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=== Artificial Cognitive Systems ===
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[[Artificial Cognitive Systems]] (separate list of links)
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== Africa ==
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[[AI and Robotics in Africa | A collection of links]] mapping out the many aspects of AI and robotics in Africa. <BR>
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[https://www.iiste.org/Journals/index.php/JEP/article/view/5290 African Concept of Time, a Socio-Cultural Reality in the Process of Change] (Babalola and Aloken 2013) <BR>
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[https://www.ajol.info/index.php/og/article/view/140143 Justification of the concept of time in Africa] (Nnajiofor 2016)<BR>
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[https://www.horstkoehler.de/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/On-the-impossibility-of-speaking-of-Africa-Horst-Ko%CC%88hler-2014-English-translation.pdf On the impossibility of speaking of Africa] Speech by the former President of the Federal Republic of Germany, Horst Köhler <BR>
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[https://medium.com/@m.shanahan/revisiting-rwanda-60e3afec425 Revisiting Rwanda] by Murray Shanahan  <BR>
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[https://sdgs.un.org/goals The 17 Sustainable Development Goals] <BR>
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[https://globalsouthstudies.as.virginia.edu/what-is-global-south What / Where is the Global South?] <BR>
  
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== Art ==
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[https://tatianailiinafineart.com/products/whisper-of-sunshine Whisper of Sunshine] by Tatiana Iliina, 2017 <BR>
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[https://juliacontacessi.com/products/odyssey?srsltid=AfmBOorz4nS4ELjKbVa975GF-ww3p7J1CDFjNGL36OWRz18f65dKbL6U Odessey] by Julia Conacessi, 2017 <BR>
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[https://www.petroskoublis.com/in-landscapes-g?gallery=6762ebda9b5df6275eadd203&item=71529f96-68b2-4dd2-86bb-2ddaf9dd18a9 Berenices] by Petros Koublis <BR>
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[https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/the-shortening-winters-day-is-near-a-close-102509 The Shortening Winter's Day is near a Close] by Joseph Farquharson, 1903;
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also see [https://artuk.org/discover/curations/joseph-farquharson-snow-sheep-and-sun Joseph Farquharson: Snow, sheep and sun]<BR>
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[https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/when-snow-the-pasture-sheets-218273 When Snow the Pasture Sheets] by Joseph Farquharson, c. 1915 <BR>
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[https://artuk.org/discover/curations/joseph-farquharson-snow-sheep-and-sun Joseph Farquharson: Snow, sheep and sun] by Joseph Farquharson <BR>
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[https://www.artic.edu/artworks/64818/stacks-of-wheat-end-of-summer Stacks of Wheat (End of Summer)] by Claude Monet, 1890-91; also see [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haystacks_(Monet_series) Wikapedia article on the full 25 paintings in the series] <BR>
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[https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/turner-norham-castle-sunrise-n01981 Norham Castle, Sunrise] by Joseph Mallord William Turner, c. 1845 <BR>
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[https://www.artic.edu/artworks/14620/cliff-walk-at-pourville Cliff Walk at Pourville] by Claude Monet, 1882 <BR>
  
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[https://www.forbes.com/sites/tomvanderark/2020/02/12/how-to-teach-artificial-intelligence/#7de1b8135eac Teaching AI to young people]
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== Artificial Cognitive Systems ==
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[https://clawar.org/conference-proceedings/icres-conference/icres-2019-proceedings/  International Conference on Robot Ethics and Standards ICRES’2019]
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[https://www.aaai.org/Magazine/Watson/watson.php The AI behind Watson]
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=== Cognitive Robotics ===
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[[Artificial Cognitive Systems]] (a separate list of links)
  
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[[Cognitive Robotics Resources]] (separate list of links)
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== Artificial Intelligence ==
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(Also see [[Machine_Learning|Machine Learning]] and [[Robotics|Robotics]])
  
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=== Computer Vision ===
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[[Artificial Intelligence]] (a separate list of links)
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[https://pjreddie.com/darknet/yolo/ YOLO: Real-Time Object Detection]
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[https://pjreddie.com/courses/computer-vision/  The Ancient Secrets of Computer Vision] J. C. Redmon's cool computer vision course at the University of Washington, Spring 2018
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[http://liu.diva-portal.org/smash/record.jsf?pid=diva2%3A916645&dswid=4229 Autonomous Road Following Application, Use case demo] (its the second last video in the right sidebar)
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[http://cs231n.github.io/ Andrej Karpathy's course CS231n Convolutional Neural Networks for Visual Recognition]
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[https://www.pyimagesearch.com/deep-learning-computer-vision-python-book/ Deep Learning for Computer Vision with Python]; great book and software, including a fully-configured virtual machine.
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[https://www.pyimagesearch.com/2018/09/19/pip-install-opencv/ How to install OpenCV with pip]
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[https://code.google.com/p/head-eye-tracking/ Head Eye Tracking]
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[http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/619039/Bag-of-Features-Descriptor-on-SIFT-Features-with-O Bag of Features Descriptor]
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[https://docs.opencv.org/3.4.0/dd/d49/tutorial_py_contour_features.html OpenCV Python example of contour features]
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[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1F5ICP9SYLU 2-Dimensional Motion Perception] in humans; seminal video from the 1970s.
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[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FAAyB5jGx_4 Biological Motion] clip from Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
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[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8TFi6qvPbc Biological Motion II]
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[https://massens.github.io/saliency-360salient-2017/ Attention: scan-path prediction]
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[http://salicon.net/ Attention: SALICON eye-tracking dataset]
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[https://opensource.googleblog.com/2016/10/introducing-cartographer.html Cartographer] SLAM software from Google
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[https://support.dronedeploy.com/docs/understanding-ndvi-data Understanding NDVI (Normalized Difference Vegitation Index)] and other indices in remote sensing for assessing plant health
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== Autonomy ==
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[https://direct.mit.edu/books/oa-monograph/5965/Principles-of-Biological-Autonomy Principles of Biological Autonomy] By Francisco J. Varela, Edited by Ezequiel A. Di Paolo, Evan Thompson.
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== Cognitive Robotics ==
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[[Cognitive Robotics Resources]] (a separate list of links) <BR>
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== Computer Vision ==
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[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1F5ICP9SYLU 2-Dimensional Motion Perception] in humans; seminal video from the 1970s. <BR>
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[http://cs231n.github.io/ Andrej Karpathy's course CS231n Convolutional Neural Networks for Visual Recognition] <BR>
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[http://salicon.net/ Attention: SALICON eye-tracking dataset] <BR>
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[https://massens.github.io/saliency-360salient-2017/ Attention: scan-path prediction] <BR>
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[http://liu.diva-portal.org/smash/record.jsf?pid=diva2%3A916645&dswid=4229 Autonomous Road Following Application, Use case demo] (its the second last video in the right sidebar)<BR>
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[http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/619039/Bag-of-Features-Descriptor-on-SIFT-Features-with-O Bag of Features Descriptor] <BR>
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[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FAAyB5jGx_4 Biological Motion] clip from Vilayanur S. Ramachandran <BR>
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[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8TFi6qvPbc Biological Motion II] <BR>
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[https://www.pyimagesearch.com/deep-learning-computer-vision-python-book/ Deep Learning for Computer Vision with Python]; great book and software, including a fully-configured virtual machine.  <BR>
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[https://docs.opencv.org/4.x/d5/dae/tutorial_aruco_detection.html Detection of ArUco Markers] with OpenCV 4.7 <BR>
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[https://github.com/Sid2697/awesome-egocentric-vision Egocentric vision resources] <BR>
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[https://code.google.com/p/head-eye-tracking/ Head Eye Tracking]  <BR>
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[https://www.pyimagesearch.com/2018/09/19/pip-install-opencv/ How to install OpenCV with pip] <BR>
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[https://docs.opencv.org/3.4.0/dd/d49/tutorial_py_contour_features.html OpenCV Python example of contour features] <BR>
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[https://openmv.io/products/openmv-cam-h7-r2 OpenMV camera] <BR>
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[https://opensource.googleblog.com/2016/10/introducing-cartographer.html Cartographer] SLAM software from Google <BR>
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[https://authentic.sice.indiana.edu/publications/Su_Crandall-AffectiveGrowthCV-CVPR21.pdf The Affective Growth of Computer Vision] <BR>
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[https://pjreddie.com/courses/computer-vision/  The Ancient Secrets of Computer Vision] J. C. Redmon's cool computer vision course at the University of Washington, Spring 2018 <BR>
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[https://support.dronedeploy.com/docs/understanding-ndvi-data Understanding NDVI (Normalized Difference Vegitation Index)] and other indices in remote sensing for assessing plant health <BR>
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[https://pjreddie.com/darknet/yolo/ YOLO: Real-Time Object Detection] <BR>
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== Control ==
  
 
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PID_controller PID control]
 
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PID_controller PID control]
 
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[https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/214912/why-does-a-proportional-controller-have-a-steady-state-error Why does a proportional controller have a steady state error]
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[https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/214912/why-does-a-proportional-controller-have-a-steady-state-error Why does a proportional controller have a steady state error] <BR>
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[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBc_BHxw78s&list=PLUMWjy5jgHK1NC52DXXrriwihVrYZKqjk&index=1 Why Learn Control Theory] video with links to several follow-on videos on all aspects of control theory <BR>
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[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pi7l8mMjYVE&list=PLMrJAkhIeNNR20Mz-VpzgfQs5zrYi085m Control Bootcamp: Overview] video with links to several follow-on videos on all aspects of control theory <BR>
  
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== Copyright ==
  
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[http://www.rossashby.info/index.html The W. Ross Ashby Digital Archive] <BR>
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[https://library.cmu.edu/services/copyright Copyright & Fair Use] Carnegie Mellon University Africa <BR>
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[https://www.cmu.edu/policies/administrative-and-governance/fair-use.html Fair Use Policy]  Carnegie Mellon University Africa <BR>
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[https://www.copyright.gov/fair-use/more-info.html Fair Use] in the Copyright Act <BR>
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[https://www.lib.uchicago.edu/copyrightinfo/fairuse.html Fair Use and Other Educational Uses] The University of Chicago <BR>
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[https://fairuse.stanford.edu/overview/academic-and-educational-permissions/non-coursepack/ Educational Uses of Non-coursepack Materials] Stanford University
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== Cybernetics and System Dynamics ==
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[https://www.cadmusjournal.org/files/pdfreprints/vol2issue1/reprint-cj-v2-i1-complex-vs-complicated-systems-rpoli.pdf Complicated vs. Complex] A Note on the Difference Between Complicated and Complex Social Systems by Roberto Poli <BR>
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[https://davidwolpert.weebly.com/ David Wolpert's website]<BR>
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[https://dynamicfieldtheory.org Dynamic Field Theory]<BR>
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[https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnbot.2016.00014/full Developing Dynamic Field Theory Architectures for Embodied Cognitive Systems with cedar]<BR>
 
[http://pangaro.com/Pask-Archive/Pask-Archive.html Gordon Pask Archive] <BR>
 
[http://pangaro.com/Pask-Archive/Pask-Archive.html Gordon Pask Archive] <BR>
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[https://www.pangaro.com/hciiseminar2019/Heinz_von_Foerster-Ethics_and_Second-order_Cybernetics.pdf Ethics and Second-Order Cybernetics] Heinz von Foerster <BR>
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[https://www.jstor.org/stable/42970324?seq=1#metadata_info_tab_contents Karl Popper] Natural selection and the emergence of mind <BR>
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[https://pangaro.com/definition-cybernetics.html Paul Pangaro]<BR>
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[https://www.pangaro.com/hciiseminar2019/ Paul Pangaro - The Design of Ethical Interfaces]<BR>
 
