Assorted links #29

1050. The Beginner's Guide to Databases / The Technically Database Database

1051. How to Read a Chocolate Bar Label to Buy the Best Chocolate

1052. Timeline of the far future

1053. Eyecandy - Visual Technique Library

1054. Are Sunk Costs Fallacies?

1055. Category:Unidentified people

1056. Vernacular Economics: How Building Codes & Taxes Shape Regional Architecture

1057. Why Lego won / Why Oreo won

1058. Rail Suicide: A Train Driver's Struggle to Return to the Tracks

1059. The 50 Best Films of the 21st Century So Far, Ranked: I am certain that only a few of these movies will make it to a top 50 list of the "Best Films of the 21st Century" at the end of the century. However, a lot of good recommendations (especially the non-Western movies).

1060. One parameter is always enough

1061. Designing for colorblindness

1062. Forty-Five Things I Learned in the Gulag

1063. Augmenting Long-term Memory

1064. The Philosopher-Entrepreneur Reading List

1065. The sound of the dialup, pictured

1066. All 20 "Rules for History of Philosophy"

1067. Effective Spaced Repetition

1068. Mapping Diversity

1069. List of examples of Stigler's law: A list of scientific discoveries to honor people other than their respective originators.

1070. Replacing my best friends with an LLM trained on 500,000 group chat messages

1071. Status as a Service (StaaS)

1072. Nakatomi Space: For the die hard fans of Die Hard. Or/and architecture.

1073. Amazon Web Services In Plain English

1074. Cool URIs don't change

1075. Being Poor

1076. So you want to be a consultant...?

1077. How to Get Good at Chess, Fast: A simple, step-by-step guide to rapid chess improvement

1078. The slow death of purposeless walking

1079. Khan Academy: Algorithms

1080. Why the Days Seem Shorter as We Get Older

1081. Why consider the lighthouse a public good?: An interesting paper arguing that there is no a priori basis to consider the lighthouse as a public good.

1082. The 100 China Books You Have to Read

1083. You're not uncool. Making friends as an adult is just hard

1084. Why did we wait so long for the bicycle?

1085. The Weirdest Metro System in the World | Amsterdam Metro / Amsterdam Just Got Awesomer

1086. Space Elevator

1087. The Analog Antiquarian: An amazing blog (or rather online book?). For a great example of high-quality content, check out the post/chapter on how to build a pyramid.

1088. How can we develop transformative tools for thought?

1089. A beginner’s guide to modern classical music

1090. Stretch 15

1091. 128 Things About the City / Two Hundred Fifty Things an Architect Should Know

1092. Lost at SQL: The SQL learning game

1093. Timeline of Science Fiction Ideas, Technology and Inventions

1094. You Don't Always Have to be Rational

1095. How to Be a Better Reader

1096. How Stewart Made Tucker: A great essay on political journamlism in the U.S. (the best bits are not directly related to Jon Stewart or Tucker Carlson).

1097. The Shape of Rome

1098. Index of branches of science

1099. Typography Manual

1100. My Lifetime Reading Plan

1101. News Minimalist: Using ChatGPT to give significance scores to news.

1102. How to walk around London

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