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
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Darknet market arrests compilation finished & summaries calculated
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analysis of Effective Altruists’ donations as reported in the LW survey
Media
Links
Genetics:
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Everything Is Heritable:
Politics/religion:
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“Misperceiving Inequality”, 2018 (excerpts)
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“Land without Plea Bargaining: How the Germans Do It”, Langbein 197945ya (how the German legal system avoids our own reliance on plea-bargaining to send most defendants to jail without trial)
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“Aged Heterogeneity: Fact or Fiction? The Fate of Diversity in Gerontological Research”, 1992
Statistics/AI/meta-science:
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“End-to-End Training of Deep Visuomotor Policies”, et al 2015 ( demo; talk)
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“The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Recurrent Neural Networks”
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“Using N-of-1 Trials to Improve Patient Management and Save Costs”, 2010
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“A survey of Bayesian predictive methods for model assessment, selection and comparison”, 2012
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“Leaving Office Feet First: Death In Congress”, et al 1996
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“Nuclear weapon statistics using monoids, groups, and modules in Haskell”
Psychology/biology:
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“Persistence of Long-Term Memory in Vitrified and Revived C. elegans”, Vita-2015
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“E unibus pluram: Television And U.S. Fiction”, David Foster Wallace 1993
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“What’s in a Color? The Unique Human Health Effects of Blue Light”, 2010
Technology:
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“Implications of Historical Trends in the Electrical Efficiency of Computing”, et al 2011
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“How Much of the Web Is Archived?”, et al 2012
Economics:
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“The Insourcing Boom”; “The March of Robots Into Chinese Factories”
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“Online price discrimination: Conspicuous by its absence”/“Price Discrimination and the Illusion of Fairness”
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“On the front lines of humanity’s high-tech, global war on rats”
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“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:
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Ready Player One, Cline 201113ya (review)
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A Shropshire Lad, Housman 1896128ya (review)
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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:
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Drift into Failure, Dekker (review)
Film/TV
Live-action:
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(review)
Anime:
Music
Touhou:
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“Old Fantasia” (Sound of Swing; In Walked Cat’s {C86}) [jazz]
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“恋と水と石炭と” (ししまい三号; 大楽符 {C77}) [classical]
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“水彩人形” (ししまい三号; 大楽符 {C77}) [classical]
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“空の間に間に” (ししまい三号; 大楽符 {C77}) [classical]
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“Dazzling You” (Maurits”禅”Cornelis feat. Vivienne; Origin of Love {C87}) [jazz]
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“少女綺想曲” (TAM×KEIGO KANZAKI; 東方バイオリンロック永-NAGARAE- {C87}) [instrumental rock]
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“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]
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“月見草” (TAM×KEIGO KANZAKI; 東方バイオリンロック永-NAGARAE- {C87}) [instrumental rock]
Kantai Collection:
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“鎮守府の序曲” (伊藤 翼; Kantai Philharmonic Orchestra {C86}) [orchestral]