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=== Artificial Cognitive Systems ===
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== Artificial Cognitive Systems ==
  
[[Artificial Cognitive Systems]] (list of links)
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[[Artificial Cognitive Systems]] (a separate list of links)
  
=== Artificial Intelligence ===
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== Artificial Intelligence ==
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(Also see [[#Machine_Learning|Machine Learning]] and [[#Robotics|Robotics]])
  
[https://ai-4-all.org/ AI4ALL]<BR>
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=== Origins ===
[http://AI4K12.org AI4K12]<BR>
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[https://ojs.aaai.org//index.php/aimagazine/article/view/1904 A Proposal for the Dartmouth Summer Research Project on Artificial Intelligence, August 31, 1955] <BR>
[https://www.muhai.org/blog/12-artificial-intelligence/12-ai-at-a-crossroads AI at a Crossroads]<BR>
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[https://ojs.aaai.org//index.php/aimagazine/article/view/950 Foundations and Grand Challenges of Artificial Intelligence: AAAI Presidential Address] Raj Reddy (1988) <BR>
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[https://www.forbes.com/sites/gilpress/2020/04/27/12-ai-milestones-4-mycin-an-expert-system-for-infectious-disease-therapy/?sh=28c9fe6676e5 MYCIN expert system for infectious disease therapy] A milestone in AI <BR>
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[http://www.shortliffe.net/Buchanan-Shortliffe-1984/MYCIN%20Book.htm MYCIN Book] <BR>
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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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[[File:new.jpg]] [https://rintintin.colorado.edu/~vancecd/phil201/Searle.pdf The Chinese Room]<BR>
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=== AI in Society ===
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[https://www.ai-fora.de/about/ AI FORA - AI for Assessment] <BR>
 
[https://ai4good.org/ AI for Good Foundation]<BR>
 
[https://ai4good.org/ AI for Good Foundation]<BR>
 
[https://aiforgood.itu.int/ AI for Good Global Summit]<BR>
 
[https://aiforgood.itu.int/ AI for Good Global Summit]<BR>
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[[AI in Europe]]<BR>
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[http://www.vernon.eu/AIML03.htm Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in Africa]<BR>
 
[[Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, and Machine Learning in Africa]]<BR>
 
[[Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, and Machine Learning in Africa]]<BR>
[[File:new.jpg]] [[AI in Europe]]<BR>
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[https://blackinai.github.io/#/ Black in AI]  <BR>
[[File:new.jpg]] [https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/jun/06/microsofts-kate-crawford-ai-is-neither-artificial-nor-intelligent "AI is neither artificial nor intelligent"] Interview with Kate Crawford, author of [https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300209570/atlas-ai Atlas of AI] <BR>
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[https://www.cooperativeai.com/ Cooperative AI] Foundation <BR>
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[[File:new.jpg]] [https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fcomp.2023.1210421/full From fear to action: AI governance and opportunities for all] Frontiers in Computer Science Opinion Article <BR>
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[[File:new.jpg]] [https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00146-023-01694-1 Human-centric AI: philosophical and community-centric considerations] featuring Ubuntu philosophy and  maximum feasible participation <BR>
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[https://oecd.ai/dashboards OECD National AI policies & strategies]<BR>
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[https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2016/01/the-fourth-industrial-revolution-what-it-means-and-how-to-respond/ The Fourth Industrial Revolution - what it means and how to respond]<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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[https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-019-14108-y The role of artificial intelligence in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals] Nature Communications (2020) <BR>
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[https://www.humane-ai.eu/event/tutorial-2020-legal-protection-by-design/ Video Tutorial 2020 Legal Protection by Design] Mireille Hildebrandt, Vrije Universiteit Brussel & [https://www.humane-ai.eu/ HumanE-AI-net] <BR>
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[https://www.humane-ai.eu/event/tutorial-2021-ai-act/ Video Tutorial 2021 AI Act]Mireille Hildebrandt, Vrije Universiteit Brussel & [https://www.humane-ai.eu/ HumanE-AI-net] <BR>
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[https://ec.europa.eu/info/sites/info/files/commission-white-paper-artificial-intelligence-feb2020_en.pdf White Paper on Artificial Intelligence] from the European Commission <BR>
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=== AI in Business ===
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[https://landing.ai/resources/ai-transformation-playbook/ AI Transformation Playbook] <BR>
 
[https://hbr.org/2018/01/artificial-intelligence-for-the-real-world Artificial Intelligence for the Real World] A Harvard Business Review perspective on using artificial cognitive capabilities in business<BR>
 
[https://hbr.org/2018/01/artificial-intelligence-for-the-real-world Artificial Intelligence for the Real World] A Harvard Business Review perspective on using artificial cognitive capabilities in business<BR>
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[https://hbr.org/2019/02/how-to-choose-your-first-ai-project How to choose your first AI project] Andrew Ng in Harvard Business Review 2019 <BR>
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[https://www.pwc.com/gx/en/issues/analytics/assets/pwc-ai-analysis-sizing-the-prize-report.pdf Sizing the prize What's the real value of AI for your business and how can you capitalise?] PWC report <BR>
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=== AI Education ===
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[https://ai-4-all.org/ AI4ALL]<BR>
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[http://AI4K12.org AI4K12]<BR>
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[https://www.firstinspires.org/ FIRST: A global robotics community preparing young people for the future]<BR>
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[https://courses.minnalearn.com/ MinnaLearn] Three popular courses: Elements of AI, Building AI, and AI for Built Environment<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]<BR>
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[https://wiki.pathmind.com/ The Artificial Intelligence Wiki] A Beginner’s Guide to Important Topics in AI, Machine Learning, and Deep Learning. <BR>
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=== Evolution of AI ===
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[https://aiindex.stanford.edu/ The AI Index] Stanford University.<BR>
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[https://www.muhai.org/blog/12-artificial-intelligence/12-ai-at-a-crossroads AI at a Crossroads.]<BR>
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[https://www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/ganeshm/GrandChallengesAIMagazineSpring2021.pdf  Artificial Intelligence’s Grand Challenges: Past, Present, and Future] Ganesh Mani (2021). <BR>
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[http://www.vernon.eu/AIML01.htm Artificial Intelligence - Past, Present, and Future.]<BR>
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[https://hdsr.mitpress.mit.edu/pub/wot7mkc1/release/9 Artificial Intelligence — The Revolution Hasn’t Happened Yet] by Michael I. Jordan, with commentaries.<BR>
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[https://arxiv.org/pdf/2012.08630.pdf Cooperative AI] Open Problems. <BR>
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[[file:new.jpg]] [https://spectrum.ieee.org/ai-and-psychology-researchers-debate-the-future-of-deep-learning Will the Future of AI Learning Depend More on Nature or Nurture?] Yann LeCun and Gary Marcus debate <BR>
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=== Limitations of AI ===
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(But also see [[#Large_Language_Models|Large Language Models]] and [[#Vision-Language-Action_Models|Vision-Language-Action Models]])
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[https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/jun/06/microsofts-kate-crawford-ai-is-neither-artificial-nor-intelligent "AI is neither artificial nor intelligent"] Interview with Kate Crawford, author of [https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300209570/atlas-ai Atlas of AI] <BR>
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[https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/1045339.1045340 Artificial Intelligence Meets Natural Stupidity] Drew McDermott's old (1974) but still relevant plea for more critical self-appraisal by AI researchers (see, especially, the last section "Benediction").<BR>
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[https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/dec/31/ai-assisted-plagiarism-chatgpt-bot-says-it-has-an-answer-for-that AI-assisted plagiarism? ChatGPT bot says it has an answer for that] - ChatGPT: '''"It looks like a confident bullshitter that can write very convincing nonsense".''' <BR>
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[[File:new.jpg]] [https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/jan/03/botshit-generative-ai-imminent-threat-democracy Beware the ‘botshit’: why generative AI is such a real and imminent threat to the way we live]<BR>
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[https://medium.com/@chiayewken/mistakes-of-microsofts-new-bing-can-chatgpt-like-generative-models-guarantee-factual-accuracy-5ec82a7453f4 Can ChatGPT-like Generative Models Guarantee Factual Accuracy? On the Mistakes of Microsoft’s New Bing]<BR>
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[https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/can-computers-learn-common-sense Can computers learn common sense?] <BR>
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[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1kDSERnROv5FgHbVN8z_bXH9gak2IXRtoqz0nwhrviCw/edit#gid=1302320625 ChatGPT/LLM Errors]<BR>
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[[File:new.jpg]] [https://emaggiori.com/chatgpt-fails/ ChatGPT fails]<BR>
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[https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/feb/26/chatgpt-generated-crochet-pattern-results Crochet enthusiasts asked ChatGPT for patterns. The results are ‘cursed’]<BR>
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[https://github.com/ErnestDavis/LLM-Failures/wiki Ernest Davis LLM-Failures wiki]<BR>
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[https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fcomp.2023.1210421/full From fear to action: AI governance and opportunities for all] Frontiers in Computer Science Opinion Article <BR>
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[https://hai.stanford.edu/news/how-trustworthy-are-large-language-models-gpt How Trustworthy Are Large Language Models Like GPT?] Stanford University Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence<BR>
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[https://github.com/giuven95/chatgpt-failures LLM failure archive (ChatGPT and beyond)]<BR>
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[https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/apr/01/misinformation-mistakes-and-the-pope-in-a-puffer-what-rapidly-evolving-ai-can-and-cant-do Misinformation, mistakes and the Pope in a puffer: what rapidly evolving AI can – and can’t – do] <BR>
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[http://jmc.stanford.edu/artificial-intelligence/reviews/haugeland.html Review of John Haugland's "Artificial Intelligence: The Very Idea"] by John McCarthy <BR>
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[https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/jun/15/techscape-google-chatbot-lamda-sentient-artificial-intelligence TechScape: why you shouldn’t worry about sentient AI … yet] <BR>
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[https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/mar/16/the-stupidity-of-ai-artificial-intelligence-dall-e-chatgpt The Stupidity of AI] ChatGPT is "inherently stupid ... it has no relation to reality whatsoever."<BR>
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[https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/uKp6tBFStnsvrot5t/what-dall-e-2-can-and-cannot-do What DALL-E 2 can and cannot do] by LessWrong. Notice in the first image the physical implausibility of the mannequin fingers morphing into folds in the dress. <BR>
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[[File:new.jpg]] [https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/what-to-expect-when-youre-expecting What to Expect When You’re Expecting … GPT-4] by Gary Markus <BR>
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=== Ethics in AI ===
 
