Short Online Texts Thread
Politics/religion:
“The Really Big One: An earthquake will destroy a sizable portion of the coastal Northwest. The question is when.”
“Of Malevolent Democracies and Benevolent Autocracies: A Very Short Quantitative History of Political Regimes, Part 1.9325”
“Utopian for Beginners: An amateur linguist loses control of the language he invented” (where are those Ukrainians now, I wonder?)
Statistics/AI/meta-science:
Ch6: “Deep Learning” (latest in Nielsen’s Neural Networks and Deep Learning)
“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)
“Reanalyses of Randomized Clinical Trial Data”, Ebrahim et al 2014
“The Aging of Science”
“List of 19 Natural Experiments” (commentary)
“The Null Ritual: What You Always Wanted to Know About Significance Testing but Were Afraid to Ask”, Gigerenzer et al 2004
Psychology/biology:
“Physics of Wound Healing I: Energy Considerations”, Apell 2012
“The Biodeterminist’s Guide to Parenting”
“A Year of Spaced Repetition Software in the Classroom”
“Whole-personality emulation”, Bainbridge 2012
“Does it pay to know your MBTI type?”
“Burn-in, bias, and the rationality of anchoring”, Lieder et al 2012
Technology:
“The Market for Silver Bullets”, Grigg 2008
“Invisibility theory”
Economics:
“Economic Gains Resulting from the Reduction in Children’s Exposure to Lead in the United States”, Grosse et al 2002
“When the Doctor Is Not Needed”
“How The Talmud Became A Best Seller in South Korea” (no one tell them about signaling or genetics)
“The Patent Troll You Don’t Read About In Bar-Code Inventor’s Obituaries”
Philosophy:
“The Copenhagen Interpretation of Ethics”
Fiction:
“Quantitative patterns of stylistic influence in the evolution of literature”, Hughes et al 2012
“I Name Thee Annihilator!”
Re: those Ukrainians A trusted acquaintance of mine has worked for this same Bakhtiyarov and never had a single kind word to say about either his ethics or his brains. Do not summon him from wherever he is.
Would you mind sharing a list of all blog feeds you are subscribed to? Perhaps as OPML file?
http://www.gwern.net/docs/personal/rss-subscriptions.opml
I found this awesome, brilliant analysis of the works of Neal Stephenson from a political and sociological angle.
Ok, it was me, I wrote this.
Would you prefer I leave comments on the page itself?
Thanks for your comments, I appreciate your points. I’ve replied in the comments of the linked article.
The website seems to be down.
Thanks for the heads up. Should be working now.
This made me laugh: http://www.clickhole.com/article/5-absolutely-stunning-examples-mathematics-nature-2081
the way you think about habits is wrong
extinction bursts
Extinction burst
Supp 1
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Short Online Texts Thread
Politics/religion:
“The Really Big One: An earthquake will destroy a sizable portion of the coastal Northwest. The question is when.”
“Of Malevolent Democracies and Benevolent Autocracies: A Very Short Quantitative History of Political Regimes, Part 1.9325”
“Utopian for Beginners: An amateur linguist loses control of the language he invented” (where are those Ukrainians now, I wonder?)
Statistics/AI/meta-science:
Ch6: “Deep Learning” (latest in Nielsen’s Neural Networks and Deep Learning)
“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)
“Reanalyses of Randomized Clinical Trial Data”, Ebrahim et al 2014
“The Aging of Science”
“List of 19 Natural Experiments” (commentary)
“The Null Ritual: What You Always Wanted to Know About Significance Testing but Were Afraid to Ask”, Gigerenzer et al 2004
Psychology/biology:
“Physics of Wound Healing I: Energy Considerations”, Apell 2012
“The Biodeterminist’s Guide to Parenting”
“A Year of Spaced Repetition Software in the Classroom”
“Whole-personality emulation”, Bainbridge 2012
“Does it pay to know your MBTI type?”
“Burn-in, bias, and the rationality of anchoring”, Lieder et al 2012
Technology:
“The Market for Silver Bullets”, Grigg 2008
“Invisibility theory”
Economics:
“Economic Gains Resulting from the Reduction in Children’s Exposure to Lead in the United States”, Grosse et al 2002
“When the Doctor Is Not Needed”
“How The Talmud Became A Best Seller in South Korea” (no one tell them about signaling or genetics)
“The Patent Troll You Don’t Read About In Bar-Code Inventor’s Obituaries”
Philosophy:
“The Copenhagen Interpretation of Ethics”
Fiction:
“Quantitative patterns of stylistic influence in the evolution of literature”, Hughes et al 2012
“I Name Thee Annihilator!”
Re: those Ukrainians A trusted acquaintance of mine has worked for this same Bakhtiyarov and never had a single kind word to say about either his ethics or his brains. Do not summon him from wherever he is.
Would you mind sharing a list of all blog feeds you are subscribed to? Perhaps as OPML file?
http://www.gwern.net/docs/personal/rss-subscriptions.opml
I found this awesome, brilliant analysis of the works of Neal Stephenson from a political and sociological angle.
Ok, it was me, I wrote this.
Would you prefer I leave comments on the page itself?
Thanks for your comments, I appreciate your points. I’ve replied in the comments of the linked article.
The website seems to be down.
Thanks for the heads up. Should be working now.
This made me laugh: http://www.clickhole.com/article/5-absolutely-stunning-examples-mathematics-nature-2081
the way you think about habits is wrong
extinction bursts
Extinction burst
Supp 1
Supp 2