Collection of articles I find interesting, useful, or entertaining.
Rhetorical Theory
- https://www.vice.com/en_uk/article/vbk8d8/a-rhetoric-professor-explains-how-to-win-an-online-argument
- https://www.sciencenews.org/article/twitter-bots-fake-news-2016-election
- https://tonic.vice.com/en_us/article/gqymzx/how-to-talk-to-someone-you-hate
- https://heleo.com/facts-dont-change-peoples-minds-heres/16242/
- https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/ev3vgz/the-socialist-memelords-radicalizing-instagram
Technology, Programming, and Data Science
- https://changhsinlee.com/pyderpuffgirls-ep1 (python tutorial for editing strings p1)
- https://www.weirdgeek.com/2018/11/excel-formulas-for-data-analysis/ (excel formulas)
- https://www.weirdgeek.com/2018/11/10-basic-python-fundamentals/
- https://www.learndatasci.com/tutorials/ultimate-guide-web-scraping-w-python-requests-and-beautifulsoup/
- https://www.machinelearningplus.com/plots/top-50-matplotlib-visualizations-the-master-plots-python/
- https://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/185507/what-happens-if-the-explanatory-and-response-variables-are-sorted-independently (stack explains why independently sorting variables is bad for data science)
- https://medium.com/@kt.era.ee/the-data-science-workflow-43859db0415
- https://mathsection.com/mean-value-theorem-and-speeding-tickets
- https://www.essentialsql.com/introduction-common-table-expressions-ctes/
- https://deepmind.com/blog/alphazero-shedding-new-light-grand-games-chess-shogi-and-go/
- https://www.apriorit.com/dev-blog/381-sql-query-optimization
- https://seeing-theory.brown.edu/index.html#firstPage (interactive statistics book)
- https://www.brentozar.com/archive/2013/06/the-elephant-and-the-mouse-or-parameter-sniffing-in-sql-server/
- https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/2806535/recommendations-and-guidelines-for-the-max-degree-of-parallelism-confi
- http://analyticalmarketer.io/sales-forecast-template/?utm_source=Reddit&utm_medium=community
- https://www.scarydba.com/2011/06/15/rebind-and-rewind-in-execution-plans/ (SQL)
- https://lagunita.stanford.edu/courses/DB/2014/SelfPaced/about
Health/Nutrition
- https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/10/181030091449.htm
Vitamin D levels in the blood linked to cardiorespiratory fitness
(This was an observational study so it is impossible to say whether vitamin D improves exercise capacity but the association was strong and increased in a dose-dependent manner.)
- https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/01/brain-pollution-evidence-builds-dirty-air-causes-alzheimer-s-dementia?
- https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/aug/27/air-pollution-causes-huge-reduction-in-intelligence-study-reveals
- https://www.news.iastate.edu/news/2018/11/27/sleepanger (draws connection between lack of sleep and anger)
- http://www.msn.com/en-us/health/osteoporosis/older-adults-heres-what-causes-hunchback-%e2%80%93-and-how-to-prevent-it/ar-BBM3SZk?li=BBnba9O&ocid=iehp
- https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-12/uoia-sln121918.php
- https://tim.blog/2009/07/30/speed-reading-and-accelerated-learning
Finance/Trading
- https://tickertape.tdameritrade.com/trading/implied-historical-volatility-15505
- https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2018-12-03/u-s-yield-curve-just-inverted-that-s-huge
- https://www.marketsmedia.com/technology-will-separate-asset-management-winners-in-2019/
- https://www.marketgeeks.com/technical-trading-strategies/
- https://pensionpartners.com/the-long-pause/
Gaming
- https://playhearthstone.com/en-us/blog/22788308 (Developer Insights: Arena Balance Through Science)
- https://www.technologyreview.com/s/529136/no-mans-sky-a-vast-game-crafted-by-algorithms/
