Notebook (ver 1.0):

Notebook (ver 1.0):

Purpose: to save me open tabs and bookmark space

Draft 1.01

Some links are meant to be studied on a temporary basis, some are permanent. Links do not mean endorsement.

Some are very basic and intend to be refreshers, some are gated. I endorse none.

Topics

Math/Physics
Stat/Prob
Eco/Finance
CompSci/QC/AI
Engineering
Writing

AI (general, impact)

The Waluigi effect (Nardo)
Waluigi, Carl Jung, and the case for moral AI (Qureshi)
Reform AI alignment (Aaronson)
Five worlds of AI (Aaronson, Barak)
The problem of human specialness in the age of AI (Aaronson)
AI will change the world, but won’t take it over by playing '3-dimensional chess' (Barak, Edelman)
AGI and the EMH: markets are not expecting aligned or unaligned AI in the next 30 years (Halperin, Mazlich, Chow)
On AI and interest rates (Mowshowitz)
Portents of Gemini (Mowshowitz)
Read the roon (Mowshowitz)
The mind is more than a machine (Azarian)
Elephants don't play chess (Brooks)
On being wrong about AI (Aaronson)
The next word: can a machine learn to write for the New Yorker? (Seabrook)
Dario Amodei: scaling, alignment, & AI progress (Patel, podcast)
Large Language Models, explained with a minimum of math and jargon (Lee, Trott)
Notes on existential risk from artificial superintelligence (Nielsen)
Moore's law for intelligence (Qureshi)
Can computers learn common sense? (Hutson)
Beyond hyperanthropomorphism (Rao)
One giant step for a chess-playing machine (Strogatz)
Three ideas from linguistics that everyone in AI should know (Marcus, Murphy)
An introduction to deep reinforcement learning (François-Lavet, Islam, Pineau, Henderson, Bellemare, pdf)
The Chinese room thinks (Tabarrok)
Can Silicon Valley find God? (Kinstler)
Gemini and Google's culture (Thompson)
ChatGPT hacks (Lennon, thread)
Google: 'we have no moat, and neither does OpenAI' (Patel, Ahmad)
How the AI program AlphaZero mastered its games (James Somers)
The pastry AI that learned to fight cancer (James Somers)
Among the AI doomsayers (Marantz)
Fear of an AI pundit (Douthat)
The man who would teach machines to think (on Hofstadter, James Somers)
On Chomsky and the two cultures of statistical learning (Peter Norvig)
The lottery ticket hypothesis: a survey (Robert Lange)
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Manifold destiny (on the Poincaré conjecture, Nassar, Gruber)
Who can name the bigger number? (Aaronson)
How many numbers exist? (Wolchover)
How mathematics built the modern world (Malmberg, Malmberg)
How much of the world is it possible to model? (Rockmore)
The myth and magic of generating new ideas (Rockmore)
A most profound math problem (on P≠NP, Nazaryan)
Gödel's theorem (Shalizi)
Gödel's incompleteness theorem (Myers)
Gödel's incompleteness theorem (du Sautoy, video)
Gödel's incompleteness theorems (Physics in History, thread)
Kurt Gödel's brilliant madness (Veisdal)
A computability proof of Gödel’s first incompleteness theorem (Veisdal)
Ten lessons I wish I had learned before I started teaching differential equations (Rota, pdf)
Chudnovsky algorithm (Wikipedia)
The Chudnovsky brothers and the mountains of pi (Preston)
Moving sofa problem (Wikipedia)
Useful inequalities cheat sheet (Kozma)
On quaternions and octonions (on Conway and Smith, Baez)
An infinite series of surprises (Sangwin)
What is good mathematics? (Tao, pdf)
Karatsuba algorithm (Wikipedia)
Chebyshev interpolation (Cook)
Why exponential sums are interesting (Cook)
Tower of powers and convergence (Cook)
The strange properties of the infinite power tower (Moroni)
The power tower function (Lynch, pdf)
Down with determinants! (Axler, pdf)
Stochastic calculus made easy: part 1, part 2, part 3 (Majumdar)
The Radon-Nikodym theorem 'made easy' (Shapiro, pdf)
A history of the effort to determine the area of the Mandelbrot set (Munafo)
On number numbness (Hofstadter, pdf)
What if they are all wrong? (on mathematical conjectures, Pak)
The devil’s invention: asymptotic, superasymptotic and hyperasymptotic series (Boyd, pdf)
Cleo (Ruiz, thread)
On computable numbers, with an application to the Entscheidungsproblem (Turing, pdf)
On the Lambert W function (Corless, Gonnet, Hare, Jeffrey, Knuth, pdf)
Titans of mathematics clash over epic proof of ABC conjecture (Klarreich)
The most irrational number (Ellenberg)
Let’s derive the catenary equation (Schot)
A layman’s guide to recreational mathematics videos (Enright)
How a Kalman filter works (Bzarg)
Einstein's first proof (Strogatz)
A new proof of Stirling's formula (Neuschel, pdf)
The Napkin Project: page, pdf (Chen)
Euler-Maruyama method (Wikipedia)
Divergence of the sum of the reciprocals of the primes (Wikipedia)
Young's Inequality for products (Wikipedia)
Everything you always wanted to know about mathematics (Sullivan, pdf)
On the Collatz conjecture (MacIver)
Odd perfect numbers (Nadis)
Do odd perfect numbers exist? (Bailey)
On perfect numbers (Veritasium, video)
Fast Fourier transform (Veritasium, video)
The simplest math problem no one can solve (on Collatz, Veritasium, video)
The logistic map (Veritasium, video)
The brachistochrone (Strogatz, 3b1b, video)
Why π is in the normal distribution (3b1b, video)
Navier-Stokes (Numberphile, video)
Gaussian + Gaussian (3b1b, video)
Borwein integrals (3b1b, video)
A curious integral (on Borwein integrals, Baez)
48 regular polyedra (Misali, video)
The Riemann hypothesis (Kontorovich, video)
Dimensions (Leys, Ghys, Alvarez, video)
Chaos (Leys, Ghys, Alvarez, video)
Catalan numbers (Numberphile, video)
1 - 2 + 3 - 4 + ... (Wikipedia)
Why -1/12 is a gold nugget (Numberphile, video)
The return of -1/12 (Numberphile with Tony Feng, video)
Does -1/12 protect us from infinity? (Numberphile, video)
Making sense of 1+2+3+... = -1/12 and co. (Mathologer, video)
The Euler-Maclaurin formula, Bernoulli numbers, the zeta function, and real-variable analytic continuation (Tao)
Ramanujan's easiest hard infinity monster (Mathologer, video)
Epicycles, complex Fourier series and Homer Simpson's orbit (Mathologer, video)
700 years of secrets of the sum of sums (Mathologer, video)
Euler's pi prime product and Riemann's zeta function (Mathologer, video)
Ramanujan's infinite root and its crazy cousins (Mathologer, video)
Prime number theorem & natural logarithm (Khan Academy, video)
John Carmack's unusual fast inverse square root (Quake III) (Stack Overflow)
Fast inverse square root (Nemean, video)
The mathematician: part 1, part 2 (Von Neumann)
Some fundamental theorems in mathematics (Knill, pdf)
What happens when you add a new teller? (on queueing theory, Cook)
The two cultures of mathematics (Gowers, pdf)
Pure mathematics as applied physics (Tokieda, video)
Stochastic calculus, filtering, and stochastic control (van Handel, pdf)
Pythagorean theorem (Bogomolny)
Euler solution to Basel problem (tungsteno.io)
A short proof of the simple continued fraction expansion of e (Cohn, pdf)
Absolutely abnormal numbers (Greg Martin, pdf)
Adventures with the OEIS (Borwein, pdf)
Pi directory (Bailey)
Bailey-Borwein-Plouffe formula (Wiki)
Computing π with the Bailey-Borwein-Plouffe formula (Reusser)
The quest for pi (Bailey, Borwein, Borwein, Plouffe, pdf)
The calculation of e to many significant digits (Sale, pdf, a spigot algorithm)
y-cruncher - a multi-threaded pi-program (See)
The unreasonable effectivenss of mathematics in the natural sciences (Eugene Wigner, pdf)
(top)

