Incoming links and notes

Links and notes

• DuckDuckGo browser allows Microsoft trackers due to search agreement

• ReproducibilityChecklist

• Declustering, reclustering, and filling in thingspace

• Every Bug is Shallow if One of Your Readers is an Entomologist – SLIME MOLD TIME MOLD

• Cautionary Tales from Cryptoland

• Solidarity in Conflict: A Democratic Theory | Rochelle DuFord

• Become a Friend of The Public Domain Review

• Affinities: A Journey Through Images from The Public Domain Review – The Public Domain Review

• I Do Not Think It Means What You Think It Means: Artificial Intelligence, Cognitive Work & Scale

• Smart technologies | Internet Policy Review

• will wolf on neural methods in SBI

• When to Stop Exploring | The explore-exploit trade-off

• Equations of Motion from a Time Series

• Path Integrals and Feynman Diagrams for Classical Stochastic Processes

• Inference for Stochastic Differential Equations

• Modern Computational Methods for Bayesian Inference — A Reading List | George Ho is a good curation of modern Bayes methods posts. The next links come from there

• will wolf, Deriving Expectation-Maximization

• will wolf, Deriving Mean-Field Variational Bayes

• No. 68 - Spring 2022 - The New Atlantis

• Sad Trek — The New Atlantis

• Reality Is Just a Game Now — The New Atlantis

• Reformation in the Church of Science — The New Atlantis

• Why Your Understanding of Collectivism Is Probably Wrong – Association for Psychological Science

• GameB

• GameB Home

• Musk and Moderation

• On Natural Wine, Inherited Money, and the Delusions of the “Future-Rich Millennial”

• Fairness impossibility theorems and Ostrom

• That’s How It Works When You’re a Woman on the Internet

• ClearerThinking.org’s courses, e.g.

  • Introduction to Decision Academy: The Science of Better Decisions
  • Rhetorical Fallacies: Dodging Argument Traps
  • Learning from Mistakes: A Systematic Approach
  • Probabilistic Fallacies: Gauging the Strength of Evidence
  • Explanation Freeze: Interpreting Uncertain Events
  • The Planning Fallacy: Predicting Times and Costs
  • Aspire: A Tool to Help You Improve Your Life
  • The Sunk Cost Fallacy: Focusing on the Future

• trees are harlequins, words are harlequins — An exciting new paper on neural language model...

• A good volunteer is hard to find - The GiveWell Blog

• spectralkernel.pdf

• The ELBO without Jensen, Kullback, or Leibler | Laboratory for Intelligent Probabilistic Systems

• How To Win Public Opinion, The VC Method

• My2050 calculator - create your pathway for the UK to be net zero by 2050

• The Evolution of Trust

• Experiments and Observations in a Heated Room (1774) – The Public Domain Review

• Museum of Imaginary Musical Instruments

• Software is no longer sold; it’s adopted - Orbit

• TPU Research Cloud

• Age of Invention: Upstream, Downstream

• Is Pandemic Stress to Blame for the Rise in Traffic Deaths? Nope apparently it is decreased congestion making drivers drive faster on shit roads.

• Preference falsification

• Let us never speak of these values again.

• Antipodean perspectives on Sundanese art, time and space turns out to be about, amongst other people, me.

• Review of Heath, Enlightenment 2.0

• Arturia — Efx FRAGMENTS

• It’s Your Friends Who Break Your Heart

• More than just a meth licence, More than just a DMT licence, A spaceship licence

• Agenty Duck: Intro To Naturalism Sequence

  Is naturalism nonparametric learning for mind-as-ML?

• Nick Chater, Would you Stand Up to An Oppressive Regime.

• Reddit for AI-generated and manipulated content

• Bayesian Neural Nets and how to effectively train them with Stochastic Gradient Markov Chain Monte Carlo | Simen Eide

• Get Involved - SKYPE A SCIENTIST

• How to Train Really Large Models on Many GPUs?