[http://www.systemdynamics.org/ System Dynamics Society] <BR>
 
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[http://www.ashby.info/index.html W. Ross Ashby Digital Archive] <BR>
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== Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion ==
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[https://docs.google.com/document/d/1IBtw-VZfhlWDYCcj8o00PP8bJQNxo6IARa4hYf5bASc/edit A Short Guide to Sharing Pronouns for Trans Allies] <BR>
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[[Unpacking Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion]]<BR>
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[https://commonslibrary.org/the-intertwine-charter-going-beyond-anti-discrimination-and-towards-pro-active-change-to-welcome-others/ The Intertwine Charter: Going beyond anti-discrimination and towards pro-active change to welcome others] <BR>
  
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== Engineering Education ==
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[https://wholenewengineer.org/ A Whole New Engineer]: a different way to approach effective teaching and learning (watch the video) <BR>
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[https://oli.cmu.edu/repository/webcontent/ac80970d80020ca60078c7f8185aefe0/_u5_hims_implementation_management/_m2_end_user_training_support/webcontent/u5_m2_pg5/Revised_Blooms_Taxonomy.pdf Bloom's Taxonomy] original and revised<BR>
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[https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/claude-e-shannon-founder/ Claude E. Shannon] Founder of Information Theory <BR>
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[https://csed.acm.org/ CS2023: ACM/IEEE-CS/AAAI Computer Science Curricula] and [https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3545947.3569591 a paper describing community engagement]by the ACM/IEEE-CS/AAAI Joint Task Force<BR>
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[https://epiceducationfoundation.org/ Epic Education Foundation] <BR>
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[https://vimeo.com/110074717 Epic Challenge Talk] Siemens NASA Boeing Keynote on Educating the Next Generation, with Bill Boswell, Charles Camarda, and Michael Richey <BR>
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[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VheNJF-5kXM Epic Challenge Lecture] by Charles Camarda  (video)<BR>
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[https://pandemicproof.world/modules/iced/introduction/ Epic Methodology] introduction to the Innovative Conceptual Engineering Design (ICED) methodology (text) <BR>
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[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPQ3pXGoUFU Epic Methodology] introduction to the Innovative Conceptual Engineering Design (ICED) methodology (video) <BR>
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[https://spectrum.ieee.org/search/?q=history+of+technology History of Technology] articles from IEEE Spectrum <BR>
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[https://www.timeshighereducation.com/campus/openbook-assessments-dos-and-donts-foster-good-practice Open-book assessments: dos and don’ts that foster good practice] <BR>
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[http://www.amazon.co.uk/Project-Management-PhDs-Brigitte-Hertz/dp/9059316193/ref=sr_1_fkmr0_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1437653768&sr=8-2-fkmr0&keywords=project+management+for+phds+de+buin+hertz Project Management for PhDs]<BR>
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[https://revisionesg.wordpress.com/ Standards and Guidelines for Quality Assurance in the European Higher Education Area] <BR>
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[https://www.usnews.com/education/best-graduate-schools/articles/engineering-schools-methodology Methodology: 2023-2024 Best Engineering Schools Rankings] <BR>
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[https://linearalgebras.com/ten-best-linear-algebra-books.html The ten best linear algebra books]  
 
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[http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~bapoczos/other_presentations/ICA_26_10_2009.pdf Introduction to Independent Component Analysis - Barnabás Póczos, University of Alberta]
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[http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~hic/8803-Fall-09/slides/SubSpace-Learning.pdf Subspace Methods for Visual Learning and Recognition ECCV 2002 Tutorial (short version) - Horst Bischof and Ales Leonardis]
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[http://www.vernon.eu/Bischof_Leonardis_Subspace_Methods_ECCV02.pdf Subspace Methods for Visual Learning and Recognition ECCV 2002 Tutorial (full version) - Horst Bischof and Ales Leonardis]
 
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[http://research.ics.aalto.fi/ica/fastica/ Fast ICA]
 
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[http://epltt.coe.uga.edu/index.php?title=Bloom%27s_Taxonomy Bloom's Taxonomy] <BR>
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[https://jaredtumiel.github.io/blog/2020/08/08/free-energy1.html Friston's Free Energy Principle Explained (part 1)] by Jared Tumiel<BR>
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[https://jaredtumiel.github.io/blog/2020/10/14/spinning-up-in-ai.html Spinning Up in Active Inference and the Free Energy Principle] by Jared Tumiel<BR>
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[https://www.umsu.de/wo/2013/600 The Lure of Free Energy] by Wolfgang Schwarz (blog) <BR>
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[https://slatestarcodex.com/2018/03/04/god-help-us-lets-try-to-understand-friston-on-free-energy/ God Help Us, Let’s Try To Understand Friston on Free Energy] by Scott Alexander [blog] <BR>
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[https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/09/05/book-review-surfing-uncertainty/ Book Review] of Andy Clarke's [https://academic.oup.com/book/7843 Surfing Uncertainty: Prediction, Action, and the Embodied Mind] by Scott Alexander <BR>
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[http://www.penhero.com/PenGallery/Sheaffer/SheafferInlaidNibs.htm The Evolution of the Sheaffer Inlaid Nib 1959-Present]
 
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[http://networksciencebook.com/ Network Science] by Albert-Laszalo Barabasi <BR>
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[https://barabasi.com/book/the-formula Other Books] by Albert-Laszalo Barabasi <BR>
 
[http://www.graphviz.org/ GraphViz graph visualization]
 
[http://www.graphviz.org/ GraphViz graph visualization]
  
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=== Helping People in Need ===
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== Helping People in Need ==
  
 
[https://mindleaps.org/ MindLeaps]
 
[https://mindleaps.org/ MindLeaps]
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[http://www.vernon.eu/AfricanGLOTour2018.htm The GLO Africa Tour 2018]
  
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=== History of Technology ===
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== History of Technology ==
  
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[http://files.righto.com/calculator/sinclair_scientific_simulator.html Reverse Engineering Sinclair's amazing 1974 calculator]
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[http://files.righto.com/calculator/sinclair_scientific_simulator.html Reverse engineering Sinclair's amazing 1974 calculator]
  
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=== Independent Component Analysis ===
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== Information Theory ==
  
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[http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~bapoczos/other_presentations/ICA_26_10_2009.pdf Introduction to Independent Component Analysis - Barnabás Póczos, University of Alberta]
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[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9r7FIXEAGvs&t=7s Shannon Entropy and Information Gain] Intuitive video introduction to the concept of entropy and the equation for entropy <BR>
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[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ErfnhcEV1O8 A Short Introduction to Entropy, Cross-Entropy and KL-Divergence] Intuitive video introduction to these concepts and their use in machine learning <BR>
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[http://perso.telecom-paristech.fr/~cardoso/guidesepsou.html Blind Source Separation and Independent Component Analysis]
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[http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~hic/8803-Fall-09/slides/SubSpace-Learning.pdf Subspace Methods for Visual Learning and Recognition ECCV 2002 Tutorial (short version) - Horst Bischof and Ales Leonardis]
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[http://www.vernon.eu/Bischof_Leonardis_Subspace_Methods_ECCV02.pdf Subspace Methods for Visual Learning and Recognition ECCV 2002 Tutorial (full version) - Horst Bischof and Ales Leonardis]
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[http://research.ics.aalto.fi/ica/fastica/ Fast ICA]
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[http://tumic.wz.cz/fel/online/libICA/ FastICA C Implementation]
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=== Innovation and Entrepreneurship ===
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== Innovation and Entrepreneurship ==
  
 
[http://eit.europa.eu/ European Institute of Innovation and Technology  (EIT)]
 
[http://eit.europa.eu/ European Institute of Innovation and Technology  (EIT)]
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[http://ec.europa.eu/education/library/study/2013/eit-kics_en.pdf EIT Knowledge and Innovation Communities (KIC) Educational Activities Final Report]
 
[http://ec.europa.eu/education/library/study/2013/eit-kics_en.pdf EIT Knowledge and Innovation Communities (KIC) Educational Activities Final Report]
  
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=== Languages: Irish and Swedish ===
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== Ireland ==
  
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[https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/irish-language Irish 101: An Introduction to Irish Language and Culture]
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[[File:new.jpg]] [https://claddagh.lnk.to/MichaelD.Higgins Against All Certainty], the spoken-word album by President Michael D. Higgins; and the accompanying video [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nh9iHt4bIpA The Betrayal], starring Ciaran Hinds, Eanna Hardewicke, and Ruth McGill. For detailed information, see [https://imro.ie/news/against-all-certainty-spoken-word-album-by-michael-d-higgins-is-out-now/ here] <BR>
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[https://www.irishcentral.com/topic/1916-centenary 1916 Easter Rising] a collection of essays on the 1916 [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Easter_Rising Easter Rising], the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_War_of_Independence Irish War of Independence] (1919-1921) and the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_Civil_War Irish Civil War] (1922 - 1923), leading to the creation of the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_of_Ireland Republic of Ireland] in 1949 <BR>
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[http://www.ielanguages.com/swedish1.html#subject Basic phrases in Swedish]
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[https://outsider.ie/challenges/road-cycling-events-ireland/ 11 of the best cycling challenges in Ireland]<BR>
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[https://www.britishempire.co.uk/maproom/ireland.htm Ireland]: a history of British colonial rule in Ireland <BR>
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[http://folkets-lexikon.csc.kth.se/folkets/folkets.html Folkets Lexikon]
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[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRBMO6KaqS4&t=338s Allie Sherlock and Fionn Whelan sing Hallelujah on Grafton Street] <BR>
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[http://www.corkbikerental.com/best-touring-bike-rentals-in-cork-ireland.php Cork Bike Rental] Ireland <BR>
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[https://www.duolingo.com/course/sv/en/Learn-Swedish-Online DuoLingo]
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[https://www.rollingexistence.com/routes/cycling-the-wild-atlantic-way/ Cycling the Wild Atlantic Way] by Rolling Resistance <BR>
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=== LaTeX ===
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[http://vernon.eu/WAW2024.htm Cycling the Wild Atlantic Way] by David Vernon <BR>
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[http://www.donegalcycleroute.ie/ Donegal Cycle Route]<BR>
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[https://en.eurovelo.com/ev1 EuroVelo 1 - Atlantic Coast Route] <BR>
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[https://www.freewheeling.ie/ Freewheeling] Local bike shop in Dublin <BR>
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[https://journeyplanner.irishrail.ie/webapp/ Iarnrod Eireann / Irish Rail Journey Planner] <BR>
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[https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/irish-language Irish 101: An Introduction to Irish Language and Culture] <BR>
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[https://gersirishcollectables.home.blog/ Irish Collectables and Memorabilia] A collection of memorabilia from Irish history <BR>
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[http://www.vernon.eu/talks/Irish_Culture-CMU_2023.pdf Irish Culture] A Five Minute Talk at Carnegie Mellon University Africa in 2023 <BR>
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[https://www.trailheadcentral.com/Ireland Long-Distance Walking Trails in Ireland] <BR>
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[https://rememberingthe1916rising.wordpress.com/ Remembering The 1916 Rising] A collection of information and memorabilia commemorating the 1916 Easter Rising in Ireland<BR>
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[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AXff6NYJ2ps Riverdance] <BR>
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[https://steemit.com/ireland/@donalfinn/whats-the-craic-in-ireland The Craic] <BR>
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[https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/the-perfect-book-for-st-patricks-day/2018/03/13/7ffa4554-2609-11e8-bc72-077aa4dab9ef_story.html The Crock of Gold] by James Stephens <BR>
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[https://epicchq.com/epic-story-behind-fairytale-of-new-york/ The EPIC untold story behind Fairytale of New York] <BR>
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[[File:new.jpg]] [https://strokestownpark.ie/ The National Famine Museum, Strokestown Park] <BR>
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[https://www.thewildatlanticway.com/ The Wild Atlantic Way]<BR>
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[https://www.wildatlanticwayonline.com/ The Wild Atlantic Way] Alternative Site<BR>
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[https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/viewer?mid=16E61vAyo6DlNmiqiija0h27ctAc&hl=en_US&ll=53.453658621237615%2C-8.699149999999994&z=7 The Wild Atlantic Way Map] by Google <BR>
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[https://www.discoverireland.ie/wild-atlantic-way/map The Wild Atlantic Way Map] by Discover Ireland <BR>
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[https://www.failteireland.ie/FailteIreland/media/WebsiteStructure/Documents/2_Develop_Your_Business/Key%20Projects/WAW_NationalMap_4.pdf?ext=.pdf The Wild Atlantic Way Map] by Failte Ireland <BR>
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[https://www.amazon.co.uk/Wild-Atlantic-Way-Pocket-Map-dp-0008580006/dp/0008580006/ref=dp_ob_title_bk The Wild Atlantic Way Pocket Map]  <BR>
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[https://www.amazon.co.uk/Wild-Atlantic-Route-Guide-Atlas/dp/0955265592/ The Wild Atlantic Way Pocket Route Atlas]  <BR>
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[https://www.transportforireland.ie/plan-a-journey/ Transport for Ireland Journey Planner] <BR>
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[https://www.rte.ie/culture/2020/0605/1145651-you-dont-get-to-be-racist-and-irish-imelda-mays-stunning-poem/ You Don't Get To Be Racist and Irish] a brilliant poem recited by [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imelda_May Imelda May] from her book [https://www.easons.com/a-lick-and-a-promise-imelda-may-9780571542390?srsltid=AfmBOooQZ9KvtVd6EUbXLc47zbhmxa4wD4EHjjPZjktb0swAnGJMZ0we A Lick and a Promise]<BR>
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== LaTeX ==
  