Los Alamos from below (Feynman, video)
The lost cafe (Rota, pdf)
Entropy (part 1, part 2) (Feynman, videos)
Los Alamos revisited (Rhodes)
Time bandits (on Einstein and Gödel, Holt)
Unstrung (on string theory, Holt)
A world without time (on Yourgrau's book on Gödel and Einstein, Ross)
A no-nonsense introduction to general relativity (Carroll)
A brief history of quantum mechanics (Carroll, video)
The biggest ideas in the Universe (Carroll, video)
The secrets of Einstein's unknown equation (Carroll, video)
The particle at the end of the Universe (Carroll, video)
Black hole firewalls (Carroll, Ouellette, video)
David Wallace on the arrow of time (Carroll, podcast)
John Preskill: from the early Universe to the future of quantum computing (Krauss, podcast)
An intuitive explanation of quantum mechanics (Yudkowsky)
The quantum physics sequence (Yudkowsky)
Decoherence as projection (Yudkowsky)
The so-called Heisenberg uncertainty principle (Yudkowsky)
Many worlds, one best guess (Yudkowsky)
Quantum mechanics, the Chinese room experiment and the limits of understanding (Horgan)
Old man gets more befuddled (Horgan)
Quantum mechanics must be complex (Avella)
Why quantum mechanics (Aaronson)
Quantum theory by starlight (Kaiser)
The space doctor's big idea (Munroe)
The Chinese room argument (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
Light dawns (on the speed of light, Perkowitz)
Physics in 100 years (Wilczek, pdf)
Open questions in physics (Baez)
The new theory of heat (Harper's, pdf)
Duality in mathematics and physics (Atiyah, pdf)
An intuitive guide to Maxwell's equations (Miljkovic)
The truth about Isaac Newton’s productive plague (Levenson)
Memories of a theoretical physicist (Polchinski, pdf)
The new thermodynamic understanding of clocks (Wolchover)
The more general uncertainty principle, regarding Fourier transforms (3b1b, video)
How weird inside black holes (Hanson)
Quantum theory’s ‘measurement problem’ may be a poison pill for objective reality (Ananthaswamy)
The real story of Oppenheimer (Veritasium, video)
A different kind of theory of everything (Wolchover)
Inside the proton, the ‘most complicated thing you could possibly imagine’ (Wood)
Heisenberg's microscope (Hossenfelder)
On the development of the Navier-Stokes equation by Navier (Bistafa, pdf)
200 years of the Navier-Stokes equation (Bistafa, pdf)
Maxwell's relations: part 1, part 2, part 3 (Baez)
Classical mechanics versus thermodynamics: part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4 (Baez)
The quietest place in the Universe (Meyers)
The universe and Dr Einstein: part 1, part2, part3 (Barnett)
Bell's theorem (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
On the string debates (Polchinski)
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Death Note: L, anonymity & eluding entropy (Gwern)
What is code? (Ford)
Shor, I'll do it (Aaronson)
Grover's algorithm (Aaronson, pdf)
How Shor's algorithm factors 314191 (minutephysics, video)
Quantum computing for high school students (Aaronson)
The ghost in the quantum Turing machine (Aaronson, pdf)
NP-complete problems and physical reality (Aaronson, pdf)
Adiabatic quantum computing (Aaronson, pdf)
How do you explain quantum computing to your dog? (Qiskit)
Quantum computing as a high school module (Perry, Sun, Hughes, Isaacson, Turner)
The lost ways of programming: Commodore 64 BASIC (Petricek)
How Aristotle created the computer (Dixon)
The world-changing race to develop the quantum computer (Witt)
John Preskill on quantum computers and what they’re good for (Carroll, podcast)
How to write a spelling corrector (Peter Norvig)
Parse, don't validate (Alex King)
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Science/Mind/Psy/Nature

Open questions (Gwern)
The big picture: from the Big Bang to the meaning of life (Carroll, video)
New study outlines 'water world' theory of life's origins (Russell)
First life (Russell)
New theories on the origin of life (Eric Smith, video)
Free energy and the meaning of life (Carroll)
What termites can teach us (Srinivasan)
The sucker, the sucker! What's it like to be an octopus? (Srinivasan)
On being an octopus (Godfrey-Smith)
Do elephants have souls? (Keiper)
What animals think of death (Susana Monsó)
Global spread of autoimmune disease blamed on Western diet (McKie)
Can progressives be convinced that genetics matters? (on Harden, Lewis-Kraus)
Halfway between Kyoto and 2050: zero carbon is a highly unlikely outcome (Smil, pdf)
This eminent scientist says climate activists need to get real (interview with Smil, Marchese)
The day the dinosaurs died (Preston)
On the many mysteries of the European eel (Svensson)
This mutant crayfish clones itself, and it’s taking over Europe (Zimmer)
What are dreams for? (Gefter)
REM sleep is magical (Todd)
The really big one (on earthquakes, Schulz)
The histories hidden in the Periodic Table (Jahromi)
The squid hunter (Grann)
When your child is a psychopath (Hagerty)
The two friends who changed how we think about how we think (on Kahneman and Tversky, Sunstein, Thaler)
I gave myself three months to change my personality (Khazan)
What personality tests really deliver (Menand)
Scientists find an 'alphabet' in whale songs (Zimmer)
Why we’re turning psychiatric labels into identities (Manvir Singh)
Persuading the body to regenerate its limbs (Matthew Hutson)
A revolution in biology (on Michael Levin's work, Kasra)
(top)

Tech/Engineering/Software

The techno-optimist manifesto (Andreessen)
My techno-optimism (Buterin)
Notes on Vitalik Buterin's techno-optimism (Nielsen)
A techno-pessimist manifesto (Yarvin, caveat emptor)
Why is the web so monotonous? Google (Maguire)
Excel never dies (McCormick)
The friendship that made google huge (James Somers)
The cathedral and the bazaar (Raymond)
How one programmer broke the internet by deleting a tiny piece of code (Collins)
The thorny problem of keeping the internet’s time (Hopper)
As we may think (Vannevar Bush)
The coming software apocalypse (James Somers)
Y2K @ 20 (NYT)
The Yoda of Silicon Valley (on Knuth, Siobhan Roberts)
How the quest to type Chinese on a qwerty keyboard created autocomplete (Tom Mullaney)
The numbers hiding behind that QR code (Eugenia Cheng)
The triumph of electromagnetism over electrodynamics (Noah Smith)
(top)

Engineering/Things

Everything I know about SSDs (kcall)
The story of titanium (Potter)
Building fast and slow: part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4 (Potter)
How Washington, DC got its metro (Potter)
The future of fusion energy (book review, Astral Codex Ten, guest)
The IBM mainframe: how it runs and why it survives (Hudson)
The mystery of the Bloomfield Bridge (Vigen)
Vaclav Smil and the value of doubt (Owen)
How does wi-fi work? (Krishnamachari)
How China built BYD, its Tesla killer (Bradsher)
Hands across America (on Purell, Owen)
Why paper jams persist (Rothman)
Power dishwashers (Tabarrok)
Why America can't build (Balkus)
Energy, and how to get it (Paumgarten)
Dymaxion man (on Buckminster Fuller, Elizabeth Kolbert)
A theory of Elon Musk’s maniacal drive (Brooks)
The world’s largest computer chip (Hutson)
What a major solar storm could do to our planet (Schultz)
The chip titan whose life’s work is at the center of a tech cold war (on TSMC, NYT)
I saw the face of God in a semiconductor factory (on TMSC, Wired)
TSMC’s debacle in the American desert (Zhou)
How Jensen Huang’s Nvidia is powering the AI revolution (Witt)
A Taiwanese chip giant is caught between the US and China-and it’s thriving (Cheung)
Of flying cars and the declining rate of profit (Graeber)
The Titan submersible was 'an accident waiting to happen' (Taub)
Why it took the washing machine so long to catch on (Fox)
Helium dreams (Laskas)
Auto correct (on self-driving cars, Bilger)
The Martian chroniclers (Bilger)
A star in a bottle (on ITER, Khatchadourian)
Tesla’s Cybertruck is a vehicle for the adult baby class war (Pearson, Vice)
What happens with all the stuff we return? (Owen)
Inside the massive repair shops where subway cars go for a makeover (NYT)
How complex systems fail (Cook, pdf)
Are flying cars finally here (Gideon Lewis-Kraus)
Reality has a surprising amount of detail (John Salvatier)
(top)

FAQ’s in option pricing theory (Carr)
Bachelier/Black-Scholes equation (Veritasium, video)
Is the VIX more similar to a volatility swap or a variance swap? (Quant StackExchange)
More than you ever wanted to know about volatility swaps (Derman)
Just what you need to know about variance swaps (Bossu, Strasser, Guichard, pdf)
The formula that felled Wall Street (Jones)
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The birth of a (pseudo) currency (Bensusan)
Are wages useful in forecasting price inflation? (SF Fed)
No one knows how much the government can borrow (Noah Smith)
Why has the inflation calculation changed over time? (Thompson, Smialek)
Five fallacies about inflation (Kaletsky)
Dynamic stochastic general equilibrium models in macroeconomics (DSGEs) (Shalizi)
Your favorite DSGE sucks (Shalizi)
how chicken became the rich world’s most popular meat (Economist)
China's BoP (Setser, thread)
Money is memory (Kocherlakota)
The quants in the room: how much power do economists really have? (Furman)
The golden age: the time is right to reclaim the utopian ideas of Keynes (Quiggin)
The invention of money (Lanchaster)
Will Milei make Argentina great again? (Caplan)
Economia brasileira: a história contada por quem a fez (Sottomaior, videos)
Inflation is conflict (Lorenzoni, Werning, pdf)
Fiscal inflation (Cochrane)
In Soviet Union, optimization problem solves you (Shalizi)
The age of Milton Friedman (Shleifer, pdf)
(top)

Why not 100% equities (Asness)
AI is still just statistics (Asness)
Edward O. Thorp, a man for all markets (Ferriss, podcast)
A brief history of dollar hatred (Nordvig)
A brief history of the Chinese currency (Nordvig, thread)
What the rise of multi-strategy funds means for markets (Odd Lots)
DE Shaw: inside Manhattan’s ‘Silicon Valley’ hedge fund (Wigglesworth)
Jane Street: the top Wall Street firm ‘no one’s heard of’ (Wigglesworth)
'This is the way' (on WallStreetBets, Platt, Smith, Darbyshire, Kantor, Wigglesworth)
Are hedge fund pioneers facing the end of a golden era? (Agnew, Aliaj)
On Matt Levine (Flitter)
The unintended consequences of very negative rates (Panigirtzoglou, Srivastava, Vakharia, Inkinen)
The importance of probability (Taleb, video)
Long-term strategy: first thoughts (Loeys)
Short As on long-term Qs (Loeys)
CTA positioning: FX (exante)
The secret cycle (on some form of technical analysis, Paumgarten)
Outsmarted (on the creation of the CDS, Lanchaster)
Shadow banking (Pozsar, Adrian, Ashcraft, Boesky)
(top)

Crypto/Crypto-adjacent

The crypto story (Levine)
Sam Bankman-Fried described yield farming and left Matt Levine stunned (Levine)
Cryptoeconomics (Cowen, Tabarrok, pdf)
Line goes up (on NFTs, Olson, video)
The limits to blockchain scalability (Buterin)
Two thought experiments to evaluate automated stablecoins (on terra/luna, Buterin)
A stablecoin de-pegs, badly (on terra/luna, Ho, Cunningham, pdf, JPM)
Ethereum is a dark forest (Konstantopoulos)
Intro to bitcoin (Cooke)
From doge soldiers to bitcoinists: a field guide to the crypto faithful (Beam)
The tether controversy, explained (Lopatto)
Sam Bankman-Fried has a savior complex (Sequoia, caveat emptor)
Weaknesses (bitcoin.it)
Terra flops (Levine)
What do I think about biometric proof of personhood? (Buterin)
The Maltese falcoin: on cryptocurrencies and blockchains (Cembalest, pdf)
The resurgence of crypto (Cowen)
The latecomer's guide to crypto (Roose)
Some potential use-cases for crypto (SBF, thread)
Crypto-101 and the state of the crypto markets (Worthington, Smith, pdf, JPM)
The promise of DAOs, the latest craze in crypto (Chayka)
Bitcoin, currencies, and fragility (Taleb, pdf)
(top)

