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Ask HN: Favorite places online to satisfy intellectual curiosity?

by baobaba on 7/4/18, 8:23 PM with 8 comments

What are your favorite places online to learn new things and get inspired in an intellectual sense?

  • by mindcrime on 7/4/18, 8:38 PM

    Youtube - no joke, there is an absurd amount of amazing content on youtube. Yeah, there's also all the shitty pop music, cat videos, etc., but you can ignore that. You can find videos of great talks from amazing conferences, from NIPS to Strange Loop, C3, All Things Open, etc., etc. And there are videos of classes on all sorts of subjects, from schools including Stanford, Berkeley, MIT, IIT, etc. And then you get stuff like 3blue1brown, numberphile, etc. Seriously, I could spend all day on Youtube just soaking up knowledge.

    jmlr.org - in addition to the journal articles themselves, the site hosts a huge trove of conference proceedings from conferences like ICML, COLT, NIPS, etc. http://proceedings.mlr.press/index.html

    ijcai.org - all of the past proceedings from the International Joint Conference on AI events is online, going back to the very first one in 1969. https://www.ijcai.org/past_proceedings

    dspace.mit.edu - houses (among other things) an archive of the "AI Series" papers, which includes classics from folks like John McCarthy and Marvin Minsky, etc.

    https://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/5460/browse

  • by I_complete_me on 7/4/18, 10:34 PM

    I found this site [1] after I bought the book "What do you believe is true even though you cannot prove it?" and that led me to [2] but I can't remember how. [1] https://www.edge.org [2] https://aeon.co/

  • by greggarious on 7/5/18, 6:49 PM

    Wikipedia's "Random Article" button is pretty fun:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random

    Eventually you'll find something interesting and can random walk deeper.

    I often mash it a bit at the bus stop.

  • by awkim on 7/4/18, 11:07 PM

    http://www.aldaily.com/ is a great source for cultural, historical, art, and philosophical musings.

  • by umadtho9000 on 7/5/18, 3:58 AM

    Aeon & Quartz

  • by bachbach on 7/4/18, 8:40 PM

    There are some really good podcasts out there.

    I like Fine Homebuilding, Gastropod, Conversations with Tyler.

    Podcasts aren't a great way to get into the details - but they can provoke new thoughts and give you a lay of the land. It's a good way to start.