 
[https://www.latex-project.org/get/ Get LaTeX here]<BR>
 
[https://www.latex-project.org/get/ Get LaTeX here]<BR>
 
[http://www.tug.org/mactex/index.html MacTeX] for MacOS <BR>
 
[http://www.tug.org/mactex/index.html MacTeX] for MacOS <BR>
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[https://github.com/HarisIqbal88/PlotNeuralNet PlotNeuralNet] LaTeX code for making neural networks diagrams (and a helpful  [https://pub.towardsai.net/creating-stunning-neural-network-visualizations-with-chatgpt-and-plotneuralnet-adab37589e5 blog] about it)<BR>
 
[http://www.tug.org/texworks/ TeXworks] is a lightweight GUI front-end (MacTeX doesn't come with a GUI). Note: you'll have to set TeXworks Preferences > Typesetting to specify where the MacTeX binaries have been installed, e.g. /usr/local/texlive/2016/bin/x86_64-darwin. <BR>
 
[http://www.tug.org/texworks/ TeXworks] is a lightweight GUI front-end (MacTeX doesn't come with a GUI). Note: you'll have to set TeXworks Preferences > Typesetting to specify where the MacTeX binaries have been installed, e.g. /usr/local/texlive/2016/bin/x86_64-darwin. <BR>
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[https://tufte-latex.github.io/tufte-latex/ Tufte-Latex] Classes for producing books in the style of [http://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/index Edward R. Tufte] (this is how I typeset my book [http://vernon.eu/publications/14_Vernon_Artificial_Cognitive_Systems_Preamble.pdf Artificial Cognitive Systems - A Primer], published by [http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/artificial-cognitive-systems MIT Press])
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[https://tufte-latex.github.io/tufte-latex/ Tufte-Latex] Classes for producing books in the style of [http://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/index Edward R. Tufte] (this is how I typeset my book [http://vernon.eu/publications/14_Vernon_Artificial_Cognitive_Systems_Preamble.pdf Artificial Cognitive Systems - A Primer], published by [http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/artificial-cognitive-systems MIT Press])<BR>
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[https://ctan.org/pkg/pgf?lang=en Drawing in LaTeX using TikZ] <BR>
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[https://texample.net/tikz/ TikZ examples]<BR>
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[https://texample.net/tikz/examples/the-3dplot-package/ The 3D Plot package for TikZ] <BR>
 +
[http://users.ece.utexas.edu/~garg/dist/listings.pdf The Listings Package]<BR>
 +
[https://nasa.github.io/nasa-latex-docs/html/index.html NASA LaTeX Docs] with great examples and templates <BR>
 +
[https://svenhartenstein.de/latex-vorlagen/creating-questionnaires-with-latex/ Creating questionnaires with LaTeX] from Sven Hartenstein <BR>
 +
[https://texdoc.org/serve/tabularx/0 The tabularx package] <BR>
  
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=== Lisp ===
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== Lisp ==
  
 
[http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs.cmu.edu/user/dst/www/LispBook/index.html Common Lisp: A Gentle Introduction to Symbolic Computation] by David Touretzky
 
[http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs.cmu.edu/user/dst/www/LispBook/index.html Common Lisp: A Gentle Introduction to Symbolic Computation] by David Touretzky
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[http://www.paulgraham.com/acl.html ANSI Common Lisp] by Paul Graham
 
[http://www.paulgraham.com/acl.html ANSI Common Lisp] by Paul Graham
 
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[http://ep.yimg.com/ty/cdn/paulgraham/acl2.txt Lisp Tutorial] (Chapter 2 of [http://www.paulgraham.com/acl.html ANSI Common Lisp] by Paul Graham)
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[https://sep.turbifycdn.com/ty/cdn/paulgraham/acl2.txt?t=1688221954& Lisp Tutorial] (Chapter 2 of [http://www.paulgraham.com/acl.html ANSI Common Lisp] by Paul Graham)
 
<BR>
 
<BR>
 
[http://www.gigamonkeys.com/book/ Practical Common Lisp]
 
[http://www.gigamonkeys.com/book/ Practical Common Lisp]
 
<BR>
 
<BR>
 
[http://www.defmacro.org/2006/06/19/fp.html Functional programming for the rest of us]
 
[http://www.defmacro.org/2006/06/19/fp.html Functional programming for the rest of us]
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<BR>
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[http://paulgraham.com/index.html Paul Graham's website] ... go here if you want to challenge and change your views on programming, Lisp, and life (start with the [http://paulgraham.com/articles.html essays])<BR>
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[https://github.com/norvig/paip-lisp  Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming: Case Studies in Common Lisp] open-source repository for the book by Peter Norvig (1992) <BR>
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[https://bnmcgn.github.io/lisp-guide/lisp-exploration.html Common Lisp REPL Exploration Guide]
  
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=== Mac ===
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== Mac ==
  
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[https://www.macworld.co.uk/how-to/drive-not-showing-mac-3613422/ How to troubleshoot an external drive]
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<br>
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[https://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/macos-catalina-problems/ Common MacOS Catalina problems and how to fix them]
 +
<br>
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[https://stackoverflow.com/questions/60869347/mac-command-line-tools-11-4-no-longer-has-svn SVN is deprecated in MacOS Catalina; here are ways to fix it]
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<br>
 
[http://guides.macrumors.com/Taking_Screenshots_in_Mac_OS_X Taking Screenshots in OS X]
 
[http://guides.macrumors.com/Taking_Screenshots_in_Mac_OS_X Taking Screenshots in OS X]
 
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[http://opensourcemac.org/ Open Source Mac Software]  
 
[http://opensourcemac.org/ Open Source Mac Software]  
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[http://www.hypershop.com/HyperJuice/External-Battery-for-MacBook-iPad-iPhone-USB/  HyperJuice Batteries]
 
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[http://www.iworkcase.com/epages/62303355.sf/en_US/?ObjectPath=/Shops/62303355/Categories/HyperJuice_Batteries HyperJuice Batteries in Europe]
 
 
<BR>
 
<BR>
 
[https://www.howtogeek.com/187703/how-to-access-folders-on-your-host-machine-from-an-ubuntu-virtual-machine-in-virtualbox/ How to access files from an Ubuntu virtual machine in VirtualBox]
 
[https://www.howtogeek.com/187703/how-to-access-folders-on-your-host-machine-from-an-ubuntu-virtual-machine-in-virtualbox/ How to access files from an Ubuntu virtual machine in VirtualBox]
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You may need to first install the [https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads VirtualBox Extension Pack] which provides support for USB 2.0 and USB 3.0 devices
 
You may need to first install the [https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads VirtualBox Extension Pack] which provides support for USB 2.0 and USB 3.0 devices
 
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[https://emacsformacosx.com/ Emacs or Mac OS X]
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[https://emacsformacosx.com/ Emacs for Mac OS X]  
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=== Machine Learning ===
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Great online book on [http://www.mbmlbook.com/index.html Model-based Machine Learning], co-authored by Chris Bishop<BR>
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Companion paper on [https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Bishop-MBML-2012.pdf Model-based Machine Learning], C. M. Bishop, Phil. Trans. R. Soc. A 2013 371: 20120222; see Section 4. for an overview of probabilistic graphical models.<BR>
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Good overview of [https://machinelearningmastery.com/what-is-deep-learning/ Deep Learning] <BR>
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Perhaps the definitive book on [http://www.deeplearningbook.org/ Deep Learning] <BR>
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Great online book on [http://neuralnetworksanddeeplearning.com/ Neural Networks and Deep Learning] <BR>
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[https://www.pyimagesearch.com/deep-learning-computer-vision-python-book/ Deep Learning for Computer Vision with Python]; great book and software, including a fully-configured virtual machine. <BR>
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[http://karpathy.github.io/2015/05/21/rnn-effectiveness/ The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Recurrent Neural Networks] [https://cs.stanford.edu/people/karpathy/ Andrej Karpathy]'s Blog <BR>
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[https://arxiv.org/abs/1606.01885 Learning to Optimize] <BR>
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[https://bair.berkeley.edu/blog/2017/09/12/learning-to-optimize-with-rl/ Learning to Optimize with Reinforcement Learning] and learning to learn <BR>
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[https://www.kaggle.com/c/challenges-in-representation-learning-facial-expression-recognition-challenge/data Kaggle Facial Expression Recognition dataset FER13] <BR>
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[https://medium.com/@jonathan_hui/gan-gan-series-2d279f906e7b GAN Series]; comprehensive overview of Generative Adversarial Networks<BR>
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[https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/nov/12/deep-fakes-fake-news-truth Deep fakes: one element of the dark side of AI and ML] <BR>
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[https://www.theguardian.com/technology/ng-interactive/2019/jun/22/the-rise-of-the-deepfake-and-the-threat-to-democracy The rise of the deepfake and the threat to democracy]<BR>
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=== Neuroscience ===
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[https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/mar/04/has-dopamine-got-us-hooked-on-tech-facebook-apps-addiction Has dopamine got us hooked on technology?]
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=== Robots ===
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[[Cognitive Robotics Resources]] (separate list of links)
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[https://robots.ieee.org/ IEEE guide to the world of robots]
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[https://candid.technology/photoanalysisd/ Disable photoanalysisd]
 
