July 2022 News
July 2022 Gwern.net newsletter with links on TODO
July 2022’s Gwern.net newsletter is now out; previous, June 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
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Links
AI
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“Scaling Laws vs Model Architectures: How does Inductive Bias Influence Scaling?”, et al 2022 (architectures may matter much less than scaling)
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“Language Models Can Teach Themselves to Program Better”, et al 2022 (Codex generating new programming puzzles & solutions, which can be auto-checked, then finetuned on for bootstrapping)
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“ML-Enhanced Code Completion Improves Google Developer Productivity”, 2022
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“PIXEL: Language Modeling with Pixels”, et al 2022 (avoiding BPE problems by learning on raw images of text instead; cf. et al 2020 /et al 2020 ); “TVLT: Textless Vision-Language Transformer”, et al 2022
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“Language models show human-like content effects on reasoning”, et al 2022
Genetics
Everything Is Heritable:
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“Polygenic architecture of rare coding variation across 400,000 exomes”, et al 2022
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“Scalable, high quality, whole genome sequencing from archived, newborn, dried blood spots”, et al 2022 ( vast archives); “Infanticide vs. inherited cardiac arrhythmias”, et al 2021 ( Kathleen Folbigg was pardoned & freed June 2023—sequence everyone)
Recent Evolution:
Engineering:
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“More CRISPR In Human Subjects”: on Verve editing PCSK9 to reduce cholesterol
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“Healthy cloned offspring derived from freeze-dried somatic cells”, et al 2022
Statistics/Meta-Science
Politics/Religion
Psychology/Biology
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“Evaluating the Replicability of Social Priming Studies”, et al 2022 (“the meta-analytic average was virtually zero: d = 0.001”); “The problem of miscitation in psychological science: Righting the ship”, et al 2023
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“On the prediction of human intelligence from neuroimaging: A systematic review of methods and reporting”, et al 2022 (fMRI now predicts general intelligence at r = 0.42)
Technology
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“Trial by Internet: A Randomized Field Experiment on Wikipedia’s Influence on Judges’ Legal Reasoning”, et al 2022 (+20% citation to precedents with newly-written WP articles)
Economics
Philosophy
Fiction
Miscellaneous
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Music
MLP:
Doujin:
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