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Works](https://gogs.21347.net/rd-works) ## Per Diem - [ChatGPT](http://lucasstinchcombe.github.io/?url=chat.openai.com) - [Pomodoro](http://lucasstinchcombe.github.io/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpomofocus.io%2Fapp) - [Pluralistic](https://pluralistic.net/) - [Wikileaks](https://wikileaks.org/) - [Not Even Wrong](https://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/) ## Resources - [ZLIB](https://singlelogin.re/) - [Library Genesis](http://libgen.rs/) - [Kindle Digital Library](https://www.amazon.co.jp/hz/mycd/digital-console/contentlist/booksAll/dateDsc?pageNumber=1) #### Reading Stack - [Marx, Engels and the Abolition of the Family](https://www.csustan.edu/sites/default/files/History/Faculty/Weikart/Marx-Engels-and-the-Abolition-of-the-Family.pdf) *(added 5/3/2023)* - [Cryptography](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptography) *(added 5/3/2023)* - [Managing OpenPGP Keys](https://riseup.net/en/security/message-security/openpgp/gpg-keys) *(added 5/3/2023)* - [#P complexity class](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E2%99%AFP) *(added 5/10/2023)* - [State of Quantum Computing: Building a Quantum Economy](https://www.weforum.org/reports/state-of-quantum-computing-building-a-quantum-economy/) - World Economic Forum *(added 5/11/2023)* - [Venezuela: The Rise and Fall of a Petrostate](https://www.cfr.org/backgrounder/venezuela-crisis) *(added 5/11/2023)* - [Chaitin's Constant](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaitin%27s_constant) *(added 5/12/2023)* - [Ring fo Fire](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ring_of_Fire) *(added 5/12/2023)* - [Abacus](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abacus) *(added 5/12/2023)* - [Caffeine](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caffeine) *(added 5/14/2023)* - [Cement](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cement) *(added 5/14/2023)* - [Can one explain schemes to biologists](https://www.dam.brown.edu/people/mumford/blog/2014/Grothendieck.html) *(added 5/18/2023)* - [Infinite Monkey Theorem](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infinite_monkey_theorem#Origins_and_%22The_Total_Library%22) *(added 5/18/2023)* - [CSRF](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-site_request_forgery) - [Academic ranks in Canada](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academic_ranks_in_Canada) *(added 5/22/2023)* - [Random Number generation](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Random_number_generation) *(added 5/22/2023)* - [Cayley Graph for 2x2x2 Rubik's cube](https://www.reddit.com/r/math/comments/13i8d2f/cayley_graph_for_s%E2%82%84_but_with_222_rubiks_cubes/) - [Levin Algorithm](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P_versus_NP_problem#Polynomial-time_algorithms) - [Quora Answer for dental health](https://www.quora.com/Is-it-possible-for-an-elderly-person-to-keep-his-her-teeth-healthy-till-his-her-death) - [Teletype](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teleprinter) - [The Crackpot Index](https://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/crackpot.html) - [Advice for amateur mathematicians on writing and publishing papers ](https://cohn.mit.edu/advice) - [A divided Ukraine](https://www.cnn.com/interactive/2014/02/world/ukraine-divided/) - [HIKIKOMORI a deafening silence - documentary ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zzF83e_L100) - [Xylitol](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xylitol#cite_note-Riley-etal-2015-4) - [Universally unique identifier](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universally_unique_identifier) - [List of war apology statements issued by Japan](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_war_apology_statements_issued_by_Japan) - [Propanolol](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propranolol) - [Sodium Bicarbonate (Baking Soda)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodium_bicarbonate) - [Strategies for Reviving the Japanese Economy](https://japan.kantei.go.jp/senryaku/intro.html) - [Pfaffian](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pfaffian) - [Peppermint vs. Spearmint](https://www.masterclass.com/articles/spearmint-vs-peppermint-explained) - [Carathéodory's theorem (convex hull)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carath%C3%A9odory%27s_theorem_(convex_hull)) - [Clydesdale](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clydesdale_horse) - [Brassica Oleracea is cabbage, brussel sprouts, broccoli, cauliflower, kale](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brassica_oleracea) - [Wagner Group](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wagner_Group) - [Meng Wanzhou