I am assembling a list of interesting blogs to read and for that purpose I’d love to see the kind of blog the people in this community recommend as a starting point. Don’t see this just as a request to post blogs according to my unknown taste but as a request to post blogs according to your taste in the hope that the recommendation scratches an itch in this community.
John Baez, “from math to physics to earth science and biology, computer science and the technologies of today and tomorrow,” plus stuff on catastrophic risk w.r.t. climate change.
Andrew Gelman, pointing out bad statistics in social science. More than once, I’ve revised my beliefs about some study months later when he points out a failure to replicate or other problem.
Timothy Gowers, math, analysis I stuff recently, mostly over my head
Terry Tao, math, number theory, mostly over my head
And finally my blog, I try to share surprising information, cogsci/relationships/computer science/math
gwern posts on google+ and Kaj Sotala posts interesting stuff on Facebook. I also subscribe to a number of journal’s table of contents via this site to keep up with research and some stuff on arxiv.
I have to admit the intersection with my feed list is most definitely non-empty: I’d add Good Math Bad Math, mathematics, computer science and, sometimes, recipes and playlists.
After discussing diffusion of interesting news at the most recent London meetup, I was planning on asking something like this myself.
Futility Closet is nothing but “interesting stuff”. It describes itself as “a collection of entertaining curiosities in history, literature, language, art, philosophy, and mathematics, designed to help you waste time as enjoyably as possible”. It has more chess than I personally care for, but is updated with what I find to be novel content three times a day.
Conscious Entities is a blog on Philosophy of Mind. It takes an open position on a lot of questions we would consider to be settled on LessWrong, but I think it has value in a steel-manning / why-do-people-believe-this capacity.
(The categories on my feed reader are “Blogs”, “CS”, “Dance”, “Econ”, “Esoterica”, “Maths/Stats”, “Philosophy”, “Science” and “Webcomics”. I’d be interested in finding out how other people classify theirs.)
In the Pipeline is a very good blog to keep up with what’s happen in big pharma and chemistry in general. It written by someone employed inside a pharma company, and not someone who criticizes pharma policy from a outsider standpoint.
There are some posts about specific chemical reactions that I skip but if you want to understand how the healthcare industry works, I can recommend the blog very much. It also provides good coverage if a new relevant biomedical finding comes in the news.
The comment section is usually full of people with domain experience.
I used to read Matt Talibies Rolling Stones blog column for Finanical news. Stories about Libor are explained in detail on that blog.
Matt now left the Rolling Stones and will lead his own magazine under the heading of First Look Media which is funded by the tech billionaire of ebay cofounder Pierre Morad Omidyar. At the moment First Look Media already publishes Glenn Greenwald & company which the primary job of still processing the pile of Snowden documents.
I used to read Glenn Greenwald for a long time but reading every other day about the NSA, used to become boring so I won’t read everything that comes out in the Intercept but I subscribe to the feed.
Alternativlos is an interesting project. Two members of the Chaos Computer Club basically concluded that speaking to the public and explaining them how things work politically is “without alternative” and started to explain topics in 2 hours.
It explains a topic like stuxnet in detail in a detail that explains what exploits cost on the black market.
Today some public radio stations rebroadcast the podcast.
I don’t really read many blogs frequently. The one sort-of-bloggish site I visit daily is 3 Quarks Daily. They link to a number of interesting articles every day, and their taste in topics coincides quite nicely with mine.
I am assembling a list of interesting blogs to read and for that purpose I’d love to see the kind of blog the people in this community recommend as a starting point. Don’t see this just as a request to post blogs according to my unknown taste but as a request to post blogs according to your taste in the hope that the recommendation scratches an itch in this community.
Here’s a sampling of the best in my RSS reader:
Scott Aaronson, theoretical computer science/physics
Tyler Cowen, economics, Cowen is good about sharing surprising info
Lambda the Ultimate, programming language theory
John Baez, “from math to physics to earth science and biology, computer science and the technologies of today and tomorrow,” plus stuff on catastrophic risk w.r.t. climate change.
