🔗 Finds #15

Hello everyone, and welcome to issue #15 of Finds — the articles, sites, and corners of the web I bookmarked this week:

🌐 Websites / blogs

floor796.comFloor796An ever-expanding animation of life on the 796th floor of a huge space station, hand-drawn by Pavel Sannikau in an editor he built for the job — a 60-frame loop that repeats every five seconds, stuffed with references to films, games, anime, music, and memes. Pan around and you'll pass a Rick and Morty portal behind the Overlord Café, a xenomorph in the toilets, and R2-D2 minding its own business two rooms over.

readsomethinggreat.comRead Something Great“Timeless articles from the belly of the internet. Manually curated. Served 5 at a time.” Each piece arrives tagged by category with its author and reading time up front, and when none of the five appeal, Change My Reads deals you another hand.

pwn.collegepwn.collegeA free hacking curriculum split into “dojos” meant to be tackled in order, each one assuming everything the last taught: Start Here, Linux Luminarium (17 modules, 128 challenges), Computing 101, Playing With Programs, then the core track through program, system, and software exploitation — plus community dojos on ARM, web security, and privilege escalation.

i.am.aiAI Expert RoadmapSix charts mapping the routes into data science, machine learning, deep learning, and data engineering — originally drawn by AMAI to onboard their own hires, then released under MIT. The Data Science branch alone fans out from probability theory through discrete and continuous distributions, summary statistics, estimation, hypothesis testing, and confidence intervals, with every node a link you can actually follow.

plus.maths.orgPlus Magazine — Cambridge's free maths magazine, running since 1997: articles, podcasts, videos, and puzzles that stretch from everyday arithmetic to current research, tagged across everything from Fermat's last theorem to epidemiology and maths in music. The “Maths in a minute” series is the one to start with.

weirduniverse.netWeird Universe — A daily blog of the genuinely strange, filed under weird news, weird facts, and weird science, with sources attached. Recent posts: farmers in 1920s Guinea who quietly seeded the French army's camp with termites until it left, and an 1873 pamphlet proposing to keep the Erie Canal open all winter by suspending heated pipes four inches below the surface.

🎬 Videos

youtube.comI'd Watch This Before You Watch the Film — Mysteries of Mythology walks through Homer's Odyssey end to end — Odysseus's ten-year route home from Troy, the plot, and the cast — which is decent groundwork before Nolan's adaptation lands.

🌱 Promoted to the wiki: these now live on their topic pages — Art, Essays, Security, Computer Science, Mathematics, Culture, and Mythology — so they’re easy to find later. 🗂️ Catch up on past issues.