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
- rewrote Gwern.net CSS to be mobile-friendly; should now be readable in an iPhone 6 browser
- wrote two summer poems, on earthworms and the rain
Media
Links
Genetics:
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Everything Is Heritable:
Politics/religion:
- “American Hippopotamus” (see also et al 2020 /media)
- “The secret joke of Kant’s soul”, 2007
- “Web-Based Experiments for the Study of Collective Social Dynamics in Cultural Markets”, 2009
- “The Agency: From a nondescript office building in St. Petersburg, Russia, an army of well-paid ‘trolls’ has tried to wreak havoc all around the Internet—and in real-life American communities”
- “Education, Intelligence, and Attitude Extremity”, 2014
- Macabre Murder Factory Flies Under the Radar (on Sumida Miyoko)
- “The Moon: A Propaganda Hoax”; “On Not Believing In Canada”
- “Post-Apocalit”
Statistics/AI/meta-science:
- “The Brain as a Universal Learning Machine”
- “The Economics of Reproducibility in Preclinical Research”, et al 2015
- “An Alternative to Null-Hypothesis Significance Tests: Prep”, 2005
- “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)
- “Shuffles, Bayes’s theorem and continuations”
- “Eyes wide shut: pseudo-placebo effects”
Psychology/biology:
- “How a Grad Student Uncovered a Huge Fraud”
- “Infectious causation of disease: an evolutionary perspective”, et al 2000
- “Hunting and Hallucinogens: The use of psychoactive and other plants to improve the hunting ability of dogs”, Bennett & 2015
- “A Pickpocket’s Tale: The spectacular thefts of Apollo Robbins”
- “The Lying Disease: Why Would Someone Want to Fake a Serious Illness on the Internet?”
Technology:
- “Operant Conditioning by Software Bugs” (see also: people who break software just by being near)
- “What is the largest possible inhabitable world?”
- “Incremental Regular Expressions”
Economics:
- “The Red and the Black: Profit is the motor of capitalism. What would it be under socialism?”
- “Robert Murphy’s Bet That Inflation Was Just Around the Corner Has Gone Absolutely Horribly Wrong” (and he’s going to lose the 2016 bet too…)
Books
Fiction:
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- More Poems (review)
- Last Poems
- Additional Poems
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Nihei’s Biomega (review), Abara (even lamer)
Film/TV
Live-action:
- Alfred Hitchcock’s Suspicion (review)
- The Bridge over the River Kwai (review)
Anime:
Music
Touhou:
- “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]
- “私たちはこれから~廃獄ララバイ” (Cobu; Fantasy girl War Yongkang Original Soundtrack {C87}) [orchestral]
- “灰燼~ラストリモート” (Cobu; Fantasy girl War Yongkang Original Soundtrack {C87}) [orchestral]
- “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]
- “STARDUST HERO~恋色マスタースパーク” (Cobu; Fantasy girl War Yongkang Original Soundtrack {C87}) [orchestral]
- “MIND OF SPACE~千年幻想郷” (Cobu; Fantasy girl War Yongkang Original Soundtrack {C87}) [orchestral]
- “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:
- “Day Battle (Cannons and Torpedoes, Fire!)” (Marasy; Fleet Piano Collection {C87}) [classical]