What I Find Interesting
Podcasts
TED: TED’s novelty is not a secret. Watch it; you will indeed find an exciting idea.
Talks At Google: Each time, they invite a great person to share their ideas about unconventional topics. They are pretty brave — not shying away from calling people who are critical about Google’s activities. You may like to start with Yuval Noah Harari’s episode.
Planet Money: This is an easy listen with unique insights with practical economics lessons and examples.
Linear Digressions: All about machine learning and statistics.
Comics
- Calvin and Hobbes: Calvin’s view of the world represents an exciting, marvellous vision of the world around him. Hobbes is the perfect companion. Their journey is like two adults taking a world tour in children’s body.
Industry Research Blogs
Personal Blogs / Essays
Data Science
Advice Blogs
Industry Blogs
Technical Ideas
Programming
Advent of Code is a programming challenge.
Project Euler is similar.
R
Why performance is not the issue in R Why R? 2020 Discussion Panel - Performance in R, Youtube Video
Quanteda Why R? 2020 | Ken Benoit - Why you should stop using other text mining packages and embrace quanteda
Visualising distributions with raincloud plots and how to create them with ggplot2
Martin Wattenberg On Visualizing Large Textual Data | FlowingData
Other Good Reads
Articles
Tech is improving at an exponential rate. Here’s what that means for society
A free introduction to quantum computing and quantum mechanics, A New Kind of Book
Here’s Why Movie Dialogue Has Gotten More Difficult To Understand (And Three Ways To Fix It)
12ft | Microsoft Encarta Dies After Long Battle With Wikipedia - The New York Times
The Surprisingly Big Business of Library E-books | The New Yorker
Twitter Threads
Blogs (Maths)
A Brilliant Biography about about Gödel Kurt Gödel’s Brilliant Madness
How to imagine four or more dimensional objects Intuitive crutches for higher dimensional thinking
Email me if you need a scanned copy of these items (for personal use only)
Chapter on Mental Health in Bitwise: A Life in Code
Playboy Interview: Steven Jobs, The best interview I’ve ever read by a margin
It’s Happened Again by Oscar Schwartz. Wired. Print: February 2022
The Big Inhale by Vince Beiser. Wired. Print: February 2022
YouTube
Cool Apps
Mac serhii-londar/open-source-mac-os-apps: 🚀 Awesome list of open source applications for macOS.https://t.me/s/opensourcemacosapps
Todoist Blogs
Benefits of Walking Meetings Can Walking Meetings Lead to Healthier Lives?
Hedonic Adaptation: Why we’re never satisfied with what we’ve already accomplished
The Planning Fallacy: Why We’re Terrible at Setting Realistic Deadlines
The Two-Minute Rule: Stop Procrastinating With This Simple Trick