Flatland

Edwin Abbott's novella about beings in a two-dimensional world unaware of a third dimension.

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The alien space of science: Coherent but cognitively unavailable directions
arxiv.org · 4 days ago
Mentioned as an analogy for cognitively unavailable directions.

The Road Not Taken ↗Learning & books
Harry Turtledove short story about aliens who missed an easy scientific discovery.
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QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter Learning & books
Richard Feynman's popular lectures on quantum electrodynamics.
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Fooled by Randomness Learning & books
A book by Nassim Nicholas Taleb about the role of luck and randomness in success.
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Quantum Field Theory for the Gifted Amateur ↗Learning & books
A textbook introducing quantum field theory to readers with some mathematical background.
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Quantum Mechanics for Engineers ↗Learning & books
A free online quantum mechanics text by Leon van Dommelen aimed at engineers.
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The Red Queen Learning & books
Matt Ridley's book on evolution and sexual selection, built around the Red Queen hypothesis.
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How I Became Stupid ↗Learning & books
A novel by Martin Page about a man who deliberately tries to become less intelligent to be happier.
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Basic Concepts of Quantum Mechanics ↗Learning & books
An introductory book by L. V. Tarasov using dialogues between the author and personas.
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Careless People
A memoir by former Facebook executive Sarah Wynn-Williams about the company's leadership.
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Forvo ↗
A website with crowdsourced audio recordings of how native speakers pronounce words.
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1960: The Year The Singularity Was Cancelled ↗
A 2019 Slate Star Codex essay by Scott Alexander on von Foerster's hyperbolic population model.
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A Perfect Vacuum
Stanisław Lem's collection of reviews of nonexistent books.
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ASD-STE100 Simplified Technical English ↗
A controlled English standard originally developed for aerospace maintenance documentation.
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Accelerando
A Charles Stross novel about accelerating technological change and autonomous AI agents.
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Ashton Manual
A guide by Heather Ashton describing slow benzodiazepine tapering schedules, often via diazepam substitution.
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Atomic Physics for Everyone
An introduction to atomic physics, quantum mechanics and precision spectroscopy with no college prerequisites.
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Axiomatic ↗
A short story collection by Greg Egan.
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Basic Concepts of Quantum Mechanics ↗
An introductory book by L. V. Tarasov using dialogues between the author and personas.
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Big O Speedrun ↗
A website tracking successive improvements to algorithmic complexity bounds, including integer multiplication.
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Bridge of Waves
A book by W.A. Mathieu about what music is and how listening changes the world.
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