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April 2019 News

April 2019 Gwern.net newsletter with links on AI, biology, SIGBOVIK, Dresden Codak; 1 book review, 3 movie reviews.

April 2019’s Gwern.net newsletter is now out; previous, March 2019 (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

  • “Everything Is Correlated”

  • Gwern.net: deprecated RSS (please use the newsletter with an email → RSS gateway or /r/gwern’s RSS feed for future updates via RSS); added “dark mode” support for Safari/FF (inverts colors for night reading on browsers supporting new CSS media query)

Media

Books

Nonfiction:

Film/TV

Live-action:

  • Freaks (193292ya; review)

  • What We Do in the Shadows (2014; mockumentary of contemporary vampires in the slacker vein, What We Do is better than it sounds because of a surprisingly thoughtful depiction of the dullness and vexations of such a life.)

  • Big Trouble In Little China (198638ya; firmly in the “so bad it’s good” cluster, this is an intensely ’80s-ish martial arts melodrama, complete with a frame story which is entirely forgotten by the ending, which avoids insufferability by being low-key subversive humor where bumbling protagonist Kurt Russell is really the sidekick to his Asian partner who does most of the work)

Music

Touhou:

Vocaloid:

MLP:

Misc: