September 2025 News
September 2025 Gwern.net newsletter with links on TODO
September 2025’s Gwern.net newsletter is now out; previous, August 2025 (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
Github popups?
video games as art
Links
AI
Genetics
Everything Is Heritable:
Recent Evolution:
Engineering:
Statistics/Meta-Science
“Adventures in State Space”, 2swap 2025 (visualizing a hard sliding-block puzzle’s game tree as a graph to understand why it’s hard, its symmetries, and the qualitative nature of its strategies; good intuition building for the idea of ‘state spaces’ in planning & reinforcement learning)
Politics/Religion
Psychology/Biology
Technology
Economics
Philosophy
Fiction
Books
Fiction:
Film/TV
Live-action:
Amélie (200124ya; rewatch)
Animated: