July 2015 News
This is the July 2015 edition of the Gwern.net newsletter; previous, June 2015. This is a collation of links and summary of major changes, overlapping with Changelog; brought to you by my donors on Patreon.
Writings
A/
B tests: finished metadata test; proposal towards recurrent neural network for reinforcement learning of CSS Air conditioner upgrade cost-benefit analysis
Gwern.net:
switched to Patreon for donations
optimized website loading (removed CSE, A/
B testing, non-validating XML, outbound link-tracking; simplified Disqus; minified JS, and fully async/ deferred JS loading)
Media
Links
Politics/
“Utopian for Beginners: An amateur linguist loses control of the language [Ithkuil] he invented” (where are those Ukrainians now, I wonder?)
Statistics/
Ch6: “Deep Learning” (latest in Nielsen’s Neural Networks and Deep Learning)
“How One Man Poisoned a City’s Water Supply (and Saved Millions of Children’s Lives in the Process)” (on John L. Leal & water chlorination)
“The Null Ritual: What You Always Wanted to Know About Significance Testing but Were Afraid to Ask”, et al2004
Psychology/
“Whole-personality emulation”, 2012 (with enough data, the Big Five personality factors can be replaced with the “Small 100”)
“Burn-in, bias, and the rationality of anchoring”, et al2012
Technology:
Economics:
“Economic Gains Resulting from the Reduction in Children’s Exposure to Lead in the United States”, et al2002
“How The Talmud Became A Best Seller in South Korea” (no one tell them about signaling or genetics)
“The Patent Troll You Don’t Read About In Bar-Code Inventor’s Obituaries”
Philosophy:
Fiction:
Books
Fiction:
Still Alice (our obituaries)
The Martian (Weir)
Asimov’s Puzzles of the Black Widowers (review)
Nonfiction:
Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety, Schlosser
Donald Keene’s 198441ya Dawn to the West: Japanese Literature of the Modern Era; Poetry, Drama, Criticism (Meiji & imperial period)
Boswell’s Life of Samuel Johnson (review)
Film/TV
Live-action:
Anime:
Music
Touhou:
the latest TLMC has been released: “Touhou lossless music collection: TLMC v.18 (2015.06.30)”
“Fires of Hokkai” (くみちょ; Knights of Round 3 {C77}) [post-rock]
“マンドラゴラの庭” (siva; Gensokyo St. Patrick’s Day {K10}) [Celtic]
“Rince Oiche” (Escarmew; Gensokyo St. Patrick’s Day {K10}) [Celtic]
“Sleepy Maiden” (Marasy; 幻想遊戲<眠>2 {C86}) [classical]
“Septette for a Sleepy Princess” (Marasy; 幻想遊戲<眠>2 {C86}) [classical]
“籠居漏水” (PIROPARU; Kyouon no Ooi Ryouriten {Reitaisai SP}) [instrumental]
“Lotus World” (PIROPARU; Kyouon no Ooi Ryouriten {Reitaisai SP}) [instrumental]
“Going back to Sleeping Night” (Marasy; 幻想遊戲<眠>2 {C86}) [classical]
“Drowsy Eyes” (Marasy; 幻想遊戲<眠>2 {C86}) [classical]