This is the May 2017 edition of the Gwern.net newsletter; previous, April 2017 (archives). This is a collation of links and summary of major changes, overlapping with my Changelog; brought to you by my donors on Patreon.
Writings
- nothing completed
Media
Links
Genetics:
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Everything Is Heritable:
- “GWAS of 78,308 individuals identifies new loci and genes influencing human intelligence”, et al 2017
- “Metabolic basis to Sherpa altitude adaptation”, et al 2017 ( media)
- “Genetic Predisposition to Obesity and Medicare Expenditures”, et al 2017
- “Behavioural individuality in clonal fish arises despite near-identical rearing conditions”, et al 2017 (What is non-shared-environment? It’s random development noise.)
- “Babies From Skin Cells? Prospect Is Unsettling to Some Experts” (progress towards IES)
AI:
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“Inferring and Executing Programs for Visual Reasoning”, et al 2017
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“Bayesian Reinforcement Learning: A Survey”, et al 2016
- reinforcement learning research is coming out too frequently to single out more than a few papers; see subscribe to the / r / ReinforcementLearning & / r / DecisionTheory subreddits for updates
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“Deep Voice 2: Multi-Speaker Neural Text-to-Speech”, et al 2017 (another one already)
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“DeepXplore: Automated Whitebox Testing of Deep Learning Systems”, et al 2017
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“Visual Semantic Planning using Deep Successor Representations”, et al 2017 ( video)
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“AIXIjs: A Software Demo for General Reinforcement Learning”, 2017 (source repo; live demos); demo of some AI risk scenarios using AIXIjs: “Categorizing Wireheading in Partially Embedded Agents”, et al 2019
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“When Will AI Exceed Human Performance? Evidence from AI Experts”, et al 2017
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“Sukiyaki in French style: A novel system for transformation of dietary patterns”, et al 2017 (
word2vec
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Matters of Scale:
- “Hard Mixtures of Experts for Large Scale Weakly Supervised Vision”, et al 2017 (scaling CNNs to 500m+ images by sharding)
Statistics/Meta-Science:
- “Proceeding From Observed Correlation to Causal Inference: The Use of Natural Experiments”, 2007
- “Daryl Bem Proved ESP Is Real—which means science is broken” (Apparently Bem was serious. But one man’s modus ponens is another man’s modus tollens.)
- New n-body choreographies have been discovered: “152 new families of Newtonian periodic planar three-body orbits”
Politics/religion:
- “Self-Censorship in Public Discourse: A Theory of ‘Political Correctness’ and Related Phenomena”, 1994
- “Some Case Studies in Early Field Growth” (how did “bioethics” so successfully hijack medicine & biology?)
Psychology/biology:
- “The Effects of Education, Personality, and IQ on Earnings of High-Ability Men”, et al 2011
- On child psychopathy
- “Cleaning up the big muddy: a meta-analytic review of the determinants of escalation of commitment”, 2012 (Sunk cost bias may not be any one thing but a variety of things driving the same apparent behavior in various contexts, especially organizational.)
Technology:
- “Eternity in six hours: Intergalactic spreading of intelligent life and sharpening the Fermi paradox”, 2013
- “An empirical study on the correctness of formally verified distributed systems” (Who verifies the verifiers?)
- “A Thinking Ape’s Critique of Trans-Simianism”
- List of Greek and Roman architectural records
- “The Tinkerings of Robert Noyce: How the Sun Rose on Silicon Valley”, 1983
- “carpalx—design your own keyboard” (Simulated annealing for optimizing keyboard layout.)
Economics:
- “The Fall Of Intrade And The Business Of Betting On Real Life”
- “Economies of density in e-commerce: a study of Amazon’s fulfillment center network”, et al 2017 (Amazon’s sales tax vs shipping cost tradeoff in scaling warehouses)
- “Algorithmic Entities”, 2017 (followup to 2016: decentralized autonomous corporations are doable de jure and not just de facto.)
- Richer people are happier
Philosophy:
Fiction:
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“Alpha (A translation of Genesis 1)” (
word2vec
for computer-assisted creation of rhyming definitions & Book of Genesis with only words starting with “a”)
Books
Nonfiction:
- Indiscrete Thoughts, Gian-Carlo 1997 (review)
Fiction:
Film/TV
Animated:
Live-action:
Music
Touhou:
- “マーキュリー” (中迫酒菜、茶畑、水橋ゆっきー; 私の紅魔館 {C91}) [folk]
- “おやすみ” (中迫酒菜、茶畑、水橋ゆっきー; 私の紅魔館 {C91}) [folk]
- “酔夢奇譚” (SOUND HOLIC; TOHO PIANISM III {C91}) [classical]
- “Desire = desirE” (SOUND HOLIC; TOHO PIANISM III {C91}) [classical]
- “Lost ■” (RD-Sounds feat. めらみぽっぷ; Void {C91}) [vocal]
- “感情の摩天楼 [Tropical House]” (Spacelectro; 東方インストEDM3 {C90}) [house]
- “The White Sea” (LEMiao feat. 瑶山百霊 (Yaoshanbailing); 無名の楽園 〜 Piano Arrange Collection Vol.1 {C91}) [classical]
- “無名の楽園” (LEMiao feat. 瑶山百霊 (Yaoshanbailing); 無名の楽園 〜 Piano Arrange Collection Vol.1 {C91}) [classical]
- “The Gensokyo The Gods Loved” (LEMiao feat. 流月; 無名の楽園 〜 Piano Arrange Collection Vol.1 {C91}) [classical]
- “Rosarium (Piano Arrange Ver.)” (LEMiao feat. 瑶山百霊 (Yaoshanbailing); 無名の楽園 〜 Piano Arrange Collection Vol.1 {C91}) [classical]
- “Innocent Memory (Piano Arrange Ver.)” (LEMiao feat. 瑶山百霊 (Yaoshanbailing); 無名の楽園 〜 Piano Arrange Collection Vol.1 {C91}) [classical]
- “埃に埋もれた詩” (LEMiao feat. 瑶山百霊 (Yaoshanbailing); 無名の楽園 〜 Piano Arrange Collection Vol.1 {C91}) [classical]
Doujin:
- “マトーヤの洞窟” (いんやん; Life of Ishgard {C91}) [electronic]
- “White Bleath and Brilliant Star” (Syuichi.K; Life of Ishgard {C91}) [electronic]
Vocaloid:
- “OPENINGTHEME” (Calla Soiled feat. Miku; THREELAYERSTRUCTURETHEORY {2012}) [trance]