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Game Review: Underhill
(alexanderwales.com)
2024-04-09 games, fiction -
Medieval Historical Fantasy
(papyrusrampant.substack.com)
2024-01-20 premodernity, fiction, worldbuilding -
The Republican Party is Doomed
(tracingwoodgrains.com)
2023-12-01 politics, class -
Suggestivity and Idioms in APL
(sacrideo.us)
2023-05-02 computing, apl -
Why use cycle notation for permutations?
(plover.com)
2023-04-30 math -
The practical skill is thinking like Immanuel Kant.
(jadagul.tumblr.com)
2023-04-29 philosophy -
Intro to Proofs for the Morbidly Curious (pdf)
(evanchen.cc)
2023-04-29 math -
My thoughts on OCaml
(osa1.net)
2023-04-24 computing, ocaml -
Storytelling — The Penumbra of Mortality
(ribbonfarm.com)
2023-04-20 fiction, jg-ballard, greg-egan, scifi, , meaning -
Rock-paper-scissors RPG alignment
(discoursedrome.tumblr.com)
2023-04-19 games, rpg -
The Gostak
(if50.substack.com)
2023-04-16 games, interactive-fiction, weird -
The Best of Orion's Arm
(borretti.me)
2023-04-16 fiction, scifi, orions-arm, transhumanism -
How Tarn Adams upgraded and optimized Dwarf Fortress for its official Steam release
(gamedeveloper.com)
2023-04-14 games, gamedev, dwarf-fortress -
Why Oatmeal is Cheap: Kolmogorov Complexity and Procedural Generation (pdf)
(knivesandpaintbrushes.org)
2023-04-12 gamedev, procgen -
Web of the People
(erlend.sh)
2023-04-10 decentralized, , identity, empowerment -
Effective Spaced Repetition
(borretti.me)
2023-04-10 spaced-repetition, learning -
Waterloo Style
(theprogrammersparadox.blogspot.com)
2023-04-06 computing -
Extracting the Essential Simplicity of the Internet
🗝️
(doi.org)
2023-02 computing, internet, systems -
How number theory research works
(threadreaderapp.com)
2022-07-25 mathProbably worth noting that mathematicians have an extremely high bar for "deeply understanding." It's not like they're being dumb, the impression that I got is that making progress in number theory is actually just close to the limit of humanity's collective cognitive ability
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Upgrade your cargo cult for the win
(metarationality.com)
2016-12-31 rationality, , metis, science -
On persuasion and anger
(drmaciver.com)
2016-12-29 -
The Computational Condition
(slideshare.net)
2016-12-21 hannah-arendt, philosophy, meaning -
What Does Any of This Have To Do with Physics?
(nautil.us)
2016-12-19 effort, meaning, physics, academia, girard, burnout -
The Shame of Work
(philosophicaldisquisitions.blogspot.com)
2016-12-15 work, meaning, , community -
Thought vectors and the dimensionality of the space of concepts
(infoproc.blogspot.com)
2016-12-14 ai, concepts -
The World According to Stanisław Lem
(lareviewofbooks.org)
2016-12-10 fiction, scifi, stanislaw-lem -
Minimum Viable Citizen
(status451.com)
2016-12-06 , politics, community -
Why schools should not teach general critical-thinking skills
(aeon.co)
2016-12-05 education, critical-thinking -
A Pseudoethnography of Egregores
(ribbonfarm.com)
2016-12-01 egregores -
What does the universal prior actually look like?
(ordinaryideas.wordpress.com)
2016-11-30 computing, ait, philosophy -
The Phantom Men-Ness
(balioc.wordpress.com)
2016-11-30 gender, -
What they don’t teach you at STEM school
(metarationality.com)
2016-11-27 rationality, , kegan, science -
A Return To Discussion
(srconstantin.github.io)
2016-11-27 computing, , internet, politics, rationality, ratsphere, community -
What if jobs are not the solution but the problem?
(aeon.co)
2016-11-25 work, meaning, ubi -
Industry Matters
(srconstantin.github.io)
2016-11-19 technology, business, economics -
Go fonts
(go.dev)
2016-11-16 computing -
How to Live on Other Planets: Mars
(toughsf.blogspot.com)
2016-11-09 science, space, mars -
The Second Sage
(aeon.co)
2016-10-31 philosophy, morality, mencius, china -
Adam Cadre reviews Permutation City
(adamcadre.ac)
2016-10-28 fiction, scifi, greg-egan -
Humans are the urban fae
(roachpatrol.tumblr.com)
2016-10-28 weird, fae, animals -
Engines of Evidence A Conversation With Judea Pearl
(edge.org)
2016-10-24 rationality, causality -
Open and Interconnected Systems
(johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com)
2016-10-23 math, category-theory, systems -
Ra
(srconstantin.github.io)
2016-10-20 , egregores, legitimacy, ra -
Visions of the Semantic Apocalypse: A Critical Review of Yuval Noah Harari’s Homo Deus
(rsbakker.wordpress.com)
2016-10-20 yuval-noah-harari, semantic-apocalypse, transhumanism -
Nothing Remains Interesting If Anything Can Happen
(deltasdnd.blogspot.com)
2016-10-17 games, worldbuilding, rpg -
Descriptive variable names: A code smell
(degoes.net)
2016-10-10 computing -
𝔄
What is a type, and how do you think about it?
(vermillionazure.com)
2016-10-05 computing, type-theory, philosophy -
R notebooks
(posit.co)
2016-10-05 computing, data-science, notetaking, r -
The Enlightened Madness of Philip K. Dick: The Black Iron Prison and Wetiko
(realitysandwich.com)
2016-09-29 philip-k-dick, weird, gnosticism, reality -
Competitive Cognitive Artifacts and the Demise of Humanity: A Philosophical Analysis
(philosophicaldisquisitions.blogspot.com)
2016-09-18 philosophy, computing -
The difference between employment and independent contracting
(siderea.dreamwidth.org)
2016-09-14 work, business -
OSR aesthetics of ruin
(udan-adan.blogspot.com)
2016-09-08 games, rpg, osr, worldbuilding -
In praise of choicelessness
(meaningness.com)
2016-09-08 choices -
How studying mnemonics changed the way I learn
(agentyduck.blogspot.com)
2016-09-06 mnemonics, learning -
Formal proofs are not just deduction steps
(andrej.com)
2016-08-30 math -
Haida-Love Relationship
(srconstantin.github.io)
2016-08-26 moral-philosophy, stoicism, politics, jonathan-haidt -
The RPG Scrollbars: Adventures In Spaaaaaaace!
(rockpapershotgun.com)
2016-08-15 games, space -
What I learned as a hired consultant to autodidact physicists
(aeon.co)
2016-08-11 physics, sensemaking, crackpot, weird, sabine-hossenfelder -
Too Late for the Pebbles to Vote
[2]
[3]
(status451.com)
2016-08-09 , sociopaths -
Voxel Quest source code
(github.com/gavanw)
2016-08-05 gamedev, voxels -
The Quality Without a Name at the Betsy Ross Museum
(ribbonfarm.com)
2016-08-04 art, value -
Back in the day when they used to market cocaine
(vintag.es)
2016-08-01 drugs, 1970s, weird -
Habits of highly mathematical people
(medium.com/@jeremyjkun)
2016-07-28 math -
The Babysitters Club
(reallifemag.com)
2016-07-27 , technology, neoteny, empowerment -
A first lesson in meta-rationality
(metarationality.com)
2016-07-22 rationality, bongard-problems, ai, -
Notation and thought
(github.com/hypotext)
2016-07-22 notation, math, philosophy -
On Systems of Survival
(transientpetersen.tumblr.com)
2016-07-19 moral-philosophy, merchants-and-warriors, jane-jacobs -
Architecture patterns for larger Haskell programs
(reddit.com)
2016-07-14 computing, haskell -
Why It Took Social Science Years to Correct a Simple Error About ‘Psychoticism’
(nymag.com)
2016-07-14 sensemaking, sociology, politics -
I myself know enlightening beings’ method of reckoning
(nostalgebraist.tumblr.com)
2016-07-08 weird, buddhism, math -
A Few Useful Mental Tools from Richard Feynman
(fs.blog)
2016-07-05 richard-feynman, rationality, estimation -
"analytic philosophy just tends to feel wrong to me"
(lapsarianalyst.tumblr.com)
2016-07-05 philosophy, diseased-discipline -
A parable about not "getting" analytic philosophy
(lapsarianalyst.tumblr.com)
2016-07-04 philosophy, diseased-discipline -
On the Habitability of Our Universe
(arxiv.org)
2016-06-29 space, evolution, abiogenesis, aliens -
Why are humans soft?
(meteuphoric.wordpress.com)
2016-06-20 , science, rationality -
How to read a mathematics textbook
(drmaciver.com)
2016-05-30 math, learning -
Urbit: A Solid-State Interpreter (pdf)
(urbit.org)
2016-05-26 urbit, decentralized, computing, weird -
The GRIM test — a method for evaluating published research
(medium.com/@jamesheathers)
2016-05-23 statistics, data-science, sensemaking, replication-crisis -
Why NOT teach critical thinking
(uwindsor.ca)
2016-05-18 critical-thinking, education, rationality -
Curv: a language for making art using mathematics
(curv3d.org)
2016-05-13 computing, cg, code-cad -
Unnecessariat
(morecrows.wordpress.com)
2016-05-10 work, class, atomization, doomed -
The Tale of the Aristotelian Clock-Mender
(kennypearce.net)
2016-04-29 science, history, philosophy -
Jane Jacobs' Monstrous Hybrids: Guardians vs Commerce
(jebkinnison.com)
2016-04-29 moral-philosophy, merchants-and-warriors, jane-jacobs -
Immortality Begins at Forty
(ribbonfarm.com)
2016-04-28 , meaning -
A bridge to meta-rationality vs. civilizational collapse
(metarationality.com)
2016-04-26 rationality, kegan, , technology -
Measures of Awesomeness
(srconstantin.github.io)
2016-04-25 progress, technology, history -
Useful Notes on Tumblr Rationalist Culture
(thingofthings.wordpress.com)
2016-04-14 , ratsphere -
The Doom Movement Bible
(doomworld.com)
2016-04-10 games, doom -
What's awful about being a {software engineer, tech lead, manager}?
(onebigfluke.com)
2016-04-10 computing, work, -
The Peril Of The Sublime
(srconstantin.github.io)
2016-04-08 art, rationality -
Business as Magic
(ribbonfarm.com)
2016-04-07 business, work, meaning -
Programming by Poking: Why MIT Stopped Teaching SICP
(lambda-the-ultimate.org)
2016-04-04 computing, learning, lisp -
The Ideology Is Not the Movement
(slatestarcodex.com)
2016-04-04 , politics, subcultures -
Umberto Eco and his legacy in open-world games
(killscreen.com)
2016-03-30 games -
𝔄
A Guide for Young Ladies Entering the Service of the Fairies
(hanginggardenstories.tumblr.com)
2016-03-28 fiction -
Why Cryonics Makes Sense
(waitbutwhy.com)
2016-03-24 transhumanism, cryonics -
Instead of asking for definitions
(nancylebov.dreamwidth.org)
2016-03-23 rationality, -
Book Review: The Ego and Its Own
(reddit.com)
2016-03-19 max-stirner, philosophy -
Vectored Signatures, or the Elements of a Possible V-Algebra
(loper-os.org)
2016-03-18 decentralized, security, trust -
The Second Rule of Status
(tumblr.com/raggedjackscarlet)
2016-03-17 -
We only hire the trendiest
(danluu.com)
2016-03 work, -
What is Tough Science Fiction
(toughsf.blogspot.com)
2016-02-27 fiction, space, scifi -
Stellar Consensus Protocol (pdf)
(stellar.org)
2016-02-25 decentralized, computing -
When did the self-help movement lose its ethical seriousness
(aeon.co)
2016-02-23 self-improvement, meaning -
Secret Wars and the psychology of the Marvel mega event
(redantsunderneath.tumblr.com)
2016-02-22 comics, marvel -
Nonfiction writing advice
(slatestarcodex.com)
2016-02-20 writing, sensemaking -
Building 2D worlds
(cesspit.net)
2016-02-19 gamedev, maps -
𝔄
Paranoid rant
(slatestarcodex.com)
2016-02-14 politics -
Instilling Novel Thought Patterns and Making Your Long-Term Memory Accountable with Anki
(guzey.com)
2016-02-13 spaced-repetition -
Book Review: Superforecasting
(slatestarcodex.com)
2016-02-04 forecasting -
Staying Classy
(slatestarcodex.com)
2016-01-30 class, -
Notes on 'Mindware: Tools for Smart Thinking'
(scattered-thoughts.net)
2016-01-28 rationality -
"People occasionally ask me about signs that the remaining timeline might be short."
(ycombinator.com)
2016-01-27 ai, alignment, eliezer-yudkowsky, bitter-lesson -
Class (American)
(siderea.dreamwidth.org)
2016-01-25 class, -
ln The 3D Line Art Engine
(github.com/fogleman)
2016-01-10 computing, graphics -
Dota 2 Workshop - Character Art Guide
(steampowered.com)
2016 art, design, gamedev -
Life on the Infinite Farm (pdf)
(brown.edu)
2016 math, weird -
Graphics Programming Projects
(graphicscodex.com)
2016 computing, exercise, cg -
David Alger's Rules of Improv
[2]
(improvencyclopedia.org)
2016 improv -
Unsong
(unsongbook.com)
2015-12-28 fiction -
The price of the Internet of Things will be a vague dread of a malicious world
(ieet.org)
2015-12-27 computing, internet-of-things, equilibria, privacy, security, doomed -
Tell Me Who You Are
(medium.com/@Consensys)
2015-12-23 identity, computing, security -
Truthcoin white paper (pdf)
(truthcoin.info)
2015-12-14 prediction-markets, decentralized, computing -
Limits of morphological freedom
(aleph.se)
2015-12-14 transhumanism, identity, philosophy -
Dear Parents: Everything You Need to Know About Your Son and Daughter’s University But Don’t
(lareviewofbooks.org)
2015-12-09 academia, politics, empowerment, doomed -
The Reasoned Lisper - Bridging Discrete and Continuous Logic in Automated Reasoning Systems
(chriskohlhepp.wordpress.com)
2015-12-08 computing, lisp, logic-programming -
Book Review: Hive Mind
(slatestarcodex.com)
2015-12-08 economics, iq, systems, hive-mind -
What happens if the explanatory and response variables are sorted independently before regression?
(stackexchange.com)
2015-12-07 statistics, doomed, funny -
Learn To Code, It’s Harder Than You Think
(mikehadlow.blogspot.com)
2015-12-04 computing, learning, effort -
A Trackless Path: Dzogchen in plain English
(vividness.live)
2015-12-01 dzocghen, meditation -
Can You Hear Me Now?
