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Michael Nielsen (one of the creators of quantum.country, often cited as a feedback-giver on PG's essays) has a short blog post introducing and exploring Lisp here: https://michaeln…

Most important realisation for me personally: keep emailing. As an introverted dev trying to sell I often assume silence means they don't care and they hate me. I've learnt this is…

Erowid is absolutely one of my favourite places on the web

Great interview! Rebecca Goldstein never fails to kindle my interests in philosophy. Science really needs people like her, she pulls the rug out from under us but does it from a pl…

David OReilly wrote a nice essay covering the 'less is more' philosophy in 3d art ('Basic Animation Aesthetics' -pdf can be found here: http://www.davidoreilly.com/downloads ) He's…

This[0] was posted up on here a while ago - has some good book recommendations for teaching yourself maths (assuming you remember some basics from school[1]). I got a few of them a…

The Doomsday clock idea has a lot of respectable people behind it but I've always been unclear how it isn't just a bias-o-meter. Kahneman and others have done a lot of persuasive w…

Thanks for the resources! I'll check them out, I find this area really fascinating

Jonathan Blow recently streamed a talk called 'Video Games and the Future of Education'[0] that makes similar arguments. He discusses various tools we have to transmit knowledge fr…

Apologies I spoke too soon, you're absolutely right that the volume is an impressive achievement.

To me (neuro undergrad, comp sci masters), the demo seemed underwhelming but encouraging. As far as I can tell the tech was not doing anything particularly novel and the 'fitbit in…

How useful are interviews in general? I've been led to believe that an interview is a very poor indicator of future performance[0], and that an interview biases the hiring decision…

I love this book. They currently have his 1659-61 notebook on display at the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge (scan available at [0]) Its opened on a page titled ‘Otiose et frustra …

Overfishing aside I believe cephalopods (such as squid) are expected to thrive relative to other marine creatures - they seem to be well poised to adapt in response to rising ocean…

Very cool, I really look forward to seeing science move forward along these paths. All the same - have to post the obligatory (and recent) xkcd rebuttal- https://xkcd.com/2341/