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Per Diem

• Pluralistic
• Wikileaks
• Not Even Wrong

Reading Stack

• Marx, Engels and the Abolition of the Family (added 5/3/2023)
• Cryptography (added 5/3/2023)
• Managing OpenPGP Keys (added 5/3/2023)
• Defense Intelligence Headquarters - 情報本部 (added 5/4/2023)
• #P complexity class (added 5/10/2023)
• State of Quantum Computing: Building a Quantum Economy - World Economic Forum (added 5/11/2023)
• Venezuela: The Rise and Fall of a Petrostate (added 5/11/2023)
• Chaitin's Constant (added 5/12/2023)
• Ring fo Fire (added 5/12/2023)
• Abacus (added 5/12/2023)
• Caffeine (added 5/14/2023)
• Cement (added 5/14/2023)
• Can one explain schemes to biologists (added 5/18/2023)
• Infinite Monkey Theorem (added 5/18/2023)
• CSRF
• Academic ranks in Canada (added 5/22/2023)
• Random Number generation (added 5/22/2023)
• Cayley Graph for 2x2x2 Rubik's cube
• Levin Algorithm
• Quora Answer for dental health
• Teletype
• The Crackpot Index
• Quantum randomness: if there's no predeterminism in quantum mechanics, can it output numbers that truly have no pattern? - Scott Aaronson
• Advice for amateur mathematicians on writing and publishing papers
• A divided Ukraine
• HIKIKOMORI a deafening silence - documentary
• Xylitol
• Universally unique identifier
• List of war apology statements issued by Japan
• Hachijojima
• Nihon no Jisatsu
• Plaza Accord

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
• Computational Complexity Zoo
• List of NP-Complete Problems
• Nikoli
• The Basic Theory of Ordering Relations

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

Encryption, Security and Society

• 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

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

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

Overlooked Chemistry of the Mundane

• Chemistry of Blueprints

Influential Essays and Articles

resource: Atlas of Places - Collection of Essays 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

Dilettante Philosophy

• LessWrong - Fake Beliefs

Internet Humor

• Mr. Gotcha
• This is Not Fine

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