Assorted links #31

Aug 1, 2023
  1. Notes on The Gambia

  2. The Story of Titanium

  3. and then?: This is good advice: "If you’re trying to get through your work as quickly as you can, then maybe you should see if you can find a different line of work. And if you’re trying to get through your leisure-time reading and watching and listening as quickly as you can, then you definitely do not understand the meaning of leisure and should do a thorough rethink."

  4. Awesome Go, Gopher Reading List, An intro to Go for non-Go developers, Learn Go with Tests, Darker Corners of Go, Go 101, Go In 5 Minutes, Learning Golang one day, Go by Example: Some resources I found useful when dipping my toes in Golang.

  5. Football Meta: A lot of great videos on tactics in football.

  6. Notes on Puzzles

  7. Understanding SVG Paths

  8. The World’s Writing Systems

  9. The Value of Chess Squares

  10. Can Chess, with Hexagons?

  11. What’s your type? Try these tests to pick the perfect font for you.

  12. Sweden's brand identity guidelines

  13. Mink farming poses risks for future viral pandemics

  14. Guide to rationalist interior decorating

  15. The Deep Dive: Video Essay Newsletter Recommendations

  16. Why Are So Many Kosher Restaurants So Bad?

  17. Lifespan extension: separating fact from fiction

  18. Assessing ExxonMobil’s global warming projections

  19. Women are superstars on stage, but still rarely get to write songs

  20. TaskMasker.info: Obsessively documenting the international Taskmaster franchise

  21. Lexical Ambiguity in Political Rhetoric: Why Morality Doesn't Fit in a Bag of Words: Great paper of interest to people interested in moral rhetoric, political communication and/or word embeddings (full disclosure: I was involved in this project until I left academia and did not have the necessary time to work on this project.)

  22. Everything I, an Italian, thought I knew about Italian food is wrong

  23. Awful AI

  24. How To Write Unmaintainable Code

  25. List of algorithms

  26. Data Scientist: The Sexiest Job of the 21st Century (2012) /Is Data Scientist Still the Sexiest Job of the 21st Century? (2023)

  27. The world's last internet cafes

  28. Critics Pick the Best TV Shows of the Last 25 Years / Critics Pick the Best Movies of the Last 25 Years

  29. Recipe Websites Master List

  30. Matrices and graphs

  31. Internet Search Tips

  32. So You Want to Study Philosophy…

  33. The Case Against Travel


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