Extradition](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extradition_case_of_Meng_Wanzhou) - [Clifford Algebra: A visual introduction](https://slehar.wordpress.com/2014/03/18/clifford-algebra-a-visual-introduction/) - [Lie Groups and Lie Algebras](http://jde27.uk/lgla/index.html) - [Kirchoff's Theorem](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirchhoff%27s_theorem) - [The Choi-Jamiołkowski isomorphism: you’re doing it right](https://mateusaraujo.info/2020/06/10/the-choi-jamiolkowski-isomorphism-youre-doing-it-right/) - [Pi in the Sky](https://www.pims.math.ca/resources/publications/pi-sky) - [Langlands Program](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Langlands_program) - [2001: A Space Odyssey (film)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2001:_A_Space_Odyssey_(film)) - [On the Historical Unity of Russians and Ukrainians - Vladimir Putin](http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/news/66181) - [Wapping](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wapping) - [Vim Awesome](https://vimawesome.com/) - [Cognitive Load Theory just killed Active Recall](https://blog.alexanderfyoung.com/cognitive-load-theory-just-killed-active-recall/) - [Using VIM to Write LaTeX in 2021 ](https://newptcai.gitlab.io/blog/vim-and-latex/) - [Why Mathematical Proof Is a Social Compact](https://www.quantamagazine.org/why-mathematical-proof-is-a-social-compact-20230831/) - [On Proof and Progress in Mathematics](https://www.math.toronto.edu/mccann/199/thurston.pdf) - William P. Thurston - [Simultaneous localization and mapping](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simultaneous_localization_and_mapping) - [Essays and Thoughts on Mathematics](https://mathoverflow.net/questions/220052/essays-and-thoughts-on-mathematics) - [Ostracon](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ostracon) - [Sci Hub](https://sci-hub.se/) - [Eugene Wigner](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene_Wigner) - [Exponential Time Hypothesis](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exponential_time_hypothesis) - [Computational Complexity Blog](https://blog.computationalcomplexity.org/) ## [Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science](mathematics.md) - [OEIS: The Online Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences](https://oeis.org/) - [GIMPS: The Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search](https://www.mersenne.org/) - [List of trigonometric identities](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_trigonometric_identities) - [List of LaTeX mathematical symbols](https://oeis.org/wiki/List_of_LaTeX_mathematical_symbols) - [Largest Known Primes - a Summary](https://t5k.org/largest.html) - [Are all matrices diagonalizable?](https://www.imsc.res.in/~kapil/papers/matrix/index.html) - [Counting Perfect Matchings in Grids and Planar Graphs](http://www.algonotes.com/en/counting-matchings/) - [Einstein Tile 3D print](https://www.printables.com/model/436491-einstein-aperiodic-monotile) - [Computational Complexity Zoo](https://complexityzoo.net/Complexity_Zoo) - [List of NP-Complete Problems](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_NP-complete_problems) - [Nikoli](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikoli_(publisher)) - [The Basic Theory of Ordering Relations](https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/qt-quantlog/supplement.html) - [Metric Prefixes](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metric_prefix) - [Barnsely's Fern](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barnsley_fern) - [Meeting Grothendieck, 2012](https://www.ams.org/journals/notices/201603/rnoti-p266.pdf) - Katrina Honigs - [Problem Solvers and Theorizers](http://alessio.guglielmi.name/res/pst.html) - Gian-Carlo Rota - [Modular Multiplication on a Circle](https://demonstrations.wolfram.com/ModularMultiplicationOnACircle/) - [Writing a math research paper: start to finish!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yckPYJgjXeY&ab_channel=ChrisStaecker) - [How to Succeed in Mathematical Research](https://math.mit.edu/research/highschool/primes/succeed.html) ## Elucidating the Quantum World - [Why Haven’t More Quantum Algorithms Been Found?](https://cs.brynmawr.edu/Courses/cs380/fall2012/Shor2003.pdf) - Peter Shor (2003) - [Quantum Algorithm Zoo](https://quantumalgorithmzoo.org/) - [Delayed-choice quantum eraser](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delayed-choice_quantum_eraser) - [Elitzur-Vaidman bomb tester](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elitzur%E2%80%93Vaidman_bomb_tester) - [A Moment for Particle Physics: The End of a 40-Year Story?](https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2012/07/a-moment-for-particle-physics-the-end-of-a-40-year-story/) - Stephen