ASSORTED LINKS:
-by Matt Dougherty October 1st
- In Defense of the IPO and How to Improve it (A16Z)
- 10 Great Scientists who never won Nobel Prize (Wonder of Physics)
- Mind Emulation Foundation
- Most favorited HN posts
- Light note: Interactive music lessons
- 2020 Existentialist Turn (Philosophy - Boston Review)
- Student loan Reform Act of 1993 - Medium explained
- Transit Costs Project
- NuScale Mini Nuclear Reactor / Cost ?
- How companies test their software
- A take on what happened in the 1970’s (Noahpinion) - has links to other blogs
- Building a Basic Substack Clone (Justin Gage)
- Microchips that shook the world
- Ranked Choice Voting is Arbitrarily Bad
- Third World Country Daily Problems Reddit
- Great Surges of Deployment in Industrial Age
- Better to be anti status quo
- Education and low income districts // Common reform is wrong
- Economics of Tour de France
- Cell Biology by the numbers
- Elon Musk cold calling rocket scientists after PayPal (CNBC)
- Cellphones and Extortion in Prison (NYT)
- Changes in proton density, spurred by solar winds predicting earthquakes?
- Science Data Fraud // How Many are there?
- How I read a Scientific Paper (Yannic Kilcher Youtube)
- Toucan: Learn a new language while you browse the internet
- MBI Deep Dives: Uber
- Why Bayesian Stats needs Monte- Carlo Methods
- Relativity - an open source $200 DIY VR headset
- Bessemer Venture Partners Company Memos
- 10xEBITDA Resource list
- How do routers work, really?
- Anduril Hero drone helicopter
- What’s Wrong with Social Science and How to Fix It: Reflections After Reading 2578 Papers
- Fallen.io (Incredible visualizations)
- WaitbutWhy: How to Pick a Career (That Actually Fits You)
- Math and Art In School
- NY Times: NG Flaring & Oil Execs on Climate Change
- “novel self-supervised approach for fMRI-to-image reconstruction and classification that goes well beyond the scarce paired data” (source, thread)
- Research questions that could have a big social impact (80,000 hours)
- Current view of Most Pressing Problems (80,000 hours)
- Moral Uncertainty: William MacAskill & Toby Ord
- Designing a Physic Engine in 5 min
- Ludwig Wittgenstein (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
- Blocklessons (Teaching Coding outside CS classes) Tristrum Tuttle
- (Underneath the Turban)
- Wolfram Alpha
- “William MacAskill misrepresents the evidence underlying his key arguments in “Doing Good Better” (Alexey Guzey)
- Newton College Notebook // Earlier years notebook
- Laura Deming: Advice for ambitious teenagers
- How Much Do Rockets Pollute? (Everyday Astronaut Youtube)
- Breaking down Palantir IPO
- Deming: Longevity FAQ // Nintil Longevity FAQ (Deep Dive)
- Richard Hamming: You and your research (transcript)
- Ben Kuhn: Running an EA student group
- Was Cypher Right?: Why We Stay in Our Matrix (Robin Hanson)
- The Making of a Harvard Department Chair (Crimson)
- Mayflower: Science of sailing across ocean in 1620
- Naked Capitalism (Blog) // Malcolm Gladwell unmasked
- Scott Alexander vs Scott Aaronson vs Terence Tao (inadequate SSC)
- SSC: Parable of Talents // Pt 2: Attitude vs Altitude
- Marc Andreessen: Productivity, Scheduling, Reading Habits, Work, etc
- 2+ hr animation of Titanic Sinking (Youtube)
- Primitive Technology: Build it
- Indian Caste Systems implications on Tech (This is sad - did not realize issue)
- Annotated Research Papers
- SSC: 2010’s Intellectual Progress
- How to find the frontiers of knowledge (Samo Burja)
- Plunge into heroin addiction (reddit) - Why I will never touch heroin
- Work on What Matters (Staff Eng)
- Iron, how do they make it part 1 // part 2 (Acoup blog)
- Understanding Bayes (Alexander Etz) // Bayes rule: Guide (Arbital)
- What is Math? (Smithsonian Math based on tiktok)
- Where do economic journal editors live? (Paper, feared on MR)
- Peter Norvig: Solving Every Sudoku Puzzle (with code)
- Synthesis: AI Video from Text in Minutes
- Rolls Royce Testing Electric Plane Technology
- Economics of Currency Risk (NBER Paper)
- Entropy Explained, With Sheep (Aastish Bhatia)
- How to write a boot loader from scratch