• Lecture #8 - My Method for Defeating Procrastination

• One World ABC Seminar

• Playing with positive definite matrices – I: matrix monotony and convexity – Machine Learning Research Blog

• Strong Scientific Posters: Presenting science concisely with Bruce Kirchoff

• Who Is Behind QAnon? Linguistic Detectives Find Fingerprints

• Everything I wrote before now was overconfident

• Brutalita Sans

• The exit from econlib by Bryan Caplan, wherein he is pessimistic about pessimism, lists the greatest of his highly variable hits. These are the hits I would like to revisit:

  • Social Desirability Bias: How Psych Can Salvage Econo-Cynicism (File under dunning-kruger theory of society, and survey analysis)
  • The Case for Libertarian Friendliness (Should be called “The Case for Friendliness”).

• What makes writing more readable?

• Being right does not feel good. Need to write an essay on this.

• Alexey Guzey quotes an anonymous twitter user:

  The bare truth of science:

  • Nobody believes a computational model except the person who built it.
  • Everybody believes an experimental measurement except the person who made it.

  — … June 28, 2018

• Pluralism and Civil Exchange | Mercatus Center

• Dispatches from the Manosphere | MEL Magazine

• To follow up: The “manosphere” is getting more toxic as angry men join the incels. Did this pan out?

• OK, WTF Are Wordcels and Shape Rotators?

• That broken tech/content culture cycle

  I’m not there for 100% of this story about youtube/instagram/facebook/amazon/etc, but I will back a chunk of it. Also: compare to TikTok.

• Evidence of Fraud in an Influential Field Experiment About Dishonesty. Looks bad for Dan Ariely. Damn.

• on programming humans (Amir’s work)

• David Rosenthal on Cryptocurrencies

  Libertarianism’s attraction is based on ignoring externalities, and cryptocurrencies are no exception.

  Zing. All ideologies face a disjunct between of what their core theorists advocate and what their recruiting implicitly advocates, but gee wow libertarianism, this adverse selection problem needs managing.

• A Quick Look At 20% Time

• Apple acquires song-shifting startup AI Music, here’s what it could mean for users | Business Insider India

• Are coevolutionary “Free Lunches” really free lunches?

• ATG | Personal Training Reinvented

• Autonomous Work Pod

• Being the DRI of Your Career

• Butterfly Ideas

• Crypto, NFTs, Web3: People Hate the Future of the Internet

• Hypergamy, Incels, and Reality

• jaredly/qmoji: 🙃 Like mojibar, but written in reasonml

• macos script hacks via FastScripts 3

• Motivated Reasoning As Mis-applied Reinforcement Learning

• Anab Jain, e.g. How will we live

• Tom Armitage, Some of these things are not like the others

• Searching for Susy Thunder

• TANSTAAFL, There Ain’t No Such Thing as a Free Lunch

• The Gauss–Markov Theorem

• TODOs from Paper Systems

• Tumblr Is Everything

• Why Can’t Everything Be Free?

• Exit and voice dynamics, in gender and in media (also entry, and exclusion, in nations and genders)

• Michele Coscia, Avoiding Conflicts on Social Media Might Make Things Worse

• Michele Coscia, Pearson Correlations for Networks

• Heyday - your research helping hand >Heyday automatically saves content you view, and resurfaces it when you need it.

• AUM - Audio Mixer | Kymatica.com

  iOs routing board.

  Connect hardware inputs and outputs, Audio Unit extensions, Inter-App Audio apps, Audiobus, soundfile players, built-in signal processing and filters, in any configuration you want.

  Route anything to anywhere with mix-busses, effect sends, audiobus ports, and external multi-channel audio interfaces.

  Play hosted synths and instruments using the built-in keyboard or external MIDI controllers, or sequence them from other apps using Virtual MIDI.

  Record mixes, individual tracks, or both, straight into the storage space of AudioShare (no copying of files needed), with synchronized start and end.

  Play back recordings, soundfiles and loops as channel sources in the mixer for backing tracks, further processing or mixing.

  Route MIDI in any way you like using the MIDI matrix.