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<BR>
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[http://www.theconstructsim.com/ The Construct] ... "Everything about Robotics with ROS is here"
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[https://support.apple.com/en-gb/102605 Reset the SMC of your Mac]
 
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[https://www.franka.de/ The Franka Emika Robot]
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[https://mackeeper.com/blog/usb-accessories-disabled-on-mac/?srsltid=AfmBOooKFaZbOd4v0OsF8Tqvod0MrAc5wKAdRkdb6eer-MbeecEe-XVk How to Fix USB Accessories Disabled on Mac]
 
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[https://www.mecademic.com/ Meca500 robot arm]
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[https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/how-to-type-letters-with-accents-on-mac/ How to Type Letters with Accents on Mac]
 
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[https://www.robotshop.com/en/lynxmotion-al5b-4-degrees-of-freedom-robotic-arm-combo-kit-no-software.html Lynxmotion AL5B 4DOF Robot Arm]  
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[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2-l3WvWvqg How to install Git on Windows 11] (you'll need Git if you want to install OpenCV on Windows 11 running in a Parallels MacBook virtual machine).
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[https://learn.arm.com/learning-paths/laptops-and-desktops/win-opencv/2-1-build-msvc/ How to install OpenCV for ARM64 on Windows 11] in a Parallels VM on a MacBook with Apple silicon
 
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[https://www.robotshop.com/en/lynxmotion-al5d-4-degrees-of-freedom-robotic-arm-combo-kit-no-software.html Lynxmotion AL5D 4DOF Robot Arm] (ask me for inverse kinematics & C/C++ software)
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[https://www.anki.com/en-us/cozmo Cozmo robot] from Anki
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[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JhdyItmtddQ How to install FLTK for ARM64 on Windows 11] in a Parallels VM on a MacBook with Apple silicon
 
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&nbsp;&nbsp;C:/Program\ Files\ (x86)/Windows Kits/10/Lib/10.0.26100.0/um/arm64/gdiplus.lib<BR>
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&nbsp;&nbsp;C:/Program\ Files\ (x86)/Windows Kits/10/Lib/10.0.26100.0/um/arm64/WS2_32.lib<BR>
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&nbsp;&nbsp;C:/Program\ Files\ (x86)/Windows Kits/10/Lib/10.0.26100.0/um/arm64/comctl32.lib<BR>
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[https://support.apple.com/en-us/102321 Rebuild the Spotlight index on your Mac] This fixes a problem when Finder fails to find files when searching for filenames containing a given text
 
<BR>
 
<BR>
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[https://forums.anki.com/login Anki Developer Forum] for the Cozmo robot
 
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<BR>
 
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[https://www.active-robots.com/ Active Robots] online shop
 
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<BR>
 
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[https://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/home-robots/haru-an-experimental-social-robot-from-honda-research Haru: An Experimental Social Robot From Honda Research]
 
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[http://parcrobotics.org/ PARC - Pan-African Robotics Competition]
 
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[https://ease-crc.org/ EASE - Everyday Activity Science & Engineering]: how human-scale manipulation tasks can be mastered by robotic agents
 
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<BR>
 
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[https://www.cse.sc.edu/~jokane/agitr/ A Gentle Introduction to ROS]
 
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<BR>
 
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[https://pybullet.org/wordpress/ Bullet Real-Time Physics Simulation]
 
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<BR>
 
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[https://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/home-robots/anki-jibo-and-kuri-what-we-can-learn-from-social-robotics-failures  Anki, Jibo, and Kuri: what we can learn from social robots that didn't make it]
 
  
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=== Software Engineering ===
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== Machine Learning ==
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[http://paulgraham.com/index.html Paul Graham's website] ... go here if you want to challenge and change your views on programming, Lisp, and life (start with the [http://paulgraham.com/articles.html essays]).
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(Also see [[Artificial_Intelligence|Artificial Intelligence]] and [[Robotics|Robotics]]) <BR>
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<BR>
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[[Machine_Learning|Machine Learning]] (a separate list of links)
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[http://www.joser.org/ Journal of Software Engineering for Robotics]  
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<BR>
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[http://sereadings.blogspot.com.es/2011/05/10-quotes-from-david-parnas.html 10 Quotes from David Parnas]
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[https://github.com/Droogans/unmaintainable-code How to write unmaintainable code]
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[http://www.jesshamrick.com/2012/09/10/absolute-beginners-guide-to-emacs/ Absolute Beginners Guide to Emacs]
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[https://ethics.acm.org/ ACM Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct]
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<BR>
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[https://ethics.acm.org/ ACM Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct] Official Repository
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<BR>
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[https://ethics.acm.org/code-of-ethics/software-engineering-code/ ACM/IEEE Software Engineering Code of Ethics and Professional Practice] Version 5.2, 2016
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[https://www.computer.org/education/code-of-ethics  IEEE-CS/ACM Code of Ethics]
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[https://www.hillelwayne.com/post/why-dont-people-use-formal-methods/ Why don't people use formal methods?]
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=== Trinity College Dublin ===
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== Neuroscience ==
  
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[https://scss.tcd.ie/news/item.php?id=143 Computer Science: Then and Now] in honour of Professor John Byrne.
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[https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK92864/#ch18_sec1 Did you know that multisensory integration develops late in humans], including [https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnint.2012.00077/full visuo-auditory integration] and [https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18450446/ visuo-haptic integration]? <BR>
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[https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/mar/04/has-dopamine-got-us-hooked-on-tech-facebook-apps-addiction Has dopamine got us hooked on technology?] <BR>
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[https://scss.tcd.ie/SCSSTreasuresCatalog/ The John Gabriel Byrne Computer Science Collection]
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[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OvVl8rOEncE How a synapse works], part of an online course on the fundamentals of neuroscience <BR>
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[https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/apr/05/short-term-memory-illusions-study Human memory may be unreliable after just a few seconds]<BR>
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[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kMKc8nfPATI The Brain] A video of Paul Anderson explaining the anatomy (structure) and physiology (function) of the brain <BR>
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[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZh0A-lWSmY The Neuron] A video of Paul Anderson explaining the anatomy (structure) of the neuron <BR>
  
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=== Teamwork ===
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== Quantum Computing ==
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[https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/dec/09/google-unveils-mindboggling-quantum-computing-chip Google unveils ‘mindboggling’ quantum computing chip]<BR>
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[https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/google-makes-a-major-quantum-computing-breakthrough/ Google’s Quantum Computer Makes a Major Breakthrough in Error Correction] with a deeper analysis of this breakthrough<BR>
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[https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-limits-of-quantum-computers/ The Limits of Quantum Computers] which dispels some of the hype around quantum computing<BR>
  
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[http://apppm.man.dtu.dk/index.php/Four_Stages_of_Team_Development The four stages of team development]
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== Robotics ==
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(Also see [[Artificial_Intelligence|Artificial Intelligence]] and [[Machine_Learning|Machine Learning]]) <BR>
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[[Robotics]] (separate list of links)
  
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=== Tutorials ===
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== Self-Organization and Emergence ==
  
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[http://ep.yimg.com/ty/cdn/paulgraham/acl2.txt Lisp Tutorial] (Chapter 2 of [http://www.paulgraham.com/acl.html ANSI Common Lisp] by Paul Graham)
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[https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-information-theory-of-life-20151119/ The Information Theory of Life] <BR>
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[https://complexityexplained.github.io/ Complexity Explained]<BR>
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[https://www.complexity-explorables.org/ Complexity Explorables] <BR>
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== Software Engineering ==
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[https://karpathy.medium.com/software-2-0-a64152b37c35 Software 2.0] a blog by Andrej Karpathy (it's from 2017, but still worth reading) <BR>
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[https://www.google.rw/books/edition/Programming_Challenges/NN8J9xId7gkC?hl=en&gbpv=1&printsec=frontcover Programming Challenges] by Steven Skiena and Miguel Revilla. [http://acm.cs.buap.mx/downloads/Programming_Challenges.pdf .] [https://onlinejudge.org/index.php?option=com_onlinejudge&Itemid=8 Online Judge] <BR>
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[http://paulgraham.com/index.html Paul Graham's website] ... go here if you want to challenge and change your views on programming, Lisp, and life (start with the [http://paulgraham.com/articles.html essays]).<BR>
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[http://www.joser.org/ Journal of Software Engineering for Robotics] <BR>
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[http://sereadings.blogspot.com.es/2011/05/10-quotes-from-david-parnas.html 10 Quotes from David Parnas]<BR>
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[https://github.com/Droogans/unmaintainable-code How to write unmaintainable code]<BR>
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[http://www.jesshamrick.com/2012/09/10/absolute-beginners-guide-to-emacs/ Absolute Beginners Guide to Emacs]<BR>
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[https://ethics.acm.org/ ACM Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct]<BR>
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[https://ethics.acm.org/ ACM Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct] Official Repository<BR>
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[https://ethics.acm.org/code-of-ethics/software-engineering-code/ ACM/IEEE Software Engineering Code of Ethics and Professional Practice] Version 5.2, 2016<BR>
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[https://www.computer.org/education/code-of-ethics  IEEE-CS/ACM Code of Ethics]<BR>
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[https://www.hillelwayne.com/post/why-dont-people-use-formal-methods/ Why don't people use formal methods?]<BR>
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[http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.8/index.html Version control with Subversion (SNV)]<BR>
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[https://blog.osteele.com/2008/05/my-git-workflow/ Oliver Steele's explanation of the Git data transport commands] (nice if you're used to Subversion) <BR>
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[https://docs.freebsd.org/en/articles/bsdl-gpl/article.html#:~:text=In%20contrast%20to%20the%20GPL,project's%20or%20company's%20needs%20change. BSD vs. GPL]  <BR>
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== Trinity College Dublin ==
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[https://treasures.scss.tcd.ie/miscellany/TCD-SCSS-X.20121208.004/TCD-SCSS-DeptHistoryFor50thBirthday-v0.30-23-A5.pdf History of the Department of Computer Science, Trinity College Dublin]
 
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[http://schneider.ncifcrf.gov/paper/primer/ Information Theory Primer]
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[https://www.tcd.ie/news_events/articles/memorial-discourse-honours-father-of-computing-in-ireland-professor-john-byrne/ Memorial discourse honours Father of Computing in Ireland, Professor John Byrne]; watch the full discourse on Trinity Monday 2018 [https://treasures.scss.tcd.ie/literature/TCD-SCSS-V.20180409.001/TrinityMondayDiscourse2018-JohnGabrielByrne-OfficialVideoAndAudio-20180409-1130.mp4 here] (it starts at timestamp 5:55)
 