(ribbonfarm.com)
2015-12-01 , atomization, meaning -
Setting The Default
(slatestarcodex.com)
2015-12-01 rationality, -
Perfectionism, Toxic and Otherwise
(siderea.dreamwidth.org)
2015-12-01 , perfectionism, effort -
Normalization of deviance
(danluu.com)
2015-12 sensemaking, business, mazes, -
The predator in the herd
(benjaminrosshoffman.com)
2015-11-17 rationality, -
Crash Space (pdf)
(rsbakker.files.wordpress.com)
2015-11 cognitive, rationality, neuroscience, philosophy, semantic-apocalypse, future, transhumanism, doomed, friction -
Hieratic documentation
(esr.ibiblio.org)
2015-10-30 writing, computing -
The Cuneiform Tablets of 2015
(archive.org)
2015-10-29 computing, future, engineering -
Several types of types in programming languages
(arxiv.org)
2015-10-13 computing, type-theory -
Developing ethical, social, and cognitive competence
(vividness.live)
2015-10-12 rationality, , kegan -
To destroy the Earth
(qntm.org)
2015-10-04 fiction, physics, transhumanism, space -
Simple, Upstream, and Decisive
(srconstantin.github.io)
2015-10-04 medicine, technology -
Compressionism: A Theory of Mind Based on Data Compression (pdf)
(ceur-ws.org)
2015-09-25 cognitive, computing, ai, consciousness, ait -
An Extremely Personal Rant On Tolstoy
(srconstantin.github.io)
2015-09-21 literature, rationality -
Tufte CSS
(edwardtufte.github.io)
2015-09-20 web -
Anarcho-ecologies and the Problem of Transhumanism
(rsbakker.wordpress.com)
2015-09-18 philosophy, transhumanism, semantic-apocalypse -
Mythic Values/Folk Values
(tumblr.com/raggedjackscarlet)
2015-09-17 rationality, ratsphere, -
Towards A More Mature Atheism
(dividuals.wordpress.com)
2015-09-17 religion, atheism, rationality, -
The Why and the Wherefore
(dtsheffler.com)
2015-09-17 computing, version-control, notetaking, git -
“We Own You” – Confessions of an Anonymous Free to Play Producer
(toucharcade.com)
2015-09-16 games, skinner-box, business, privacy -
The Asshole Filter
(siderea.dreamwidth.org)
2015-09-15 -
Cult of the cosmic: how space travel became the unofficial religion of the USSR
(new-east-archive.org)
2015-09-10 space, russia, politics, history -
Git for Zettelkasten
(dtsheffler.com)
2015-09-10 computing, version-control, notetaking, git, zettelkasten -
The Fall of the Meritocracy
(quadrant.org.au)
2015-09-07 politics, meritocracy, iq, genetics -
Neural Networks, Types, and Functional Programming
(colah.github.io)
2015-09-03 computing, type-theory, ml -
Probability theory does not extend logic
(metarationality.com)
2015-09-01 rationality, bayes -
The Psychonaut Field Manual
(deviantart.com)
2015-08-30 magic -
Energetics of the brain and AI
(aleph.se)
2015-08-28 cognitive, neuroscience, physics, ai -
What caused the LW diaspora, and when did it start?
(slatestarscratchpad.tumblr.com)
2015-08-22 , ratsphere, history -
Extending Galactic Habitable Zone Modelling to Include the Emergence of Intelligent Life (pdf)
(nau.edu)
2015-08-14 space, aliens -
Going From Reading To Notes
(dtsheffler.com)
2015-08-11 learning, notetaking -
Reading Notes
(dtsheffler.com)
2015-08-10 notetaking, learning -
One Thought Per Note
(dtsheffler.com)
2015-08-05 notetaking, organization -
Houyhnhnm Computing
(ngnghm.github.io)
2015-08-02 computing, weird -
Forbearance
(srconstantin.github.io)
2015-07-31 , politics -
My favorite class of posts on r/nootropics
(slatestarscratchpad.tumblr.com)
2015-07-23 drugs, mental-illness -
The General Factor of Correctness
(slatestarcodex.com)
2015-07-23 rationality, sensemaking, estimation -
Johnny Decimal
(johnnydecimal.com)
2015-07-20 notetaking, organization -
Levels of Reading
(dtsheffler.com)
2015-07-06 learning, minimalism -
𝔄
The Perfect Language
(inference-review.com)
2015-07 computing, math, plt, ait, philosophy -
The Definitive Glossary of Higher Math Jargon
(mathvault.ca)
2015-06-28 math -
The Logic of Surveillance Capitalism
(philosophicaldisquisitions.blogspot.com)
2015-06-25 computing, business, privacy -
The Copenhagen Interpretation of Ethics
(gwern.net)
2015-06-24 moral-philosophy, rationality -
The Tragedy of the Common Lisp, or, Why Large Languages Explode
(esdiscuss.org)
2015-06-18 computing, lisp -
Creating a language using only assembly language
(speakerdeck.com)
2015-06-11 computing -
Puzzle Theory
(ribbonfarm.com)
2015-06-04 art, meaning, rationality -
A Complete Taxonomy of Internet Chum
(theawl.com)
2015-06-04 web, cursed, clickbait -
Where Do The Failed 0.1% Go? (pdf)
(t3x.org)
2015-06 iq, doomed, alienation -
Geeks, MOPs, and sociopaths in subculture evolution
(meaningness.com)
2015-05-30 , sociopaths, politics, subcultures -
No time like the present for AI safety work
(slatestarcodex.com)
2015-05-29 ai, alignment -
"engineers can teach calculus, but their students cannot go on to teach calculus"
(ycombinator.com)
2015-05-28 math, calculus, learning -
Epistemology Sequence
[2]
[3]
[4]
[5]
(srconstantin.wordpress.com)
2015-05-27 rationality, concepts -
Consciousness Began When the Gods Stopped Speaking
(nautil.us)
2015-05-21 cognitive, bicameral, consciousness, weird -
The Douglas Adams Silmarillion
(lintamande.tumblr.com)
2015-05-16 fiction, funny, tolkien -
The Enemy Control Ray
(thingofthings.wordpress.com)
2015-05-15 politics, rationality, asymmetric-weapon -
𝔄
A Pixel Artist Renounces Pixel Art
(dinofarmgames.com)
2015-05-12 gamedev, art -
Physicists Are Philosophers, Too
(scientificamerican.com)
2015-05-08 philosophy, platonism, science -
Divisions Within the LW-Sphere
(thingofthings.wordpress.com)
2015-05-07 , rationality, ratsphere -
Maybe the real rationalism was the friends we made along the way
(nostalgebraist.tumblr.com)
2015-05-04 , ratsphere, cfar -
𝔄
When Daydreaming Replaces Real Life
(theatlantic.com)
2015-04-29 cognitive, mental-health, paracosm, weird -
Six works of Computer Science-Fiction
(fogus.me)
2015-04-27 computing -
We need to sing about mental health.
(hotelconcierge.tumblr.com)
2015-04-19 mental-health, -
Implementing Morton ordering for chunked voxel data
(volumesoffun.com)
2015-04-17 math, geometry, voxels -
The death of optimizing compilers (pdf)
(yp.to)
2015-04-16 computing, plt, djb -
Bringing magic back to technology
(countercomplex.blogspot.com)
2015-04-09 computing, music, bytebeat, minimalism -
See Hear Feel: An Introduction (pdf)
(shinzen.org)
2015-04 meditation -
The Exterior Algebra and Central Notions in Mathematics
🗝️
(doi.org)
2015-04 math, geometric-algebra -
A Networked World
[2]
[3]
(johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com)
2015-03-27 math, category-theory, systems -
Book Review: THe Machinery of Freedom
(slatestarcodex.com)
2015-03-18 politics, libertarianism -
Continuous functions are those which preserve approximate measurements
(drmaciver.com)
2015-03-07 math, estimation -
Worldbuilding - Atomic Rockets
(projectrho.com)
2015-03-07 worldbuilding, space -
A cascade of Dunbar numbers
(slatestarcodex.com)
2015-03-05 , , politics, ratsphere -
Gardens Need Walls: On Boundaries, Ritual, and Beauty
(ribbonfarm.com)
2015-03-04 , systems -
Structure and Interpretation of Classical Mechanics, Second Edition
(mit.edu)
2015-02-06 computing, physics, lisp -
Some notes on Rust, the language
(lambda-the-ultimate.org)
2015-02-01 computing, rust -
The Parable of the Talents
(slatestarcodex.com)
2015-01-31 gifted, effort -
The Man Who Tried to Redeem the World with Logic - Walter Pitts
(nautil.us)
2015-01-29 cognitive, ai, neuroscience, characters -
Retiring Python as a Teaching Language
(dadgum.com)
2015-01-20 computing, learning, python, javascript, empowerment -
On the Design of Escaped Realities
(ribbonfarm.com)
2015-01-16 games, rationality, simulacra, ego, realism, vr -
The Simple Proof of the Tetris Lamp
(jackmorris.xyz)
2015-01-11 math -
Ritual and the Consciousness Monoculture
(ribbonfarm.com)
2015-01-08 cognitive, bicameral, religion, consciousness, , meaning -
Cliodynamics
(peterturchin.com)
2015 history, peter-turchin -
Rob Pike's poop page
(robpike.io)
2015 computing, poop, web, weird, rob-pike, scrapingUse to test web scrapers
-
Category theory: online lecture notes, etc.
(logicmatters.net)
2015 math, category-theory, reference -
How to get good at math contests
(markan.net)
2015 math, exercises -
Advent of Code
(adventofcode.com)
2015 computing, exercises, advent-of-code -
The algebra (and calculus!) of algebraic data types
(recurse.com)
2015 computing, haskell -
Paul Almond article archive
(reducing-suffering.org)
2015 religion, rationality, ai, atheism, philosophy -
Haskell Fan Site
(stanford.edu)
2015 computing, math, haskell, geometric-algebra -
A Collection of Quick Observations - Brian Tomasik
(briantomasik.com)
2015 learning, sensemaking -
EVA Wiki
(semantic-mediawiki.org)
2015 semantic-web, space, wiki -
How to Make an RPG: Stats
(howtomakeanrpg.com)
2015 games, gamedev, crpg -
Google Common Lisp Style Guide
(google.github.io)
2015 computing, lisp -
Functional Education
(bitemyapp.com)
2014-12-31 computing, learning, haskell, reference -
Math Kills the Analogies, a Good Thing
(gnxp.com)
2014-12-31 math, biology, sensemaking -
The Infamous Windows "Hello World" Program
(charlespetzold.com)
2014-12-08 computing, c, cursed, history -
How to Be an Expert in a Changing World
(paulgraham.com)
2014-12 rationality -
How You Know
(paulgraham.com)
2014-12 rationality, cognitive, learning -
Propositions as Types (pdf)
(ed.ac.uk)
2014-11-29 computing, type-theory -
The Generalist
(thebigquestions.com)
2014-11-17 math, grothendieck -
𝔄
Humans should learn maths
(scattered-thoughts.net)
2014-11-15 math, learning -
Handmade Hero
(handmadehero.org)
2014-11-13 computing, gamedev, empowerment -
Doing Business in Japan
(kalzumeus.com)
2014-11-07 business, japan -
Building C Projects
(nethack4.org)
2014-11-05 computing, c -
The Art Of Insight In Science And Engineering: Mastering Complexity
(mit.edu)
2014-11 estimation, science, math, rationality -
Tribe color matrix
(imgur.com)
2014-10-28 grey-tribe, politics, religion -
Uncertainty and confidence
(srconstantin.github.io)
2014-10-16 estimation, rationality, bayes, knightian-uncertainty -
𝔄
I Can Tolerate Anything Except The Outgroup
(slatestarcodex.com)
2014-09-30 rationality, politics -
Use of Formal Methods at Amazon Web Services (pdf)
(glat.info)
2014-09-29 computing, formal-methods, backend -
Why No Science of Nerds?
(slatestarcodex.com)
2014-09-25 nerds, sociology -
𝔄
Oxbridge Notes Guide To Autodidactism
(oxbridgenotes.com)
2014-09-21 learning -
Delacian's Scrapbook
(delacian.tumblr.com)
2014-09-20 gamedev, procgen, architecture -
Creating Epic-Scale Games on an Indie Budget
(gamedeveloper.com)
2014-09-18 gamedev, procgen, space, minimalism -
Zero to One: Secrets
(businessinsider.com)
2014-09-15 business, rationality, peter-thiel -
Book Review: Singer on Marx
(slatestarcodex.com)
2014-09-13 politics, history, leftism -
What the Hell, Hegel?
