November 2022 News
November 2022 Gwern.net newsletter with links on TODO
November 2022’s Gwern.net newsletter is now out; previous, October 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
Mirror: ISIS propaganda magazine Rumiyah
Gwern.net: print mode CSS: looks much better, pages should print reasonably now (eg. icons aren’t screwed up, transclusions expand so nothing is lost, layout looks like regular pages more)
Minor Gwern.net changes since August 2022 not covered previously:
Links
AI
“Legged Locomotion in Challenging Terrains using Egocentric Vision”, et al2022
“Digital Astronomy with Cellular Automata”, Kyle Hovey (more ‘stupid compression tricks’: clustering possible CA rules by PNG ratio)
“CICERO: Human-level play in the game of Diplomacy by combining language models with strategic reasoning”, et al2022; “Negotiation and honesty in artificial intelligence methods for the board game of Diplomacy”, et al2022 (negotiating ‘contracts’ & learning to punish defectors)
“Efficiently Scaling Transformer Inference”, et al2022 (29ms/
token generation PaLM-540B; even the chonkiest NNs can be superhumanly fast) “Dungeons and Data: A Large-Scale NetHack Dataset”, et al2022 (n = 1.5m human games for offline/
imitation learning)
Genetics
Everything Is Heritable:
Recent Evolution:
Engineering:
Statistics/Meta-Science
Politics/Religion
Psychology/Biology
“The connectome of an insect brain”, et al2022
“Wrecked by Success? Not to Worry”, et al2022 (the most successful members of SMPY are healthier); “High intelligence is not associated with a greater propensity for mental health disorders”, et al2022
“Social media and psychological well-being”, et al2022 (meta-analysis: correlation is near-zero & shrinking over time)
Technology
How an unpowered glider can reach >800kph using dynamic soaring
“Zendo—Design History”, Kory Heath (‘good design is invisible’: you’d never guess from playing Zendo how much iteration it took to design)
Economics
The Ethereum Merge defies half a decade of critics by happening successfully (may now be worth revisiting on-chain project failures like Augur)
Philosophy
Fiction
Toyota Century (‘that car’ in anime)
Miscellaneous
“Seraphim: A Biblically-Inspired Constructed Language”, Babelingua (“for multiple mouth angels using gematria to define phonemes, speaking in syntax trees + singing multilingual 4D-tense praises”); “Mpiua Tiostouea, a Language for Time Travelers”, Science Meets Fiction; “Goptjaam (欱攙): the unglossable language”, Kat Mistberg (encrypted embeddings)
Books
Nonfiction:
Fiction:
Film/TV
Live-action:
Animated:
Music
MLP:
Doujin:
Misc: