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
On The Impossibility of Knowledge of Retrocognitive Knowledge
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
“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”
“podcast.ai”: Play.ht TTS demo sample of a ‘Joe Rogan/
Steve Jobs podcast’
“Scaling MLPs: A Tale of Inductive Bias”, et al2023 (MLP image classification scales smoothly w/
regularization+data) “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) The China chip ban is working
“Andromeda Cluster”: a 2,512 H100s GPU-cluster as a service for startups associated w/
Nat Friedman & Daniel Gross Carl Shulman interview: “Intelligence Explosion, Primate Evolution, Robot Doublings, & Alignment”, part 2
“SpikeGPT: Generative Pre-trained Language Model with Spiking Neural Networks”, et al2023 (surrogate-gradient backprop on RWKV-like is somewhat worse but runtime is efficient)
Genetics
Everything Is Heritable:
“Phenotypic effects of genetic variants associated with autism”, et al2023 (more evidence the supposed genetic correlation of intelligence & autism spectrum is spurious & due to impure measurements)
“A familial natural short sleep mutation promotes healthy aging and extends lifespan in Drosophila”, et al2023
Recent Evolution:
Engineering:
“National and Global Impacts of Genetically Modified Crops”, 2023
“DNA repair and anti-cancer mechanisms in the longest-living mammal: the bowhead whale”, et al2023 (whales do not suppress tumors with anti-cancer gene copies, but especially efficient DNA repair)
“Temperature-dependent RNA editing in octopus extensively recodes the neural proteome”, et al2023
Statistics/Meta-Science
Politics/Religion
Psychology/Biology
“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 al2023 (the correlation between childhood maltreatment/ psychiatric problems is highly confounded) “In the Mind of Marie: A Haunting Encounter in the Gardens of Versailles (1913112ya)”
Technology
“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)
The Kellogg Doolittle Residence: “Inside a Breathtaking Desert Mansion That Looks Like A Fossil”, Architectural Digest (if Dune were a house)
“Process Engineering at a Furry Convention” (end-to-end optimization of registration for throughput)
“Controversy Continues Over Whether Hot Water Freezes Faster Than Cold” (Mpemba effect)
Economics
Philosophy
“How They Fool Ya’”, 3Blue1Brown (on mathematical patterns that mislead)
Fiction
Miscellaneous
Books
Nonfiction:
Fiction:
Film/TV
Live-action:
Eyes Wide Shut, 1999 (review)
Animated:
Music
MLP:
Doujin:
Misc: