{
 "title": "Other personal pages worth a visit",
 "author": "Alejandro Rivero",
 "url": "https://lxbifi11.bifi.unizar.es/related/",
 "updated": "2026-09-21",
 "criterion": "Approximate order of resemblance to this site: science, computing, history, literature, languages, art and practical experiments kept together in a long-lived public notebook. A reading trail, with no claim about scientific merit or agreement.",
 "items": [
  {
   "rank": 1,
   "name": "David Madore",
   "url": "http://www.madore.org/~david/",
   "note": "Mathematics, computing, languages, literary fragments and an extensive personal weblog.",
   "bookmarked": []
  },
  {
   "rank": 2,
   "name": "John Baez",
   "url": "https://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/",
   "note": "Mathematical physics and networks alongside a long-running diary and This Week's Finds.",
   "bookmarked": [
    1996,
    1997,
    2013,
    2014
   ]
  },
  {
   "rank": 3,
   "name": "Cosma Shalizi",
   "url": "https://bactra.org/",
   "note": "Statistical physics, complex systems and statistics, with notebooks, book reviews and essays.",
   "bookmarked": [
    1997
   ]
  },
  {
   "rank": 4,
   "name": "Michael Nielsen",
   "url": "https://michaelnotebook.com/",
   "note": "Quantum computing, AI, tools for thought and how science works.",
   "bookmarked": []
  },
  {
   "rank": 5,
   "name": "John Walker",
   "url": "https://www.fourmilab.ch/",
   "note": "Fourmilab: software, scientific experiments, historical documents, book reviews and photography. Legacy site; Walker died in 2024.",
   "bookmarked": []
  },
  {
   "rank": 6,
   "name": "Gwern Branwen",
   "url": "https://gwern.net/",
   "note": "AI and statistics alongside psychology, economics, anime, literary criticism, fiction and self-experiments.",
   "bookmarked": []
  },
  {
   "rank": 7,
   "name": "Lieven Le Bruyn",
   "url": "http://www.neverendingbooks.org/",
   "note": "neverendingbooks: algebra and geometry, books, games, art and history.",
   "bookmarked": []
  },
  {
   "rank": 8,
   "name": "Greg Egan",
   "url": "https://www.gregegan.net/",
   "note": "Science fiction alongside mathematical and physical explorations and interactive visualisations.",
   "bookmarked": []
  },
  {
   "rank": 9,
   "name": "J. C. (Clint) Sprott",
   "url": "https://sprott.physics.wisc.edu/",
   "note": "Chaos and plasma physics, programs, fractal art, photographs, music and memoirs.",
   "bookmarked": [
    1997
   ]
  },
  {
   "rank": 10,
   "name": "Donald Knuth",
   "url": "https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/",
   "note": "Algorithms and programming with typography, mathematical writing, a pipe organ and composition.",
   "bookmarked": []
  },
  {
   "rank": 11,
   "name": "Bret Victor",
   "url": "https://worrydream.com/",
   "note": "Humane computing, tools for understanding, scientific visualisation and visual design.",
   "bookmarked": []
  },
  {
   "rank": 12,
   "name": "Nicky Case",
   "url": "https://ncase.me/",
   "note": "Playable explanations of epidemics, trust, segregation and attention, with published source.",
   "bookmarked": [
    2020
   ]
  },
  {
   "rank": 13,
   "name": "Erik Demaine",
   "url": "https://erikdemaine.org/",
   "note": "Algorithms and geometry meet origami, puzzles, sculpture, typefaces and teaching.",
   "bookmarked": []
  },
  {
   "rank": 14,
   "name": "David E. Joyce",
   "url": "https://mathcs.clarku.edu/~djoyce/",
   "note": "Euclid's Elements with movable diagrams, the history of mathematics, Mandelbrot and Julia sets, wallpaper groups and trigonometry, kept since the mid-1990s.",
   "bookmarked": [
    1997
   ]
  },
  {
   "rank": 15,
   "name": "David D. Friedman",
   "url": "http://www.daviddfriedman.com/",
