Links

Genetics:

• Everything Is Heritable:

  • “Shared genetic aetiology between cognitive functions and physical and mental health in UK Biobank (n = 112151) and 24 GWAS consortia”⁠, Hagenaarset al2016

  • ⁠“Top 10 Replicated Findings From Behavioral Genetics”⁠, Plominet al2016

  • ⁠“The Muscular Dystrophy Patient and Olympic Medalist with the Same Genetic Disorder”

  • “Genetically low vitamin D concentrations and increased mortality: Mendelian Randomization analysis in three large cohorts”⁠, Afzalet al2014

• Engineering:

  • ⁠“Improved CRISPR–Cas9: Safe and Effective?”⁠: ⁠“High-fidelity CRISPR–Cas9 nucleases with no detectable genome-wide off-target effects”⁠/⁠“Rationally engineered Cas9 nucleases with improved specificity”⁠

Politics/religion:

• ⁠“Once Upon a Jihad”⁠ /“Experiencing Ecstasy: How Bad It Is to Be 20 Years Old”⁠

• ⁠“Introduction to the Economics of Religion”⁠, Iannaccone1998

• ⁠“The Pilot’s Tale: At Sea with 90,000 Tons of Diplomacy”⁠

• ⁠“Systems, Not Sith: How Inter-service Rivalries Doomed the Galactic Empire”

• “Boss Rail: The disaster that exposed the underside of the boom”⁠

• “Why China should celebrate Columbus Day”

Statistics/AI/meta-science:

• “Mastering the game of Go with deep neural networks and tree search”⁠, Silveret al2016

• “The Top AI Breakthroughs of 2015” (omits residual networks⁠!)

• “Gradient-based Hyperparameter Optimization through Reversible Learning”⁠, Maclaurinet al2015

• ⁠“Recognizing and Localizing Endangered Right Whales with Extremely Deep Neural Networks”

• ⁠new /r/DecisionTheory subreddit⁠

• ⁠“Why do we Sometimes get Nonsense-Correlations between Time-Series? A Study in Sampling and the Nature of Time-Series”⁠, Yule1926 (“the ratio of Catholic vs Protestant marriages correlates r = 0.95 with the English death rate”)

• ⁠“Comparison of evidence on harms of medical interventions in randomized and nonrandomized studies”⁠, Papanikolaouet al2006 (How often⁠ does correlation=causation?)

Psychology/biology:

• “A Look Back at 2015 in Longevity Science”

• ⁠“Bayesian Belief Polarization”⁠, Jernet al2009

• “Stupider Than You Realize”⁠

• “The philosophical case against sleeping in”⁠

• Frog battery⁠

• ⁠“Using Neurotechnologies to Develop Virtues—A Buddhist Approach to Cognitive Enhancement”⁠

• ⁠“Be Happier”⁠

Technology:

• “Google releases detailed intervention rates—and the real unsolved problem of robocars”⁠

• ⁠“The Moral Character of Cryptographic Work”⁠, Rogaway2015

• ⁠“These Tricks Make Virtual Reality (VR) Feel Real: Realistic digital spaces need delusions as much as they need detail”⁠

• ⁠“Dead reckoning and the exploration explosion”⁠

Economics:

• ⁠“Does High School Algebra Pass a Cost-Benefit Test?”⁠

• ⁠When will corporations defect?⁠ (Schneier’s Liars and Outliers)

• ⁠“Interview: John A. List”⁠

• Jonathan Wild⁠ (“baptists and bootleggers”⁠)

Philosophy:

• ⁠“Technology will destroy human nature”

• ⁠“Lord Russell meet Lord Russell”⁠

Fiction:

• “The Star Gauge” of Su Hui⁠

Books

Fiction:

• The Dark Forest⁠, Liu Cixin

Nonfiction:

• Lucretius’s On the Nature of Things⁠

Film/TV

• The Kingdom of Dreams and Madness⁠ (⁠review⁠)

Music

Touhou:

• “ねこまたアキアート” (水橋ゆっきー; Tea Hakugyokurou {C88}) [classical]

• “Lunatic Eyes” (Setsugen; So-ran-e-maki {R12}) [classical]

• “Emotional Skyscraper” (Setsugen; So-ran-e-maki {R12}) [classical]

• “Deaf to All but the Song” (Setsugen; So-ran-e-maki {R12}) [classical]

Doujin:

• ⁠“灼耀の内声 -Inclusion Inner Light-”⁠ (Morrigan feat. Lily; Citla re:verse -其歌は真言顕す欠片と為りて- {C88}) [orchestral/choral]

• ⁠“天照大御神-AMATERAS SYSTEM-”⁠ (Morrigan feat. Lily; Citla re:verse -其歌は真言顕す欠片と為りて- {C88}) [orchestral/choral]