Maths and philosophy
Sanskrit and its 'Sapir-Whorf relationship' to mathematical thinking, what's so scientific about Sanskit (HN)?
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://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
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
https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=820423864718284 – stromae on social media and twitter
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1GFkN4deuZU
http://www.graffitiresearchlab.com/blog/
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"
- 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:
- http://alliance.nautil.us/feature/190/the-unbearable-weirdness-of-crispr
- "The capabilities of proteins found (off the top of my head) in jellyfish, in sulfur springs, in colored algae, in electric eels, in little pond creatures, in HIV, in waterbears, etc. are all depositing huge amounts of technology into our collective knowledgebank" see more
Thoughts
- What if HTML was just a non-executable LISP?