Miscellaneous

Misc Pages

• Opposition Surge.
• Family Tree.

Personal Websites that I Follow

• Shtetl-Optimized. Scott Aaronson's blog.
• Bartosz Ciechanowski's blog.
• Terence Tao's blog.
• Mykhailo Moroz's blog.
• Lilian Weng's blog.
• Moments in Graphics. Christoph Peters' blog.
• Inigo Quilez's website.
• Keenan Crane's website.
• Art of Simon Stålenhag.
• Shaded Relief. Maps and other stuff by Tom Patterson.
• Cosmic Background. Pictures of space by Andrew McCarthy.
• Nicholas McDonald's blog. Interesting articles on procedural hydrology.
• Acko.net. Steven Wittens' website.
• lcamtuf's thing. Electronics and Maths.
• John Tromp's website. Inventor of a great graphical notation for lambda calculus terms.
• Alexander Mordvintsev's websites. Explores complex systems arising from simple rules.
• Red Blob Games. Interactive visual explanations of math and algorithms.

Cool Stuff

• Writing an OS in Rust. Philipp Oppermann's blog about creating a small operating system in Rust.
• Doom in a PDF.
• GPT in 60 Lines of NumPy.
• Turtles Hoard. Buyable synthetic scientific crystals.
• Online special relativity demo.
• Linux in a Pixel Shader - A RISC-V Emulator for VRChat.
• Making Software. An illustrated reference manual about software by Dan Hollick.
• Unicode's Transliteration Rules Are Turing-Complete.
• An Axiomatic Theory of Well-orderings. Presents axiomatic list theory as an alternative to standard ZFC set theory.
• Coarse-graining of cellular automata.
• Dithered QR Codes.

Learning Resources I Recommend

• WebGL Fundamentals. A great resource for learning WebGL.
• WebGL2 Fundamentals. A great resource for learning WebGL2.
• WebGPU Fundamentals. A great resource for learning WebGPU.

Software I Recommend

• File Pilot
• Monitorian
• Fan Control
• Open Tablet Driver
• qBittorrent
• VLC Media Player

Literature I Recommend

• Lena. Fake wikipage about the first executable image of a human brain.
• The Epiphany of Gliese 581. A novella about scientists exploring the ruins of a dead superintelligence.
• Maker of Rivers. Short story in the same setting as "The Epiphany of Gliese 581".
• Why Philosophers Should Care About Computational Complexity. An essay by Scott Aaronson.
• There Is No Antimemetics Division.
• Ra.
• Fine Structure.

Games I Recommend

• The Witness
• A Monster's Expedition
• Portal
• Portal 2
• Half-Life 2
• Taiji
• The Talos Principle
• The Talos Principle 2
• Tunic
• The Entropy Centre
• Opus Magnum
• Kaizen
• Last Call BBS
• Antichamber
• Outer Wilds
• Return of the Obra Dinn
• The Forgotten City
• Celeste
• Hollow Knight
• Silksong
• Cyberpunk 2077 (Especially the Phantom Liberty DLC)
• The Case of the Golden Idol
• DEATHLOOP
• Dishonored
• Dishonored 2
• Dishonored: Death of the Outsider
• Prey
• Disco Elysium
• Deus Ex: Mankind Divided
• Factorio (Especially the Space Age DLC)
• Satisfactory
• Kingdom Come: Deliverance II
• Neon White
• Subnautica
• Mirror's Edge
• FEZ

YouTube Channels I Recommend

• 3Blue1Brown
• Computerphile
• Veritasium
• Numberphile
• Welch Labs
• The Action Lab
• Spectral Collective
• Almost Sure
• Artem Kirsanov
• Mathemaniac
• Mathologer
• Brain Truffle
• Branch Education
• Ten Minute Physics
• Polylog
• Alpha Phoenix
• Real Engineering
• The Efficient Engineer
• Sebastian Lague
• Practical Engineering
• Steve Mould
• Clickspring
• LEMMiNO
• Animagraffs

Shows I Recommend

• Better Call Saul
• Breaking Bad
• Tales from the Loop
• Adolescence
• Devs
• The Expanse
• The Sopranos
• The Wire
• True Detective Season 1
• Fargo Season 1, 2, 3 & 5
• Westworld Season 1
• House of the Dragon Season 1
• Game of Thrones Seasons 1 to 6
• Pantheon (2023)

Movies I Recommend

• Blade Runner (1982)
• The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
• Casino (1995)
• The Matrix (1999)
• Memento (2000)
• American Psycho (2000)
• The Pianist (2002)
• The Matrix Reloaded (2003)
• The Matrix Revolutions (2003)
• Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
• Children of Men (2006)
• Stranger than Fiction (2006)
• The Prestige (2006)
• No Country for Old Men (2007)
• Sunshine (2007)
• Synecdoche, New York (2008)
• Inception (2010)
• Shutter Island (2010)
• The Adventures of Tintin (2011)
• Cloud Atlas (2012)
• Her (2013)
• Interstellar (2014)
• Ex Machina (2014)
• Nightcrawler (2014)
• Edge of Tomorrow (2014)
• Arrival (2016)
• Blade Runner 2049 (2017)
• Tenet (2020)
• Dune: Part One (2021)
• Dungeons & Dragons: Honour Among Thieves (2023)
• Oppenheimer (2023)
• Dune: Part Two (2024)
• Project Hail Mary (2026)
• Digger (2026)