Links

Genetics:

• Everything Is Heritable:

  • “The contribution of de novo coding mutations to autism spectrum disorder”⁠, Iossifov et al 2014 (media: ⁠1, ⁠2⁠; ⁠discussion⁠)

• Engineering:

  • ⁠“Cloning Cows From Steaks (and Other Ways of Building Better Cattle)”⁠

Politics/religion:

• ⁠“Whither the Blank Slate? A Report on the Reception of Evolutionary Biological Ideas among Sociological Theorists”⁠, Horowitz et al 2014 (media⁠)

• ⁠“Transcript of secret meeting between Julian Assange and Google CEO Eric Schmidt”⁠

• ⁠“The Micro-sociology of Violent Confrontations”⁠, Collins2009

• “Aum Shinrikyo and a Panic About Manga and Anime”⁠, Gardner2008

• ⁠“A Few Bad Men: Why America doesn’t really have a terrorism problem”⁠

• ⁠“Bottom of the Barrel: Today’s terrorists aren’t ‘sophisticated’. They’re stupider than ever.”⁠

Statistics/AI/meta-science:

• “What’s to know about the credibility of empirical economics?”⁠, Ioannidis & Doucouliagos2013

• ⁠“The Ironic Effect of Significant Results on the Credibility of Multiple-Study Articles”⁠, Schimmack2012

• ⁠“Bayesian data analysis”⁠, Kruschke2010

• “What Teachers Should Know about the Bootstrap: Resampling in the Undergraduate Statistics Curriculum”⁠, Hesterberg2014 (nice comprehensible discussion of various kinds of bootstraps and resampling which helps put together everything I’d learned piecemeal)

• ⁠“The harm done by tests of significance”⁠, Hauer2004 (how p-values increase traffic fatalities)

• “The Mind of a Con Man”: Stapel⁠

• ⁠Stein’s paradox

• ⁠“Tiny Data, Approximate Bayesian Computation and the Unpaired Socks of Karl Broman” (demonstration of ABC⁠)

• “A Vast Graveyard of Undead Theories: Publication Bias and Psychological Science’s Aversion to the Null”⁠

• “Unreliable neuroscience? Why power matters: Small studies with low power undermine the reliability of science and new evidence suggests that low power is the norm in neuroscience”⁠

Psychology/biology:

• ⁠“Is Psychometric g a Myth?”

• ⁠“Suppressing Intelligence Research: Hurting Those We Intend to Help”⁠, Gottfredson2005

• “Who Rises to the Top? Early Indicators”⁠, Kell et al 2013 (does IQ cease to matter past 130? No.)

• ⁠“Life Paths and Accomplishments of Mathematically Precocious Males and Females Four Decades Later”⁠, Lubinski et al 2014 (⁠graphs⁠)

• ⁠“Annals of psychometry: IQs of eminent scientists”⁠

• “Studies Highlight [Futility] of Early Education”⁠

• ⁠“Don’t Know? Or Don’t Care?: Predicting Educational Attainment Using Survey Item Response Rates and Coding Speed Tests as Measures of Conscientiousness”⁠, Hitt & Trivitt2013

• ⁠“Political Diversity Will Improve Social Psychological Science”⁠, Duarte et al 2015 (liberal ideological homogeneity in social sciences causing problems)

• ⁠“Travels in the New Psychedelic Bazaar: The synthetic drugs being invented, refined, and produced today—and often shipped in from China—would have blown Timothy Leary’s mind. Who knows what they’re doing to the brains of users.”⁠

Technology:

• “Anatomy of a hack: How crackers ransack passwords like qeadzcwrsfxv1331; For Ars, three crackers have at 16,000+ hashed passcodes—with 90% success”⁠ (computers are much faster than you think, ⁠when used right⁠, unfortunately)

• ⁠“Crypto Rebels: It’s the FBIs, NSAs, and Equifaxes of the world versus a swelling movement of Cypherpunks, civil libertarians, and millionaire hackers. At stake: Whether privacy will exist in the 21^st century”⁠

• N-body choreographies⁠

• ⁠“How NASA brought the monstrous F-1 ‘moon rocket’ engine back to life”⁠

• “A history of the Amiga, part 8: The demo scene”⁠

• ⁠“Reimplementing git clone in Haskell from the bottom up”

Economics:

• “The death of peak oil”

• ⁠Survivorship bias in equity returns⁠

• disability, immigration, globalization, and technological unemployment:

  • “Unfit for Work: The startling rise of disability in America”

  • Murray’s Coming Apart⁠

  • ⁠Autor on disability⁠

  • “Untangling Trade and Technology: Evidence from Local Labor Markets”⁠

  • ⁠“The Effect of Intelligence on Job Performance is Intuitive”⁠

  • ⁠“Immigration and the American Worker: A Review of the Academic Literature”, Borjas2013

Philosophy:

• “Bayesian Informal Logic and Fallacy”⁠, Korb2003; ⁠“Fallacies as weak Bayesian evidence”⁠

• ⁠“Privileging the Question”⁠

• ⁠“Be Specific”⁠ (if you make an abstract claim, can you give at least 3 specific examples? if not, maybe you need to think about it more)

• ⁠“Taking Charity Seriously: Toby Ord talk on charity effectiveness”⁠

Misc:

• Taikyoku shogi⁠

• ⁠“Try To Praise The Mutilated World”, Adam Zagajewski

• “Morning Song of Senlin”, Conrad Aiken

• “When Dickens met Dostoevsky” (literary hoaxes; followup⁠)

Books

Nonfiction:

• ⁠Excuse Me Sir, Would You Like to Buy a Kilo of Isopropyl Bromide?⁠ (⁠review⁠)

• The Many Worlds of Hugh Everett⁠, Bryne (⁠review⁠)

• ⁠Ketamine: Dreams and Realities⁠, Jansen (⁠review⁠)

• ⁠The Art of Unix Usability⁠, ESR (⁠review⁠)

Fiction:

• A Clockwork Orange⁠, Burgess

• Lud-in-the-Mist⁠, Mirrlees

• The Far Side Gallery 3 (I think I liked them better as a kid; re-reading, I realize Larson really only had a few jokes & characters which he permuted endlessly. It doesn’t grow up with you as much as some others like Calvin & Hobbes do.)

Film/TV

Live-action:

• The Wire⁠ (⁠review⁠)

• The Shining⁠ (⁠review⁠)

• Blue Blazes⁠ (⁠review⁠)

• The Secret Life of Walter Mitty⁠ (2013_12ya remake); pretty decent, albeit very little like story, and a rather shoehorned in quest/Blue Bird of Happiness which undermines original short story’s protagonist by implying he was a failure before & the core dreaming was escapism

Music

Touhou:

• ⁠“千年幻想郷 ~ History of the Moon”⁠ (Liverne (ゆう), Yu- (Phoenix Project), Tokunan; Touhou Gensou Shiten 2 “Canon” {C71}) [metal]

• ⁠“チルノ ／おてんば恋娘”⁠ (Yoshiki Ara; Charisma Lash Type-M {C86}) [orchestral]

• ⁠“ソリテス・パラドックス”⁠ (Ryuuha Mikaido; ティマイオス ～風の詩～ {C86}) [orchestral]

• ⁠“オッカムの剃刀”⁠ (Ryuuha Mikaido; ティマイオス ～風の詩～ {C86}) [orchestral]

• ⁠“Even if they say nothing in the night”⁠ (Machikado-Mapoze; Dancing Phantasmagoria {C86}) [waltz]

• “Library Rag” (Machikado-Mapoze; Dancing Phantasmagoria {C86}) [ragtime]

• “巫女みこ茶々々” (Machikado-Mapoze; Dancing Phantasmagoria {C86}) [Cha-cha-chá]

• “佐々木喜善はかく語りき ～ 願わくはこれを語りて平地人を戦慄せしめよ” (ジャム; DAYDREAM TUNES {C86}) [classical]

• “天空の花の都” (埼玉最終兵器; Cradle Re:BOOT -東方幻樂祀典- {C86}) [metal]

• ⁠“An Enlarging Story”⁠ (RD-Sounds; Slaughter {C86}) [orchestral]

• ⁠“Way to go Shinmyoumaru ~Battle with Titans~”⁠ (RD-Sounds; Slaughter {C86}) [orchestral]

• “Could She Know The Summer?” (setsugen; DAYDREAM TUNES {C86}) [classical]

Doujin:

• “Summer Dayz” (村瀬悠太; AD:HOUSE 3 {C86}) [instrumental]

• ⁠“またあした”⁠ (bacon8 feat. nijimine kakoi; luminous flux {C85}) [acoustic]

• “パラミシアの狼” (O-kei feat. ヤマイ; SONORA {2014_11ya}) [Jpop]

• “Call My Cell” (Hige Driver feat. ΦKushiΦ; Hige Dance {C86}) [electronic]

Vocaloid:

• ⁠“Back to You”⁠ (Luka; Planty; Planet Planty {2014_11ya}) [trance]

• ⁠“In Adversae”⁠ (Luka, Kaito; Planty; Planet Planty {2014_11ya}) [trance]

• ⁠“It was ten days ago.”⁠ (Miku; Toku-P; The Universe {2009_16ya}) [vocal]

• “魁!パンツメン☆ミ” (Miku; KASANE; sync-loid:05 {2014_11ya}) [Jpop]

• ⁠“Boku mo Kuzu Dakara”⁠ (Miku; PinnochioP; Yusei Masshirake {VM27}) [Jpop]