AI

• “How Facebook got addicted to spreading misinformation” (profile of Joaquin Quiñonero Candela, OpenAI’s new head of AI safety “Preparedness”)

• “Getting the World Record in HATETRIS”, Dave & Filipe2022 (highly-optimized beam search)

Matters Of Scale:

• “Revisiting Dynamic Evaluation: Online Adaptation for Large Language Models”, Rannen-Triki et al 2024 (3-way tradeoff of size/context/finetuning in scaling LLMs)

• “Intriguing properties of generative classifiers”, Jaini et al 2023 (Imagen offers analysis-by-synthesis ever more closely replicating human vision)

Genetics

Everything Is Heritable:

• “A primer on why microbiome research is hard”, Abhishaike Mahajan

• “Life without sex: Large-scale study links sexlessness to physical, cognitive, and personality traits, socioecological factors, and DNA”, Abdellaoui et al 2024

Recent Evolution:

Engineering:

• “After CRISPR baby scandal shut down work for years, China gene editing companies are restarting clinical trials”

Statistics/Meta-Science

• “Amateur Mathematicians Find 5^th ‘Busy Beaver’ Turing Machine”

Politics/Religion

• Matthew Meselson: “How to Catch a Lab Leak” & “How to Ban Biological Weapons”

• “How Election Rules Affect Who Wins”, Grimmer & Hersh2024

Psychology/Biology

• Nucleic Observatory update: “Detecting Genetically Engineered Viruses With Metagenomic Sequencing”, Jeff Kaufman

• “George Berzsenyi: A Math Teacher’s Life Summed Up By The Gifted Students He Mentored” (Berzsenyi2019)

• “Infrared antenna-like structures in mammalian fur”, Baker2021 (do cats have infrared camouflage through their cold wet little noses?)

• “The vault guy: Leonard Rome’s lab discovered an odd, abundant component of cells in the 1980s—and he’s still trying to figure out what it does” (the enduring mystery of the vault cell organelle)

• “Writing matters”, Feld et al 2024

Technology

• “A Spreadsheet Way of Knowledge: A generation ago, a tool unleashed the power of business modeling—and created an entrepreneurial boom”, Steven Levy

• “A brief history of liquid computers”, Adamatzky2019

• Queen Mary’s Dolls’ House; “The Effect of Size on the Equipment of the Queen’s Dolls’ House”, O’Gorman1924

• “DHTML JavaScript Tooltips (2002^–₆2008_16ya)”, Walter Zorn (d. 2009_15ya)

Economics

Philosophy

Fiction

Miscellaneous