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Visual Information Theory. I was already comfortable with information theory and this was still informative. This blogger's other posts are similarly high-quality.
Everything is heritable:
* "Genetic and environmental determinants of violence risk in psychotic disorders: a multivariate quantitative genetic study of 1.8 million Swedish twins and siblings", Sariaslan et al 2015 (Genetic pleiotropy/confounding in schizophrenia & drug abuse, rather than causation or reverse causation?)
* "Systems genetics identifies a convergent gene network for cognition and neurodevelopmental disease", Johnson et al 2015 (media)
* on the benefits of exercise:
* "Modifiable Risk Factors as Predictors of All-Cause Mortality: The Roles of Genetics and Childhood Environment", Kujala et al 2002
* "Physical activity in adulthood: genes and mortality", Karvinen et al 2015
* "Physical Activity, Fitness, Glucose Homeostasis, and Brain Morphology in Twins", Rottensteiner et al 2015 (commentary)
* "How Much Can We Boost IQ and Scholastic Achievement?", Jensen 1969
Politics/religion:
* "Operation Easy Chair, or how a little company in Holland helped the CIA bug the Russians"
* "The Life Issue"/"What if drone warfare had come first?"
* "'Perplexed ... Perplexed': On Mob Justice in Nigeria"
Statistics/AI/meta-science:
* "What my deep model doesn't know..." (Something of a tour de force: isomorphism between Gaussian processes and deep neural networks showing dropout is equivalent to using 1 NN to average over a whole family of similar models (explaining why dropout improves results, since we all know the advantages of ensembles) and showing how variation in NN output when wiggled by dropout gives an indication of uncertainty in predictions and from there yields useful results and stuff like usable Thompson sampling (!) in the famous deep Q reinforcement-learner for optimizing exploration and learning faster. Phew.)
* "On Learning to Think: Algorithmic Information Theory for Novel Combinations of Reinforcement Learning Controllers and Recurrent Neural World Models" (AIT is usually too hopelessly abstract and general to apply to anyt
This is the monthly thread for posting media of various types that you've found that you enjoy. Post what you're reading, listening to, watching, and your opinion of it. Post recommendations to blogs. Post whatever media you feel like discussing! To see previous recommendations, check out the older threads.
Rules: