Politics/religion:
“The Missionary Roots of Liberal Democracy”, Woodberry 2012 (excerpts; popular media coverage)
“An Economic Analysis of the Financial Records of al-Qa’ida in Iraq”, Bahney et al 2010; “$0.60 for cake: Al-Qaida [in Mali] records every expense”
“The lost history of Helmand” (failed nation-state building project in Afghanistan which exemplifies Scott’s Seeing Like A State)
“The Lost World of the London Coffeehouse”
“Secret without Reason and Costly without Accomplishment: Questioning the National Security Agency’s Metadata Program”, Mueller & Stewart 2014 (excerpts)
“Aztec Political Thought” (the king as Enemy and Mocker, leader of a theatre state)
“Hallucinated Gods” (on Julian Jaynes’s book The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind)
“Thank God for Cancer”
Business:
“Hatred and Profits: Getting Under the Hood of the Ku Klux Klan”, Fryer & Levitt 2007 (discussion; excerpts)
“Inside the World of the Double-Crossing Fake Hitman”
“A Dolphin’s Tale: The Story of GameCube” (history)
“Death at the Summit” (Intrade)
Literature:
“Dwarf Fortress: A Marxist Analysis” (discussion)
“The Gooseberry Fallacy” (Russian literature & thoughts on the good life) ”...But for Me, It Was Tuesday” (TvTropes)
Medicine:
“Marijuana: Much More Than You Wanted To Know”
“Aretaeus On Bipolar Disorder” (ancient-Greek/psychiatry comparison)
“Beware Mass-Produced Medical Recommendations” (on vitamin D & niacin)
Statistics:
“Bayes’ Rule and the Paradox of Pre-Registration of RCTs”
“Josef Urban on Machine Learning and Automated Reasoning”
“Using deep learning to listen for whales”
“Adversarial Bandits and the Exp3 Algorithm”
“A Few Useful Things to Know about Machine Learning”, Domingos 2012 (nice guide to ‘common sense’ - data cleaning, modeling, overfitting, bias/variance, combining models, representation & learnability)
“The Median is Not the Message”, Gould (on cancer survival and interpreting statistics)
“Adventures in the Assessment of Animal Speed and Morality”
“Posterior-Hacking”
“Visualization Series: Using Scatterplots and Models to Understand the Diamond Market”
Technology:
“A Future Of Pipes” (the future of cities and computing power: cooling is a big deal but not a defeater)
“Auto Correct: Has the self-driving car at last arrived?”
“Playing Atari with Deep Reinforcement Learning”, Mnih et al 2013
Command-line folklore: the sort --key trick
sort --key
“Mobile Computing Research Is a Hornet’s Nest of Deception and Chicanery”, Mickens (excerpts)
“The Slow Winter”, Mickens (excerpts)
“The Night Watch”, Mickens (excerpts)
“The Graph of Math”
Rationality:
Best of Rationality Quotes 2013
“Lily Allen & decision theory” (Bitcoin)
“Lullaby Language”
Misc:
Subreddit: “Things Fitting Perfectly Into Other Things”
Ship’s cat
Israel-related animal conspiracy theories
Politics/religion:
“The Missionary Roots of Liberal Democracy”, Woodberry 2012 (excerpts; popular media coverage)
“An Economic Analysis of the Financial Records of al-Qa’ida in Iraq”, Bahney et al 2010; “$0.60 for cake: Al-Qaida [in Mali] records every expense”
“The lost history of Helmand” (failed nation-state building project in Afghanistan which exemplifies Scott’s Seeing Like A State)
“The Lost World of the London Coffeehouse”
“Secret without Reason and Costly without Accomplishment: Questioning the National Security Agency’s Metadata Program”, Mueller & Stewart 2014 (excerpts)
“Aztec Political Thought” (the king as Enemy and Mocker, leader of a theatre state)
“Hallucinated Gods” (on Julian Jaynes’s book The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind)
“Thank God for Cancer”
Business:
“Hatred and Profits: Getting Under the Hood of the Ku Klux Klan”, Fryer & Levitt 2007 (discussion; excerpts)
“Inside the World of the Double-Crossing Fake Hitman”
“A Dolphin’s Tale: The Story of GameCube” (history)
“Death at the Summit” (Intrade)
Literature:
“Dwarf Fortress: A Marxist Analysis” (discussion)
“The Gooseberry Fallacy” (Russian literature & thoughts on the good life) ”...But for Me, It Was Tuesday” (TvTropes)
Medicine:
“Marijuana: Much More Than You Wanted To Know”
“Aretaeus On Bipolar Disorder” (ancient-Greek/psychiatry comparison)
“Beware Mass-Produced Medical Recommendations” (on vitamin D & niacin)
Statistics:
“Bayes’ Rule and the Paradox of Pre-Registration of RCTs”
“Josef Urban on Machine Learning and Automated Reasoning”
“Using deep learning to listen for whales”
“Adversarial Bandits and the Exp3 Algorithm”
“A Few Useful Things to Know about Machine Learning”, Domingos 2012 (nice guide to ‘common sense’ - data cleaning, modeling, overfitting, bias/variance, combining models, representation & learnability)
“The Median is Not the Message”, Gould (on cancer survival and interpreting statistics)
“Adventures in the Assessment of Animal Speed and Morality”
“Posterior-Hacking”
“Visualization Series: Using Scatterplots and Models to Understand the Diamond Market”
Technology:
“A Future Of Pipes” (the future of cities and computing power: cooling is a big deal but not a defeater)
“Auto Correct: Has the self-driving car at last arrived?”
“Playing Atari with Deep Reinforcement Learning”, Mnih et al 2013
Command-line folklore: the
sort --keytrick“Mobile Computing Research Is a Hornet’s Nest of Deception and Chicanery”, Mickens (excerpts)
“The Slow Winter”, Mickens (excerpts)
“The Night Watch”, Mickens (excerpts)
“The Graph of Math”
Rationality:
Best of Rationality Quotes 2013
“Lily Allen & decision theory” (Bitcoin)
“Lullaby Language”
Misc:
Subreddit: “Things Fitting Perfectly Into Other Things”
Ship’s cat
Israel-related animal conspiracy theories