[https://www.ajl.org/ Algorithmic Justice League]  <BR>
 
[https://www.ajl.org/ Algorithmic Justice League]  <BR>
 
[https://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/en/news/assessment-list-trustworthy-artificial-intelligence-altai-self-assessment Assessment List for Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence for self-assessment]<BR>
 
[https://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/en/news/assessment-list-trustworthy-artificial-intelligence-altai-self-assessment Assessment List for Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence for self-assessment]<BR>
[https://blackinai.github.io/#/ Black in AI]  <BR>
 
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7s0CpRfyYp8 Daniel Wolpert TED Talk on the real reason for brains] <BR>
 
 
[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>
 
[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>
[https://www.elementsofai.com/ Elements of AI] Two courses: Introduction to AI and Building AI<BR>
 
 
[https://ec.europa.eu/newsroom/dae/document.cfm?doc_id=60419 Ethics Guidelines for Trustworthy AI] from the European Commission <BR>
 
[https://ec.europa.eu/newsroom/dae/document.cfm?doc_id=60419 Ethics Guidelines for Trustworthy AI] from the European Commission <BR>
 
[https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2016/10/top-10-ethical-issues-in-artificial-intelligence/ Ethical issues in AI] <BR>
 
[https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2016/10/top-10-ethical-issues-in-artificial-intelligence/ Ethical issues in AI] <BR>
[https://www.firstinspires.org/ FIRST: A global robotics community preparing young people for the future]<BR>
 
 
[https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsta.2018.0080 Governing artificial intelligence: ethical, legal and technical opportunities and challenges] <BR>
 
[https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsta.2018.0080 Governing artificial intelligence: ethical, legal and technical opportunities and challenges] <BR>
 
[https://clawar.org/conference-proceedings/icres-conference/  International Conference on Robot Ethics and Standards ICRES]<BR>
 
[https://clawar.org/conference-proceedings/icres-conference/  International Conference on Robot Ethics and Standards ICRES]<BR>
[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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[https://www.humane-ai.eu/event/tutorial-2020-legal-protection-by-design/ Video Tutorial 2020 Legal Protection by Design] Mireille Hildebrandt, Vrije Universiteit Brussel & [https://www.humane-ai.eu/ HumanE-AI-net] <BR>
[https://oecd.ai/dashboards OECD National AI policies & strategies]<BR>
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[https://www.humane-ai.eu/event/tutorial-2021-ai-act/ Video Tutorial 2021 AI Act]Mireille Hildebrandt, Vrije Universiteit Brussel & [https://www.humane-ai.eu/ HumanE-AI-net] <BR>
[[File:new.jpg]] [https://www.pwc.com/gx/en/issues/analytics/assets/pwc-ai-analysis-sizing-the-prize-report.pdf Sizing the prize What's the real value of AI for your business and how can you capitalise?] PWC report <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]<BR>
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=== AI Applications and Resources ===
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[https://colab.research.google.com/?utm_source=scs-index Colab] from Google <BR>
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[https://openai.com/dall-e-2/ DALL·E 2] Text to image conversion using deep neural networks <BR>
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[https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2021/12/256930-digital-agriculture-for-small-scale-producers/fulltext Digital Agriculture for Small-Scale Producers: Challenges and Opportunities] CACM (2021) <BR>
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=== AI Science and Technology ===
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[http://agisi.org/Defs_intelligence.html Definitions of Artificial and Human Intelligence]<BR>
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[[File:new.jpg]] [https://dynamicfieldtheory.org/ Dynamic Field Theory] <BR>
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[https://researcher.watson.ibm.com/researcher/view_group.php?id=10897 IBM Neuro-Symbolic AI Workshop 2022] <BR>
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[https://ibm.github.io/neuro-symbolic-ai/events/ns-summerschool2022/ IBM Neuro-Symbolic AI Summer School] <BR>
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[[File:new.jpg]] [https://laion.ai/ LAION] Large-scale Artificial Intelligence Open Network <BR>
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[https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/jun/15/techscape-google-chatbot-lamda-sentient-artificial-intelligence LaMDA], Google natural language foundation model  <BR>
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[https://arxiv.org/pdf/2012.05876.pdf Neurosymbolic AI: The Third Wave] <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>
 
[https://www.aaai.org/Magazine/Watson/watson.php The AI behind Watson]<BR>
 
[https://www.aaai.org/Magazine/Watson/watson.php The AI behind Watson]<BR>
[[File:new.jpg]] [https://wiki.pathmind.com/ The Artificial Intelligence Wiki] A Beginner’s Guide to Important Topics in AI, Machine Learning, and Deep Learning. <BR>
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[[File:new.jpg]] [https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2023/02/what-is-chatgpt-doing-and-why-does-it-work/ What Is ChatGPT Doing ... and Why Does It Work?] (and a lot more besides) by Stephen Wolfram<BR>
[https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2016/01/the-fourth-industrial-revolution-what-it-means-and-how-to-respond/ The Fourth Industrial Revolution - what it means and how to respond]<BR>
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[https://www.darpa.mil/program/explainable-artificial-intelligence XAI] Explainable Artificial Intelligence <BR>
[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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[https://ec.europa.eu/info/sites/info/files/commission-white-paper-artificial-intelligence-feb2020_en.pdf White Paper on Artificial Intelligence] from the European Commission <BR>
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[https://medium.com/syncedreview/yann-lecun-cake-analogy-2-0-a361da560dae Yann LeCun Cake Analogy 2.0] <BR>
 
[https://medium.com/syncedreview/yann-lecun-cake-analogy-2-0-a361da560dae Yann LeCun Cake Analogy 2.0] <BR>
  
=== Cognitive Robotics ===
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== Cognitive Robotics ==
  
[[Cognitive Robotics Resources]] (list of links)
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[[Cognitive Robotics Resources]] (list of links) <BR>
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[http://www.ieee-coro.org IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Technical Committee for Cognitive Robotics] <BR>
  
=== Computer Vision ===
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== Computer Vision ==
 
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1F5ICP9SYLU 2-Dimensional Motion Perception] in humans; seminal video from the 1970s. <BR>
 
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1F5ICP9SYLU 2-Dimensional Motion Perception] in humans; seminal video from the 1970s. <BR>
 
[http://cs231n.github.io/ Andrej Karpathy's course CS231n Convolutional Neural Networks for Visual Recognition] <BR>
 
[http://cs231n.github.io/ Andrej Karpathy's course CS231n Convolutional Neural Networks for Visual Recognition] <BR>
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[[File:new.jpg]] [https://openmv.io/products/openmv-cam-h7-r2 OpenMV camera] <BR>
 
[[File:new.jpg]] [https://openmv.io/products/openmv-cam-h7-r2 OpenMV camera] <BR>
 
[https://opensource.googleblog.com/2016/10/introducing-cartographer.html Cartographer] SLAM software from Google <BR>
 
[https://opensource.googleblog.com/2016/10/introducing-cartographer.html Cartographer] SLAM software from Google <BR>
[[File:new.jpg]] [https://authentic.sice.indiana.edu/publications/Su_Crandall-AffectiveGrowthCV-CVPR21.pdf The Affective Growth of Computer Vision] <BR>
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[https://authentic.sice.indiana.edu/publications/Su_Crandall-AffectiveGrowthCV-CVPR21.pdf The Affective Growth of Computer Vision] <BR>
 
[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>
 
[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>
 
[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>
 
[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>
 
[https://pjreddie.com/darknet/yolo/ YOLO: Real-Time Object Detection] <BR>
 
[https://pjreddie.com/darknet/yolo/ YOLO: Real-Time Object Detection] <BR>
  
=== Control ===
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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]
 
[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]
  
=== Cybernetics and System Dynamics ===
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== Copyright ==
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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 ==
 
[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>
 
[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>
[http://www.rossashby.info/index.html The W. Ross Ashby Digital Archive] <BR>
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[https://davidwolpert.weebly.com/ David Wolpert's website]<BR>
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[[File:new.jpg]] [https://dynamicfieldtheory.org Dynamic Field Theory]<BR>
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[[File:new.jpg]] [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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[[File:new.jpg]] [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>
 
[http://www.systemdynamics.org/ System Dynamics Society] <BR>
[https://davidwolpert.weebly.com/ David Wolpert's website]<BR>
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[http://www.rossashby.info/index.html W. Ross Ashby Digital Archive] <BR>
[[File:new.jpg]] [https://www.jstor.org/stable/42970324?seq=1#metadata_info_tab_contents Natural selection and the emergence of mind]
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=== Cycling ===
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== Cycling ==
  
