Interesting Websites

This page is dedicated to keeping track of interesting places I came across on the internet.

• Interesting people:
  • Haben Girma is the first Deafblind person to graduate from Harvard Law School, Haben Girma is a human rights lawyer advancing disability justice. I learned about her in GHC’21.
  • Leslie Lamport’s collected works.
  • Terry Tao’s blog for mathematical articles.
  • Andreas Zeller’s blog on automated testing and program analysis.
  • Philip Zucker’s blog. I came across this when exploring a tutorial session on z3 by him.
  • Lex Fridman’s blog. He is an exceptional human whose humbleness, intellect, and thinking skills I admire.
  • Christof Koch’s blog. Along with the other interesting sections of this blog, the ‘books I’ve read’ is one of the coolest parts.
  • Rustan’s puzzle collection. Also has advanced resources for Dafny.
  • Josh Dever’swebsite for posts and discussion on the philosophical perspective of logic and semantics.
  • Matt Might’sarticle collection.
    
• Interesting articles:
  • Richard Feynman’s lecture collection.
  • A collections of letters from all accross the world.
  • Women are better at discriminating among colors and men didn’t evolve to do so!
  • An article relevant to our times: How we should have opinions instead of taking sides.
  • A thoughtful and humorous graduation speech by David Sedaris.
• Videos I go back to time and again:
  • Powers of ten is a brilliant creation by IBM labs visualizing the scale of powers of ten from the outermost human-known boundaries of the universe down to the quarks in the atoms in our skin cells.
• Helpful for exploration in other fields:
  • Fermat’s library journal club sends you an interesting paper every week from Mathematics, Physics, Economics, Computer Science or Biology.
  • Co-authorship distance computation helps you find your connection to prominent names in the field.
  • Allan Rossman’s blog answers interesting questions about statistics.
• Helpful guide during PhD journey:
  • The PhD Grind gives an exellent journal on the journey. Though the author graduated in another decade, the outlines of the key points, I believe, are still relevant. There are after-discussion on this here and here.
  • How to do grad school is another podcast I absolutely love. It brings up aspects of this journey from the perspective of researchers from different fields.
  • The talk on how to do research by Rupak Majumdar has given me direction at times. It refers to Richard Hamming’s key talk on ‘You and your research’.
  • Thread on useful information for incoming graduate students
• Relevant comics:
  • xkcd is a webcomic about romance, sarcasm, math, and language.
  • PhD comics is a series for and about the PhD journey of the authors.
• Finds on body positivity:
  I recently went through a semester’s worth of body-positive nutrition counseling. I would definitely recommend it to anyone who has been in or is going through a bad relationship with food and their body. Here are a few links I was introduced to, in the book club associated with Body Positivity I was a part of.
  • We read and vulnerably discussedEmbody during the book club. (This is beauty)
  • An experiment on how different countries view the perfect female body.
  • A revised version of The Little Mermaid by Malcolm Gladwell. It has episode 1, episode 2, and episode 3.
  • My body is not an apology follows the body positive movement by their founder Sonya Renee Taylor. Explore a wide range of organized articles on several topics here.
• Tools for women in STEM: