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Get LaTeX here
MacTeX for MacOS
Plotneuralnet Latex code for making neural networks diagrams
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

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).

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
HyperJuice Batteries
HyperJuice Batteries in Europe
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 or Mac OS X

Machine Learning

A Gentle Introduction to Bayesian Belief Networks
A (Long) Peek into Reinforcement Learning
Data Science and Machine Learning; free book to download
Deep Learning by Ian Goodfellow, Yoshua Bengio, and Aaron Courville
Model-based Machine Learning, co-authored by Chris Bishop, and the related Infer.NET framework running Bayesian inference in graphical models
Model-based Machine Learning Companion Paper, C. M. Bishop, Phil. Trans. R. Soc. A 2013 371: 20120222; see Section 4. for an overview of probabilistic graphical models.
Deep Learning overview
Neural Networks and Deep Learning
Deep Learning for Computer Vision with Python; great book and software, including a fully-configured virtual machine.
Learning to Optimize
Learning to Optimize with Reinforcement Learning and learning to learn
Kaggle Facial Expression Recognition dataset FER13
GAN Series; comprehensive overview of Generative Adversarial Networks
Deep fakes: one element of the dark side of AI and ML
The rise of the deepfake and the threat to democracy
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
Self-supervised Learning Andrew Zisserman
The original paper on the CNN by Yann LeCun, Leon Bottio, Yoshua Bengio, and Patrick Haffner
The original paper on the LSTM by Sepp Hochreiter and Jurgen Schmidhuber
The Tank Story
The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Recurrent Neural Networks Andrej Karpathy's Blog
Yann LeCun Cake Analogy 2.0; the slides from his ISCC talk are here and the video of the talk is here
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
The Illustrated Transformer by Jay Alammar

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?
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
How a synapse works, part of an online course on the fundamentals of neuroscience

Quantum Computing

The Limits of Quantum Computers

Robotics

A* Algorithm: a great place to begin
A* Pages: super place to learn more
A* algorithm graphic interactive demo
A Gentle Introduction to ROS
Active Robots online shop
Anki, Jibo, and Kuri: what we can learn from social robots that didn't make it
Awarri "Our mission is to enable the development and adoption of advanced AI & Robotics technology on the African continent"
Awesome Robotics: a list of various books, courses and other resources for robotics
Beatbots, including Keepon Pro
Best Practices in Robotics Education IEEE RAS Women in Robotics Panel Discussion
Black in Robotics Building Community, Advocating for Diversity, Encouraging Accountability
Bullet Real-Time Physics Simulation
Cognitive Robotics Resources separate list of links
Black in Robotics Special Series at IROS 2020
EASE - Everyday Activity Science & Engineering: how human-scale manipulation tasks can be mastered by robotic agents
Elegoo robot car
Elegoo Tumbller
Franka Emika Robot
Haru: An Experimental Social Robot From Honda Research
Here’s why robots are actually going to increase human employment
Human-Robot Interaction - An Introduction An online textbook by C. Bartneck, T. Belpaeme, F. Eyssel, T. Kanda, M. Keijsers, and S. Šabanović
IEEE guide to the world of robots
Intrinsic a new Alphabet company dedicated to facilitating widespread deployment of robotics
iRobot Create 2
iRobot Create 3
Lynxmotion AL5D 4DOF Robot Arm
Makeblock robot kits
Maria Petrou's Ironing Robot Challenge
Meca500 robot arm
PARC - Pan-African Robotics Competition
Pathfinding in maps: graphic interactive demo of
Path planning with A* and RRT & RRT*
RoboHub All the latest news about robotics
Quanser QArm 4 dof
ROSA ONE Brain: a robotic platform to assist surgeons in planning and performing complex neurosurgical procedures in a minimally invasive manner
The Construct A Platform to Learn/Teach Robotics from Zero. Everything from robotics theory to ROS based robot programming
The No Excuses List Women Faculty in Robotics
The real cost of robotics
The Robotics Primer Workbook
Theseus Claude E. Shannon's 1950 maze-learning mouse robot

