Things I am aware of on the internet

Useful

twitter

Dingboard. Goat image editor

together ai - hosts open souce LLMs, nice api

runpod - gpus and shit

subsplease.org - Anime subbing group.

nyaa.si - anime/manga torrenting site

anilist.co - site for tracking anime/manga. think goodreads/letterboxd. alternative to MAL.

anichart.net - nice display of upcoming seasonal anime.

https://r-roms.github.io/ - huge collection of ROMs

jp-films.com - japanese films with subs. Can find older/more esoteric ones like Spring Snow and Makioka Sisters

https://downloads.khinsider.com/ - Goated source for video game OSTs. has literally everything

https://tss.asenheim.org/en/ - Online source for archiving and playing some old visual novels.

https://detexify.kirelabs.org/classify.html - Detexify. Draw a symbol and it'll tell you what the latex command is.

https://spline.design/ - online collaborative 3d modelling software

https://citizen-dj.labs.loc.gov/ - citizen dj from the library of congress. vast collection of samples, basic beat maker

Other people

Paul Graham website. notable for essays.

yacine personal website (@yacineMTB). dingboard founder. nice website theme.

Gwern(@gwern). Writes about... various stuff. Have only read a few articles but they're well researched and thought out, and gwern seems respected. of note: beautiful theme, footnote system, and inline links.

quentin(@qtnx_). does ml stuff

qresearch. little research lab made by @qtnx_ and @yeswondwerr.

hitori labs (@hitorilabs). another ml/anime poster. has a whole thing on github documenting them building their home lab.

ftlsid.com (@ftlsid). of note: the learning japanese note

@ringwiss - british kid who's apparently super knowledgeable about congress. he was in the news, i don't really read his tweets tbh

@MarioBrothBlog - Super Mario Broth. Fun posts about mario glitches or fun facts about the game's development, that sort of thing. Very polite and has lots of integrity

@zozuar - writes crazy shaders that fit in tweets and generate pretty simulations

luc.devroye.org - Luc Devroye homepage. Of note, COMP252 homepage has course notes: http://luc.devroye.org/252.html. Also, his extensive personal library which students are free to borrow from: http://luc.devroye.org/lucbooks.html. Some interesting writing on there as well...

tinygrad.org - ml library + company selling ml boxes. as of rn, dedicated to making amd gpus work? offers bounties for various issues.

lorienpsych.com - small collection of articles on psych written by scott alexander. depression article is good

astralcodexten.com - scott alexander's main blog. interesting theory on depression causing a shift in attracting equilibrium points: https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/singing-the-blues

andymatuschak.org - one of the authors of quantum.country. noteworthy for his notes based website. used to work at khan academy and apple.

michaelnielsen.org - Michael Nielsen is the other author of quantum.country. Notable blog post: anki for mathematics: https://cognitivemedium.com/srs-mathematics. He seems to have various websites.

https://eater.net - Ben Eater website. lots of low level computer hardware guides.

https://gregbrockman.com/ - cofounder of openai, apparently cracked programmer. of note: has an unfinished chemistry textbook he wrote in high school.

https://100r.co/site/home.html - 100 Rabbits, a duo that lives on a boat sailing around the world, writing about how they do that and also the software they build.

Japanese Learning

The daily japanese threads (/jp/djt/) on 4chan can be useful, and a lot of resources below seem to have come out of there. Know what you're getting into when you go on 4chan, though.

jisho.org - goat japanese dictionary, handwriting kanji search kinda sucks

imabi - japanese grammar guide written by linguist, dense and very detailed

sakubi.neocities.org - trimmed down essentials japanese grammar guide

https://anacreondjt.gitlab.io/ - djt anacreon japanese learning resources. of note: core 2.3k deck that's adapted from the core6k deck.

https://learnjapanese.moe/ - another "standard" japanese learning guide from /jp/ djt. lots of immersion resources at /resources. of note: a spreadsheet of curated anime/manga/video games with difficulty ratings.

djtguide.neocities.org - 4chan autist made japanese learning guide. nice kana trainer. nice collection of anki decks and other resources

https://tecchanhouse.wordpress.com/2018/05/15/terrible-houses-annex/ - terriblehouse (terrace house bgnd subs)

https://guidetojapanese.org/learn/grammar - Tae Kim Japanese grammar guide. popular online

https://jpdb.io/ - jpdb, online vocab srs system. seems to have a lot of premade frequency lists/vocab lists? also based on certain anime or whatever

https://tatsumoto-ren.github.io/blog/table-of-contents.html - yet another guide to learning japanese. emphasizes immersion.

https://core6000.neocities.org/dojg/ - grammar reference ("dictionary of japanese grammar"), also has an anki deck for practicing grammar

https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/1196762551 - kaishi 1.5k anki deck. apparently good vocab deck for watching anime/reading vns as fast as possible.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLg9uYxuZf8x_A-vcqqyOFZu06WlhnypWj - cure dolly japanese playlist

https://jp.ftlsid.com/ - small unfinished japanese grammar guide by ftlsid covering the very very basics. well-written imo.

