May 2016 Media Thread

ArisKatsaris

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:

Please avoid downvoting recommendations just because you don't personally like the recommended material; remember that liking is a two-place word. If you can point out a specific flaw in a person's recommendation, consider posting a comment to that effect.
If you want to post something that (you know) has been recommended before, but have another recommendation to add, please link to the original, so that the reader has both recommendations.
Please post only under one of the already created subthreads, and never directly under the parent media thread.
Use the "Other Media" thread if you believe the piece of media you want to discuss doesn't fit under any of the established categories.
Use the "Meta" thread if you want to discuss about the monthly media thread itself (e.g. to propose adding/removing/splitting/merging subthreads, or to discuss the type of content properly belonging to each subthread) or for any other question or issue you may have about the thread or the rules.

Rules:

Please avoid downvoting recommendations just because you don't personally like the recommended material; remember that liking is a two-place word. If you can point out a specific flaw in a person's recommendation, consider posting a comment to that effect.
If you want to post something that (you know) has been recommended before, but have another recommendation to add, please link to the original, so that the reader has both recommendations.
Please post only under one of the already created subthreads, and never directly under the parent media thread.
Use the "Other Media" thread if you believe the piece of media you want to discuss doesn't fit under any of the established categories.
Use the "Meta" thread if you want to discuss about the monthly media thread itself (e.g. to propose adding/removing/splitting/merging subthreads, or to discuss the type of content properly belonging to each subthread) or for any other question or issue you may have about the thread or the rules.

Everything is heritable:

"Genome-wide association study of cognitive functions and educational attainment in UK Biobank (n=112151)", Davies et al 2016
Continuation of the recent phenome theme of inter-correlations of negative traits and inter-correlation of positive traits:
- "Analysis of shared heritability in common disorders of the brain", Anttila et al 2016
- "Genetic variants associated with subjective well-being, depressive symptoms, and neuroticism identified through genome-wide analyses", Okbay et al 2016
- "Physical and neurobehavioral determinants of reproductive onset and success", Day et al 2016
- "Association between stressful life events and psychotic experiences in adolescence: evidence for gene–environment correlations", Shakoor et al 2016
"Introducing precise genetic modifications into human 3PN embryos by CRISPR/Cas-mediated genome editing", Kang et al 2016 (see also Liang et al 2015; both describe the CRISPR state of the art as of early 2014, 2+ years ago)
"Variants near CHRNA3/5 and APOE have age- and sex-related effects on human lifespan", Joshi et al 2016
"National Happiness and Genetic Distance: A Cautious Exploration", Proto & Oswald 2015
Friends are as genetically similar as fourth cousins (media)
"Monkey kingdom: China is positioning itself as a world leader in primate research"

Politics/religion:

AI:

"Deep Networks with Stochastic Depth", Huang et al 2016 (dropout of random layers, which does not just work, but works better and enables >1200-layer residual networks. This might be related to Liao & Poggio 2016 claim that deep residual nets are effectively unrolled RNNs which apply slight variants of an algorithm to many timesteps.)
"Generating Large Images from Latent Vectors"
"Foveation-based Mechanisms Alleviate Adversarial Examples", Luo et al 2016
"Convolutional Networks for Fast, Energy-Efficient Neuromorphic Computing", Esser et al 2016

Statistics/meta-science:

"A Comparison of Approaches to Advertising Measurement: Evidence from Big Field Experiments at Facebook", Gordon et al 2016 (How often does correlation=causation? <50% of the time in Internet advertising, with gross over/underestimates even with detailed covariate & advanced modeling.)
"The Bitter Fight Over the Benefits of Bilingualism" (So Bialystok is refusing a collaboration because a pre-registered protocol is unscientific and she refuses to work with someone so 'biased' that they would damage the non-pre-registered results, and besides, publication bias doesn't exist - "there is absolutely no evidence". I see...)
"Why the National Institutes of Health Should Replace Peer Review With a Lottery: A new study shows that peer-review scores for grant proposals are random anyway"
"Bandit based Monte-Carlo planning", Kocsis & Szepesvári 2006
"How Kalman Filters Work, Part 1"
"The importance of 'gold standard' studies for consumers of research"

Psychology/biology:

"The Production of Human Capital in Developed Countries: Evidence from 196 Randomized Field Experiments", Fryer 2016 (education; lots of small effects):
"A Meta-Analysis of Blood Glucose Effects on Human Decision Making", Orquin & Kurzban 2016
"Is Ego-Depletion a Replicable Effect? A Forensic Meta-Analysis of 165 Ego Depletion Articles"
"Indoor air quality and academic performance", Stafford 2015 (apropos of harms of CO2 discussion)
"Seven Pervasive Statistical Flaws in Cognitive Training Interventions", Moreau et al 2016
"The Voyeur's Motel"

Technology:

Economics:

"Demographic Consequences of Defeating Aging", Gavrilov & Gavrilova 2010
Interview with short seller Jim Chanos (Short sellers are always so interesting. Few people are so motivated to see through the miasma of lies and bias and self-serving optimism in the business and finance world.)

4Subsumed10y

Have you written up somewhere how you stay organized, what software you use, especially with regards to reference management, text editors and works in progress?