June 2023 News
June 2023 Gwern.net newsletter with links on TODO
June 2023’s Gwern.net newsletter is now out; previous, May 2023 (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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On The Impossibility of Knowledge of Retrocognitive Knowledge
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Gwern.net: ‘sort by magic’ of similar-links & tags using embeddings (with auto-tagging); +interview formatting support; margin note aggregation at beginning of sections;
latex2unicode.py
Links
AI
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“PonyDiffusion V5, our new model capable of generating anthro, feral and humans in wide range of styles with strong natural language support and extremely simple prompting”
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“podcast.ai”: Play.ht TTS demo sample of a ‘Joe Rogan/Steve Jobs podcast’
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“Scaling MLPs: A Tale of Inductive Bias”, et al 2023 (MLP image classification scales smoothly w/regularization+data)
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“Inside the AI Factory”: the upskilling of data labeling work driven by scaling—ever more challenging tasks ($50/expert-rating; Socratic dialogue: $300; darkly-humorous goldfish limericks: $15)
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The China chip ban is working
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“Andromeda Cluster”: a 2,512 H100s GPU-cluster as a service for startups associated w/Nat Friedman & Daniel Gross
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Carl Shulman interview: “Intelligence Explosion, Primate Evolution, Robot Doublings, & Alignment”, part 2
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“SpikeGPT: Generative Pre-trained Language Model with Spiking Neural Networks”, et al 2023 (surrogate-gradient backprop on RWKV-like is somewhat worse but runtime is efficient)
Genetics
Everything Is Heritable:
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“Phenotypic effects of genetic variants associated with autism”, et al 2023 (more evidence the supposed genetic correlation of intelligence & autism spectrum is spurious & due to impure measurements)
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“A familial natural short sleep mutation promotes healthy aging and extends lifespan in Drosophila”, et al 2023
Recent Evolution:
Engineering:
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“National and Global Impacts of Genetically Modified Crops”, 2023
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“Reprogramming by drug-like molecules leads to regeneration of cochlear hair cell-like cells in adult mice”, et al 2023
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“DNA repair and anti-cancer mechanisms in the longest-living mammal: the bowhead whale”, et al 2023 (whales do not suppress tumors with anti-cancer gene copies, but especially efficient DNA repair)
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“Temperature-dependent RNA editing in octopus extensively recodes the neural proteome”, et al 2023
Statistics/Meta-Science
Politics/Religion
Psychology/Biology
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“Objective and subjective experiences of child maltreatment and their relationships with psychopathology”, 2020/“Associations Between Objective and Subjective Experiences of Childhood Maltreatment and the Course of Emotional Disorders in Adulthood”, 2023 (nothing in psychology makes sense except in the light of individual differences); “Childhood Maltreatment and Mental Health Problems: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Quasi-Experimental Studies”, et al 2023 (the correlation between childhood maltreatment/psychiatric problems is highly confounded)
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“In the Mind of Marie: A Haunting Encounter in the Gardens of Versailles (1913111ya)”
Technology
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“The Joy Of Duplexes: In which integration brings simplification”, Coda Hale (how to use a cryptographically-hard permutation function to build the rest of cryptography up to public keys)
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The Kellogg Doolittle Residence: “Inside a Breathtaking Desert Mansion That Looks Like A Fossil”, Architectural Digest (if Dune were a house)
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“Process Engineering at a Furry Convention” (end-to-end optimization of registration for throughput)
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“Controversy Continues Over Whether Hot Water Freezes Faster Than Cold” (Mpemba effect)
Economics
Philosophy
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“How They Fool Ya’”, 3Blue1Brown (on mathematical patterns that mislead)
Fiction
Miscellaneous
Books
Nonfiction:
Fiction:
Film/TV
Live-action:
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Eyes Wide Shut, Kubrick 199925ya (review)
Animated:
Music
MLP:
Doujin:
Misc: