Curated. At first it seems a little odd to recommend lists of content in this day and age when for many or most purposes, you’ll go to your local shoggoth. This compilation is pretty good though. I think there’s something to be said for human works and “cleanliness” of the process that produced them, but also this list contains a number of resources that LLMs just aren’t making yet: some pretty neat visualizations, and e.g. lists of of lists (of lists). An approach I like is to take a reference work and load it into an LLM as context before getting tutoring on a topic. LLMs being able to surface diagrams and images from the text will make this even better.
Here are some of my favorites (though I haven’t look through them all):
Histography by Matan Stauber [interactive timeline]
Curated. At first it seems a little odd to recommend lists of content in this day and age when for many or most purposes, you’ll go to your local shoggoth. This compilation is pretty good though. I think there’s something to be said for human works and “cleanliness” of the process that produced them, but also this list contains a number of resources that LLMs just aren’t making yet: some pretty neat visualizations, and e.g. lists of of lists (of lists). An approach I like is to take a reference work and load it into an LLM as context before getting tutoring on a topic. LLMs being able to surface diagrams and images from the text will make this even better.
Here are some of my favorites (though I haven’t look through them all):
Histography by Matan Stauber [interactive timeline]
Landmark Numbers by Miles Kodama [list]
Technology over the long run by Max Roser [chart]
EconGraphs [glossary]
I’m glad this exists and I think is worth taking a look for most people. Kudos!