Culture/Societal Issues

What Ted Kaczynski, Silvio Berlusconi, and Cormac McCarthy have in common (Douthat)
Can the meritocracy find God? (Douthat)
The Americanization of religion (Douthat)
The revolt of the elites (Christopher Lasch, pdf, 1994)
The age of average (Murrell)
Have preferences become more similar worldwide? (Kotschy, Sunde)
The Lindy way of living (on LindyMan/Skallas, NYT)
Refinement culture (Skallas)
Thick and thin cultures (Skallas)
The origins of office speak (Green)
Corporate buzzwords are how workers pretend to be adults (Khazan)
Why the past 10 years of American life have been uniquely stupid (Haidt)
Why American teens are so sad (Thompson)
Have smartphones destroyed a generation? (Twenge)
Social media is a major cause of the mental illness epidemic in teen girls. Here’s the evidence (Haidt)
Explaining all the weird UFO 'aliens' (Hanson)
What the heck is going on with these UFO stories (Klein, Kean, podcast)
Conquest's laws (Derbyshire)
How and why is Conquest’s second law true? (Cowen)
Why wokeism will rule the world (Cowen)
The conflict between red and blue America is a clash of national mythologies (Slotkin)
Thresholds of violence (Gladwell)
The bullshit-job boom (Heller, caveat emptor)
The Brazilianization of the world (Hochuli, caveat emptor)
Sacred and profane (on Koresh, etc, Gladwell)
Everything is broken (Newhouse)
Who are the boogaloo 'bois' and what do they want? (Pineda)
Shinzo Abe’s assassin and Japan’s complicated spirituality (Yoda)
Haiti held hostage (Anderson)
Are gangs about to take over Haiti (Anderson)
The prophet of the revolt (on Gurri, García Martínez)
The dialectics of dissent (Haraszti, pdf)
The American Soviet mentality (Tabarovsky)
What did Aum Shinrikyo have in mind? (Hacking)
2013 Boyarsky lecture (Haidt, video)
Garett Jones on cultures and migration (Sumner)
How Hebrew kept us as a people (Dubinsky, Epstein)
When the 'culture war' was about religion (Yglesias)
The professional/managerial class (Ehrenreich, Ehrenreich, pdf, page 7)
Nickel-and-dimed (Ehrenreich)
Emmanuel Macron does not understand France (Guilluy)
The new gatekeepers (Lind, caveat emptor)
Michael Lind on populism, racism, and restoring democracy (Isaac Chotiner)
Culture is coordination (Hanson)
Early civilizations had it all figured out (on Graeber and Wengrow, Lewis-Kraus)
The price of union (did the South win?, Lemann)
A fire started in Waco. thirty years later, it’s still burning (Immerwahr)
The darkness (on Illiberalism, Noah Smith)
The crisis of men and boys (Brooks)
It's time to stop talking about 'generations' (Menand)
The case against civilization (on Against the Grain by Scott, Lanchester)
Stanford's war on social life (Ginevra Davis)
The third force: on stupidity and transcendence (Keizer)
Hey America, grow up! (on the trauma plot, Brooks)
Tell me why it hurts (on the trauma plot, Carr)
The case against the trauma plot (Sehgal)
The war at Stanford (Baker)
The prophecies of Q (LaFrance)
America's lost boys and me (Henderson)
Why is modern youth cynical? (Russell, 1930)
How a conservative activist invented the conflict over critical race theory (on Rufo, Wallace-Wells)
The mirage of European sovereignty (on Kalergi, Vila)
Kafka’s ‘The Trial’ is the anti-manual the resistance should read (Bershidsky)
Five scenarios of state collapse in Ethiopia (de Waal)
What happened to San Francisco, really? (Heller)
The meltdown at a middle school in a liberal town (Winter)
Toward a theory of revolution (Davies, pdf)
Why is Greta wearing a keffiyeh? (Harrington)
In Cuba, the terminal stage of communism is a mafia (Martin Gurri)
Ibram X. Kendi faces a reckoning of his own (Rachel Poser)
No one knows what universities are for (Derek Thompson)
The great white culture war (David French)
It’s time to rethink the idea of the 'indigenous' (Manvir Singh)
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Travel/Societies/Places

Tōdai-ji and its history (Nara)
Impressions from a longer stay in Tokyo (2023) (Casnocha)
Gypsy law (Friedman)
Notable people (Topi Tjukanov)
Make way for tomorrow (on Colón, Panama, by Rose Marie Cromwell, Sol Lauría)
Notes on El Salvador (Lakeman)
Notes on the Yucatan (Lakeman)
Notes on Panama (Lakeman)
Notes on the Balkans (Lakeman)
Notes on Ukraine (Lakeman)
Notes on Saudi Arabia (Lakeman)
Notes on Mauritania (Lakeman)
Notes on The Gambia (Lakeman)
Notes on Guinea (Lakeman)
Notes on Benin (Lakeman)
Notes on Nigeria (Lakeman)
Notes on Ghana (Lakeman)
Notes on the Ivory Coast (Lakeman)
Other Notes on West Africa (Lakeman)
China travel tips (Sumner)
Notes on Azerbaijan, part I (Avrasya)
Notes on South India (Enright)
What next for Equatorial Guinea after oil? (Opalo)
Brasília: life amidst modernism (Gasca)
Inside North Korea: part 1, part 2, part 3 (Vice, video)
'I am here only for working' (on the UAE, Vollmann)
Invisible and insidious: living at the edge of Fukushima’s nuclear disaster (Vollmann)
'Just keep going north': at the border (Vollmann)
A head for the Emir: travels in Iraqi Kurdistan (Vollmann)
Homeless in Sacramento: welcome to the new tent cities (Vollmann)
Las baladas prohibidas (Vollmann)
Welcome to Nakhchivan, the San Francisco of the Caucasus Mountains (Hay)
Why Egypt can’t afford its $58 billion new capital (wsj, video)
This is the hometown of San Francisco's drug dealers (Cassidy, Lurie)
Crossing the Caspian: letter from Turkmenbashi (Maçães)
Virtual Tibet (Schell)
The long history of Japan's tidying up (Yoda)
Liechtenstein launches battle to reclaim confiscated WWII territory (Jones, Shotter)
How one of the deadliest Hajj accidents unfolded (Almukhtar, Watkins)
Personal names around the world (Ishida)
Aloha, Aloha (Hacking)
The fear... of the internet (Marx)
Bukele's kingdom of dreams (Shullenberger, caveat emptor)
The rise of Nayib Bukele, El Salvador’s authoritarian president (Blitzer)
Nayib Bukele's authoritarian appeal (Mackey)
Venezuela, a falling state (Finnegan)
Armenia: between two empires (Brown)
In John they trust (on John Frum, Raffaele)
Piauí e Ceará estão perto de encerrar disputa territorial de 265 anos (Pilar)
Modern tourism is getting weird (Skallas)
Lagos: the city that won't stop growing (Leithead)
'My gang is Jesus' (Cuadros)
In the land of the Dear Leader (Schell)
A mind dismembered (Bures)
Who does Saudi Better: Google or Reddit? (Dee)
Why everything changed in Haiti: the gangs united (Abi-Habib, Kitroeff, Robles)
A century of silence (on Armenia's genocide, Khatchadourian)
Mormon lost boys & the fat farms of Mauritania (Vice, video)
Gangland (Anderson)
Doing business in Japan (Patrick McKenzie)
Tales of the Trash (on Cairo, Hessler)
Learning to speak lingerie (Chinese lingerie sellers in Egypt, Hessler)
The America that Americans forget (on Guam, Topol)
Lake Chad: the world’s most complex humanitarian disaster (Taub)
Emmanuel Todd’s L’invention de l’Europe: a critical summary (Willy)
Is Guyana’s oil a blessing or a curse? (Bahadur)
A long walk in a fading corner of Japan (Kii peninsula, Mod)
Deep play: notes on the Balinese cockfight (Geertz, pdf)
Notes on the adhan (Michael Nielsen)
What is it like to work in an Ethiopian factory? (Oliver Kim)
(top)