Jeremy Kun, computer science mostly
The n-Category Cafe, “A group blog on math, physics and philosophy”
Andrew Gelman, pointing out bad statistics in social science. More than once, I’ve revised my beliefs about some study months later when he points out a failure to replicate or other problem.
Timothy Gowers, math, analysis I stuff recently, mostly over my head
Terry Tao, math, number theory, mostly over my head
matthen, math visualizations
Gödel’s Lost Letter, theoretical computer science, complexity theory, often funny
MIRI blog, interviews, research recaps, computer sciencey
Overcoming Bias, X isn’t about Y
Dart Throwing Chimp, global politics
Carl Shulman, effective altruism, thoughtful analysis
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal, webcomic
So Your Life is Meaningless, webcomic
XKCD, webcomic
hbd* chick, population genetics, star wars, emoticons
Unqualified Reservations, neoreactionary, questioning everything since the enlightenment
Yvain, psychology, rationality, relationships
Ben Kuhn, effective altruism
Katja Grace, rationality
Brienne Strohl, rationality
And finally my blog, I try to share surprising information, cogsci/relationships/computer science/math
gwern posts on google+ and Kaj Sotala posts interesting stuff on Facebook. I also subscribe to a number of journal’s table of contents via this site to keep up with research and some stuff on arxiv.
I have to admit the intersection with my feed list is most definitely non-empty: I’d add Good Math Bad Math, mathematics, computer science and, sometimes, recipes and playlists.
After discussing diffusion of interesting news at the most recent London meetup, I was planning on asking something like this myself.
Futility Closet is nothing but “interesting stuff”. It describes itself as “a collection of entertaining curiosities in history, literature, language, art, philosophy, and mathematics, designed to help you waste time as enjoyably as possible”. It has more chess than I personally care for, but is updated with what I find to be novel content three times a day.
Conscious Entities is a blog on Philosophy of Mind. It takes an open position on a lot of questions we would consider to be settled on LessWrong, but I think it has value in a steel-manning / why-do-people-believe-this capacity.
(The categories on my feed reader are “Blogs”, “CS”, “Dance”, “Econ”, “Esoterica”, “Maths/Stats”, “Philosophy”, “Science” and “Webcomics”. I’d be interested in finding out how other people classify theirs.)
I have: “News”, “Friends”, “Comics”, “RPG”, “Android”, “LW” , “Climbing” and “Maths”.
There are some blogs mentioned on the wiki.
Mr.Money Mustache on personal finance.
In the Pipeline is a very good blog to keep up with what’s happen in big pharma and chemistry in general. It written by someone employed inside a pharma company, and not someone who criticizes pharma policy from a outsider standpoint. There are some posts about specific chemical reactions that I skip but if you want to understand how the healthcare industry works, I can recommend the blog very much. It also provides good coverage if a new relevant biomedical finding comes in the news. The comment section is usually full of people with domain experience.
I used to read Matt Talibies Rolling Stones blog column for Finanical news. Stories about Libor are explained in detail on that blog.
Matt now left the Rolling Stones and will lead his own magazine under the heading of First Look Media which is funded by the tech billionaire of ebay cofounder Pierre Morad Omidyar. At the moment First Look Media already publishes Glenn Greenwald & company which the primary job of still processing the pile of Snowden documents.
I used to read Glenn Greenwald for a long time but reading every other day about the NSA, used to become boring so I won’t read everything that comes out in the Intercept but I subscribe to the feed.
As a German speaking independent news sources I read hintergrund, fefe and the indepth podcast Alternativlos.
Alternativlos is an interesting project. Two members of the Chaos Computer Club basically concluded that speaking to the public and explaining them how things work politically is “without alternative” and started to explain topics in 2 hours. It explains a topic like stuxnet in detail in a detail that explains what exploits cost on the black market.
Today some public radio stations rebroadcast the podcast.
I don’t really read many blogs frequently. The one sort-of-bloggish site I visit daily is 3 Quarks Daily. They link to a number of interesting articles every day, and their taste in topics coincides quite nicely with mine.