Uncategorized but particularly strange/noteworthy

https://antime.kapsi.fi/sega/ - awesome collection of documentation and tools for sega saturn. notable: the SH-2 processor manual

https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/18nb15l/p_i_built_an_open_sota_image_tagging_model_to_do/ - this guy built a captioning model based off of danbooru tags (danbooru is mostly an anime porn site, from what i can tell). apparently transfers well to irl images. he manually labelled 1000 training images to help it generalize beyond danbooru. has the benefit of not being censored

https://ajnrules.blogspot.com/2009/09/heart-melters-1-misty.html - a series from some guy's blog where he details, rates, and ranks his "heart melters", which are fictional girls that he becomes obsessed with. Kinda interesting, plus he has an entry on Tokimeki Memorial

https://github.com/spawnmason/randar-explanation - explanation of randar, a minecraft exploit that uses a bug in minecraft's rng code to discover the coordinates of other players on a server

https://twitter.com/burntends2/status/1500661289307324417 - twitter thread on WIP English patch for the Sega Saturn version of Tokimeki Memorial.

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1fG3LVWt32SKrwoCDPKThdPfWGwjz4kKM - Google drive for above. Some prelim notes on the structure of the game as well as the most recent patch.

Uncategorized

scotusblog.com - coverage about supreme court decisions and stuff

https://tobiasvl.github.io/blog/write-a-chip-8-emulator/ - well-written guide to writing a chip-8 interpreter

https://www.math.uwaterloo.ca/~hwolkowi/matrixcookbook.pdf - reference for things about matrices (from brief look at ToC new stuff are derivatives and decompositions)

https://0xf00ff00f.github.io/rotator/ - online shape rotating game

quantum.country - online quantum computing "textbook". built in SRS system inline with the text. partially built as an experiment in this style of learning material.

http://neuralnetwork sanddeeplearning.com/ - online textbook on basic neural networks written by Nielsen.

https://milksandmatcha.notion.site/Free-Trading-Resources-v2-4456ae906000487181f3486dbd0dd631 - collection of resources on how to get into quant/trading. looks like it has good references for problem books as well as stats books. never used any resources off of here so idk how good. i kinda don't like that it's a notion published site from someone with potential profit incentives to take it down so maybe archiving it is a good idea.

https://cs231n.github.io/ - CS231n is a class on CNN for visual recognition taught by Karpathy at Stanford. looks like everything, including assignments is on the website.

https://kskedlaya.org/putnam-archive/ - archive of putnam problems, solutions, and results. the prof whose page it is is a 3-time putnam fellow. publishes solutions on the monday following the saturday exam.

cses.fi/book/book.pdf - Competitve Programmers's Handbook and associated problem set. Covers most standard techniques (from the looks of it).

cp-algorithms.com - good comprehensive reference for ds/algos in cp

https://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/academic/class/15750-s16/Handouts/WildCards2006.pdf - simple paper on fft string matching with wildcards. if i remember correctly, very readable simple paper (less than a page)

lesswrong.com - no notes. Some bookmarked posts: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/xg3hXCYQPJkwHyik2/the-best-textbooks-on-every-subject, https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/6vXArgf9NsYxRYkpS/miri-research-guide, https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/mojJ6Hpri8rfzY78b/fixed-point-exercises (Sperner's lemma!)

https://www.fimfiction.net/story/62074/friendship-is-optimal - A rationalist my little pony fanfic about the AI singularity? I think I read a bit in high school but i don't remember

https://dontbuildsaas.com/ - don't build saas and advance humanity, apparently.

https://progress.fiftyyears.com/ - table of markets/product areas with market size and current startup investment. wants to plot out the map for what ambitious startup founders should build

https://math.northwestern.edu/putnam/training-genfunc.pdf - seven generating functions problems (haven't done them so idk difficulty)