Religion/Belief

Buddhism (Borges)
Early schools & sects of Japanese Buddhism: Asuka & Nara periods (Schumacher)
Hossō (Tibetan Buddhist Encyclopedia)
The cross and the machine (Kingsnorth)
What did Jesus do? (Gopnik)
On Christianity (foreword to Holland's Dominion, Taleb)
Does knowing God just take practice? (Wood)
Like I was Jesus (Aviv)
Be open to spiritual experience. also, be really careful. (Douthat)
Where does religion come from? (Douthat)
A guide to finding faith (Douthat)
How the authors of the Bible spun triumph from defeat (Gopnik)
And it was so (creation in Genesis, Robinson)
(top)

Boris Berezovsky 1946-2013 (Gessen)
Agnes Callard’s marriage of the minds (Aviv)
Out of the ego chamber (on Clarke, Bernstein)
Two heads (on the Churchlands, MacFarquhar)
The day Ram Dass died (Fiorello)
Dream machine (on David Deutsch, Galchen)
The believer (on Douthat, Chotiner)
The revolutionary monarchy of Elizabeth II (Wooldridge)
What money can buy (on the Ford Foundation, MacFarquhar)
¿Qué llevó al expresidente de Perú a quitarse la vida? (on Alan García, Alarcón)
The end of the magic world's 50-year grudge (on Uri Geller, Segal)
The mysterious disappearance of a revolutionary mathematician (on Grothendieck, Galchen)
O fiador (on Guedes, Gaspar)
Ted Kaczynski, ‘Unabomber’ who attacked modern life, dies at 81 (Traub)
The flash of genius (on Kearns, Seabrook)
Reuben Klamer, creator of the Game of Life, dies at 99 (Seelye)
Interview with weight loss drugs inventor Lotte Bjerre Knudsen (Müller, Preker)
Marco Maciel (obituário) (Azedo)
Staying power (on 3 books on Mao, Mishra)
The machine breaker (on McRae, ecoterrorist, Ketcham)
The reclusive hedge-fund tycoon behind the Trump presidency (on Mercer, Mayer)
AI (on Minsky, Bernstein)
Master of play (on Miyamoto, Paumgarten)
A sidelined Wall Street legend bets on Bitcoin (on Novogratz, Shteyngart)
The tinkerings of Robert Noyce (Wolfe)
The philosopher of feelings (on Nussbaum, Aviv)
Brain games (on Ramachandran, behavioral neurologist, Colapinto)
The future belongs to those who prepare like Dwarkesh Patel (Segan)
The man who thought too fast (on Ramsey, Gottlieb)
The final comeback of Axl Rose (Sullivan)
Metaperson (on Sahlins, Della Subin)
Jim Simons, the numbers king (Max)
An incendiary defense (on OJ defense's strategy, Toobin)
The sublime Danielle Steel: for the love of supermarket schlock (Sinykin)
The voyeur's motel (on Talese and Foos, Talese)
No death, no taxes (on Thiel, Packer, 2011)
What is it about Peter Thiel? (Wiener)
Trivers' pursuit (Hutson)
Trump solo (Singer)
The red-pill prince (on Yarvin, Siegel)
The boring journey of Matt Yglesias (Zak)
The pursuit of beauty (on Yitang Zhang, Wilkinson)
(top)

Essays/Observations/Overarching

In praise of idleness (Russell)
This is water (DFW)
I can tolerate anything except the outgroup (Alexander)
The control group is out of control (Alexander)
Tyler Cowen: economics, philosophy, religion, literature, and more (Schultz, video)
Tyler Cowen: Hayek, Keynes, & Smith on AI, animal spirits, anarchy, & growth (Patel, podcast)
On Dwarkesh’s 3rd podcast with Tyler Cowen (Mowshowitz)
Annual letter (2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023) (Wang)
Derangements (Rao)
The premium mediocre life of Maya Millennial (Rao)
The Gervais principle, or the office according to 'The Office' (Rao)
The age of diffraction (Rao)
Rediscovering literacy (Rao)
On going feral (Rao)
Wittgenstein's revenge (Elias)
An interview with Scott Alexander (NeoNarrative)
A song of shapes and words (roon)
Who is Scott Alexander and what is he about? (Crawford)
What Larry Summers told me (on insiders/outsiders, Warren)
The end of my childhood (Buterin)
Eliezer Yudkowsky on the Bankless podcast (Adams, podcast)
Kolmogorov complicity and the parable of lightning (Alexander)
Is everything a religion? (Alexander)
The categories were made for man, not man for the categories (Alexander)
Meditations on Moloch (Alexander)
Earth: a status report (Hanson)
Politics isn't about policy (Hanson)
The four quadrants of comformism (Graham)
Keep your identity small (Graham)
The best essay (Graham)
Interview with Anna Khachiyan (Soldo, caveat emptor)
When did we all become women? (Robinson, 2006)
When the son of man comes, will he find faith on Earth? (on Thiel's book, Kristin, Amazon reviews)
Keynote address (Thiel, video, Feb 2024)
John Gray and Peter Thiel: life in a postmodern world (Gray)
Are disagreements honest? (Cowen, Hanson, pdf)
Tyler Cowen on AI and China (Schneider)
The most intolerant wins: the dictatorship of the small minority (Taleb)
Peter Thiel and thinking for yourself (Wang)
My ordinary life: improvements since the 1990s (Gwern)
On having enough socks (Gwern)
Man as a rationalist animal (Keep)
What do we mean by meaning (Sumner)
Wallowing in nostalgia (Sumner)
The cathedral or the bizarre (Yarvin, caveat emptor)
On self-respect (Didion)
Complexity (Kunzru)
The zeroth commandment (Aaronson)
Listening to the left hand (Herbert, 1973)
The fourth state of matter (Beard)
(top)

