October 2022 News
October 2022 Gwern.net newsletter with links on TODO
October 2022’s Gwern.net newsletter is now out; previous, September 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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Dynamic programming solutions to “52 Cards Win a Dollar” puzzle
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Gwern.net: special occasions mode: Halloween (rubrication)
Links
AI
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“U-PaLM: Transcending Scaling Laws with 0.1% Extra Compute”, et al 2022 (halving PaLM training requirements w/ UL2 losses; higher-quality + emergence on BIG-Bench tasks); “FLAN: Scaling Instruction-Finetuned Language Models”, et al 2022
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“Scaling Laws for Reward Model Overoptimization”, et al 2022
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“GLM-130B: An Open Bilingual Pre-trained Model”, et al 2022
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“Vision-Language Pre-training: Basics, Recent Advances, and Future Trends”, et al 2022
Genetics
Everything Is Heritable:
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“Advances and Applications of Polygenic Scores for Coronary Artery Disease”, 2022
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“A 2-million-year-old ecosystem in Greenland uncovered by environmental DNA”, et al 2022; “Ancient marine sediment DNA reveals diatom transition in Antarctica”, 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-et al 2023
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“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”
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“US Department of Defense Adds BGI Genomics to Blacklist of ‘Chinese Military Companies’”
Recent Evolution:
Engineering:
Statistics/Meta-Science
Politics/Religion
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“Information Control and Public Support for Social Credit Systems in China”, 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)
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“Scaring or Scarring? Labor Market Effects of Criminal Victimization”, 2022 (crime is bad, population registers good)
Psychology/Biology
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Semaglutide: “Two-year effects of semaglutide in adults with overweight or obesity: the STEP 5 trial”, et al 2022 (week 104: 2.5mg-semaglutide-only = −13% mean weight loss); “Once-Weekly Semaglutide in Adolescents with Obesity”, et al 2022; Oral semaglutide 50 mg achieved 15% weight loss in OASIS 1 trial
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“Adapted to Flee Famine: Adding an Evolutionary Perspective on Anorexia Nervosa”, 2003
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“Do bumble bees play?”, et al 2022
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“Nymph P—s and Gravy Orgies: Local and Global Contrast Effects in Relational Humor”, et al 2022 (previously, et al 2020 ); “Compound pejoratives on Reddit—from buttface to wankpuffin” (known as “s—tgibbons”; cf. XKCD)
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“What it’s like to dissect a cadaver”, Alok Singh
Technology
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“Project Starline: A high-fidelity telepresence system”, 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!)
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“Digital Marbling”, Amanda Ghassaei (replicating paper marbling of ink-on-water w/fluid solvers)
Economics
Philosophy
Fiction
Miscellaneous
Books
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Fiction:
Film/TV
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Music
MLP:
Doujin:
Misc: