AI

• “An Invitation to Imitation”⁠, Bagnell2015 (tutorial on imitation learning, DAgger etc—highly relevant to LLMs as they are just imitation-learning RL agents)

• ⁠“Inside the mind of a superhuman Go model: How does Leela Zero read ladders?”⁠

• ⁠“SolidGoldMagikarp” and other unspeakable strings for GPT-3⁠ (more BPE pathologies⁠)

• ⁠“Anime Rock Paper Scissors”⁠, Corridor Digital (⁠making-of⁠; short using actors against Unreal Engine 5⁠ backgrounds + Stable Diffusion style transfer⁠ to Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust⁠ + finetuned on actors; ⁠animators’ commentary⁠)

  • ⁠“ANIME ROCK, PAPER, SCISSORS 2”⁠ (featuring the circle game⁠; ⁠making-of⁠)

Matters Of⁠ ⁠Scale⁠:

• What went wrong with MS Bing ‘Sydney’ compared to ⁠ChatGPT⁠? ⁠MS didn’t RLHF-train it at all⁠

• “Why China Didn’t Invent ChatGPT: The state’s hardening censorship and heavier hand have held back its tech industry; so has entrepreneurs’ reluctance to invest for the long term. It wasn’t always that way.”⁠

Genetics

Everything Is Heritable:

• “Uncovering the Heritable Components of Multimorbidities and Disease Trajectories: A Nationwide Cohort Study”⁠, Westergaardet al2023 (n = 6.3m Danes, heritability >1k diseases/genetic correlation⁠ on 424 diseases); “Multi-PGS enhances polygenic prediction by combining 937 polygenic scores”⁠, Albiñanaet al2023

• “A 12-gene pharmacogenetic panel to prevent adverse drug reactions: an open-label, multicenter, controlled, cluster-randomized crossover implementation study”⁠, Swenet al2023

• ⁠“A Little-Known Inflammatory Disease Is Hiding in Plain Sight”⁠ (genetic diseases caused by somatic mutations are now being found)

• “Identification and analysis of individuals who deviate from their genetically-predicted phenotype”⁠, Hawkeset al2023 (extreme-case analysis)

Engineering:

• “DNA synthesis technologies to close the gene writing gap”⁠, Hooseet al2023 (review)

• “Girl with deadly inherited condition is cured with gene therapy on NHS”⁠

• “Changing cancer’s course: How genetic science gave 3 All-American athletes a future” (a PGD success story)

• “Public views on polygenic screening of embryos: Understanding moral acceptability and willingness to use is crucial for informing policy”⁠, Meyeret al2023

• “For the First Time, Genetically Modified Trees Have Been Planted in a U.S. Forest”⁠

Statistics/Meta-Science

• “Raising the value of research studies in psychological science by increasing the credibility of research reports: the transparent Psi project”⁠, Kekecset al2023 (methodology testbed: preregistered⁠ adversarial collaboration, video-recorded real-time timestamped open data with large well-powered⁠ n; no psi found)

Politics/Religion

• ⁠“How Finland’s Green Party Chose Nuclear Power”⁠

• “Co-Writing with Opinionated Language Models Affects Users’ Views”⁠, Jakeschet al2023; “Artificial Intelligence Can Persuade Humans on Political Issues”⁠, Baiet al2023 (GPT-3⁠-essays as (in)effective as human-written; but best-of-5 essay curation does better)

Psychology/Biology

• “Psychological testing and psychological assessment: A review of evidence and issues”⁠, Meyeret al2001 (realistic priors⁠ on correlates in psychology)

• “Rosenhan revisited: successful scientific fraud”⁠, Scull2023 (more on the fabricated psychiatry experiment & consequences)

• “The Color Currency of Nature”⁠, Humphrey1976

• The Symbion⁠ ‘worm’

Technology

• ⁠“Mineral Oil Cooled PC”, Puget Systems⁠ (killed by a patent troll⁠; RIP)

Economics

• “For Want of a Cup: The Rise of Tea in England and the Impact of Water Quality on Mortality”⁠, Antman2022

• “The fascinating reason why clowns paint their faces on eggs”⁠ (spontaneous order⁠: clown social norms to avoid face-paint art overlap & establish priority)

Fiction

Miscellaneous