Pol/War/Geopolitics

The clash of civilizations? (Huntington)
Francis Fukuyama postpones the End of History (Menand)
More proof that this really is the End of History (Fukuyama)
The prophet of 21st century national identity (on Scruton, Wooldridge)
The triumph and terror of Wang Huning (Lyons)
The world is better seen from Dubai than from Davos (Ganesh)
Is Ethiopia’s disintegration an inevitable and necessary evil? (Belina, caveat emptor)
Recognizing Somaliland (Opalo)
China's Red Sea calculus (Miller, Holland, GK)
The revenge of the Ottoman Empire (Gave, GK)
The global game of Crypto (Maçães, Bankless podcast)
A marginal revolt of the public (on Cowen/New Right, Chau)
Losing Taiwan means Losing Japan (Greer, caveat emptor)
Wang Huning and the eternal return to 1975 (Greer)
The world has caught up to Franz Fanon (Shatz)
How Aleksandr Dugin influences the West (Roussinos, caveat emptor)
The most powerful Arab ruler isn’t MBS. It’s MBZ (Kirkpatrick)
The violent end of Nagorno-Karabakh’s fight for independence (Gessen)
The rise and fall of civilizations: a reader course (Greer)
The discreet US campaign to defend Brazil’s election (Stott, Pooler, Harris)
China's Soviet shadow (Dreyer)
The crypto state? (Maçães)
The attack of the civilization state (Maçães)
Equilibrium Americanum (Maçães)
The making of Vladimir Putin (Cohen, 2022)
Fukuyama v. Fukuyama (Pinkoski)
Spiritual death of the West (Pinkoski)
What China threat? (Mahbubani)
Tiran Island (Wikipedia)
Saudi Arabia’s crown prince understands the modern world. His Western suitors do not (Gray)
A Saudi Prince’s quest to remake the Middle East (Filkins)
The best of frenemies: Saudi Crown prince clashes with UAE president (Said, Nissenbaum, Kalin, Al-Batati)
What the Pentagon has learned from two years of war in Ukraine (Horton)
O atentado de 11 de Setembro acabou minando o ânimo dos EUA para guerras, diz Bremmer (Valor Econômico)
Identity politics goes global (Mead)
How the West’s favorite autocrat engineered Africa's most dramatic turnaround (on Kagame, Munshi, Marks)
Russian exceptionalism (Morson)
Leaked Russian military files reveal criteria for nuclear strike (Seddon, Cook)
Japan's Zeitenwende (Fukuyama)
Identity politics (Tipping Point talks) (Fukuyama)
A history of the Iraq War told entirely in lies (Smith)
The Pentagon’s Silicon Valley problem (Cockburn)
What the global war on terror really accomplished (Hassan)
The soft-kill solution (Arike)
The decolonization narrative is dangerous and false (Sebag Montefiore)
The Turkish drone that changed the nature of warfare (Witt)
A new Silk Road (Monteleone, photos)
Egypt seals biggest deal ever with UAE investing $35 billion (Wagdy, Wahba)
Breaking down the UAE’s big $35 billion investment in Egypt (Odd Lots)
Turkey's thirty-year coup (Filkins)
Conversation with Fareed Zakaria (Cowen, podcast & transcript)
The politics of rage: why do they hate us? (Zakaria)
The mystery of the Havana syndrome (Entous, Anderson)
Russia's Kaliningrad is a microcosm of Europe's woes (Kluth)
The Guyana-Venezuela territory dispute (Griffith, podcast)
The Primakov (not Gerasimov) doctrine in action (Rumer)
Masters of War: In search of the new world order in Munich (Thomas Meaney)
(top)

What Democracy? The case for abolishing the United States Senate (Rosenfeld)
The patriot (on Mark Milley, Goldberg)
How Michel Foucault lost the Left and won the Right (Douthat)
Politics is cruelty (Caplan)
How America fractured into four parts? (Packer)
Politics without politicians (on Landemore, Heller)
Assabiya wins every time (Smith)
Our broken Constitution (Toobin)
Is America just beginning? A conversation with Bruno Maçães (Douthat, video)
The roleplaying coup (Maçães)
The French elites against the working class (Hussey)
The vibes theory of politics (Ganesh)
Theorycels in Trumpworld (Shullenberger)
Bronze Age Pervert will not save the American Right (Gray)
The treason of the intellectuals (Ferguson, video)
A coalition of the sensible: what’s wrong with the 'New Right' (Corey)
The collapse of the Left (Gave)
An alternative explanation for the French split (Gave)
The triple double world (LV Gave)
The problem with everything-bagel liberalism (Klein)
Joe Biden's last campaign (Osnos)
How the shitlibs won (Abu Odeh, caveat emptor)
Richard Rorty’s prescient warnings for the American Left (Illing)
Can Democracy exist without Liberalism? (Hamid)
America's future is Texas (Wright)
When Constitutions took over the world (Lepore)
The anti-reactionary FAQ (Alexander)
Curtis Yarvin wants American Democracy toppled (Prokop)
The divided president (Biden's White House, Nwanevu)
Lulismo ou 'qualunquismo'? (Melo)
Um alienígena no Congresso (Felitti)
O duplo custo do judiciário (Latif)
Democracy and growth in Brazil (Lisboa, Latif, pdf)
Democracy and growth (summary, Lisboa, Latif, pdf)
Transformation or substitution? The Workers’ Party and the Right in Northeast Brazil (Alves)
O espalha-brasas (on Flavio Dino, Angélica Santa Cruz)
O 'Mega-Centro-Oeste' (Alencastro)
The judge behind the drive to bury Latin America’s biggest corruption probe (Bryan Harris, Michael Pooler)
(top)

Inside America’s most interesting magazine, and media’s oddest workplace (on Harper's, Smith)
Slate Star Codex and Silicon Valley’s war against the media (Lewis-Kraus)
Still alive (Alexander)
When the New York Times lost its way (Bennet)
E unibus pluram (television and US fiction) (DFW, pdf)
Cancel the New York Times (Rhinehard, original link missing)
When Americans lost faith in the news (Menand)
Why facts don’t change our minds (Elizabeth Kolbert)
Don't believe what they're telling you about misinformation (Manvir Singh)
'I can’t sugarcoat it anymore': Will Lewis bluntly defends Washington Post shake-up (Charlotte Klein)
(top)

Crabs on the island (Dneprov, pdf)
The Maxwell equations (Dneprov, pdf)
The purple mummy (Dneprov, pdf)
The nine billion names of God (Clarke)
The egg (Weir)
Houyhnhnm (Alexis)
17776 football (Bois)
On 17776 football (Crouch)
A lost interview with Clarice Lispector (Moser)
A science-fiction classic still smolders (on A Canticle for Leibowitz, Michaud)
The ghost did what?! Translation exposing providentialist thinking (Palmer)
A Mitfreude of anime and manga’s relationship with anglophone science fiction (Palmer)
The cracked wisdom of Dril (Marshall)
A poem about large language models (sic, Bradbury)
Coetzee's radical masterpiece (Lorentzen)
The beautiful mind-bending of Stanislaw Lem (Grimstad)
Their inner beasts: ‘Lord of the Flies’ six decades later (Lowry)
Crime and Punishment: an economic approach (Becker, pdf)
How the idea of Hell has shaped the way we think (Cunningham)
Nausea (Houellebecq, Lévy)
Super position (Graeber)
The murder of Leo Tolstoy (Batuman)
The underground worlds of Haruki Murakami (Deborah Treisman)
Fernando Pessoa's disappearing act (Adam Kirsch)
(top)