[http://bit.ly/18aojnb Biking in Rwanda] Kaspar Kundert's book with 89 well-documented tracks.
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=== Articles ===
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[https://www.cyclingabout.com/ Cycling About] with great articles <BR>
[http://bit.ly/1xUx8q0 View the elevation profiles of the documented tracks]
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[http://www.velominati.com/the-rules/ The Rules] <BR>
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[http://bit.ly/1Jk1smH Download the GPX files]
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=== Bikes ===
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[http://www.enigmabikes.com/ Enigma Bicycle Works] <BR>
[http://bit.ly/1Bd2TQ4  Find a Bike Route in Rwanda]
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[https://www.storck-bikes.com/en Storck Bikes] <BR>
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[http://www.racearoundrwanda.com/ Race around Rwanda] with an alternative non-competitive Journey around Rwanda
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=== Bike Maintenance ===
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[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDk9sp5xRkA Crank & Bearing Removal and Installation - Campagnolo® Ultra-Torque™]<BR>
[[File:new.jpg]] [https://www.cyclingabout.com/ Cycling About] with great articles <BR>
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[https://www.bikeradar.com/advice/buyers-guides/the-complete-guide-to-bottom-bracket-standards/ The complete guide to bottom bracket standards] <BR>
 +
 
 +
=== Equipment and Kit ===
 +
[http://forum.ctc.org.uk/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=62500 Sturmey Archer S2C Duomatic] <BR>
 +
[http://www.musguard.com/#shop Musguard] <BR>
 +
[http://www.solestar.de/en/solestar-kontrol.html Carbonfibre-like Insoles] <BR>
 +
[http://www.thermosoles.eu/ Thermosoles] <BR>
 +
[http://www.assosfactoryoutlet.com/men/shorts/t-fi-uno-s5-black.html Assos Factory Outlet] <BR>
 +
[http://www.peterwhitecycles.com/studdedtires.asp Guide to studded bike tyres] <BR>
 +
[[File:new.jpg]] [https://www.dcrainmaker.com/2019/08/how-to-install-free-maps-on-your-garmin-edge.html How to install OpenStreetMap on your Garmin] <BR>
 +
[[File:new.jpg]] [https://biketestreviews.com/3003-2/ Rotor Q-Rings review]and [https://www.trainingbible.com/joesblog/2007/04/q-rings.html here] is what Joe Friel thinks of them <BR>
 +
 
 +
=== Events and Routes ===
 +
[https://outsider.ie/challenges/road-cycling-events-ireland/ 11 of the best cycling challenges in Ireland]<BR>
 +
[http://bit.ly/18aojnb Biking in Rwanda - Downloads and Interactive Maps] by Kaspar Kundert<BR>
 +
[[file:New.jpg]] [https://www.rollingexistence.com/routes/cycling-the-wild-atlantic-way/ Cycling the Wild Atlantic Way] by Rolling Resistance <BR>
 
[https://www.cyclocalendar.com/home Cyclo Calendar] <BR>
 
[https://www.cyclocalendar.com/home Cyclo Calendar] <BR>
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDk9sp5xRkA Crank & Bearing Removal and Installation - Campagnolo® Ultra-Torque™]
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[http://www.donegalcycleroute.ie/ Donegal Cycle Route]<BR>
 +
[https://en.eurovelo.com/ev1 EuroVelo 1 - Atlantic Coast Route] <BR>
 +
[http://www.gpsies.com/home.do#10_58.43263874789026_13.844833374023436_mapQuest GPSies Routes] including file format conversion, e.g. GPS to TCX. <BR>
 +
[http://www.sportcommunication.info/web2010/index.php?langue=2 Grand Trophee Cycling Events] <BR>
 +
[http://www.racearoundrwanda.com/ Race around Rwanda] with an alternative non-competitive Journey around Rwanda <BR>
 +
[[file:New.jpg]] [http://www.vernon.eu/The-Complete-Guide-to-the-Congo-Nile-Trail-Ebook.pdf The Complete Guide to the Congo Nile Trail Ebook] <BR>
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[[file:New.jpg]] [https://africageoportal.maps.arcgis.com/apps/MapJournal/index.html?appid=57bdc418eeab4cdf8d5b6b24a3e83600 The Congo Nile Trail] with satellite maps and elevation profiles for each stage. <BR>
 +
[[file:New.jpg]] [https://ruminationsfromrwanda.blog/2019/07/21/basic-kinyarwanda-for-the-congo-nile-trail-and-beyond/ Basic Kinyarwanda for the Congo Nile Trail and Beyond]<BR>
 +
[http://vatternrundan.se/ Vätternrundan in Sweden]<BR>
 +
 
 +
=== Guides and Rentals ===
 +
[http://www.corkbikerental.com/best-touring-bike-rentals-in-cork-ireland.php Cork Bike Rental] Ireland <BR>
 +
[[File:new.jpg]] [https://luccacyclingclub.com/ Lucca Cycling Club] Italy <BR>
 +
 
 +
=== Nutrition ===
 +
[http://www.mendosa.com/gilistold.htm Glycemic Index Lists] <BR>
 +
[https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3905295/ Regulation of Muscle Glycogen Repletion, Muscle Protein Synthesis and Repair Following Exercise] <BR>
 +
 
 +
=== Organizations ===
 +
[http://www.randonneurs.se/ Randonneurs Sverige] <BR>
 +
 
 +
== Engineering Education ==
 +
 
 +
[https://wholenewengineer.org/ A Whole New Engineer]: a different way to approach effective teaching and learning (watch the video) <BR>
 +
[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>
 +
[https://epiceducationfoundation.org/ Epic Education Foundation] <BR>
 +
[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>
 +
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VheNJF-5kXM Epic Challenge Lecture] by Charles Camarda  (video)<BR>
 +
[https://pandemicproof.world/modules/iced/introduction/ Epic Methodology] introduction to the Innovative Conceptual Engineering Design (ICED) methodology (text) <BR>
 +
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPQ3pXGoUFU Epic Methodology] introduction to the Innovative Conceptual Engineering Design (ICED) methodology (video) <BR>
 +
[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>
 +
[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>
 +
[https://revisionesg.wordpress.com/ Standards and Guidelines for Quality Assurance in the European Higher Education Area] <BR>
 +
[[File:New.jpg]] [https://www.usnews.com/education/best-graduate-schools/articles/engineering-schools-methodology Methodology: 2023-2024 Best Engineering Schools Rankings] <BR>
 +
 
 +
== Engineering Mathematics ==
 +
 
 +
[[File:new.jpg]] [https://linearalgebras.com/ten-best-linear-algebra-books.html The ten best linear algebra books]  
 
<BR>
 
<BR>
[https://www.storck-bikes.com/en Storck Bikes]
+
[http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~bapoczos/other_presentations/ICA_26_10_2009.pdf Introduction to Independent Component Analysis - Barnabás Póczos, University of Alberta]
 +
<br>
 +
[http://perso.telecom-paristech.fr/~cardoso/guidesepsou.html Blind Source Separation and Independent Component Analysis]
 +
<br>
 +
[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]
 +
<br>
 +
[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]
 
<BR>
 
<BR>
[https://www.bikeradar.com/advice/buyers-guides/the-complete-guide-to-bottom-bracket-standards/ The complete guide to bottom bracket standards]
+
[http://research.ics.aalto.fi/ica/fastica/ Fast ICA]
 
<BR>
 
<BR>
[https://outsider.ie/challenges/road-cycling-events-ireland/ 11 of the best cycling challenges in Ireland]
+
[http://tumic.wz.cz/fel/online/libICA/ FastICA C Implementation]
<BR>
+
[http://www.velominati.com/the-rules/ The Rules]
+
<BR>
+
[http://vatternrundan.se/ Vätternrundan in Sweden]
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<BR>
+
[http://www.treberg.se/ Tre Berg Sportive in Sweden ] & [https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?urp=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.treberg.se%2Ftre-berg-the-race%2F&mid=1dtwa1nigWNvnDUTVBYj8drRCa4A Map]
+
<BR>
+
[http://www.gpsies.com/home.do#10_58.43263874789026_13.844833374023436_mapQuest GPSies Routes] including file format conversion, e.g. GPS to TCX.
+
<BR>
+
[http://www.randonneurs.se/ Randonneurs Sverige]
+
<BR>
+
[http://www.enigmabikes.com/ Enigma Bicycle Works]
+
<BR>
+
[http://www.sportcommunication.info/web2010/index.php?langue=2 Grand Trophee Cycling Events]
+
<BR>
+
[http://forum.ctc.org.uk/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=62500 Sturmey Archer S2C Duomatic]
+
<BR>
+
[http://www.musguard.com/#shop Musguard]
+
<BR>
+
[http://www.solestar.de/en/solestar-kontrol.html Carbonfibre-like Insoles]
+
<BR>
+
[http://www.thermosoles.eu/ Thermosoles]
+
<BR>
+
[http://www.assosfactoryoutlet.com/men/shorts/t-fi-uno-s5-black.html Assos Factory Outlet]
+
<BR>
+
[http://www.peterwhitecycles.com/studdedtires.asp Guide to studded bike tyres]
+
<BR>
+
[http://firstendurance.com/carbohydrates-and-endurance-clearing-up-the-confusion/ Carbohydrates and Endurance]
+
<BR>
+
[http://www.mendosa.com/gilistold.htm Glycemic Index Lists]
+
<BR>
+
[https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3905295/ Regulation of Muscle Glycogen Repletion, Muscle Protein Synthesis and Repair Following Exercise]
+
<BR>
+
[http://www.corkbikerental.com/best-touring-bike-rentals-in-cork-ireland.php Cork Bike Rental] Ireland
+
 
+
=== Engineering Education ===
+
 
+
[[File:New.jpg]] [https://wholenewengineer.org/ A Whole New Engineer]: a different way to approach effective teaching and learning (watch the video) <BR>
+
[http://epltt.coe.uga.edu/index.php?title=Bloom%27s_Taxonomy Bloom's Taxonomy] <BR>
+
[https://revisionesg.wordpress.com/ Standards and Guidelines for Quality Assurance in the European Higher Education Area] <BR>
+
[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]
+
  
=== Emergence and Self-Organization ===
+
== Emergence and Self-Organization ==
  
 
[http://emergentpublications.com/ECO/about_eco.aspx Emergence: Complexity & Organization - An International Transdisciplinary Journal of Complex Social Systems] <BR>
 
