AI

• “Creative Preference Optimization”, Ismayilzada et al 2025

• “Achieving Human Level Competitive Robot Table Tennis”, D’Ambrosio et al 2024 (sim2real, evolution strategies, dilated CNNs)

Matters Of Scale:

• “Fast, scalable, clean, and cheap enough: How off-grid solar microgrids can power the AI race”, Baranko et al 2024

• “Xi Jinping’s plan to beat America at AI: China’s leaders believe they can outwit American cash and utopianism” (fast-follower strategy & avoiding AGI arms-race due to disbelief in transformative effects)

• “Testing the Limit of Atmospheric Predictability with a Machine Learning Weather Model”, Vonich & Hakim 2025

• “Expanding on what we missed with sycophancy: A deeper dive on our findings, what went wrong, and future changes we’re making”, OpenAI (when RLHF backfires in a way your tests miss)

• “Private Attribute Inference from Images with Vision-Language Models”, Tömekçe et al 2024 (analyzing photos for privacy leaks scales well from LLaVa 1.5 13B to GPT-4-V; GPT-o3 et al are doubtless even better…)

• “Compiling a Neural Net to C for a 1,744× speedup”, Isaac Clayton (training a differentiable logic-gate NN, then pruning and compiling to C for optimized symbolic equivalent)

Genetics

Everything Is Heritable:

• “The impact on clinical success from the 23andMe cohort”, Wang et al 2024

Recent Evolution:

Engineering:

• “The US has approved CRISPR pigs for food” (Genus’s PRRS-virus-resistant pigs)

Statistics/Meta-Science

• “Cardiorespiratory fitness in adolescence and premature mortality: widespread bias identified using negative control outcomes and sibling comparisons”, Ballin et al 2025 (everything is correlated)

Politics/Religion

Psychology/Biology

• “Snake venom protection by a cocktail of varespladib and broadly neutralizing human antibodies”, Glanville et al 2025 (the madman did it!)

• “They Don’t Read Very Well: A [2015_11ya] Study of the Reading Comprehension Skills of English Majors at Two Midwestern Universities”, Baty et al 2024 (discussion)

• “Correlation Neglect in Belief Formation”, Enke & Zimmermann 2017 (one of the dangers of synthetic media is echoing the same story or fact at you in many different-seeming guises)

• “Evolution of parasitism along convergent lines: from ecology to genomics”, Poulin & Randhawa 2013

• “What Children Fear”, Maurer 1965

Technology

Economics

• “Your Right Arm For A Publication In AER?”, Attema et al 2013

• “Up Or Down? A Male Economist’s Manifesto On The Toilet Seat Etiquette”, Choi 2011

Philosophy

Fiction

• “Damien Broderick (1944^–₈₁2025)”