Recent updates to gwern.net (2017–2019)

post by gwern · 2019-04-28T20:18:27.083Z · LW · GW · 7 comments

Previously: 2011/2012–2013/2013–2014/2014–2015/2015–2016/2016–2017.

"Iram indeed is gone with all its Rose, / And Jamshyd's Seven-ring'd Cup where no one knows; / But still the Vine her Ancient Ruby yields / And still a Garden by the Water blows."

An index of my recent writings, by topic:

• AI:

  • "How To Generate Faces With StyleGAN"; "This Waifu Does Not Exist" (background & implementation)
  • "Finetuning the GPT-2-small Transformer for English Poetry Generation"
  • Danbooru2018: a dataset of 3.33m anime images (2.5tb) with 92.7m descriptive tags
  • "Evolution as Backstop for Reinforcement Learning"
  • On the history of the tank/neural-net urban legend

• Genetics:

  • Embryo selection: Overview of major current approaches FAQ, multi-stage selection, chromosome/gamete selection, optimal search of batches, & robustness to error in utility weights; sub-essays: "Glue Robbers: Sequencing Nobelists Using Collectibles", "Dynasties and Embryo Selection",

    • "Multi-Stage Selection Bean Machine Demo"

  • Cat Sense, Bradshaw 2013: Are We Good Owners?

  • "Origins of Innovation: Bakewell & Breeding"

  • "Genetics and Eugenics in Frank Herbert's Dune"

• Psychology:

  • SMPY bibliography
  • "Everything Is Correlated"
  • What is the morning-writing effect?
  • Cordwainer Smith's "'Scanners Live in Vain' as realistic SF"
  • "The Gift of the Amygdali"

• Tech:

  • "Laws of Tech: Commoditize Your Complement"
  • "How many computers are in your computer?"
  • The most common error in technological forecasting: conjunctive vs disjunctive reasoning
  • "Banner Ads Considered Harmful"
  • "Internet Research Tips"
  • "Littlewood's Law and the Global Media"
  • Small ways in which ordinary life has been getting better since the late '80s/early '90s

• QS:

  • Acne: a good Quantified Self topic for self-experimentation
  • ZMA sleep self-experiment
  • Bacopa quasi-experiment

• Misc:

  • On the Existence of Powerful Natural Languages
  • "My Little Pony: Immanetizing The Equestrian"
  • A list of open questions
  • "Origin of 'Littlewood's Law of Miracles'"
  • jailbreaking Frank P. Ramsey's & Arthur Jensen's papers

• gwern.net changes: Obormot has done a thorough redesign & implemented a number of new features, analogous to his work on replacing LW2 with GreaterWrong.com.

  The major changes:

  • moved from MailChimp to TinyLetter; minimalist monochrome 'responsive' redesign, particularly for mobile; Tufte-style sidenotes via sidenotes.js; collapsible sections; static compilation of MathJax of MathML math via mathjax-node-page; prototype inflation-adjuster; click-to-zoom images (image-focus.js); Tufte-style tables & epigraphs; font improvements (eg drop caps, smallcaps, numerals, better Mac rendering); 'dark mode'

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This will be the last gwern.net changelog I post on LW, as it seems increasingly redundant with my newsletter & subreddit, and my occasional regular LW link submissions. Please subscribe to those for future updates.

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