I’ll put on this page several things that I found interesting at some point of my life. A lot of very relevant things are missing, and so do there is a lot of not so relevant things here.
Technical
Things for enhancing technical expertise and productivity.
Bioinformatics
- Coursera specialization on Bioinformatics - An very complete crash-course for bioinfo with content about genectics inner-working mechanisms and related computing/data science topics about it.
Cycling
- Sheldon Brown Gear calculator - An online interactive calculator for knowing the Gain Ratio for different combinations.
- Ride Far - An online bible about everything that is related to ultra-distance cycling.
Data science
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Cam Davidson-Pilon’s Bayesian Methods for Hackers book - An very interesting book about bayesian statistics using an computational and practical approach.
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Albert-Lászlo Barabsi’s Network Science book An online and free book about network science.
Python techniques
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James Mertz’s Documentating Python - Tips for documentating your Python code
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Tom Augspurger’s Effective Pandas articles - An 8-post series of very useful techniques and examples about Pandas usage. Recommended for intermediate and advanced users.
Social change
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Atlassian Team Playbook - An interactive guide and playbook for diagnosing and make teams perform better in an transparent and change-friendly manner.
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u.lab - Citing the description: “An introduction to leading profound social, environmental and personal transformation.”
Miscelleneous
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Jekyll - An Ruby app/framework/CMS for doing static sites with dynamical content which is used by GitHub pages. I’m looking forward to adopt it together with Forestry.io - an GUI for editing and automatically publishing Jekyll sites.
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Outline - An tool for getting news articles and annotating it. Useful for paywalls.
Culture, knowledge and lifestyle
Things for thinking about things, art and life.
Health
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(essay) Which personality traits are most predictive of well-being? - An Scientific American article linking emotional health and personality dimensions
- (essay) I had a ‘sleep doctor’ tell me how to structure my entire day, and I’ve never felt more energized - This is what happens when you actually sleep according to what you body clock tick.
- (book) Why We Sleep, by Matthew Walker. An excellent book about all things related to sleep: why, what, how and where. It covers from the functional aspects ans pitfalls of sleep to the societal and environmental nuances around it.
History and Social Sciences
- (books) Peter Turchin books (Ultrassociety, Ages of Discord, War and Peace and War) - Those books have changed completely my worldview. Turchin is an ecologist turned quantitative historian, and he provides an very fresh take on history and social dynamics through an cultural evolution and historical modeling lens.
Articles
- (article) The Societal Costs and Benefits of Commuter Bicycling: Simulating the Effects of Specific Policies Using System Dynamics Modeling: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3984216/?report=reader
- (article) Understanding bicycling in cities using system dynamics modelling https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5736169/#!po=55.0633
Miscellaneous
Data sources
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GeoSampa - An interactive map (data included) with everything you could imagine when it comes to geospatial info about São Paulo.
- Hidroweb - To be reviewed
- Blockchain.com charts - Charts and CSV about bitcoin.
Wow
Things that have an significant wow factor. Not necessarily of immediate practical use.
- Distill.pub - An innovative scientific journal about ground-breaking machine learning topics that has interactive elements. Is it the future of publishing?
Random
I didn’t know where to put the following things.
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Audax Randonneurs São Paulo - Long-distance cycling races around São Paulo. I’m going to participate on any random day.
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Pi Bags - An indie-hipster bag manufacturer from Rio de Janeiro. I want the frame bag for bike badly.
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Zwift: como jogar gastando menos - An post about how play Zwift using cheap trainers