Software Engineering

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 your used to Subversion)
BSD vs. GPL

Trinity College Dublin

Computer Science: Then and Now in honour of Professor John Byrne.
The John Gabriel Byrne Computer Science Collection

Teamwork

The four stages of team development

Tutorials

A (Long) Peek into Reinforcement Learning
3Blue1Brown: The Essence of Calculus
Lisp Tutorial (Chapter 2 of ANSI Common Lisp by Paul Graham)
Automate the Boring Stuff: introduction to Python
Information Theory Primer
POMDPs for Dummies
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

MediaWiki and Redmine

MediaWiki Formatting Guide
Redmine Formatting Guide

Women in Science, Engineering, and Technology

10 Influential Women in Engineering
An object lesson on how not to think about women in science: Science: It's a Girl Thing ... 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 Robotics & Automation Society Women in Engineering (WiE) web page
IEEE Robotics & Automation Society - Women in Engineering (WiE) Dedicated website
IEEE Robotics & Automation Society - Women in Engineering (WiE) LinkedIn
International Women in Engineering Day
Levers in Heels Bringing visibility to African women in STEM
On the gender gap in technology (read the last four paragraphs if you're short of time)
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 - Grammar, Composition, Style

The Elements of Style
Thinking in Threes: The Power of Three in Writing
The Rule of Three in Writing
Seven tips from Ernest Hemingway on how to write fiction (also useful for writing theses)
Writing Numbers
SI Unit rules and style conventions
Punctuation rules: commas; also see Section 2 in The Elements of Style
Clear explanation of the difference between the gerund and the present participle, i.e. words ending in "-ing"
Rules of English Style by Drew McDermott
Example of good technical writing: Scientific Background: The Brain’s Navigational Place and Grid Cell System (pdf)
"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.
Oxford Spelling and why using "-ize" rather than "-ise" is correct, even in British English.

Writing - 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

Odds and Ends

100 Photos - The most influential images of all time
Apophenia
Breaking waves audio
Bubble-sort folk dance
Claude E. Shannon Founder of Information Theory
Complicated vs. Complex A Note on the Difference Between Complicated and Complex Social Systems by Roberto Poli
Covid-19 pandemic: Tracking the global coronavirus outbreak
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
Dilbert - The Knack
Divination by Program Committee
Emojipedia
Filing Rules for listing names beginning with Mc and Mac
Heilmeier's catechism for researchers
Ineffective Sorts
Kigali Master Plan 2020
MakerBeam very neat kits that use 1 cm and 1.5 cm extruded aluminium for building mechanical frames for any purpose
Merge-sort folk dance
Meta-analysis
Motion-triggered figure-ground segmentation
Opinion is the lowest form of knowledge ... the correct attribution to Bill Bullard, not Plato, and attribution to George Eliot of the highest: empathy
The Point Magazine
Reduce PDF File Size
Robert Frost: The Road Not Taken and how it is almost universally misunderstood
Rwenzori Trekking
PC2Paper Send Letters from the Internet
Revisiting Rwanda by Murray Shanahan
Ten words and phrases you should never use in IP contracts
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 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
Visual explanations
You Don't Get To Be Racist And Irish Imelda May's brilliant poem

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 [https://www.jstor.org/stable/42970324?seq=1#metadata_info_tab_contents Natural selection and the emergence of mind] Speech by Karl Popper about Charles Darwin <BR>
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Contents

Artificial Cognitive Systems

Artificial Intelligence

Cognitive Robotics

Computer Vision

Control

Cybernetics and System Dynamics

Cycling

Engineering Education

Emergence and Self-Organization

Fountain Pens

Graphs and Networks

Helping People in Need

History of Technology

Independent Component Analysis

Innovation and Entrepreneurship

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