What If Harry Potter Was A Rationalist?

What on the internet do I discover fascinating?

Webcomics

Questionable Content material (no, it isn’t NSFW) sitcom-model but with sentient robots

Wondermark, absurd humor with Victorian visuals

Strong Feminine Protagonist, superheroes and supervillains and moral dilemmas (the protagonist is a feminine who is robust)

Subnormality, extremely detailed artwork with often deep social commentary, not your typical comedian

The Perry Bible Fellowship, charming art and offbeat punchlines

xkcd, very nerdy

Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal, also nerdy and often darkish

Webserials

Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality (HPMOR) by Eliezer Yudkowsky. The one fanfic of any kind that I’ve ever favored. ‘What if Harry Potter was a rationalist?’

Worm and Pact, two webserials by wildly profitable debutant Internet writer ‘wildbow’. The premise of Worm is superpowers in a very imperfect, human world, from metropolis blocks to planetary politics; the premise of Pact is dealings with the supernatural, who have a polity of their very own.

UNSONG: ‘What if Kabbalistic Judaism have been true, in a power-hungry capitalist world?’ By Scott Alexander, roughly in the style of rational fiction, very engaging.

What football will appear to be sooner or later — 17776, soccer but in addition science fiction.

SCP Foundation, a sprawling, wiki-fashion collection of stories set in a universe with mysterious supernatural artifacts ‘secured, contained, and protected’ by the inspiration.

Newsletters/blogs I read

The Browser, an exceptionally good curated e-newsletter of nicely-written articles on various subjects, present and previous

Marginal Revolution, on present scientific, political, and economic events, by Tyler Cowen and Alex Tabarrok

Astral Codex Ten, Scott Alexander writes about medication, anthropology, and rationality. Always very thoughtful.

The Baffler, «The Journal That Blunts the Leading edge». Weekly dose of cynical takes.

Aeon and its sister Psyche, broadly reflecting on the human situation. Usually insightful.

EFFector from the Digital Frontier Basis on digital rights

Free Software Supporter from the Free Software Basis

MIT Daily, daily information from MIT

MIT Expertise Review, technology information (and a bimonthly journal)

Skilled

Programming Languages and Verification group at MIT CSAIL

Instructional Research Program, runs instructional applications for center- and high-schoolers

SPARC, the Summer season Program on Applied Rationality and Cognition

Panini Linguistics Olympiad, linguistics contest for Indian high schoolers

Monsoon Math Camp, an Indian math camp for top schoolers

Euler Circle, advanced math circle within the California Bay Space (although presently on-line)

Causality in Cognition Lab at Stanford

Private

— A nice article about me in the MIT News!

The Quick, Tampered Clavier, a form of lifeless weblog run by me and a few mates.

— Not really a link, however a personal wishlist: — studio headphones

— small earrings — geometric shapes, animals, icons, and many others.

— webcomic merch or 2 сезон perhaps tasteful prints

— a pleasant and/or quaint poster, or maybe «Find out how to Work Higher», additionally postcards, notecards, and the like

— a insulated travel mug with lid

— a skateboard

— an adjustable wrench

— a Kazoo

Music resources

Rajan Parrikar’s Music Archive is each a curated archive of 1000’s of uncommon, outdated, Hindustani classical music recordings, and a big assortment of artful weblog posts about Hindustani classical music from a seasoned connoiseur.

SwarGanga has handy tools to seek for raags or bandishes by their notes.

Aathavanitli Gani has a huge assortment of lyrics and metadata about Marathi songs.

— The Darbar Festival YouTube channel has high-high quality recordings of trendy classical artists.

— Rahul Deshpande has an audioblog about Hindustani classical music: details, opinions, and stories interspersed with brief vocal demonstrations. (This was once on his now-defunct website.)

Random tidbits

Pink Trombone, an interactive sound-producing model of the vocal cavity that is a good phonetics teaching software.

— My good friend lindrew’s webpage has extensive and full LaTeX notes for a lot of subjects he is taken at MIT.

DeTeXify, find the LaTeX command for a handwritten image.

The LaTeX WikiBook. My go-to LaTeX reference for simple things.

Digital Dictionaries of South Asia, full-textual content entry to high-quality on-line dictionaries (though I solely have direct expertise with the Marathi ones)

Sanskrit Dictionary for Spoken Sanskrit

CSS Autoprefixer (for cross-browser CSS compatibility)

MathILy (and MathILy-Er), an enriching and really fun math camp. The same folks run an REU-fashion program known as MathILy-EST.