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[http://cs.brown.edu/research/ai/pomdp/tutorial/index.html POMDPs for Dummies]
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[https://scss.tcd.ie/SCSSTreasuresCatalog/ The John Gabriel Byrne Computer Science Collection]
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[http://www.r-bloggers.com/what-does-a-data-scientist-do/ What does a data scientist do?]
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[http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/11/4/12.html Why Model?]
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[http://reinforcementlearning.ai-depot.com/Tutorials.html Reinforcement Learning Tutorials]
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[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYPapE-3FRw Feynman on the Scientific Method]
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[https://www.cs.ubc.ca/~murphyk/Bayes/bnintro.html#appl A brief introduction to graphical models and Bayesian networks]
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[http://saliency.mit.edu/ECCVTutorial/ECCV_saliency.htm Visual attention: new directions in saliency research]
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[https://brilliant.org/wiki/poisson-distribution/ The Poisson distribution] and [https://www.umass.edu/wsp/resources/poisson/problems.html Poisson distribution problems]
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[https://developer.ibm.com/articles/cc-beginner-guide-machine-learning-ai-cognitive/ A Beginner's Guide to Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Cognitive Computing]
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[https://developer.ibm.com/tutorials/iot-deep-learning-anomaly-detection-1/ Introducing Deep Learning and Long Short-Term Memory Networks]
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[https://developer.ibm.com/tutorials/iot-deep-learning-anomaly-detection-5/ Using Keras and TensorFlow for Anomaly Detection] (including the use of LSTM)
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[https://towardsdatascience.com/illustrated-guide-to-lstms-and-gru-s-a-step-by-step-explanation-44e9eb85bf21 Illustrated guide to LSTMs and GRUs: a step by step explanation]
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[http://colah.github.io/posts/2015-08-Understanding-LSTMs/ Understanding LSTMs]
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[http://karpathy.github.io/2015/05/21/rnn-effectiveness/ The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Recurrent Neural Networks]
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=== WikiMedia and Redmine ===
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== Tutorials ==
  
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[http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Formatting WikiMedia Formatting Guide]  
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[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZHQObOWTQDMsr9K-rj53DwVRMYO3t5Yr 3Blue1Brown: The Essence of Calculus]  <BR>
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[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aircAruvnKk 3Blue1Brown: But what is a neural network? | Chapter 1, Deep learning] <BR>
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[http://www.redmine.org/projects/redmine/wiki/RedmineTextFormatting Redmine Formatting Guide]
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[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IHZwWFHWa-w&list=PLZHQObOWTQDNU6R1_67000Dx_ZCJB-3pi&index=2 3Blue1Brown: Gradient descent, how neural networks learn | Chapter 2, Deep learning]<BR>
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[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ilg3gGewQ5U&list=PLZHQObOWTQDNU6R1_67000Dx_ZCJB-3pi&index=3 3Blue1Brown: What is backpropagation really doing? | Chapter 3, Deep learning] <BR>
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[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIeHLnjs5U8&list=PLZHQObOWTQDNU6R1_67000Dx_ZCJB-3pi&index=4 3Blue1Brown: Backpropagation calculus | Chapter 4, Deep learning] <BR>
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[https://towardsdatascience.com/how-to-create-mathematical-animations-like-3blue1brown-using-python-f571fb9da3d1 How to create mathematical animations like 3blue1brown using Python]<BR>
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[https://lilianweng.github.io/posts/2018-02-19-rl-overview/ A (Long) Peek into Reinforcement Learning] <BR>
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[http://ep.yimg.com/ty/cdn/paulgraham/acl2.txt Lisp Tutorial] (Chapter 2 of [http://www.paulgraham.com/acl.html ANSI Common Lisp] by Paul Graham) <BR>
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[https://automatetheboringstuff.com/#toc Automate the Boring Stuff]: introduction to Python <BR>
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[http://www.r-bloggers.com/what-does-a-data-scientist-do/ What does a data scientist do?]<br>
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[http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/11/4/12.html Why Model?]<BR>
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[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYPapE-3FRw Feynman on the Scientific Method]<BR>
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[https://www.cs.ubc.ca/~murphyk/Bayes/bnintro.html#appl A brief introduction to graphical models and Bayesian networks]<BR>
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[http://saliency.mit.edu/ECCVTutorial/ECCV_saliency.htm Visual attention: new directions in saliency research]<BR>
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[https://brilliant.org/wiki/poisson-distribution/ The Poisson distribution] and [https://www.umass.edu/wsp/resources/poisson/problems.html Poisson distribution problems]<BR>
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[https://developer.ibm.com/articles/cc-beginner-guide-machine-learning-ai-cognitive/ A Beginner's Guide to Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Cognitive Computing]<BR>
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[https://developer.ibm.com/tutorials/iot-deep-learning-anomaly-detection-1/ Introducing Deep Learning and Long Short-Term Memory Networks]<BR>
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[https://developer.ibm.com/tutorials/iot-deep-learning-anomaly-detection-5/ Using Keras and TensorFlow for Anomaly Detection] (including the use of LSTM)<BR>
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[https://towardsdatascience.com/illustrated-guide-to-lstms-and-gru-s-a-step-by-step-explanation-44e9eb85bf21 Illustrated guide to LSTMs and GRUs: a step by step explanation]<BR>
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[http://colah.github.io/posts/2015-08-Understanding-LSTMs/ Understanding LSTMs]<BR>
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[http://karpathy.github.io/2015/05/21/rnn-effectiveness/ The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Recurrent Neural Networks]<BR>
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[https://www.asimovinstitute.org/neural-network-zoo/ Neural Network Zoo] from Fjodor van Veen, The Asimov Institute<BR>
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[https://www.asimovinstitute.org/neural-network-zoo-prequel-cells-layers/ Neural Network Zoo Prequel: Cells and Layers] with more detail on how each cell type works<BR>
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[https://jalammar.github.io/illustrated-transformer/ The Illustrated Transformer] by Jay Alammar<BR>
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[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0eN_FhEBzs TrinketIO: How to Embed a Python Interpreter in Your Website?] <BR>
  
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===  Writing: Grammar, Composition, Style ===
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== Women in Science, Engineering, and Technology ==
  
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[http://orwell.ru/library/others/style/english/estyle The Elements of Style]
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[https://www.asme.org/topics-resources/content/10-influential-women-in-engineering 10 Influential Women in Engineering] <BR>
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[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMOqpxlW66E Science: It's a Girl Thing] This is object lesson on <span style="color:#FF0000">how <strong>not</strong> to think</span> about women in science: ... so many stereotypes, so much bias, so very sad. <BR>
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[https://barbie.mattel.com/en-us/about/barbie-tynker.html Barbie Robotics Engineer: inspiring girls to learn how to write software] <BR>
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[https://www.sfchronicle.com/business/article/Rwanda-is-pushing-gender-diversity-in-tech-12496643.php Gender diversity in technology in Rwanda] <BR>
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[https://wie.ieee.org/ IEEE Women in Engineering (WiE)] <BR>
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[https://www.ieee-ras.org/women-in-engineering IEEE Robotics & Automation Society Women in Engineering (WiE)] <BR>
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[https://www.linkedin.com/groups/4558565/ IEEE Robotics & Automation Society - Women in Engineering (WiE)] LinkedIn <BR>
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[https://www.inwed.org.uk/ International Women in Engineering Day] <BR>
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[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCNuPcf8L00 Julia Gillard's Misogyny Speech] Not specifically science, engineering, and technology, but a brilliant riposte to misogynistic attitudes and gender bias, in general <BR>
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[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEIImpjmAq8PkEY60GZAjxw Levers in Heels] Bringing visibility to African women in STEM <BR>
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[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1MWBSSKtnBM Life in The Largest Urban Slum | Delphine Nyaboke | TEDxKigali Women] An inspirational TEDx talk by an engineer who triumphed despite the odds ... and yet, she still faces ongoing challenges, as do all her compatriots<BR>
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[https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2017/aug/08/why-are-there-so-few-women-in-tech-the-truth-behind-the-google-memo On the gender gap in technology] (read the last four paragraphs if you're short of time)<BR>
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[https://www.theguardian.com/science/2019/jun/16/the-five-unsung-female-scientists-overlook-credit-stolen-jean-purdy The five: unsung female scientists] <BR>
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The [http://www.sheplusplus.org/ SHE++ website] is gone, but you can still watch the [https://vimeo.com/63877454 video], check it on [https://www.facebook.com/ShePlusPlus/ Facebook], or go to [http://www.sheplusplus.london/ SHE++ London] <BR>
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[http://rarlindseysmash.com/WiCVis/index.html Timeline of Women in Computing] <BR>
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[https://sites.google.com/andrew.cmu.edu/the-no-excuses-list/home The No Excuses List] Women Faculty in Robotics <BR>
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==  Writing ==
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'''Composition'''
 
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[https://www.amazon.com/Thinking-Threes-Power-Three-Writing/dp/1877673676 Thinking in Threes: The Power of Three in Writing]
 
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[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_of_three_(writing) The Rule of Three in Writing]
 
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[http://www.openculture.com/2013/02/seven_tips_from_ernest_hemingway_on_how_to_write_fiction.html Seven tips from Ernest Hemingway on how to write fiction (also useful for writing theses)]
 
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[https://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/checklist.html SI Unit rules and style conventions]
 
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[https://www.grammarbook.com/punctuation/commas.asp Punctuation rules: commas]
 
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[http://www.cs.yale.edu/homes/dvm/papers/pedant.txt Rules of English Style] by [https://cpsc.yale.edu/people/drew-mcdermott Drew McDermott]
 
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[https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/2014/advanced-information/ Example of good technical writing]: Scientific Background: The Brain’s Navigational Place and Grid Cell System ([http://www.nobelprizemedicine.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Scintific-background_2014.pdf  pdf])
 
  
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=== Women in Computer Science ===
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[https://leadingwithquestions.com/personal-growth/is-this-the-best-you-can-do-henry-kissinger-on-work-ethic/ Henry Kissinger: "Is this the best you can do?"] On the importance of exhaustive revision<BR>
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[http://www.openculture.com/2013/02/seven_tips_from_ernest_hemingway_on_how_to_write_fiction.html Seven tips from Ernest Hemingway on how to write fiction] Also useful for writing dissertations<BR>
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[https://helenlewis.substack.com/p/the-bluestocking-on-writing The Bluestocking: On Writing] Helen’s Big Rules of Writing<BR>
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An example of inspirational writing: [https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2008/06/text-of-j-k-rowling-speech/ The Fringe Benefits of Failure, and the Importance of Imagination] 2008 Harvard Commencement Address by J. K. Rowling, the [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHGqp8lz36c video], and the [https://www.jkrowling.com/book/very-good-lives Very Good Lives] book <BR>
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An example of inspirational writing: [https://home.dartmouth.edu/news/2024/06/2024-commencement-address-roger-federer 2024 Dartmouth Commencement Address by Roger Federer] and a [https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6414410/2025/06/10/roger-federer-viral-commencement-speech/ commentary in the New York Times]<BR>
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[https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/nov/08/salman-rushdie-peace-freedom-barbie-myths-fables An example of great narrative writing]: 'The good guys don’t always win': Salman Rushdie on peace, Barbie, and what freedom cost him. <BR>
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[https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/2014/advanced-information/ An example of great technical writing]: Scientific Background: The Brain’s Navigational Place and Grid Cell System ([http://www.nobelprizemedicine.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Scintific-background_2014.pdf  pdf])<BR>
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[https://www.amazon.com/Thinking-Threes-Power-Three-Writing/dp/1877673676 Thinking in Threes: The Power of Three in Writing]<BR>
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[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_of_three_(writing) The Rule of Three in Writing]<BR>
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Brevity: "I have made this longer than usual because I have not had time to make it shorter", Blaise Pascal, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lettres_provinciales Lettres Provinciales], Lettre XVI; also see [https://quoteinvestigator.com/2012/04/28/shorter-letter/ here] and [https://www.quora.com/Who-wrote-the-quote-If-I-had-more-time-I-would-have-written-you-a-shorter-letter here] for details, and [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=769385 here] for variations on the theme. <BR>
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[https://writingcenter.gmu.edu/writing-resources/different-genres/white-papers White Papers] and how to write them <BR>
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[https://liberalarts.oregonstate.edu/wlf/what-satire What is satire?] Comprehensive explanation with very helpful examples.<BR>
  
