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- Writing a GPT-4 script to check Wikipedia for the first unused acronym https://gwern.net/tla 112 comments
- Internet search tips https://gwern.net/search 83 comments
- It Looks Like You’re Trying to Take over the World https://www.gwern.net/fiction/Clippy 3 comments
- Theory of the Nudnik: The Future of Consumer Activism (2020) [pdf] https://www.gwern.net/docs/economics/2020-arbel.pdf 4 comments
- IQ decline and Piaget: Does the rot start at the top? [pdf] https://www.gwern.net/docs/iq/2017-flynn.pdf 262 comments
- Choose-Your-Own-Adventure AI Dungeon Games https://www.gwern.net/CYOA 23 comments
- Startup Ideas https://www.gwern.net/Startup-ideas 107 comments
- Never Pay for Online Dating (2010) https://www.gwern.net/docs/psychology/okcupid/whyyoushouldneverpayforonlinedating.html 116 comments
- Death Note: L, Anonymity and Eluding Entropy https://www.gwern.net/Death-Note-Anonymity 10 comments
- The Node Is Nonsense: Better ways to measure progress than Moore's law [pdf] https://www.gwern.net/docs/cs/2020-moore.pdf 7 comments
- GPT-3 Creative Fiction https://www.gwern.net/GPT-3 97 comments
- Rubrication Design Examples https://www.gwern.net/Red 9 comments
- One Man's Modus Ponens https://www.gwern.net/Modus 16 comments
- Catnip Immunity and Alternatives https://www.gwern.net/Catnip 22 comments
- How Many Computers Are in Your Computer? https://www.gwern.net/Turing-complete#how-many-computers-are-in-your-computer 87 comments
- What Is The Morning Writing Effect? https://www.gwern.net/Morning-writing 69 comments
- Metamagical Themas: Sanity and Survival (1985) http://www.gwern.net/docs/xrisks/1985-hofstadter 7 comments
- Genetic Predisposition to Obesity and Medicare Expenditures [pdf] https://www.gwern.net/docs/genetics/selection/2017-wehby.pdf 33 comments
- Why didn't Denmark sell Greenland? (2011) https://www.gwern.net/Greenland 53 comments
- In Defense of Inclusionism https://www.gwern.net/In%20Defense%20Of%20Inclusionism 171 comments
- My Mistakes http://www.gwern.net/Mistakes 7 comments
- Dual N-Back Meta-analysis http://www.gwern.net/DNB%20meta-analysis 14 comments
- Terrorism is not about terror http://www.gwern.net/Terrorism%20is%20not%20about%20Terror 45 comments
Lobsters
- TIL in 1908, the NYT reported a story on a dog that would push kids into the Seine in order to earn beefsteak treats for “rescuing” them. https://www.gwern.net/docs/history/1908-newyorktimes-dogafakehero.pdf 4 comments nottheonion
- What every programmer should know about memory. https://www.gwern.net/docs/cs/2007-drepper.pdf 510 comments programming
- "Top 10 Replicated Findings From Behavioral Genetics", Plomin et al 2016 https://www.gwern.net/docs/genetics/2016-plomin.pdf 3 comments cogsci
- "Causal evidence supporting the proposal that dopamine transients function as temporal difference prediction errors", Maes et al 2020 https://www.gwern.net/docs/rl/2020-maes.pdf 5 comments cogsci
- Devs: It's almost 2020... Almost all of us browse from our phones. Why on earth isn't bookmark tagging a feature on Firefox mobile? https://web.archive.org/web/20191220070635/https:/www.gwern.net/Archiving-URLs 65 comments firefox
- Meta-analysis of stereotype threat indicates that the size of the stereotype threat effect that can be experienced on tests of cognitive ability in operational scenarios such as college admissions tests and employment testing may range from negligible to small. https://www.gwern.net/docs/psychology/2019-shewach.pdf 3 comments science
- This Waifu Does Not Exist - Displaying random anime faces generated by StyleGAN neural networks https://www.gwern.net/twdne 97 comments programming
- How Many Computers Are in Your Computer? https://www.gwern.net/turing-complete#how-many-computers-are-in-your-computer 20 comments compsci
- Ever wonder why Valve and so many other companies 'altruistically' give to free software? http://www.gwern.net/complement 57 comments linux
- Summers of Code, 2006–2013 http://www.gwern.net/haskell/summer-of-code 3 comments haskell
- Surprisingly Turing-Complete: A catalogue of constructs which are unexpectedly Turing-complete; with implications for security http://www.gwern.net/turing-complete 26 comments programming
- Training a neural net to generate CSS http://www.gwern.net/ab%20testing#training-a-neural-net-to-generate-css 8 comments compsci
- TLDR: Overall, the credibility of the economics research literature is likely to be modest or even low. http://www.gwern.net/docs/dnb/2013-ioannidis.pdf 21 comments science
- The Existential Risk of Mathematical Error http://www.gwern.net/the%20existential%20risk%20of%20mathematical%20error 7 comments programming
- Summer of Code 2012 retrospective http://www.gwern.net/haskell%20summer%20of%20code#results-2 18 comments haskell
- Is it sane to use nicotine to form good habits? http://www.gwern.net/Nicotine#habit-formation 6 comments askscience