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1sQtirXxkEfWYuGSKDZ-d7VGYkR_idebY/view - olympiad combinatorics book

djstrouse.com - Physics PhD, DeepMind researcher. Google doc of prob/logic puzzles linked on homepage. Also has a blog at djstrouse.com/blog/. Of note: "Guide to Applying to US Science PhD Programs and Fellowships"

https://download-mirror.savannah.gnu.org/releases/pgubook/ProgrammingGroundUp-1-0-booksize.pdf - Programming from the Ground Up. Teaches x86 assembly in Unix. Specifically made for 32bit so you have to change some stuff if you're compiling for 64bit

https://x64.syscall.sh/ - Unix 64bit syscall reference

https://cs.brown.edu/courses/cs033/docs/guides/x64_cheatsheet.pdf - x86 64bit cheatsheet

https://nandgame.com/ - Some type of game to teach you how to build a computer. never tried

https://pdos.csail.mit.edu/6.828/2023/index.html - mit OS course. of note: xv6, a basic Unix-like operating system for learning purposes, with an accompanying textbook

https://teachyourselfcs.com/ - reference for good self studying resources for various core CS subjects

https://mcyoung.xyz/syllabus - collected syllabus of comp/sci books enjoyed by the person whose website it is.

https://beej.us/guide/bgnet/ - some guide to network programming, no idea as to quality or material covered

https://pwn.college/ - online cybersecurity learning/training platform.

https://missing.csail.mit.edu/ - mit missing semester of CS education, covers basic git and bash and some other stuff, apparently

https://www.retroreversing.com/tutorials/introduction - guide to reverse engineering retro games

https://www.romhacking.net/start/ - guide to ROM hacking

https://techdocs.exodusemulator.com/ - collected technical documentation on various retro sega consoles. official stuff that was given to developers.

https://www.segasaturnshiro.com/2022/08/16/malenkos-game-patching-guide-vol-1/ - blog post series on making an english patch for a random sega saturn game

https://amctrivial.com/ - set various parameters and it feeds you AMC problems basically

https://web.stanford.edu/~cm5/putnam.html - collected references for putnam preparation. good collection of generally olympiad/math contest style books

https://buttondown.email/ainews - service that summarizes ai discords/reddits/twitters and sends daily email

https://web.stanford.edu/class/cs224w/index.html - stanford course website for machine learning on graphs. seems to have slides and readings.

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0BxKBnD5y2M8NUXhZaXBCNXE4QlE - google drive folder of yann lecun talks lmao

https://compneuro.neuromatch.io/tutorials/intro.html - some online "computational neuroscience" course.

https://davidstutz.de/how-i-prepared-for-deepmind-and-google-ai-research-internship-interviews-in-2019/ - blog post on preparing for ai research internship interviews

https://bbycroft.net/llm - crazy 3d visualizer of LLMs

play.pokemonshowdown.com - pokemon showdown.

dex.pokemonshowdown.com - very good online pokedex

calc.pokemonshowdown.com - industry standard pokemon damage calc

https://www.weizmann.ac.il/mcb/UriAlon/system-medicine-2022-2023 - notes on systems medicine from Uri Alon of Weizmann institute.

https://sadservers.com/ - online challenges for troubleshooting linux servers. never tried.

https://youtu.be/rhzKDrUiJVk - 20 min overview of regex

https://www.the-regex-game.com/ - a regex game

https://blogs.gnome.org/rbultje/2017/07/14/writing-x86-simd-using-x86inc-asm/ - ffmpeg recommended this assembly tutorial on writing performant code for ffmpeg type things

https://www.sas.upenn.edu/~fdiebold/Teaching221/FullBook.pdf - some textbook on forecasting/time series

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLgPbN3w-ia_Md9sxkXhCIAmTITSOUDJz2 - playlist on algorithmic game theory

https://longestlevers.com/ - simple website on biohacking-type "protocols". of note: the lofi-girl-protocol. also of note: the website design! very pretty and minimalist.

https://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~abhishek/chicphys.htm - Various recommendations for physics textbooks in all fields.

https://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~abhishek/chicmath.htm - Similar to above but for math

https://x.com/BitesDev/status/1763034478170231112?s=20 - Infinite procedurally generated super mario 64 levels.

https://www.ohmsha.co.jp/english/manga.htm - Illustrated manga guides to various technical topics. This company fucking cooked

https://www.programmingbooks.dev/ - some collection of programming related books

https://twitter.com/HProggy/status/1622824762840850432 - Modified pomodoro technique

https://de-engineer.github.io/SMT-Solvers/ - intro to smt solvers and z3 blog post

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/WhyFromNigeria.pdf - paper: "why do nigerian scammers say they are from nigeria?"

