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access: Public published: 2020-12-31 creationDate: 2020-12-31 modifiedDate: 2025-07-19 type: Blog/Post
Inspired by Fogus’ “The best things and stuff…”
Programming/Tech/Math
- REST
- Turing machines
- Uncomputability of numbers
- Public/private key cryptography
Videos
- How To Speak by Patrick Winston. Great talk about how to speak effectively with tons of examples in the positive and negative.
- Every Melody Has Been Copyrighted (and they’re all on this hard drive). Look at brute-forcing music and the implications on copyright on own permutations. What about text?
Other
- The Fabian Strategy. Thanks 30 Rock.
- Hofstadter’s Law: It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter’s Law.
Articles/Blog Posts
- How To Understand Things.
- Uncomputable Numbers. Great blog post
- The Computer Scientist Who Can’t Stop Telling Stories. Interesting look how an interesting developer does. “I write an average of five new programs every week. Poets have to write poems. I have to write computer programs.”
- Code is Engineering, Types are Science. Easy to understand view of reasoning related in programming.
- Gresham’s Law: Why Bad Drives Out Good As Time Passes. A small bit on Gresham’s Law. Once I knew I couldn’t help but see it.
- Reality has a surprising amount of detail by John Salvatier.
Books
- Click Here To Kill Everybody by Bruce Schneier
- Art & Fear by David Bayles and Ted Orland
- I Am A Strange Loop by Douglas Hofstadter
- Unrestricted Warfare by Qiao Liang and Wang Xiangsui
- Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
Music
- King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard
- Mort Garson’s Mother Earth’s Plantasia. Plant music but good for people too.