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29 June 2024
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Apollo 11Their words
Strongly recommended for anyone with an interest in space, greatness, or reality.
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KediTheir words
Thoroughly enjoyable, stuffed with beautiful shots of Istanbul and cats, with particularly clever ankle-level tracking shots following the semi-feral cats around.
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AmyTheir words
Overall, required viewing for any Winehouse fan and of general psychiatric interest; possibly too painful to watch for others.
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All About EveTheir words
Excellent character-study/drama about the price of fame, the sincerest forms of flattery, and a little meta-fictionally, the psychology of the theatre and Broadway being usurped by Hollywood
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Blade Runner 2049Their words
one of the best movies I’ve seen all year, well worth paying to see on the big screen
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They LiveTheir words
For a compelling depiction of how this might feel from the inside, I strongly recommend John Carpenter’s movie They Live
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Ready Player OneTheir words
It is excellent to watch on a big screen in 3D despite how silly it ultimately is, so I’m not surprised it’s been successful.
6 June 2024
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RedlineTheir words
One of the most amazing hand-animated films of all time, Redline is a blast from start to finish in showing dystopian SF racing
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Made in AbyssTheir words
I suspect Made in Abyss will be the best anime I watched in 2019, and perhaps 2020 too.
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Mushishi Zoku ShouTheir words
Rather than declining, the second season is better than the first.
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Ringing BellTheir words
There are not many anime from the 1970s which could be said to be as worth watching now as the day they were made, but Chirin no Suzu manages to be one of them for its unflinching honesty.
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Hellsing UltimateTheir words
All in all, a very satisfactory OVA indeed.
12 September 2023
13 October 2022
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Stories of Your Life and OthersTheir words
He is the closest thing to a modern Jorge Luis Borges in melding high concepts with literature to create something better than either
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The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has DeclinedTheir words
This was really really good, as in, maybe the best book I’ve read that year.
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Collapse of Complex SocietiesTheir words
much more convincing than Spengler or Toynbee
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Star MakerTheir words
It’s really impressive how Stapledon just casually scatters around handfuls of jewels that lesser authors might belabor singly throughout an entire book.
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The Remains of the DayTheir words
The prose is so smooth that like Gene Wolfe’s, it becomes invisible, and you pass through it to the slow silent sorrow of the protagonist.
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Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the WorldTheir words
I enjoyed this tremendously for revealing a new world to me where I thought I already knew the lay of the land.
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A fascinating account of the economic transformation of Germany under the Nazis
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The HistoriesTheir words
Overall, far more interesting than I had expected. Surprisingly funny or interesting anecdotes.
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Genius: The Life and Science of Richard FeynmanTheir words
A solid biography, though I don’t have anything in particular to say about it.
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It is, overall, an excellent book and one of the better ones on grand history I’ve read
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The Discovery of France: A Historical Geography from the Revolution to the First World WarTheir words
This is incredibly interesting because from our perspective, we have forgotten (if we ever knew) what went into the process of taking the thousands of villages and regions differing in all sorts of ways
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The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de ZoetTheir words
It was surprisingly unliterary and unpostmodern for Mitchell, but in exchange, he nailed the historical details and gave us an adventure which subverted many of the usual tropes
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It is an invaluable resource for any researcher
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Bias in Mental TestingTheir words
One of the classics in the field, Jensen sets out to explain almost everything, it seems, in psychometrics
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Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the VoidTheir words
Roach comes up with all the best quotes and stories, seems to have talked to everyone and done everything.
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Clear and Simple as the Truth: Writing Classic ProseTheir words
A style book which actually delivers real style advice!
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Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr.Their words
Fascinating account of a Gilded Age titan much worse known than Carnegie.
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In the Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our LivesTheir words
I learned a great deal from this book about Google, which put some of my own experiences with Google products in context.
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The Black CompanyTheir words
I enjoyed the first book a great deal: it’s in a fairly stock medieval setting, but it handles the dark fantasy well
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Savage Continent: Europe in the Aftermath of World War IITheir words
a fascinating book on the bloody aftermath of WWII as the destruction wound down
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Tombstone: The Untold Story of Mao’s Great FamineTheir words
The statistics and anecdotes are fairly horrifying, and the sheer profusion drills in how widespread the famine was.
11 June 2021
From one piece May 2021 Gwern.net Newsletter 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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human intelligence's g is real but is the overall 'pool' of neural resources which derives from overall body integrity because the number of neurons, their density, their myelination, resistance to damage and infection etc, is causally downstream of all body and developmental systems, creating a huge mutational target
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The Master Synthesis: intelligence is execution of small simplicity-weighted programs, best discovered by search over smooth loss landscapes like that of highly-overparameterized differentiable networks containing lottery-ticket subnetworks which are ensembled/averaged over, approaching Bayes-optimal reasoning in the limit (as nearest-neighbors-like high dimensional interpolation / memorization gives way to algorithmic generalization / interpolation on a more abstract level)
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The more people tweet about how MLP-Mixer is overhyped because is −X% worse than the ultra-hand-optimized baseline or requires Y× more FLOPS, the more they demonstrate precisely why this sort of research is so important!
3 June 2021
From one piece April 2021 newsletter 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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nothing in psychology, or medicine, makes sense except in the light of individual differences
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Demanding that research be done cheaply tends to make it the most expensive kind of research.Their words
there's nothing so expensive as demanding research be cheap.
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if the marginal return on this research direction had fallen below that of competitors, we would see those neglected directions invade Transformer topics-while we continue to see the reverse, and many applications as yet untouched by all the new approaches, suggesting that we still don't pay enough attention
6 April 2021
From one piece March 2021 Gwern.net Newsletter 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Unsupervised learning trained on unfiltered, internet-scale image data now genuinely works.Their words
another reminder that unsupervised learning is really working!
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a self-blinding study, similar to my old self-blinding protocols, confirms that microdosing is just placebo effect, as I said in 2012
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Supervised learning from ImageNet is now obsolete for transfer learning, and ImageNet just a contaminated validation set
13 March 2021
From one piece February 2021 Gwern.net Newsletter 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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it's not one thing, it's everything-more intelligent people have lower discount rates, save more for longer & are less risk-averse, more accurately predict future growth or inflation
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NASA's lunar quarantine was a sham intended to mollify the public as they covered up repeated major failures & lab leaks both before & after-had there been any dangerous lunar organisms, they would have escaped easily
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it is increasingly clear that brains really do do backprop in some sense
4 February 2021
From one piece Jan 2021 Gwern.net Newsletter 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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The fact that the prefix-tuning, by directly optimizing the prompt embeddings, yields better performance than even single optimized text prompts, suggests so.
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Mixture-of-experts models can scale stably but begin to show fundamental limits as they are scaled further.Their words
the mixture-of-experts approach, while scaling stably, starts showing its limits
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To take the GAN/DRL analogy seriously, perhaps they were they ultimately a dead end, akin to trying to learn everything from rewards, and an adversarial GAN loss ought to be only the cherry on the cake of a large unsupervised/semi-supervised generative model.
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