Faissaloo

Be curious. Read widely. Try new things. What people call intelligence just boils down to curiosity.

- Aaron Swartz

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This user is a Muslim. This person is very proud to be a Muslim.

This user is autodidactic.

This user is an advocate of open research and open access.

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School

This user doesn't like school.

This user believes in certain conspiracy theories.

Content contributed by this user is released into the public domain.

Here is a reading list of sorts, I believe these articles are valuable in understanding the world. The presence of an article in this list is not necessarily an endorsement of the concepts or ideas mentioned therein. I've tried to avoid adding anything generally well known to avoid Scope creep.

Algorithms

• Fast inverse square root
• Pollard's rho algorithm

Anime

• Neon Genesis Evangelion
• Code Geass
• Serial Experiments Lain

Chemicals

• Xenon hexafluoride
• Germanium

Creed

• Tawhid

• Occasionalism

Social

• Illusory truth effect
• Firehose of falsehood
• Hypergamy
• Kyklos
• Age of majority
• Copyright abolition
• English-language spelling reform
• Unethical human experimentation in the United States
• Jevons paradox
• Dunbar's number
• Independent scientist
• Bloom's 2 sigma problem
• American civil religion

Economic

• Fiat money
• Executive Order 6102
• Riba
• Monopsony
• Bretton Woods system

Electronics

• Propagation delay

Events

• Project Chanology

Film

• The Rainmaker (1997 film)
• Beetlejuice

Music

• Digital hardcore
• Leathermouth
• Mindless Self Indulgence
• 924 Gilman Street

People (contemporary)

• Aaron Swartz
• Ted Kaczynski
• Julian Assange
• Sam Zeloof
• Terry A. Davis
• Nikola Tesla
• Henry Martyn Noel
• Philip Luty
• Cody Wilson

People (premodern)

• Al-Ghazali
• Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab
• Ibn Taymiyyah
• Ibn Hazm
• Ibn-Sina
• Évariste Galois
• Ibn Mada'

Design

• Clear craze
• Glitch art
• Skeuomorphism

Technology

• Net Yaroze
• Java Platform, Micro Edition
• Dolphin (emulator)
• ReactOS
• D (programming language)
• Crystal (programming language)
• Free software movement

Psychology

• Spaced repetition
• Method of loci
• Testing effect