June 2015 News
This is the June 2015 edition of the Gwern.net newsletter; previous, May 2015. This is a collation of links and summary of major changes, overlapping with Changelog; brought to you by my donors on Gratipay.
Writings
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rewrote Gwern.net CSS to be mobile-friendly; should now be readable in an iPhone 6 browser
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wrote two summer poems, on earthworms and the rain
Media
Links
Genetics:
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Everything Is Heritable:
Politics/religion:
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“American Hippopotamus” (see also et al 2020 /media)
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“Web-Based Experiments for the Study of Collective Social Dynamics in Cultural Markets”, 2009
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Macabre Murder Factory Flies Under the Radar (on Sumida Miyoko)
Statistics/AI/meta-science:
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“The Economics of Reproducibility in Preclinical Research”, et al 2015
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“An Alternative to Null-Hypothesis Significance Tests: Prep”, 2005
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“Effect of monthly vitamin D3 supplementation in healthy adults on adverse effects of earthquakes: a randomized controlled trial”, et al 2014 (if only more people could be this imaginative in thinking about how to run RCTs, and less defeatist)
Psychology/biology:
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“Infectious causation of disease: an evolutionary perspective”, et al 2000
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“Hunting and Hallucinogens: The use of psychoactive and other plants to improve the hunting ability of dogs”, Bennett & 2015
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“A Pickpocket’s Tale: The spectacular thefts of Apollo Robbins”
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“The Lying Disease: Why Would Someone Want to Fake a Serious Illness on the Internet?”
Technology:
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“Operant Conditioning by Software Bugs” (see also: people who break software just by being near)
Economics:
Books
Fiction:
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Additional Poems
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Nihei’s Biomega (review), Abara (even lamer)
Film/TV
Live-action:
Anime:
Music
Touhou:
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“至極真っ当なる驕りと遊戯~竹取飛翔” (Ibiza; Fantasy girl War Yongkang Original Soundtrack {C87}) [orchestral]
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“私たちはこれから~廃獄ララバイ” (Cobu; Fantasy girl War Yongkang Original Soundtrack {C87}) [orchestral]
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“灰燼~ラストリモート” (Cobu; Fantasy girl War Yongkang Original Soundtrack {C87}) [orchestral]
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“今こそ月の満ちる時~エクステンドアッシュ” (Cobu; Fantasy girl War Yongkang Original Soundtrack {C87}) [orchestral]
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“STARDUST HERO~恋色マスタースパーク” (Cobu; Fantasy girl War Yongkang Original Soundtrack {C87}) [orchestral]
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“MIND OF SPACE~千年幻想郷” (Cobu; Fantasy girl War Yongkang Original Soundtrack {C87}) [orchestral]
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“Flanhelp Op.1-496~U.Nオーエンは彼女なのか?” (Cobu; Fantasy girl War Yongkang Original Soundtrack {C87}) [orchestral]
Kantai Collection:
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“Day Battle (Cannons and Torpedoes, Fire!)” (Marasy; Fleet Piano Collection {C87}) [classical]