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Ask HN: What are some blogs of really smart people you check regularly?

34 points by adam419 ↗ HN
What are some blogs of really smart people you check regularly?

The less mainstream or well known the better.

Edit:

I'll provide some of my own;

http://blog.asmartbear.com/archives

http://www.dilbert.com/blog/

^Mostly of entertainment value but he says some interesting things from time to time.

http://rs.io/articles

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avni000
From the VC space: Fred Wilson's AVC: http://avc.com Ben Horowitz Ben's Blog: http://www.bhorowitz.com Paul Graham's Essays: http://www.paulgraham.com/articles.html
unclesaamm
Not tech, or even a famous figure, but I still check the blog of my history professor from college: https://blogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/

I have a friend who wrote poetry on the side and never publicized it. These poems are so good that I still check it every other day, even though no new posts have been made in maybe a year.

endrebak
Steve Hsu: http://infoproc.blogspot.com Example post title: "Preimplantation genetic diagnosis and screening using next generation sequencing"

Razib Khan: http://www.unz.com/gnxp/ Example post title: "Most Horse Lineages Are in Heaven"

Gregory Cochran: http://westhunt.wordpress.com/ Example post:

"It is easier to develop a phobia about snakes than electricity or carbon monoxide, probably because we have built in neurological mechanism that confer that propensity.

Likely most animals have a similar propensity to develop a fear of fire: or it might come automatically. If there was such a fear-of-fire mechanism, we have lost it: and dogs have as well. If this is correct, one could learn about this hypothetical mechanism by comparing dogs and wolves."

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These are heavily biased towards population genetics and quantitative genetics. Would appreciate suggestions for blogs of smart people writing about molecular biology.

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