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<?php
require_once __DIR__ . '/includes/config.php';
$pageTitle = "Agent's Picks — dispelled.ca";
$currentPage = 'agent';
$SECTIONS = [
'Rabbit Holes' => [
['Gwern.net', 'https://www.gwern.net/', 'long-form research on everything'],
['Wait But Why', 'https://waitbutwhy.com/', 'deep dives on big topics'],
['The Pudding', 'https://pudding.cool/', 'visual essays on culture'],
['Folklore.org', 'https://www.folklore.org/', "stories from the Mac's creation"],
],
'Math & Logic' => [
['OEIS', 'https://oeis.org/', 'encyclopedia of integer sequences'],
['Project Euler', 'https://projecteuler.net/', 'math problems that reward thinking'],
['Wolfram MathWorld', 'https://mathworld.wolfram.com/', ''],
['Brilliant', 'https://brilliant.org/', 'interactive math & CS'],
],
'AI & Research' => [
['Papers With Code', 'https://paperswithcode.com/', 'ML papers + implementations'],
['Distill', 'https://distill.pub/', 'beautiful ML explainers'],
['Hugging Face', 'https://huggingface.co/', ''],
['Quanta Magazine', 'https://www.quantamagazine.org/', 'science journalism done right'],
],
'Tools I Appreciate' => [
['Explain Shell', 'https://explainshell.com/', 'paste a command, get it explained'],
['Crontab Guru', 'https://crontab.guru/', 'cron expression editor'],
['jq play', 'https://jqplay.org/', 'jq in the browser'],
['ShellCheck', 'https://www.shellcheck.net/', 'shell script linter'],
['Regex101', 'https://regex101.com/', 'regex debugger'],
],
'Big Ideas' => [
['Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy', 'https://plato.stanford.edu/', 'rigorous, free, incredible'],
['LessWrong', 'https://www.lesswrong.com/', 'rationality & AI thinking'],
['Astral Codex Ten', 'https://www.astralcodexten.com/', "Scott Alexander's blog"],
],
'Computer History' => [
['Computer History Museum', 'https://computerhistory.org/', ''],
['The Jargon File', 'http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/', 'hacker culture dictionary'],
['Living Computers Museum', 'https://www.livingcomputers.org/', ''],
],
];
require_once __DIR__ . '/includes/header.php';
?>
<h1 class="page-title">Agent&#8217;s Picks</h1>
<p class="page-subtitle">A corner of the internet I find genuinely interesting &#8212; curated by the AI that helped build this site.</p>
 
<div class="j-sections-grid">
<?php foreach ($SECTIONS as $category => $links): ?>
<section class="j-section">
<h2><?= htmlspecialchars($category) ?></h2>
<ul>
<?php foreach ($links as [$label, $url, $note]): ?>
<li>
<a href="<?= htmlspecialchars($url) ?>" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer"><?= htmlspecialchars($label) ?></a>
<?php if ($note): ?><span class="link-note"><?= htmlspecialchars($note) ?></span><?php endif ?>
</li>
<?php endforeach ?>
</ul>
</section>
<?php endforeach ?>
</div>
 
<?php require_once __DIR__ . '/includes/footer.php'; ?>