   "note": "Economics and law beside novels, medieval hobbies, lecture recordings and a long-running blog.",
   "bookmarked": [
    1997
   ]
  },
  {
   "rank": 16,
   "name": "Robin Hanson",
   "url": "https://mason.gmu.edu/~rhanson/home.html",
   "note": "Economics, prediction markets and the far future, with a physics past and the blog Overcoming Bias; his 1996 backlinks list is cited in the WWW6 paper from this site.",
   "bookmarked": []
  },
  {
   "rank": 17,
   "name": "John D. Norton",
   "url": "https://sites.pitt.edu/~jdnorton/",
   "note": "History and philosophy of physics, with Einstein's Zurich notebook and other Goodies.",
   "bookmarked": [
    2015
   ]
  },
  {
   "rank": 18,
   "name": "Philippe Hurbain (Philo)",
   "url": "https://www.philohome.com/",
   "note": "Lego motors measured, the NXT opened, sensors built from scratch: a documented workshop of mechanisms.",
   "bookmarked": [
    2017
   ]
  },
  {
   "rank": 19,
   "name": "Tomi Engdahl",
   "url": "https://www.epanorama.net/",
   "note": "ePanorama: an electronics engineer's circuits, audio, video, telecom and computer notes since the mid-1990s.",
   "bookmarked": [
    1996
   ]
  },
  {
   "rank": 20,
   "name": "Frank Dodd (Tony) Smith Jr.",
   "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20151007060716/http://www.valdostamuseum.com/hamsmith/TShome.html",
   "note": "Clifford algebras, exceptional groups and speculative particle models with art, music and religion. Archived homepage; Smith died in 2019.",
   "bookmarked": [
    2012
   ]
  },
  {
   "rank": 21,
   "name": "Andrew Oh-Willeke",
   "url": "https://dispatchesfromturtleisland.blogspot.com/",
   "note": "Dispatches from Turtle Island: a lawyer's daily reading of particle physics, cosmology, genetics and ancient history.",
   "bookmarked": [
    2016,
    2019
   ]
  },
  {
   "rank": 22,
   "name": "Hans de Vries",
   "url": "http://www.chip-architect.com/",
   "note": "Chip Architect: a processor engineer's notes on physics, from the fine-structure constant to spinor geometry.",
   "bookmarked": [
    2019
   ]
  },
  {
   "rank": 23,
   "name": "Juan F. González",
   "url": "https://www.thespectrumofriemannium.com/",
   "note": "The Spectrum of Riemannium: hundreds of numbered logs on physics and mathematics.",
   "bookmarked": [
    2017
   ]
  },
  {
   "rank": 24,
   "name": "Francisco R. Villatoro",
   "url": "https://francis.naukas.com/",
   "note": "La Ciencia de la Mula Francis: daily science commentary in Spanish for more than fifteen years.",
   "bookmarked": [
    2013,
    2020
   ]
  },
  {
   "rank": 25,
   "name": "Clifford Johnson",
   "url": "https://asymptotia.com/",
   "note": "Asymptotia: physics with visual art, comics, science communication and cultural life.",
   "bookmarked": []
  },
  {
   "rank": 26,
   "name": "Tommaso Dorigo",
   "url": "https://science20.com/a_quantum_diaries_survivor",
   "note": "Particle physics, statistics and the personal life of research.",
   "bookmarked": []
  },
  {
   "rank": 27,
   "name": "Scott Aaronson",
   "url": "https://www.scottaaronson.com/",
   "note": "Quantum computing and complexity, with teaching notes and a broadly discursive blog.",
   "bookmarked": [
    2021
   ]
  },
  {
   "rank": 28,
   "name": "Peter Woit",
   "url": "https://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/",
   "note": "Not Even Wrong: mathematical physics and the public conversation about fundamental theory.",
   "bookmarked": []
  },
  {
   "rank": 29,
   "name": "Urs Schreiber",
   "url": "https://ncatlab.org/nlab/show/Urs+Schreiber",
   "note": "Geometry, higher structures and fundamental physics in interconnected online research notes.",
   "bookmarked": [
    2017
   ]
  }
 ]
}