This is the January 2016 edition of the Gwern.net newsletter; previous, December 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:
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Everything Is Heritable:
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Engineering:
Politics/religion:
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“Once Upon a Jihad” / “Experiencing Ecstasy: How Bad It Is to Be 20 Years Old”
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“Systems, Not Sith: How Inter-service Rivalries Doomed the Galactic Empire”
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“Boss Rail: The disaster that exposed the underside of the boom”
Statistics/AI/meta-science:
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“Mastering the game of Go with deep neural networks and tree search”, et al 2016
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“The Top A.I. Breakthroughs of 2015” (omits residual networks!)
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“Gradient-based Hyperparameter Optimization through Reversible Learning”, et al 2015
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“Recognizing and Localizing Endangered Right Whales with Extremely Deep Neural Networks”
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“Why do we Sometimes get Nonsense-Correlations between Time-Series? A Study in Sampling and the Nature of Time-Series”, 1926 (“the ratio of Catholic vs Protestant marriages correlates r = 0.95 with the English death rate”)
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“Comparison of evidence on harms of medical interventions in randomized and nonrandomized studies”, et al 2006 ( How often does correlation=causation?)
Psychology/biology:
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“Bayesian Belief Polarization”, et al 2009
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“Using Neurotechnologies to Develop Virtues—A Buddhist Approach to Cognitive Enhancement”
Technology:
Economics:
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When will corporations defect? (Schneier’s Liars and Outliers)
Philosophy:
Fiction:
Books
Fiction:
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The Dark Forest, Liu Cixin
Nonfiction:
Film/TV
Music
Touhou:
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“ねこまたアキアート” (水橋ゆっきー; Tea Hakugyokurou {C88}) [classical]
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“Lunatic Eyes” (Setsugen; So-ran-e-maki {R12}) [classical]
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“Emotional Skyscraper” (Setsugen; So-ran-e-maki {R12}) [classical]
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“Deaf to All but the Song” (Setsugen; So-ran-e-maki {R12}) [classical]
Doujin:
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“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]
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“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]