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 & Treisman2018 (⁠excerpts⁠)

• ⁠“Land without Plea Bargaining: How the Germans Do It”⁠, Langbein1979 (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 homogeneous”⁠

• ⁠“Aged Heterogeneity: Fact or Fiction? The Fate of Diversity in Gerontological Research”⁠, Nelson & Dannefer1992

Statistics/AI/meta-science:

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

• “The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Recurrent Neural Networks”

• “Using N-of-1 Trials to Improve Patient Management and Save Costs”⁠, Scuffham2010

• ⁠“Assessing Kurzweil: the results”⁠

• “A survey of Bayesian predictive methods for model assessment, selection and comparison”⁠, Vehtari & Ojanen2012

• “The Nine Circles of Scientific Hell”⁠, Neuroskeptic2012

• ⁠“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 & Barranco2015

• ⁠“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”⁠, Adams1987

• “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”⁠, Holzman2010

• ⁠“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”⁠, Peters2011

• ⁠“The Space Child’s Mother Goose”

Fiction:

• ⁠“Man And The Echo”, Yeats

• ⁠“Single-Bit Error”

• ⁠“Toward an Algorithmic Criticism”⁠, Ramsay2003

Misc:

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

Books

Fiction:

• Ready Player One⁠, Cline2011 (⁠review⁠)

• A Shropshire Lad⁠, Housman1896 (⁠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]