[http://emergentpublications.com/ECO/about_eco.aspx Emergence: Complexity & Organization - An International Transdisciplinary Journal of Complex Social Systems] <BR>
[https://www.quantamagazine.org/20151119-life-is-information-adami/ The Information Theory of Life]
+
[https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-information-theory-of-life-20151119/ The Information Theory of Life] <BR>
 +
[[File:New.jpg]] [https://complexityexplained.github.io/ Complexity Explained]<BR>
 +
[[File:New.jpg]] [https://www.complexity-explorables.org/ Complexity Explorables] <BR>
  
=== Fountain Pens ===
+
== Fountain Pens ==
  
 
[http://www.parker51.com The Parker 51]
 
[http://www.parker51.com The Parker 51]
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[http://www.penhero.com/PenGallery/Sheaffer/SheafferInlaidNibs.htm The Evolution of the Sheaffer Inlaid Nib 1959-Present]
 
[http://www.penhero.com/PenGallery/Sheaffer/SheafferInlaidNibs.htm The Evolution of the Sheaffer Inlaid Nib 1959-Present]
  
=== Graphs and Networks ===
+
== Graphs and Networks ==
  
[[File:New.jpg]] [http://networksciencebook.com/ Network Science] by Albert-Laszalo Barabasi <BR>
+
[http://networksciencebook.com/ Network Science] by Albert-Laszalo Barabasi <BR>
[[File:New.jpg]] [https://barabasi.com/book/the-formula Other Books] by Albert-Laszalo Barabasi <BR>
+
[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]
  
=== Helping People in Need ===
+
== 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]
 
[http://www.vernon.eu/AfricanGLOTour2018.htm The GLO Africa Tour 2018]
  
=== History of Technology ===
+
== History of Technology ==
  
[http://files.righto.com/calculator/sinclair_scientific_simulator.html Reverse Engineering Sinclair's amazing 1974 calculator]
+
[http://files.righto.com/calculator/sinclair_scientific_simulator.html Reverse engineering Sinclair's amazing 1974 calculator]
  
=== Independent Component Analysis ===
+
== Innovation and Entrepreneurship ==
 
+
[http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~bapoczos/other_presentations/ICA_26_10_2009.pdf Introduction to Independent Component Analysis - Barnabás Póczos, University of Alberta]
+
<br>
+
[http://perso.telecom-paristech.fr/~cardoso/guidesepsou.html Blind Source Separation and Independent Component Analysis]
+
<br>
+
[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]
+
<br>
+
[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]
+
<BR>
+
[http://research.ics.aalto.fi/ica/fastica/ Fast ICA]
+
<BR>
+
[http://tumic.wz.cz/fel/online/libICA/ FastICA C Implementation]
+
 
+
=== 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]
  
=== Languages: Irish and Swedish ===
+
== [[File:new.jpg]] Ireland ==
  
[https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/irish-language Irish 101: An Introduction to Irish Language and Culture]
+
[https://outsider.ie/challenges/road-cycling-events-ireland/ 11 of the best cycling challenges in Ireland]<BR>
<BR>
+
[https://www.britishempire.co.uk/maproom/ireland.htm Ireland]: a history of British colonial rule in Ireland <BR>
[http://www.ielanguages.com/swedish1.html#subject Basic phrases in Swedish]
+
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRBMO6KaqS4&t=338s Allie Sherlock and Fionn Whelan sing Hallelujah on Grafton Street] <BR>
<BR>
+
[http://www.corkbikerental.com/best-touring-bike-rentals-in-cork-ireland.php Cork Bike Rental] Ireland <BR>
[http://folkets-lexikon.csc.kth.se/folkets/folkets.html Folkets Lexikon]
+
[[file:New.jpg]] [https://www.rollingexistence.com/routes/cycling-the-wild-atlantic-way/ Cycling the Wild Atlantic Way] by Rolling Resistance <BR>
<BR>
+
[http://www.donegalcycleroute.ie/ Donegal Cycle Route]<BR>
[https://www.duolingo.com/course/sv/en/Learn-Swedish-Online DuoLingo]
+
[https://en.eurovelo.com/ev1 EuroVelo 1 - Atlantic Coast Route] <BR>
=== LaTeX ===
+
[https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/irish-language Irish 101: An Introduction to Irish Language and Culture] <BR>
 +
[[file:New.jpg]] [http://www.vernon.eu/talks/Irish_Culture-CMU_2023.pdf Irish Culture] A short overview talk at CMU-Africa in 2023 <BR>
 +
[https://steemit.com/ireland/@donalfinn/whats-the-craic-in-ireland The Craic] <BR>
 +
[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>
 +
[https://epicchq.com/epic-story-behind-fairytale-of-new-york/ The EPIC untold story behind Fairytale of New York] <BR>
 +
[https://www.thewildatlanticway.com/ The Wild Atlantic Way]<BR>
 +
[https://www.wildatlanticwayonline.com/ The Wild Atlantic Way] Alternative Site<BR>
 +
[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>
 +
[https://www.discoverireland.ie/wild-atlantic-way/map The Wild Atlantic Way Map] by Discover Ireland <BR>
 +
[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>
 +
[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>
 +
[[file:New.jpg]] [https://www.rollingexistence.com/routes/cycling-the-wild-atlantic-way/ Cycling the Wild Atlantic Way] by Rolling Resistance <BR>
 +
[https://www.amazon.co.uk/Wild-Atlantic-Route-Guide-Atlas/dp/0955265592/ The Wild Atlantic Way Pocket Route Atlas] <BR>
 +
[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] Imelda May's brilliant poem <BR>
 +
 
 +
== 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>
 +
[[File:New.jpg]] [https://awesomeopensource.com/project/HarisIqbal88/PlotNeuralNet Plotneuralnet] Latex code for making neural networks diagrams <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>
 
[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>
 
[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>
 
[https://ctan.org/pkg/pgf?lang=en Drawing in LaTeX using TikZ] <BR>
 
[https://ctan.org/pkg/pgf?lang=en Drawing in LaTeX using TikZ] <BR>
 
[https://texample.net/tikz/ TikZ examples]<BR>
 
[https://texample.net/tikz/ TikZ examples]<BR>
[https://texample.net/tikz/examples/the-3dplot-package/ The 3D Plot package for TikZ]
+
[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>
 +
[[File:New.jpg]] [https://nasa.github.io/nasa-latex-docs/html/index.html NASA LaTeX Docs] with great examples and templates <BR>
 +
[[File:New.jpg]] [https://svenhartenstein.de/latex-vorlagen/creating-questionnaires-with-latex/ Creating questionnaires with LaTeX] from Sven Hartenstein <BR>
  
=== 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
 
<BR>
 
<BR>
[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]
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[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]
 
<BR>
 
<BR>
[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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[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>
 +
[[File:new.jpg]] [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>
 +
[[File:new.jpg]] [https://bnmcgn.github.io/lisp-guide/lisp-exploration.html Common Lisp REPL Exploration Guide]
  
=== Mac ===
+
== Mac ==
[[File:new.jpg]] [https://www.macworld.co.uk/how-to/drive-not-showing-mac-3613422/ How to troubleshoot an external drive]
+
 
 +
[https://www.macworld.co.uk/how-to/drive-not-showing-mac-3613422/ How to troubleshoot an external drive]
 
<br>
 
<br>
 
[https://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/macos-catalina-problems/ Common MacOS Catalina problems and how to fix them]
 
[https://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/macos-catalina-problems/ Common MacOS Catalina problems and how to fix them]
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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
 
<BR>
 
<BR>
[https://emacsformacosx.com/ Emacs or Mac OS X]
+
[https://emacsformacosx.com/ Emacs for Mac OS X]
 +
<BR>
 +
[https://candid.technology/photoanalysisd/ Disable photoanalysisd]
 +
<BR>
 +
[https://support.apple.com/en-gb/102605 Reset the SMC of your Mac]
 +
<BR>
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[[File:new.jpg]] [https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/how-to-type-letters-with-accents-on-mac/ How to Type Letters with Accents on Mac]
  
=== Machine Learning ===
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== Machine Learning ==
 +
(Also see [[#Artificial_Intelligence|Artificial Intelligence]] and [[#Robotics|Robotics]])
  
[https://medium.com/syncedreview/yann-lecun-cake-analogy-2-0-a361da560dae Yann LeCun Cake Analogy 2.0]; the slides from his ISCC talk are [https://twitter.com/ylecun/status/1097532314614034433 here] and the video of the talk is [http://isscc.org/2019-videos/ here]<BR>
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=== Bayesian Approaches ===
 +
[https://machinelearningmastery.com/introduction-to-bayesian-belief-networks/ A Gentle Introduction to Bayesian Belief Networks] <BR>
 +
 
 +
=== Books and Resources ===
 +
[https://acems.org.au/data-science-machine-learning-book-download Data Science and Machine Learning]; free book to download <BR>
 
[http://www.deeplearningbook.org/ Deep Learning] by Ian Goodfellow, Yoshua Bengio, and Aaron Courville <BR>
 
[http://www.deeplearningbook.org/ Deep Learning] by Ian Goodfellow, Yoshua Bengio, and Aaron Courville <BR>
[http://www.mbmlbook.com/index.html Model-based Machine Learning], co-authored by Chris Bishop<BR>
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[http://www.mbmlbook.com/index.html Model-based Machine Learning], co-authored by Chris Bishop, and the related [https://dotnet.github.io/infer/ Infer.NET] framework running Bayesian inference in graphical models<BR>
 
[https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Bishop-MBML-2012.pdf 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.<BR>
 
[https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Bishop-MBML-2012.pdf 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.<BR>
[https://acems.org.au/data-science-machine-learning-book-download Data Science and Machine Learning]; free book to download. <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>
 +
 