• Penny Wyatt, Developer Innovation and the Free Puppy

• Oleksandr Nikitin is working on The Cortex, their Ultimate Productivity App Thing

• OSF | Protocol and plan for the development of the automated algorithm for choosing the best systematic review

• scottshambaugh/monaco: Quantify uncertainty and sensitivities in your computer models with an industry-grade Monte-Carlo framework

• About The Skeptical Reporter’s Guide to Covering Economic Development

• Algorithmic monoculture and social welfare

• In Defence of the Boring Web

• DRMacIver’s Notebook: Ladders between communities

• DRMacIver’s Notebook: Norms of Excellence

• Lady Archimedes Chapter 1: Dumbledore’s Warning, a harry potter fanfic | FanFiction

• Worth the Candle - Alexander Wales (cthulhuraejepsen)

• Everything You Always Wanted to Know About the Jeffreys-Lindley Paradox But Were Afraid to Ask

• The online information environment | Royal Society

• CABINET / The Behavioral Sink

• Felt: Computer Graphics in the Land of Maps

• Silicon Valley’s New Obsession: Science Funding

• Why Spectral Normalization Stabilizes GANs: Analysis and Improvements

• Solana: Build crypto apps that scale

• Suddenly planar graphs seem interesting

  • Kuratowski’s theorem
  • Planar graph

• Marisa Abrajano has an provoking list of research topics. I would like to read the work to see her methodology.

• crowdshipping

  • Bambizz
  • Nimber

• Busy Simulator

• Do normal people need to know or care about “the metaverse”?

• doing - BrettTerpstra.com

• Features - Ledger

• Mark Zuckerberg Is TNR’s 2021 Scoundrel of the Year

• Paradise lost: The rise and ruin of Couchsurfing.com

• In Thanksgiving squabbles are a feature, not a bug Razib Khan argues that politics is heritable for genetic reasons.

• Why Americans Are Dying from Despair

• All About ‘Bank Python,’ a Finance-Specific Language Fork – The New Stack

• External Music Services - ListenBrainz

• The DAIR Institute

• Irrational Institutions #2 - Infovores Newsletter File under filter bubbles, reality bubbles, subculture dynamics.

• Dongkong track breakdown

• Hapgood | Mike Caulfield’s latest web incarnation. Networked Learning, Open Education, and Online Digital Literacy

• Covid Panic is a Site of Inter-Elite Competition. Freddie goes a bit far on this one (“a particularly strange form of worry porn that progressives have become addicted to in the past half-decade. It’s this thing where they insist that they don’t want something to happen, but they describe it so lustily, imagine it so vividly, fixate on it so relentlessly, that it’s abundantly clear that a deep part of them wants it to happen.”) Steady on there Freddie, the article you are linking to is not great, but, uh, reign in the generalised mind reading. I do agree there is a lot of performative COVID-fearing about, but also, good luck getting clicks when describing modern events with clinical dispassion. Show us your sampling methodology and incentive awareness.

• Dyscalculia

• Stream Jonathan Richetti music

• Christian Parenti, The First Privilege Walk. A little ranty. Christian is angry about the psychotherapy-infused origins of privilege-checking, which he traces back to Marcuse. There is a less ad hominem critique of this ad hominem movement I think, if that is what you want. But it is a fascinating story.

• Machine Learning Trick of the Day (1): Replica Trick— Shakir Mohammed

• Machine Learning Trick of the Day (3): Hutchinson’s Trick— Shakir Mohammed

• Machine Learning Trick of the Day (7): Density Ratio Trick— Shakir Mohammed

• Monte Carlo theory, methods and examples

• Chip in pressure HSBC to cut off Adani

• vscode-paste-image/README.md at master · mushanshitiancai/vscode-paste-image

• Gensim: Topic modelling for humans

• mhoye/awesome-falsehood: 😱 Falsehoods Programmers Believe in

• 10 years of… whatever this has been - apenwarr

• The Paradox of Choice in Computing-Research Conferences | November 2021

• [2110.13985] Combining Recurrent, Convolutional, and Continuous-time Models with Linear State-Space Layers

