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Re:Ask HN: Favorite places online to satisfy intellectual cu... by mindcrime on Wednesday July 04, 2018 @04:38PM (#17459337)
Youtube - no joke, there is an absurd amount of amazing content on youtube. Yeah, there's also all the shitty pop music, cat videos, etc., but you can ignore that. You can find videos of great talks from amazing conferences, from NIPS to Strange Loop, C3, All Things Open, etc., etc. And there are videos of classes on all sorts of subjects, from schools including Stanford, Berkeley, MIT, IIT, etc. And then you get stuff like 3blue1brown, numberphile, etc. Seriously, I could spend all day on Youtube just soaking up knowledge.

jmlr.org - in addition to the journal articles themselves, the site hosts a huge trove of conference proceedings from conferences like ICML, COLT, NIPS, etc. http://proceedings.mlr.press/index.html

ijcai.org - all of the past proceedings from the International Joint Conference on AI events is online, going back to the very first one in 1969. https://www.ijcai.org/past_proceedings

dspace.mit.edu - houses (among other things) an archive of the "AI Series" papers, which includes classics from folks like John McCarthy and Marvin Minsky, etc.

https://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/5460/browse

Re:Ask HN: Favorite places online to satisfy intellectual cu... by tedmiston on Thursday July 05, 2018 @11:28AM (#17464016)
+1 to the semi-surprising amount of conference talks that make it onto YouTube. I have dozens of great ones bookmarked in Python alone.
Re:Ask HN: Favorite places online to satisfy intellectual cu... by I_complete_me on Wednesday July 04, 2018 @06:34PM (#17459788)
I found this site [1] after I bought the book "What do you believe is true even though you cannot prove it?" and that led me to [2] but I can't remember how. [1] https://www.edge.org [2] https://aeon.co/
Re:Ask HN: Favorite places online to satisfy intellectual cu... by greggarious on Thursday July 05, 2018 @02:49PM (#17465760)
Wikipedia's "Random Article" button is pretty fun:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random

Eventually you'll find something interesting and can random walk deeper.

I often mash it a bit at the bus stop.

Re:Ask HN: Favorite places online to satisfy intellectual cu... by awkim on Wednesday July 04, 2018 @07:07PM (#17459918)
http://www.aldaily.com/ is a great source for cultural, historical, art, and philosophical musings.
Re:Ask HN: Favorite places online to satisfy intellectual cu... by umadtho9000 on Wednesday July 04, 2018 @11:58PM (#17460774)
Aeon & Quartz
Re:Ask HN: Favorite places online to satisfy intellectual cu... by bachbach on Wednesday July 04, 2018 @04:40PM (#17459349)
There are some really good podcasts out there.

I like Fine Homebuilding, Gastropod, Conversations with Tyler.

Podcasts aren't a great way to get into the details - but they can provoke new thoughts and give you a lay of the land. It's a good way to start.

Re:Ask HN: Favorite places online to satisfy intellectual cu... by KSS42 on Wednesday July 04, 2018 @06:41PM (#17459817)
I like the following CBC podcasts:

Quirks and Quarks (science) https://www.cbc.ca/radio/podcasts/science-and-tech/quirks-qu...

Ideas ("contemporary thought") https://www.cbc.ca/radio/podcasts/documentaries/the-best-of-...