 +
=== Comparisons ===
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[[File:new.jpg]] [https://scikit-learn.org/stable/auto_examples/classification/plot_classifier_comparison.html Classifier Comparison] with instructive visualization <BR>
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[[File:new.jpg]] [https://www.wired.com/video/watch/5-levels-machine-learning Computer Scientist Explains Machine Learning in 5 Levels of Difficulty] <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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 +
=== Datasets ===
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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>
 +
 
 +
=== Deep Learning ===
 
[https://machinelearningmastery.com/what-is-deep-learning/ Deep Learning] overview <BR>
 
[https://machinelearningmastery.com/what-is-deep-learning/ Deep Learning] overview <BR>
 
[http://neuralnetworksanddeeplearning.com/ Neural Networks and Deep Learning] <BR>
 
[http://neuralnetworksanddeeplearning.com/ Neural Networks and Deep Learning] <BR>
[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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[[File:new.jpg]] [https://arxiv.org/pdf/1702.07800.pdf On the Origin of Deep Learning] Haohan Wang and Bhiksha Raj <BR>
[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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[http://yann.lecun.com/exdb/publis/pdf/lecun-98.pdf The original paper on the CNN] by Yann LeCun, Leon Bottio,  Yoshua Bengio, and Patrick Haffner <BR>
[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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=== Environments ===
[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://colab.research.google.com/?utm_source=scs-index Colab] from Google <BR>
[https://medium.com/@jonathan_hui/gan-gan-series-2d279f906e7b GAN Series]; comprehensive overview of Generative Adversarial 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>
 +
 
 +
=== Ethical Issues ===
 
[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>
 
[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>
 
[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>
 
[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>
[[File:new.jpg]] [https://www.asimovinstitute.org/neural-network-zoo/ Neural Network Zoo] from Fjodor van Veen, The Asimov Institute <BR>
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[https://www.gwern.net/Tanks#should-we-tell-stories-we-know-arent-true The Tank Story] <BR>
[[File:new.jpg]] [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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[[File:new.jpg]] [https://project.inria.fr/paiss/files/2018/07/zisserman-self-supervised.pdf Self-supervised Learning] Andrew Zisserman <BR>
+
  
=== Neuroscience ===
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=== Gaussian Processes ===
 +
[https://distill.pub/2019/visual-exploration-gaussian-processes/ Gaussian processes] - Visual exploration of Gaussian processes<BR>
 +
[http://www.infinitecuriosity.org/vizgp/ Gaussian processes] - Interactive Gaussian process visualization <BR>
 +
[http://gaussianprocess.org/gpml/ Gaussian processes] - Gaussian Processes for Machine Learning (Rasmussen and Williams, 2006)<BR>
 +
[https://www.cs.toronto.edu/~duvenaud/cookbook/ Gaussian processes] - The Kernel Cookbook: Advice on Covariance functions<BR>
 +
[https://towardsdatascience.com/an-intuitive-guide-to-gaussian-processes-ec2f0b45c71d Gaussian processes] - An intuitive guide to Gaussian processes <BR>
 +
[https://arxiv.org/pdf/2009.10862.pdf Gaussian processes] - An Intuitive Tutorial to Gaussian Processes Regression (Wang, 2022) <BR>
 +
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vGiHC35j9s Gaussian processes] - Introduction to Gaussian Processes Video Lecture (Nando de Freitas, 2013) <BR>
  
[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?]
+
=== Generative Adversarial Networks ===
<BR>
+
[https://medium.com/@jonathan_hui/gan-gan-series-2d279f906e7b GAN Series]; comprehensive overview of Generative Adversarial Networks<BR>
[[File:New.jpg]] Did you know that [https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK92864/#ch18_sec1 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]?
+
  
=== Quantum Computing ===
+
=== Large Language Models ===
 +
(Also see [[#Vision-Language-Action_Models|Vision-Language-Action Models]] and [[#Limitations_of_AI|Limitations of AI]])
  
[[File:new.jpg]] [https://www.cs.virginia.edu/~robins/The_Limits_of_Quantum_Computers.pdf The Limits of Quantum Computers]
+
[https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/sep/08/robot-wrote-this-article-gpt-3 A robot wrote this entire article. Are you scared yet, human?] GPT-3 <BR>
 +
[[file:New.jpg]] [https://hai.stanford.edu/news/how-trustworthy-are-large-language-models-gpt How Trustworthy Are Large Language Models Like GPT?] Stanford University Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence<BR>
 +
[https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/oct/19/music-lawsuit-ai-song-lyrics-anthropic Music publishers sue Amazon-backed AI company over song lyrics] <BR>
 +
[https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/jul/10/sarah-silverman-sues-openai-meta-copyright-infringement Sarah Silverman sues OpenAI and Meta claiming AI training infringed copyright] <BR>
 +
[https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/jun/15/techscape-google-chatbot-lamda-sentient-artificial-intelligence TechScape: why you shouldn’t worry about sentient AI … yet] <BR>
  
=== Robotics ===
+
=== Physics Informed Machine Learning ===
[[File:new.jpg]] [https://robohub.org/ RoboHub] All the latest news about robotics
+
[[File:new.jpg]] [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JoFW2uSd3Uo High Level Overview of AI and ML in Science and Engineering] <BR>
<BR>
+
[[File:new.jpg]] [https://blackinrobotics.org/ Black in Robotics] Building Community, Advocating for Diversity, Encouraging Accountability
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<BR>
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[[File:new.jpg]] [https://robohub.org/iros2020-black-in-robotics-special-series/ IROS 2020 Black in Robotics Special Series]
+
<BR>
+
[[File:new.jpg]] [https://github.com/Kiloreux/awesome-robotics Awesome Robotics]: a list of various books, courses and other resources for robotics
+
<BR>
+
[[Cognitive Robotics Resources]] (separate list of links)
+
<BR>
+
[[File:new.jpg]] [https://www.awarri.com/ Awarri] "Our mission is to enable the development and adoption of advanced AI & Robotics technology on the African continent"
+
<BR>
+
[https://robots.ieee.org/ IEEE guide to the world of robots]
+
<BR>
+
[https://ieeetv.ieee.org/channels/wie/ieee-ras-women-in-robotics-panel-discussion Best Practices in Robotics Education] IEEE RAS Women in Robotics Panel Discussion
+
<BR>
+
[http://www.theconstructsim.com/ The Construct] ... "Everything about Robotics with ROS is here"
+
<BR>
+
[https://www.franka.de/ The Franka Emika Robot]
+
<BR>
+
[https://www.mecademic.com/ Meca500 robot arm]
+
<BR>
+
[https://www.robotshop.com/en/lynxmotion-al5b-4-degrees-of-freedom-robotic-arm-combo-kit-no-software.html Lynxmotion AL5B 4DOF Robot Arm]
+
<BR>
+
[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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<BR>
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[https://www.anki.com/en-us/cozmo Cozmo robot] from Anki
+
<BR>
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[https://www.anki.com/en-us/vector Vector robot] from Anki
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<BR>
+
[https://forums.anki.com/login Anki Developer Forum] for the Cozmo robot
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<BR>
+
[https://www.active-robots.com/ Active Robots] online shop
+
<BR>
+
[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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<BR>
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[http://parcrobotics.org/ PARC - Pan-African Robotics Competition]
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<BR>
+
[https://ease-crc.org/ EASE - Everyday Activity Science & Engineering]: how human-scale manipulation tasks can be mastered by robotic agents
+
<BR>
+
[https://www.cse.sc.edu/~jokane/agitr/ A Gentle Introduction to ROS]
+
<BR>
+
[[File:new.jpg]] [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QR3U1dgc5RE  Path planning with A* and RRT & RRT*] <BR>
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[https://pybullet.org/wordpress/ Bullet Real-Time Physics Simulation]
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<BR>
+
[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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<BR>
+
[https://www.theconstructsim.com/ The Construct] A Platform to Learn/Teach Robotics from Zero. Everything from robotics theory to ROS based robot programming
+
<BR>
+
[http://www.commsp.ee.ic.ac.uk/~mcpetrou/V19N4O97.htm Maria Petrou's Ironing Robot Challenge]
+
<BR>
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[https://www.human-robot-interaction.org/ Human-Robot Interaction - An Introduction] An online textbook by C. Bartneck, T. Belpaeme, F. Eyssel, T. Kanda, M. Keijsers, and S. Šabanović
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<BR>
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[http://roboticsprimer.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Main_Page The Robotics Primer Workbook]
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<BR>
+
[https://blog.x.company/introducing-intrinsic-1cf35b87651 Intrinsic] a new Alphabet company dedicated to facilitating widespread deployment of robotics
+
<BR>
+
[https://www.kevanahlquist.com/osm_pathfinding/ Graphic interactive demo of pathfinding in maps]
+
<BR>
+
[https://www.growingwiththeweb.com/projects/pathfinding-visualiser/ Graphic interactive demo of the A* algorithm]
+
<BR>
+
[https://www.redblobgames.com/pathfinding/a-star/introduction.html Introduction to the A* Algorithm]: a great place to begin
+
<BR>
+
[http://theory.stanford.edu/~amitp/GameProgramming/ Amit's A* Pages]: super place to learn more
+
<BR>
+
[[File:new.jpg]] [https://store.makeblock.com/ Makeblock] robot kits
+
<BR>
+
[[File:new.jpg]] [https://beatbots.net Beatbots], including Keepon Pro
+
  
=== Software Engineering ===
+
=== Recurrent Neural Networks ===
 +
[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>
 +
[https://developer.ibm.com/tutorials/iot-deep-learning-anomaly-detection-1/ Introducing Deep Learning and Long Short-Term Memory Networks]<BR>
 +
[https://www.bioinf.jku.at/publications/older/2604.pdf The original paper on the LSTM] by Sepp Hochreiter and Jurgen Schmidhuber <BR>
 +
[http://karpathy.github.io/2015/05/21/rnn-effectiveness/ The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Recurrent Neural Networks] <BR>
 +
[https://cs.stanford.edu/people/karpathy/ Andrej Karpathy]'s Blog <BR>
 +
[http://colah.github.io/posts/2015-08-Understanding-LSTMs/ Understanding LSTMs]<BR>
  
