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Books and Scholars’ Accoutrements, late 1800s. Yi Taek-gyun (Korean, 1808–after 1883). Ten-panel folding screen; ink and color on silk; overall: 197.5 x 395 cm (77 3/4 x 155 1/2 in.); painting only: 139.3 x 330.8 cm (54 13/16 x 130 1/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Fund, 2011.37. URL: https://www.clevelandart.org/art/2011.37


I have tons of materials in my backlog. Obviously, I won’t be able to write about or even read every single item with a headline that caught my eye, which means that most of my “read later” list won’t be of any use neither for me nor my readers. Also I’ve noticed that I revisit my own site way more often than my saved messages, images in the gallery, reading apps, YouTube playlists and all the other silos. Given that my personal goal is to significantly reduce the amount of places where a particular link, image or whatever could eventually get lost end up, I don’t see the reasons not to share

Links in tables below are sorted alphabetically. Hopefully the list will eventually become a bit smaller. See the Sources category if you’re interested in what I’ve already read and hopefully even wrote something about.

Note that I DON’T recommend anything listed. I’m not familiar with any of these sources, and while it would be nice to accidentally give someone a good recommendation, chances are that I unknowingly spread something low quality or dangerous. If you decide to discuss that – either with me personally or on your own social media – please be respectful. Reasons why something should be removed from the list (and what to replace it with) will be appreciated.


Aesthetics
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WhatWhy
Beauty in mind: Aesthetic appreciation correlates with perceptual facilitation and attentional amplification

Biology
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Ask not why would you work in biology, but rather: why wouldn’t you?Really, why wouldn’t I?
I should have loved biologyCan be summed up ”If only schools showed how beautiful and interesting biology really is”, I guess

Category Theory
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WhatWhy
#54 - The Goal of Science is to Communicate Ideas! - Philip Wadler by Type Theory ForallA professor behind Monads, Type Classes, Category Theory and Homotopy Type Theory research talks about the philosophy & method behind his papers
Towards a Research Program on Compositional World-Modeling – Topos InstituteHow to use category theory to model complex systems for scientific applications.

Computer Science
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How to Gain a Computer Science Education from MIT University for FREE Another CS curriculum based on materials from MIT OpenCourseWare T

Creativity
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The value of epistemic imagining

Data Science
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Foundations of Data Science with Python by John M. Shea
Python and R for the Modern Data Scientist: The Best of Both Worlds by Rick J. Scavetta and Boyan Angelov

Decision Making
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WhatWhy
Metacognition in human decision-making: confidence and error monitoring
Shared Neural Markers of Decision Confidence and Error Detection

Education
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Applications of Educational Technology

Functional Programming
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Functional Programming in Python by David MertzA rather old (2015) book. While code examples will be obviously outdated, the concepts & explanations themselves might still be useful.
Functional Programming in Python by Six Feet UpA 1.5 hour lecture from 2021 with potentially more relevant examples
Functional Programming Lessons in Imperative Code
Functional vs. Object-Oriented: Comparing How Programming Paradigms Affect the Architectural Characteristics of Systems
The Mondrian introduction to functional optics

Internet Studies
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The interplay between neuroticism, extraversion, and social media addiction in young adult Facebook users: Testing the mediating role of online activity using objective data

Italian Language
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Linguistic markers of processing the first months of the pandemic COVID-19: a psycholinguistic analysis of Italian university students’ diaries

Learning
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🌲 The Fastest Way to Learn Depends on Circumstance

Linear Algebra
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Introduction to Linear Algebra for Data Science with
Python (book)

Luck
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A Sociology of Luck

Mythology
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WhatWhy
The Indigenous Dutch Goddess Nehalennia

Note-taking
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WhatWhy
🌲 Takeaways on efficiency, passive learning, & optimization

Obsidian Plugins
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Entity Linker> Entity linker is an Obsidian plugin links research terms to corresponding standard entities (wikidata, wikipedia, openalex)

Tasks Management
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🌲 The Konik Method For Maintaining Sane Task Lists

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