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I'm looking for resources on this too. I recently started working through this book [1], which might be a good place to start. In the introduction to that, the author also mentions this site [2] and this book [3].

[1] https://natureofcode.com/

[2] https://available-anaconda-10d.notion.site/That-Creative-Cod...

[3] https://www.amazon.com/Computational-Beauty-Nature-Explorati...

Just glancing through it, it looks like the 2nd edition uses p5.js instead of Processing, and there's an additional chapter entitled "Neuroevolution."

Would a history of science interest you? I enjoyed "The Scientists" by John Gribbin so much I've read it twice.

https://a.co/d/epMV64I

Becoming an expert in one thing takes a lot of time and effort, and this must be maintained even after reaching the goal. But getting a reasonable understanding of many things is not too bad. E.g. working through a freshman level physics text will give you a pretty good (or above average, at least) understanding of the field of physics, and this could be done in a span of months. Maybe try something like this for one subject after another. It could be that this amount of knowledge satisfies you for a given subject and you don't need to go further. But if it doesn't satisfy you, move on to more material. If there really are things you want to spend the time and energy on to reach expert level, you will naturally find them this way. And I suspect that list of things will be a lot smaller than when you started.

Many people recommend learning to write proofs in the context of a class or text that's focussed on another topic, e.g. geometry or linear algebra or real analysis or abstract algebra. But I preferred learning from a book that was more proof-focussed and added context along the way. Here's the text I learned proof-writing from, and which I highly recommend: https://www.whitman.edu/mathematics/higher_math_online/

You might find this helpful: https://www.susanrigetti.com/physics

The curriculum guides Susan Rigetti provides are an amazing resource for self-study. And the fact that she worked through all of this is truly inspiring.

Not to be greedy, but do any of you know of other thorough curriculum guides like this? I know about https://teachyourselfcs.com already -- another amazing guide. Are there others? I would love to find one for statistics especially, but really any subject would be interesting.

Susskind’s Theoretical Minimum is fantastic for physics self study: https://theoreticalminimum.com/

Another good one. Thanks!

I posted recently asking for exactly this... but for medicine.

I have a body, everyone I know has a body.

The operate pretty much the same everywhere in the world.

I would like to know how it works.

I want this too. Let me know if you find anything!!

You could try these:

1. How the Body Works from DK.

2. The Machinery of Life by Goodsell.

Check them out.

DK books are great to get introduced to something new- get a lay of the land, learn introductory jargons, etc.

The (unpublished) book "Introduction to Higher Math"[1], along with the professor who taught the course, was probably what got me going on the road to a PhD in math. It's very accessible (no prerequisites to speak of), teaches the reader how to write mathematical proofs, and includes some really interesting material, e.g. cardinality. It's also freely available now.

[1] https://www.whitman.edu/mathematics/higher_math_online/

I enjoyed "The Scientists: A History of Science Told Through the Lives of Its Greatest Inventors" by John Gribbin so much I've read it twice.