Links

Genetics:

• Everything Is Heritable:

  • “Meta-analysis of the heritability of human traits based on fifty years of twin studies”, Polderman et al 2015

  • on the genetic basis of rat and mink tameness

Politics/religion:

• “Misperceiving Inequality”, Gimpelson & Treisman 2018 (excerpts)

• “Land without Plea Bargaining: How the Germans Do It”, Langbein 1979_47ya (how the German legal system avoids our own reliance on plea-bargaining to send most defendants to jail without trial)

• “The Nitrous Oxide Philosopher”

• “The Science of Sex Abuse: Is it right to imprison people for heinous crimes they have not yet committed?”

• “Why the future won’t be genetically homogenous”

• “Aged Heterogeneity: Fact or Fiction? The Fate of Diversity in Gerontological Research”, Nelson & Dannefer 1992

Statistics/AI/meta-science:

• “End-to-End Training of Deep Visuomotor Policies”, Levine et al 2015_11ya (demo; talk)

• “The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Recurrent Neural Networks”

• “Using N-of-1 Trials to Improve Patient Management and Save Costs”, Scuffham 2010

• “Assessing Kurzweil: the results”

• “A survey of Bayesian predictive methods for model assessment, selection and comparison”, Vehtari & Ojanen 2012

• “The Nine Circles of Scientific Hell”, Neuroskeptic 2012

• “Leaving Office Feet First: Death In Congress”, Maltzman et al 1996

• “Nuclear weapon statistics using monoids, groups, and modules in Haskell”

• “Flat Priors and Other Improbable Tales”

Psychology/biology:

• “Persistence of Long-Term Memory in Vitrified and Revived C. elegans”, Vita-More & Barranco 2015

• “The effects of oral iron supplementation on cognition in older children and adults: a systematic review and meta-analysis”, Falkingham et al 2010

• “Historical Review and Appraisal of Research on the Learning, Retention, and Transfer of Human Motor Skills”, Adams 1987

• “Programmer Interrupted”

• “E unibus pluram: Television And U.S. Fiction”, David Foster Wallace 1993

• 2,4-Dinitrophenol

• “What’s in a Color? The Unique Human Health Effects of Blue Light”, Holzman 2010

• “Diving Deep into Danger”

• “Late Night Thoughts on Reading Scientology”

Technology:

• “Epigrams in Programming”, Alan Perlis 1982

• “Implications of Historical Trends in the Electrical Efficiency of Computing”, Koomey et al 2011

• “How Much of the Web Is Archived?”, Ainsworth et al 2012

• “Actual Facebook Graph Searches”

Economics:

• “Overkill: An avalanche of unnecessary medical care is harming patients physically and financially. What can we do about it?”

• “The Insourcing Boom”; “The March of Robots Into Chinese Factories”

• “Jerven on Measuring African Poverty and Progress”

• “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”

• “Harder Choices Matter Less”

Philosophy:

• “The time resolution of the St Petersburg paradox”, Peters 2011

• “The Space Child’s Mother Goose”

Fiction:

• “Man And The Echo”, Yeats

• “Single-Bit Error”

• “Toward an Algorithmic Criticism”, Ramsay 2003

Misc:

• “A Rockslide in Action: An Arch Falls into the Sea”

Books

Fiction:

• Ready Player One, Cline 2011_15ya (review)

• A Shropshire Lad, Housman 1896_130ya (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:

• Pumping Iron

  (review)

Anime:

• Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki-kun (review)

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]