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Resources

• ZLIB
• Library Genesis
• Kindle Digital Library
• SciRate
• Desmos
• Detexify
• Computational Complexity Zoo
• Quiver
• Backlog

Reading Stack

• Post-quantum cryptography
• https://bartoszmilewski.com/2015/03/13/function-types/
• Banach Tarski Paradox
• Courcelle's Theorem
• Quantum Cheshire Cat
• https://blog.cloudflare.com/pq-2025/

Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science

• OEIS: The Online Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences
• GIMPS: The Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search
• List of trigonometric identities
• List of LaTeX mathematical symbols
• Largest Known Primes - a Summary
• Are all matrices diagonalizable?
• Counting Perfect Matchings in Grids and Planar Graphs
• Einstein Tile 3D print
• List of NP-Complete Problems
• Nikoli
• The Basic Theory of Ordering Relations
• Metric Prefixes
• Barnsely's Fern
• Meeting Grothendieck, 2012 - Katrina Honigs
• Problem Solvers and Theorizers - Gian-Carlo Rota
• Modular Multiplication on a Circle
• Writing a math research paper: start to finish!
• How to Succeed in Mathematical Research
• Chaitin's Constant
• Cayley Graph for 2x2x2 Rubik's cube
• Jaap's Puzzle Page
• Galactic Algorithm
• Infinite Monkey Theorem
• Rice's Theorem
• Ladner's Theorem
• Levin Algorithm
• Nim
• Log Sum Inequality

Elucidating the Quantum World

• Why Haven’t More Quantum Algorithms Been Found? - Peter Shor (2003)
• Quantum Algorithm Zoo
• Delayed-choice quantum eraser
• Elitzur-Vaidman bomb tester
• 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? - Scott Aaronson
• Solvay Conference

Encryption, Security and Society

• Defense Intelligence Headquarters - 情報本部
• Net Neutrality
  • Tim Wu, Freedom Fighter
• NSA
  • Echelon
  • Prism
  • Boundless Informant
  • XKeyscore
• Onion Routing
  • Tails (operating system)
  • PGP - Pretty Good Privacy
  • GPG - GNU Privacy Guard
• The CIA and the media - Carl Bernstein
• Telegram Video Calls
  • Telegram End-to-end Encrypted Voice and Video Calls
• PGP Word List
• Internet Exchange Point
  • BGP Protocol
  • BGP hijacking
  • Key server
• Infrapedia | Global Internet Infrastructure Map
• End-to-end encryption
• Internet Kill switch
• Proton Mail
• Illegal Number
• Each root dns has a landing page eg. https://e.root-servers.org/
• Starlink
• Starlink satellite map
• Yokto Project
• Magnet URI Scheme
• Mullvad for Adblocking
• Privacy Friendly Alternatives to Common Services

TODO

• graphene OS
• NextCloud
• Posteo

Politics and Society from a Disinterested Vantage

• Exposing the myth of western betrayal of russia
• How We Subsidize Suburbia
• Russia Oil/Fossil Fuel Tracker
• Charlie Rose: Lee Kwan Yew Interview
• Nihon no Jisatsu
• CarbonBrief | Global Map of nuclear power plants
• The real dividing line between Israel and Palestine - Slavoj Zizek
• A divided Ukraine

Economics for the Layman's Layman

• List of countries by natural gas proven reserves
• List of countries by proven oil reserves
• WIR Bank
• Dutch disease: An economic illness easy to catch, difficult to cure
• The Ukraine Mess That Nuland Made - Robert Parry
• Washington's Man Yatsenyuk Setting Ukraine Up For Ruin
• Plaza Accord
• Strategies for Reviving the Japanese Economy
• Complementary Currencies

We Live In a Society

• PopulationPyramid.net
• The End of Homeownership - MacLean's

Piecemeal Geography

• Hachijojima
• Offa's Dyke
• Wapping

Overlooked Biology and Chemistry of the Mundane

• Chemistry of Blueprints
• Smokers are better Mathematicians (on average) than non-smokers
• Barnacles
• Crown Shyness
• Brassica Oleracea is cabbage, brussel sprouts, broccoli, cauliflower, kale
• Cement

Influential Essays and Articles

resource: Atlas of Places - Collection of Essays I to CXV

resource: American Literature: Mark Twain

• Consider the Lobster - David Foster Wallace
• Reflections on Gandhi - George Orwell
• Basic Laws of Human Stupidity - Carlo M. Cipolla
• The Only Moral Abortion is my Abortion - Joyce Arthur
• Assasins of the Mind - Christopher Hitchens
• The End of History? - Francis Fukuyama
• On the Phenomenon of Bullshit Jobs - David Graeber
• Between Past and Future - Hannah Arendt
• Progress - Aldous Huxley
• What is Authority? - Mikhail Bakunin
• The Aweful German Language - Mark Twain
• Taming the Bicycle - Mark Twain
• The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County - Mark Twain
• Go gentle into that good night - Roger Ebert
• Four Golden Lessons - Steven Weinberg
• Luck - Mark Twain
• The Simple Truth - Eliezer S. Yudkowksy
• What To Do When the Trisector Comes - Underwood Dudley
• About Barbers - Mark Twain
• About Magnanimous-Incident Literature - Mark Twain
• The New Commandments - Christopher Hitchens
• Advice, like youth, probably just wasted on the young ("Wear Sunscreen") - Mary Schmich
• The Other World That Beckons: A profile of Albert Einstein - Carl Sagan
• Can one explain schemes to biologists - David Mumford
• Hackers and Painters - Paul Graham

Dilettante Philosophy

• LessWrong - Fake Beliefs
• Deus Ex Machina

Internet Humor

• Existential Comics
• Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
• XKCD
• The Nib
• Mr. Gotcha
• This is Not Fine
• Math Jokes
• High Noon

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