Links

Genetics:

• Everything Is Heritable:

  • “Polygenic Influence on Educational Attainment: New Evidence From the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health”, Domingue et al 2015 (rarely are the analyst’s choices so much more informative than the results)

  • “The Genetic Architecture & Natural History of Pigmentation”

Politics/religion:

• “Proving communal warfare among hunter-gatherers: The quasi-Rousseau-an error”, Gat2015

• the invention of the lawn: “How America’s Most Useless Crop Also Became Its Most Commonly Grown One”

Statistics/AI/meta-science:

• “Deep Reinforcement Learning” (Comprehensive overview of recent work on deep methods for reinforcement learning, culminating in the Atari player, with additional comments on extending to continuous games, Go, and why ‘deep models’, the apparent third member of the reinforcement learning trinity of value/policy/model learning, has failed & may be redundant. Gradient descent is magic.)

• “Efficient experimentation and the multi-armed bandit”; “Can you beat the bandit?”

• “Composing Music With Recurrent Neural Networks”

• “The Inspection Paradox is Everywhere”

Psychology/biology:

• “Eugenics, Ready or Not”

• “Should Anyone Be Given a Blood Transfusion?”

• “Canaries in the coal mine: a cross-species analysis of the plurality of obesity epidemics”, Klimentidis et al 2011

Astronomy:

• “On The History and Future of Cosmic Planet Formation”

• Isaac Newton on how God stabilizes the solar system & the fate of mankind

Economics:

• “Measuring the Longitudinal Evolution of the Online Anonymous Marketplace Ecosystem”, Soska & Christin2015

• “Costs and benefits of iodine supplementation for pregnant women in a mildly to moderately iodine-deficient population: a modeling analysis”, Monahan et al 2015 (excerpts)

Philosophy:

• “Do Artificial Reinforcement-Learning Agents Matter Morally?”, Tomasik2014

Fiction:

• “RING THEORY: The Hidden Artistry of the Star Wars Prequels” (if it’s not true, it should be)

Misc:

• “One Hundred Years of arm bars: A family epic spanning the Gracie jiu-jitsu dynasty’s generations of combat and betrayal, from the Amazon to Hollywood to the UFC”

Books

Nonfiction:

• A History of Life Extensionism, Stambler2014 (review)

• Haikai Poet Yosa Buson and the Bashō Revival, Crowley 2006_18ya (review)

• Structural Equation Modeling: A Bayesian Approach, Sik-Yum Lee 2007_17ya (review)

Film/TV

Live-action:

• RED (review)

• Lady Jane (review)

Music

Postrock: El Ten Eleven, Fast Forward:

• “Battle Aves”

• “Be Kind, Rewind”

• “Fast Forward”

• “Three Sides of a Coin”

• “JD”

• “Peter and Jack”

• “Point Breeze”

Touhou:

• “Awakening of the Earth Spirits” (江口孝宏 feat.Satomi Ishikawa; Touhou Gensou Shiten 6 “Grimoire” {R8}) [trance]

• “La strada pastello” (街角麻婆豆; Where shall we go dancing? {R12}) [folk]

• “Reach for the Dream, Immortal Smoke” (Marasy; 幻想遊戲<眠>2 {C86}) [classical]

• “上海紅茶館 ～ Chinese Tea” (zunba; Touhou Gensou Shiten 6 “Grimoire”; {R8}) [jazz]

• “8番目の路地” (アサヒ feat. emaru; 864 {R12}) [trance]

• “Septette for the Dead Princess” (Eru; Knights of Round 3 {C77}) [instrumental rock]

• “Sleeping Asia” (Marasy; 幻想遊戲<眠>2 {C86}) [classical]

• “Temptation of the Eternal Night” (Marasy; 幻想遊戲<眠>2 {C86}) [classical]

• “A Maiden’s Quiet Sleep” (Marasy; 幻想遊戲<眠>2 {C86}) [classical]

• “X-TREME DECISION” (激戦の人; sm23047550 {2014-03-08}) [instrumental rock]

• “夢に抱かれて眠る” (O-Life Japan; 積極懐古団 {R12}) [instrumental]

• “三千大世界の聖火” (Fox Factory; 東方幻想界 ～星蓮船の音 {R12}) [orchestral]