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 21st 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 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}) [Jpop]
• “Call My Cell” (Hige Driver feat. ΦKushiΦ; Hige Dance {C86}) [electronic]

Vocaloid:

• “Back to You” (Luka; Planty; Planet Planty {2014}) [trance]
• “In Adversae” (Luka, Kaito; Planty; Planet Planty {2014}) [trance]
• “It was ten days ago.” (Miku; Toku-P; The Universe {2009}) [vocal]
• “魁!パンツメン☆ミ” (Miku; KASANE; sync-loid:05 {2014}) [Jpop]
• “Boku mo Kuzu Dakara” (Miku; PinnochioP; Yusei Masshirake {VM27}) [Jpop]