June 2022 News
June 2022 Gwern.net newsletter with links on TODO
June 2022’s Gwern.net newsletter is now out; previous, May 2022 (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
Gwern.net: ‘partial’ annotation popups (enhancement of live-links)
Links
AI
“Director: Deep Hierarchical Planning from Pixels”, et al2022 (hierarchical RL over world models); “Video PreTraining (VPT): Learning to Act by Watching Unlabeled Online Videos”, et al2022; “DreamerV3: Mastering Diverse Domains through World Models”, et al2023 (can collect Minecraft diamonds from scratch in 50 episodes/
29m steps using 17 GPU-days; scales w/ model-size to 0.2b-parameters) “DeepNash: Mastering the Game of Stratego with Model-Free Multiagent Reinforcement Learning”, et al2022
5th anniversary of Transformers
“RST: reStructured Pre-training”, 2022 (rewriting 55 datasets into many formatted prompts for finetuning T5; good exam Q&A)
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tflite_c64
: Run inferences using TensorFlow Lite for Microcontrollers on a Commodore 64”, Nick Bild (compiling tiny NNs to a sequence of BASIC instructions for a C64); “On-Device Training Under 256KB Memory”, et al2022
Genetics
Everything Is Heritable:
Recent Evolution:
Engineering:
Statistics/Meta-Science
“False Discovery in A/
B Testing” , Berman & Van den 2021 (“high fraction of true null effects, about 70%” in e-commerce tests)“Residual Confounding in Health Plan Performance Assessments: Evidence From Randomization in Medicaid”, et al2022 (how often does correlation=causality? ~100% overestimate from all correlation estimates in Medicaid natural experiment)
“She Spent a Decade Writing Fake Russian History. Zh Wikipedia Just Noticed.”/
Vice (WP; she wrote millions of words, 206 new articles, w/ 100s edited)
Politics/Religion
Psychology/Biology
“A Whole Population Network and Its Application for the Social Sciences”, van der et al2022 (an incredible new population registry: “A multilevel network of the entire 2018 Dutch population with links to identify relatives, household members, neighbours, work colleagues, and classmates”)
Technology
“Progress in Mathematical Programming Solvers 2001–192020”, et al2022 (ratio of hardware:software progress in linear/
integer programming: 20:9 & 20:50) “Searching for Cyclic TV Reference Paradoxes”, Jamie Pinheiro
Economics
Philosophy
Fiction
Miscellaneous
Books
Nonfiction:
Fiction:
Film/TV
Live-action:
Animated:
Music
MLP:
Doujin:
Misc: