Links

Genetics:

• Everything Is Heritable:

  • “Shared genetic aetiology between cognitive functions and physical and mental health in UK Biobank (n = 112151) and 24 GWAS consortia”, Hagenaars et al 2016

  • “Top 10 Replicated Findings From Behavioral Genetics”, Plomin et al 2016

  • “The Muscular Dystrophy Patient and Olympic Medalist with the Same Genetic Disorder”

  • “Genetically low vitamin D concentrations and increased mortality: Mendelian Randomization analysis in three large cohorts”, Afzal et al 2014

• Engineering:

  • “Improved CRISPR–Cas9: Safe and Effective?”: “High-fidelity CRISPR–Cas9 nucleases with no detectable genome-wide off-target effects”/“Rationally engineered Cas9 nucleases with improved specificity”

Politics/religion:

• “Once Upon a Jihad” / “Experiencing Ecstasy: How Bad It Is to Be 20 Years Old”

• “Introduction to the Economics of Religion”, Iannaccone1998

• “The Pilot’s Tale: At Sea with 90,000 Tons of Diplomacy”

• “Systems, Not Sith: How Inter-service Rivalries Doomed the Galactic Empire”

• “Boss Rail: The disaster that exposed the underside of the boom”

• “Why China should celebrate Columbus Day”

Statistics/AI/meta-science:

• “Mastering the game of Go with deep neural networks and tree search”, Silver et al 2016

• “The Top AI Breakthroughs of 2015” (omits residual networks!)

• “Gradient-based Hyperparameter Optimization through Reversible Learning”, Maclaurin et al 2015

• “Recognizing and Localizing Endangered Right Whales with Extremely Deep Neural Networks”

• new /r/DecisionTheory subreddit

• “Why do we Sometimes get Nonsense-Correlations between Time-Series? A Study in Sampling and the Nature of Time-Series”, Yule1926 (“the ratio of Catholic vs Protestant marriages correlates r = 0.95 with the English death rate”)

• “Comparison of evidence on harms of medical interventions in randomized and nonrandomized studies”, Papanikolaou et al 2006 (How often does correlation=causation?)

Psychology/biology:

• “A Look Back at 2015 in Longevity Science”

• “Bayesian Belief Polarization”, Jern et al 2009

• “Stupider Than You Realize”

• “The philosophical case against sleeping in”

• Frog battery

• “Using Neurotechnologies to Develop Virtues—A Buddhist Approach to Cognitive Enhancement”

• “Be Happier”

Technology:

• “Google releases detailed intervention rates—and the real unsolved problem of robocars”

• “The Moral Character of Cryptographic Work”, Rogaway2015

• “These Tricks Make Virtual Reality (VR) Feel Real: Realistic digital spaces need delusions as much as they need detail”

• “Dead reckoning and the exploration explosion”

Economics:

• “Does High School Algebra Pass a Cost-Benefit Test?”

• When will corporations defect? (Schneier’s Liars and Outliers)

• “Interview: John A. List”

• Jonathan Wild (“baptists and bootleggers”)

Philosophy:

• “Technology will destroy human nature”

• “Lord Russell meet Lord Russell”

Fiction:

• “The Star Gauge” of Su Hui

Books

Fiction:

• The Dark Forest, Liu Cixin

Nonfiction:

• Lucretius’s On the Nature of Things

Film/TV

• The Kingdom of Dreams and Madness (review)

Music

Touhou:

• “ねこまたアキアート” (水橋ゆっきー; Tea Hakugyokurou {C88}) [classical]

• “Lunatic Eyes” (Setsugen; So-ran-e-maki {R12}) [classical]

• “Emotional Skyscraper” (Setsugen; So-ran-e-maki {R12}) [classical]

• “Deaf to All but the Song” (Setsugen; So-ran-e-maki {R12}) [classical]

Doujin:

• “灼耀の内声 -Inclusion Inner Light-” (Morrigan feat. Lily; Citla re:verse -其歌は真言顕す欠片と為りて- {C88}) [orchestral/choral]

• “天照大御神-AMATERAS SYSTEM-” (Morrigan feat. Lily; Citla re:verse -其歌は真言顕す欠片と為りて- {C88}) [orchestral/choral]