Links to Blogs, Substacks, Youtubes, Podcasts, Magazines etc

Over the years online, I benefited immensely from the Internet users that write and put up stuff online for other users to read. For the love of it - nothing else. There is no purer form of creativity than that. "Here!! I like this, maybe you will like it too. On an off chance, infinitesimally small, I make this extra step extra effort to put it out there on the Internet. Free, free like beer and freedom too, for all to see".

Initially and for a long time things were kept and curated in Bookmarks. Then Google spoiled me when it became possible to "Google it" anything - there was no great need for Bookmarks. Then Internet expanded and some things are Social media posts, others are Substacks, still others are old style personal blogs, then there is Youtube podcasts and videos, then Spotify, then podcasts on other platforms etc etc. So I thought this is a good place - yet another place; but redundancy is the mother of resilience - to add links to content I liked and consume online. References and links put in no particular order, as my memory blurts them out. It's good to have them on one page and check from time to time.

Nowadays with every author being online, one gets to imbibe their ideas anyway on the 80/20 principle, via the "quanta of ideas" that are memes, spread esp via X/Twitter/Bsky where the medium specifically encourages that. So when I finally get to a book or a movie of the author, I already have heard or seen 80% of what they are saying, know of the ideas, so often I don't get to finish the book or the movie! I'm not complaining though - but bragging about it! Because there is something else already worthy of attention! We are so so lucky now. Some of my memories of my childhood (in the 1980-s late socialism of Yugoslavia) are of mind bending boredom. There was little to do, life was very boring at times (not all the time - other times it was fun and exciting), that reading a mildly interesting book, watching an interesting movie on TV (1.5 channels) or in the cinema (not that many of those), or playing - or more often watching others play - random games in the local arcades tent, was a treat. Home computers changed that somewhat, and then Personal Computers and latter the online world and Internet changed that a lot! And for the better.

Scott Alexander's Astral Codex Tenhttps://www.astralcodexten.com/ (previous Slate Star Codex https://slatestarcodex.com/)

J. Sanilac https://www.jsanilac.com/

FSF Free Software Foundation https://www.fsf.org/, GNU operating system https://www.gnu.org/, software https://www.gnu.org/software/software.html, philosophy https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/

RMS Richard Stallman's Personal Site https://stallman.org/, archive https://stallman.org/archive.html

ESR Eric S. Raymond's Home Page http://www.catb.org/~esr/ weblog http://esr.ibiblio.org/ FAQs http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/

Bryan Caplan's Bet On It https://www.betonit.ai/

Nate Silver's Silver Bulletin https://www.natesilver.net/

Shtetl-Optimized The Blog of Scott Aaronson https://scottaaronson.blog/ (PHYS771 Lecture 9: Quantum http://www.scottaaronson.com/democritus/lec9.html)

The Intrinsic Perspective By Erik Hoel https://www.theintrinsicperspective.com/

Yuval Harari https://www.ynharari.com/, https://www.youtube.com/user/YuvalNoahHarari

Civilution for Universal WellBeing https://www.civilution.org/

Rutger Bregman https://linktr.ee/rutgerbregman

Chris Dillow's Stumbling and Mumbling https://stumblingandmumbling.typepad.com/

Dominic Cummings substack https://dominiccummings.substack.com/

Dwarkesh Patel https://www.youtube.com/DwarkeshPatel https://www.dwarkeshpatel.com/

