What on the internet do I find fascinating?
Webcomics
Questionable Content (no, it isn’t NSFW) sitcom-fashion but with sentient robots
Wondermark, absurd humor with Victorian visuals
Sturdy Female Protagonist, superheroes and supervillains and moral dilemmas (the protagonist is a feminine who is strong)
Subnormality, extraordinarily detailed artwork with usually deep social commentary, not your typical comic
The Perry Bible Fellowship, charming art and offbeat punchlines
xkcd, very nerdy
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal, also nerdy and sometimes dark
Webserials
Harry Potter and the Strategies of Rationality (HPMOR) by Eliezer Yudkowsky. The one fanfic of any variety that I’ve ever favored. ‘What if Harry Potter was a rationalist?’
Worm and Pact, two webserials by wildly successful debutant Web creator ‘wildbow’. The premise of Worm is superpowers in a really imperfect, human world, from metropolis 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 had been true, in a energy-hungry capitalist world?’ By Scott Alexander, roughly within the style of rational fiction, very partaking.
What soccer will appear like sooner or later – 17776, soccer but also science fiction.
SCP Foundation, a sprawling, wiki-model assortment of tales set in a universe with mysterious supernatural artifacts ‘secured, contained, and protected’ by the inspiration.
Newsletters/blogs I read
The Browser, an exceptionally good curated publication of effectively-written articles on varied subjects, present and previous
Marginal Revolution, on present scientific, political, and economic occasions, by Tyler Cowen and Alex Tabarrok
Astral Codex Ten, Scott Alexander writes about medicine, anthropology, and rationality. Always very thoughtful.
The Baffler, “The Journal That Blunts the Leading edge”. Weekly dose of cynical takes.
Aeon and its sister Psyche, broadly reflecting on the human situation. Typically insightful.
EFFector from the Digital Frontier Foundation on digital rights
Free Software program Supporter from the Free Software program Foundation
MIT Day by day, each day news from MIT
MIT Know-how Evaluate, know-how news (and a bimonthly magazine)
Skilled
Programming Languages and Verification group at MIT CSAIL
Instructional Studies Program, runs educational packages for middle- and high-schoolers
SPARC, the Summer time Program on Applied Rationality and Cognition
Panini Linguistics Olympiad, linguistics contest for Indian excessive schoolers
Monsoon Math Camp, an Indian math camp for prime schoolers
Euler Circle, advanced math circle within the California Bay Space (though at the moment on-line)
Causality in Cognition Lab at Stanford
Personal
– A pleasant article about me within the MIT News!
The Short, Tampered Clavier, a form of useless weblog run by me and a few pals.
– Not really a link, however a personal wishlist: – studio headphones
– small earrings – geometric shapes, animals, icons, люцифер смотреть онлайн and many others.
– webcomic merch or perhaps tasteful prints
– a nice and/or quaint poster, or maybe “The way to Work Higher”, additionally 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 both a curated archive of 1000’s of rare, old, Hindustani classical music recordings, and a large collection of artful blog posts about Hindustani classical music from a seasoned connoiseur.
SwarGanga has helpful instruments to seek for raags or bandishes by their notes.
Aathavanitli Gani has a huge collection of lyrics and metadata about Marathi songs.
– The Darbar Festival YouTube channel has high-quality recordings of modern classical artists.
– Rahul Deshpande has an audioblog about Hindustani classical music: information, opinions, and stories interspersed with brief vocal demonstrations. (This was once on his now-defunct web site.)
Random tidbits
Pink Trombone, an interactive sound-producing mannequin of the vocal cavity that is a good phonetics teaching software.
– My good friend lindrew’s webpage has intensive and full LaTeX notes for many subjects he’s taken at MIT.
DeTeXify, discover the LaTeX command for a handwritten image.
The LaTeX WikiBook. My go-to LaTeX reference for easy things.
Digital Dictionaries of South Asia, full-textual content access to excessive-high quality online dictionaries (although 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 really fun math camp. The same individuals run an REU-model program known as MathILy-EST.