Future Readings
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Alex Sludd - includes Silicon Photonics, running Neural Networks through light meshes.
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Better Videogame Characters by Design by Katherine Isbister
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Christopher Alexander principles of architecture. To explore further. In particular
- A Pattern Language
- The Nature of Order books 1 -4
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The Advantage by Patrick Lencioni
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One Page Design by Stone Librande
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Unmasking the Social Engineer: The Human Element of Security
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It’s Not All About “Me”: The Top Ten Techniques for Building Quick Rapport with Anyone
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https://www.amazon.com/Business-Dynamics-Systems-Thinking-Modeling/dp/007238915X
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GPU Gems 1, 2, 3 - Notes on Realtime Computer Graphics
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Lord of Mysteries - https://lordofthemysteries.fandom.com/wiki/Demoness_Pathway. Interesting from a Worldbuilding Perspective
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From The Depths - specifically focusing on digging through the design and interaction between systems.
Interesting Topics
- Screaming Insects Algorithm
- HEMA
- Extreme Performance Artists. Prompted by this
- Dramaturgy
- Von Neumann Morgenstern Utility Theorem
- Petri Nets
- Hopfield Networks
- General Method of Moments / Simulated Method of Moments
- AlphaFold
- Socionics
- Chess Openings
- Sound Design
- Johnson-Lindenstrauss Lemma
- Look more into Sparse Autoencoder
- Dreams are (theorized) as ways humans prevent overfitting
- Neuro Evolution of Augmented Topologies and similar algorithms
- Compositional Pattern Producing Methods
Notemarks
- Geometric Deep Learning - stopped at the intro portion of the paper. Need to review Group Theory first.
- Forecasting — specifically classical techniques for Time Series Analysis.
- Abnormal Psychology. Specifically Mental Illnesses.
Bookmarks
- Factory Physics - Workforce Planning.
- Virtues and their Vices by Kevin and Craig
- Cardinal Virtues
- Intellectual Virtues
- Theological Virtues
- Exploring Physical Geography by Reynolds - start at Weather Systems
- Linear and Nonlinear Programming by Luenberger and Ye - Resume Ch. 5
- Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain by Edwards - Resume Ch. 8
- Code Complete by McConnell - Resume Ch. 10
Utilities
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Beall’s List - provides a list of predatory journals and publishers.
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Library Genesis - site for searching millions of books
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Anna’s Archive - site for searching millions of books
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phind - a search engine that makes use of an LLM under the hood.
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Pi.ai - an online personal assistant chatbot as an alternative to ChatGPT.
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[Chat Paper](https://chatpaper.com/) - AI powered tool for reviewing research papers
General Knowledge Repositories
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Very Short Introductions - A book series.
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The Stacks Project - an open source resource for Algebraic Geometry.
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Nlab - wiki on mathematics, physics, and philosophy (from a pure math perspective)
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IQuiLezles - math, art and computer graphics
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Math3ma - math
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HackerFactor - Security
What to Learn?
- Universities provide curricula that can aid in the self learning process. The autodidact can either follow these curricula, figure out prerequisites needed for a field of study or simply explore what is out there