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(Supposedly) Fun Things

• Nand2Tetris is a journey from NAND gates to Tetris — build a complete modern computer from first principles. It has inspired incredible projects like a 16-bit ALU in Minecraft ⛏🧱
• Charles Petzold’s Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software is an absolute masterpiece that takes you from flashlight morse code 🔦 to the “worldwide hum of the internet” 🌐
• Erik Demaine’s lectures on algorithms and data structures will bend your mind in the best way — his talks on models of computation will forever change how you see Python scripts, while temporal data structures comes with time travel analogies 🕓🚀 and movie references
• Kevin Zurawel’s Game Development in 8 Bits or… Stupid NES Tricks is a masterclass in thriving within creative constraints
• Choose Boring Technology — or “how to be old, for young people”
• Watch Terry Tao formalize a proof of a Marton conjecture in Lean4 — mathematics meets type theory
• Peter Norvig’s pytudes are Python programs that are both delightful and instructive
• Bartosz Ciechanowski’s interactive articles transform mundane objects into fascinating explorations of physics and engineering
• Evan Miller’s A/B testing tools — everything you need to design and analyze rigorous experiments
• MinutePhysics explains complex physics in minutes using brilliant whiteboard animations — the boat wakes video is pure joy
• Everything by 3Blue1Brown is visual mathematics at its finest… here’s how he creates those mesmerizing animations with Manim
• Love brown-paper math? Numberphile has you covered
• Please don’t say just hello in chat — imagine calling someone, saying hello, then immediately putting them on hold 🤦‍♀️

(Actually) Fun Things

• xkcd — the webcomic where romance meets sarcasm, math meets language, and nerds feel understood
• SMBC — tackling science, philosophy, superheroes, religion, romance, parenting, and the meaning of life with equal parts wit and wisdom
• IP over Avian Carriers (RFC 1149) — networking via carrier pigeons 🐦, featuring gems like “because IP only guarantees best effort delivery, loss of a carrier can be tolerated”

Meta Stuff

• Love self-replicating code like _='_=%r;print(_%%_)';print(_%_)? You’ll be obsessed with Quine Relay
  • Bonus: it’s the most elegant way to crash ChatGPT with an infinite loop ♾️💥

• GitHub hosts an awesome list of awesome lists — cue Russell’s paradox
• Douglas Hofstadter’s Gödel, Escher, Bach is the ultimate journey into self-reference and recursion, featuring Carroll-inspired dialogues and mind-bending insights
• The Atlantic explores why meta doesn’t mean what you think it does — a meta-commentary on meta itself
• Matt Wood (former VP of AI @ AWS) built PartyRock inside PartyRock — recursion meets Amazon Bedrock
• A warning sign warning you about warning signs — you’ve been warned! 🚨

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