October 2015 News
This is the October 2015 edition of the Gwern.net newsletter; previous, September 2015. This is a collation of links and summary of major changes, overlapping with Changelog; brought to you by my donors on Patreon.
Writings
Media
Links
Genetics:
Everything Is Heritable:
“Thinking positively: The genetics of high intelligence”, et al 2015 (DeFries-Fulker regression indicates no difference in genes driving heritability of top decile intelligence vs rest ie no rare variants w/
large benefits) “Political Attitudes Develop Independently of Personality Traits”, 2015
Politics/
“‘Ethics’ is advertising”, “The Strange Case of Anna Stubblefield”; “A Daughter’s Quest to Free Her Father’s Killer: Katie Kitchen wanted to live up to her progressive ideals. Her own family tragedy presented a chance.”; “The Most Gullible Man in Cambridge: A Harvard Law professor who teaches a class on judgment wouldn’t seem like an obvious mark, would he?”; “A Bestselling Author Became Obsessed With Freeing a Man From Prison. It Nearly Ruined Her Life.” (“Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees…”, “organisms are adaptation-executers, not fitness-maximizers”)
“The Cost of Crime to Society: New Crime-Specific Estimates for Policy and Program Evaluation”, et al 2010
Statistics/
“Magnesium l-threonate/
Magtein: publication bias in its human trials” Click-o-Tron: “Auto-Generating Clickbait With Recurrent Neural Networks”
“Page Weight Matters” (Simpson’s paradox: when a better treatment—faster YouTube page loads—makes aggregate numbers worse (average latency goes up) because new users arrive due to the improvement)
Psychology/
“Reconstruction and Simulation of Neocortical Microcircuitry”, et al 2015 (media)
“Synchronizing education to adolescent biology: ‘let teens sleep, start school later’”, et al 2014
Charles Bonnet syndrome (10–40% of blind people can experience vivid complex visual hallucinations; they just don’t ever talk about it.)
“The Dubious Quick Kill, part 1: Sword wounds and the circulatory system”
Technology:
Economics:
Philosophy:
Fiction:
Books
Fiction:
The Wind-up Girl (review)
Nonfiction:
Bias in Mental Testing, 1980 (review)
Drug Interdiction Partnerships, Legal Principles, and Investigative Methodologies for Law Enforcement (review)
The Master Algorithm (review)
Film/TV
Live-action:
The Martian (a faithful but very Hollywood depiction of the novel; it is exactly what one would expect upon hearing that The Martian was being turned into a big-budget film starring Matt Damon & Sigourney Weaver, glossy special effects and overwrought soundtrack and all. What is cut from the novel was of no importance.)
Anime:
Monogatari Second Season (review)
Music
Touhou:
“Fairy Dance” (Pine Tree feat. Mii; Shinsoku {C86}) [rock]
“Shanghai Teahouse ~ Chinese Tea” (Ex-calibur; Knights of Round {C73}) [instrumental rock]
Kantai Collection:
“昼戦・砲雷撃戦、初め! -ピアノ協奏曲-” (TAM; KanColle Piano Concerto {C88}) [orchestral]
Doujin:
“homephone TE” (Asahi feat.emaru; homephone TE {201411ya}) [electronica]
“yume” (Asahi feat.emaru; homephone TE {201411ya}) [electronica]
“tsuiraku” (Asahi feat.emaru; homephone TE {201411ya}) [electronica]
“sinwave” (Asahi feat.emaru; homephone TE {201411ya}) [electronica]
“handmade” (宮沢もよよ; PLAY {C85}) [electronica]
“IVY” (Fullkawa-P feat. Utau Kitchen; Girlfriend from Kyoto {201213ya}) [Jpop]
“Purl” (ITM; Bayside Dreamer {C88}) [house]
“Fresh Air” (Lumina; Bayside Dreamer {C88}) [house]
Vocaloid:
“Crawlers” (Miku; Croissant Chicago, Morning Act {2015}) [Jpop]
“Osmium” (Avanna; Omega+, Transgalactic Flight {2015}) [trance/
electronic] “Parades (monaca:factory Hadal Zone Remix)” (Miku; whoo & monaca:factory, VRUSH UP! #05 -whoo Tribute- {201312ya}) [trance]
“ice (Guitar/
Michael Lueckner Fire+Ice Remix)” (Miku; whoo & Michael Lueckner, VRUSH UP! #05 -whoo Tribute- {201312ya}) [trance]