Miscellanious content

Here are some links. They are mostly for me to keep track of but I can’t stop you exploring them, too. This list is getting quite long so here are links to sections:

• blogs
• short reads
• open research problems
• programming
• tools
• other
• to read

Blogs

• Scott Aaronson’s blog
• Lance Fortnow and Bill Gasarch’s blog
• Richard Lipton’s blog
• Oded Goldreich’s (in particular, his essays)
• Paul Graham’s blog
• Timothy Gowers’ blog
• Terence Tao’s blog
• Erik Demaine
• Peter Seibel’s blog
• Quanta Magazine
• Boaz Barak’s blog
• Adam’s Apples
• Patrick Totzke’s blog
• Nick Drozd’s blog
• Cantor’s Paradise
• Tim Black’s blog
• Jay Riverlong’s blog
• Yin Tat Lee
• Peter Norvig
• Matt Ruby
• David Morgan-Mar’s blog, Irregular Webcomic, his esoterica
• Coalton
• Sebastian Sylvan
• Stormbirds
• Nicky Case
• Space Kate
• David Eppstein (11011110)
• Steve Losh
• Milk and Cigarettes
• Mike Bostock (especially Visualizing Algorithms
• Brian Bilston

Short Reads

• The Four Dirty C-Words of the Internet
• A Case for Bad Coffee
• A Sound of Thunder
• The Ph.D. Octopus
• Perl, the first postmodern computer language
• How to Look for Ideas in Computer Science Research
• What’s going on here, with this human?
• Consider the Lobster
• Who can name the bigger number?
• Principia Discordia
• Lessons from my PhD
• The Chaos by Gerard Nolst Trenité
• My Favorite Liar
• Assembly Nights
• I’m an addict
• Cocktail party ideas
• Why Are Mathematicians So Bad at Arithmetic?
• How to have your abstract rejected

Open problems

• The Open Problems Project
• In computer science
• Open Problem Garden

Programming

Puzzles:

• Advent of Code
• Project Euler
• Rosalind

Graphics:

• Alexander Overvoorde’s Vulkan Tutorial
• Joey de Vries’ Learn OpengGL
• Etay Meiri’s OGLdev

OS Dev:

• OSDev wiki
• Computer Science from the Bottom Up
• LISP with GC in 436 bytes
• NASM tutorial

Other:

• Vim Tips
• Lisp tips
• Algorithm visualisations

Tools

• Write without distractions at Enso
• Two nice diagram tools, quiver and tikzcd

Other

• Gideon and Bartholomew
• Shoshikantetsu
• Moon Lander
• Alaska Projects
• Apollo in real time
• Back to Space
• Angus Oblong
• Wordle, Quordle, and Passwordle
• City Generator and watabou’s itch.io page
• Non-transitive Dice
• How Dr. Seuss would have proved the Halting Problem
• Counterintuitive maths facts
• Grafica Obscura
• Something to do with Frank Zappa
• The Official Ninja webpage
• Food vs. Food
• Hacker News “Classics”
• Tim Davies on Quora
• Buy old military jets here
• MiG Flug
• Cryptopals
• QuantGuru
• C++ compiler
• identicon
• They Shoot Pictures, Don’t They?
• Forgotify
• Rainbow Planes
• PhD 2048
• Brass Eye names
• Silicon Zoo
• Mechanical watch visualisation
• Navarin of Lamb pritanièr
• CRAPL: an academic strength open source license
• Scott Aaronson’s intuitive explanation of Shor’s Algorithm
• Fold’NFly
• Some Advice Gathered from People Smarter than Me
• Wiby Surprise Me
• Marginalia
• Don’t Make Fun of Renowned Dan Brown

To read

• Poetry:
  • The Tyger
    • The Waste Land
    • The Road Not Taken
    • The Bridge Builder
• Ars Longa, Vita Brevis
• Kerouac Ginsberg letters
• A Brief Exposé of P-adics
• So You Want to Write an LP Solver
• Dines’ Theorem
• Assertiveness is a virtue that anyone can develop with practice
• Von Neumann and the Development of Game Theory
• The Talks
• Fenwick Trees
• Distributed Consensus
• Kwame Anthony Appiah Demolishes the Concept of “Cultural Appropriation”
• Intelligent Brute Forcing
• Why Parental Leave For Fathers Is So Important For Working Families
• Write Down What You’ve Done
• The Paradox of Choice in Computing-Research Conferences
• Seemingly impossible functional programs
• Clifford Algebras
• Quaternions
• June 30, 1876: Peter Kropotkin Escapes from Prison
• Abolish Yale
• Constructed Language
• Rationality
• Maths quotes
• The Fibonacci Network
• Why I’m Sceptical of Universal Basic Income
• Gentle Seduction