Things that I think should be noted and filed in an orderly fashion but which I have no time to address right now. Content here will change incessantly; I would advise against linking to it.
Links and notes
- 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
- 1. Short articles - Commons Transition Primer
- Home Page - P2P Foundation
- Our Guiding Principles - P2P Foundation
- The P2PF Library - P2P Foundation
- Progressives’ mobilization delusion - by Matthew Yglesias - Slow Boring
- Spot The Outlier - by Rohit - Strange Loop Canon
- Using Personal Access Tokens | Atlassian Support | Atlassian Documentation
- The disastrous voyage of Satoshi, the world’s first cryptocurrency cruise ship
- Rules for Noobs – Put A Number On It!
- The Anxious Philosopher King – Put A Number On It!
- The two sides of envy at work
- Facebook Is an Authoritarian State - The Atlantic
- Tyler Cowen is the best curator of talent in the world - by Tony Kulesa - Beginnings
- ritvikmath explains partial autocorrelation as a graphical model, which is not complicated, but for some reason I never had it laid out this way in my own time series courses. See also Kenneth Tay, The relationship between MA(q)/AR(p) processes and ACF/PACF | Statistical Odds & Ends
- RaveDJ - Music Mixer
- microsoft/hummingbird: Hummingbird compiles trained ML models into tensor computation for faster inference.
- Intro to Statistics In One Hour | Replicability-Index
- Hapgood | Mike Caulfield’s latest web incarnation. Networked Learning, Open Education, and Online Digital Literacy
- Polarization Report — NYU Stern Center for Business and Human Rights
- Maxwell’s Relations (Part 1) | Azimuth
- Nelson’s Weblog: culture / generative-art-and-open-source
- Yet Another Math Programming Consultant: Huber regression: different formulations
- Large Scale Machine Learning and Other Animals: Gaussian Belief Propagation Tutorial
- Gaussian Belief Propagation
- [2109.00173] FADE: FAir Double Ensemble Learning for Observable and Counterfactual Outcomes
- Fairness in Networks | Proceedings of the 27th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery & Data Mining
- A simpler way to organize your work - WorkFlowy
- Amazing Marvin - Customizable Task Manager and Daily Planner
- Todoist: The to do list to organize work & life
- The Analytical Edge
- Weekly Research — Verdad
- Google AI Blog: High Fidelity Image Generation Using Diffusion Models
- What are Diffusion Models?
- The Inevitable Weaponization of App Data Is Here
- Sinkhorn and circular law
- Fisher information between two Gaussians
- Agustinus Kristiadi, Fisher Information Matrix
- Agustinus Kristiadi, Hessian and Curvatures in Machine Learning: A Differential-Geometric View
- Agustinus Kristiadi, Natural Gradient Descent
- Agustinus Kristiadi, Notes on Riemannian Geometry
- Agustinus Kristiadi, Optimization and Gradient Descent on Riemannian Manifolds
- [2006.04439] Liquid Time-constant Networks
- Deleting unethical data sets isn’t good enough | MIT Technology Review
- Jag Bhalla, Vaccine Greed: Capitalism Without Competition Isn’t Capitalism, It’s Exploitation
- A DAY AT THE PARK | Kostas Kiriakakis
- Nietzsche Faces the Modern Age - Existential Comics
- 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
- Causal inference 4: Causal Diagrams, Markov Factorization, Structural Equation Models
- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, It is obscene: a true reflection in three parts
- The Myth of the Expert Reviewer
- The Equity Trainees
- The Moral Foundations of Progress
- GitHub OCTO | Flat Data
- Git scraping: track changes over time by scraping to a Git repository
- On Being a Loser, or Should you Start a Blog?
- Warrens, Plazas and the Edge of Legibility
- Construction of arbitrarily strong amplifiers of natural selection using evolutionary graph theory
- 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
- Inside Burj Al Babas, The Abandoned $200 Million Turkish Ghost Town
- Housing Medallions - MD&A
- The wealthy are hoarding livable homes as climate change makes land uninhabitable
- Permacomputing | viznut
- This Blog is Systematic: Diversification and small account size
- [2106.02589] On Ensembling vs Merging: Least Squares and Random Forests under Covariate Shift
- [2106.03007] Unbiased Self-Play
- Regression, Thermostats, Causal Inference: Some Finger Exercises
- Hosting SQLite databases on Github Pages - (or any static file hoster)
- Stress and Serotonin
- Discipline as an aristocratic resource C&C Fredrik deBoer
- 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
- If correlation doesn’t imply causation, then what does?
- Reciprocal Convexity to reverse the Jensen Inequality - B.log
- Emblem Project Utrecht
- Screen Recorder | Panopto
- Industrial Policy, Innovation, and Decline with Ben Landau-Taylor
- A delightful book of fairies from 1870
- Schneier, When AIs Start Hacking
- How beauty filters took over social media
- 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/
- This AI Can Generate Convincing Text—and Anyone Can Use It
- Big Tech’s guide to talking about AI ethics
- pyloudnorm — Christian Steinmetz
- The Real Development was the Friends We Made Along the Way
- 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
- MD4SG— mechanism design for social good
- Blackwell Approachability - Que-sais je?
- Krug, Carrillo, Dolezal: Social Munchausen Syndrome
- 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
- The Autodiff Cookbook — JAX documentation
- An information maximization view on the \(\beta\)-VAE objective
- 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
- Learning with Gradient Descent and Weakly Convex Losses
- Information-Theoretic Generalization Bounds for Stochastic Gradient Descent
- Bayesian Model of Planetary Motion: exploring ideas for a modeling workflow when dealing with ordinary differential equations and multimodality
- 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
- Gradio
- 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
- Alex Danco’s Michael Scott Theory of Social Class has a couple of insights in it, although … although how you are supposed to interpret them in the light of the fact that under the author’s own hypothesis he is maximally detached from reality? That is left as an exercise for the student. Let us call it ”an interesting perspective that is not actually a theory good try though”.
- 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 | Bayesian Investor Blog
- 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
- The Forks Model of Disability | Thing of Things
- Sacred Values Are How Ethical Injunctions Feel From The Inside
- 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.
Taiwan’s digital minister sounds interesting.
Anne Applebaum, Performative Authoritarianism.
China requires malware for people doing business there.
A collection of links advocating learning a new language.
I keep meaning to bookmark entertaining contrarian Cory Clark, but I cannot think under what heading to do so.
I should lobby citation styles for URL support to prevent the entire project being quaintly mired in woodpulp. Here is where to do it.
Illustrations
Sarah Perry
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