Links

Here's a small collection of links to webpages I find interesting :

Blogs

Slate Star Codex, a blog about statistics, philosophy, politics, medicine and a lot more. It includes lots of both fiction and nonfiction, written by one very prolific author. There used to be a community built around it, which has now moved to other platforms. I recommend starting with the anthology that can be found on LessWrong.

Wait But Why is a blog about self-help,big ideas, and also the unofficial PR blog for Elon Musk. The author has procrastination issues and is quite a perfectionist, so he doesn't post often, but the posts are generally high-quality.

Paul Graham is a venture capitalist who really likes Lisp ans startups. He has written a collection of essays.

Useful tools

The Wayback Machine lets you browse past versions of pages. Very useful when trying to browse old web content.

Sci-hub lets you download scientific papers for free. Since it is considered illegal, the methods to access it have to change regularly.1 I made a tool to automatically check which Sci-hub domains work for you.

DuckDuckGoog is a search engine that combines the results of Google with the "bang" functionality of DuckDuckGo.

Individual webpages

Dan Luu's page about scientific misconceptions


Footnotes

[1] Unlike other kinds of media, the authors of scientific papers do not get paid when someone buys the journals that publish them, so you're probably not harming research by doing that.

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