Apply Liberally by Matthew Downhour https://applyliberally.substack.com/

Francis Fukuyama https://fukuyama.stanford.edu/

Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow https://pluralistic.net/

Human Progress https://humanprogress.org/

James Bloodworth https://www.forthedeskdrawer.com/

Odds and Ends of History By James O'Malley https://takes.jamesomalley.co.uk/

Sabine Hossenfelder https://www.youtube.com/c/SabineHossenfelder

Jason Crawford https://jasoncrawford.org/archive

Ole Peters Ergodicity economics https://ergodicityeconomics.com/

Scientific Discovery By Saloni Dattani https://www.scientificdiscovery.dev/

Blair Fix Economics from the Top Down https://economicsfromthetopdown.com/

John D. Cook blog https://www.johndcook.com/blog/

Lex Fridman https://lexfridman.com/ https://www.youtube.com/lexfridman

Information Processing - Steve Hsu https://stevehsu.substack.com/

Richard McElreath http://xcelab.net/rm/ https://www.youtube.com/@rmcelreath

Slime Mold Time Mold https://slimemoldtimemold.com/

Works in Progress https://worksinprogress.co/

Warren Mosler's Mosler Economics / Modern Monetary Theory https://moslereconomics.com/

Naked Capitalism https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/

Steve Keen substack https://profstevekeen.substack.com/ (Minsky Home https://sourceforge.net/p/minsky/home/Home/)

Derek Lowe’s In The Pipeline https://www.science.org/blogs/pipeline

Arts & Letters Daily http://www.aldaily.com/

Antiwar https://www.antiwar.com/

Matthew Downhour's substack Apply Liberally https://applyliberally.substack.com/

Liberal Currents https://www.liberalcurrents.com/

Reason Magazinehttp://reason.com/

Triggernometry podcast YouTubehttps://www.youtube.com/@triggerpod

The Critic magazine https://thecritic.co.uk/

Compact magazine https://www.compactmag.com/

Hacker News https://news.ycombinator.com/news

Stack Overflow http://stackoverflow.com/

Super User http://superuser.com/

Server Fault http://serverfault.com/

Unix & Linux Stack Exchange http://unix.stackexchange.com/

SLIME MOLD TIME MOLD – Mad Science Blogging https://slimemoldtimemold.com/

Richard Stallman https://www.stallman.org/ RMS archives https://www.stallman.org/archives/

Free Software Foundation FSF https://www.fsf.org/

Arabesque - Systems, Tools, and Terminal Science https://blog.sanctum.geek.nz/, a blog by Tom Ryder

Gurwinder blog https://www.gurwinder.blog/

Our World in Data (OWID) https://ourworldindata.org/

Max Rocer at OWID https://ourworldindata.org/team/max-roser

Tom Forth blog https://tomforth.co.uk/

Mark Litwintschik blog https://tech.marksblogg.com/

3Blue1Brown YouTube https://www.youtube.com/@3blue1brown FAQ https://www.3blue1brown.com/faq

Yann Lecun https://yann.lecun.com/

Andrej Karpathy https://karpathy.ai/

Christopher Olah colah's blog http://colah.github.io/

Tim Dettmers blog https://timdettmers.com/

Brandur articles https://brandur.org/articles

Walter Bright http://www.walterbright.com/

Diomidis Spinellis home page https://www.spinellis.gr/index.html.var

Bartosz Milewski https://bartoszmilewski.com/

Georgi Gerganov https://github.com/ggerganov

Jeff Atwood Coding Horror https://blog.codinghorror.com/

Marc Andreessen Substack https://pmarca.substack.com/

Paul Graham https://paulgraham.com/

Patrick Collison https://patrickcollison.com/

DAVID HEINEMEIER HANSSON https://dhh.dk/

Nomad list https://nomads.com/

JWZ blog https://www.jwz.org/blog/

Ian Dunt substack https://iandunt.substack.com/

Sam Bowman substack https://www.sambowman.co/

Dominic Cummings substack https://dominiccummings.substack.com/

Information Processing - Steve Hsu substack https://stevehsu.substack.com/, Manifold podcast https://www.manifold1.com/episodes

Brett Scott blog Altered States of Monetary Consciousnes https://alteredstatesof.money/

Blog by Matt Ridley http://www.rationaloptimist.com/blog/

Idle Words - Maciej Cegłowski https://idlewords.com/

Crooked Timber https://crookedtimber.org/

Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow https://pluralistic.net/

LessWrong https://www.lesswrong.com/

The Nutshell Times https://thenutshelltimes.com/

Deirdre McCloskey http://www.deirdremccloskey.org/

EPchan blog Quantitative Trading http://epchan.blogspot.com/

Locklin on science http://scottlocklin.wordpress.com/

Rob Carvers This Blog is Systematic https://qoppac.blogspot.com/

Robert J Frey Keplerian Finance http://keplerianfinance.com/

Michael Tan's Blog https://michaeltanphd.com/

Ole Peters Ergodicity Economics https://ergodicityeconomics.com/about/, For to withhold is to perish https://ergodicityeconomics.com/2023/08/29/for-to-withhold-is-to-perish/, Textbook https://ergodicityeconomics.com/publications/

Win Vector LLC https://win-vector.com/

Diomidis Spinellis home page https://www.spinellis.gr/index.html.var

Tim Dettmers https://timdettmers.com/

Bert Hubert https://berthub.eu/

Sam Altman https://blog.samaltman.com/

Alfredo Canziani blog https://atcold.github.io/blog.html

Giuseppe Paleologo https://linktr.ee/paleologo

Leo Breiman https://www.stat.berkeley.edu/~breiman/

Andreas Weigend http://www.weigend.com/

Spyros Makridakis, The M Forecasting Competitions https://www.unic.ac.cy/iff/research/forecasting/m-competitions/

Uncharted territories by Tomas Pueyo https://unchartedterritories.tomaspueyo.com/

Matt Lakeman "Notes on ..." travels blog https://mattlakeman.org/

DYNOMIGHT INTERNET WEBSITE https://dynomight.net/

Julia Evans https://jvns.ca/

Gwern Branwen website on AI, psychology, & statistics https://gwern.net/

Simon Willison blog https://simonwillison.net/, link blog https://simonwillison.net/search/?type=blogmark, blogmarks why and how https://simonwillison.net/2024/Dec/22/link-blog/, github https://github.com/simonw

Maxwell Tabarrok substack Maximum Progress blog https://substack.com/@maximumprogress (Four Futures For Cognitive Labor)

David Shapiro’s Substack https://daveshap.substack.com/ (e.g. Deny, Defend, Depose: We are already living in a Cyberpunk Hell (and how we can fix it), What do I mean when I say "Post-Labor Economics" anyways?)

Geoffrey E. Hinton home page https://www.cs.toronto.edu/~hinton

Hugging Face Blog https://huggingface.co/blog (e.g. Scaling Test Time Compute with Open Models), Models https://huggingface.co/models

Richard Hanania's Substack https://substack.com/@richardhanania, Newsletter https://www.richardhanania.com/ (e.g. Understanding the Tech Right https://www.richardhanania.com/p/understanding-the-tech-right)

Derek Sivers blog https://sive.rs/. E.g. "How to Get Rich", "How to Be Useful to Others", and other "Do this. Directives — part 1"

Sam McRoberts blog https://thegrandredesign.substack.com/, e.g. The Grand Redesign “Change the Stories, Change the World“

Dynomight blog https://dynomight.net/. E.g. DumPy: NumPy except it's OK if you're dum, I don't like NumPy, How much information is in DNA?. On the About page, this strikes me as good advice as any:

Wondering what to do with your life? Here’s what I suggest:

• First priority: Your physical health. (No health → no life.)
• Second priority: Reasonable financial security. (No food → no health.)
• Third priority: Good relationships with friends and family. (Depressed → no mental health.)

After that you can do whatever. The game you’re playing doesn’t have any rules and there’s no way to win.

Yevgeniy Brikman blog https://www.ybrikman.com/, e.g. Don't learn to code. Learn to think.

Joscha Bach http://bach.ai/

DR. MICHAEL LEVIN https://thoughtforms.life/

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LJ HPD Fri 18 Oct 18:39:23 BST 2024