Favourite things of 2019
This year I got into barbells.
This year I quit the only job I’ve done for more than a year and went back to school.
Papers
- Eckersley, https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.00064
- Carey, Ryan: Incorrigibility in the CIRL Framework. A model paper: brief, definitive, lucid. Read it in half an hour and got it. I look forward to reading it again.
- Shah & Cottier: Clarifying Some Key Hypotheses in AI alignment. A first step towards explicit agenda selection.
- Schoelkopf et al: ‘A Discussion of Semi-Supervised Learning and Transduction’.
- Merity, Stephen: Single-Headed Attention
- The Lottery Ticket Hypothesis
- Double Descent
- https://arxiv.org/pdf/1803.03453.pdf
- Deep Neural Networks as Gaussian Processes
- Fong, Spivak, Tuyeras: Backprop as Functor
Books
- Exhalation
- How to Actually Change Your Mind, v3
- The AI Does Not Hate You
- Ficciones
- Scarcity
- Cyberiad
- Math with Bad Drawings
- Wolf Hall
- Infidel
- Money for Nothing
- ‘Samsara’
Worst book: Justine by Lawrence Durrell.
Essays
- https://blog.robharrop.dev/maths/performance/2016/02/20/service-latency-and-utilisation.html
- https://www.nellwatson.com/blog/technological-wavefront
- https://everythingstudies.com/2018/04/26/a-deep-dive-into-the-harris-klein-controversy/
- https://everythingstudies.com/2017/11/07/the-nerd-as-the-norm/
- https://www.gwern.net/Littlewood
- https://www.gwern.net/Notes#ordinary-life-improvements
- https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=691002
- https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2019/07/my-conversation-with-kwame-anthony-appiah.html
- Against Against Billionaire Philanthropy
- New Atheism: the Godlessness that Failed
- Book Review: The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
- Maybe Your Zoloft Stopped Working Because A Liver Fluke Tried To Turn Your Nth-Great-Grandmother Into A Zombie
- Book Review: All Therapy Books
-
Financial Incentives Are Weaker Than Social Incentives But Very Important Anyway
- 5-HTTLPR: A Pointed Review
- Buspirone Shortage In Healthcaristan SSR
- Does Reality Drive Straight Lines On Graphs, Or Do Straight Lines On Graphs Drive Reality?
- Prospiracy Theories
- What Happened To 90s Environmentalism?
- https://guzey.com/books/why-we-sleep/
- Most things by Jamie Brandon
- Most quasi-published things by Jeremy Kun
- https://vitalik.ca/general/2019/04/03/collusion.html
Films / TV
- The Favourite
- Eighth Grade
- Bodied
- Seven Samurai
- Hunt for the Wilderpeople
- Truth and Justice
- The Royal Tenenbaums
- Redline
- The Irishman
- Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
- Mob Psycho 100
- One-Punch Man (Season 1 only)
- Watched the Simpsons systematically for the first time.
Podcasts
- Rationally Speaking
- FLI
Albums
- The Ballet - Matchy Matchy
- Richard Dawson - 2020
- Tyler, The Creator - IGOR
- Kristin Hersh - Crooked
- 環境音楽 = Kankyō Ongaku
- Hakushi Hasegawa - Air Ni Ni
- Fontaines D.C. - Dogrel
- Pilgrimage and Rampages by Johnny Morrice
- The Goat Rodeo Sessions
- Square Enix Jazz by Yasumasa Kumagai, Hikari Ichihara et al
- FTL by Ben Prunty
- https://eveninblackouts.bandcamp.com/album/romantico
Games
- FTL
- Slay the Spire
Songs
- ‘Dear Pilgrim’ by Swamp Spice
- ‘The Old Man’s Back Again’ by Scott Walker
- ‘Let Me Bathe in Demonic Light (Live with Bassoon) by Mountain Goats’
- ‘Battle Medley’ - FFRK
- ‘When I Grow Up’ - Tim Minchin
- ‘The Impossible Dream’ - Andy Williams, not Sinatra
- ‘Turn It Off’ by Parker & Stone
- ‘Under Cherry Blossoms’ by Duboi
- Myself When Young by Lawrence Tibbett
- Stone Jam by Mary Halvorson. Gets good after 3mins.
- You’re Shining - Hixxy mix
- I Got The - Labi
- Handbags and Gladrags - Big George
Deals
- Yeast Flakes 1kg (£20)
- Moto G7 Power (£170)