December 2024 News
December 2024 Gwern.net newsletter with links on TODO
December 2024’s Gwern.net newsletter is now out; previous, November 2024 (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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Idea: Towards Benchmarking LLM Diversity & Creativity; Hierarchical Embeddings for Text Search
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Gwern.net: keybindings: help cheatsheet, search, minimizing, dark-mode cycling, return-to-homepage
Links
AI
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AI timeline & risk interviews 2011–2201311ya, by Alexander Kruel (with Shane Legg, Juergen Schmidhuber, Matt Mahoney, Timothy Gowers etc)
Genetics
Everything Is Heritable:
Recent Evolution:
Engineering:
Statistics/Meta-Science
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Seriation (archaeology)/Ordination (ecology) (generalizing sorting; R)
Politics/Religion
Psychology/Biology
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Harlan Ellison’s Last Dangerous Visions published at last, with new revelations: “Once you know he was bipolar, a lot of things that don’t make sense suddenly make sense.”
Technology
Economics
Philosophy
Fiction
Miscellaneous
Books
Nonfiction:
Fiction:
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Sourdough, Robin Sloan (2017)
Film/TV
Live-action:
Animated:
Music
MLP:
Doujin:
Misc: