AI

• “InstaFlow: One Step is Enough for High-Quality Diffusion-Based Text-to-Image Generation”⁠, Liuet al2023/“UFOGen: You Forward Once Large Scale Text-to-Image Generation via Diffusion GANs”⁠, Xuet al2023 (SD-XL quality in a single step—GAN speed!); “Adversarial Diffusion Distillation”⁠, Saueret al2023

Matters Of⁠ ⁠Scale⁠:

• “Deep RL at Scale: Sorting Waste in Office Buildings with a Fleet of Mobile Manipulators”⁠, Herzoget al2023

• “Scaling Law for Recommendation Models: Towards General-purpose User Representations”⁠, Shinet al2021; “Understanding Scaling Laws for Recommendation Models”⁠, Ardalaniet al2022

• New Tesla behavior-cloning FSD⁠ fails 20 minutes into livestream demo⁠: sitting at a light, spontaneously tries to drive Musk into oncoming traffic

Genetics

Everything Is Heritable:

Recent Evolution:

Engineering:

Statistics/Meta-Science

• “Is Target-Based Drug Discovery Efficient? Discovery and ‘Off-Target’ Mechanisms of All Drugs”⁠, Sadri2023

• “Solved: The Ciphers In Book III Of Trithemius’s Steganographia”⁠, Reeds1998 (multiple-discovery: “S stands for secret; you can keep it forever / Provided there’s no one abroad who is clever.”)

• Against caring about subtle poisons⁠

Politics/Religion

• ⁠Richard Rhodes—Making of the Atomic Bomb, AI, WW2, Oppenheimer, & Abolishing Nukes⁠

• “Despite popular intuition, positive world beliefs poorly reflect several objective indicators of privilege, including wealth, health, sex, and neighborhood safety”⁠, Kerryet al2023

• ⁠“Sharing Information About Nonlinear”⁠, Ben Pace (Emerson Spartz⁠ has ⁠threatened to sue⁠ Pace & Lightcone over criticisms)

Psychology/Biology

• “A revolution in obesity treatment”⁠, Lingvey & Agarwal2023 (comparison of recent weight loss successes)

• Mood disorders & eminence⁠:

  • “Mood Disorders and Patterns of Creativity in British Writers and Artists”⁠, Jamison1989

  • “Verbal Creativity, Depression and Alcoholism: An Investigation of 100 American and British Writers”⁠, Post1996

  • “Excellent school performance at age 16 and risk of adult bipolar disorder: national cohort study”⁠, MacCabeet al2010

  • How Adidas downplayed or covered up Kanye West’s misconduct⁠

  • “Ridley Scott’s Napoleon Complex”⁠

  • “Joyce Carol Oates’s Relentless, Prolific Search for a Self”⁠

  • ⁠Mood disorders & Elon Musk⁠

  • https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2024-01-18/diddy-diageo-and-the-decline-of-a-celebrity-business-empire

  • “The Downfall of Diddy Inc.: After months in court, Sean Combs withdrew his racially charged lawsuit against Diageo. A look inside that battle reveals the failed attempt of a fading hip-hop mogul—who’s been buffeted by charges of sexual assault—to salvage a crumbling business empire”⁠

• “What Are Dreams For? Converging lines of research suggest that we might be misunderstanding something we do every night of our lives”⁠

• “They Studied Dishonesty. Was Their Work a Lie? Dan Ariely and Francesca Gino became famous for their research into why we bend the truth. Now they’ve both been accused of fabricating data.”⁠

• Rotating locomotion in living systems⁠

Technology

• ⁠“Engineering Success and Disaster: American Railroad Bridges, 1840^–₆₀1900_125ya”⁠, Aldrich1999

• “The Making of Prince of Persia: Jordan Mechner and the subtle art of video game narrative”⁠, Aksel W. W. Eide

• “Why Evernote Failed to Realize Its Potential” 2019 (Evernote was recently bought by private equity, staff gutted, price doubled, & users like myself forced into the highly-inferior new web interface; what went wrong?)

• Zzzzzz⁠

Economics

• “Hydra: Lessons from the World’s Largest Darknet Market”⁠, Goonetillekeet al2023

Philosophy

Fiction

Miscellaneous

• “All objects and some questions”⁠, Lineweaver & Patel2023