March 2021 Gwern.net Newsletter
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- Gwern.net launched two new site features: mobile 'popins' and recursive Wikipedia popups.
- AI research highlights include multimodal neurons in CLIP (Goh et al. 2021), evolving RL algorithms, and SEER self-supervised pretraining on 1 billion images.
- Genetics: GWAS identifies 50 new eye color loci; wealth inheritance remains difficult across generations.
- Psychology studies: working memory training shows no transfer to intelligence; real-time dialogue with dreamers during REM sleep achieved.
- Critiques: COVID vaccine trial delays due to perceived ethical concerns despite public support; vaping moral panic over THC adulterants misattributed to nicotine.