“Online Controlled Experiments at Large Scale”, Rohavi et al 2013 (“One interesting tidbit is that Bing found that every 100ms faster they deliver search result pages to searchers yields 0.6% more in revenue (which is a similar result to an old Amazon test).”)
“How Not to Be Misled by the Jobs Report” (Depicts the sampling error associated with each estimate by providing an animation showing repeated draws assuming the point-estimate is the ground truth. Good for showing you how easily ‘patterns’ show up with a few data points.)
Serious question, do you naturally find high quality media the most entertaining or did you train yourself to make better use of your leisure time? I can’t exactly define high quality media but I would say that all of those links are higher quality than youtube and online video games for instance.
I specifically quit video games to try to force myself to more important stuff. I do spend time on Youtube (as you can see from my music comments), but mostly for music which can be put in the background.
Statistics/AI/meta-science:
“Teachers and Income: What Did the Project STAR Kindergarten Study Really Find?”
“The Small Schools Myth”
“Online Controlled Experiments at Large Scale”, Rohavi et al 2013 (“One interesting tidbit is that Bing found that every 100ms faster they deliver search result pages to searchers yields 0.6% more in revenue (which is a similar result to an old Amazon test).”)
“What does randomness look like?” (the classic statistics examples of Poisson distributions like V-bombs falling on London)
“How Not to Be Misled by the Jobs Report” (Depicts the sampling error associated with each estimate by providing an animation showing repeated draws assuming the point-estimate is the ground truth. Good for showing you how easily ‘patterns’ show up with a few data points.)
“Statistical Modeling: The Two Cultures”, Breiman 2001 (excerpts)
Distributed vectors for image recognition from textual descriptions
“Future progress in artificial intelligence: a poll among experts”, Müller & Bostrom 2014
“HeartMath Considered Incoherent”
“Deep impact: unintended consequences of journal rank”, Brembs et al 2013 (meta-science)
Psychology:
“Humans are not automatically strategic”
“Pre-Crastination: Hastening Subgoal Completion at the Expense of Extra Physical Effort”, Rosenbaum et al 2014 (NYT)
Poincaré on intuition in mathematics
“Does incubation enhance problem-solving? A meta-analytic review”, Sio & Ormerod (excerpts)
“It Takes Guts To Do Research” (on Oppenheimer & missed opportunities)
“Just think: The challenges of the disengaged mind”, Wilson et al 2014 (excerpts)
OkCupid experiments demonstrating shallowness in dating
“On the trail of the elusive successful psychopath”
“Cannabis, IQ and socio-economic status in the Dunedin data—an update”
“Alcoholism in Antarctica”
Suicide is highest in spring
“Character amnesia...whereby experienced speakers of East Asian languages forget how to write Chinese characters previously well known”
Gwern, are you human?
Serious question, do you naturally find high quality media the most entertaining or did you train yourself to make better use of your leisure time? I can’t exactly define high quality media but I would say that all of those links are higher quality than youtube and online video games for instance.
I specifically quit video games to try to force myself to more important stuff. I do spend time on Youtube (as you can see from my music comments), but mostly for music which can be put in the background.
That okcupid link is really worth checking out… if you want to be depressed about humanity.