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.
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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