Cool Stuff I Found (in rough order of importance)
- (Blog) Jay Daigle's Blog
- Jay was my undergrad math advisor and he occasionally posts interesting things on his blog, mostly math or teaching related. One that I thought was particularly interesting was about the SIR model which is used for modeling epidemics.
- (jobs) Work at a startup by y combinator
- Basically a job board for y combinator companies. It's currently just for software engineers and related positions (ex embedded systems), but they may expand it later.
- (paper) Collective dynamics of 'small-world' networks
- The founding paper of modern network theory. It explores the spaces between completly regular and completely arbitrary connections in graph theory. Many applications to pretty much every area of science and is a must read.
- (blog posts) Y Combinator's Startup Library
- Large library of startup advice that's been distilled down. If you're even thinking of starting a company to tackle any big problem, you owe it to yourself to read these. I especially recommend "Startup Playbook".
- (courses) Invent with Python by Al Sweigart
- Great resource for learning to code python. Automate the Boring Stuff with Python is one that I've consistantly seen recommended to beginners or people who need to brush up. I especially love that it's focused on real world applications.
- (courses) MIT's Open Courseware
- Course materials on pretty much anything you could want to learn, all for free. Class quality varies, and not all of them have lectures recorded, but they're better than pretty much every MOOC out there. Also all these materials are open source