- Better Explained for math
- Explained Visually for math/CS
- /r/AskScience
- /r/AskHistorians
- Explain Like I'm Five (only sometimes good)
I appreciate the initiative to send meta-sources rather than single pieces.
Added to my reading list, thanks!
And you should also have mentioned Best Textbooks on every Subject.
Thanks Gunnar. Luke may not have linked his thread, because I did so in the OP.
I tried this earlier, with Great Explanations.
Thanks, Luke. I'll be checking your physics recommendations out soon.
Best Explainers on Different Subjects
There are many recommended reading threads on lesswrong. Some examples include: Math, Textbooks and Rationality.
I am looking to compile another such thread, this time aimed at "exceptional explainers" and their works. For example, I find Richard Feynman's QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter to be one such book.
Please list out other authors and books which you think are wonderfully written, in such a way that maximizes communication and explanation to laypeople in the given field. For example:
Physics: Richard Feynman - QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter.
Thank you,
Jeremy
If you are often travelling over bridge by car, having a car-knife could be handy in case you go over. The device generally comes equipped with a seat belt cutter, pressurized hammer, and flashlight.
Some policy issues affected by media in democratic countries: Daniel Komo argues that people hear about trade policy (I imagine this is extensible to other kinds of policy) largely because oppositions have incentive to attack government trade initiatives. But because propagating information is expensive, often opponents will focus attacks on simpler, easier to explain policy decisions, rather then ones that are more complex, since efficient use of space is cheap. He concludes that democratic political competition may lead to what I might call a kind of "reverse" conjunction fallacy: simpler policy decision tend to get more prime-time, coverage, and critism than more complex decisions.
- I would heartily recommend Project Euler for Haskell and to anyone picking up a new language (or programming for the first time).
- For Haskell specific problems, there is 99 Haskell problems.
- For building monad intuition, there's a tutorial with some problems here.
- This is a tutorial where you implement a Scheme in Haskell.
- Programming Praxis has a bunch of practice exercises.
- I haven't tried this project out, but it's supposed to allow you to work on TopCoder problems with Haskell.
- There is a Haskell course with problems being put together here. I'm sure how it works, though, and documentation is sparse.
- There's more advice here.
- If you're looking for Haskell code to read, I would start with this simplified version of the Prelude.
Awesome, thanks so much! If you were to recommend one of these resources to begin with, which would it be?
I'm not. The reason I picked it up was because it happens to be the book recommended in MIRI's course suggestions, but I am not particularly attached to it. Looking again, it seems they do actually recommend SICP on lesswrong, and Learnyouahaskell on intelligence.org.
Thanks for the suggestion.
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For an exceedingly well written intro to crypto I'd recommend The Code Book: The Secret History of Codes and Code-breaking by Simon Singh
When I got around to a final year security comp sci module it turned out that most of the information had been covered in The code book.
Awesome, I'll be checking this out for sure. I recently began studying computer security; do you have any more recommendations?