Reading list (web articles)

Society, social networks, politics

• How the powerful clean up their digital past
• Reflections on Ten Years Past the Snowden Revelations

Science

• Theory of Soundscape Ecology
• There’s no such thing as a tree (phylogenetically)
• Experiment design
• Physics sylabus
• How we burn calories
• Reinventing explanation
• How a Human Smell Receptor Works Is Finally Revealed
• Immune
• How computationaly complex is neuron
• Does one simple rule underlie learning in the brain?

Machine learning, AI, LLMs

• LLMs are simple mechanism to retrieve stored knowledge

Music

• Awesome Music Links
• Automatic Music Composition
• Dissonance
• Researchers’ AI aligns sheet music with MIDI audio

Programming, software engineering

• Codeless code
• What AI can do
• FastAPI tutorial
• Under 500 lines of code
  • A pedometer from scratch
• Consent, GDPR and Google Analytics
• pz Python CLI tool
• Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach (by P. Norvig)
• Design Patterns for Humans
• Python Design Patterns
• The Lines of Code That Changed Everything
• i18n Best Practices for Front-End Developers
• Forth
• Unpacking Elixir: concurrency
• The terminal, core utils, and shell – a bit of history
• Why on earth are we already lamenting the fall of LLMs
• My heuristics for interacting with humans
• Unicode – what every dev must know about Unicode
• What every programmer should know about memory
• Linux Kernel Module Programming Guide
• Anatomy of terminal
• On being a senior Engineer

General

• Accounting for Computer Scientists

Self-improving, rationality

• Spacing effect for learning
• Don’t shoot yourself in the foot
• Recognize misconceptions
• Common Probability Errors to avoid
• Heuristics That Almost Always Work
• Best essays
• Confronting Failure as a Core Life Skill
• Embrace Complexity
• Tools for thoughts by Michael Nielsen

Linguistics, philosophy

• International Linguistics Olympiad, sample tasks
• A Nihilist’s Guide to Meaning
• Memories are made by breaking DNA

Ecology

• Environmental Impacts of Food Production
• Public bathhouses

Plain text notes, knowledge organization

• Plain text life
• Progressive Summarization
• Personal Informatics Seminar