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"This Parasite Drugs Its Hosts With the Psychedelic Chemical in Shrooms: It also makes their butts fall off" [on recent insect/psilocybin research]

theatlantic.com·405w·r/DrugNerds

For over 60 years, scientists have been breeding 3 populations of red foxes: one selected for tameness, one for aggression towards humans, and a neutral populat...

nature.com·405w·r/psychology

OpenAI DoTA update: PPO LSTM reaches amateur-level 5x5 DoTA via self-play (256 GPUs/128k CPU, 65000x realtime), highly parallelized framework called 'Rapid'; no...

blog.openai.com·412w·r/reinforcementlearning

[R] Google Clips: a lifelogging camera with automatic selection of interesting video snippets using on-device NN trained by 50m human pairwise comparisons & 100...

ai.googleblog.com·417w·r/MachineLearning

[N] "Facebook Open Sources ELF OpenGo": AlphaZero reimplementation - 14-0 vs 4 top-30 Korean pros, 200-0 vs LeelaZero; 3 weeks x 2k GPUs; pre-trained models & P...

research.fb.com·420w·r/MachineLearning

Early classes and sleep: "3.4 million real-world learning management system logins reveal the majority of students experience social jet lag correlated with dec...

nature.com·424w·r/psychology

A LessWrong Cryptocurrency Autopsy

lesserwrong.com·433w·r/slatestarcodex

[N] Andrej Karpathy leaves OpenAI for Tesla ('Director of AI and Autopilot Vision')

techcrunch.com·465w·r/MachineLearning

[R] "Parallel Multiscale Autoregressive Density Estimation", Reed et al 2017 (generating photorealistic 512px images with optimized PixelCNN)

arxiv.org·479w·r/MachineLearning

[R] "The Shattered Gradients Problem: If resnets are the answer, then what is the question?", Balduzzi et al 2017 (successfully training 198-layer non-resnet fe...

arxiv.org·479w·r/MachineLearning

How One 19-Year-Old Illinois Man Is Distorting National Polling Averages

nytimes.com·501w·r/statistics

"Peter Walter discovered a molecule that makes mice smarter. Can it heal a human brain?"

statnews.com·502w·r/Nootropics

"Learning without Forgetting", Li & Hoiem 2016

arxiv.org·509w·r/MachineLearning

CMU: FBI forced us to turn over de-anonymization results they used to attack users

wired.com·548w·r/onions

Tor Says Feds Paid Carnegie Mellon $1M to Help Unmask Users

wired.com·549w·r/onions

Lit review: cognitive effects of modafinil in healthy, non-sleep deprived individuals

lesswrong.com·644w·r/Nootropics

Modafinil price-chart updated for November 2013 (+Bitcoin_)

gwern.net·652w·r/Nootropics

"The World Is Hers: How Hatsune Miku Is Changing Everything" (ANN)

animenewsnetwork.com·774w·r/anime

Proposal: de-sysop Jimbo Wales

meta.wikimedia.org·836w·r/wikipedia

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