Everything Is Heritable:

• “Meta-analysis of the heritability of human traits based on fifty years of twin studies”, Polderman et al 2015

• “Genetics and the placebo effect: the placebome”, Hall et al 2015

• intelligence:

  • “Genetic contributions to variation in general cognitive function: a meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies in the CHARGE consortium (n = 53949)”, Davies et al 2015

  • “Polygenic Influence on Educational Attainment: New Evidence From the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health”, Domingue et al 2015

  • “Thinking positively: The genetics of high intelligence”

  • pervasive cross-correlations of polygenic scores for various traits: particularly Krapohl et al 2015

  • “Systems genetics identifies a convergent gene network for cognition and neurodevelopmental disease”, Johnson et al 2015

  • “Genetic influence on family socioeconomic status and children’s intelligence”, Trzaskowski et al 2014

Recent Evolution (Soft selection sweeps/group differences):

• “Genome-wide patterns of selection in 230 ancient Eurasians”, Mathieson et al 2015 (media)

• “Population genetic differentiation of height and body mass index across Europe”, Robinson et al 2015

• “Rabbit genome analysis reveals a polygenic basis for phenotypic change during domestication”, Carneiro et al 2014 (the power of selection—complex behaviors influenced by many small changes)

• “Comparative analysis of the domestic cat genome reveals genetic signatures underlying feline biology and domestication”, Montague et al 2014 (commentary)

“Deep Residual Learning for Image Recognition”, He et al 2015

“End-to-End Training of Deep Visuomotor Policies”, Levine et al 2015 (demo; talk)

“On Learning to Think: Algorithmic Information Theory for Novel Combinations of Reinforcement Learning Controllers and Recurrent Neural World Models”

“What my deep model doesn’t know…”

“Actor-Mimic: Deep Multitask and Transfer Reinforcement Learning”, Parisotta et al 2015

“End-To-End Memory Networks”, Sukhbaatar et al 2015

“Generating Images from Captions With Attention”, Mansimov et al 2015

“Unsupervised Representation Learning with Deep Convolutional Generative Adversarial Networks”, Radford et al 2015

“The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Recurrent Neural Networks”

“The Brain as a Universal Learning Machine”

“The Bayesian Reproducibility Project”

“Compliance with Results Reporting at ClinicalTrials.gov”, Anderson et al 2015

“A survey of Bayesian predictive methods for model assessment, selection and comparison”, Vehtari & Ojanen

“How One Man Poisoned a City’s Water Supply (and Saved Millions of Children’s Lives in the Process)” (on John L. Leal & water chlorination)

“Correlation, Causation, and Confusion”

“The Non-parametric Bootstrap as a Bayesian Model”

“Empirical evidence of bias in treatment effect estimates in controlled trials with different interventions and outcomes: meta-epidemiological study”, Wood et al 2008

“Probable Points and Credible Intervals, Part 2: Decision Theory” (Bayesian search theory/optimization)

“The Economics of Reproducibility in Preclinical Research”, Freedman et al 2015

“The Mystery Machine: End-to-end Performance Analysis of Large-scale Internet Services”

“CRISPR/Cas9-mediated gene editing in human tripronuclear zygotes”, Liang et al 2015; can be considered a followup to “Clinical outcome of preimplantation genetic diagnosis and screening using next generation sequencing”, Tan et al 2014

“Persistence of Long-Term Memory in Vitrified and Revived C. elegans”, Vita-More & Barranco2015

“Reconstruction and Simulation of Neocortical Microcircuitry”, Markram et al 2015 (media)

“A 2-Year Randomized Controlled Trial of Human Caloric Restriction: Feasibility and Effects on Predictors of Health Span and Longevity” (the CALERIE study), Ravussin et al 2015

“A Novel BHLHE41 Variant is Associated with Short Sleep and Resistance to Sleep Deprivation in Humans”, Pellegrino et al 2014

“The myopia boom: Short-sightedness is reaching epidemic proportions. Some scientists think they have found a reason why”

“Artificial Selection on Relative Brain Size in the Guppy Reveals Costs and Benefits of Evolving a Larger Brain”, Kotrschal et al 2013

“Synchronizing education to adolescent biology: ‘let teens sleep, start school later’”, Kelley et al 2014:

“Evolution of the human brain: when bigger is better”, Hofman2014

“The Trip Treatment: Research into psychedelics, shut down for decades, is now yielding exciting results”

“A Cold War Conundrum: The 1983_41ya Soviet War Scare”

“The Credibility Paradox: Violence as a Double-Edged Sword in International Politics”, Abrahms2013

“What Politicians Believe About Their Constituents: Asymmetric Misperceptions and Prospects for Constituency Control”

“How Napoleon Chagnon Became Our Most Controversial Anthropologist”

“Before you study public opinion, you wonder why policy isn’t far better. After you study public opinion, you wonder why policy isn’t far worse.”

