Things that I think should be noted and filed in an orderly fashion but which I have no time to address right now. Content will change incessantly; I would advise against linking to anything here.
Links and notes
jwz: Hacker Takes Over Numbers Station For Rickrolls And Memes
geogebra is a neat java web app which creates nice plots pedagogically.
Suddenly planar graphs seem interesting
Marisa Abrajano has an interesting list of research topics. I would like to read the work to see her methodology.
Trapped Priors As A Basic Problem Of Rationality. TODO: raid for refs, and then talk about this in the context of interpersonal dynamics. NB I think this phenomenon is interesting but I wish he did not use sloppy Bayesian terminology in this case; it sounds like he is talking about an excessively tight prior, but the dynamics of this case diverge in substantive ways from a direct Bayesian update with an excessively tight prior. One would need some more complicated structure to explain the observation, such as a hierarchical model incorporating observation reliability, or an action-observation loop.
crowdshipping
Do normal people need to know or care about “the metaverse”?
In Thanksgiving squabbles are a feature, not a bug Razib Khan argues that politics is heritable.
All About ‘Bank Python,’ a Finance-Specific Language Fork – The New Stack
Irrational Institutions #2 - Infovores Newsletter File under filter bubbles, reality bubbles, subculture dynamics.
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.
The Phrase “No Evidence” Is A Red Flag For Bad Science Communication
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.
Dustin Tran’s uncertainty layers [1812.03973] Bayesian Layers: A Module for Neural Network Uncertainty
Machine Learning Trick of the Day (1): Replica Trick ← The Spectator
Machine Learning Trick of the Day (2): Gaussian Integral Trick ← The Spectator
Machine Learning Trick of the Day (3): Hutchinson’s Trick ← The Spectator
Machine Learning Trick of the Day (7): Density Ratio Trick ← The Spectator
vscode-paste-image/README.md at master · mushanshitiancai/vscode-paste-image · GitHub
GitHub - mhoye/awesome-falsehood: 😱 Falsehoods Programmers Believe in
Getting Started with Tezos · hicetnunc2000/hicetnunc Wiki · GitHub
The Paradox of Choice in Computing-Research Conferences | November 2021
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 - The eXiled
My personal reviewing policy: No more billion-dollar donations – nicebread.de
Courses for Decision Making And Reasoning — ClearerThinking.org
01 - Introduction To Causality — Causal Inference for the Brave and True
You Are the Best Reviewer of Your Own Papers: An Owner-Assisted Scoring Mechanism
We were the unpaid janitors of a bloated tech monopoly - by Ryan Broderick - Garbage Day
Full article: Approximate leave-future-out cross-validation for Bayesian time series models
Principled Statistical Modeling with Stan - Powered by Eventzilla
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
AI research: the unreasonably narrow path and how not to be miserable
I would like to read the diaries of Usama ibn Munqidh
The latest target of China’s tech regulation blitz: algorithms
Polarization Report — NYU Stern Center for Business and Human Rights
Large Scale Machine Learning and Other Animals: Gaussian Belief Propagation Tutorial
[2109.00173] FADE: FAir Double Ensemble Learning for Observable and Counterfactual Outcomes
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
Deleting unethical data sets isn’t good enough | MIT Technology Review
Jag Bhalla, Vaccine Greed: Capitalism Without Competition Isn’t Capitalism, It’s Exploitation
Kostas Kiriakakis, A DAY AT THE PARK
fastdownload: the magic behind one of the famous 4 lines of code · fast.ai
Steven Buss, Politics for Software Engineers, Part 1, Part 3
Causal inference 4: Causal Diagrams, Markov Factorization, Structural Equation Models
Git scraping: track changes over time by scraping to a Git repository
State Power and the Power Law, State Power and the Power Law 2
This Blog is Systematic: Diversification and small account size
[2106.02589] On Ensembling vs Merging: Least Squares and Random Forests under Covariate Shift
Regression, Thermostats, Causal Inference: Some Finger Exercises
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
Reciprocal Convexity to reverse the Jensen Inequality - B.log
Industrial Policy, Innovation, and Decline with Ben Landau-Taylor
Schneier, When AIs Start Hacking
https://www.statista.com/chart/23905/change-in-homicides-in-us-cities/
Eigenvalue Inequalities for Hermitian Matrices – Nick Higham
Multimodal Neurons in Artificial Neural Networks/ Distill version of Multimodal Neurons in Artificial Neural Networks
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
Why a Universal Society Is Unattainable is a rebadged and refreshed version of the “societies need common enemies” trope.
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
Very Deep VAEs Generalize Autoregressive Models and Can Outperform Them on Images, Child 2020
Generalised additive models (GAMs): an introduction – Environmental Computing
Liquid Information Flow Control, a confidential computing DSL
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.
Illustrations
For as the sufferings of Christ abound in us, so our consolation aboundeth through Christ.
Sarah Perry
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