What If Harry Potter Was A Rationalist?

What on the web do I find interesting?

Webcomics

Questionable Content (no, it isn’t NSFW) sitcom-type however with sentient robots

Wondermark, острые козырьки онлайн хорошем качестве absurd humor with Victorian visuals

Strong Female Protagonist, superheroes and supervillains and ethical dilemmas (the protagonist is a feminine who is strong)

Subnormality, extraordinarily detailed artwork with usually deep social commentary, not your typical comedian

The Perry Bible Fellowship, charming artwork and offbeat punchlines

xkcd, very nerdy

Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal, also nerdy and sometimes dark

Webserials

Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality (HPMOR) by Eliezer Yudkowsky. The only fanfic of any form that I’ve ever appreciated. ‘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 really imperfect, human world, from metropolis blocks to planetary politics; the premise of Pact is dealings with the supernatural, who have a polity of their own.

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

What soccer will appear like sooner or later — 17776, football but additionally science fiction.

SCP Basis, a sprawling, wiki-type assortment of stories set in a universe with mysterious supernatural artifacts ‘secured, contained, and protected’ by the muse.

Newsletters/blogs I read

The Browser, an exceptionally good curated e-newsletter of properly-written articles on various subjects, current and past

Marginal Revolution, on present scientific, political, and financial occasions, by Tyler Cowen and Alex Tabarrok

Astral Codex Ten, Scott Alexander writes about drugs, anthropology, and rationality. At all times very thoughtful.

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

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

EFFector from the Electronic Frontier Basis on digital rights

Free Software program Supporter from the Free Software Basis

MIT Daily, each day information from MIT

MIT Technology Assessment, know-how information (and a bimonthly magazine)

Skilled

Programming Languages and Verification group at MIT CSAIL

Instructional Studies Program, runs educational applications for center- and excessive-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 in the California Bay Area (although at present on-line)

Causality in Cognition Lab at Stanford

Personal

— A pleasant article about me within the MIT Information!

The Short, Tampered Clavier, a kind of dead weblog run by me and some mates.

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

— small earrings — geometric shapes, animals, icons, and so on.

— webcomic merch or perhaps tasteful prints

— a nice and/or quaint poster, or perhaps «How one can Work Higher», additionally postcards, notecards, and the like

— a insulated journey mug with lid

— a skateboard

— an adjustable wrench

— a Kazoo

Music sources

Rajan Parrikar’s Music Archive is both a curated archive of 1000’s of uncommon, old, Hindustani classical music recordings, and a large collection of artful weblog posts about Hindustani classical music from a seasoned connoiseur.

SwarGanga has handy instruments to search for raags or bandishes by their notes.

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

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

— Rahul Deshpande has an audioblog about Hindustani classical music: info, opinions, and tales interspersed with short vocal demonstrations. (This used to be on his now-defunct web site.)

Random tidbits

Pink Trombone, an interactive sound-producing mannequin of the vocal cavity that is a superb phonetics teaching instrument.

— My pal lindrew’s webpage has extensive and complete LaTeX notes for many subjects he’s taken at MIT.

DeTeXify, find the LaTeX command for a handwritten symbol.

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

Digital Dictionaries of South Asia, full-textual content entry to excessive-quality on-line dictionaries (although I only 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 identical individuals run an REU-model program known as MathILy-EST.