Professional

• Programming Languages and Verification group at MIT CSAIL
• Programming Methods Laboratory (the Scala lab) at EPFL
• Educational Studies Program, runs educational programs for middle- and high-schoolers
• SPARC, the Summer Program on Applied Rationality and Cognition
• Panini Linguistics Olympiad, linguistics contest for Indian high schoolers
• Monsoon Math Camp, an Indian math camp for high schoolers
• Euler Circle, advanced math circle in the California Bay Area (although currently online)
• Causality in Cognition Lab at Stanford

Personal

• A nice article about me in the MIT News!
• The Short, Tampered Clavier, a kind of dead blog run by me and a few friends.
• Not really a link, but a personal wishlist:
  • studio headphones
  • small earrings — geometric shapes, animals, icons, etc.
  • webcomic merch or perhaps tasteful prints
  • a nice and/or quaint poster, or perhaps “How to Work Better”, also postcards, notecards, and the like
  • a insulated travel mug with lid
  • a skateboard
  • an adjustable wrench
• I used to maintain a selected list of subjects I took at MIT along with my reflections about them. The content, instructors, and subject numbers may have changed since I wrote these!
• Colophon for this website.
• Friends who have plagiarized adapted my website’s sources for their own personal websites: Mandar Juvekar, Aalok Sathe, Shinjini Ghosh

Webcomics

• Questionable Content (no, it’s not NSFW) sitcom-style but with sentient robots
• Wondermark, absurd humor with Victorian visuals
• Strong Female Protagonist, superheroes and supervillains and moral dilemmas (the protagonist is a female who is strong)
• Subnormality, extremely detailed artwork with often deep social commentary, not your typical comic
• The Perry Bible Fellowship, charming art and offbeat punchlines
• xkcd, very nerdy
• Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal, also nerdy and often dark

Webserials

• Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality (HPMOR) by Eliezer Yudkowsky. The only fanfic of any kind that I’ve ever liked. ‘What if Harry Potter was a rationalist?’
• Worm and Pact, two webserials by wildly successful debutant Internet author ‘wildbow’. The premise of Worm is superpowers in a very imperfect, human world, from city blocks to planetary politics; the premise of Pact is dealings with the supernatural, who have a polity of their own.
• UNSONG: ‘What if Kabbalistic Judaism were true, in a power-hungry capitalist world?’ By Scott Alexander, roughly in the genre of rational fiction, very engaging.
• What football will look like in the future – 17776, football but also science fiction.
• SCP Foundation, a sprawling, wiki-style collection of stories set in a universe with mysterious supernatural artifacts ‘secured, contained, and protected’ by the Foundation.

Newsletters/blogs I read

• The Browser, an exceptionally good curated newsletter of well-written articles on various topics, current and past
• Marginal Revolution, on current scientific, political, and economic events, by Tyler Cowen and Alex Tabarrok
• Astral Codex Ten, Scott Alexander writes about medicine, anthropology, and rationality. Always very thoughtful.
• The Baffler, “The Journal That Blunts the Cutting Edge”. Weekly dose of cynical takes.
• Aeon and its sister Psyche, broadly reflecting on the human condition. Often insightful.
• EFFector from the Electronic Frontier Foundation on digital rights
• Free Software Supporter from the Free Software Foundation
• MIT Daily, daily news from MIT
• MIT Technology Review, technology news (and a bimonthly magazine)

Music resources

• Rajan Parrikar’s Music Archive is both a curated archive of thousands of rare, old, Hindustani classical music recordings, and a large collection of artful blog posts about Hindustani classical music from a seasoned connoiseur.
• SwarGanga has handy tools to search for raags or bandishes by their notes.
• Aathavanitli Gani has a huge collection of lyrics and metadata about Marathi songs.
• The Darbar Festival YouTube channel has high-quality recordings of modern classical artists.
• Rahul Deshpande has an audioblog about Hindustani classical music: facts, opinions, and stories interspersed with short vocal demonstrations. (This used to be on his now-defunct website.)

Random tidbits

• Pink Trombone, an interactive sound-producing model of the vocal cavity that is a great phonetics teaching tool.
• My friend lindrew’s website has extensive and complete LaTeX notes for many subjects he’s taken at MIT.
• DeTeXify, find the LaTeX command for a handwritten symbol.
• The LaTeX WikiBook. My go-to LaTeX reference for simple things.
• Digital Dictionaries of South Asia, full-text access to high-quality online dictionaries (although I only have direct experience with the Marathi ones)
• Sanskrit Dictionary for Spoken Sanskrit
• CSS Autoprefixer (for cross-browser CSS compatibility)
• MathILy (and MathILy-Er), an enriching and very fun math camp. The same people run an REU-style program called MathILy-EST.
• Lockhart’s Lament, a cogent piece about mathematics education
• the mango zone – ‘self-described hacker who goes by the name of Alex’(?)
• Bret Victor, purveyor of impossible dreams – personal website of an education/design/engineering activist
• The Recurse Center, “a self-directed, community-driven educational retreat for programmers” that I’ve only seen and heard great things about