https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~guyb/papers/Ble93.pdf - various applications of prefix sums lol

https://x.com/ShengwuLi/status/1756391429608288388?s=20 - List of "go to papers for making small talk with smart non-economists"

https://math.bme.hu/~gabor/PGG.pdf - probability and geometry on groups notes

https://blog.pkh.me/p/37-gcc-undefined-behaviors-are-getting-wild.html - interesting blog post on how sometimes C compilers can do things behind your back that can mess you up

https://twitter.com/gf_256/status/1755077432875307173 - thread on how some private auction worked

https://algotrading.calderwhite.com/ - some long ass overview on algorithmic trading

https://x.com/fernando_takai/status/1762151077363818955?s=20 - HN user in 2007 says dropbox is useless because you can "build a system yourself quite trivially" with W,X,Y,Z

https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3209212 - C is not a low level language

https://jackcook.com/2024/02/23/mamba.html - Easy overview of mamba architecture

https://mathweb.ucsd.edu/~tkemp/247A.Notes.pdf - some notes on random matrix theory

https://www.jeremykun.com/2016/04/18/singular-value-decomposition-part-1-perspectives-on-linear-algebra/ - blog post explaining svd

https://twitter.com/prmshra/status/1760035378910695926 - some comp bio resources

https://www.scenerepresentations.org/courses/inverse-graphics-23/ - content for a course on "machine learning for inverse graphics". example: reconstructing 3d scenes.

https://www.rfleury.com/p/untangling-lifetimes-the-arena-allocator - blog post that claims to cover more sane memory management in C

https://twitter.com/dailytobytrivia/status/1564712060797140992 - sans undertale is sampled from patrick star of spongebob squarepants fame

https://twitter.com/nescartridges/status/1765454680300175625 - thread of unconventional elmos

https://www.sjc.edu/academic-programs/undergraduate/great-books-reading-list - st. johns college "great books" curriculum

https://x.com/GrantSlatton/status/1754912113246798036?s=20 - "the power of two random choices". balance load better by taking the least loaded of two uniform random choices, rather than simply taking a uniform random choice. paper in the replies.

https://ordinary.town/ - an idea for using LLMs to connect people

https://technology.riotgames.com/news/determinism-league-legends-implementation - how they try to guarantee determinism in league of legends

https://registerspill.thorstenball.com/p/education-of-a-typing-man - story of a person going from decently fast typer to very fast by learning how to properly touch type

https://x.com/deepfates/status/1754016914811105529?s=20 - RL algo for Pokemon Red?

https://x.com/JoshuaSteinman/status/1753587479548928198?s=20 - thread on how some types of lobbying works in DC

https://github.com/AbanteAI/rawdog - get GPT to do stuff on your machine by having it write python scripts right in your terminal

feats.aigrant.com - various challenges/games, some ai related

https://bioenergetic.live/ - a 24/7 online radio of ray peat interviews, whoever tf that is.

https://twitter.com/shauseth/status/1627947822632017921 - "you have access to your optimal policy at all times, just ask yourself 'what should i be doing rn?'"

https://twitter.com/DrawsMiguel/status/1752499220978847755 - psd file format sucks meme

https://twitter.com/TheJakeSchmidt/status/1751828510740463750 - nice short reasoning for 0-indexing/[,) intervals

https://www.leversforprogress.com/ - levers for progress, "open collection of policies, tactics, and reforms modern institutions have used to advance their scientific and technological output"

http://prize.hutter1.net/ - Hutter prize: compress a 1GB sample of English Wikipedia to as small as possible for money prize. Also known as the 500,000 euros prize for compressing human knowledge.

https://course.fast.ai/ - fast.ai course. apparently a good beginner guide to deep learning for coders to get building stuff quickly.

https://mml-book.github.io/ - freely available online book "mathematics for machine learning"

https://themlbook.com/ - "the ml book". some sort of short summary of basic ml stuff?

https://typing.com - simple free online touch typing teacher

https://typing.io/ - typing practice specific to code

https://github.com/vgarciasc/xeupiu - xeupiu, a texthooker-type project to translate Tokimeki Memorial without making a whole patch

https://ardalambion.net - Ardalambion, a vast collection of resources about Tolkien languages. Includes a lot of educational material to learn one of the Elvish languages for yourself.

http://xsim.com/papers/Bario.2001.emubook.pdf - a book on emulators

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLnAxReCloSeTJc8ZGogzjtCtXl_eE6yzA - Building Scott's CPU, a playlist of videos where they build a simple CPU from scratch