“Iram indeed is gone with all its Rose, / And Jamshyd’s Seven-ring’d Cup where no one knows; / But still the Vine her Ancient Ruby yields / And still a Garden by the Water blows.”
gwern.net changes: Obormot has done a thorough redesign & implemented a number of new features, analogous to his work on replacing LW2 with GreaterWrong.com.
This will be the last gwern.net changelog I post on LW, as it seems increasingly redundant with my newsletter & subreddit, and my occasional regular LW link submissions. Please subscribe to those for future updates.
Recent updates to gwern.net (2017–2019)
“Iram indeed is gone with all its Rose, / And Jamshyd’s Seven-ring’d Cup where no one knows; / But still the Vine her Ancient Ruby yields / And still a Garden by the Water blows.”
An index of my recent writings, by topic:
AI:
“How To Generate Faces With StyleGAN”; “This Waifu Does Not Exist” (background & implementation)
“Finetuning the GPT-2-small Transformer for English Poetry Generation”
Danbooru2018: a dataset of 3.33m anime images (2.5tb) with 92.7m descriptive tags
“Evolution as Backstop for Reinforcement Learning”
On the history of the tank/neural-net urban legend
Genetics:
Embryo selection: Overview of major current approaches FAQ, multi-stage selection, chromosome/gamete selection, optimal search of batches, & robustness to error in utility weights; sub-essays: “Glue Robbers: Sequencing Nobelists Using Collectibles”, “Dynasties and Embryo Selection”,
“Multi-Stage Selection Bean Machine Demo”
Cat Sense, Bradshaw 2013: Are We Good Owners?
“Origins of Innovation: Bakewell & Breeding”
“Genetics and Eugenics in Frank Herbert’s Dune”
Psychology:
SMPY bibliography
“Everything Is Correlated”
What is the morning-writing effect?
Cordwainer Smith’s “‘Scanners Live in Vain’ as realistic SF”
“The Gift of the Amygdali”
Tech:
“Laws of Tech: Commoditize Your Complement”
“How many computers are in your computer?”
The most common error in technological forecasting: conjunctive vs disjunctive reasoning
“Banner Ads Considered Harmful”
“Internet Research Tips”
“Littlewood’s Law and the Global Media”
Small ways in which ordinary life has been getting better since the late ’80s/early ’90s
QS:
Acne: a good Quantified Self topic for self-experimentation
ZMA sleep self-experiment
Bacopa quasi-experiment
Misc:
On the Existence of Powerful Natural Languages
“My Little Pony: Immanetizing The Equestrian”
A list of open questions
“Origin of ‘Littlewood’s Law of Miracles’”
jailbreaking Frank P. Ramsey’s & Arthur Jensen’s papers
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changes: Obormot has done a thorough redesign & implemented a number of new features, analogous to his work on replacing LW2 with GreaterWrong.com.The major changes:
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); Tufte-style tables & epigraphs; font improvements (eg drop caps, smallcaps, numerals, better Mac rendering); ‘dark mode’This will be the last gwern.net changelog I post on LW, as it seems increasingly redundant with my newsletter & subreddit, and my occasional regular LW link submissions. Please subscribe to those for future updates.