Today I Learnt

This page contains the articles, apps and videos that I’ve found engaging. Not updated since I started using Notion and (more recently) Pocket Matter.

Data Science

Advice Blogs

• Advice to aspiring data scientists: start a blog

• Non-Academic Careers for Astronomers and Physicists

• Concept of Digital Garden Vicki Boykis | Your public garden | RStudio::rconf, Youtube

• How Do You Create A Phenomenal Job Talk?

• Amelia McNamara on Twitter: ““Things that are still on your computer are approximately useless.” -@drob #eUSR #eUSR2017 https://t.co/nS3IBiRHBn%22 / Twitter

Industry Blogs

• Facebook: https://research.facebook.com/blog/

• Netflix: https://netflixtechblog.com/

• Google: https://ai.googleblog.com/, https://blog.google/technology/research/

• Spotify: https://engineering.atspotify.com/, https://research.atspotify.com/blog/

Technical Ideas

• Transfer Learning - Machine Learning’s Next Frontier

• Algorithm Archive · Arcane Algorithm Archive, Encyclopedia of algorithms

Programming

• Advent of Code is a programming challenge.

• Project Euler is similar.

R

• My Opinion on R’s Upcoming Pipe

• Why performance is not the issue in R Why R? 2020 Discussion Panel - Performance in R, Youtube Video

• Quanteda Why R? 2020 | Ken Benoit - Why you should stop using other text mining packages and embrace quanteda

• Visualising distributions with raincloud plots and how to create them with ggplot2

• An R User’s Note on Learning Python

• Jitter in boxplots to show distribution

• Using databases with Shiny

• Martin Wattenberg On Visualizing Large Textual Data | FlowingData

• R as a First Programming Language

• Do We Need Object Oriented Programming in Data Science? | by Rose Day | Oct, 2020 | Towards Data Science

Other Good Reads

Articles

• Tech is improving at an exponential rate. Here’s what that means for society

• A free introduction to quantum computing and quantum mechanics, A New Kind of Book

• Maps, Simpson’s Paradox, Sienfield, and what not.

• Here’s Why Movie Dialogue Has Gotten More Difficult To Understand (And Three Ways To Fix It)

• Encyclopedic Knowledge, Then vs. Now - The New York Times

• 12ft | Microsoft Encarta Dies After Long Battle With Wikipedia - The New York Times

• Early Civilizations Had It All Figured Out | The New Yorker

• The Surprisingly Big Business of Library E-books | The New Yorker

• Martha’s Rules for Group Decision Making

• Greg Wilson’s Ideas

• Searching for Susy Thunder

Twitter Threads

• Jessica Price on Twitter: “Since I’ve gotten a lot of “why won’t you debate me?” in response to talking about tabletop/geekdom’s problems, I’ll tell you.” / Twitter

• Naval on Twitter: “How to Get Rich (without getting lucky):” / Twitter

Blogs (Maths)

• The Mathematics of Mind-Time

• A Brilliant Biography about about Gödel Kurt Gödel’s Brilliant Madness

• How to imagine four or more dimensional objects Intuitive crutches for higher dimensional thinking

Print

Email me if you need a scanned copy of these items (for personal use only)

• Chapter on Mental Health in Bitwise: A Life in Code

• Playboy Interview: Steven Jobs, The best interview I’ve ever read by a margin

• It’s Happened Again by Oscar Schwartz. Wired. Print: February 2022

• The Big Inhale by Vince Beiser. Wired. Print: February 2022

YouTube

• How To Speak by Patrick Winston, MIT OCW

• NASA | Thermonuclear Art – The Sun In Ultra-HD (4K)

• A Buddhist asks Sadhguru a Puzzling Question #Vipassana

• Most People Don’t Know How Bikes Work

• Joe Rogan Experience #1309 - Naval Ravikant - YouTube

Cool Apps

• Chrome Tab Link Copier - Chrome Web Store

• Mac jaywcjlove/awesome-mac:  Now we have become very big, Different from the original idea. Collect premium software in various categories.

• Mac serhii-londar/open-source-mac-os-apps: 🚀 Awesome list of open source applications for macOS. https://t.me/s/opensourcemacosapps

Todoist Blogs

• Benefits of Walking Meetings Can Walking Meetings Lead to Healthier Lives?

• 60+ Resources for Students Who Want to Stay Productive

• Hedonic Adaptation: Why we’re never satisfied with what we’ve already accomplished

• The Mere Urgency Effect

• The Planning Fallacy: Why We’re Terrible at Setting Realistic Deadlines

• The Zeigarnik Effect: Why Unfinished Work Follows Us Home

• Complexity Bias: Why We Overcomplicate Our Lives

• The Two-Minute Rule: Stop Procrastinating With This Simple Trick

• The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up Your To-Do List

• The Sunk Cost Fallacy & Your Productivity - Doist Blog