[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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=== Reinforcement Learning ===
<BR>
+
[https://lilianweng.github.io/posts/2018-02-19-rl-overview/ A (Long) Peek into Reinforcement Learning] <BR>
[http://www.joser.org/ Journal of Software Engineering for Robotics]
+
[https://bair.berkeley.edu/blog/2017/09/12/learning-to-optimize-with-rl/ Learning to Optimize with Reinforcement Learning] and learning to learn <BR>
<BR>
+
[https://arxiv.org/abs/1606.01885 Learning to Optimize] <BR>
[http://sereadings.blogspot.com.es/2011/05/10-quotes-from-david-parnas.html 10 Quotes from David Parnas]
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<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>
+
[https://ethics.acm.org/ ACM Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct]
+
<BR>
+
[https://ethics.acm.org/ ACM Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct] Official Repository
+
<BR>
+
[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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<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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[[File:new.jpg]] [https://blog.osteele.com/2008/05/my-git-workflow/ Oliver Steele's explanation of the Git data transport commands] (nice if your used to Subversion)
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<BR>
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[[File:new.jpg]] [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>
+
  
=== Trinity College Dublin ===
+
=== Self-Supervised Learning ===
 +
[https://project.inria.fr/paiss/files/2018/07/zisserman-self-supervised.pdf Self-supervised Learning] Andrew Zisserman <BR>
 +
[https://medium.com/syncedreview/yann-lecun-cake-analogy-2-0-a361da560dae Yann LeCun Cake Analogy 2.0]; the slides from his ISCC talk are
 +
[https://twitter.com/ylecun/status/1097532314614034433 here] and the video of the talk is [http://isscc.org/2019-videos/ here]<BR>
  
[https://scss.tcd.ie/news/item.php?id=143 Computer Science: Then and Now] in honour of Professor John Byrne.
+
=== Transformers ===
<BR>
+
[https://www.ai4europe.eu/research/research-bundles/multimodal-perception-and-interaction-transformers Multimodal Perception and Interaction with Transformers] HumanE-AI-Net Micro Project <BR>
[https://scss.tcd.ie/SCSSTreasuresCatalog/ The John Gabriel Byrne Computer Science Collection]
+
[http://crowley-coutaz.fr/jlc/Courses/ACAI2021/Multimodal-Transformer-Tutorial.html Multimodal Perception and Interaction with Transformers] Tutorial Presented at ACAI 2021 <BR>
 +
[http://crowley-coutaz.fr/jlc/HumanE-AI-Net/TransfomerMicroProject/TransformerTools.pdf Multimodal Perception and Interaction with Transformers] Research Tools<BR>
 +
[http://crowley-coutaz.fr/jlc/HumanE-AI-Net/TransfomerMicroProject/ReseachChallengesDataSets.pdf Multimodal Perception with Transformers] Research Challenges and Data Sets<BR>
 +
[https://jalammar.github.io/illustrated-transformer/ The Illustrated Transformer] by Jay Alammar <BR>
 +
 
 +
== Neuroscience ==
 +
 
 +
[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>
 +
[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>
 +
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OvVl8rOEncE How a synapse works], part of an online course on the fundamentals of neuroscience <BR>
 +
[[File:New.jpg]] [https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/apr/05/short-term-memory-illusions-study Human memory may be unreliable after just a few seconds]<BR>
 +
[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>
 +
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZh0A-lWSmY The Neuron] A video of Paul Anderson explaining the anatomy (structure) of the neuron <BR>
 +
 
 +
== Robotics ==
 +
(Also see [[#Artificial_Intelligence|Artificial Intelligence]] and [[#Machine_Learning|Machine Learning]])
 +
 
 +
=== Cognitive Robotics ===
 +
[https://www.ieee-ras.org/cognitive-robotics/ IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Technical Committee for Cognitive Robotics] <BR>
 +
[[Cognitive Robotics Resources]] separate list of links <BR>
 +
 
 +
=== Competitions ===
 +
[http://parcrobotics.org/ PARC - Pan-African Robotics Competition] <BR>
 +
 
 +
=== Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion ===
 +
[https://ieeetv.ieee.org/channels/wie/ieee-ras-women-in-robotics-panel-discussion Best Practices in Robotics Education] IEEE RAS Women in Robotics Panel Discussion <BR>
 +
[https://blackinrobotics.org/ Black in Robotics] Building Community, Advocating for Diversity, Encouraging Accountability <BR>
 +
[https://robohub.org/iros2020-black-in-robotics-special-series/ Black in Robotics Special Series at IROS 2020 ] <BR>
 +
[https://sites.google.com/andrew.cmu.edu/the-no-excuses-list/home The No Excuses List] Women Faculty in Robotics <BR>
 +
[[File:new.jpg]] [https://www.womeninrobotics.org/ Women in Robotics] <BR>
 +
 
 +
=== Featured Robots ===
 +
[https://beatbots.net Beatbots], including Keepon Pro <BR>
 +
[https://www.elegoo.com/products/elegoo-smart-robot-car-kit-v-4-0 Elegoo robot car] <BR>
 +
[https://www.elegoo.com/collections/robot-kits/products/elegoo-tumbller-self-balancing-robot-car Elegoo Tumbller] <BR>
 +
[https://www.hardware-x.com/article/S2468-0672(20)30026-2/fulltext Eva: facially expressive humanoid robotic head] and [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0OtEKPKdVaI demonstration video]<BR>
 +
[https://www.franka.de/ Franka Emika Robot] <BR>
 +
[https://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/home-robots/haru-an-experimental-social-robot-from-honda-research Haru: An Experimental Social Robot From Honda Research] <BR>
 +
[https://edu.irobot.com/what-we-offer/create-robot iRobot Create 2] <BR>
 +
[https://edu.irobot.com/create3 iRobot Create 3] <BR>
 +
[https://www.robotshop.com/en/lynxmotion-al5d-4-degrees-of-freedom-robotic-arm-combo-kit-no-software.html Lynxmotion AL5D 4DOF Robot Arm] <BR>
 +
[https://store.makeblock.com/ Makeblock] robot kits <BR>
 +
[https://www.mecademic.com/ Meca500 robot arm] <BR>
 +
[https://www.quanser.com/products/qarm/ Quanser QArm] 4 dof <BR>
 +
[https://www.zimmerbiomet.com/en/products-and-solutions/zb-edge/robotics/rosa-brain.html# ROSA ONE Brain]: a robotic platform to assist surgeons in planning and performing complex neurosurgical procedures in a minimally invasive manner <BR>
 +
 
 +
=== Industry ===
 +
[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] <BR>
 +
[https://www.awarri.com/ Awarri] "Our mission is to enable the development and adoption of advanced AI & Robotics technology on the African continent" <BR>
 +
[https://blog.x.company/introducing-intrinsic-1cf35b87651 Intrinsic] a new Alphabet company dedicated to facilitating widespread deployment of robotics <BR>
 +
[https://techcrunch.com/2016/03/27/the-real-cost-of-robotics/ The real cost of robotics] <BR>
 +
 
 +
=== Navigation ===
 +
[https://www.redblobgames.com/pathfinding/a-star/introduction.html A* Algorithm]: a great place to begin <BR>
 +
[http://theory.stanford.edu/~amitp/GameProgramming/ A* Pages]: super place to learn more <BR>
 +
[https://www.growingwiththeweb.com/projects/pathfinding-visualiser/  A* algorithm graphic interactive demo] <BR>
 +
[https://www.kevanahlquist.com/osm_pathfinding/ Pathfinding in maps]: graphic interactive demo of <BR>
 +
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QR3U1dgc5RE  Path planning with A* and RRT & RRT*] <BR>
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=== Origins ===
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[https://www.technologyreview.com/2018/12/19/138508/mighty-mouse/ Theseus] Claude E. Shannon's 1950 maze-learning mouse robot <BR>
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=== Research ===
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[https://ease-crc.org/ EASE - Everyday Activity Science & Engineering]: how human-scale manipulation tasks can be mastered by robotic agents <BR>
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[http://www.commsp.ee.ic.ac.uk/~mcpetrou/V19N4O97.htm Maria Petrou's Ironing Robot Challenge] <BR>
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=== Resources ===
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[https://github.com/Kiloreux/awesome-robotics Awesome Robotics]: a list of various books, courses and other resources for robotics  <BR>
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[[Cognitive Robotics Resources]] separate list of links <BR>
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[https://www.human-robot-interaction.org/ Human-Robot Interaction - An Introduction] An online textbook by C. Bartneck, T. Belpaeme, F. Eyssel, T. Kanda, M. Keijsers, and S. Šabanović  <BR>
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[https://robots.ieee.org/ IEEE guide to the world of robots] <BR>
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[https://robohub.org/ RoboHub] All the latest news about robotics <BR>
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[https://www.theconstructsim.com/ The Construct] A Platform to Learn/Teach Robotics from Zero. Everything from robotics theory to ROS based robot programming <BR>
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[http://roboticsprimer.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Main_Page The Robotics Primer Workbook] <BR>
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=== ROS ===
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[https://www.cse.sc.edu/~jokane/agitr/ A Gentle Introduction to ROS] <BR>
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=== Shops ===
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[https://www.active-robots.com/ Active Robots] online shop <BR>
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=== Simulators ===
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[https://pybullet.org/wordpress/ Bullet Real-Time Physics Simulation] <BR>
  