Wolfram - [Quantum randomness: if there's no predeterminism in quantum mechanics, can it output numbers that truly have no pattern?](https://go.gale.com/ps/i.do?p=AONE&u=mlin_oweb&id=GALE|A373474677&v=2.1&it=r&sid=googleScholar&asid=62475a52&password=OFYhE_c1mc5q1Hw4&ugroup=outside) - Scott Aaronson - [Solvay Conference](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solvay_Conference) ## Encryption, Security and Society - [Defense Intelligence Headquarters - 情報本部](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defense_Intelligence_Headquarters) - [Net Neutrality](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Net_neutrality) - [Tim Wu, Freedom Fighter](https://web.archive.org/web/20150924150030/http://www.businessweek.com/print/bwdaily/dnflash/content/nov2007/db2007117_264711.htm) - [NSA](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Security_Agency) - [Echelon](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECHELON) - [Prism](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRISM) - [Boundless Informant](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boundless_Informant) - [XKeyscore](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XKeyscore) - [Onion Routing](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onion_routing) - [Tails (operating system)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tails_(operating_system)) - [PGP - Pretty Good Privacy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pretty_Good_Privacy) - [GPG - GNU Privacy Guard](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Privacy_Guard) - [The CIA and the media](https://web.archive.org/web/20131025035711/http://www.carlbernstein.com/magazine_cia_and_media.php) - Carl Bernstein - [Telegram Video Calls](https://telegram.org/blog/video-calls) - [Telegram End-to-end Encrypted Voice and Video Calls](https://core.telegram.org/api/end-to-end/video-calls) - [PGP Word List](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PGP_word_list) - [Internet Exchange Point](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_exchange_point) - [BGP Protocol](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Border_Gateway_Protocol) - [BGP hijacking](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BGP_hijacking) - [Key server](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Key_server_(cryptographic)) - [Infrapedia | Global Internet Infrastructure Map](https://www.infrapedia.com/) - [End-to-end encryption](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/End-to-end_encryption) - [Internet Kill switch](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_kill_switch) - [Proton Mail](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ProtonMail) - [Illegal Number](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegal_number) - Each root dns has a landing page eg. https://e.root-servers.org/ - [Starlink](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starlink) - [Starlink satellite map](https://satellitemap.space/?constellation=starlink) - [Yokto Project](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yocto_Project) - [Magnet URI Scheme](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnet_URI_scheme) - [Mullvad for Adblocking](https://mullvad.net/en/help/dns-over-https-and-dns-over-tls/) ## [Politics and Society from a Disinterested Vantage](politics.md) - [Exposing the myth of western betrayal of russia](https://web.archive.org/web/20230319154036/https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandpolicy/exposing-the-myth-of-western-betrayal-of-russia/) - [How We Subsidize Suburbia](https://www.theamericanconservative.com/urbs/we-have-always-subsidized-suburbia/) - [Russia Oil/Fossil Fuel Tracker](https://www.russiafossiltracker.com/) - [Charlie Rose: Lee Kwan Yew Interview](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJaEIzVoWOU) - [Nihon no Jisatsu](https://japantoday.com/category/features/kuchikomi/%27japan-has-no-future%27-is-a-widespread-if-not-universal-feeling) - [CarbonBrief | Global Map of nuclear power plants](https://www.carbonbrief.org/mapped-the-worlds-nuclear-power-plants/) ## [Economics for the Layman's Layman](economics.md) - [List of countries by natural gas proven reserves](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_natural_gas_proven_reserves) - [List of countries by proven oil reserves](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_proven_oil_reserves) - [WIR Bank](https://base.socioeco.org/docs/wir_and_the_swiss_national_economy.pdf) - [Dutch disease: An economic illness easy to catch, difficult to cure](https://www.brookings.edu/blog/future-development/2017/10/31/dutch-disease-an-economic-illness-easy-to-catch-difficult-to-cure/) - [The Ukraine Mess That Nuland Made](https://truthout.org/articles/the-ukraine-mess-that-nuland-made/) - Robert