This is the March 2016 edition of the Gwern.net newsletter; previous, February 2016. 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:
- “Molecular genetic contributions to social deprivation and household income in UK Biobank (n = 112,151)”, et al 2016 ( correlation graph)
- “Genetic risk for autism spectrum disorders and neuropsychiatric variation in the general population”, et al 2016
- “Genetic relationship between five psychiatric disorders estimated from genome-wide SNPs”, Psychiatric Genomics 2013
- “Genetic variance estimation with imputed variants finds negligible missing heritability for human height and body mass index”, et al 2015
- “Height, body mass index, and socioeconomic status: Mendelian Randomization study in UK Biobank”, et al 2016
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Recent Evolution:
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Engineering:
- “Engineering the Perfect Baby”
- “Welcome to the CRISPR Zoo” (roundup of recent & planned CRISPR applications in animals)
Politics/religion:
- “The Dog Thief Killings”
- “How a detachment of U.S. Army soldiers smoked out the original Ku Klux Klan”
- “Legalize It All: How to Win the War on Drugs”
AI:
- “Dynamic Memory Networks for Visual and Textual Question Answering”, et al 2016
- “Learning Hand-Eye Coordination for Robotic Grasping with Deep Learning and Large-Scale Data Collection”, et al 2016 ( video)
- “Generating images with recurrent adversarial networks”, et al 2016 (Another nice improvement in the state-of-the-art; getting RNNs working with adversarial training is believed to be pretty tricky.)
- “Deep Exploration via Bootstrapped DQN”, et al 2016 (Who’d’ve thought there was a way to combine bootstrapping and deep q-networks?)
- AlphaGo as AI risk example (Inside View beat Outside View 4–1)
Statistics/meta-science:
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“Underreporting in Psychology Experiments: Evidence From a Study Registry”, et al 2015 (previously: et al 2014 )
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“The Scientific Impact of Positive and Negative Phase 3 Cancer Clinical Trials”, et al 2016
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“The Stress Test: Rivalries, intrigue, and fraud in the world of stem-cell research”
Psychology/biology:
- “Evolution of the Human Brain: From Matter to Mind”, 2015 (plenty of room at the top)
- “What sparked the Cambrian explosion?”
- “‘High’ Achievers? Cannabis Access and Academic Performance”, Marie & 2015 (Dutch natural experiment in selective marijuana ban in a university town)
- “Correlation and Causation in the Study of Personality”, 2012
- “State-Space of Drug Effects: Results”
- 2016 Nootropics survey results
Technology:
- “Lessons from 30 Years of MINIX”, 2016
- Heat pipe
- “The Alameda-Weehawken Burrito Tunnel”
- “Why America abandoned nuclear power (and what we can learn from South Korea)”
Economics:
Fiction:
- “With No Inkling of the Contents: Viewing Narnia Through a Hindu Lens” (creative hermeneutics)
Books
Nonfiction:
- Don’t Sleep, There Are Snakes: Life and Language in the Amazonian Jungle, Everett 2009 (on the Pirahã people; review)
- Drugs 2.0, Power (review)
- The Recollections Of Eugene P. Wigner: As Told To Andrew Szanton (review)
- Handbook of Intelligence: Evolutionary Theory, Historical Perspective, and Current Concepts (review)
Film/TV
- The Tale of Princess Kaguya (extraordinarily beautiful but enigmatic; my eventual review)
Music
Touhou:
- “Longing of Forest” (ハム; _Re*Collection_ {C89}) [jazz/folk]
- “Doloza (Fires of Hokkai)” (Maurits”禅”Cornelis feat.舞花 & W.nova; Spatial Moving {C89}) [trance]
- “Reawakening ~ ‘second’ chance, for the tenth time or so” (the distant journey to you; untitled {C89}) [postrock]
- “音の瓶詰—神さびた古戦場 ~ Suwa Foughten Field” (ジャム; 守矢幻燈録 ~ Separation of Spirit {R12}) [classical]
- “死霊の夜桜” (Marasy; 幻想遊戯<神> ~ Museum of marasy {R12}) [classical]
- “素敵な墓場で暮らしましょ” (Marasy; 幻想遊戯<神> ~ Museum of marasy {R12}) [classical]
- “神社の新しい風” (Marasy; 幻想遊戯<神> ~ Museum of marasy {R12}) [classical]
- “佐渡の二ッ岩” (Marasy; 幻想遊戯<神> ~ Museum of marasy {R12}) [classical]
- “デザイアドリーム” (Marasy; 幻想遊戯<神> ~ Museum of marasy {R12}) [classical]
Doujin:
- “Magic” (Chroma; Black Magic {C89}) [vocal/Jpop]
- “THE GREAT VOYAGE” (Tenmon; MEMORY OF THE GREEN {C89}) [progressive rock]
- “Sāi-bak-hō (HiRoSYO Remix)” (kamome sano; tatsuta compilation 4 {2015}) [electronic]
Vocaloid
- “Paradox” (Kimkim feat. Miku; MONOPHOBIA {2015}) [electronic]