Links

Genetics:

• Everything Is Heritable:

  • “Polygenic Influence on Educational Attainment: New Evidence From the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health”, Domingue et al 2015 (rarely are the analyst’s choices so much more informative than the results)
  • “The Genetic Architecture & Natural History of Pigmentation”

Politics/​religion:

• “Proving communal warfare among hunter-gatherers: The quasi-Rousseau-an error”, Gat2015
• the invention of the lawn: “How America’s Most Useless Crop Also Became Its Most Commonly Grown One”

Statistics/​AI/​meta-science:

• “Deep Reinforcement Learning” (Comprehensive overview of recent work on deep methods for reinforcement learning⁠, culminating in the Atari player, with additional comments on extending to continuous games, Go, and why ‘deep models’, the apparent third member of the reinforcement learning trinity of value/​policy/​model learning, has failed & may be redundant. Gradient descent is magic.)
• “Efficient experimentation and the multi-armed bandit”⁠; “Can you beat the bandit?”
• “Composing Music With Recurrent Neural Networks”
• “The Inspection Paradox is Everywhere”

Psychology/​biology:

• “Eugenics, Ready or Not”
• “Should Anyone Be Given a Blood Transfusion?”
• “Canaries in the coal mine: a cross-species analysis of the plurality of obesity epidemics”, Klimentidis et al 2011

Astronomy:

• “On The History and Future of Cosmic Planet Formation”
• Isaac Newton on how God stabilizes the solar system & the fate of mankind

Economics:

• “Measuring the Longitudinal Evolution of the Online Anonymous Marketplace Ecosystem”, Soska & Christin2015
• “Costs and benefits of iodine supplementation for pregnant women in a mildly to moderately iodine-deficient population: a modelling analysis”, Monahan et al 2015 (excerpts)

Philosophy:

• “Do Artificial Reinforcement-Learning Agents Matter Morally?”, Tomasik2014

Fiction:

• “RING THEORY: The Hidden Artistry of the Star Wars Prequels” (if it’s not true, it should be)

Misc:

• “One Hundred Years of arm bars: A family epic spanning the Gracie jiu-jitsu dynasty’s generations of combat and betrayal, from the Amazon to Hollywood to the UFC”

Books

Nonfiction:

• A History of Life Extensionism, Stambler2014 (review)
• Haikai Poet Yosa Buson and the Basho Revival, Crowley2006 (review)
• Structural Equation Modeling: A Bayesian Approach, Sik-Yum Lee2007 (review)

Film/​TV

Live-action:

• RED (review)
• Lady Jane (review)

Music

Postrock: El Ten Eleven⁠, Fast Forward:

• “Battle Aves”
• “Be Kind, Rewind”
• “Fast Forward”
• “Three Sides of a Coin”
• “JD”
• “Peter and Jack”
• “Point Breeze”

Touhou:

• “Awakening of the Earth Spirits” (江口孝宏 feat.Satomi Ishikawa; Touhou Gensou Shiten 6 “Grimoire” {R8}) [trance]
• “La strada pastello” (街角麻婆豆; Where shall we go dancing? {R12}) [folk]
• “Reach for the Dream, Immortal Smoke” (Marasy; 幻想遊戲<眠>2 {C86}) [classical]
• “上海紅茶館 ～ Chinese Tea” (zunba; Touhou Gensou Shiten 6 “Grimoire”; {R8}) [jazz]
• “8番目の路地” (アサヒ feat. emaru; 864 {R12}) [trance]
• “Septette for the Dead Princess” (Eru; Knights of Round 3 {C77}) [instrumental rock]
• “Sleeping Asia” (Marasy; 幻想遊戲<眠>2 {C86}) [classical]
• “Temptation of the Eternal Night” (Marasy; 幻想遊戲<眠>2 {C86}) [classical]
• “A Maiden’s Quiet Sleep” (Marasy; 幻想遊戲<眠>2 {C86}) [classical]
• “X-TREME DECISION” (激戦の人; sm23047550 {2014-03-08}) [instrumental rock]
• “夢に抱かれて眠る” (O-Life Japan; 積極懐古団 {R12}) [instrumental]
• “三千大世界の聖火” (Fox Factory; 東方幻想界 ～星蓮船の音 {R12}) [orchestral]