(slatestarcodex.com)
2014-09-12 philosophy, diseased-discipline, hegel -
The Book No One Read
(nautil.us)
2014-09-11 transhumanism, systems, stanislaw-lem -
"Cyranoids": Stanley Milgram's Creepiest Experiment
(discovermagazine.com)
2014-09-06 , psychology, weird -
The Future Programming Manifesto
(alarmingdevelopment.org)
2014-08-27 computing, complexity, empowerment, minimalism -
Ebola-chan
(knowyourmeme.com)
2014-08-26 egregores, 4chan, weird -
A paper algorithm notation
(canonical.org)
2014-08-26 notetaking, computing -
Christopher Thomas Knight
(wikipedia.org)
2014-08-24 weird, , characters -
Black Triangles
(rampantgames.com)
2014-08-12 computing, gamedev -
The resource leak bug of our civilization
(countercomplex.blogspot.com)
2014-08-05 computing, minimalism, alienation, efficiency -
The Fame Trap
(matt-welsh.blogspot.com)
2014-08-04 academia, -
Meditations on Moloch
(slatestarcodex.com)
2014-07-30 rationality, equilibria -
Chronological Association
(dtsheffler.com)
2014-07-28 notetaking, organization -
Notebook Annotation
(dtsheffler.com)
2014-07-26 notetaking -
Refactoring the Internet: Taking Down the Walls
(sifter.org)
2014-07-24 computing, decentralized -
The fatal attraction of FRP
(t0yv0.blogspot.com)
2014-07-22 computing, frp -
Thoughts: Divinty - Original Sin
(scientificgamer.com)
2014-07-21 games, crpg -
Two Goals of Note-taking
(dtsheffler.com)
2014-07-21 notetaking, learning -
Tegmark's Vast Math
(overcomingbias.com)
2014-07-21 transhumanism, physics, math, max-tegmark, reality, uploads, systems, many-worlds, simulation-argument -
𝔄
The Story of Doom
(richardcobbett.com)
2014-07-18 games, doom -
𝔄
IQ Shredders
(xenosystems.net)
2014-07-17 evolution, iq, doomed -
Interactive scientific computing; of pythonic parts and goldilocks languages
(lambda-the-ultimate.org)
2014-07-12 computing -
Strategy headroom in roguelikes
(nethack4.org)
2014-07-07 games, roguelikes, gamedev -
Dzogchen and Glennzgchen
(meditationstuff.wordpress.com)
2014-06-26 meditation, dzogchen -
Stop whining and accept these axioms
(pienaarspace.wordpress.com)
2014-06-24 physics, quantum-physics -
𝔄
How we play RTS and what is wrong
(competitivegamedesign.net)
2014-06-23 games, rts -
Eigenmorality
(scottaaronson.blog)
2014-06-18 , trust-networks, systems, math, politics, morality -
Understanding Heidegger on Technology
(thenewatlantis.com)
2014-06-10 heidegger, technology, philosophy -
𝔄
Archipelago and Atomic Communitarism
(slatestarcodex.com)
2014-06-07 politics, patchwork -
Complexity no Bar to AI
(gwern.net)
2014-06-01 ai, computing, singularity, complexity -
Norris Numbers
(teamten.com)
2014-06-01 computing, complexity -
How to become a good theoretical physicist
(goodtheorist.science)
2014-06 physics, learning, reference -
Keep a Changelog
(keepachangelog.com)
2014-05-31 computing -
Why I Am Not An Integrated Information Theorist (or, The Unconscious Expander)
(scottaaronson.blog)
2014-05-21 cognitive, consciousness, integrated-information-theory, physics, complexity, systems -
Chasing the Dragon
(eurogamer.net)
2014-05-18 gamedev, chris-crawford -
You’re probably using the wrong dictionary
(jsomers.net)
2014-05-18 writing -
Pain we forgot
(scattered-thoughts.net)
2014-05-17 computing, usability, learning -
Types, and two approaches to problem solving
(sigfpe.com)
2014-05-17 computing, math, type-theory -
Map homunculus
(simblob.blogspot.com)
2014-05-12 math, gamedev, geometry -
Roguelike AI
[2]
[3]
[4]
[5]
[6]
[7]
[8]
[9]
[10]
(dillingers.com)
2014-05-10 games, roguelikes, gamedev -
Congratulations! You just won millions of dollars in the lottery! Now you're fucked.
(reddit.com)
2014-05-06 money, , doomed, lottery -
Epigrams · Gwern.net
(gwern.net)
2014-04-30 rationality -
Right is the New Left
(slatestarcodex.com)
2014-04-22 politics, -
The Door Problem
(lizengland.com)
2014-04-21 gamedev -
tptacek reviews Practical Cryptography With Go
(ycombinator.com)
2014-04-13 computing, cryptography -
𝔄
The five kinds of nanotechnology
(metamodern.com)
2014-04-04 nanotechnology -
My April Fools' Day Confession
(yudkowsky.tumblr.com)
2014-04-01 dath-ilan, rationality, worldbuilding -
Univalent Foundations (pdf)
(ias.edu)
2014-03-26 math, hott -
When the serpent bites
(kundalini.se)
2014-03-23 meditation, kundalini, weird -
Typical Mind and Disbelief in Straight People
(slatestarcodex.com)
2014-03-20 sensemaking, , weird -
Clifford Algebra: A visual introduction
(slehar.wordpress.com)
2014-03-18 math, computing, geometric-algebra, cg -
Memory management in C programs
(nethack4.org)
2014-03-16 computing, c, 101 -
Drones will cause an upheaval of society like we haven’t seen in 700 years
(qz.com)
2014-03-11 politics, war, drones, progress, ai -
Global Village Construction Set
(opensourceecology.org)
2014-03-02 engineering, decentralized -
Tim Oren's User Interface Advice
(rath.ca)
2014-03-01 computing, ui -
Ohm parsing toolkit
(github.com/ohmjs)
2014-02-27 computing, parsing -
In Favor of Niceness, Community and Civilization
(slatestarcodex.com)
2014-02-23 politics, , elua -
Torus-Earth
(aleph.se)
2014-02-04 math, geometry, physics, space -
The Not Rocket Science Rule Of Software Engineering
(graydon2.dreamwidth.org)
2014-02-02 computing, devops -
Wirehead Gods on Lotus Thrones
(slatestarcodex.com)
2014-01-28 transhumanism, meaning, wireheading, value, uploads -
There are Only Four Billion Floats–So Test Them All!
(randomascii.wordpress.com)
2014-01-27 computing, floating-point -
The British amateur who debunked the mathematics of happiness
(theguardian.com)
2014-01-19 science, math, psychology, sensemaking, alan-sokal -
Consciousness as a State of Matter
(arxiv.org)
2014-01-06 cognitive, physics, consciousness, max-tegmark, systems, weird -
The Pannini Projection
(tksharpless.net)
2014 math, geometry, art -
Ergonomics of the Symbolics Lisp Machine - Reflections on the Developer Productivity
(lispm.de)
2014 computing, lisp -
Smarter policymaking through improved collective cognition? (pdf)
(aleph.se)
2014 rationality, politics, systems, decentralized -
The 7date specification
(tylerneylon.com)
2014 time, weird -
Little Languages for Relational Programming (pdf)
(schemeworkshop.org)
2014 computing, lisp, logic-programming -
How did we get here from there? The transformation of analytic philosophy (pdf)
(ox.ac.uk)
2014 philosophy, reality -
Art of Screenshake notes
(reddit.com)
2013-12-17 gamedev -
The Log: What every software engineer should know about real-time data's unifying abstraction
(linkedin.com)
2013-12-16 computing, backend -
40 comics by Alan Moore
(adamcadre.ac)
2013-12-15 comics, alan-moore -
You advocate a ________ approach to calendar reform
(qntm.org)
2013-12-09 time, cursed -
A Something Sort of Like a Left-Libertarianish Manifesto
(slatestarcodex.com)
2013-12-08 politics, libertarianism -
The Habitable Epoch of the Early Universe
(arxiv.org)
2013-12-02 space, evolution, abiogenesis, aliens -
Adam Cadre: Star Control II
(adamcadre.ac)
2013-11-23 games, space, starflight -
𝔄
Exiting the Vampire Castle
(thenorthstar.info)
2013-11-22 , vampire-castle -
Lindy effect
(wikipedia.org)
2013-11-19 lindy, history, estimation -
On learning difficult things
(greaterwrong.com)
2013-11-12 rationality, learning -
Commentary on the Ax spec
(github.com/mnemnion)
2013-11-02 computing, weird -
Some thoughts on education and political priorities (pdf)
(dominiccummings.com)
2013-11 education, science, future, politics -
The Night Watch (pdf)
(harvard.edu)
2013-11 computing, funny -
Noether: Symmetry in Programming Language Design (pdf)
(tahoe-lafs.org)
2013-10-22 computing, symmetry -
When does a physical system compute?
(arxiv.org)
2013-09-30 computation, physics, philosophy -
Notes on Soviet life, on discussing Cryo's KGB game
[2]
(lparchive.org)
2013-09-26 russia, games -
Raging Swan's dungeon design advice
[2]
[3]
[4]
[5]
[6]
[7]
[8]
[9]
(livejournal.com)
2013-09-03 games, rpg -
Another Empty, Lifeless Planet Found
(the-toast.net)
2013-09-03 doomed, space, funny -
Stephen Hsu on Cognitive Genomics
(intelligence.org)
2013-08-31 genetics, iq -
How to do foreground/background meditation
(meditationstuff.wordpress.com)
2013-08-25 meditation -
Leaving Go
(bitbucket.io)
2013-08-23 golang, critical -
Beautiful Native Libraries
(pocoo.org)
2013-08-18 computing -
On the Phenomenon of Bullshit Jobs
(strikemag.org)
2013-08-17 work, meaning -
The Shape of Rome
(exurbe.com)
2013-08-15 rome, architecture, history -
Things to commit just before leaving your job
(gist.github.com/aras-p)
2013-08-13 computing, c, funny -
Towards being able to ignore $TERM
(nethack4.org)
2013-08-12 computing, terminal -
How To Think Real Good
(metarationality.com)
2013-08-09 rationality, -
𝔄
Gigantic Pentagram Found in Kazakhstan
(vigilantcitizen.com)
2013-08-03 worldbuilding, weird -
Xerox scanners/photocopiers randomly alter numbers in scanned documents
(dkriesel.com)
2013-08-02 computing, security, weird -
Kids can't use computers... and this is why it should worry you
(coding2learn.org)
2013-07-29 computing, empowerment -
Accuracy in historical fiction
(exurbe.com)
2013-07-26 fiction, history -
Applied Cryptography Engineering
(sockpuppet.org)
2013-07-22 learning, computing, cryptography, reference -
Fallout: Equestria
(fimfiction.net)
2013-07-22 games, fiction -
On Knowledge Representation
[2]
[3]
(sifter.org)
2013-07-13 computing, ai, type-theory -
Friction
(stratechery.com)
2013-07-08 business, , friction -
The Hierarchy of Requests
(livejournal.com)
2013-07-03 -
Review of Basic Structures of Reality: Essays in Meta-Physics (pdf)
(kerrymckenzie.org)
2013-07 philosophy, diseased-discipline, physics, colin-mcginn -
Dirty Game Development Tricks
(gamedeveloper.com)
2013-06-24 gamedev -
Flight rules for Git
(github.com/k88hudson)
2013-06-22 computing, version-control, git -
The Ghost in the Quantum Turing Machine
(arxiv.org)
2013-06-02 computing, transhumanism, quantum-computing, uploads, philosophy -
Jasen Murray on tranquility meditation
(kajsotala.fi)
2013-05-15 meditation -
Posts on Raikoth
[2]
[3]
[4]
[5]
[6]
[7]
(slatestarcodex.com)
2013-05-06 worldbuilding, raikoth -
Against The Seriousness Of Theology
(gnxp.com)
2013-04-24 rationality, religion, -
F. D. C. Willard
(wikipedia.org)
2013-04-20 science, cats -
Causal Entropic Forces
🗝️
(doi.org)
2013-04-19 physics, entropy, systems, ai -
Things I Learned by Spending Five Thousand Years in an Alternate Universe
(slatestarcodex.com)
2013-04-15 worldbuilding, , raikoth -
Life Before Earth
(arxiv.org)
2013-03-28 genetics, evolution, physics, space, aliens -
The largest computer ever built
(scottlocklin.wordpress.com)
2013-03-28 computing, history, technology -
Why You Don't Want Vipassana
(muflax.church)
2013-03-12 meditation -
A Thrive/Survive Theory of the Political Spectrum
(slatestarcodex.com)
2013-03-04 politics, progress, luxury-beliefs -
Reactionary Philosophy in an Enormous, Planet-Sized Nutshell
[2]
(slatestarcodex.com)
2013-03-03 politics -
Why there is no Hitchhiker's Guide to Mathematics for Programmers
(jeremykun.com)
2013-02-08 math, computing -
Four hours of concentration a day
(johndcook.com)
2013-02-04 math, work -
𝔄
Single Income No Kids: A Supernormal Stimulus Benevolently Exploiting Ancestral Patterns
(theviewfromhell.blogspot.com)
2013-02-01 , children, meaning -
Focusing Creativity: RPG Genres
(gamedeveloper.com)
2013-01-24 games, gamedev, crpg -
Please Don't Say Just Hello in Chat
(nohello.com)
2013-01-16 -
Senses Initiated Lucid Dream (SSILD)
(cosmiciron.blogspot.com)
2013-01-16 lucid-dreaming, sleep -
Schemaless Data Structures
(martinfowler.com)
2013-01-07 computing, backend -
𝔄
Lords of Chaos and Chaos Reborn
(gollopgames.com)
2013-01-02 games, crpg, lords-of-chaos -
Plaintext Productivity
(plaintext-productivity.net)
2013 computing, plaintext, notetaking, organization -
The Descent to C
(greenend.org.uk)
2013 computing, c, 101 -
Alex Alaniz' math study notes (pdf)
(ucr.edu)
2013 learning, math, reference -
Alex Alaniz' math and physics syllabus (pdf)
(ucr.edu)
2013 learning, math, physics, reference -
Project Oberon The Design of an Operating System, a Compiler, and a Computer
(ethz.ch)
2013 computing -
Avernum 4 Annotated Maps
(harehunter.info)
2013 games, crpg -
NandGame - Build a computer from scratch
(nandgame.com)
2013 learning, computing, games -
HackerRank
(hackerrank.com)
2013 computing, exercises -
wj = work journal
(tylerneylon.com)
2013 work, notetaking -
Daniel Dennett: If brains are computers, what kind of computers are they?
(greaterwrong.com)
2013 computing, cognitive, philosophy -
Utopian for Beginners
(newyorker.com)
2012-12-16 conlang, politics, weird, john-quijada -
On Seeing Through and Unseeing: The Hacker Mindset
(gwern.net)
2012-12-09 physics, computing, rationality, security -
hledger
(joeyh.name)
2012-12-03 computing, haskell, accounting -
Friendship is Optimal
(fimfiction.net)
2012-11-13 fiction, singularity -
Ray Tracing in Real-Time Games (pdf)
(jbikker.github.io)
2012-11-06 computing, gamedev, cg -
Uses This / Joey Hess
(usesthis.com)
2012-10-30 computing, minimalism -
𝔄
Building Your Own Memex
(gradhacker.org)
2012-10-10 notetaking -
Moving Parts: the Aesthetic of Intricacy
(livejournal.com)
2012-10-05 art, rationality -
The Fifth Problem: Math & Anti-Semitism in the Soviet Union
(ruthfullyyours.com)
2012-10-04 russia, math, politics -
Learning D
[2]
[3]
[4]
(probablydance.com)
2012-10-03 computing, d -
𝔄
The Sixth Meditation on Superweapons
(livejournal.com)
2012-09-16 rationality, politics -
The Yudkowsky Ambition scale
(ycombinator.com)
2012-09-12 future, ai, transhumanism, eliezer-yudkowsky -
In Search of a Bigger Boom
(nuclearsecrecy.com)
2012-09-12 technology, physics, edward-teller, nuclear -
If You Meet Neil DeGrasse Tyson on the Road, Kill Him.
(rifters.com)
2012-09-06 science, politics, media, rationality -
Crapshoot: Sentient, the game where every NPC has independent AI, and they all hate you
(pcgamer.com)
2012-08-28 games, weird -
The Fragile Foundation of Skills
(rdonoghue.blogspot.com)
2012-08-23 games, rpg, gamedev -
Learning to Read Causal Loop Diagrams
(systemsandus.com)
2012-08-15 causality, systems, research -
Towards Better PDF Management with the Filesystem
(jasonheppler.org)
2012-08-13 notetaking, organization -
Motivation and methods for math self-study
(stackexchange.com)
2012-08-11 math -
Crash Course on Notation in Programming Language Theory
(siek.blogspot.com)
2012-07-26 computing, type-theory -
A Tall Tail
(reactormag.com)
2012-07-20 fiction, red-mercury -
Opinions on college education
(livejournal.com)
2012-07-18 education, academia -
Master's thesis on homotopy type theory (pdf)
(homotopytypetheory.org)
2012-07-06 computing, type-theory, hott -
The Rockwell International Integrated Space Plan (Vector Redux Version)
(makezine.com)
2012-07-06 space, systems -
Why is processing a sorted array faster than processing an unsorted array?
(stackoverflow.com)
2012-06-27 computing -
Porting POWDER (pdf)
(gamesofgrey.com)
2012-06-02 gamedev -
Dissociated Mechanics – A Brief Primer
(thealexandrian.net)
2012-05-31 games, rpg, gamedev -
Extreme reading
(fogus.me)
2012-05-23 learning -
Engelbart's Violin
(loper-os.org)
2012-05-23 computing, keyboards -
Famous Programers on How Common Lisp Sucks
(xahlee.info)
2012-05-12 computing, lisp -
Reviewing As Thinking
(yourawesomememory.com)
2012-05-11 learning, spaced-repetition -
How Flashcards Fail: Confessions of a Tired Memory Guy
(yourawesomememory.com)
2012-05-05 learning, spaced-repetition -
One Man’s Modus Ponens
(gwern.net)
2012-05-01 sensemaking, modus-tollens -
Errors vs. Bugs and the End of Stupidity
(livejournal.com)
2012-04-29 , rationality -
Flowcharts, the once and future programming language
(vanemden.wordpress.com)
2012-04-08 computing -
Cryonics without freezers: resurrection possibilities in a Big World
(greaterwrong.com)
2012-04-05 transhumanism, rationality, uploads, identity, cryonics, weird -
𝔄
Science on the Rampage
(nybooks.com)
2012-04-05 science, crackpot -
Altruistic punishment
(wikipedia.org)
2012-04-05 rationality, , law -
A Forth story
(groups.google.com)
2012-04-04 computing, forth -
Semantic Linefeeds
(rhodesmill.org)
2012-04-03 computing, plaintext, writing -
Game Structures
[2]
[3]
[4]
[5]
[6]
[7]
[8]
[9]
[10]
[11]
[12]
[13]
[14]
[15]
[16]
[17]
[18]
[19]
[20]
[21]
(thealexandrian.net)
2012-04-02 tg -
A cheap version of nonstandard analysis
(terrytao.wordpress.com)
2012-04-02 math, nonstandard-analysis -
jrnl
(jrnl.sh)
2012-03-29 computing, notetaking, plaintext -
Sigils Reboot
(runesoup.com)
2012-03-22 magic -
Schelling fences on slippery slopes
(greaterwrong.com)
2012-03-17 schelling-points, rationality -
Entity Systems: what makes good Components? good Entities?
(t-machine.org)
2012-03-16 gamedev, ecs -
The Borderlands Gun Collector's Club
(steve-yegge.blogspot.com)
2012-03-12 games, borderlands -
Tribute to Vladimir Arnold (pdf)
(ams.org)
2012-03 math -
Co-dfns compiler
(github.com/Co-dfns)
2012-02-24 computing, apl -
Reading for the Rushed
(fogus.me)
2012-02-22 learning, notetaking -
𝔄
The End of Rationality
(muflax.com)
2012-02-22 cognitive, rationality, weird, consciousness, muflax -
𝔄
Psychopathy and superficial reliability
(michaelochurch.wordpress.com)
2012-02-11 , effort, sociopaths, trust -
Challenges for Brain Emulation: Why is Building a Brain so Difficult? (pdf)
(cornell.edu)
2012-02-05 cognitive, transhumanism, neuroscience, uploads -
Programming as collaborative reference (pdf)
(okmij.org)
2012-01-28 computing, -
Deconcentration of Attention: addressing the complexity of software engineering
(arxiv.org)
2012-01-27 computing, cognitive -
cjdns whitepaper
(github.com/cjdelisle)
2012-01-23 computing, decentralized -
If correlation doesn’t imply causation, then what does?
(michaelnielsen.org)
2012-01-23 science, causality, statistics -
IBNIZ
(github.com/viznut)
2012-01-03 computing, demoscene -
The Fantastic Four: The Great American Novel
(tedagame.com)
2012 comics, fantastic-four, marvel, weird -
The Nature of Code
(natureofcode.com)
2012 computing, processing, empowerment -
Simple pathtracing
(iquilezles.org)
2012 computing, cg -
The Credence Calibration Game
(acritch.com)
2012 rationality, forecasting -
suckless.org philosophy
(suckless.org)
2012 computing, minimalism, suckless -
LeetCode - The World's Leading Online Programming Learning Platform
(leetcode.com)
2012 computing, exercises -
Blood puddle pillow
(fromkeetra.com)
2012 art -
The Leprechauns of Software Engineering
(leanpub.com)
2012 computing -
Writing about Philosophy
(tylerneylon.com)
2012 philosophy, writing -
Utter elitism: French mathematics and the system of classes prépas (pdf)
(demorgangazette.files.wordpress.com)
2012 education, math, france -
Review of The Meaning of Disgust (pdf)
(ucl.ac.uk)
2012 philosophy, diseased-discipline, colin-mcginn -
Structures, Learning and Ergosystems (pdf)
(ihes.fr)
2011-12-30 ai, cognitive, math, weird -
𝔄
Their Noonday Demons, and Ours
(nytimes.com)
2011-12-23 effort, burnout, religion -
One Night in Skyrim Makes a Strong Man Crumble
(grantland.com)
2011-12-08 games, crpg -
More shell, less egg
(leancrew.com)
2011-12-04 computing, unix, donald-knuth, minimalism -
How Doctors Die
(zocalopublicsquare.org)
2011-11-30 doomed, death, medicine -
Why Hypercard Had to Die
(loper-os.org)
2011-11-29 computing, empowerment -
How to Write a 21st Century Proof (pdf)
(azurewebsites.net)
2011-11-23 math, tla, formal-methods -
Training in 'concrete thinking' can be self-help treatment for depression
(sciencedaily.com)
2011-11-18 rationality, cognitive, mental-health -
The Twelve-Factor App
(12factor.net)
2011-11-17 computing, backend -
The curse of identity
(greaterwrong.com)
2011-11-17 , identity -
Principles of Solomonoff Induction and AIXI (pdf)
(hutter1.net)
2011-11 computing, ai, ait, bayes, minimalism -
Things That Turbo Pascal is Smaller Than
(dadgum.com)
2011-10-30 computing, minimalism -
The Movie Set That Ate Itself
(gq.com)
2011-10-27 movies, weird -
RIP jmc.
(loper-os.org)
2011-10-25 computing, lisp -
Deep Intellect - Inside the mind of the octopus
(orionmagazine.org)
2011-10-25 cognitive, tentacles -
𝔄
On Reality (pdf)
(paul-almond.com)
2011-10-25 philosophy, reality -
Design mistakes in mixed C/C++ and Lua projects
(lua-users.org)
2011-10-20 computing, gamedev, lua, cxx -
2 is a smell
(puredanger.github.io)
2011-10-12 computing, clojure -
Tidy Data (pdf)
(had.co.nz)
2011-09-23 data-science, dataframe -
The First Law of Complexodynamics
(scottaaronson.blog)
2011-09-23 physics, systems, entropy -
𝔄
Who killed videogames? (a ghost story)
(insertcredit.com)
2011-09-22 games, business, skinner-box, doomed -
Idiosyncrasy credit
(wikipedia.org)
2011-09-20 -
Scruffies and Neats in Artificial Intelligence
(vanemden.wordpress.com)
2011-09-11 ai, history -
10 Technical Papers Every Programmer Should Read (At Least Twice)
(fogus.me)
2011-09-08 computing -
Video Games Killed the Video-Game Star
(grantland.com)
2011-09-06 games -
Achron review
(rockpapershotgun.com)
2011-09-05 games, time-travel, rts -
Learning to Swim by Reading a Book
(nyaruka.com)
2011-09-01 computing, academia -
𝔄
Seasteading Tyranitopia
(lukeparrish.rationalsites.com)
2011-08-30 politics, , seasteading, libertarianism, ratsphere -
The Calculus of Grit
(ribbonfarm.com)
2011-08-19 meaning, effort, rationality, will -
Why philosophers should care about computational complexity (pdf)
(scottaaronson.com)
2011-08-08 philosophy, computing -
Yago Project
(yago-knowledge.org)
2011-08-01 ai, knowledge-base, dataset -
Is 0 a decimal literal or an octal literal?
(stackoverflow.com)
2011-08-01 computing, c, cursed -
The Rise of Experiential Games
(filfre.net)
2011-07-22 games, immersive-sims, wargaming -
How to fit an elephant
(johndcook.com)
2011-06-21 math -
Worm
(parahumans.wordpress.com)
2011-06-11 fiction -
The MIT style in Artificial Intelligence 1958 – 1985
(vanemden.wordpress.com)
2011-06-07 ai, history -
Distance Estimated 3D Fractals
[2]
[3]
[4]
[5]
[6]
[7]
[8]
(hvidtfeldts.net)
2011-06-03 computing, cg -
Existing Absurd Technologies
(greaterwrong.com)
2011-05-30 rationality, engineering -
Cycles in family tree software
(stackoverflow.com)
2011-05-28 computing, weird -
Iain M Banks: Science fiction is no place for dabblers
(theguardian.com)
2011-05-13 fiction, scifi -
On short URLs
(qntm.org)
2011-05-10 web, uri, organization -
The German School of Lisp
(fogus.me)
2011-05-03 computing, lisp -
Notes on a New Philosophy of Empirical Science
(arxiv.org)
2011-04-28 computing, ait, scienceScience is data compression
-
Meditation, insight, and rationality
[2]
(greaterwrong.com)
2011-04-28 meditation -
The Consequentialism FAQ
(archive.org)
2011-04-26 rationality, consequentialism -
Some Guidelines for Fun Games
(archive.org)
2011-04-22 gamedev -
Epistle to the New York Less Wrongians
(greaterwrong.com)
2011-04-21 , rationality, ratsphere -
Cryonics, Nanotechnology and Transhumanism: Utopia Then and Now
(chronopause.com)
2011-04-19 transhumanism, cryonics, nanotechnology -
The Lisp Curse
(winestockwebdesign.com)
2011-04-15 computing, lisp, -
Current and Future programming languages for Videogames
(c0de517e.blogspot.com)
2011-04-03 computing, gamedev, pltVery early mention of Rust here
-
Maru
(piumarta.com)
2011-04-01 computing, lisp, minimalism, bootstrapping -
Suntzuanime reviews
(suntzuanime.wordpress.com)
2011-04-01 anime -
Maneki Neko
(lightspeedmagazine.com)
2011-04 fiction, scifi, , decentralized, ai, bruce-sterling -
Philosophy: A Diseased Discipline
(greaterwrong.com)
2011-03-28 philosophy, diseased-discipline, rationality -
Procedural Generation and User-Generated Content
[2]
(archive.org)
2011-03-23 gamedev, procgen -
Five ways to know yourself: An introduction to basic mindfulness (pdf)
(shinzen.org)
2011-03-11 meditation, noting -
The Return of the Barbarian
(ribbonfarm.com)
2011-03-10 history, merchants-and-warriors, legibility, technology -
Accounting for Computer Scientists
(kleppmann.com)
2011-03-07 accounting -
Network Theory
(ucr.edu)
2011-03-04 math, category-theory, systems -
Taproot Texts: The Sources of Modern Fantasy Fiction in World Religions and Mythologies
(pilgrimpathways.wordpress.com)
2011-02-23 games, fiction, rpg, mythology -
Does Personal Identity Survive Cryopreservation?
(chronopause.com)
2011-02-23 transhumanism, cognitive, cryonics, identity, philosophy, neuroscience, consciousness -
Ultima Underworld Bugs
(dfan.org)
2011-02-21 crpg, games, ultima, gamedev -
Oldest and Fatherless: The Terrible Secret of Tom Bombadil
(livejournal.com)
2011-02-20 tolkien, fiction -
Goodbye academia, I get a life
(devicerandom.org)
2011-02-18 academia, effort, work -
From the Chronicles of Scruffy Versus Neat: the Lighthill Affair
(vanemden.wordpress.com)
2011-02-18 ai, history -
On the Slaying of Spherical Cows
(thealexandrian.net)
2011-02-17 games, rpg, gamedev -
The Cognitive Style of Unix
(vivekhaldar.com)
2011-02-17 computing, unix -
𝔄
The 15 Golden Rules of UI design and flow
(altdev.co)
2011-02-10 computing, gamedev, ui -
Space Status
(slate.com)
2011-02-02 space, technology, neal-stephenson -
Analysis: The Eight Rules Of Roguelike Design
(gamedeveloper.com)
2011-02-02 games, gamedev, roguelikes -
Test Driven Development is Hard
(toranbillups.com)
2011-01-31 computing, testing -
The Art of Checking
(tanyakhovanova.com)
2011-01-29 math -
Scientific Self-Help: The State of Our Knowledge
(greaterwrong.com)
2011-01-20 self-improvement, rationality -
The Best Textbooks on Every Subject
(greaterwrong.com)
2011-01-16 learning, reference -
Ernst Cassirer and Martin Heidegger Debate at Davos
(newrepublic.com)
2011-01-13 philosophy, heidegger -
The Yogi Toolbox: Riding The Jhanic Arc via The Witness
(thehamiltonproject.blogspot.com)
2011-01-13 meditation, jhanas, identity -
Voxatron Preview
(youtube.com)
2011-01-04 gamedev, voxels -
nested
(dashnet.org)
2011-01 gamedev, space, procgen -
3D Cube World Level Generation
(sourceforge.net)
2011 gamedev, procgen, voxels, minecraft -
The Best of edw519
(amazonaws.com)
2011 computing, business, edw519 -
Why Isn’t There More Progress in Philosophy? (pdf)
(consc.net)
2011 philosophy -
Reading Strauss in Beijing
(newrepublic.com)
2010-12-17 strauss, china, politics -
Confidence levels inside and outside an argument
(greaterwrong.com)
2010-12-16 estimation, rationality -
Gwern's anime reviews
(gwern.net)
2010-12-14 anime -
𝔄
Minecraft like rendering experiments in OpenGL 4
(codeflow.org)
2010-12-09 computing, gamedev, cg -
Can you do the double slit experiment with a cat cannon?