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[http://rarlindseysmash.com/WiCVis/index.html Timeline of Women in Computing]
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[http://www.sheplusplus.org/ SHE++]
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[http://orwell.ru/library/others/style/english/estyle The Elements of Style] <BR>
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[http://www.cs.yale.edu/homes/dvm/papers/pedant.txt Rules of English Style] by [https://cpsc.yale.edu/people/drew-mcdermott Drew McDermott]<BR>
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[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prime_(symbol) Using the prime symbol to designate units]<BR>
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[https://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/checklist.html SI Unit rules and style conventions]<BR>
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[https://www.grammarbook.com/numbers/numbers.asp Writing Numbers]<BR>
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[https://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/qanda/data/faq/topics/Abbreviations/faq0095.html 5 am or 5 a.m.] The Chicago Manual of Style on how to write abbreviations for ''ante meridiem'' (before noon) and ''post meridiem'' (after noon).<BR>
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[https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/neither#:~:text=Is%20it%20'neither%20is'%20or,those%20are%20going%20to%20work.%22 Is it 'neither is' or 'neither are'?]<BR>
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[https://blog.apastyle.org/apastyle/2012/03/title-case-and-sentence-case-capitalization-in-apa-style.HTML Title Case and Sentence Case Capitalization in APA Style] <BR>
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[https://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/qanda/data/faq/topics/HyphensEnDashesEmDashes/faq0138.html Axes]: set the X, Y, and Z in capitals and italics, and use a hyphen.<BR>
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[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxford_spelling Oxford Spelling] and why using "-ize" rather than "-ise" is correct, even in British English. <BR>
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[https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/beg-the-question#:~:text=Begging%20the%20question%20means%20%22to,phrase%20itself%20comes%20from%20a To Beg the question] explained (and why one should avoid phrases with esoteric or ambiguous meanings, even when used correctly)<BR>
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[https://barbie.mattel.com/en-us/about/barbie-tynker.html Barbie Robotics Engineer: inspiring girls to learn how to write software]
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[https://portlandenglish.edu/blog/difference-gerund-present-participle/ Clear explanation of the difference between the gerund and the present participle], i.e. words ending in "-ing"<BR>
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[https://www.latimes.com/socal/burbank-leader/news/tn-blr-xpm-2006-08-16-blr-aword16-story.html On dangling prepositions and rules "up with which I will not put"] (here is the [http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/001715.html Benjamin G. Zimmer article] on the quotation)<BR>
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[https://www.link.cs.cmu.edu/link/index.html Link Grammar] a syntactic parser for the Link grammar of English, with a neat interactive sentence parser that identifies the parts of speech. <BR>
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[https://www.sfchronicle.com/business/article/Rwanda-is-pushing-gender-diversity-in-tech-12496643.php Gender diversity in technology in Rwanda]
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[https://www.grammarbook.com/punctuation/commas.asp Punctuation rules: commas]; also see Section 2 in [http://orwell.ru/library/others/style/english/estyle The Elements of Style]
 
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[https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2017/aug/08/why-are-there-so-few-women-in-tech-the-truth-behind-the-google-memo On the gender gap in technology] (read the last three paragraphs if you're very short of time)
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[https://getproofed.com.au/writing-tips/should-footnote-markers-go-after-the-punctuation/ Footnote markers are placed after the punctuation mark] <BR>
  
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=== Odds and Ends ===
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== The Benefits of Taking Handwritten Notes ==
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[http://100photos.time.com/ 100 Photos - The most influential images of all time]  
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[https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0956797614524581 The Pen Is Mightier Than the Keyboard: Advantages of Longhand Over Laptop Note Taking]<BR>
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[https://www.darpa.mil/work-with-us/heilmeier-catechism Heilmeier's catechism for researchers]
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[https://www.chronicle.com/article/the-benefits-of-no-tech-note-taking/?bc_nonce=ngt10fme5ya5nw0sfxzd6g&cid=reg_wall_signup The Benefits of No-Tech Note Taking] <BR>
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[https://www.psychologytoday.com/intl/blog/memory-medic/201303/why-writing-hand-could-make-you-smarter Why Writing by Hand Could Make You Smarter] <BR>
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[https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2017/9/220429-divination-by-program-committee/fulltext Divination by Program Committee]  
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[https://www.cadmusjournal.org/files/pdfreprints/vol2issue1/reprint-cj-v2-i1-complex-vs-complicated-systems-rpoli.pdf Complicated vs. Complex] A Note on the Difference Between Complicated and Complex Social Systems by Roberto Poli <BR>
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[https://www.bbc.com/news/world-51235105 Covid-19 pandemic: Tracking the global coronavirus outbreak] <BR>
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[https://www.trinet.com/insights/generations-in-the-workplace-boomers-gen-x-gen-y-and-gen-z-explained Generational Differences in the Workplace: Boomers, Gen X, Gen Y, and Gen Z Explained]<BR>
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[https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/style/kilian-journet-states-of-elevation-14ers.html He Wants to Climb Nearly All of America’s Tallest Peaks. In a Month.] by Scott Cacciola  <BR>
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[https://www.makerbeam.com/ MakerBeam] very neat kits that use 1 cm and 1.5 cm extruded aluminium for building mechanical frames for any purpose <BR>
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[https://xkcd.com/1447/ Meta-analysis] <BR>
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[https://thecitesite.com/authors/bill-bullard/ Opinion is the lowest form of knowledge] ... the correct attribution of this aphorism to [https://casnocha.com/2007/07/three-things-to.html Bill Bullard], not Plato, and attribution to George Eliot of the highest form of knowledge: empathy <BR>
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[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Mqa4zfJdx4&t=1s Retirement Plan] Animated short film by directed by John Kelly, voiced by Domhnall Gleeson, and nominated for an Oscar in 2026.  It tells the story of Ray as he thinks about everything he plans to do in retirement, once he finally has the time (only available free in the USA and Canada, so use a VPN) <BR>
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[https://www.poetryfoundation.org/articles/89511/robert-frost-the-road-not-taken Robert Frost: The Road Not Taken] and how it is almost universally misunderstood <BR>
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[https://www.seatguru.com/airlines/RwandAir/RwandAir_WB_Airbus_A330-200.php RwandAir Airbus A330 Seat Plan]<BR>
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[https://www.pc2paper.co.uk/ PC2Paper Send Letters from the Internet] <BR>
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[https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8520610-quiet Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking] by [https://susancain.net/ Susan Cain]; and watch her TED talk [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0KYU2j0TM4 The Power of Introverts]  <BR>
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[https://symbolikon.com/ Symbolikon] 4000+ symbols from around the world <BR>
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[https://www.nbcnews.com/better/health/what-happens-your-body-brain-while-you-sleep-ncna805276 Sleep] What Happens in Your Body and Brain While You Sleep<BR>
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[https://www.forbes.com/sites/alicegwalton/2016/12/09/7-ways-sleep-affects-the-brain-and-what-happens-if-it-doesnt-get-enough/?sh=722c0e2753cc Sleep] 7 Ways Sleep Affects The Brain (And What Happens If It Doesn't Get Enough) <BR>
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[http://apppm.man.dtu.dk/index.php/Four_Stages_of_Team_Development Teamwork]: The four stages of team development <BR>
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[https://ipdraughts.wordpress.com/2011/11/29/10-words-and-phrases-you-should-never-use-in-ip-contracts/ Ten words and phrases you should never use in IP contracts] <BR>
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[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_ML0xjiBm0 The Beatles, aka The White Album] on YouTube; [https://www.thewhitealbumproject.com/ The Beatles White Album Project] A comprehensive look at The Beatles self-titled Double Album Masterpiece<BR>
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[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sj8Sg8qnjOg The Golden Ratio] <BR>
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[http://www.phdcomics.com/comics/archive.php?comicid=1431 The Grant Cycle] <BR>
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[http://www.theguardian.com/childrens-books-site/gallery/2014/nov/17/best-optical-illusions-ever-clive-gifford-eye-benders#img-8 The Guardian Optical Illusions]  <BR>
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[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RG9TMn1FJzc The incredible ibex defies gravity and climbs a dam | Forces of Nature with Brian Cox - BBC] <BR>
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[https://uxdesign.cc/the-knowns-and-unknowns-framework-for-design-thinking-6537787de2c5 The knowns and unknowns framework for design thinking] <BR>
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[http://thepointmag.com/ The Point Magazine] <BR>
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[https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/resources/2234/the-story-behind-apollo-8s-famous-earthrise-photo/ The story behind the Apollo 8 Earthrise photo] <BR>
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[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/There_are_known_knowns There are known knowns] <BR>
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[https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2022/nov/24/have-toys-got-too-brainy-how-playthings-became-teaching-aids-young-children Toys and Child Development] one quote, in an article full of quotable quotes: "The best toys are 90% the kid, 10% the toy”, Kathy Hirsh-Pasek<BR>
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[https://askubuntu.com/questions/345083/how-do-i-disable-automatic-remote-printer-installation How to disable automatic remote printer installation on Ubuntu] <BR>
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[https://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/projects/cogaff/talks/building-roadmaps-sloman.pdf What’s a Research Roadmap For? Why do we need one? How can we produce one?] ([https://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/projects/cogaff/talks/#talk42 linked from Aaron Sloman's website]) <BR>
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[https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/mar/22/what-is-the-meaning-of-life-15-possible-answers-from-a-palliative-care-doctor-a-holocaust-survivor-a-jail-inmate-and-more What is the meaning of life? 15 possible answers – from a palliative care doctor, a Holocaust survivor, a jail inmate and more] <BR>
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[https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2025/jan/14/switching-smartphone-for-dumbphone-guide You don’t need a smartphone: a practical, personal guide to downgrading your device]<BR>

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Africa

A collection of links mapping out the many aspects of AI and robotics in Africa.
African Concept of Time, a Socio-Cultural Reality in the Process of Change (Babalola and Aloken 2013)
Justification of the concept of time in Africa (Nnajiofor 2016)
On the impossibility of speaking of Africa Speech by the former President of the Federal Republic of Germany, Horst Köhler
Revisiting Rwanda by Murray Shanahan
The 17 Sustainable Development Goals
What / Where is the Global South?

Art

Whisper of Sunshine by Tatiana Iliina, 2017
Odessey by Julia Conacessi, 2017
Berenices by Petros Koublis
The Shortening Winter's Day is near a Close by Joseph Farquharson, 1903; also see Joseph Farquharson: Snow, sheep and sun
When Snow the Pasture Sheets by Joseph Farquharson, c. 1915
Joseph Farquharson: Snow, sheep and sun by Joseph Farquharson
Stacks of Wheat (End of Summer) by Claude Monet, 1890-91; also see Wikapedia article on the full 25 paintings in the series
Norham Castle, Sunrise by Joseph Mallord William Turner, c. 1845
Cliff Walk at Pourville by Claude Monet, 1882

Artificial Cognitive Systems

Artificial Cognitive Systems (a separate list of links)

Artificial Intelligence

(Also see Machine Learning and Robotics)

Artificial Intelligence (a separate list of links)

Autonomy

Principles of Biological Autonomy By Francisco J. Varela, Edited by Ezequiel A. Di Paolo, Evan Thompson.

