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 modeling 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 Bashō 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]