Literature:
“William Gibson, The Art of Fiction No. 211”
“You have a sad feeling for a moment, then it passes” (Nethack essay on pets; my dog died last month)
“Our Toyota was Fantastic”
Wondermark: “Better Olympic Narratives” / #1001; “In which Athletes are overgood”
“SCP-1370”
“Composer of the Month – Jun Maeda”
Medicine:
“The Nazi War on Cancer”
“IamA Anesthesia Awareness survivor!” (see also Inverse P-zombies)
“Bad Dreams”
Psychology:
“Maxims or Myths of Beauty? A Meta-Analytic and Theoretical Review”, Langlois et al 2000 (excerpts)
“Hints of genomic dark matter: rare variants contribute to schizophrenia risk”
“Xenopsychology”
“Nootropics surveys and results” (I also did a multi-level model analysis of the data)
Statistics:
Inferring XKCD topics with Latent Dirichlet Allocation
Lies, Damned Lies, And Social Media (Part 5 of ∞) (rape statistics)
Beware Mass-Produced Medical Recommendations (I disagree on the benefits of vitamin D for all-cause mortality; see my comments)
“If our Twitter timelines (tweets by the people we follow) actually extended off the screen in both directions, how tall would they be?”
Science/technology:
“A Star in a Bottle: An audacious plan to create a new energy source could save the planet from catastrophe. But time is running out.” (ITER fusion research update; some shades of Radiance/NIF in there...)
“Geoengineering research” (Givewell)
“On the Statistics of Individual Variations of Productivity in Research Laboratories”, Shockley 1957 (discussion; see also “Age and Outstanding Achievement: What Do We Know After a Century of Research?”, Simonton 1988)
Fully Decentralized Bitcoin Prediction Markets
“The recent ‘How Quantum is the D-Wave Machine?’ Shin et al paper” (If I had D-Wave shares, I would be selling at any price.)
“Little’s Law, Scalability and Fault Tolerance: The OS is your bottleneck (and what you can do about it)” (possibly obvious notes on server scaling to anyone working on big services, but I liked the use of Little’s law to structure the discussion.)
“Another Empty, Lifeless Planet Found” (satire)
Misc:
“Don’t End The Week With Nothing” (Portfolios and working in public.)
“What the Tortoise Said to Achilles”, Lewis Carroll
Literature:
“William Gibson, The Art of Fiction No. 211”
“You have a sad feeling for a moment, then it passes” (Nethack essay on pets; my dog died last month)
“Our Toyota was Fantastic”
Wondermark: “Better Olympic Narratives” / #1001; “In which Athletes are overgood”
“SCP-1370”
“Composer of the Month – Jun Maeda”
Medicine:
“The Nazi War on Cancer”
“IamA Anesthesia Awareness survivor!” (see also Inverse P-zombies)
“Bad Dreams”
Psychology:
“Maxims or Myths of Beauty? A Meta-Analytic and Theoretical Review”, Langlois et al 2000 (excerpts)
“Hints of genomic dark matter: rare variants contribute to schizophrenia risk”
“Xenopsychology”
“Nootropics surveys and results” (I also did a multi-level model analysis of the data)
Statistics:
Inferring XKCD topics with Latent Dirichlet Allocation
Lies, Damned Lies, And Social Media (Part 5 of ∞) (rape statistics)
Beware Mass-Produced Medical Recommendations (I disagree on the benefits of vitamin D for all-cause mortality; see my comments)
“If our Twitter timelines (tweets by the people we follow) actually extended off the screen in both directions, how tall would they be?”
Science/technology:
“A Star in a Bottle: An audacious plan to create a new energy source could save the planet from catastrophe. But time is running out.” (ITER fusion research update; some shades of Radiance/NIF in there...)
“Geoengineering research” (Givewell)
“On the Statistics of Individual Variations of Productivity in Research Laboratories”, Shockley 1957 (discussion; see also “Age and Outstanding Achievement: What Do We Know After a Century of Research?”, Simonton 1988)
Fully Decentralized Bitcoin Prediction Markets
“The recent ‘How Quantum is the D-Wave Machine?’ Shin et al paper” (If I had D-Wave shares, I would be selling at any price.)
“Little’s Law, Scalability and Fault Tolerance: The OS is your bottleneck (and what you can do about it)” (possibly obvious notes on server scaling to anyone working on big services, but I liked the use of Little’s law to structure the discussion.)
“Another Empty, Lifeless Planet Found” (satire)
Misc:
“Don’t End The Week With Nothing” (Portfolios and working in public.)
“What the Tortoise Said to Achilles”, Lewis Carroll