Cognitive Robotics

Cognitive Robotics Resources (a separate list of links)

Computer Vision

2-Dimensional Motion Perception in humans; seminal video from the 1970s.
Andrej Karpathy's course CS231n Convolutional Neural Networks for Visual Recognition
Attention: SALICON eye-tracking dataset
Attention: scan-path prediction
Autonomous Road Following Application, Use case demo (its the second last video in the right sidebar)
Bag of Features Descriptor
Biological Motion clip from Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
Biological Motion II
Deep Learning for Computer Vision with Python; great book and software, including a fully-configured virtual machine.
Detection of ArUco Markers with OpenCV 4.7
Egocentric vision resources
Head Eye Tracking
How to install OpenCV with pip
OpenCV Python example of contour features
OpenMV camera
Cartographer SLAM software from Google
The Affective Growth of Computer Vision
The Ancient Secrets of Computer Vision J. C. Redmon's cool computer vision course at the University of Washington, Spring 2018
Understanding NDVI (Normalized Difference Vegitation Index) and other indices in remote sensing for assessing plant health
YOLO: Real-Time Object Detection

Control

PID control
Why does a proportional controller have a steady state error
Why Learn Control Theory video with links to several follow-on videos on all aspects of control theory
Control Bootcamp: Overview video with links to several follow-on videos on all aspects of control theory

Copyright

Copyright & Fair Use Carnegie Mellon University Africa
Fair Use Policy Carnegie Mellon University Africa
Fair Use in the Copyright Act
Fair Use and Other Educational Uses The University of Chicago
Educational Uses of Non-coursepack Materials Stanford University

Cybernetics and System Dynamics

Complicated vs. Complex A Note on the Difference Between Complicated and Complex Social Systems by Roberto Poli
David Wolpert's website
Dynamic Field Theory
Developing Dynamic Field Theory Architectures for Embodied Cognitive Systems with cedar
Gordon Pask Archive
Ethics and Second-Order Cybernetics Heinz von Foerster
Karl Popper Natural selection and the emergence of mind
Paul Pangaro
Paul Pangaro - The Design of Ethical Interfaces
System Dynamics Society
W. Ross Ashby Digital Archive

Cycling

Cycling (a separate list of links)

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

A Short Guide to Sharing Pronouns for Trans Allies
Unpacking Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
The Intertwine Charter: Going beyond anti-discrimination and towards pro-active change to welcome others

Engineering Education

A Whole New Engineer: a different way to approach effective teaching and learning (watch the video)
Bloom's Taxonomy original and revised
Claude E. Shannon Founder of Information Theory
CS2023: ACM/IEEE-CS/AAAI Computer Science Curricula and a paper describing community engagementby the ACM/IEEE-CS/AAAI Joint Task Force
Epic Education Foundation
Epic Challenge Talk Siemens NASA Boeing Keynote on Educating the Next Generation, with Bill Boswell, Charles Camarda, and Michael Richey
Epic Challenge Lecture by Charles Camarda (video)
Epic Methodology introduction to the Innovative Conceptual Engineering Design (ICED) methodology (text)
Epic Methodology introduction to the Innovative Conceptual Engineering Design (ICED) methodology (video)
History of Technology articles from IEEE Spectrum
Open-book assessments: dos and don’ts that foster good practice
Project Management for PhDs
Standards and Guidelines for Quality Assurance in the European Higher Education Area
Methodology: 2023-2024 Best Engineering Schools Rankings

Engineering Mathematics

The ten best linear algebra books
Introduction to Independent Component Analysis - Barnabás Póczos, University of Alberta
Subspace Methods for Visual Learning and Recognition ECCV 2002 Tutorial (short version) - Horst Bischof and Ales Leonardis
Subspace Methods for Visual Learning and Recognition ECCV 2002 Tutorial (full version) - Horst Bischof and Ales Leonardis
Fast ICA
FastICA C Implementation

Free Energy Principle and Active Inference

Active Inference: The Free Energy Principle in Mind, Brain, and Behavior an open access book by Thomas Parr, Giovanni Pezzulo,and Karl J. Friston
The free energy principle for action and perception: A mathematical review and ArXiv paper by Christopher L. Buckley, Chang Sub Kim, Simon McGregor, Anil K. Seth
Friston's Free Energy Principle Explained (part 1) by Jared Tumiel
Spinning Up in Active Inference and the Free Energy Principle by Jared Tumiel
The Lure of Free Energy by Wolfgang Schwarz (blog)
God Help Us, Let’s Try To Understand Friston on Free Energy by Scott Alexander [blog]
Book Review of Andy Clarke's Surfing Uncertainty: Prediction, Action, and the Embodied Mind by Scott Alexander
Tutorial on Active Inference by Oleg Solopchuk

Fountain Pens

The Parker 51
Parker 51 History
The Evolution of the Sheaffer Inlaid Nib 1959-Present

Graphs and Networks

Network Science by Albert-Laszalo Barabasi
Other Books by Albert-Laszalo Barabasi
GraphViz graph visualization

Helping People in Need

MindLeaps
The GLO Africa Tour 2018

History of Technology

Reverse engineering Sinclair's amazing 1974 calculator

Information Theory

Shannon Entropy and Information Gain Intuitive video introduction to the concept of entropy and the equation for entropy
A Short Introduction to Entropy, Cross-Entropy and KL-Divergence Intuitive video introduction to these concepts and their use in machine learning

Innovation and Entrepreneurship

European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT)
EIT ICT Labs
EIT Knowledge and Innovation Communities (KIC) Educational Activities Final Report

Ireland

New.jpg Against All Certainty, the spoken-word album by President Michael D. Higgins; and the accompanying video The Betrayal, starring Ciaran Hinds, Eanna Hardewicke, and Ruth McGill. For detailed information, see here
1916 Easter Rising a collection of essays on the 1916 Easter Rising, the Irish War of Independence (1919-1921) and the Irish Civil War (1922 - 1923), leading to the creation of the Republic of Ireland in 1949
11 of the best cycling challenges in Ireland
Ireland: a history of British colonial rule in Ireland
Allie Sherlock and Fionn Whelan sing Hallelujah on Grafton Street
Cork Bike Rental Ireland
Cycling the Wild Atlantic Way by Rolling Resistance
Cycling the Wild Atlantic Way by David Vernon
Donegal Cycle Route
EuroVelo 1 - Atlantic Coast Route
Freewheeling Local bike shop in Dublin
Iarnrod Eireann / Irish Rail Journey Planner
Irish 101: An Introduction to Irish Language and Culture
Irish Collectables and Memorabilia A collection of memorabilia from Irish history
Irish Culture A Five Minute Talk at Carnegie Mellon University Africa in 2023
Long-Distance Walking Trails in Ireland
Remembering The 1916 Rising A collection of information and memorabilia commemorating the 1916 Easter Rising in Ireland
Riverdance
The Craic
The Crock of Gold by James Stephens
The EPIC untold story behind Fairytale of New York
New.jpg The National Famine Museum, Strokestown Park
The Wild Atlantic Way
The Wild Atlantic Way Alternative Site
The Wild Atlantic Way Map by Google
The Wild Atlantic Way Map by Discover Ireland
The Wild Atlantic Way Map by Failte Ireland
The Wild Atlantic Way Pocket Map
The Wild Atlantic Way Pocket Route Atlas
Transport for Ireland Journey Planner
You Don't Get To Be Racist and Irish a brilliant poem recited by Imelda May from her book A Lick and a Promise

LaTeX

Get LaTeX here
MacTeX for MacOS
PlotNeuralNet LaTeX code for making neural networks diagrams (and a helpful blog about it)
TeXworks is a lightweight GUI front-end (MacTeX doesn't come with a GUI). Note: you'll have to set TeXworks Preferences > Typesetting to specify where the MacTeX binaries have been installed, e.g. /usr/local/texlive/2016/bin/x86_64-darwin.
Tufte-Latex Classes for producing books in the style of Edward R. Tufte (this is how I typeset my book Artificial Cognitive Systems - A Primer, published by MIT Press)
Drawing in LaTeX using TikZ
TikZ examples
The 3D Plot package for TikZ
The Listings Package
NASA LaTeX Docs with great examples and templates
Creating questionnaires with LaTeX from Sven Hartenstein
The tabularx package

Lisp

Common Lisp: A Gentle Introduction to Symbolic Computation by David Touretzky
Land of Lisp
On Lisp by Paul Graham
ANSI Common Lisp by Paul Graham
Lisp Tutorial (Chapter 2 of ANSI Common Lisp by Paul Graham)
Practical Common Lisp
Functional programming for the rest of us
Paul Graham's website ... go here if you want to challenge and change your views on programming, Lisp, and life (start with the essays)
Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming: Case Studies in Common Lisp open-source repository for the book by Peter Norvig (1992)
Common Lisp REPL Exploration Guide

Mac

How to troubleshoot an external drive
Common MacOS Catalina problems and how to fix them
SVN is deprecated in MacOS Catalina; here are ways to fix it
Taking Screenshots in OS X
OS X keyboard shortcuts
Open Source Mac Software
How to access files from an Ubuntu virtual machine in VirtualBox
How to access a web cam from an Ubuntu virtual machine in VirtualBox
You may need to first install the VirtualBox Extension Pack which provides support for USB 2.0 and USB 3.0 devices
Emacs for Mac OS X
Disable photoanalysisd
Reset the SMC of your Mac
How to Fix USB Accessories Disabled on Mac
How to Type Letters with Accents on Mac
How to install Git on Windows 11 (you'll need Git if you want to install OpenCV on Windows 11 running in a Parallels MacBook virtual machine).
How to install OpenCV for ARM64 on Windows 11 in a Parallels VM on a MacBook with Apple silicon
Remember to update the path environment variable to include paths the bin and release directories: C:\opencv\build_msvc\bin and C:\opencv\build_msvc\bin\Release, and add a system environment variable OpenCV_DIR C:\opencv\build_msvc)
How to install FLTK for ARM64 on Windows 11 in a Parallels VM on a MacBook with Apple silicon
  When building new applications, remember to specify   (a) the location of include files: C:/FLTK and C:/FLTK/build,   (b) all the libraries in C:/FLTK/build/lib/Release, and   (c) the following Windows libraries to avoid link errors:
  C:/Program\ Files\ (x86)/Windows Kits/10/Lib/10.0.26100.0/um/arm64/gdiplus.lib
  C:/Program\ Files\ (x86)/Windows Kits/10/Lib/10.0.26100.0/um/arm64/WS2_32.lib
  C:/Program\ Files\ (x86)/Windows Kits/10/Lib/10.0.26100.0/um/arm64/comctl32.lib
Rebuild the Spotlight index on your Mac This fixes a problem when Finder fails to find files when searching for filenames containing a given text

Machine Learning

(Also see Artificial Intelligence and Robotics)
Machine Learning (a separate list of links)