Language/Grammar

Stigler's law: examples (Wikipedia)
Is it good to say 'um'? (Cowen)
What the eff is up with the 'A' in 'effing A'? (Kelly)
The double L (Norris)
Greek to me (Norris)
Dropped hyphens, split infinitives, and other thrilling developments from the 2019 American copy editors society conference (Norris)
Lorem ipsum: filler fail, killer tale (Butterfield)
Eggcorn (Wikipedia)
The case for semicolons (Oyler)
The rise of they (McWhorter, podcast)
'Quoth' the raven (McCulloch)
Typos, tricks and misprints (on English spelling, Okrent)
Dust heaps of History (Safire)
A history of punctuation for the internet age (Raphel)
'Dune' and the delicate art of making fictional languages (Manvir Singh)
The language of Nigerian money (Hogan)
Just what is general semantics? (Lee, videos)
Does your language shape how you think? (on Sapir-Whorf, Deutscher)
The secret lives of words (on Sapir-Whorf, McWhorter)
Word magic (on Sapir-Whorf, Gopnik)
Utopian for beginners (on the creation of 'natural languages', Foer)
A new history of Arabia, written in stone (on Safaitic, Muhanna)
How Esperanto is finding new life online (Dean)
Cushitic languages (Wikipedia)
Aztec and Mayan (NativLang, video)
Emoji in court cases (Lee)
Armenian (Langfocus, video)
Maltese (Langfocus, video)
Papiamento (Langfocus, video)
Amharic (Langfocus, video)
Swahili (Langfocus, video)
The interpreter (on Everett/Pirahãs, Colapinto)
No, Levantine is not a 'dialect of' Arabic (Taleb)
What did British Latin sound like? (Bate)
What ancient Egyptian sounded like (NativLang, video)
Why French sounds so unlike other Romance languages (NativLang, video)
Words on trial (on forensic linguistics, Hitt)
The geometry of other people (Borkenhagen)
The language of privilege (Clairmont)
The origins of speak: in the beginning was Chomsky (Wolfe)
Grammatical inference (Shalizi)
French for mathematicians: a linguistic approach (Bellaïche, pdf)
(top)

Testimony of Isao Kita (Atomic Archive)
Hiroshima (Hersey)
No one’s name was changed at Ellis Island (Tabarrok)
India’s Partition: a history in photos (Shankar)
Russian conquest of Siberia (Wikipedia)
What the Tokyo Trial reveals about empire, memory, and judgment (Buruma)
Khrushchev in water wings: on Mao, humiliation and the Sino-Soviet split (Dash)
Bona vacantia (Tabarrok)
The glories of Aksum (Brown)
Seventy-five years after Indian Partition, who owns the narrative? (Sehgal)
The Mongol hordes: they’re just like us (Manvir Singh)
The forgotten history of Hitler’s establishment enablers (Gopnik)
The people who decide what becomes history (Menand)
(top)

The repugnant conclusion (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
Noble lie (Wikipedia)
How to be good (on Parfit, McFarquhar)
Nietzsche's eternal return (Ross)
JP Stern on Nietzsche (Magee, video)
Killing, letting die, and the Trolley Problem (Thomson)
How we forgot Foucault (Shullenberger)
Newcomb's problem (LessWrong)
On Walter Benjamin (Atkins, thread)
Panpsychism is crazy, but it’s also most probably true (Goff)
Wittgenstein's forgotten lesson (Monk)
Adam Smith discovered (and solved!) the trolley problem (Munger)
Overwhelming and collective murder (Kriss)
(top)

What is Effective Altruism (effectivealtruism.org)
The reluctant prophet of Effective Altruism (Lewis-Kraus)
Why I'm not (exactly) an Effective Altruist (Hammond)
Stop the robot apocalypse (Srinivasan)
Fireside chat with Kelsey Piper, on Effective Altruism (Cowen)
On Effective Altruism (Cowen)
EA is not religious enough (EA should emulate peak Quakerism) (Newport)
Effective Altruism as a tower of assumptions (Alexander)
Beware systemic change (Alexander)
In continued defense of Effective Altruism (Alexander)
The strange shortage of moral optimizers (Chappell)
The Nietzschean challenge to Effective Altruism (Chappell)
What we owe the future (book review, Alexander)
The train to crazy town (Atis)
Getting on a different train: can Effective Altruism avoid collapsing into absurdity? (McLaughlin)
Sam Bankman-Fried, Effective Altruism, and the question of complicity (Lewis-Kraus)
(top)

Baby, the rain must fall (on Blade Runner, Kael)
Ran (Kael)
Composing movement (Kurosawa, video)
Misery is wasted on the miserable (Louie, video)
Jar Jar Binks was a trained Force user (reddit, caveat emptor)
The Room (Wiseau, video)
The political economy of Dune (Koyama)
From 'Dune' to decadence (and back) (Douthat)
National treasure: the ecstatic cult of Nicolas Cage (Piepenbring)
Swinging seventies (on Inherent Vice, Lane)
Is Louis CK our Gogol? (pre-issues, Steinberg)
‘Oppenheimer’ is a great film about the wrong man (Ganesh)
‘Oppenheimer’ and the shadow of Stalin (Douthat)
Expletives not deleted (on Iannucci, Parker)
The bathhouse of the Gods: 'Spirited Away' and Japan’s religious traditions (Akira)
The George awakens (Curtis)
I love Winnie Cooper (Spies)
The moth joke (Macdonald, video)
The NYT 100 best movies of the 21st Century (NYT), some data (Letterbox)
Peak cinema (Scott Sumner)
(top)

The Girl from Ipanema is a far weirder song than you thought (Neely, video)
Thirty-three-hit wonder (on Billy Joel, Paumgarten)
Seiji Ozawa, a captivating, transformative conductor, dies at 88 (Oestreich)
Yuja Wang and the art of performance (Malcolm)
What makes this song great? Ep. 104 (on Comfortably Numb, Beato, video)
The gerbil's revenge (Auto-Tune, Frere-Jones)
What killed rock music as mainstream presence? (Skallas)
O efeito cabeça (Walter Franco)
What the Suzuki method really taught (Gopnik)
What is noise? (Ross)
(top)

Grimes on gemini (Grimes, thread)
Classic movies in miniature style (Murat Palta)
It was a mystery in the desert for 50 years (on Heizer, Kimmelman)
A monument to outlast humanity (on Heizer, Dana Goodyear)
Georges Seurat (Great Art Explained, video)
(top)

The unexpectedly tropical history of brutalism (on São Paulo, Snyder)
Brazilian brutalism (Henry)
Beauty and the brutalists (Heathcote)
Paper palaces (on Ban, Goodyear)
Sino-African architecture (Wood)
Chinese architecture, old and new (Taylor)
Ryugyong hotel (Prisco)
Why every city feels the same now (Anderson)
The 25 most significant works of postwar architecture (NYT)
(top)

