This week's links (5)
Collection of papers and articles that I’ve spotted this week that seem interesting. Comments on some of them. This week I've been busy, so not many comments...
Artificial Intelligence
- Evolution strategies as a scalable alternative to reinforcement learning
- "ES is easy to implement and scale. Running on a computing cluster of 80 machines and 1,440 CPU cores, our implementation is able to train a 3D MuJoCo humanoid walker in only 10 minutes" ...
- Well, at least it's technically not another case of 'throw more GPUs at the problem'.
- Neural network architectures
- Deep photo style transfer
- Mask R-CNN
- Tutorial on adversarial autoencoders
- Distill: a journal for machine learning visualisations.
- Fantastic GANs and here to find them
- Intro to RNNs and other machines that learn algorithms
- YOU AGAIN, Jürgen Schmidhuber
Economics
- Economic History Papers
- Including the now world-famous Soviet Series which you all love and enjoy
- Ok, maybe you aren't that interested in Soviet fridges and wonky calculations of calories, but it is there indeed.
- Are larger banks valued more highly?
- No evidence than US banks had an implicit too big to fail subsidy
- Seems prima facie incredible to me.
- Comentarios finales sobre desigualdad, crecimiento y sectarismo económico
- Worth a read if you can read spanish
- Does inequality affect happiness, growth?
Psychology
https://twitter.com/ArtirKel/status/844949039623946240
- Ideological asymmetries and the essence of political psychology
- Moralized rationality: relying on logic and evidence in the formation and evaluation of belief can be seen as a moral issue.
- Atheists and agnostics are more reflective than religious believers: four empirical studies and a meta-analysis.
- Research on intellectual humility
- The neuroscience of moral cognition: from dual processes to dynamic systems
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