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Prior results: 2019 Personal genomics company 23andme has a new preprint out describing their current approach and results: Durand, E. Y., Do, C. B., Wilton, P. R., Mountain, J. L., Auton, A., Poznik, G. D., & Macpherson, J. M. (2021). A scalable pipeline for local ancestry inference using tens of thousands of reference haplotypes. BioRxiv,…
Continue ReadingSee also 2015 post: Scott O. Lilienfeld is a great researcher Obituaries: NYT: Scott Lilienfeld, Psychologist Who Questioned Psychology, Dies at 59 Emory university: Scott Lilienfeld remembered for advancing psychology while embodying kindness Chris Martin at Heterodox Academy (where Scott was active): In Memoriam: Scott Lilienfeld I am happy to say that we have set…
Continue ReadingIn the last year or so, there has been a notable growth in people using Substack. This platform is essentially a platform for subscription blogs, where one can opt-in to pay the author some monthly/yearly amount. Usually though authors have a free option as they are more interested in influence and readership growth than monetization….
Continue ReadingLast year’s post (2020) and scoring the predictions. These are goals and projections for my various productivity measures. These are all based on ignoring the tail risk of getting banned (which is now substantial across platforms). The method of doing projections is not difficult: gather some prior data, eyeball the data, project with simple models,…
Continue ReadingWe are always looking to expand our Arthur Jensen coverage (https://arthurjensen.net/). Recently, we got a tip that some video material exist somewhere that we don’t have. Specifically: While critical of most mass media coverage of the issue, Jensen has the highest praise for the presentations by some of the “quick studies” who have interviewed him—Joseph…
Continue ReadingI wanted to wait until all the US election stuff resolves, but seems like this will take a while for the last few questions, so let’s proceed for now. As mentioned in the Goals for 2020 post, I decided to get into forecasting because I found a funnier website than GJOpen: Metaculus: I also want…
Continue Reading2020 was a productive year in terms of book reading. I set a goal of 25 and I ended up at 54. I track my book reading at Goodreads, and here’s the 2020 page. Saving you the work, here’s the books with links and comments. Other stuff Read this just to get some background on…
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