Maths and philosophy

Sanskrit and its 'Sapir-Whorf relationship' to mathematical thinking, what's so scientific about Sanskit (HN)?

Why Complexity is Different

http://phys.org/news/2015-11-derivation-pi-links-quantum-physics.html

http://blog.interfacevision.com/info/vpls-and-mental-models/

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9152558

http://idlewords.com/talks/what_happens_next_will_amaze_you.htm

http://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/6515/what-could-humans-do-to-render-the-earth-uninhabitable

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People_watching

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jiro_Dreams_of_Sushi

https://medium.com/the-coffeelicious/how-to-strengthen-relationships-with-friends-10487754c6cd

Lisp as the Maxwell’s equations of software

https://medium.com/art-of-programming/the-creative-programmer-2dde54f83e3a

Art

The case for raising chickens in virtual reality

Vonnegut: How To Write With Style

What Does Music Look Like? (on album art)

Artistic Style Transfer - the first couple paragraphs are very nice in terms of phrasing the problem simply into a mathematical statement

Giant Humans Catching ZZZZs on NY Facades

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=820423864718284 – stromae on social media and twitter

http://www.theguardian.com/global-development-professionals-network/gallery/2015/apr/01/over-population-over-consumption-in-pictures?CMP=soc_567

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1GFkN4deuZU

Home

http://www.graffitiresearchlab.com/blog/

http://www.visualnews.com/2014/03/20/painting-with-lights-ephemeral-street-art-created-with-a-digital-projector/

http://www.instructables.com/id/PROJECTION-BOMBING/

http://thecreatorsproject.vice.com/blog/7-street-art-works-without-a-drop-of-spray-paint – it’s about taking back public space from advertisers

http://jerrem.com/digitalGraffiti.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manifesto_of_Futurism

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UNESCO_Intangible_Cultural_Heritage_Lists

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8896219

https://hbr.org/2003/09/how-to-pitch-a-brilliant-idea

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Lovelock and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaia_hypothesis

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Chaum

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_anonymously_published_works

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Kaczynski#Industrial_Society_and_Its_Future

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haruki_Murakami

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20150324-the-hidden-tricks-of-persuasion

http://www.griffith.edu.au/business-government/asia-pacific-centre-for-sustainable-enterprise/videos

http://www.aspeninstitute.org/

http://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/apr/01/future-of-loneliness-internet-isolation

http://www.unknownfieldsdivision.com/

Chinua Achebe on the Meaning of Life and the Writer’s Responsibility in the World

http://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/a-new-theory-of-distraction

https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/notes/media-websites-vs-facebook/

http://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/nihilistic-password-security-questions

Why Talented Creatives are Leaving your Shitty Agency

On knowledge, creativity, inter-field relations

https://www.quantamagazine.org/20141204-a-common-logic-to-seeing-cats-and-cosmos/

http://worrydream.com/MediaForThinkingTheUnthinkable/

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9584325

Instead of judging every activity for its potential to succeed, we should judge our projects for their potential to spawn more projects. If we really behave as treasure hunters and stepping stone collectors, then the only important thing about a stepping stone is that it leads to more stepping stones, period. The worst stepping stone is one that leads nowhere beyond itself, no matter how nice it may feel to stand upon it for the moment. As treasure hunters, our interest is in collecting more stepping stones, not in reaching a particular destination. The more stepping stones we find, the more opportunities there are to depart to somewhere greater.
http://highscalability.com/blog/2015/7/6/how-do-we-explain-the-unreasonable-effectiveness-of-it.html

"I, Pencil: My Family Tree as told to Leonard E. Read"

Some quotes on Deep Flow:

  • For instance, you can eat food with pleasure, because it is a need of your body. Or you can eat food with enjoyment. Mihaly takes a gourmet as an example for a person who enjoys to eat. The gourmet understands each ingredient in a meal and can focus attention to its different sensations. It is an accomplishment to bring up the attention and to experience the diversities in a meal.

Companies/Startups/Biz

The beautiful story of TeeHan+Lax

The mind

http://nautil.us/blog/can-a-wandering-mind-make-you-neurotic

A Large Self-Annotated Corpus for Sarcasm

French

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8604814

Papers

Secure Multiparty Computations on Bitcoin

PermaCoin: Repurposing Bitcoin Work for Data Preservation

Science

CRISPR:

Thoughts

  • What if HTML was just a non-executable LISP?