Links

Genetics:

• Everything Is Heritable:

  • “Genetic ‘General Intelligence’, Objectively Determined and Measured”⁠, de la Fuenteet al2019 (the UKBB⁠ cognitive measures properly analyzed using genetic correlations⁠, allowing better prediction of the genetic g ‘generalist genes’ and also test-specific cognitive performances)

  • “Social and non-social autism symptoms and trait domains are genetically dissociable”⁠, Warrieret al2019 (more evidence that embryo selection for intelligence would not also lead to greater social dysfunctionality/autism)

  • “The Genetics of Human Skin and Hair Pigmentation”⁠, Pavan & Sturm2019

  • “Extreme inbreeding in a European ancestry sample from the contemporary UK population”⁠, Yengoet al2019 (>10% ROH → −0.3–0.7SD on 7 traits like height/intelligence)

  • UKBB announces WGS of all n = 500,000 participants

  • “A Prospective Analysis of Genetic Variants Associated with Human Lifespan”⁠, Wrightet al2019

• Engineering:

  • “Controlled modeling of human epiblast and amnion development using stem cells”⁠, Zhenget al2019 (creation of quasi-embryos from stem cells; towards IES; media: ⁠TR⁠, Nature⁠)

  • “The Perfect Milk Machine: How Big Data Transformed the Dairy Industry”⁠ (for estimates of limits to selection/how valuable the perfect cow would be, see Cole & VanRaden2011⁠)

  • “Genetics-based methods for agricultural insect pest management”⁠, Alphey & Bonsall2019

AI:

• “AI-GAs: AI-generating algorithms, an alternate paradigm for producing general artificial intelligence”⁠, Clune2019

• “Fine-Tuning Language Models from Human Preferences”⁠, Ziegleret al2019 (blog⁠; source⁠; training better text generation using human ratings of quality)

• Matters Of Scale:

  • “Megatron-LM: Training Multi-Billion Parameter Language Models Using GPU Model Parallelism”⁠, Shoeybiet al2019 (⁠text samples⁠; earlier blog⁠)

  • “Exascale Deep Learning for Scientific Inverse Problems”⁠, Laanaitet al2019

  • “Large-scale Pretraining for Neural Machine Translation with Tens of Billions of Sentence Pairs”⁠, Menget al2019

  • “Learning to Seek: Autonomous Source Seeking with Deep Reinforcement Learning Onboard a Nano Drone Microcontroller”⁠, Duisterhofet al2019 (reminds me of Bonsai⁠)

Statistics/Meta-Science:

• “Registered reports: an early example and analysis”, Wisemanet al2019 (parapsychology was the first field to use Registered Reports⁠ in 1976_49ya, which cut statistical-significance⁠ rates by 2⁄3^rds: Johnson1975a⁠, Johnson1975b⁠, Johnson1976⁠⁠^⁠1⁠)

• “Methods for Studying Coincidences”⁠, Diaconis & Mosteller1989

• “The Power of Two Random Choices: A Survey of Techniques and Results”⁠, Mitzenmacheret al2001

• “Sparkline theory and practice”⁠, Edward Tufte⁠ (examples & questions)

Politics/religion:

• “Constitutional Hardball”⁠, Tushnet2004

• “Anthropology’s Science Wars: Insights from a New Survey”⁠, Horowitzet al2019 (visualizations)

• “Leninthink: On the practice behind the theory of Marxism-Leninism”⁠

• “Dear Young Eccentric”⁠

Psychology/biology:

• “Effect of Lower Versus Higher Red Meat Intake on Cardiometabolic and Cancer Outcomes: A Systematic Review of Randomized Trials”⁠, Zeraatkaret al2019 (“diets lower in red meat may have little or no effect on all-cause mortality (HR 0.99 [95% CI⁠, 0.95–1.03])”; on the accusations of conflicts of interest⁠)