(askamathematician.com)
2010-12-01 physics, quantum-physics, weird -
What Went Wrong with Civ5?
(sullla.com)
2010-12 games -
𝔄
Things I see in student code
(po8.org)
2010-12 computing, learning -
Hypersigil
(cyborganthropology.com)
2010-11-26 egregores, weird -
The Singularity Institute's Scary Idea (and Why I Don't Buy It)
(multiverseaccordingtoben.blogspot.com)
2010-10-29 ai, singularity -
State of the Art Game Objects
(gbgames.com)
2010-10-27 gamedev -
What's it like to be Peter Hacker?
(metafilter.com)
2010-10-25 philosophy, diseased-discipline, language, peter-hacker -
Dead children unit of currency
(archive.org)
2010-10-14 morality, effective-altruism -
Algorithmic Thermodynamics
(arxiv.org)
2010-10-11 physics, computing, entropy, ait, systems -
Mathematical Intuition—What Is It?
(rjlipton.com)
2010-10-01 math -
𝔄
Knowledge is a (pre)sheaf
(sixwingedseraph.wordpress.com)
2010-09-28 math, science, category-theory -
How wrong can you be?
(livejournal.com)
2010-09-27 science, chemistry, rationality -
Unplayable
(brainygamer.com)
2010-09-22 crpg, games, ultima -
Mitchell Heisman's Suicide Note
(archive.org)
2010-09-18 sensemaking, politics, weird, characters -
The Worst Part of Going to Space? Your Fingernails Come Off
(popsci.com)
2010-09-16 space, body-horror -
Intellectual Hipsters and Meta-Contrarianism
(greaterwrong.com)
2010-09-14 rationality, sensemaking, politics, , luxury-beliefs -
Suppose “uneducated” and “contrarian” opinion are two independent random (e.g. normal) variables with the same mean representing the truth...
(greaterwrong.com)
2010-09-14 rationality, sensemaking -
My history with Forth & stack machines
(yosefk.com)
2010-09-10 computing, forth -
Polygonal Map Generation for Games
(stanford.edu)
2010-09-04 gamedev, procgen -
A Journey Across the Main Stream: Games for My Mother-in-Law
(gamedeveloper.com)
2010-09-01 gamedev, testing -
The sad evolution of wikis
(apenwarr.ca)
2010-09-01 wiki, wikipedia, -
Seven Laws of Sane Personal Computing
(loper-os.org)
2010-08-26 computing, empowerment -
Visualizing the Creative Process
(lostgarden.com)
2010-08-17 gamedev, work -
𝔄
The “I used to be an atheist” Claim (pdf)
(paul-almond.com)
2010-08-10 religion, rationality, atheism -
Design a Magic System Redux
[2]
[3]
[4]
(roguelikedeveloper.blogspot.com)
2010-08-08 games, crpg, gamedev -
How to win a million dollars
(deanradin.blogspot.com)
2010-08-02 psi -
Topless data
(conal.net)
2010-08-02 computing, type-theory -
Meditation acutely improves psychomotor vigilance, and may decrease sleep need
🗝️
(doi.org)
2010-07-29 meditation, sleep -
Xandering the Dungeon
[2]
[3]
[4]
[5]
[6]
[7]
[8]
[9]
[10]
(thealexandrian.net)
2010-07-23 games, rpg -
The Acceleration of Addictiveness
(paulgraham.com)
2010-07 computing, , internet -
Morphic Pilot Theory: Toward an Extension of Quantum Physics that Better Explains Psi Phenomena (pdf)
(goertzel.org)
2010-06-24 physics, psi, weird -
23 Things Not To Write In An E-mail
(npr.org)
2010-06-14 business -
Measure-theoretic Probability: Why it should be learnt and how to get started
(jmanton.wordpress.com)
2010-06-04 math, probability -
Roger Scruton: Hiding Behind the Screen
(thenewatlantis.com)
2010-06 computing, internet, philosophy, atomization -
Proceduralism
[2]
[3]
[4]
[5]
[6]
[7]
[8]
(roguelikedeveloper.blogspot.com)
2010-05-31 gamedev, procgen -
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus side-by-side edition (pdf)
(umass.edu)
2010-04-14 philosophy, wittgenstein -
Energy Rate Density as a Complexity Metric and Evolutionary Driver (pdf)
(harvard.edu)
2010-04-05 physics, entropy, systems -
Porting from DOS to Windows
(solhsa.com)
2010-04 gamedev -
Runequest Appendix N
(peopletobe.blogspot.com)
2010-03-26 games, rpg, fiction, runequest, appendix-n -
Mathematical Foundations for a Compositional Distributional Model of Meaning
(arxiv.org)
2010-03-23 math, ai, category-theory, language, meaning -
Video games: the addiction
(theguardian.com)
2010-03-21 games, drugs -
“Hello World!”
(gowers.wordpress.com)
2010-03-20 computing, math, c, empowerment -
TrechBroom
(trenchbroom.github.io)
2010-03-14 computing, gamedev, architecture, cg, modeling -
Theory of Change
(aaronsw.com)
2010-03-14 , rationality -
HOWTO: Read more books
(aaronsw.com)
2010-03-02 learning -
Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality
(hpmor.com)
2010-02-28 , fiction, ratsphere -
The Anatomy of a Shmup
(gamedeveloper.com)
2010-02-18 gamedev -
The CRPG Addict
(crpgaddict.blogspot.com)
2010-02-15 games, crpg -
Why do so many textbooks have so much technical detail and so little enlightenment?
(mathoverflow.net)
2010-01-27 learning, math -
Stock and flow
(snarkmarket.com)
2010-01-18 economics -
𝔄
Lost in Cambodia
(theguardian.com)
2010-01-09 communism, characters, khmer-rouge -
Applied Algebraic Topology & Sensor Networks (pdf)
(upenn.edu)
2010 math, topology, art -
The singularity: A philosophical analysis
(philpapers.org)
2010 ai, transhumanism, singularity, philosophy, david-chalmers -
A country of which nothing is known but the name (pdf)
(xahlee.info)
2010 math, grothendieck -
Networks, Crowds, and Markets: Reasoning About a Highly Connected World
(cornell.edu)
2010 systems -
Kaggle: Your Home for Data Science
(kaggle.com)
2010 computing, exercises, data-science -
J1: a small Forth CPU Core for FPGAs (pdf)
(excamera.com)
2010 computing, forth -
The Non-Libertarian FAQ
(slatestarcodex.com)
2010 politics, libertarianism -
TSR & WotC Font Usage FAQ
(hahnlibrary.net)
2010 games, rpg, fonts -
The Singularity: A Philosophical Analysis (pdf)
(consc.net)
2010 singularity, philosophy -
The Elves Leave Middle Earth – Sodas Are No Longer Free
(steveblank.com)
2009-12-21 business, -
Auto-appendectomy in the Antarctic: case report
🗝️
(doi.org)
2009-12-15 medicine, weird -
filesystem hierarchy standard for game developers
(groups.google.com)
2009-12-10 gamedev -
You have made your bedrock, now lie in it
(loper-os.org)
2009-12-07 computing, empowerment, minimalism -
Hierarchies in Dictionary Definition Space
(arxiv.org)
2009-11-30 computing, language, grounding-kernel -
Thoughts on semantics for 3D graphics (2009)
(conal.net)
2009-11-22 computing, math, haskell, cg, geometry -
Information Geometry and Evolutionary Game Theory
(arxiv.org)
2009-11-09 math, systems -
The Ten <username> Rules of Fic Writing
(spacebattles.com)
2009-11-09 writing, fiction -
Polymath and the origin of life
(gowers.wordpress.com)
2009-11-07 systems, math, abiogenesis -
The chat room/forum problem
(scobleizer.blog)
2009-11-02 , blogs -
What's the most harmful math heuristic you've seen?
(mathoverflow.net)
2009-10-24 math, rationality, doomed -
A literary appreciation of the Olson/Zoneinfo/tz database
(jonudell.net)
2009-10-23 computing, literate-databases, time -
djb
(aaronsw.com)
2009-10-19 djb, computing, security -
The Quest for Quests
[2]
[3]
[4]
[5]
[6]
[7]
[8]
[9]
(roguelikedeveloper.blogspot.com)
2009-10-18 gamedev -
High Anxiety
(braythwayt.com)
2009-10-10 learning, baduk -
The Gervais Principle, Or The Office According to "The Office"
(ribbonfarm.com)
2009-10-07 gervais-principle, work, -
Teaching linear algebra
(bentilly.blogspot.com)
2009-09-28 math, spaced-repetition -
The Finale of the Ultimate Meta Mega Crossover
(fanfiction.net)
2009-09-20 fiction, transhumanism, scifi, uploads -
jonesforth.S
(github.com/AlexandreAbreu)
2009-09-11 computing, forth -
Causal inference in statistics: An overview (pdf)
(ucla.edu)
2009-09 causality, statistics -
The Anatomy of Determination
(paulgraham.com)
2009-09 business, effort -
Yes
(vividness.live)
2009-08-29 meaning, buddhism, will -
Starglider's Mini-FAQ on Artificial Intelligence
(stardestroyer.net)
2009-08-28 ai, alignment -
No yes. Either HELL YEAH! or no.
(sive.rs)
2009-08-26 business, rationality -
Dirty Coding Tricks
(gamedeveloper.com)
2009-08-20 gamedev -
Thomas C. Schelling’s “Strategy of Conflict”
(greaterwrong.com)
2009-07-28 rationality, schelling -
Robert Edgerton’s ‘Sick Societies’ (1992) Revisited: Is Culture Adaptive?
(brusselsjournal.com)
2009-07-16 , politics -
Goodbye, Paul Panks
(textfiles.com)
2009-07-15 games, , computing, interactive-fiction, weird, characters -
Battlestar's "Daybreak:" The worst ending in the history of on-screen science fiction
(4brad.com)
2009-07-13 fiction, worldbuilding, scifi -
Am I Conscious Now?
(psychologytoday.com)
2009-07-09 cognitive, consciousness, mindfulness -
Your body wasn’t built to last: a lesson from human mortality rates
(gravityandlevity.wordpress.com)
2009-07-08 transhumanism, longevity -
"Mimetic Fiction"
(mumpsimus.blogspot.com)
2009-07-01 fiction, worldbuilding, scifi, reality -
On Really Trying
(gwern.net)
2009-06-23 effort -
Butugychag
(wikipedia.org)
2009-06-15 doomed, russia -
𝔄
How to Learn About Everything
(metamodern.com)
2009-05-27 rationality, science, learning -
The Git Parable
(preston-werner.com)
2009-05-19 computing, version-control, git, learning -
Categories for the practising physicist
(arxiv.org)
2009-05-19 math, category-theory, physics -
Citizen Naruto (item economies in games)
(clicknothing.typepad.com)
2009-05-18 gamedev, economics -
𝔄
How to Understand Everything (and why)
(metamodern.com)
2009-05-17 rationality, science, learning -
A Parable On Obsolete Ideologies
(greaterwrong.com)
2009-05-14 religion, rationality, politics, atheism, nazis -
RaceFail '09
(fanlore.org)
2009-05-14 fiction, scifi, fandom, vampire-castle -
Rule-Based Programming in Interactive Fiction
(eblong.com)
2009-05-03 games, computing, gamedev, interactive-fiction, logic-programming -
Gunk
(wikipedia.org)
2009-04-10 philosophy, mereology -
Dual n-Back FAQ
(gwern.net)
2009-03-25 intelligence-augmentation, iq -
The Least Convenient Possible World
(greaterwrong.com)
2009-03-14 rationality -
A New Approach to the Functional Design of a Digital Computer
(lambda-the-ultimate.org)
2009-03-13 computing -
𝔄
Attacked from Within
(kuro5hin.org)
2009-03-13 computing, , internet -
Spaced Repetition for Efficient Learning
(gwern.net)
2009-03-11 spaced-repetition -
FOGBANK
(wikipedia.org)
2009-03-09 technology, stagnation -
The Bobbit Worm Chronicles
(michiganreefers.com)
2009-03-08 biology, body-horror -
Physics, Topology, Logic and Computation: A Rosetta Stone
(arxiv.org)
2009-03-02 math, computing, category-theory, physics, topology, type-theory -
High Gygaxian
(grognardia.blogspot.com)
2009-02-19 games, rpg -
Reactions to OD&D
(thealexandrian.net)
2009-02-18 games, rpg, osr -
Keep Your Identity Small
(paulgraham.com)
2009-02 , identity -
A Proposal for Proquints: Identifiers that are Readable, Spellable, and Pronounceable
(arxiv.org)
2009-01-26 computing, identity -
The Melancholy of Subculture Society
(gwern.net)
2009-01-12 , meaning, subcultures -
3D rendering as functional reactive programming (2009)
(conal.net)
2009-01-11 computing, haskell, cg -
Concatenative Programming: An Overlooked Paradigm in Functional Programming
🗝️
(doi.org)
2009 computing, plt -
How to Read a Technical Paper
(jhu.edu)
2009 learning, math, science -
Reading for graduate students
(might.net)
2009 science, computing, research, reference -
There’s more to mathematics than rigour and proofs
(terrytao.wordpress.com)
2009 math, beginners-mind -
colorForth Source Compression
(colorforth.github.io)
2009 computing, forth -
David Marr
(wikipedia.org)
2008-12-31 cognitive, neuroscience, characters -
Some thoughts on security after ten years of qmail 1.0 (pdf)
(yp.to)
2008-11-02 computing, security, qmail, djb -
Whole Brain Emulation: A Roadmap (pdf)
(ox.ac.uk)
2008-10-31 cognitive, transhumanism, neuroscience, uploads -
Project Oilsand
(wikipedia.org)
2008-10-23 technology, nuclear, weird, worldbuilding -
The Universal Design Pattern (prototype inheritance)
(steve-yegge.blogspot.com)
2008-10-20 computing, gamedev, properties -
𝔄
Japanese Neon Lamp Fights
(odditycentral.com)
2008-10-08 japan, weird -
Dorothy Eady
(wikipedia.org)
2008-09-26 characters, weird, history, psi -
Gygaxian "Naturalism"
(grognardia.blogspot.com)
2008-09-04 games, rpg, osr, realism -
Who Is Alexander Grothendieck? (pdf)
(ams.org)
2008-09 math, grothendieck, characters -
Life, gravity and the second law of thermodynamics
🗝️
(doi.org)
2008-08-22 physics, entropy, systems, evolution -
Rendering Worlds with Two Triangles with raytracing on the GPU in 4096 bytes (pdf)
(iquilezles.org)
2008-08-22 computing, cg -
Acme editor team responds to feature requests
(groups.google.com)
2008-08-19 computing, plan-9, minimalism, management -
High Level Architecture
(wikipedia.org)
2008-07-17 games, wargaming, weird, bureaucracy -
𝔄
Startup Ideas We'd Like to Fund
(ycombinator.com)
2008-07 business, computing -
OMeta#: Who? What? When? Where? Why?
