This is the November 2014 edition of the Gwern.net newsletter; previously, October.
This is a collation of links and summary of major changes, overlapping with Changelog. Thanks to my donors on Gratipay.
Writings
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A/B indentation test: no real result, defaulted to 2em
Media
Links
Genetics:
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Everything Is Heritable:
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“The contribution of de novo coding mutations to autism spectrum disorder”, et al 2014 (media: 1, 2; discussion)
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Engineering:
Politics/religion:
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“Whither the Blank Slate? A Report on the Reception of Evolutionary Biological Ideas among Sociological Theorists”, et al 2014 ( media)
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“Transcript of secret meeting between Julian Assange and Google CEO Eric Schmidt”
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“A Few Bad Men: Why America doesn’t really have a terrorism problem”
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“Bottom of the Barrel: Today’s terrorists aren’t ‘sophisticated’. They’re stupider than ever.”
Statistics/AI/meta-science:
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“What’s to know about the credibility of empirical economics?”, 2013
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“The Ironic Effect of Significant Results on the Credibility of Multiple-Study Articles”, 2012
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“Bayesian data analysis”, 2010
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“What Teachers Should Know about the Bootstrap: Resampling in the Undergraduate Statistics Curriculum”, 2014 (nice comprehensible discussion of various kinds of bootstraps and resampling which helps put together everything I’d learned piecemeal)
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“The harm done by tests of significance”, 2004 (how p-values increase traffic fatalities)
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“Tiny Data, Approximate Bayesian Computation and the Unpaired Socks of Karl Broman” (demonstration of ABC)
Psychology/biology:
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“Suppressing Intelligence Research: Hurting Those We Intend to Help”, 2005
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“Who Rises to the Top? Early Indicators”, et al 2013 (does IQ cease to matter past 130? No.)
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“Life Paths and Accomplishments of Mathematically Precocious Males and Females Four Decades Later”, et al 2014 ( graphs)
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“Political Diversity Will Improve Social Psychological Science”, et al 2015 (liberal ideological homogeneity in social sciences causing problems)
Technology:
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“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) -
“How NASA brought the monstrous F-1 ‘moon rocket’ engine back to life”
Economics:
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disability, immigration, globalization, and technological unemployment:
Philosophy:
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“Bayesian Informal Logic and Fallacy”, 2003; “Fallacies as weak Bayesian evidence”
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“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)
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“Taking Charity Seriously: Toby Ord talk on charity effectiveness”
Misc:
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“Try To Praise The Mutilated World”, Adam Zagajewski
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“Morning Song of Senlin”, Conrad Aiken
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“When Dickens met Dostoevsky” (literary hoaxes; followup)
Books
Nonfiction:
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Excuse Me Sir, Would You Like to Buy a Kilo of Isopropyl Bromide? (review)
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The Many Worlds of Hugh Everett, Bryne (review)
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Ketamine: Dreams and Realities, Jansen (review)
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The Art of Unix Usability, ESR (review)
Fiction:
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A Clockwork Orange, Burgess
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Lud-in-the-Mist, Mirrlees
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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:
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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:
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“千年幻想郷 ~ History of the Moon” (Liverne (ゆう), Yu- (Phoenix Project), Tokunan; Touhou Gensou Shiten 2 “Canon” {C71}) [metal]
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“チルノ /おてんば恋娘” (Yoshiki Ara; Charisma Lash Type-M {C86}) [orchestral]
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“ソリテス・パラドックス” (Ryuuha Mikaido; ティマイオス ~風の詩~ {C86}) [orchestral]
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“オッカムの剃刀” (Ryuuha Mikaido; ティマイオス ~風の詩~ {C86}) [orchestral]
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“Even if they say nothing in the night” (Machikado-Mapoze; Dancing Phantasmagoria {C86}) [waltz]
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“Library Rag” (Machikado-Mapoze; Dancing Phantasmagoria {C86}) [ragtime]
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“巫女みこ茶々々” (Machikado-Mapoze; Dancing Phantasmagoria {C86}) [Cha-cha-chá]
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“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]
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“天空の花の都” (埼玉最終兵器; Cradle Re:BOOT -東方幻樂祀典- {C86}) [metal]
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“An Enlarging Story” (RD-Sounds; Slaughter {C86}) [orchestral]
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“Way to go Shinmyoumaru ~Battle with Titans~” (RD-Sounds; Slaughter {C86}) [orchestral]
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“Could She Know The Summer?” (setsugen; DAYDREAM TUNES {C86}) [classical]
Doujin:
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“Summer Dayz” (村瀬悠太; AD:HOUSE 3 {C86}) [instrumental]
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“またあした” (bacon8 feat. nijimine kakoi; luminous flux {C85}) [acoustic]
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“パラミシアの狼” (O-kei feat. ヤマイ; SONORA {2014}) [Jpop]
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“Call My Cell” (Hige Driver feat. ΦKushiΦ; Hige Dance {C86}) [electronic]
Vocaloid:
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“Back to You” (Luka; Planty; Planet Planty {2014}) [trance]
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“In Adversae” (Luka, Kaito; Planty; Planet Planty {2014}) [trance]
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“It was ten days ago.” (Miku; Toku-P; The Universe {2009}) [vocal]
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“魁!パンツメン☆ミ” (Miku; KASANE; sync-loid:05 {2014}) [Jpop]
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“Boku mo Kuzu Dakara” (Miku; PinnochioP; Yusei Masshirake {VM27}) [Jpop]