• HazyResearch/state-spaces: Sequence Modeling with Structured State Spaces

• ApplyingML - Papers, Guides, and Interviews with ML practitioners

• The War Nerd: Taiwan — The Thucydides Trapper Who Cried Woof - By Gary Brecher

• A Primer on Trade and Inequality

• Learning About the Long Run

• Dive in

• Penzil — 3d sketching for the web

• Milan Cvitkovic — Things you are allowed to do

• 1DollarScan - FAQ

• Courses for Decision Making And Reasoning — ClearerThinking.org

• Random-Feature Matching

• Information loss and entropy

• Why Facebook won’t let you turn off its news feed algorithm

• Useful inequalities cheat sheet

• [2111.00110] FC2T2: The Fast Continuous Convolutional Taylor Transform with Applications in Vision and Graphics

• The local minima of suckiness · Vicki Boykis

• Brave Wallet | Brave Browser

• The Art of Documentation – Chelsea Troy

• We were the unpaid janitors of a bloated tech monopoly - by Ryan Broderick - Garbage Day

• A Perfect Storm: The Chocolate, Coffee, and Climate Crises

• Fraud, disappearing evaluations and a toxic environment: how the best statistics group in the Netherlands fell apart » Mare Online

• How to incorporate observation weights into an estimator

• The Iraqi who saved Norway from oil

• Convex hull of zeros

• How should we compare neural network representations? – The Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Research Blog

• Marden’s theorem on complex roots

• The curious rise of the ‘white left’ as a Chinese internet insult

• Construction and the Toyota Production System - by Brian Potter - Construction Physics

• Lambda School’s Job Placement Rate May Be Far Worse Than Advertised

• A fulsome aquifer swells imperfectly over the little songs of the mutilated. | Little Songs Of The Mutilated

• AI research: the unreasonably narrow path and how not to be miserable

• Pocket Science Lab

• Rumble in the Ensemble

• SimSWE 4: Wants, needs, and chasm-crossing - apenwarr

• Willingness to look stupid

• I would like to read the diaries of Usama ibn Munqidh

• Revolt of the NYC Delivery Workers

• The latest target of China’s tech regulation blitz: algorithms

• Spot The Outlier - by Rohit - Strange Loop Canon

• The Anxious Philosopher King

• The two sides of envy at work

• Facebook Is an Authoritarian State

• microsoft/hummingbird: Hummingbird compiles trained ML models into tensor computation for faster inference.

• Maxwell’s Relations (Part 1) | Azimuth

• Nelson’s Weblog: culture / generative-art-and-open-source

• The Analytical Edge

• Weekly Research — Verdad

• Sinkhorn and circular law

• Deleting unethical data sets isn’t good enough

• Jag Bhalla, Vaccine Greed: Capitalism Without Competition Isn’t Capitalism, It’s Exploitation

• Kostas Kiriakakis, A Day At The Park

• Nietzsche Faces the Modern Age

• ARiMA is not Sufficient

• AttentionFlow

• fastdownload: the magic behind one of the famous 4 lines of code · fast.ai

• Steven Buss, Politics for Software Engineers, Part 1, Part 3

• CLeaR

• The AlphaFold2 Method Paper: A Fount of Good Ideas

• stunning urban photography at r/UrbanHell

• A from-scratch tour of Bitcoin in Python

• How to Do Multi-Task Learning Intelligently

• State Power and the Power Law, State Power and the Power Law 2

• Hosting SQLite databases on Github Pages - (or any static file hoster)

• ISPs Funded 8.5 Million Fake Comments Opposing Net Neutrality

• Biggest ISPs paid for 8.5 million fake FCC comments opposing net neutrality

• 80% of the 22 million comments on net neutrality rollback were fake, investigation finds

• Interview Questions Database (IQDb)