(moserware.com)
2008-06-24 computing -
𝔄
The Little Manual of API Design (pdf)
(tum.de)
2008-06-19 computing -
Limbo Of The Lost - An Astonishing Tale
(rockpapershotgun.com)
2008-06-12 games, weird -
Research program
(wikipedia.org)
2008-06-11 science, rationality -
𝔄
Civilization-Level Quantum Suicide
(paul-almond.com)
2008-06-02 rationality, weird, quantum-immortality, philosophy -
Machine Super Intelligence (pdf)
(vetta.org)
2008-06 ai, singularity -
How to Recognize a Dark Age
(loper-os.org)
2008-05-30 computing, stagnation -
Teaching Programming Languages in a Post-Linnaean Age (pdf)
(brown.edu)
2008-05-29 computing, plt, learning -
Truth as value and duty: lessons of mathematics
(arxiv.org)
2008-05-27 math -
The Neanderthal correlation
🗝️
(doi.org)
2008-05-22 fiction, scifi, genetics -
Designing a Magic System
[2]
[3]
[4]
[5]
[6]
[7]
[8]
[9]
[10]
[11]
[12]
[13]
[14]
[15]
(roguelikedeveloper.blogspot.com)
2008-05-03 games, gamedev, crpg -
Disconnecting Distraction
(paulgraham.com)
2008-05 computing, effort, akrasia, effort, internet -
𝔄
Transhumanism still at the crossroads
(metamagician3000.blogspot.com)
2008-04-22 transhumanism, activism, greg-egan -
𝔄
Want to Remember Everything You'll Ever Learn? Surrender to This Algorithm
(wired.com)
2008-04-21 spaced-repetition -
The Art of Memetics
(archive.org)
2008-04-09 egregores, weird -
Arithmetic derivative
(wikipedia.org)
2008-04-09 math -
Trollman's Tomes (pdf)
(4pcdn.org)
2008-03-30 games, rpg, osr -
German Tank Problem
(wikipedia.org)
2008-03-24 statistics -
Using Uninitialized Memory for Fun and Profit
(swtch.com)
2008-03-14 computing -
Lifelogging, an Inevitability
(kk.org)
2008-02-21 computing, identity, future, lifelogging -
The mediocrity of local peaks
(gnxp.com)
2008-02-18 , subcultures -
Does Your Code Pass The Turkey Test?
(moserware.com)
2008-02-16 computing -
Dinos on the Moon
(overcomingbias.com)
2008-02-12 archeology, reptilians, weird, aliens -
Three-hour-a-week language
(johndcook.com)
2008-01-31 perl, cognitive -
Stuff White People Like
(stuffwhitepeoplelike.com)
2008-01-18 funny, politics -
On the offered skills in Heroes of Might and Magic III (pdf)
(ou.edu)
2008-01-06 computing, games, math -
What does topology have to do with computability?
(sigfpe.com)
2008-01-06 math, computing, topology -
Ten Signs a Claimed Mathematical Breakthrough is Wrong
(scottaaronson.blog)
2008-01-05 math, research, crackpot, funny -
The Book (Architecture of Symbolic Computers)
(loper-os.org)
2008-01-04 computing -
𝔄
For example - if you came in here asking "how do I use a jackhammer" we might ask "why do you need to use a jackhammer"
(bash.org)
2008 xy-problem -
𝔄
The Berlin Interpretation
(roguebasin.com)
2008 games, roguelikes -
The Artilect War: Cosmists vs. Terrans (pdf)
(agi-conf.org)
2008 ai, alignment, crackpot, accelerationism -
How to Write a Great Game
(inky.org)
2008 games, gamedev, interactive-fiction -
Android Arts
(androidarts.com)
2008 gamedev, art -
Mathematics and the Psychedelic Revolution (pdf)
(maps.org)
2008 math, psychedelics, history -
single-file public domain (or MIT licensed) libraries for C/C++
(github.com/nothings)
2008 gamedev -
The Most Rapid and Direct Means to Eternal Bliss
(selfdefinition.org)
2008 meditation, weird -
𝔄
A View of Mathematics (pdf)
(alainconnes.org)
2008 math -
SuperMegaMonkey's Marvel Comics Chronology
(supermegamonkey.net)
2008 comics, marvel -
Dragon Quest / Dragon Warrior
(kontek.net)
2007-12-18 games, crpg -
Einstellung effect
(wikipedia.org)
2007-12-03 rationality, cognitive -
STEPS Toward The Reinvention of Programming (pdf)
(tinlizzie.org)
2007-12 computing, plt, ui, empowerment -
The story of LoperOS
[2]
(loper-os.org)
2007-11-25 computing, empowerment -
𝔄
Did NSA put a secret backdoor in new encryption standard?
(wired.com)
2007-11-15 cryptography, politics -
The Early Bird gets the Caffeine Pill
(aleph.se)
2007-11-03 advice, sleep -
OMeta: an Object-Oriented Language for Pattern Matching (pdf)
(tinlizzie.org)
2007-10-22 computing -
Sabine Hossenfelder on The Mathematical Universe
(backreaction.blogspot.com)
2007-10-11 physics, max-tegmark, reality -
How to read a (good) book in one hour
(savageminds.org)
2007-10-01 learning, research -
Shut up and calculate
(arxiv.org)
2007-09-25 physics, max-tegmark, reality -
We have lost control of the apparatus
(raganwald.com)
2007-09-12 computing -
What single book is the best introduction to your field (or specialization within your field) for laypeople?
(metafilter.com)
2007-09-08 learning, science, research, reference -
Stalag fiction
(wikipedia.org)
2007-09-07 fiction, weird -
How to Do Philosophy
(paulgraham.com)
2007-09 philosophy, diseased-discipline, rationality -
Derinkuyu, or: the allure of the underground city
(bldgblog.com)
2007-08-19 architecture -
𝔄
Inventing Fundamental New Computing Technologies
(vpri.org)
2007-08-18 computing, empowerment -
Compression by descent
(groups.google.com)
2007-08-11 computing, outsider-cs, compression, funny -
What's wrong with CS research
(unqualified-reservations.org)
2007-08-02 computing, stagnation -
Holding a Program in One's Head
(paulgraham.com)
2007-08 computing, minimalism, cognitive, complexity -
Nakar's Ultima Let's Plays
[2]
[3]
(lparchive.org)
2007-07-14 crpg, games, ultima -
How to Read a Paper (pdf)
(sigcomm.org)
2007-07 learning, research, science -
Terence Tao: Career advice
(terrytao.wordpress.com)
2007-07 math, learning -
The High Frontier, Redux
(antipope.org)
2007-06-16 fiction, scifi, space, doomed, science -
𝔄
When is one thing equal to some other thing? (pdf)
(harvard.edu)
2007-06-12 math, mathematics, category-theory -
Stranger in a Strange Land
(adamcadre.ac)
2007-06-12 fiction, scifi, heinlein -
Total functional programming
(wikipedia.org)
2007-06-05 computing -
Critical Thinking: Why Is It So Hard to Teach?
(readingrockets.org)
2007-06 critical-thinking, rationality, education -
How Much LSD Does It Take to Kill an Elephant
(scienceblogs.com/retrospectacle)
2007-05-30 psychedelics, weird -
Finger Induced Lucid Dream (FILD)
(dreamviews.com)
2007-05-19 lucid-dreaming, sleep -
Fired With Enthusiasm
(red-gate.com)
2007-04-30 computing, business, work -
Learning From Sudoku Solvers
(ravimohan.blogspot.com)
2007-04-24 computing, sudoku, peter-norvig, ron-jeffries, testing -
Derinkuyu underground city
(wikipedia.org)
2007-04-06 archeology, worldbuilding -
The Mathematical Universe
(arxiv.org)
2007-04-05 transhumanism, physics, math, reality, max-tegmark, uploads, systems -
Nerds are nuts
(gnxp.com)
2007-04-04 , crackpot, religion, science, rationality, nerds -
The Majority Is Always Wrong
(greaterwrong.com)
2007-04-03 rationality -
Why Heideggerian AI failed and how fixing it would require making it more Heideggerian
🗝️
(doi.org)
2007-04 rationality, ai, heidegger, , frame-problem, philosophy -
Archimedes’s Chronophone
(greaterwrong.com)
2007-03-23 rationality, asymmetric-weapon -
Mathematical knowledge: internal, social and cultural aspects
(arxiv.org)
2007-03-14 math -
D&D: Calibrating Your Expectations
(thealexandrian.net)
2007-03-13 games, rpg -
Permutation City - The Dust Theory: Frequently Asked Questions
(gregegan.net)
2007-03-11 fiction, transhumanism, greg-egan, scifi, identity, uploads -
Watching faces on TV in the morning may cure depression
(columbia.edu)
2007-02-28 depression, -
The History of Computer Role-Playing Games Part
[2]
[3]
(gamedeveloper.com)
2007-02-23 games, crpg -
What is good mathematics?
(arxiv.org)
2007-02-13 math -
𝔄
Every moment of a science fiction story must represent the triumph of writing over worldbuilding.
(uzwi.wordpress.com)
2007-01-27 fiction, scifi, worldbuilding -
The Unapologetic Mathematician
(unapologetic.wordpress.com)
2007-01-15 math -
Running the gauntlet - NetHack vs. Angband
(iconbar.com)
2007-01-14 games, roguelikes, nethack, angband -
Blue zone
(wikipedia.org)
2007-01-10 transhumanism, longevity -
Evolve Your Hierarchy
(cowboyprogramming.com)
2007-01-05 gamedev, ecs -
Git for Computer Scientists
(eagain.net)
2007 computing, version-control, git, learning -
Aro Dzogchen Meditation Course
(arocourse.neocities.org)
2007 meditation, dzogchen -
Philotomy's musings (pdf)
(grey-elf.com)
2007 games, rpg, osr, mythic-underworld -
Three Hundred Mechanics
(squidi.net)
2007 gamedev -
Incursion Tech Doc
(roguebasin.com)
2007 gamedev -
𝔄
I can has rezearch Papar?
(cylegage.com)
2007 computing, internet, 4chan -
Levels of Organization in General Intelligence (pdf)
(intelligence.org)
2007 ai, agi -
𝔄
'Might Have Been' - BloodStorm
(gamesetwatch.com)
2006-12-09 games, 1990s -
OLPC Human Interface Guidelines
(laptop.org)
2006-11-28 computing, ui -
The Less Wrong Sequences
(readthesequences.com)
2006-11-22 rationality -
Dwarf Fortress - Boatmurdered
(lparchive.org)
2006-11-10 games, dwarf-fortress -
Computational Thinking and Outreach
(ed.ac.uk)
2006-11-04 computing, computational-thinking -
The Next Mainstream Programming Language: A Game Developer’s Perspective (pdf)
(mit.edu)
2006-11-01 computing, gamedev -
How to Organize Your Files
(jhu.edu)
2006-10-17 computing, organization -
Warning Signs for Tomorrow
(aleph.se)
2006-10-07 fiction, scifi, nanotechnology, transhumanism -
Outline of thought
(wikipedia.org)
2006-10-02 cognitive -
Interview with Thomas Ligotti
(teemingbrain.com)
2006-10 fiction, thomas-ligotti, horror -
𝔄
Atheism, Heresy and Hesychasm
(scienceblogs.com/gnxp)
2006-09-13 religion, atheism, rationality, evopsych -
𝔄
VPRI Proposal to NSF (pdf)
(vpri.org)
2006-08-31 computing -
A new way to look at networking (video)
(youtube.com)
2006-08-30 computing, decentralized, internet -
Dual process theory
(wikipedia.org)
2006-08-03 cognitive, system-1 -
Elastic tabstops
(nick-gravgaard.com)
2006-07-02 computing, plaintext -
Wizard School
(steve-yegge.blogspot.com)
2006-07-01 computing, education, empowerment -
todo.txt
(github.com/todotxt)
2006-06-23 computing, work, notetaking, plaintext -
abstractmath.org
(abstractmath.org)
2006-06-21 math, learning -
My First BillG Review
(joelonsoftware.com)
2006-06-16 computing, work -
My favourite interview question
(raganwald.com)
2006-06-12 computing -
The Bipolar Lisp Programmer
(marktarver.com)
2006-04-28 computing, , lisp -
Jeff VanderMeer: Exhaustive Essential Fantasy Reading Lists
(vanderworld.blogspot.com)
2006-04-21 fiction, fantasy, reference -
Lisp is not an acceptable Lisp
(steve-yegge.blogspot.com)
2006-04-14 computing, lisp -
Ten things everyone should know about philosophy
(philosophyetc.net)
2006-04-06 religion, philosophy, atheism, sensemaking -
Execution in the Kingdom of Nouns
(steve-yegge.blogspot.com)
2006-03-30 computing -
Computational Thinking (pdf)
(cmu.edu)
2006-03 computing, computational-thinking, empowerment, rationality -
Gompertz–Makeham law of mortality
(wikipedia.org)
2006-02-24 transhumanism, longevity -
Broken Koans and other Zen debris
(davidchess.com)
2006-02-22 funny, buddhism -
Out of the Tar Pit (pdf)
(curtclifton.net)
2006-02-06 computing -
Foozles: A retrospective (pdf)
(hh.se)
2006-01-27 computing, funny -
The Purely Functional Software Deployment Model (pdf)
(edolstra.github.io)
2006-01-18 computing, nix, decentralizedNixOS author's PhD thesis
-
eForth Overview (pdf)
(exemark.com)
2006 computing, forth -
𝔄
Jorma Ollilan kunto-ohjelma (pdf)
(talentum.com)
2006 calisthenics -
When Slide Rules Ruled (pdf)
(uvm.edu)
2006 math, engineering -
DeathOnAStick
(nethackwiki.com)
2006 games, roguelikes, nethackDeathOnAStick is a NetHack player, famous in the NetHack community for their year-and-a-half-long game on nethack.alt.org, which ran from 2004-04-17 to 2005-11-27. They spent much of this time arduously polypiling rocks into gems and collecting pet giants to carry the abundant bags of gems for them.
