February 2015 News
This is the February 2015 edition of the Gwern.net newsletter; previous, January 2015.
This is a collation of links and summary of major changes, overlapping with Changelog. This broadcast has been brought to you by Royal Kooparillo and my donors on Gratipay.
Writings
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Darknet markets arrests: split out of Silk Road page & began bringing up-to-date with all known incidents across all markets
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electric vs stove kettle boiling-time analysis: collected some simple data on my kettles & demonstrated some statistics tools on the dataset like a Bayesian measurement-error model
Media
Links
Genetics:
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Everything Is Heritable:
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Recent Evolution:
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“Comparative analysis of the domestic cat genome reveals genetic signatures underlying feline biology and domestication”, et al 2014 ( commentary; complex behavioral traits can be modified by relatively small shifts in many genes)
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Politics/religion:
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“The Deflationist: How Paul Krugman found politics”/“Paul Krugman Is Brilliant, but Is He Meta-Rational?”
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“Father, Son and the Double Helix” (Gender politics of maternity/paternity DNA testing in India.)
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“North Korean border guards prefer married women?” (commentary)
Statistics/AI/meta-science:
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“50 Years of Deep Learning and Beyond: an Interview with Jürgen Schmidhuber”
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“Interpreting observational studies: why empirical calibration is needed to correct p-values”, et al 2012
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“Large-Scale Simultaneous Hypothesis Testing: The Choice of a Null Hypothesis”, 2004
Psychology/biology:
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“There is Only Awe” (on Jaynes’s Bicameral Mind Theory)
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“A Novel BHLHE41 Variant is Associated with Short Sleep and Resistance to Sleep Deprivation in Humans”, et al 2014
Technology:
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“If the NSA has been hacking everything, how has nobody seen them coming?”
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“Freedom Zero” (“In the long run, the utility of all non-Free software approaches zero. All non-Free software is a dead end.”)
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“The Well Deserved Fortune of Satoshi Nakamoto, Bitcoin creator, Visionary and Genius”
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“The Postmodern Ponzi Scheme: Empirical Analysis of High-Yield Investment Programs”, 2012
Economics:
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“Automation and Employment”, Richard Posner
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“How the recession turned middle-class jobs into low-wage jobs”
Philosophy:
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“What is Wrong with Our Thoughts? A Neo-Positivist Credo”, 1991
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“Scientists discover that atheists might not exist, and that’s not a joke”
Misc:
Books
Nonfiction:
Fiction:
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Palimpsests, Scholz & Harcourt
Film/TV
Live-action:
Anime:
Music
Misc:
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“Lufthan” (Magyar Posse; We Will Carry You Over The Mountains) [postrock]
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“Sobe(Original Mix)” (Jordan F) [electronic]
Doujin:re
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“秋桜の終わりの季節によせる抒情詩〜ピアノとオーケストラのために〜” (masaki kawasaki; AD:PIANOⅢ {C87}) [electronic/instrumental]
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“Too much for a nightcap” (Casket; Musicatlas P. II {M3-34}) [Celtic]
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“Home” (Kaname Shigeyoshi; AD:PIANOⅢ {C87}) [instrumental]
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“Sicureada” (ジャージと愉快な仲間たち; Musicatlas P. II {M3-34}) [folk]
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“満たされた時” (もふ@ feat. In The Blue; merrow -in the blue Vocal Collection- {M3-34}) [vocal]
Touhou:
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“Wanna be free” (Rei Shimizu; Cafe de Touhou 6 {C87}) [jazz]
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“Brilliant Girls” (Okawa Tomoya; Cafe de Touhou 6 {C87}) [jazz]
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“地獄でお茶を” (sisimai-3go; Cafe de Touhou 6 {C87}) [jazz]
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“The Eternal Steam Engine” (あきやまうに; Thermonuclear Titan Hisoutensoku ~ Touhou Hisoutensoku ORIGINAL SOUND TRACK {C77}) [orchestral]
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“The Eternal Steam Engine” (Kou Ogata; 東方Project ごちゃまぜアイリッシュ風プレ版楽曲CD {R10}) [folk]
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“Temperature Difference” (deitarabotchi feat. senya; The time my thoughts turned into history {C87}) [electronic]
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“Viva Evolution Introduction” (sumijun feat. 長尾ちえみ; Viva Evolution {C87}) [Jpop/electronic]
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“Don’t let you down” (sumijun feat. 長尾ちえみ; Viva Evolution {C87}) [Jpop/electronic]