=== Teamwork ===
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=== Societal Impact and Ethics ===
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[https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2021/02/world-economic-forum-automation-create-jobs-employment-robots Here’s why robots are actually going to increase human employment] <BR>
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[[File:new.jpg]] [https://clawar.org/icres2023/ International Conference Series on Robot Ethics and Standards] <BR>
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[[File:new.jpg]] [https://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ukgwa/20210701125353/https://epsrc.ukri.org/research/ourportfolio/themes/engineering/activities/principlesofrobotics/ Principles of Robotics] <BR>
  
[http://apppm.man.dtu.dk/index.php/Four_Stages_of_Team_Development The four stages of team development]
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=== STEM Education ===
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[https://meetedison.com/ Edison] <BR>
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[https://www.wpi.edu/sites/default/files/docs/Offices/Dean-of-Engineering/Kenechukwu%20Mbanisi%20-%20Promoting%20Innovation%20in%20Rwanda%20through%20Robotics%20Education.pdf Promoting Innovation in Rwanda through Robotics Education] <BR>
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[https://www.create-learn.us/blog/stem-robotics/ STEM Robotics] <BR>
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[https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-319-57786-9 Robotics in STEM Education: Redesigning the Learning Experience] <BR>
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[https://tech.ed.gov/stem/ Nine dimensions of STEM learning that can be supported by digital technologies] [https://tech.ed.gov/files/2019/10/stem-innovation-spotlights-research-synthesis.pdf PDF Report] (2019) <BR>
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[https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10956-016-9628-2 Using Robotics and Game Design to Enhance Children’s Self-Efficacy, STEM Attitudes, and Computational Thinking Skills] (2016) <BR>
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[https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10798-015-9310-7 Experiential learning of electronics subject matter in middle school robotics courses] (2015) <BR>
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[https://www.shaperobotics.com/ Shape Robotics] Fable robot <BR>
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[https://www.kookaburra.com.au/robotics Robotics in Australian Schools] with extensive list of robot resources, including Sphero, Edison, Ozobot, Makeblock, Bee-bot, Tetrix, Botley, Blue-bot, Cozmo, Strawbees <BR>
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[https://tech-labs.com/products/stem-robotics-education Tech-Labs] STEM Robotics Education <BR>
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[https://www.steamconnection.org/ The Steam Connection] building the future, one robot at a time <BR>
  
=== Tutorials ===
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=== Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) ===
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[https://www.sustainablerobotics.org/ Sustainable Robotics] <BR>
  
[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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=== Vision-Language-Action Models ===
<BR>
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(Also see [[#Large_Language_Models|Large Language Models]] and [[#Limitations_of_AI|Limitations of AI]])
[http://schneider.ncifcrf.gov/paper/primer/ Information Theory Primer]
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[https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/uploads/prod/2023/02/ChatGPT___Robotics.pdf ChatGPT for Robotics: Design Principles and Model Abilities] Microsoft article <BR>
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[https://blog.research.google/2023/03/palm-e-embodied-multimodal-language.html PaLM-E: An embodied multimodal language model] <BR>
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[https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.06817 RT-1: Robotics Transformer for Real-World Control at Scale] arXiv article on RT-1 <BR>
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[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UuKAp9a6wMs Supplementary video for RT-1: Robotics Transformer for Real-World Control at Scale] Video<BR>
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[https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.15818 RT-2: Vision-Language-Action Models Transfer Web Knowledge to Robotic Control] arXiv article on RT-2<BR>
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[https://robotics-transformer2.github.io/ RT-2: Vision-Language-Action Models] RT-2 website <BR>
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[https://www.deepmind.com/blog/rt-2-new-model-translates-vision-and-language-into-action RT-2: New model translates vision and language into action] Google DeepMind Blog <BR>
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[[File:new.jpg]] [https://deepmind.google/discover/blog/scaling-up-learning-across-many-different-robot-types/ RT-X: Scaling up learning across many different robot types] <BR>
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[https://arxiv.org/abs/2204.01691 Do As I Can, Not As I Say: Grounding Language in Robotic Affordances] arXiv article on SayCan<BR>
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[https://say-can.github.io/ Do As I Can, Not As I Say: Grounding Language in Robotic Affordances] SayCan website <BR>
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[https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.08864 Open X-Embodiment: Robotic Learning Datasets and RT-X Models] arXiv article on Open X-Embodiment <BR>
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[https://robotics-transformer-x.github.io/ Open X-Embodiment: Robotic Learning Datasets and RT-X Models] Open X-Embodiment Website <BR>
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[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vq_DcZ_xc_E Using an LLM to direct our robot Digit] Agility Robotics video <BR>
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[[File:new.jpg]] [https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.07843 Foundation Models in Robotics: Applications, Challenges, and the Future] <BR>
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[[File:new.jpg]] [https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.00055 LEAP: LLM-Generation of Egocentric Action Programs]<BR>
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== Software Engineering ==
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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>
 +
[https://ethics.acm.org/ ACM Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct]<BR>
 +
[https://ethics.acm.org/ ACM Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct] Official Repository<BR>
 +
[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://scss.tcd.ie/news/item.php?id=143 Computer Science: Then and Now] in honour of Professor John Byrne.
 
<BR>
 
<BR>
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[https://scss.tcd.ie/SCSSTreasuresCatalog/ The John Gabriel Byrne Computer Science Collection]
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== Tutorials ==
 +
 +
[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://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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[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://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://schneider.ncifcrf.gov/paper/primer/ Information Theory Primer] <BR>
 
[http://cs.brown.edu/research/ai/pomdp/tutorial/index.html POMDPs for Dummies]
 
[http://cs.brown.edu/research/ai/pomdp/tutorial/index.html POMDPs for Dummies]
 
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[[File:new.jpg]] [https://jalammar.github.io/illustrated-transformer/ The Illustrated Transformer] by Jay Alammar
 
[[File:new.jpg]] [https://jalammar.github.io/illustrated-transformer/ The Illustrated Transformer] by Jay Alammar
  
=== MediaWiki and Redmine ===
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== Women in Science, Engineering, and Technology ==
  
[http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Formatting MediaWiki Formatting Guide]  
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[[File:new.jpg]] [https://www.asme.org/topics-resources/content/10-influential-women-in-engineering 10 Influential Women in Engineering] <BR>
<BR>
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An object lesson on <span style="color:#FF0000">how <strong>not</strong> to think</span> about women in science: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMOqpxlW66E Science: It's a Girl Thing] ... so many stereotypes, so much bias, so very sad. <BR>
[http://www.redmine.org/projects/redmine/wiki/RedmineTextFormatting Redmine Formatting Guide]
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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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[[File:new.jpg]] [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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[[File:new.jpg]] [https://www.leversinheels.com/ Levers in Heels] Bringing visibility to African women in STEM <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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[[File:new.jpg]] [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>
  
=== Women in Computer Science ===
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== Writing - Grammar, Composition, Style ==
 
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[[File:new.jpg]] [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>
[http://rarlindseysmash.com/WiCVis/index.html Timeline of Women in Computing]
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[https://helenlewis.substack.com/p/the-bluestocking-on-writing The Bluestocking: On Writing] <BR>
<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>
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]
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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>
<BR>
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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?"] <BR>
[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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[http://orwell.ru/library/others/style/english/estyle The Elements of Style] <BR>
<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>
[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.amazon.com/Thinking-Threes-Power-Three-Writing/dp/1877673676 Thinking in Threes: The Power of Three in Writing]<BR>
<BR>
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[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_of_three_(writing) The Rule of Three in Writing]<BR>
[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)
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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)]<BR>
<BR>
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[https://www.grammarbook.com/numbers/numbers.asp Writing Numbers]<BR>
IEEE Robotics and Automation Society [https://www.ieee-ras.org/women-in-engineering Women in Engineering Group]
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[[File:new.jpg]] [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'' and (before noon) and ''post meridiem'' (after noon).<BR>
<BR>
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[[File:new.jpg]] [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prime_(symbol) Using the prime symbol to designate units]<BR>
[[File:new.jpg]] An object lesson on <span style="color:#FF0000">how <strong>not</strong> to think</span> about women in science: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMOqpxlW66E Science: It's a Girl Thing] ... so many stereotypes, so much bias, so sad.
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[https://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/checklist.html SI Unit rules and style conventions]<BR>
 
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===  Writing - Grammar, Composition, Style ===
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[http://orwell.ru/library/others/style/english/estyle The Elements of Style]
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<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]
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<BR>
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[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_of_three_(writing) The Rule of Three in Writing]
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<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 theses)]
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<BR>
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[[File:new.jpg]] [https://www.grammarbook.com/numbers/numbers.asp Writing Numbers]
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<BR>
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[https://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/checklist.html SI Unit rules and style conventions]
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<BR>
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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]
 
[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]
 
<BR>
 
<BR>
[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"
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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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[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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[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://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>
 +
[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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"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://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://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2008/06/text-of-j-k-rowling-speech/ Example of Inspirational Writing: the text of J. K. Rowling's "Very Good Lives"] - the [https://www.jkrowling.com/book/very-good-lives book] and the [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHGqp8lz36c Video]. <BR>
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[[File:new.jpg]] [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>
 
<BR>
[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>
 
[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])
 
<BR>
 
"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>
 
[[File:new.jpg]] [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxford_spelling Oxford Spelling] and why using "-ize" rather than "-ise" is correct, even in British English.
 
