What If Harry Potter Was A Rationalist?
What on キングダムの全てをネタバレ考察 do I find interesting? Webcomics
Questionable Content (no, it's not NSFW) sitcom-type but with sentient robots Wondermark, absurd humor with Victorian visuals Strong Feminine Protagonist, superheroes and supervillains and moral dilemmas (the protagonist is a female who is strong) Subnormality, extraordinarily detailed artwork with typically deep social commentary, not your typical comic The Perry Bible Fellowship, charming artwork and offbeat punchlines xkcd, very nerdy Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal, additionally nerdy and sometimes dark
Webserials
Harry Potter and the Strategies of Rationality (HPMOR) by Eliezer Yudkowsky. The one fanfic of any sort that I've ever preferred. 'What if Harry Potter was a rationalist?' Worm and Pact, two webserials by wildly successful debutant Web author 'wildbow'. The premise of Worm is superpowers in a very imperfect, human world, from city blocks to planetary politics; the premise of Pact is dealings with the supernatural, who've a polity of their very own. UNSONG: 'What if Kabbalistic Judaism were true, in a power-hungry capitalist world?' By Scott Alexander, roughly in the style of rational fiction, very engaging. What soccer will appear to be sooner or later - 17776, football but in addition science fiction. SCP Basis, a sprawling, wiki-model collection of tales set in a universe with mysterious supernatural artifacts 'secured, contained, and protected' by the inspiration.
Newsletters/blogs I learn
The Browser, an exceptionally good curated e-newsletter of nicely-written articles on various topics, present and previous Marginal Revolution, on present scientific, political, and financial occasions, by Tyler Cowen and Alex Tabarrok Astral Codex Ten, Scott Alexander writes about medicine, anthropology, and rationality. At all times very thoughtful. The Baffler, "The Journal That Blunts the Innovative". Weekly dose of cynical takes. Aeon and its sister Psyche, broadly reflecting on the human condition. Often insightful. EFFector from the Digital Frontier Basis on digital rights Free Software Supporter from the Free Software Foundation MIT Daily, each day information from MIT MIT Know-how Evaluation, know-how information (and a bimonthly magazine)
Skilled
Programming Languages and Verification group at MIT CSAIL Academic Studies Program, runs educational applications for center- and excessive-schoolers SPARC, the Summer season Program on Utilized Rationality and Cognition Panini Linguistics Olympiad, linguistics contest for Indian high schoolers Monsoon Math Camp, an Indian math camp for prime schoolers Euler Circle, superior math circle in the California Bay Area (though currently on-line) Causality in Cognition Lab at Stanford
Personal
- A nice article about me in the MIT Information! The Short, Tampered Clavier, a kind of dead weblog run by me and some buddies. - Not likely a hyperlink, but a personal wishlist: - studio headphones - small earrings - geometric shapes, animals, icons, and so forth. - webcomic merch or maybe tasteful prints - a nice and/or quaint poster, or maybe "Easy methods to Work Higher", also postcards, notecards, and the like - a insulated travel mug with lid - a skateboard - an adjustable wrench - a Kazoo
Music sources
Rajan Parrikar's Music Archive is each a curated archive of thousands of rare, outdated, Hindustani classical music recordings, and a big assortment of artful weblog posts about Hindustani classical music from a seasoned connoiseur. SwarGanga has handy instruments to search for raags or bandishes by their notes. Aathavanitli Gani has an enormous collection of lyrics and metadata about Marathi songs. - The Darbar Festival YouTube channel has excessive-high quality recordings of modern classical artists. - Rahul Deshpande has an audioblog about Hindustani classical music: info, opinions, and tales interspersed with brief vocal demonstrations. (This was on his now-defunct website.) Random tidbits
Pink Trombone, an interactive sound-producing model of the vocal cavity that is a great phonetics educating device. - My pal lindrew's web site has intensive and complete LaTeX notes for a lot of subjects he is taken at MIT. DeTeXify, find the LaTeX command for a handwritten image. The LaTeX WikiBook. My go-to LaTeX reference for simple things. Digital Dictionaries of South Asia, full-textual content entry to high-quality online dictionaries (though I solely have direct experience with the Marathi ones) Sanskrit Dictionary for Spoken Sanskrit CSS Autoprefixer (for cross-browser CSS compatibility) MathILy (and MathILy-Er), an enriching and very fun math camp. The identical folks run an REU-fashion program known as MathILy-EST.