Resources

Grant Sanderson's visual, intuition-first take on linear algebra, calculus, and neural networks. The animations do the explaining.

• math
• visualization

Short interviews with researchers on computer science topics — compression, cryptography, algorithms — pitched for a curious general audience.

• cs

The 2017 paper that introduced the Transformer and kicked off the modern era of large language models. Worth reading the original.

• ml
• transformers

The SOSP 2007 paper behind eventual consistency, consistent hashing, and hinted handoff. Foundational reading for distributed systems.

• distributed-systems
• databases

Clear, friendly deep dives into systems topics — networking, debugging, databases — often distilled into illustrated zines.

• systems
• debugging

Rich Sutton's short, oft-cited essay arguing that general methods leveraging computation beat hand-crafted domain knowledge in the long run.

• ml
• essays

Ulrich Drepper's long-form walk through caches, TLBs, and memory access patterns. Dense, but it reshapes how you think about performance.

• systems
• performance

A long Hacker News thread that doubles as a crowd-sourced reading list of influential computer science papers.

• reading-list

A smaller, tag-driven link-aggregation community focused on computing. Higher signal-to-noise than most for technical discussion.

• community

See the assembly your C/C++/Rust/etc. compiles to, live, across compilers and flags. Indispensable for understanding what the optimizer does.

• compilers
• performance

Hand-drawn-style virtual whiteboard for sketching diagrams and architecture. No account needed; export straight to SVG or PNG.

• diagrams

Build and debug regular expressions with a live match explanation and a reference sidebar. Supports multiple regex flavors.

• regex

Machine-learning papers linked to their implementations and benchmark leaderboards. Good for going from a result to runnable code.

• ml
• reading-list

Illustrated catalog of design patterns and refactorings, with examples in several languages. A handy reference when a class hierarchy gets messy.

• patterns
• reference