Parry - [Washington's Man Yatsenyuk Setting Ukraine Up For Ruin](https://www.forbes.com/sites/kenrapoza/2014/02/27/washingtons-man-yatsenyuk-setting-ukraine-up-for-ruin/?sh=131e012a75b0) - [Plaza Accord](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plaza_Accord) ## We Live In a Society - [PopulationPyramid.net](https://www.populationpyramid.net/) - [The End of Homeownership - MacLean's](https://macleans.ca/longforms/the-end-of-homeownership/) ## Piecemeal Geography - [Hachijojima](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hachij%C5%8D-jima) - [Offa's Dyke](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Offa%27s_Dyke) ## Overlooked Biology and Chemistry of the Mundane - Chemistry of [Blueprints](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blueprint) - [Smokers are better Mathematicians (on average) than non-smokers](https://sites.math.rutgers.edu/~zeilberg/Opinion172.html) - [Barnacles](https://www.whoi.edu/science/B/people/kamaral/Barnacles.html) - [Crown Shyness](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crown_shyness) ## Influential Essays and Articles resource: [Atlas of Places - Collection of Essays](https://www.atlasofplaces.com/essays/) resource: [American Literature: Mark Twain](https://americanliterature.com/author/mark-twain) - [Consider the Lobster](http://www.gourmet.com.s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.com/magazine/2000s/2004/08/consider_the_lobster.html) - David Foster Wallace - [Reflections on Gandhi](https://www.orwellfoundation.com/the-orwell-foundation/orwell/essays-and-other-works/reflections-on-gandhi/) - George Orwell - [Basic Laws of Human Stupidity](https://web.archive.org/web/20130216132858/http://www.cantrip.org/stupidity.html) - Carlo M. Cipolla - [The Only Moral Abortion is my Abortion](https://joycearthur.com/abortion/the-only-moral-abortion-is-my-abortion/) - Joyce Arthur - [Assasins of the Mind](https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2009/02/hitchens200902) - Christopher Hitchens - [The End of History?](https://pages.ucsd.edu/~bslantchev/courses/pdf/Fukuyama%20-%20End%20of%20History.pdf) - Francis Fukuyama - [On the Phenomenon of Bullshit Jobs](https://www.atlasofplaces.com/essays/on-the-phenomenon-of-bullshit-jobs/) - David Graeber - [Between Past and Future](https://www.atlasofplaces.com/essays/between-past-and-future/) - Hannah Arendt - [Progress](https://www.atlasofplaces.com/essays/progress/) - Aldous Huxley - [What is Authority?](https://www.atlasofplaces.com/essays/what-is-authority/) - Mikhail Bakunin - [The Aweful German Language](https://faculty.georgetown.edu/jod/texts/twain.german.html) - Mark Twain - [Taming the Bicycle](https://americanliterature.com/author/mark-twain/essay/taming-the-bicycle) - Mark Twain - [The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County](https://twain.lib.virginia.edu/projects/price/frog.htm) - Mark Twain - [Go gentle into that good night](https://www.rogerebert.com/roger-ebert/go-gentle-into-that-good-night) - Roger Ebert - [Four Golden Lessons](https://www.nature.com/articles/426389a) - Steven Weinberg - [Luck](https://www.eastoftheweb.com/short-stories/UBooks/Luc.shtml) - Mark Twain - [The Simple Truth](https://www.yudkowsky.net/rational/the-simple-truth) - Eliezer S. Yudkowksy - [What To Do When the Trisector Comes](https://web.mst.edu/~lmhall/whattodowhentrisectorcomes.pdf) - Underwood Dudley - [About Barbers](https://americanliterature.com/author/mark-twain/short-story/about-barbers) - Mark Twain - [About Magnanimous-Incident Literature](https://americanliterature.com/author/mark-twain/short-story/about-magnanimous-incident-literature) - Mark Twain - [The New Commandments](https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2010/04/hitchens-201004) - Christopher Hitchens - [Advice, like youth, probably just wasted on the young ("Wear Sunscreen")](https://www.chicagotribune.com/columns/chi-schmich-sunscreen-column-column.html) - Mary Schmich ## [Dilettante Philosophy](miscellaneous.md) - [LessWrong - Fake Beliefs](https://www.lesswrong.com/s/7gRSERQZbqTuLX5re) - [Deus Ex Machina](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deus_ex_machina) ## Internet Humor - [The Nib](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Nib) - [Mr. Gotcha](https://thenib.com/mister-gotcha/) - [This is Not Fine](https://thenib.com/this-is-not-fine/) - [Math Jokes](https://www.reddit.com/r/math/comments/14rweux/what_are_some_really_good_math_jokes_pick_up/) ### To Sort - [How To Play Great Jazz Licks Starting On Any Note](https://www.freejazzlessons.com/jazz-licks-1/) - [CS blogs](https://cstheory.stackexchange.com/questions/22191/what-cs-blogs-should-everyone-read) - [40 best essays of all time](https://rafalreyzer.com/40-best-essays-of-all-time/)