“Misperceiving Inequality”, Gimpelson & Treisman2015 (excerpts)

“Land without Plea Bargaining: How the Germans Do It”, Langbein1979

“The Really Big One: An earthquake will destroy a sizable portion of the coastal Northwest. The question is when.”

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

“If the NSA has been hacking everything, how has nobody seen them coming?”

“Epigrams in Programming”, Alan Perlis 1982

“Tacit Knowledge, Weapons Design, and the Uninvention of Nuclear Weapons”, MacKenzie & Spinardi1995

“The Tail at Scale”, Dean & Barroso2013

“The explosion of No. 5 Blast Furnace, Corus UK Ltd, Port Talbot”, 2001

“Implications of Historical Trends in the Electrical Efficiency of Computing”, Koomey et al 2011

“How Much of the Web Is Archived?”

“Crush Point: When large crowds assemble, is there a way to keep them safe?”

“1 to 10 billion earth-like planets in the Milky Way Galaxy”

“Carnegie Mellon Denies FBI Paid for Tor-Breaking Research”

“Economic Gains Resulting from the Reduction in Children’s Exposure to Lead in the United States”, Grosse et al 2002

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

“Measuring the Longitudinal Evolution of the Online Anonymous Marketplace Ecosystem”, Soska & Christin2015 (excerpts)

“Overkill: An avalanche of unnecessary medical care is harming patients physically and financially. What can we do about it?”

“A colorful history of progress”

“The financing of jihadi terrorist cells in Europe”, Oftedal2015

“The Bonsai Kid”

“Brickyard Blues: Numbed by cold, pelted by rain, enduring smashed fingers and toes, poorly paid brick salvagers keep coming back for more”

Children are net losses to parents, even in peasant or hunter-gatherer societies.

Arab slave trade

“When Do Extraordinary Claims Give Extraordinary Evidence?”, Hanson2007

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

“What is Wrong with Our Thoughts? A Neo-Positivist Credo”

“The Reversal Test and Status Quo Bias”

“‘Ethics’ is advertising”, “The Strange Case of Anna Stubblefield”

“The Great Filter—Are We Almost Past It?”, Hanson1998

“The time resolution of the St Petersburg paradox”, Peters2011

“The Copenhagen Interpretation of Ethics”

“A Philosopher Walks Into A Coffee Shop”

“The Cambist and Lord Iron” (discussion)

“Extracts from the Club Diary” (Stross; Coffee steampunk, Mars, the end of the world) & “It Was All For The Tuna”

Friendship is Optimal

“Universal Love, Said The Cactus Person”

“Birdless Country”, by Burton Watson

“Web-Based Experiments for the Study of Collective Social Dynamics in Cultural Markets”, Salganik & Watts2009

“E unibus pluram: Television And U.S. Fiction”

“Quantitative patterns of stylistic influence in the evolution of literature”, Hughes et al 2012

“The Argentine Writer and Tradition”, Borges 1951

“Biases of Fiction”

Still Alice (our obituaries)

The Fractal Prince & The Causal Angel

Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality

A Perfect Vacuum, Lem

The Martian (Weir)

Ready Player One, Cline2011

The Wind-up Girl

Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety, Schlosser

Bias in Mental Testing, Jensen1980

Life in Our Phage World

A History of Life Extensionism, Stambler2014

Epic Measures: One Doctor. Seven Billion Patients., on Christopher Murray’s Global Burden of Disease

Do No Harm, Marsh (elegantly written and moving neurosurgeon memoir on the theme of iatrogenics; I did disagree with his comments on the cost-benefit of operating in one case, though)

Digital Gold: Bitcoin and the Inside Story of the Misfits and Millionaires Trying to Reinvent Money, Popper

Practical Criticism, I.A. Richards 1930

How The Grinch Stole Christmas

The Theory of Everything

The Martian

Big Hero 6

The Great Gatsby

Cowboy Bebop

Mushishi Zoku Shou

Hozuki no Reitetsu

Expelled from Paradise (review)

Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki-kun

Shirobako (review)

Monogatari Second Season: Nekomonogatari+Kabukimongatari+Otorimonogatari+Onimonogatari+Koimonogatari

Fate/stay Night: Unlimited Blade Works