Killing Hollywood and Youtube and
So you've seen stuff like this: There's an endless such number of photos, nearly literally. AI will generate these on the fly for any content you desire. So since a…
Book reviews: Apocalypse Never (Michael Shellenberger) and Unsettled (Steven E. Koonin)
So I've gone back to my old habit of binge reading on mostly unrelated topics to my main work in the genetics-social science cluster. Climate science is a long running…
g and its origins: in favor of network psychometrics of intelligence
Someone sent me this email: Hello Emil I was wondering if you knew about any similar papers to this one: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0160289608001591 Also, what are your thoughts on mutualism (which I…
Digital Phenotyping and Mobile Sensing by Harald Baumeister, Christian Montag (2019, book review)
Baumeister, H., & Montag, C. (Eds.). (2019). Digital Phenotyping and Mobile Sensing: New Developments in Psychoinformatics. Springer Nature. This book offers a snapshot of cutting-edge applications of mobile sensing for…
Politics from text — not so easy?
I came across this obscure study while doing some research on other matters. Yan, H., Lavoie, A., & Das, S. (2017). The Perils of Classifying Political Orientation From Text. Linked…
The end of anonymity in the crowd is near
Not an endorsement of this technology or the use of it, just stating that it will happen. Given sufficient measurement precision, all humans have unique genomes and fingerprints, but also…
Getting Logitech G502 to work on Linux Mint 18.1
So, Logitech software only works for Windows. Unfortunately, the sensitivity is extremely high by default, making the mouse much less useful. The extra buttons also have no function, which is…
The FOSS fragmentation problem
I could not find someone that briefly described this problem, so I'll just do a very quick job at doing so. I take it that this is a common observation…
Syncthing: some notes and recommendations
Syncthing is a open source synchronization application. It's a replacement for the closed source Bittorrent Sync (BTS). If you are currently using BTS, I recommend switching because 1) it's closed…
Installing R packages on Mint 17.1: cluster, KernSmooth, Matrix, nlme, mgcv
Installing R packages on Windows is easy: you run the install code and it always works. Not so on Linux! Here one sometimes has to install them thru apt-get (or…