Summer Solstice 2024 links
the best of the internet over the last season
- Millikan’s Oil Drop Experiment is flawed (?)
- Illuminating (and sometimes funny) discussion on Russians and voting
- Nice video about the XOR perceptron problem: Sisyphus Perceptron
- I think Elle Cordova is just wonderfully clever. I love watching her videos!
- JavaScript Bloat in 2024, if I could have math typesetting without JS, I’d get rid of JavaScript entirely
- I learnt a lot about potato botany from this question on potato evolution in The Martian
- A Tour of Johannes Vermeer narrated by Stephen Fry.
- Generate random mathematics papers
- David Hume, the Buddha, and a search for the Eastern roots of the Western Enlightenment by Alison Gopnik
- No Regrets: Boris Spassky at 60: a fascinating interview from the 10th World Champion
- Why do doctors still use pagers?: a good example of communicative friction being a good thing
- Karpov, Kramnik, Anand vs. Karjakin, Nepo, Dubov
- Gene therapy reverses hearing loss: we are on the brink of a great golden age in medical science
- Being 13: Social media is the worst thing that has happened to teenage girls