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1 Africa
2 Art
3 Artificial Cognitive Systems
4 Artificial Intelligence
5 Autonomy
6 Cognitive Robotics
7 Computer Vision
8 Control
9 Copyright
10 Cybernetics and System Dynamics
11 Cycling
- 11.1 Articles
- 11.2 Bikes
- 11.3 Bike Maintenance
- 11.4 Bike Shops
- 11.5 Equipment and Kit
- 11.6 Events and Routes
- 11.7 Guides and Rentals
- 11.8 Nutrition
- 11.9 Organizations
- 11.10 Services
12 Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
13 Engineering Education
14 Engineering Mathematics
15 Free Energy Principle and Active Inference
16 Fountain Pens
17 Graphs and Networks
18 Helping People in Need
19 History of Technology
20 Information Theory
21 Innovation and Entrepreneurship
22 Ireland
23 LaTeX
24 Lisp
25 Mac
26 Machine Learning
27 Neuroscience
28 Quantum Computing
29 Robotics
30 Self-Organization and Emergence
31 Software Engineering
32 Trinity College Dublin
33 Tutorials
34 Women in Science, Engineering, and Technology
35 Writing
36 The Benefits of Taking Handwritten Notes
37 Odds and Ends

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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 (list of links)
IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Technical Committee for Cognitive Robotics

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

Articles

Cycling About with great articles
The Rules
Most People Don't Know How Bikes Work (and the need to counter-steer; see also this article on gyroscopic precession)

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

Unpacking Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

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

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

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
A Short Guide to Sharing Pronouns for Trans Allies
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
Riverdance
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-title 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 Intertwine Charter: Going beyond anti-discrimination and towards pro-active change to welcome others
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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 == Self-Organization and Emergence ==