2020 News
Annual summary of 2020 Gwern.net newsletters, selecting my best writings, the best 2020 links by topic, and the best books/movies/anime I saw in 2020, with some general discussion of the year.
This is the 2020 summary edition of the Gwern.net newsletter (archives), summarizing the best of the monthly 2020 newsletters:
Previous annual newsletters: 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015.
Writings
My 2020 writings included:
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“Danbooru2019: A Large-Scale Crowdsourced & Tagged Anime Illustration Dataset”
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Gwern.net major changes: fully-recursive generalized popups; dark mode; local link archives
Overview
Links
AI
Genetics
Everything Is Heritable:
Recent Evolution:
Engineering:
Statistics/Meta-Science
Politics/Religion
Psychology/Biology
Technology
Economics
Philosophy
Fiction
Miscellaneous
Books
Nonfiction:
Fiction:
TV/movies
Nonfiction movies:
Fiction:
Anime: