I am looking for sources of semi-technical reviews and expository weblog posts to add to my RSS reader; preferably 4—20 screenfuls of text on topics including or related to evolutionary game theory, mathematical modelling in the social sciences, theoretical computer science applied to non-computer things, microeconomics applied to unusual things (e.g. Hanson’s Age of Em), psychometrics, the theory of machine learning, and so on. What I do not want: pure mathematics, computer science trivia, coding trivia, machine learning tutorials, etc.
Some examples that mostly match what I want, in roughly descending order:
Some journals in the Annual Reviews and Nature Reviews series (but these are a hit-or-miss), in particular Annual Review of Statistics and Nature Reviews Neuroscience;
How do I go about finding more feeds like that? I have already tried the obvious, such as googling “allintext: egtheory jeremykun” and found a couple OPML files (including gwern’s), but they didn’t contain anything close. The obvious blogrolls weren’t helpful either (most of them were endless lists of conference announcements and calls for papers). Also, I’ve grepped a few relevant subreddits for *.wordpress.*, *.blogspot.* and *.github.io submissions (only finding what I already have in my RSS feeds — I suspect the less established blogs just haven’t gotten enough upvotes).
Maybe it would be useful for you to share the entire blogroll you’ve accumulated thus far and just ask people to recommend more blogs like the ones you already have. For example, I’m guessing you found Gelman already since he’s present in Robin Hanson’s blogroll—but I could think of a way you would have plausibly found lots of potential recommendations.
You could even create a “show us your blogroll” discussion post, in order to harvest OPMLs to mine through.
A repost from an earlier open thread.
I am looking for sources of semi-technical reviews and expository weblog posts to add to my RSS reader; preferably 4—20 screenfuls of text on topics including or related to evolutionary game theory, mathematical modelling in the social sciences, theoretical computer science applied to non-computer things, microeconomics applied to unusual things (e.g. Hanson’s Age of Em), psychometrics, the theory of machine learning, and so on. What I do not want: pure mathematics, computer science trivia, coding trivia, machine learning tutorials, etc.
Some examples that mostly match what I want, in roughly descending order:
Theory, Evolution, and Games Group: http://egtheory.wordpress.com/
colah’s blog: http://colah.github.io/
Math ∩ Programming: http://jeremykun.com/
Some journals in the Annual Reviews and Nature Reviews series (but these are a hit-or-miss), in particular Annual Review of Statistics and Nature Reviews Neuroscience;
“Primer” articles in the PLOS journals.
How do I go about finding more feeds like that? I have already tried the obvious, such as googling “allintext: egtheory jeremykun” and found a couple OPML files (including gwern’s), but they didn’t contain anything close. The obvious blogrolls weren’t helpful either (most of them were endless lists of conference announcements and calls for papers). Also, I’ve grepped a few relevant subreddits for *.wordpress.*, *.blogspot.* and *.github.io submissions (only finding what I already have in my RSS feeds — I suspect the less established blogs just haven’t gotten enough upvotes).
Would Andrew Gelman’s blog count? (Author of recommended textbook on Bayesian statistics.)
Maybe it would be useful for you to share the entire blogroll you’ve accumulated thus far and just ask people to recommend more blogs like the ones you already have. For example, I’m guessing you found Gelman already since he’s present in Robin Hanson’s blogroll—but I could think of a way you would have plausibly found lots of potential recommendations.
You could even create a “show us your blogroll” discussion post, in order to harvest OPMLs to mine through.