• “Reading Lies: Nonverbal Communication and Deception”⁠, Vrijet al2019

• “Is Cognitive Functioning Impaired in Methamphetamine Users? A Critical Review”⁠, Hartet al2012

• “Dumb or smart asses? Donkey’s (Equus asinus) cognitive capabilities share the heritability and variation patterns of human’s (Homo sapiens) cognitive capabilities”⁠, Gonzálezet al2019

• “Nature’s Spoils: The underground food movement ferments revolution”⁠

Technology:

• “STEPS Toward Expressive Programming Systems: ‘A Science Experiment’”⁠, Ohshimaet al2012 (writing a GUI OS in 20k LoC; tricks include ⁠ASCII art networking DSLs & generic optimization for text layout)

• “Secrets by the thousands”⁠, Walker1946 (more on the post-WWII brain drain from Germany/Europe to the USA)

• “Secrets of the Little Blue Box”, Rosenbaum1971; “Terminal Delinquents: Once, They Stole Hubcaps And Shot Out Street-Lights. Now They’re Stealing Your Social Security Number And Shooting Out Your Credit Rating. A Layman’s Guide To Computer High Jinks”, Hitt & Tough1990 (I feel this article must have been a reference for Hackers⁠)

• “The Radioactive Boy Scout: When a teenager attempts to build a breeder reactor”⁠, Silverstein1998

• “Fancy Euclid’s Elements in T_eX”⁠, Slyusarev Sergey (with generative dropcaps⁠); “Making of Byrne’s Euclid”, Nicholas Rougeux (how to create a ⁠beautiful interactive HTML version of Byrne’s⁠ ⁠unique color-diagram book interpretation of Euclid’s Elements (Tufte discussion⁠); you shouldn’t do this sort of thing for everything, but maybe you should try to do it for something)

• “SpeechJammer: A System Utilizing Artificial Speech Disturbance with Delayed Auditory Feedback”⁠, Kurihara & Tsukada2012

• “Mark of Integrity”, Jonathan Allen (on juiced cards, luminous readers, sunning the deck, and other card sharpers’ tricks for card marking⁠)

Economics:

• “Managing an iconic old luxury brand in a new luxury economy: Hermès handbags in the US market”⁠, Lewis & Haas2014 (⁠Summary; see also “Birkin Demand: A Sage & Stylish Investment”, Newsom2016)

Fiction:

• Bakker’s Second Apocalypse & Frank Herbert’s Dune: time loops & finding freedom in an unfree universe⁠ (compare Ted Chiang’s “Story of Your Life”⁠)

Misc:

• “Japan Sings Along With Beethoven”⁠

Film/TV

Live-action:

• Mandy⁠ (2018; ⁠review⁠)

• Weiner⁠ (2016; ⁠review⁠)

• Falling Down⁠ (1993_32ya)

Animated:

• Redline⁠ (2009_16ya; ⁠review⁠)

• Neon Genesis Evangelion⁠ Concurrency Project (2013_12ya; ⁠review⁠)

Music

Touhou⁠:

• ⁠“ann～庵～”⁠ (茶太 feat. Chata; ⁠『spill over』 {C95}) [rock]

• ⁠“cardiac sound”⁠ (Kirin; Cleave Spark the Instrumental {C95}) [trance]

MLP:

• ⁠“Getting Stronger”⁠ (Michelle Creber, Black Gryph0n, Baasik; ⁠Getting Stronger⁠ {2016}) [rock]

• ⁠“Landscapes”⁠ (Mane in Green {2016}) [electronic]

• ⁠“Moonlight”⁠ (Black Gryph0n & Baasik; ⁠IMmortal⁠ {2014_11ya}) [trance]

• ⁠“Faster Than You Know”⁠ (Black Gryph0n & Baasik; IMmortal {2014_11ya}) [pop]

Doujin:

• ⁠“Natsukage -endless summer lights-” (Falmaki⁠; Natsukage -endless summer lights- {C94}) [post-rock]