Assorted links #27

Mar 12, 2023
  1. 2022 letter

  2. Story Structure: Super Basic Shit, Pure, Boring Theory, Let's Simplify Before Moving On, The Juicy Details, How TV is Different, Five Minute Pilots

  3. What is Chess? What to think and how long for

  4. Longevity myths

  5. How to Go to the Zoo

  6. Based on a True True Story?

  7. Ultimate list of Japanese Vegetable Cutting Techniques

  8. Tips for beginners using Anki: the best software

  9. The leading Groundhog Day data source

  10. Make an effective executive LinkedIn profile

  11. A data-driven exploration of the evolution of chess: Popularity of openings over time

  12. On being tired

  13. St. John’s Reading List: A Great Books Curriculum

  14. Visual design rules you can safely follow every time

  15. Menu Mind Games

  16. Ten rules for writing fiction: part one, part two

  17. What Losing Everything Taught Me About Backing Up

  18. The 100 Best Children's Books of All Time

  19. Discover Classical Art

  20. Library of Short Stories

  21. How to eat at an Indian buffet

  22. Chicken Chicken Chicken: Chicken Chicken (presentation)

  23. Are you peeling bananas wrong?

  24. Assessing Game Balance with AlphaZero: Exploring Alternative Rule Sets in Chess

  25. My First Flame

  26. Homes: Spick and span

  27. Women's Pockets are Inferior

  28. Different types of Pizza and toppings

  29. You're probably wrong about how things have changed

  30. Why are the East of Cities usually Poorer?

  31. 5 Fascinating Maps of London

  32. A little bit of slope makes up for a lot of y-intercept

  33. SVG Repo: 500.000+ Open-licensed SVG Vector and Icons

  34. Explore the In Our Time archive

  35. Squares in Squares

  36. How to Win at Monopoly and Lose All Your Friends

  37. A Statistical Analysis of the LearnedLeague Trivia Competition

  38. Amsterdam Coffeeshop Directory

  39. Why the Titanic didn't have enough lifeboats

  40. The Economics of Death Star Planet Destruction

  41. 20 Genre-Defying Sci-Fi Books That Broke the Mold

  42. What is artificial intelligence? A three part definition

  43. What Is ChatGPT Doing … and Why Does It Work?

  44. How to Start Your Blog in 2023

  45. How to Remember Anything

  46. The 100 greatest non-fiction books (2011)

  47. The Best Pancakes You Will Ever Make

  48. Music Theory

  49. Economics 421 - Econometrics - Winter 2011

  50. GrimGrains

  51. Collected Advice for Doing Scientific Research

  52. Emoji under the hood

  53. An Intuitive Guide To Exponential Functions & e

  54. The Color of the Night Sky

  55. The beginner's guide to over­complicating coffee

  56. Captivating History

  57. Historical paintings of Amsterdam on a map

  58. Superman: A Transitional Power Source

  59. How I work

  60. How to Build a Life

  61. Generic Tips For Emailing Busy People

  62. An overview of modern Japanese wood construction – interaction with tradition

  63. Cutting a Round Cake on Scientific Principles

  64. Most Data Work Seems Fundamentally Worthless

  65. S*** happens: The economics version

  66. If Math Is The Aspirin, Then How Do You Create The Headache?

  67. How to Watch Hundreds of Free Movies on YouTube

  68. What did people do in a Medieval City?

  69. How Poor Sleep Drove Me Insane, and My Long Path to Recovery

  70. Exit Duty Generator

  71. 100 Tips For A Better Life

  72. How I Stay Productive and Get Massive Amounts of Shit Done

  73. Practical Tips from Years of Traveling The World

  74. The Hundred Best Lists of All Time

  75. Everyday life as an intelligence test: Effects of intelligence and intelligence context

  76. The A to Z of economics

  77. What is the Most Minimal UK Address Possible?

  78. t-hacking: Beware picking the timeframe to fit the narrative

  79. Toilet Paper: A History

  80. Find a piano

  81. Uncyclopedia

  82. The ReadME Project: Documenting knowledge: a guide to successful note-taking, Your future self will thank you: Building your personal documentation, How to hone your new superpower: teaching, Brag now, remember later: Document your accomplishments

  83. The Dos & Don’ts of Driving to East Berlin During the Cold War: A Weird Piece of Ephemera from the 1980s

  84. 210 Reasons for decline of the Roman Empire

  85. UX Case Studies

  86. 12 Amazing Staircases Around the World

  87. The Sound of Sorting - "Audibilization" and Visualization of Sorting Algorithms

  88. Open Source Soccer

  89. Economics to Sociology Phrase Book

  90. Historiens 100 viktigaste svenskar

  91. Map of AI Existential Safety

  92. PNAS is Not a Good Journal

  93. The Useless Web

  94. The 25 Percent Rule for Tackling Technical Debt

  95. Every Second

  96. NOS Nieuws van de Week


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