Links

Politics/religion:

• “The Really Big One: An earthquake will destroy a sizable portion of the coastal Northwest. The question is when.”

• “Of Malevolent Democracies and Benevolent Autocracies: A Very Short Quantitative History of Political Regimes, Part 1.9325”

• “Utopian for Beginners: An amateur linguist loses control of the language [Ithkuil] he invented” (where are those Ukrainians now, I wonder?)

Statistics/AI/meta-science:

• 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)

• “Reanalyses of Randomized Clinical Trial Data”, Ebrahim et al 2014

• “The Aging of Science”

• “List of 19 Natural Experiments”

• “The Null Ritual: What You Always Wanted to Know About Significance Testing but Were Afraid to Ask”, Gigerenzer et al 2004

Psychology/biology:

• “Physics of Wound Healing I: Energy Considerations”, Apell2012

• “The Biodeterminist’s Guide to Parenting”

• “A Year of Spaced Repetition Software in the Classroom”

• “Whole-personality emulation”, Bainbridge2012 (with enough data, the Big Five personality factors can be replaced with the “Small 100”)

• “Does it pay to know your MBTI type?”

• “Burn-in, bias, and the rationality of anchoring”, Lieder et al 2012

Technology:

• “The Market for Silver Bullets”, Grigg2008

• “Invisibility theory”

Economics:

• “Economic Gains Resulting from the Reduction in Children’s Exposure to Lead in the United States”, Grosse et al 2002

• “When the Doctor Is Not Needed”

• “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:

• “The Copenhagen Interpretation of Ethics”

Fiction:

• “Quantitative patterns of stylistic influence in the evolution of literature”, Hughes et al 2012

• “I Name Thee Annihilator!”

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 1984 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:

• Woman in Gold (review)

Anime:

• Expelled from Paradise (review)

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]