• Google Cloud launches Vertex AI, unified platform for MLOps

• DSHR’s Blog: The Data Isn’t Yours

• Deliberate Ignorance

• The Economics of Pseudonymity

• Reciprocal Convexity to reverse the Jensen Inequality - B.log

• Screen Recorder | Panopto

• Industrial Policy, Innovation, and Decline with Ben Landau-Taylor

• Schneier, When AIs Start Hacking

• Stanford researchers find that male over-confidence might be costing the tech industry billions, David Sumpter

• Conceptual Foundations of Statistical Learning, Spring 2021

• https://www.statista.com/chart/23905/change-in-homicides-in-us-cities/

• Big Tech’s guide to talking about AI ethics

• pyloudnorm — Christian Steinmetz

• lab-ml/nn: 🧠 Implementations/tutorials of deep learning papers with side-by-side notes; including transformers (original, xl, switch, feedback), optimizers(adam, radam, adabelief), gans(dcgan, cyclegan), reinforcement learning (ppo, dqn), capsnet, sketch-rnn, etc.

• labml.ai Neural Networks

• Blackwell Approachability - Que-sais je?

• analysis - Metrizability of weak convergence by the bounded Lipschitz metric - Mathematics Stack Exchange

• Eigenvalue Inequalities for Hermitian Matrices – Nick Higham

• What Is a Companion Matrix? – Nick Higham

• CLIP: Connecting Text and Images

• Multimodal Neurons in Artificial Neural Networks/ Distill version of Multimodal Neurons in Artificial Neural Networks

• https://cbergmeir.com/

• http://i.giwebb.com/

• Going beyond least-squares – II : Self-concordant analysis for logistic regression – Machine Learning Research Blog

• An Inferential Perspective on Federated Learning

• Information-Theoretic Generalization Bounds for Stochastic Gradient Descent

• Linear Models from a Gaussian Process Point of View with Stheno and JAX · W.

• [2010.11223] Meta-trained agents implement Bayes-optimal agents

• [1905.03030] Meta-learning of Sequential Strategies

• Journal of Negative Results

• On “Geek” Versus “Nerd”

• The Pandemic Is Resetting Casual Friendships

• Solve the Rubik’s Cube Using Deep Learning

• How to Become the Best in the World at Something

• Why a Universal Society Is Unattainable is a rebadged and refreshed version of the “societies need common enemies” trope.

• The Computational Geometry Algorithms Library

• WEIRDest People

• Yuling Yao, The likelihood principle in model check and model evaluation

• Jaan Altosaar: My friend radicalized. This made me rethink how I build AI

• Algorithms for Decision Making: Decision making, in the sense of reinforcement learning

• Chowdhury-DSP/ChowMatrix: Matrix delay effect

• Chowdhury DSP is creating audio software

• “Understanding RL Vision”

• Very Deep VAEs Generalize Autoregressive Models and Can Outperform Them on Images, Child 2020

• Algorithmic Trap

• Introducing Simple Search

• On the origin of psychological research practices, with special regard to self-reported nostril width

• Generalised additive models (GAMs): an introduction – Environmental Computing

• How to debunk an electoral fraud claim

• Liquid Information Flow Control, a confidential computing DSL

• Can History Predict the Future?

• The Cauchy residue trick: spectral analysis made “easy”

• On the Generalization Ability of Online Strongly Convex Programming Algorithms

William Buckner at the Human Systems and Behavior Lab based in the Department of Anthropology at Pennsylvania State University has a blog on conflict in cross-cultural perspective and other fun stuff.

Thomas Lumley visualises data pooling simply and well.

The Catalogue of Bias:

To obtain the least biased information, researchers must acknowledge the potential presence of biases and take steps to avoid and minimise their effects. Equally, in assessing the results of studies, we must be aware of the different types of biases, their potential impact and how this affects interpretation and use of evidence in healthcare decision making.

WebPlotDigitizer.

Taiwan’s digital minister sounds interesting.

China requires malware for people doing business there.

Global AI talent tracker

A collection of links advocating learning a new language.

Illustrations