-
Higher order truths about chmess
🗝️
(doi.org)
2006 philosophy, diseased-discipline -
Marvel Universe Power Grid
(marvunapp.com)
2006 comics, fiction, worldbuilding, marvel -
𝔄
Review of Image Works' Gravity
(demon.co.uk)
2006 games, space -
World History Timeline
(fsmitha.com)
2006 history -
GopherVR
(wikipedia.org)
2005-12-29 computing, cg, 1990s, vr -
Reddit and Lisp psychosis
(findinglisp.com)
2005-12-09 computing, lisp, -
Rewriting Reddit
(aaronsw.com)
2005-12-06 computing, reddit, python, lisp, history -
Elitzur–Vaidman bomb tester
(wikipedia.org)
2005-12-06 physics, quantum-physics -
Last man
(wikipedia.org)
2005-11-06 philosophy, meaning, , doomed, nietzsche, will -
A Rare Blend of Monster Raving Egomania and Utter Batshit Insanity
(bactra.org)
2005-10-21 stephen-wolfram, science -
General-purpose technology
(wikipedia.org)
2005-10-18 technology -
Seven Kill Stele
(wikipedia.org)
2005-10-15 worldbuilding, weird -
Algorithmic information theory
(wikipedia.org)
2005-10-04 computing, ait -
Difficult People
(producingoss.com)
2005-10 computing, work, , foss -
World of Warcraft Interview "Responses"
(slashdot.org)
2005-09-22 games -
Dunbar's number
(wikipedia.org)
2005-09-14 -
𝔄
What is a low-level language
(paul-almond.com)
2005-07-17 computing, plt, ait -
Review: Rhem 2
(eblong.com)
2005-07 games -
How to read a paper
(lambda-the-ultimate.org)
2005-06-23 research, computing -
𝔄
A cult I almost joined
(fluff.info)
2005-05-14 computing, lisp, -
Notes on Ancient Domains of Mystery
(gamedevblog.com)
2005-04-23 games, gamedev, crpg, experiential-density -
You Can Write FORTRAN in any Language
(codinghorror.com)
2005-04-22 computing, plt -
Natural Language, Semantic Analysis and Interactive Fiction (pdf)
(tufts.edu)
2005-04-10 games, gamedev, linguistics, interactive-fiction, inform-7 -
The Vacuity of Postmodernist Methodology
🗝️
(doi.org)
2005-04-08 philosophy, sensemaking, diseased-discipline, postmodernism -
𝔄
A really, really, really long post about gay marriage that does not, in the end, support one side or the other
(janegalt.net)
2005-04-02 politics, , libertarianism, law -
The Five Essential Phone-Screen Questions
(google.com)
2005-03-29 computing, recruiting, work -
Self-replicating machine
(wikipedia.org)
2005-03-13 ai, robotics, systems, nanotechnology -
NP-complete Problems and Physical Reality
(arxiv.org)
2005-02-12 computing, physics -
scheming-is-believing
(google.com)
2005-02-07 computing, lisp -
Functional Differential Geometry (pdf)
(mit.edu)
2005-02 computing, math, lisp -
ShockFrost
(roguebasin.com)
2005-01-30 games, gamedev, roguelikes -
Twat v. Browning
(upenn.edu)
2005-01-19 robert-browning, poetry, history, weird -
AD&D Rules FAQ
(gamespot.com)
2005-01-17 games, crpg -
What You'll Wish You'd Known
(paulgraham.com)
2005-01 , meaning, effort, will -
The wheel of reincarnation in computer hardware
(cap-lore.com)
2005 computing -
Frag
(haskell.org)
2005 computing, gamedev, haskell, frp -
Think Like a Player!
(inky.org)
2005 games, gamedev, interactive-fiction -
Installing DJBDNS (example outline file)
(troubleshooters.com)
2005 notetaking, outliners, computing -
Wittgenstein's "Remarks on Frazer's Golden Bough"
(roangelo.net)
2005 wittgenstein, religion, magic -
A Non-Philosopher's Guide to Philosophical Terms
(consc.net)
2005 philosophy, funny -
A Conversation with Alan Kay
🗝️
(doi.org)
2004-12-27 computing, alan-kay -
Central Place Theory
(wikipedia.org)
2004-11-29 math, architecture, systems, geometry -
Iram of the Pillars
(wikipedia.org)
2004-11-25 worldbuilding, mythology -
Remembering Ken Iverson
(keiapl.org)
2004-11 computing, apl -
How to Write Computer Programs (pdf)
(dyalog.com)
2004-11 computing, apl, declarative-programming -
Food Plant
(localroger.com)
2004-10-26 work, farming -
Neal Stephenson Slashdot interview
(slashdot.org)
2004-10-20 neal-stephenson, funny -
LenPEG
(dangermouse.net)
2004-10-01 computing, compression, funny, outsider-cs -
Science wars
(wikipedia.org)
2004-09-17 science, politics, alan-sokal -
Ted Nelson's ZigZag
(lambda-the-ultimate.org)
2004-09-01 computing, ted-nelson, outsider-cs -
Crimes Against Mimesis
(rickandviv.net)
2004-08-18 games, gamedev, interactive-fiction -
Montauk Project
(wikipedia.org)
2004-08-04 conspiracy, weird -
Cerne Abbas Giant
(wikipedia.org)
2004-07-01 worldbuilding, weird -
If you killed somebody, how would you dispose of the body without getting caught?
(metafilter.com)
2004-06-13 advice, funny -
Loschmidt's paradox
(wikipedia.org)
2004-06-08 thermodynamics, systems -
Marvin Heemeyer (Killdozer rampage)
(wikipedia.org)
2004-06-04 weird, characters -
What is Golden Age Science Fiction?
(ntnu.no)
2004-06 fiction, games, scifi, buck-rogers, rpg -
Ford Nucleon
(wikipedia.org)
2004-05-29 technology, nuclear -
George R. Price
(wikipedia.org)
2004-04-11 evolution, characters -
Lexicographic order
(wikipedia.org)
2004-03-31 computing -
Karig's commentary on ColorForth
(trstn.net)
2004-02-14 computing, forth -
What You Can't Say
(paulgraham.com)
2004-01 politics -
The Future of Human Evolution
(nickbostrom.com)
2004 future, transhumanism, singularity, ai, evolution -
Problems for children from 5 to 15 (pdf)
(imaginary.org)
2004 math, learning -
The Ruthless Guide to 80s Action
(ruthlessreviews.com)
2004 movies -
All Things Devours
(amirrorclear.net)
2004 games, interactive-fiction, time-travel -
Articles from The Inner Product
(number-none.com)
2004 computing, plt, gamedev -
Geoff Ryman, et al. – The Mundane Manifesto
(sfgenics.wordpress.com)
2004 fiction, scifi, space -
Solomonoff's theory of inductive inference
(wikipedia.org)
2003-12-17 computing, ai, ait, bayes, minimalism -
Negative temperature
(wikipedia.org)
2003-11-10 physics -
The Semantic Web, Syllogism, and Worldview
(karmak.org)
2003-11-07 semantic-web, notetaking -
Basics of the Unix Philosophy
(catb.org)
2003-09-19 computing, unix -
Extreme thinking
(michaelnielsen.org)
2003-09-08 rationality, science -
How to Make a Complete Map of Every Thought You Think (pdf)
(speakeasy.net)
2003-07-26 writing, notetaking, organization, weird -
The Future of Computing: Logic or Biology
(microsoft.com)
2003-07-21 computing, math -
Limyaael's Fantasy Rants
(elldimensional.wordpress.com)
2003-05-24 worldbuilding -
Declarative programming
(wikipedia.org)
2003-04-14 computing, declarative-programming -
𝔄
The best qualities of high- and low-level languages
(tlb.org)
2003-04-02 computing, plt -
The Hundred-Year Language
(paulgraham.com)
2003-04 computing, plt -
Siddhi
(wikipedia.org)
2003-03-25 buddhism, magic -
Ultimate fate of the universe
(wikipedia.org)
2003-03-07 space, cosmology, physics -
Appropriate technology
(wikipedia.org)
2003-03-02 technology, amistics -
Baldur's Gate 2 cheese guide
(sorcerers.net)
2003-02-15 baldurs-gate, games -
Why Nerds are Unpopular
(paulgraham.com)
2003-02 , nerds, will, effort -
Reforming the Mathematical Language of Physics (pdf)
(asu.edu)
2003-01-10 math, geometric-algebra -
Design and Research
(paulgraham.com)
2003-01 science, design -
Introduction to Principia Cybernetica
(vub.ac.be)
2003 philosophy, wiki, weird, evolution, systems -
The Google File System
(research.google)
2003 computing, backend -
Lemurian Time War
(ccru.net)
2003 weird, william-burroughs -
𝔄
Turning the Universe Inside-Out
(lhup.edu)
2003 hollow-earth, crackpot, weird -
Transhumanist values
(nickbostrom.com)
2003 rationality, transhumanism, value, philosophy -
VimOutliner HOWTO
(troubleshooters.com)
2003 notetaking, computing, outliners, plaintext -
Functional Images
(conal.net)
2003 computing, cg, haskell -
Rotten Library mirror
(gwern.net)
2003 weird, historical -
How To Be a Programmer: A Short, Comprehensive, and Personal Summary (pdf)
(ic.ac.uk)
2002-12-16 computing, empowerment -
Universalis review
(indie-rpgs.com)
2002-12-16 games, rpg -
Conspiracy and prospiracy
(esr.ibiblio.org)
2002-11-14 , decentralized -
Total Depravity
(wikipedia.org)
2002-10-18 religion -
Feature comparison of Avernum 3, Baldur's Gate 2 and Icewind Dale 2
(groups.google.com)
2002-10-17 games, crpg -
List of games that Buddha would not play
(wikipedia.org)
2002-09-13 buddhism, weird -
Teaching To See Like a Mathematician
🗝️
(doi.org)
2002-07 math, learning -
Succinctness is Power
(paulgraham.com)
2002-05 computing, minimalism -
Brain Bugs
(stardestroyer.net)
2002-04-27 fiction, scifi, worldbuilding, realism, simulacra -
𝔄
Russian Tea HOWTO
(fazekas.hu)
2002-04-01 cooking -
Shavian alphabet
(wikipedia.org)
2002-03-20 language, writing -
Mnemonic major system
(wikipedia.org)
2002-02-26 mnemonics -
On Lisp on line (comment section spontaneously turns into support forum)
(lemonodor.com)
2002-02-02 computing, lisp, internet, historical -
Raymarching terrains
(iquilezles.org)
2002 computing, cg -
Olin Shivers: History of T
(paulgraham.com)
2002 computing, lisp -
The most common errors in undergraduate mathematics
(vanderbilt.edu)
2002 math, learning -
The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect
(localroger.com)
2002 fiction, transhumanism, scifi, ai, singularity, uploads -
Lisping at JPL
(flownet.com)
2002 computing, lisp, space, nasa -
The World of Blind Mathematicians (pdf)
(ams.org)
2002 math, geometry, cognitive -
How to Read Mathematics
(vcu.edu)
2002 math, learning -
Instruction for Entering Jhana
(leighb.com)
2002 meditation, jhanas -
𝔄
Carvaka
(humanistictexts.org)
2002 religion, atheism, history -
The Kokatrix 2D RPG project
(sourceforge.net)
2002 games, computing, gamedev, crpg, ocaml -
𝔄
Reform of the English Language
(tlb.org)
2002 language -
Pattern Identity Theory
(orionsarm.com)
2001-12-19 transhumanism, identity, uploads -
Paxos Made Simple
(microsoft.com)
2001-12 computing, decentralized -
The World's Most Toxic Value System
(stevedutch.net)
2001-11-19 , politics, honor-culture, merchants-and-warriors -
Project Euler
(projecteuler.net)
2001-10-05 computing, exercises, math -
Chorded keyboard
(wikipedia.org)
2001-09-14 computing, keyboards -
Probability axioms
(wikipedia.org)
2001-09-13 math, probability -
UTD: Universal Text Data
(jkorpela.fi)
2001-08-31 markup, notetaking -
𝔄
A mad day's work: From Grothendieck to Connes and Kontsevich (pdf)
(msri.org)
2001-07-12 math, grothendieck -
Baldur's Gate II: The Anatomy of a Sequel
(gamedeveloper.com)
2001-05-02 games, crpg -
Are You Living in a Computer Simulation?
(simulation-argument.com)
2001-05 simulation-argument, philosophy -
Super Metroid – FAQ/Speed Guide
(gamespot.com)
2001-04-17 computing, games, plaintext -
Likely To Be Eaten By A Bottomless Pit
(eblong.com)
2001-04-03 caves -
Beating the Averages
(paulgraham.com)
2001-04 computing, lisp, business -
Ted the Caver
(angelfire.com)
2001-03-21 fiction, caves -
Is Life Analog or Digital?