Neuroscience

Did you know that multisensory integration develops late in humans, including visuo-auditory integration and visuo-haptic integration?
Has dopamine got us hooked on technology?
How a synapse works, part of an online course on the fundamentals of neuroscience
Human memory may be unreliable after just a few seconds
The Brain A video of Paul Anderson explaining the anatomy (structure) and physiology (function) of the brain
The Neuron A video of Paul Anderson explaining the anatomy (structure) of the neuron

Quantum Computing

Google unveils ‘mindboggling’ quantum computing chip
Google’s Quantum Computer Makes a Major Breakthrough in Error Correction with a deeper analysis of this breakthrough
The Limits of Quantum Computers which dispels some of the hype around quantum computing

Robotics

(Also see Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning)
Robotics (separate list of links)

Self-Organization and Emergence

The Information Theory of Life
Complexity Explained
Complexity Explorables

Software Engineering

Software 2.0 a blog by Andrej Karpathy (it's from 2017, but still worth reading)
Programming Challenges by Steven Skiena and Miguel Revilla. . Online Judge
Paul Graham's website ... go here if you want to challenge and change your views on programming, Lisp, and life (start with the essays).
Journal of Software Engineering for Robotics
10 Quotes from David Parnas
How to write unmaintainable code
Absolute Beginners Guide to Emacs
ACM Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct
ACM Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct Official Repository
ACM/IEEE Software Engineering Code of Ethics and Professional Practice Version 5.2, 2016
IEEE-CS/ACM Code of Ethics
Why don't people use formal methods?
Version control with Subversion (SNV)
Oliver Steele's explanation of the Git data transport commands (nice if you're used to Subversion)
BSD vs. GPL

Trinity College Dublin

History of the Department of Computer Science, Trinity College Dublin
Memorial discourse honours Father of Computing in Ireland, Professor John Byrne; watch the full discourse on Trinity Monday 2018 here (it starts at timestamp 5:55)
The John Gabriel Byrne Computer Science Collection

Tutorials

3Blue1Brown: The Essence of Calculus
3Blue1Brown: But what is a neural network? | Chapter 1, Deep learning
3Blue1Brown: Gradient descent, how neural networks learn | Chapter 2, Deep learning
3Blue1Brown: What is backpropagation really doing? | Chapter 3, Deep learning
3Blue1Brown: Backpropagation calculus | Chapter 4, Deep learning
How to create mathematical animations like 3blue1brown using Python
A (Long) Peek into Reinforcement Learning
Lisp Tutorial (Chapter 2 of ANSI Common Lisp by Paul Graham)
Automate the Boring Stuff: introduction to Python
What does a data scientist do?
Why Model?
Feynman on the Scientific Method
A brief introduction to graphical models and Bayesian networks
Visual attention: new directions in saliency research
The Poisson distribution and Poisson distribution problems
A Beginner's Guide to Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Cognitive Computing
Introducing Deep Learning and Long Short-Term Memory Networks
Using Keras and TensorFlow for Anomaly Detection (including the use of LSTM)
Illustrated guide to LSTMs and GRUs: a step by step explanation
Understanding LSTMs
The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Recurrent Neural Networks
Neural Network Zoo from Fjodor van Veen, The Asimov Institute
Neural Network Zoo Prequel: Cells and Layers with more detail on how each cell type works
The Illustrated Transformer by Jay Alammar
TrinketIO: How to Embed a Python Interpreter in Your Website?

Women in Science, Engineering, and Technology

10 Influential Women in Engineering
Science: It's a Girl Thing This is object lesson on how not to think about women in science: ... so many stereotypes, so much bias, so very sad.
Barbie Robotics Engineer: inspiring girls to learn how to write software
Gender diversity in technology in Rwanda
IEEE Women in Engineering (WiE)
IEEE Robotics & Automation Society Women in Engineering (WiE)
IEEE Robotics & Automation Society - Women in Engineering (WiE) LinkedIn
International Women in Engineering Day
Julia Gillard's Misogyny Speech Not specifically science, engineering, and technology, but a brilliant riposte to misogynistic attitudes and gender bias, in general
Levers in Heels Bringing visibility to African women in STEM
Life in The Largest Urban Slum | Delphine Nyaboke | TEDxKigali Women An inspirational TEDx talk by an engineer who triumphed despite the odds ... and yet, she still faces ongoing challenges, as do all her compatriots
On the gender gap in technology (read the last four paragraphs if you're short of time)
The five: unsung female scientists
The SHE++ website is gone, but you can still watch the video, check it on Facebook, or go to SHE++ London
Timeline of Women in Computing
The No Excuses List Women Faculty in Robotics

Writing

Composition

Henry Kissinger: "Is this the best you can do?" On the importance of exhaustive revision
Seven tips from Ernest Hemingway on how to write fiction Also useful for writing dissertations
The Bluestocking: On Writing Helen’s Big Rules of Writing
An example of inspirational writing: The Fringe Benefits of Failure, and the Importance of Imagination 2008 Harvard Commencement Address by J. K. Rowling, the video, and the Very Good Lives book
An example of inspirational writing: 2024 Dartmouth Commencement Address by Roger Federer and a commentary in the New York Times
An example of great narrative writing: 'The good guys don’t always win': Salman Rushdie on peace, Barbie, and what freedom cost him.
An example of great technical writing: Scientific Background: The Brain’s Navigational Place and Grid Cell System (pdf)
Thinking in Threes: The Power of Three in Writing
The Rule of Three in Writing
Brevity: "I have made this longer than usual because I have not had time to make it shorter", Blaise Pascal, Lettres Provinciales, Lettre XVI; also see here and here for details, and here for variations on the theme.
White Papers and how to write them
What is satire? Comprehensive explanation with very helpful examples.

Style
The Elements of Style
Rules of English Style by Drew McDermott
Using the prime symbol to designate units
SI Unit rules and style conventions
Writing Numbers
5 am or 5 a.m. The Chicago Manual of Style on how to write abbreviations for ante meridiem (before noon) and post meridiem (after noon).
Is it 'neither is' or 'neither are'?
Title Case and Sentence Case Capitalization in APA Style
Axes: set the X, Y, and Z in capitals and italics, and use a hyphen.
Oxford Spelling and why using "-ize" rather than "-ise" is correct, even in British English.
To Beg the question explained (and why one should avoid phrases with esoteric or ambiguous meanings, even when used correctly)

Grammar
Clear explanation of the difference between the gerund and the present participle, i.e. words ending in "-ing"
On dangling prepositions and rules "up with which I will not put" (here is the Benjamin G. Zimmer article on the quotation)
Link Grammar a syntactic parser for the Link grammar of English, with a neat interactive sentence parser that identifies the parts of speech.

Punctuation
Punctuation rules: commas; also see Section 2 in The Elements of Style
Footnote markers are placed after the punctuation mark

The Benefits of Taking Handwritten Notes

The Pen Is Mightier Than the Keyboard: Advantages of Longhand Over Laptop Note Taking
The Benefits of No-Tech Note Taking
Why Writing by Hand Could Make You Smarter
... and on a related topic:
Kids learn better on paper, not screens

Odds and Ends

100 Photos - The most influential images of all time. The link to the original Time website is broken
Administratium
Apophenia
Baking Powder versus Baking Soda (Bicarbonate of Soda))
Battery University
Bing Crosby & David Bowie Peace on Earth / Little Drummer Boy duet
Breaking waves audio
Bubble-sort folk dance
Complicated vs. Complex A Note on the Difference Between Complicated and Complex Social Systems by Roberto Poli
Customizing Your Bash Prompt (also see Bash tips: Colors and formatting and Bash Prompt Generator)
Covid-19 pandemic: Tracking the global coronavirus outbreak
Dilbert - The Knack
Divination by Program Committee
Emojipedia
Filing Rules for listing names beginning with Mc and Mac
Flanders and Swann Playlist
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cr6luwrY2dw Flanders and Swann - Documentary by John Amis]
G. I. Gurdjieff: Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson, Chapter 1, with the story of The Transcaucasian Kurd (the red pepper pods story)
Generational Differences in the Workplace: Boomers, Gen X, Gen Y, and Gen Z Explained
Gyroscopic Precession is Easier Than You Think!
He Wants to Climb Nearly All of America’s Tallest Peaks. In a Month. by Scott Cacciola
Heilmeier's catechism for researchers
In Defense of J.K. Rowling (and read a full account of the controversy by Rhona Shennan in the Scotsman), and a more recent update by Caroline Davies in The Guardian
Ineffective Sorts
Julia Gillard's Misogyny Speech
Kigali Master Plan 2020
Less Wrong A website dedicated to rationality.
List of condiments
Lobachevsky by Tom Lehrer (also read ‘My songs spread like herpes’: why did satirical genius Tom Lehrer swap worldwide fame for obscurity?)
MakerBeam very neat kits that use 1 cm and 1.5 cm extruded aluminium for building mechanical frames for any purpose
Markdown Guide
MediaWiki Formatting Guide
Merge-sort folk dance
Meta-analysis
Motion-triggered figure-ground segmentation
Opinion is the lowest form of knowledge ... the correct attribution of this aphorism to Bill Bullard, not Plato, and attribution to George Eliot of the highest form of knowledge: empathy
Slide Hunter Free PowerPoint Presentation Templates
Presentation Go Free PowerPoint Presentation Templates
Program in C The Little Mermaid
Reduce PDF File Size and Cut PDF pages into halves
Retirement Plan Animated short film by directed by John Kelly, voiced by Domhnall Gleeson, and nominated for an Oscar in 2026. It tells the story of Ray as he thinks about everything he plans to do in retirement, once he finally has the time (only available free in the USA and Canada, so use a VPN)
Retirement Plan - Behind the Scenes - Animation pt 1
Retirement Plan - Behind the Scenes - Animation pt 2
Robert Frost: The Road Not Taken and how it is almost universally misunderstood
RwandAir Airbus A330 Seat Plan
Rwenzori Trekking
PC2Paper Send Letters from the Internet
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking by Susan Cain; and watch her TED talk The Power of Introverts
Symbolikon 4000+ symbols from around the world
Sleep What Happens in Your Body and Brain While You Sleep
Sleep 7 Ways Sleep Affects The Brain (And What Happens If It Doesn't Get Enough)
Teamwork: The four stages of team development
Ten words and phrases you should never use in IP contracts
The Beatles, aka The White Album on YouTube; The Beatles White Album Project A comprehensive look at The Beatles self-titled Double Album Masterpiece
The Golden Ratio
The Grant Cycle
The Guardian Optical Illusions
The incredible ibex defies gravity and climbs a dam | Forces of Nature with Brian Cox - BBC
The knowns and unknowns framework for design thinking
The Point Magazine
The story behind the Apollo 8 Earthrise photo
There are known knowns
Video of Donald Rumsfeld's famous use of the knowns and unknowns framework in 2002
Tom Lehrer playlist
Toys and Child Development one quote, in an article full of quotable quotes: "The best toys are 90% the kid, 10% the toy”, Kathy Hirsh-Pasek
Types of Orbit
How to disable automatic remote printer installation on Ubuntu
Visual explanations
What’s a Research Roadmap For? Why do we need one? How can we produce one? (linked from Aaron Sloman's website)
Windows data types
Windows include files, e.g., windows.h
What is the meaning of life? 15 possible answers – from a palliative care doctor, a Holocaust survivor, a jail inmate and more
You don’t need a smartphone: a practical, personal guide to downgrading your device

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