May 2015 News
This is the May 2015 edition of the Gwern.net newsletter; previous, April 2015. This is a collation of links and summary of major changes, overlapping with Changelog; brought to you by my donors.
Writings
Darknet market arrests compilation finished & summaries calculated
analysis of Effective Altruists’ donations as reported in the LW survey
Media
Links
Genetics:
Everything Is Heritable:
Politics/
“Misperceiving Inequality”, 2018 (excerpts)
“Land without Plea Bargaining: How the Germans Do It”, 1979 (how the German legal system avoids our own reliance on plea-bargaining to send most defendants to jail without trial)
“Aged Heterogeneity: Fact or Fiction? The Fate of Diversity in Gerontological Research”, 1992
Statistics/
“End-to-End Training of Deep Visuomotor Policies”, et al2015 (demo; talk)
“The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Recurrent Neural Networks”
“Using N-of-1 Trials to Improve Patient Management and Save Costs”, 2010
“A survey of Bayesian predictive methods for model assessment, selection and comparison”, 2012
“Nuclear weapon statistics using monoids, groups, and modules in Haskell”
Psychology/
“Persistence of Long-Term Memory in Vitrified and Revived C. elegans”, Vita-2015
“E unibus pluram: Television And U.S. Fiction”, David Foster Wallace 1993
“What’s in a Color? The Unique Human Health Effects of Blue Light”, 2010
Technology:
“Implications of Historical Trends in the Electrical Efficiency of Computing”, et al2011
“How Much of the Web Is Archived?”, et al2012
Economics:
“The Insourcing Boom”; “The March of Robots Into Chinese Factories”
“Online price discrimination: Conspicuous by its absence”/
“Price Discrimination and the Illusion of Fairness” “On the front lines of humanity’s high-tech, global war on rats”
“Smart Machines and Long-Term Misery”, Sachs & Kotlikoff; “The Ricardo effect in Europe (Germany fact of the day)”; “Four Futures: One thing we can be certain of is that capitalism will end”; “Has the ideas machine broken down?”; “The Post-Productive Economy”
Philosophy:
Fiction:
Misc:
Books
Fiction:
Ready Player One, 2011 (review)
A Shropshire Lad, 1896 (review)
Floornight, nostalgebraist (recommended on SSC; overall cool—interesting concepts and developments and various bright spots compensate for some of the issues like pacing and wooden writing)
Nonfiction:
Drift into Failure, Dekker (review)
Film/TV
Live-action:
(review)
Anime:
Music
Touhou:
“Old Fantasia” (Sound of Swing; In Walked Cat’s {C86}) [jazz]
“恋と水と石炭と” (ししまい三号; 大楽符 {C77}) [classical]
“水彩人形” (ししまい三号; 大楽符 {C77}) [classical]
“空の間に間に” (ししまい三号; 大楽符 {C77}) [classical]
“Dazzling You” (Maurits”禅”Cornelis feat. Vivienne; Origin of Love {C87}) [jazz]
“少女綺想曲” (TAM×KEIGO KANZAKI; 東方バイオリンロック永-NAGARAE- {C87}) [instrumental rock]
“エクステンドアッシュ” (TAM×KEIGO KANZAKI; 東方バイオリンロック永-NAGARAE- {C87}) [instrumental rock]
“月見草” (TAM×KEIGO KANZAKI; 東方バイオリンロック永-NAGARAE- {C87}) [instrumental rock]
Kantai Collection:
“鎮守府の序曲” (伊藤 翼; Kantai Philharmonic Orchestra {C86}) [orchestral]