Spec/Applied Science or Semi-Applied/Semi-Science

Did the universe just happen? (on Ed Fredkin, Wright)
The Doomsday invention (Khatchadourian)
Are you living in a computer simulation? (Bostrom)
What are the odds we are living in a computer simulation? (Rothman)
How to live in a simulation (Hanson)
Are we living in a computer simulation? Let’s not find out (Greene)
A brief explanation of the Kardashev scale (Creighton)
That alien message (Yudkowsky)
Roko's basilisk (LessWrong)
Lethal dose of neutrino radiation (Munroe)
Advanced civilizations could be communicating with neutrino beams (Williams)
The great filter: are we almost past it? (Hanson)
Blueberry Earth (Sandberg, pdf)
The one electron theory (English)
Q&A with Avi Loeb (Chotiner)
Foom update (Hanson)
A tentative typology of AI-foom scenarios (Manheim)
Is LAMDA sentient? (Lemoine)
World's smartest person wrote this one mysterious book (on Sidis, Tibees, video)
The coming technological singularity: how to survive in the post-human era (Vinge)
Why the future doesn't need us (Bill Joy, pdf)
Flying saucers and other fairy tales (Douthat)
Does the US government want you to believe in UFOs? (Douthat)
Programming the post-human (Ullman)
The false promise of ChatGPT (Chomsky, Roberts, Watumull)
Why am I not terrified of AI? (Aaronson)
The false promise of Chomskyism (Aaronson)
Once we can see them, it's too late (Aaronson)
(top)

Dwarf Fortress (Reed)
SimCity's evil twin (on Drarf Fortress, Winslow-Yost)
The meaning of life (on the Game of Life, Lepore)
The unexpectedly high-stakes world of Neo Geo collecting (Parkin)
The unexpected philosophical depths of the clicker game Universal Paperclips (Jahromi)
Sid Meier and the meaning of 'Civilization' (Jahromi)
The uncanny resurrection of Dungeons & Dragons (Jahromi)
The twenty-five-year journey of Magic: The Gathering (Jahromi)
How early computer games influenced internet culture (LaFrance)
World without wnd (on No Man's Sky, Khatchadourian)
What a dinosaur’s mating scream sounds like (on No Man's Sky, Khatchadourian)
The chaos of the dice (on Falafel and backgammon, Khatchadourian)
The man who built Catan (Raphel)
Meet the Marquis de Sade of the puzzle world (on Hook, crosswords, Bilger)
(top)

Reading/Writing/Organizing

The craft of writing effectively (McEnerney, video)
The problem of the problem (McEnerney, pdf)
How to speak (Winston, video)
Write like you talk (Graham)
How to work hard (Graham)
How to do great work (Graham)
Some general advice on academic essay-writing (Silber, U of T)
Evergreen notes (Matuschak)
Pursuing agency and reinvention in my 30's (Mike)
Progressive summarization: a practical technique for designing discoverable notes (Forte)
Ultralearning (Young)
How to present (Rajaram, thread)
Augmenting long-term memory (Nielsen)
Writing economics (Neugeboren, Jacobson, pdf)
How I write (Taleb)
How to give an academic talk (Edwards, UMich)
Structured procrastination (John Perry)
Pmarca guide to personal productivity (Marc Andreessen)
(top)

The Zankou Chicken murders (Arax)
The desperado (O'Rourke)
The unravelling of an expert on serial killers (Collins)
Blood ties (Heller)
Cop diary (Conlon)
The Harvard student who killed her roommate (Thernstrom)
The killer who got into Harvard (Mayer)
A loaded gun (Radden Keefe)
Chronicle of a death foretold (Reel)
The mastermind (Paul LeRoux, Evan Ratliff)
(top)

What is behind extreme hoarding? (Shackle)
'Star Trek' fan leaves behind a collection like no one has done before (Deb)
Let it go (Acocella)
My childhood in a cult (Turner)
The Zambian 'Afronaut' who wanted to join the space race (Serpell)
The forgotten greatness of air hockey (Petrusich)
Man called Fran (Sullivan)
Lies, damned lies, and manometer readings (Smith)
Inside the ‘Tartarian Empire,’ the QAnon of architecture (Mortice)
Olympic basketball & The Grateful Dead (SportsHistory Weekly)
Me and John McAfee (Sullivan)
The commercial Zen of Muji (Killingsworth)
A master doll-maker in the Valley (Orlean)
Shigeichi Negishi, the inventor of karaoke, dies at 100 (Alt)
India, Pakistan and one man’s battle to recover his ancestral home (Kazmin)
How the world’s foremost maze-maker leads people astray (Twilley)
A street in Brooklyn was covered in raw chicken (Reinstein)
Donald Trump’s very Soviet fixation on applause (Gessen)
Notes from a baby-names obsessive (Collins)
Learning to love an induction stove (Goldfield)
Cicada 3301 (Wikipedia)
My family's slave (Tizon)
No.10 Family Office (Yamauchi)
Schiit happened: the story of the world's most improbable start-up (Stoddart)
The semiotics of a 1999 Toyota Corolla (Marshall)
The bells (Batuman)
Everything you might want to know about whaling (Lakeman, caveat emptor)
The timeshare comes for us all (Flanagan)
Famous names (on Lexicon, a firm that gives products names, Colapinto)
The millennial aesthetic comes for your vacuum cleaner (Chayka)
The laughing guru (Khatchadourian)
The unkillable appeal of multilevel marketing (Winter)
Doomsday prep for the super-rich (Osnos)
The man who invented fifteen hundred necktie knots (Hutson)
Time lords: a history of authoritarian time changes (Goukassian)
Why did this guy put a song about me on Spotify? (Brett Martin)
Crying myself to sleep on the biggest cruise ship ever (Shteyngart)
(top)

Resources

How to learn math and physics (Baez)
The Feynman lectures on physics: part 1 , part 2, part 3 (Feynman, Leighton, Sands)
Linear algebra (Strang)
A vision of linear algebra (Strang)
Lectures on theoretical physics (Tong)
iLectureOnline (Van Biezen)
Nonlinear dynamics and chaos (Strogatz, videos)
Commentary on fluid mechanics (Rodriguez-Gonzalez)
Logic matters (Smith)
Single variable calculus (Jerison)
Advanced topics in theoretical physics (Wilczek)
Miscellaneous mathematical constants and Project Gutenberg version (Plouffe)
(top)

Introduction to probability (Blitzstein, Hwang)
Statistical process control: a practitioner’s guide (Two Wrongs)
A very short course on time series analysis (Peng)
(top)

Big data and AI strategies (Kolanovic, Krishnamachari, pdf)
Dynamic programming (Sargent, Stachurski)
Quant finance for beginners (Majumdar)
(top)

Quantum country (Matuschak, Nielsen)
Quantum computing for the determined (Nielsen, videos)
Structure and interpretation of computer programs (Abelson, Sussman, videos)
Neural networks and deep learning (Nielsen)
Introduction to probability for computing (Harchol-Balter)
Introduction to theoretical computer science (Barak)
Quantum protocols and quantum algorithms (Qiskit)
Quantum learning (IBM)
Thinking spreadsheet (Grus)
(top)

Mechanical engineering analysis (Brunton)
Control bootcamp & others (Brunton, videos)
(top)

Guardianstyle (Marsh, pdf)
Manual de redação (estadão
(top)

Links

How much does our language shape our thinking? — Manvir Singh, New Yorker, Dec-2024
Don’t believe what they’re telling you about misinformation -- Manvir Singh, Apr-2024

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