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Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid

Douglas Hofstadter

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10/10ExtremeDec 2024

Principia Mathematica

Bertrand Russell & Alfred North Whitehead

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Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

Ludwig Wittgenstein

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3Blue1Brown: Essence of Linear Algebra

Grant Sanderson

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3Blue1Brown: Essence of Calculus

Grant Sanderson

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Gwern.net

Gwern Branwen

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10/10ExtremeOct 2024

@3blue1brown

Grant Sanderson

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Deep Learning

Ian Goodfellow

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Colah's Blog

Christopher Olah

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10/10DeepJan 2025

Lil'Log

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10/10ExtremeJan 2025

Why Correlation Usually ≠ Causation

Gwern Branwen

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10/10ExtremeJul 2026

The Black Swan

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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The Elegant Universe

Brian Greene

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Scale

Geoffrey West

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4.3
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The Structure of Reality

David Deutsch

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Complexity Podcast

Santa Fe Institute

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4.4
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Machine Learning Street Talk

Tim Scarfe, Yannic Kilcher & Keith Duggar

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9/10ExtremeApr 2024

Sean Carroll: The Biggest Ideas in the Universe

Sean Carroll

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podcast
4.6
9/10DeepAug 2024

Numberphile: The Riemann Hypothesis

Various Mathematicians

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4.6
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Primer: Simulating Natural Selection

Justin Helps

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4.7
9/10DeepApr 2024

Reducible: How Compression Works

Reducible

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4.6
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Mathologer: Euler's Formula — The Most Beautiful Equation

Burkard Polster

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4.6
9/10DeepMar 2024

Looking Glass Universe: What Quantum Mechanics Really Says

Mithuna Yoganathan

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4.3
9/10DeepAug 2024

3Blue1Brown: But What Is a Neural Network?

Grant Sanderson

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4.8
9/10DeepApr 2024

Vsauce: How to Count Past Infinity

Michael Stevens

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4.7
9/10DeepSep 2024

Numberphile: TREE(3)

Tony Padilla

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4.5
9/10DeepJul 2024

Quanta Magazine

Simons Foundation

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4.8
9/10DeepNov 2024

Distill.pub

Distill

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4.7
9/10DeepDec 2024

Complexity Explorer

Santa Fe Institute

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4.4
9/10DeepMay 2024

Inference Review

Inference

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4.2
9/10ExtremeMay 2024

Quanta Magazine Newsletter

Simons Foundation

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4.7
9/10DeepAug 2024

@nntaleb

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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twitter
4.2
9/10DeepJun 2024

@ylecun

Yann LeCun

technologymathematics
twitter
4.3
9/10DeepSep 2024

@karpathy

Andrej Karpathy

technologymathematics
twitter
4.5
9/10DeepJan 2024

@PTetlock

Philip Tetlock

psychologymathematics
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4.3
9/10DeepMar 2024

@ilyasut

Ilya Sutskever

technologymathematics
twitter
4.3
9/10DeepSep 2024

@goodfellow_ian

Ian Goodfellow

technologymathematics
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4.2
9/10DeepDec 2024

DeepLearning.AI

Andrew Ng

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4.6
9/10DeepFeb 2025

StatQuest with Josh Starmer

Josh Starmer

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4.7
9/10DeepFeb 2025

The AI Epiphany

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4.2
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Jay Alammar's Visualizations

Jay Alammar

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4.6
9/10DeepFeb 2025

Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk

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4.4
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A Brief History of Time

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4.6
8/10ModerateDec 2024

Chaos: Making a New Science

James Gleick

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4.5
8/10ModerateMar 2024

Algorithms to Live By

Brian Christian & Tom Griffiths

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4.5
8/10ModerateJul 2024

The Code Book

Simon Singh

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4.5
8/10ModerateJul 2024

Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions

Edwin A. Abbott

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4.4
8/10LiteFeb 2024

Complexity: The Emerging Science at the Edge of Order and Chaos

M. Mitchell Waldrop

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4.4
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The Portal

Eric Weinstein

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Veritasium: The Simplest Math Problem No One Can Solve

Derek Muller

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Mike Pound

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Up and Atom: The Impossible Problem No One Can Solve

Jade Tan-Holmes

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Domain of Science: The Map of Mathematics

Dominic Walliman

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Daniel Shiffman

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Numberphile: Juggling by Numbers

Colin Wright

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Zach Star: Applied Math for Engineers

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Explorable Explanations

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Silver Bulletin

Nate Silver

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Ahead of AI

Sebastian Raschka

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4.2
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FiveThirtyEight

Various / ABC News

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4.3
8/10ModerateApr 2024

@NateSilver538

Nate Silver

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twitter
4.3
8/10DeepSep 2024

@EricRWeinstein

Eric Weinstein

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twitter
3.9
8/10DeepSep 2024

@lilianweng

Lilian Weng

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twitter
4.2
8/10ModerateMar 2025

Tibees: A Day in the Life of a Mathematician

Toby Hendy

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4.3
7/10LiteMar 2024

Answer in Progress: I Memorized 3,141 Digits of Pi

Sabrina Cruz

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4.3
7/10LiteOct 2024

Towards Data Science

TDS / Medium

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4.1
7/10ModerateMay 2024

Data Elixir

Lon Riesberg

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4.1
7/10ModerateJul 2024

@aella_girl

Aella

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4
7/10ModerateDec 2024