1. Mechanical Watch (ciechanow.ski)
recommended by 6 users | 2022 | 4298 points by todsacerdoti | original thread |
2. The FedEx Problem (arxiv.org)
recommended by 5 users | 2015 | 229 points by subnaught | original thread |
3. What can a technologist do about climate change? (worrydream.com)
recommended by 4 users | 2015 | 402 points by michael_nielsen | original thread |
4. Not everyone has an internal monologue (ryanandrewlangdon.wordpress.com)
recommended by 4 users | 2020 | 1225 points by altacc | original thread |
5. What Bodies Think About: Bioelectric Computation Outside the Nervous System (youtube.com)
recommended by 3 users | 2018 | 117 points by adenadel | original thread |
6. Project Vesta – Mitigating climate change with green sand beaches (projectvesta.org)
recommended by 3 users | 2019 | 553 points by QuickToBan | original thread |
7. Why Explore Space? A 1970 Letter to a Nun in Africa. (launiusr.wordpress.com)
recommended by 3 users | 2012 | 360 points by mike_esspe | original thread |
8. SpaceX's Texas Rocket Is Going to Cause a Lot More Damage Than Anyone Thinks (blog.esghound.com)
recommended by 3 users | 2023 | 1 point by Zigurd | original thread |
9. What Gödel Discovered (stopa.io)
recommended by 2 users | 2020 | 1000 points by stopachka | original thread |
10. A Programmer's Introduction to Mathematics (jeremykun.com)
recommended by 2 users | 2018 | 937 points by chocolateboy | original thread |
11. How Kalman Filters Work (anuncommonlab.com)
recommended by 2 users | 2016 | 377 points by slackpad | original thread |
12. CPM MagnaCut (knifesteelnerds.com)
recommended by 2 users | 2021 | 375 points by topsycatt | original thread |
13. Why we are unlikely to ever leave the solar system. (antipope.org)
recommended by 2 users | 2011 | 302 points by shalmanese | original thread |
14. The Ph.D Grind: A Ph.D Student Memoir (pgbovine.net)
recommended by 2 users | 2012 | 285 points by unignorant | original thread |
15. An amateur linguist loses control of the language he invented (2012) (newyorker.com)
recommended by 2 users | 2014 | 272 points by godarderik | original thread |
16. Sphere Packing Solved in Higher Dimensions (quantamagazine.org)
recommended by 2 users | 2016 | 218 points by digital55 | original thread |
17. Teaching Linear Algebra (bentilly.blogspot.com)
recommended by 2 users | 2009 | 208 points by btilly | original thread |
18. I Fooled Millions Into Thinking Chocolate Helps Weight Loss (io9.com)
recommended by 2 users | 2015 | 205 points by brown-dragon | original thread |
19. A Mathematician’s Lament (2002) [pdf] (maa.org)
recommended by 2 users | 2015 | 170 points by gshrikant | original thread |
20. Why Philosophers Should Care About Computational Complexity [pdf] (scottaaronson.com)
recommended by 2 users | 2015 | 160 points by fbrusch | original thread |
21. Complex numbers have never been so intuitive to me (betterexplained.com)
recommended by 2 users | 2011 | 154 points by AndrewMoffat | original thread |
22. A Mathematician’s Lament (2002) [pdf] (maa.org)
recommended by 2 users | 2013 | 152 points by kjhughes | original thread |
23. Why Philosophers Should Care About Computational Complexity (scottaaronson.com)
recommended by 2 users | 2011 | 140 points by sweis | original thread |
24. The Lost Art of Steam Heating (2017) [video] (youtube.com)
recommended by 2 users | 2018 | 134 points by userbinator | original thread |
25. Visual Group Theory (web.bentley.edu)
recommended by 2 users | 2016 | 90 points by rfreytag | original thread |
26. Lockhart's Lament: On Mathematics at School (maa.org)
recommended by 2 users | 2008 | 70 points by hhm | original thread |
27. On Math Teaching: Lockhart's Lament (maa.org)
recommended by 2 users | 2008 | 46 points by orib | original thread |
28. Bicycle (ciechanow.ski)
recommended by 2 users | 2023 | 8 points by todsacerdoti | original thread |
29. “It's appropriate that the first video is called ‘gimbal’, because that's exactly what it is.” (comment)
recommended by 2 users | 2019 | colanderman on: Navy pilots report unexplained flying objects | original thread |
30. They Used To Last 50 Years (recraigslist.com)
recommended by 2 users | 2017 | 1359 points by teslacar | original thread |