Macaulay letter on Wilberforce’s death
- Egyptian rites
Books
Fiction:
- reread R.A. Lafferty’s Fourth Mansions
- Harrison’s Light (review)
Nonfiction:
- Levenson’s Newton and the Counterfeiter (review)
Film/TV
Anime:
Music
Touhou:
- “A Queen Of The Sixteenth Night” (Yuri Yuzriha; TOHO R&B HOUSE Party Vol.2 {C85}) [instrumental/electronic]
- “Hello Aliens” feat. emaru (アサヒ; デジハロ NEXUS {C84}) [electro pop]
- “Einsamkeit” feat. 綾倉 盟 (spctrm, Syrufit; Sensitive Moment {C76})
- “Ska or RED” (水橋ゆっきー; Brass Quartet {C80}) [brass]
- “気だるい図書館” (水橋ゆっきー; Brass Quartet {C80}) [brass]
- “銀河と恋色魔法” (水橋ゆっきー; Brass Quartet {C80}) [brass]
- “NEXUS WiNG” feat. peЯoco. (katsu; DiGiHalo NEXUS {C84}) [pop]
Vocaloid:
- “ウィリウィリ (Wiliwili)” (Rin; takamatt, East End Pandemonium) [trance]
- “girls’ afternoon appointments” (Miku? leggysalad; Amber {VM23}) [electronic]
- “Swim Through The Air” (Miku; leggysalad; Amber {VM23}) [electronic]
- “2AM Dreamy Wonderland (CY Short Mix)” (Miku; MJQ, CY) [Progressive House]
- “パンデミックの掃除” (Rin; note@L-tone; かがみね★ふぇすた 2013) [J-pop]
- “Bling Bling★Brighten Every Days” (SeeU; Team StarRoid; On You) [house]
- “Now Here” (SeeU; Team StarRoid, On You) [house]