(edge.org)
2001-03-13 science, biology, freeman-dyson -
Tacit Knowledge, Trust and the Q of Sapphire
🗝️
(doi.org)
2001-02 science, physics, metis -
Developing a Setting for Fantastical IF
(brasslantern.org)
2001 games, gamedev, worldbuilding, interactive-fiction -
Atomic Rockets
(projectrho.com)
2001 fiction, space, scifi, science, reference -
Misbehaving in the Ultima Games
(it-he.org)
2001 crpg, games, ultima, funny -
How To Become A Hacker
(catb.org)
2001 computing, empowerment, foss -
How To Criticize Computer Scientists
(purdue.edu)
2001 computing, funny -
Lisp: Good News, Bad News, How to Win Big (pdf)
(dreamsongs.com)
2000-12-02 computing, lisp -
Doctor driven out of home by vigilantes
(theguardian.com)
2000-08-30 politics, doomed, funny -
Paul O'Brian's Interactive Fiction page
(colorado.edu)
2000-06-18 games, interactive-fiction -
Orion's Arm Universe Project
(orionsarm.com)
2000-06-10 fiction, space, scifi, orions-arm -
LinkChecker
(wummel.github.io)
2000-02-26 computing, scraping -
Self-Determination - The Tyranny of Freedom (pdf)
(swarthmore.edu)
2000-01 choices, meaning, will -
Generative Design
(generativedesign.com)
2000 computing, cg, architecture -
Ian Watson: Plumbing Stanley Kubrick
(visual-memory.co.uk)
2000 fiction, scifi, movies -
Trigonometry? No Way: These Teens Would Rather Toss a Ball
(scottaaronson.com)
2000 media, education, math, funny -
𝔄
Nikolai Kingsley's Stuff
(very.net)
2000 fiction, weird -
Polymathematics: is mathematics a single science or a set of arts (pdf)
(ucr.edu)
2000 math -
Why C++ is not very fit for GUI programming
(okmij.org)
1999-11-05 computing, ui, cxx -
Outlines: The Do Everything Tool
(troubleshooters.com)
1999-11 notetaking, computing, outliners, plaintext -
Ultimate physical limits to computation
(arxiv.org)
1999-08-13 computing, physics -
Knowledge Hydrant: A Pattern Language for Study Groups (pdf)
(industriallogic.com)
1999-07 learning, -
Review: The Killing Star
(christian-sauve.com)
1999-04-01 fiction, scifi, space, aliens, dark-forest -
In the Beginning was the Command Line
(stanford.edu)
1999 computing, empowerment, neal-stephenson -
Tools for Thought
(rheingold.com)
1999 computing, technology, history -
Viridian design principles
(viridiandesign.org)
1998-10 bruce-sterling, solarpunk -
Growing a Language (pdf)
(virginia.edu)
1998-10 computing, plt -
The Guy I Almost Was
(electricsheepcomix.com)
1998-10 1990s, computing, -
Mathematics on a Distant Planet (pdf)
(gwern.net)
1998-08 math -
Leading scientists still reject God
🗝️
(doi.org)
1998-07-23 science, religion, sensemaking -
When Scientists Drift into Pseudoscience
(stevedutch.net)
1998-07-08 rationality, science, crackpot, plate-tectonics -
Breaking the Law of Gravity
(wired.com)
1998-03-01 crackpot, weird, physics -
𝔄
The Shaver Mystery
(fatemag.com)
1998-03 fiction, scifi, weird, characters -
Cool URIs don't change
(w3.org)
1998 web, uri -
Book Review: B.C. Smith's On the Origin of Objects
🗝️
(doi.org)
1998 philosophy, computing, brian-cantwell-smith -
The Crackpot Index
(ucr.edu)
1998 science, crackpot, funny -
The Early Years of Computational Geometry - a Personal Memoir (pdf)
(cmu.edu)
1998 computing, cg -
How Complex Systems Fail
(complexsystems.fail)
1998 systems, complexity -
The General Intelligence Factor (pdf)
(hucama.com)
1998 iq -
Monadic Parsing in Haskell (pdf)
(nott.ac.uk)
1998 computing, haskell, parsing -
Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years
(norvig.com)
1998 computing, learning -
Spacetime calculus (pdf)
(asu.edu)
1998 math, physics, geometric-algebra -
The Programmers' Stone
(datapacrat.com)
1997-10-20 rationality, computing, weird -
An Interview with A. Stepanov
(stlport.org)
1997-07 computing, cxx -
A Short (and Bloody) History of the High I.Q. Societies
(4sigma.org)
1997-06-28 iq, weird -
Calculus for mathematicians (pdf)
(yp.to)
1997-04-03 math, djb -
The Jhanas in Theravadan Buddhist Meditation
(leighb.com)
1997-03-20 meditation, jhanas -
On teaching mathematics (pdf)
(ub.es)
1997-03-07 math, learning -
T.C. Lee on developing Starflight
(oocities.org/timessquare)
1997-02-05 computing, space, games, starflight, gamedev, forth, organization -
The Right to Read
(gnu.org)
1997-02 computing, empowerment, foss -
Why g Matters: The Complexity of Everyday Life (pdf)
(udel.edu)
1997 iq, psychology -
BANCStar
(oocities.org/connorbd)
1997 computing, cursed -
GrafX2
(chez.com)
1996-11-01 computing, gamedev, cg -
Purely Functional Data Structures (pdf)
(tufts.edu)
1996-09 computing, haskell -
The Zarfian Cruelty Scale
[2]
(eblong.com)
1996-07-22 games, interactive-fiction -
Jesuitical vs. Talmudic
(slate.com)
1996-06-25 sensemaking, rhetoric -
Ten lessons I wish I had been taught (pdf)
(ams.org)
1996-04-20 science, research -
Intelligence: Knowns and Unknowns (pdf)
(wdfiles.com)
1996-02 iq -
Nanonuts
(archive.org)
1996 weird, comics, nanotechnology -
𝔄
Kevin's Oddly Different Story Time
(xvt.com)
1996 weird, funny -
How Did Software Get So Reliable Without Proof? (pdf)
(mit.edu)
1996 computing, math -
𝔄
Why Should Engineers and Scientists Be Worried About Color?
(ibm.com)
1996 computing, cg -
Industrial Society and its Future
(washingtonpost.com)
1995-09-22 doomed, , future, ted-kaczynski -
Dancing With the Gods
(catb.org)
1995-07-10 magic, religion, sensemaking, psychedelics -
The Curse of Xanadu
(wired.com)
1995-06-01 computing, xanadu, ted-nelson, outsider-cs -
C2 Wiki
(c2.com)
1995-03-25 historical, wiki, computing -
How Software Companies Die
(call-with-current-continuation.org)
1995-03 computing, business, -
The Craft of Adventure
(ifarchive.org)
1995-01-19 games, gamedev, interactive-fiction, commandments -
Battalion
(uic.edu)
1995 games, opengl -
Applications of Algebraic Topology to Concurrent Computation (pdf)
(mit.edu)
1994-12 math, computing, topology -
Tian Mingjian incident
(wikipedia.org)
1994-09-20 china, history, characters -
Society for the Promotion of Adventure Games
(spagmag.org)
1994-05-15 games, interactive-fiction -
On proof and progress in mathematics
(arxiv.org)
1994-04-01 math, learning, -
Theoretical Computer Science Cheat Sheet (pdf)
(tug.org)
1994 computing, math -
Whizzard's Guide to Text Adventure Authorship
[2]
[3]
(ifarchive.org)
1994 games, gamedev, interactive-fiction -
Anthropological invariants in travel behavior
🗝️
(doi.org)
1994 evopsych, worldbuilding -
A Positive Account of Property Rights
(daviddfriedman.com)
1994 libertarism, schelling-points -
The O-Ring Theory of Economic Development (pdf)
(fadep.org)
1993-08 economics, iq, systems, hive-mind -
How to Learn Math and Physics
(ucr.edu)
1993-05-03 math, physics, learning, reference -
Technological Singularity
(nytimes.com)
1993-03-30 singularity, vernor-vinge -
The Early History of Smalltalk
(homedns.org)
1993 computing, smalltalk -
Thermodynamics and Garbage Collection
(plover.com)
1993 physics, entropy, computing -
Physics and Probability: A Backward Look to the Future (pdf)
(wustl.edu)
1993 math, bayes, history, physics, et-jaynes -
Communicating with Slip Boxes
(surge.sh)
1992 notetaking, zettelkasten -
Why Chinese Is So Damn Hard
(pinyin.info)
1991-08 chinese, linguistics, learning, funny -
Lenin was a mushroom
(wikipedia.org)
1991-05-17 russia, weird -
On the expressive power of programming languages
🗝️
(doi.org)
1991 computing, plt -
What is Wrong with Our Thoughts? A Neo-Positivst Credo
(unsw.edu.au)
1991 philosophy, david-stove, diseased-discipline -
Extract from Lila
(optusnet.com.au)
1991 notetaking, organization -
RFC 1178: Choosing a Name for Your Computer
(ietf.org)
1990-08 computing, backend, writing -
Generatingfunctionology
(upenn.edu)
1990 math -
Theorems for free! (pdf)
(ttic.edu)
1989-06 computing, type-theory -
A Categorical Manifesto (pdf)
(ox.ac.uk)
1989-03 math, category-theory, computing -
Notes on Programming in C
(cat-v.org)
1989-02-21 computing, c, rob-pike -
A Concurrent Window System (pdf)
(cat-v.org)
1989 computing, ui, rob-pike -
Mathematical Writing (pdf)
(mit.edu)
1989 math, donald-knuth -
Information, physics, quantum: the search for links (pdf)
(philpapers.org)
1989 physics, cognitive, quantum-physics, reality, philosophy, consciousnessThe "It from Bit" paper
-
On the cruelty of really teaching computing science
(utexas.edu)
1988-12-02 computing, empowerment, dijkstra -
How Many Bytes in Human Memory?
(ralphmerkle.com)
1988-10 transhumanism, cognitive, uploads, neuroscience -
How to do Research at the MIT AI Lab (pdf)
(umass.edu)
1988-09 ai, research, historical -
The Design Philosophy of the Darpa Internet Protocols (pdf)
(princeton.edu)
1988-08 computing, internet, systems -
It's as Simple as One, Two, Three... (pdf)
(caltech.edu)
1988 feynman, shape-rotators, cognitive, rationality, sapir-whorf-hypothesis -
Starflight Star Bright - An Interview With Tim Lee
(forth.org)
1987-07 computing, forth, starflight, gamedev -
The Outsiders
(prometheussociety.org)
1987-04 iq, -
Richard Hamming: You and Your Research
(virginia.edu)
1986-03-07 science, work, rationality -
The Parable of the Two Programmers
(bruceblinn.com)
1985-03 computing, , work -
Programming as Theory Building (pdf)
(wisc.edu)
1985 computing, philosophy -
Reflections on Trusting Trust
🗝️
(doi.org)
1984-08 computing -
The Art of Computer Game Design
(archive.org)
1984 gamedev, historical -
A Theory of the Learnable (pdf)
(mpg.de)
1984 ai -
𝔄
Deep Thoughts by Jack Handey
(mit.edu)
1983-11 funny -
Moral Mazes: Bureaucracy and Managerial Work
(hbr.org)
1983-09 mazes -
Hints for Computer System Design (pdf)
(microsoft.com)
1983-07 computing, systems -
The Blit: A Multiplexed Graphics Terminal (pdf)
(cat-v.org)
1983 computing, ui, historical, rob-pike -
Epigrams on Programming
(gist.github.com/camdez)
1982-09 alan-perlis, computing -
𝔄
Living With a Computer
(theatlantic.com)
1982-07 computing, historical -
The Ideal Mathematician (pdf)
(manchester.ac.uk)
1981 math -
Computer Gaming World magazine
(archive.org)
1981 games -
Vulgarity and Nullity - Robert A. Heinlein's "The Number of the Beast"
(ansible.uk)
1981 fiction, scifi, heinlein -
Notation as a Tool of Thought (pdf)
(toronto.edu)
1980-08 computing, apl -
Standford AI Syllabus
(saildart.org)
1980 ai, historical -
Twelve Misunderstandings of Kin Selection (pdf)
(joelvelasco.net)
1979-07-03 evolution, group-selection, genetics, richard-dawkins -
Almost Perfect Artifacts Improve only in Small Ways: APL is more French than English
(jsoftware.com)
1978-03-29 computing, apl -
Can Programming Be Liberated from the von Neumann Style? (pdf)
(worrydream.com)
1978 computing -
How to Build a Universe That Doesn't Fall Apart Two Days Later
(deoxy.org)
1978 fiction, worldbuilding, scifi, reality -
Epic Pooh (pdf)
(warwick.ac.uk)
1978 fiction, tolkien, michael-moorcock, fantasy -
Where am I? (pdf)
(lehigh.edu)
1978 transhumanism, identity, philosophy, uploads -
The Tolkien Puzzle
(daviddfriedman.substack.com)
1977-12-19 fiction, tolkien, fantasy, meaning, religion -
Is God a Taoist?
(newbanner.com)
1977 moral-philosophy, raymond-smullyan -
The Basic Laws of Human Stupidity
(cat-v.org)
1976 rationality -
Year Zero
(wikipedia.org)
1975-04-17 communism, doomed, khmer-rouge -
Philip K. Dick: A Visionary Among the Charlatans
(depauw.edu)
1975-03 fiction, scifi, philip-k-dick, stanislaw-lem -
The Space Gamer magazine
(archive.org)
1975 games, fiction, rpg, space, scifi -
Arecibo message
(wikipedia.org)
1974-11-16 computing, math, space, aliens -
On the Very Idea of a Conceptual Scheme (pdf)
(profcohen.net)
1973-12-28 rationality, concepts, philosophy, linguistics -
Some Rules for Historians
(smithtrust.com)
1973-11-29 history, learning, writing -
The Machinery of Freedom (pdf)
(daviddfriedman.com)
1973 politics, libertarianism -
The Use of Faces to Represent Points in K-Dimensional Space Graphically
🗝️
(doi.org)
1973 computing, cg, chernoff-faces, weird -
More is Different
🗝️
(doi.org)
1972-08-04 physics, systems, complexity, reductionism -
The Tyranny of Structurelessness
(jofreeman.com)
1972 , activism, politics, vampire-castle, will -
Holes (pdf)
(andrewmbailey.com)
1970-08 philosophy -
Programming a Problem-Oriented Language (pdf)
(forth.org)
1970-06 computing, forth -
Samuel Delany: About five thousand one hundred and seventy five words
(fanac.org)
1969 fiction, scifi, writing -
Richard Feynman: What is Science?
(feynman.com)
1969 rationality, science, feynman -
Slouching Towards Betlehem
(saturdayeveningpost.com)
1967-09-23 psychedelics, history -
The Feynman Lectures on Physics
(caltech.edu)
1964 physics, feynman -
Eight O'Clock in the Morning (pdf)
(weebly.com)
1963 fiction, scifi, reptilians -
A Programming Language (pdf)
(softwarepreservation.org)
1962 computing, apl -
An Exceptional Talent for Calculative Thinking (pdf)
(gwern.net)
1962 cognitive, math -
History of the Scienceers
(fanac.org)
1961-06 fiction, scifi, -
Bertrand Russell: The Theologician's Nightmare (pdf)
(uky.edu)
1961 fiction, religion, meaning, space -
The Two Cultures (pdf)
(weber.edu)
1959 science, academia, sensemaking -
The Feeling of Power
(urbigenous.net)
1958-02 fiction, scifi, math, empowerment -
Generation of Greatness: The Idea of a University in an Age of Science
(mit.edu)
1957-05-22 academia, science -
You and the Atom Bomb
(orwellfoundation.com)
1945-10-19 technology, orwell, politics, nuclear -
As We May Think
(theatlantic.com)
1940-07 computing -
George Orwell: Boys' weeklies
(orwell.ru)
1940-03 fiction, pulp, orwell -
North Sea Drainage Project to Increase Area of Europe
(imgur.com)
1930-09 geoengineering -
H.G. Wells reviews Metropolis
(tsudao.com)
1927-04-17 fiction, scifi, movies, hg-wells -
Bertrand Russell: Why I Am Not a Christian
(drew.edu)
1927-03-06 religion, atheism -
Daedalus, or, Science and the Future
(bactra.org)
1923-02-04 historical, science, rationality, jbs-haldane -
Ludwig Wittgenstein: Review of P. Coffey, The Science of Logic
(wittgensteinproject.org)
1913-03-06 philosophy, rationality, wittgenstein -
What is the Fourth Dimension?
(wikisource.org)
1884 math, geometry -
Darwin among the Machines
(wikipedia.org)
1863-06-13 evolution, singularity