AI

• “Contrastive Search Is What You Need For Neural Text Generation”, Su & Collier2022

Matters Of Scale:

• “U-PaLM: Transcending Scaling Laws with 0.1% Extra Compute”, Tay et al 2022 (halving PaLM training requirements w/UL2 losses; higher-quality + emergence on BIG-Bench tasks); “FLAN: Scaling Instruction-Finetuned Language Models”, Chung et al 2022

• “Scaling Laws for Reward Model Overoptimization”, Gao et al 2022

• “GLM-130B: An Open Bilingual Pre-trained Model”, Zeng et al 2022

• “Vision-Language Pre-training: Basics, Recent Advances, and Future Trends”, Gan et al 2022

Genetics

Everything Is Heritable:

• “Advances and Applications of Polygenic Scores for Coronary Artery Disease”, Patel & Khera2022

• “A 2-million-year-old ecosystem in Greenland uncovered by environmental DNA”, Kjær et al 2022; “Ancient marine sediment DNA reveals diatom transition in Antarctica”, Armbrecht et al 2022 (sedaDNA sequenced from 1mya); “A 2-million-year-old microbial and viral communities from the Kap København Formation in North Greenland”, Fernandez-Guerra et al 2023

• “Hidden details of world’s most famous sled dog Balto revealed in massive Zoonomia genomics project” (sequencing Balto’s taxidermied corpse); “Why scientists dug up the father of genetics, Gregor Mendel, and analyzed his DNA”

• “US Department of Defense Adds BGI Genomics to Blacklist of ‘Chinese Military Companies’”

Recent Evolution:

Engineering:

Statistics/Meta-Science

• “Predictive validity in drug discovery: what it is, why it matters and how to improve it”, Scannell et al 2022

• “52 Cards Win a Dollar” puzzle (DP solution)

Politics/Religion

• “Information Control and Public Support for Social Credit Systems in China”, Xu et al 2022 (how CCP propaganda for Social Credit works: flood the zone with pro-Social-Credit news, hide the bad); the 1975 Banqiao Dam failure (example of how slowness, underdevelopment, poverty, & political dysfunction lead to disasters)

• “Scaring or Scarring? Labor Market Effects of Criminal Victimization”, Bindler & Ketel2022 (crime is bad, population registers good)

• “Forensic Pathology and the European Vampire”, Barber1987

Psychology/Biology

• Semaglutide: “Two-year effects of semaglutide in adults with overweight or obesity: the STEP 5 trial”, Garvey et al 2022 (week 104: 2.5mg-semaglutide-only = −13% mean weight loss); “Once-Weekly Semaglutide in Adolescents with Obesity”, Weghuber et al 2022; Oral semaglutide 50 mg achieved 15% weight loss in OASIS 1 trial

• “Adapted to Flee Famine: Adding an Evolutionary Perspective on Anorexia Nervosa”, Guisinger2003

• “Do bumble bees play?”, Dona et al 2022

• “Nymph P—s and Gravy Orgies: Local and Global Contrast Effects in Relational Humor”, Siew et al 2022 (previously, Reilly et al 2020); “Compound pejoratives on Reddit—from buttface to wankpuffin” (known as “s—tgibbons”; cf. XKCD)

• “What it’s like to dissect a cadaver”, Alok Singh

Technology

• “Project Starline: A high-fidelity telepresence system”, Lawrence et al 2021 (teleconferencing may just need to be really good to work as well as in-person, because anything less glitches us subconsciously—like VR or latency in UIs; conversational gaps are only 80 milliseconds!)

• “Digital Marbling”, Amanda Ghassaei (replicating paper marbling of ink-on-water w/fluid solvers)

Economics

Philosophy

Fiction

Miscellaneous