  
===  Writing - The Benefits of Taking Handwritten Notes ===
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==  Writing - The Benefits of Taking Handwritten Notes ==
  
[[File:new.jpg]] [https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0956797614524581 The Pen Is Mightier Than the Keyboard: Advantages of Longhand Over Laptop Note Taking]
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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>
<BR>
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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>
[[File:new.jpg]] [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]
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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>
<BR>
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... and on a related topic: <BR>
[https://www.psychologytoday.com/intl/blog/memory-medic/201303/why-writing-hand-could-make-you-smarter Why Writing by Hand Could Make You Smarter]
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[[File:new.jpg]] [https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2024/jan/17/kids-reading-better-paper-vs-screen Kids learn better on paper, not screens]
  
=== Odds and Ends ===
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== Odds and Ends ==
[http://100photos.time.com/ 100 Photos - The most influential images of all time] <BR>
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[https://www.boredpanda.com/top-100-world-photos-influential-all-time/ 100 Photos - The most influential images of all time]. The [http://100photos.time.com/  link to the original Time website] is broken<BR>
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[[File:new.jpg]] [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1IBtw-VZfhlWDYCcj8o00PP8bJQNxo6IARa4hYf5bASc/edit A Short Guide to Sharing Pronouns for Trans Allies] <BR>
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[https://web.archive.org/web/20130315075433/http://www.lhup.edu/~DSIMANEK/administ.htm Administratium] <BR>
 
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apophenia Apophenia] <BR>
 
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apophenia Apophenia] <BR>
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[https://batteryuniversity.com/ Battery University] <BR>
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[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCpXMy5GalI Bing Crosby & David Bowie] Peace on Earth / Little Drummer Boy duet <BR>
 
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dsDTJ__jioo Breaking waves audio] <BR>
 
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dsDTJ__jioo Breaking waves audio] <BR>
 
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lyZQPjUT5B4 Bubble-sort folk dance] <BR>
 
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lyZQPjUT5B4 Bubble-sort folk dance] <BR>
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[https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/claude-e-shannon-founder/ Claude E. Shannon] Founder of Information Theory <BR>
 
[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>  
 
[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>  
 
[https://www.bbc.com/news/world-51235105 Covid-19 pandemic: Tracking the global coronavirus outbreak] <BR>
 
[https://www.bbc.com/news/world-51235105 Covid-19 pandemic: Tracking the global coronavirus outbreak] <BR>
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[https://ideal.com/diversity-equity-inclusion/ Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion] <BR>
 
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dx6HojLBsnw Dilbert - The Knack] <BR>
 
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dx6HojLBsnw Dilbert - The Knack] <BR>
 
[https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2017/9/220429-divination-by-program-committee/fulltext Divination by Program Committee]  <BR>
 
[https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2017/9/220429-divination-by-program-committee/fulltext Divination by Program Committee]  <BR>
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[https://emojipedia.org/ Emojipedia] <BR>
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[https://libguides.ala.org/filing-rules Filing Rules] for listing names beginning with Mc and Mac <BR>
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[[File:new.jpg]] [https://www.zenefits.com/workest/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>
 
[https://www.darpa.mil/work-with-us/heilmeier-catechism Heilmeier's catechism for researchers] <BR>
 
[https://www.darpa.mil/work-with-us/heilmeier-catechism Heilmeier's catechism for researchers] <BR>
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[[File:new.jpg]] [https://spectrum.ieee.org/search/?q=history+of+technology History of Technology] articles from IEEE Spectrum <BR>
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[https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/16/opinion/jk-rowling-transphobia.html In Defense of J.K. Rowling] (and read [https://www.scotsman.com/arts-and-culture/books/jk-rowling-on-twitter-why-the-harry-potter-author-has-been-accused-of-transphobia-on-social-media-platforms-2877977 a full account of the controversy] by Rhona Shennan in the Scotsman)<BR>
 
[http://xkcd.com/1185/ Ineffective Sorts] <BR>
 
[http://xkcd.com/1185/ Ineffective Sorts] <BR>
[[File:new.jpg]] [https://masterplan2020.kigalicity.gov.rw/portal/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=218a2e3088064fc6b13198b4304f3d35/ Kigali Master Plan 2020]<BR>
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[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCNuPcf8L00 Julia Gillard's Misogyny Speech] <BR>
[[File:new.jpg]] [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://masterplan2020.kigalicity.gov.rw/portal/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=218a2e3088064fc6b13198b4304f3d35/ Kigali Master Plan 2020]<BR>
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[[File:new.jpg]] [https://www.lesswrong.com/ Less Wrong] A website dedicated to rationality. <BR>
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[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXlfXirQF3A Lobachevsky] by Tom Lehrer <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://www.markdownguide.org Markdown Guide]<BR>
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[http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Formatting MediaWiki Formatting Guide] <BR>
 
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XaqR3G_NVoo Merge-sort folk dance] <BR>
 
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XaqR3G_NVoo Merge-sort folk dance] <BR>
 
[https://xkcd.com/1447/ Meta-analysis] <BR>
 
[https://xkcd.com/1447/ Meta-analysis] <BR>
 
[http://ascienceenthusiast.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/eXr9rNa.gif Motion-triggered figure-ground segmentation] <BR>
 
[http://ascienceenthusiast.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/eXr9rNa.gif Motion-triggered figure-ground segmentation] <BR>
[http://thepointmag.com/ The Point Magazine] <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://slidehunter.com/ Slide Hunter] Free PowerPoint Presentation Templates<BR>
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[https://www.presentationgo.com/ Presentation Go] Free PowerPoint Presentation Templates <BR>
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[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tas0O586t80 Program in C] The Little Mermaid <BR>
 
[https://online2pdf.com/reduce-pdf-file-size# Reduce PDF File Size] <BR>
 
[https://online2pdf.com/reduce-pdf-file-size# Reduce PDF File Size] <BR>
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[[File:new.jpg]] [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.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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[[File:new.jpg]] [https://www.seatguru.com/airlines/RwandAir/RwandAir_WB_Airbus_A330-200.php RwandAir Airbus A330 Seat Plan]<BR>
 
[http://www.rwenzoritrekking.com/ Rwenzori Trekking] <BR>
 
[http://www.rwenzoritrekking.com/ Rwenzori Trekking] <BR>
 
[https://www.pc2paper.co.uk/ PC2Paper Send Letters from the Internet] <BR>
 
[https://www.pc2paper.co.uk/ PC2Paper Send Letters from the Internet] <BR>
 
[https://medium.com/@m.shanahan/revisiting-rwanda-60e3afec425 Revisiting Rwanda] by Murray Shanahan  <BR>
 
[https://medium.com/@m.shanahan/revisiting-rwanda-60e3afec425 Revisiting Rwanda] by Murray Shanahan  <BR>
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[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AXff6NYJ2ps Riverdance] <BR>
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[[File:new.jpg]] [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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[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HH6QD0MgqDQ Tactile Sensing] <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>
 
[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>
 
[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>
 
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sj8Sg8qnjOg The Golden Ratio] <BR>
 
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sj8Sg8qnjOg The Golden Ratio] <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>
 
[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>
 
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RG9TMn1FJzc The incredible ibex defies gravity and climbs a dam | Forces of Nature with Brian Cox - BBC] <BR>
 
[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://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>
 
[https://uxdesign.cc/the-knowns-and-unknowns-framework-for-design-thinking-6537787de2c5 The knowns and unknowns framework for design thinking] <BR>
 
[https://uxdesign.cc/the-knowns-and-unknowns-framework-for-design-thinking-6537787de2c5 The knowns and unknowns framework for design thinking] <BR>
[https://astrobob.areavoices.com/2018/12/24/250-at-f11-the-story-behind-the-apollo-8-earthrise-photo/ The story behind the Apollo 8 Earthrise photo] <BR>
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[https://www.cs.virginia.edu/~robins/The_Limits_of_Quantum_Computers.pdf The Limits of Quantum Computers]<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>
 
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/There_are_known_knowns There are known knowns] <BR>
 
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/There_are_known_knowns There are known knowns] <BR>
 
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REWeBzGuzCc Video of Donald Rumsfeld's famous use of the knowns and unknowns framework in 2002] <BR>
 
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REWeBzGuzCc Video of Donald Rumsfeld's famous use of the knowns and unknowns framework in 2002] <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://www.esa.int/Enabling_Support/Space_Transportation/Types_of_orbits Types of Orbit]<BR>
 
[http://setosa.io/#/ Visual explanations] <BR>
 
[http://setosa.io/#/ Visual explanations] <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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Contents

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Artificial Cognitive Systems

Artificial Cognitive Systems (a separate list of links)

Artificial Intelligence

(Also see Machine Learning and Robotics)

Origins

A Proposal for the Dartmouth Summer Research Project on Artificial Intelligence, August 31, 1955
Foundations and Grand Challenges of Artificial Intelligence: AAAI Presidential Address Raj Reddy (1988)
MYCIN expert system for infectious disease therapy A milestone in AI
MYCIN Book
Natural selection and the emergence of mind Speech by Karl Popper about Charles Darwin
New.jpg The Chinese Room

AI in Society

AI FORA - AI for Assessment
AI for Good Foundation
AI for Good Global Summit
AI in Europe
Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in Africa
Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, and Machine Learning in Africa
Black in AI
Cooperative AI Foundation
New.jpg From fear to action: AI governance and opportunities for all Frontiers in Computer Science Opinion Article
New.jpg Human-centric AI: philosophical and community-centric considerations featuring Ubuntu philosophy and maximum feasible participation
OECD National AI policies & strategies
The Fourth Industrial Revolution - what it means and how to respond
The rise of the deepfake and the threat to democracy
The role of artificial intelligence in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals Nature Communications (2020)
Video Tutorial 2020 Legal Protection by Design Mireille Hildebrandt, Vrije Universiteit Brussel & HumanE-AI-net
Video Tutorial 2021 AI ActMireille Hildebrandt, Vrije Universiteit Brussel & HumanE-AI-net
White Paper on Artificial Intelligence from the European Commission

AI in Business

AI Transformation Playbook
Artificial Intelligence for the Real World A Harvard Business Review perspective on using artificial cognitive capabilities in business
How to choose your first AI project Andrew Ng in Harvard Business Review 2019
Sizing the prize What's the real value of AI for your business and how can you capitalise? PWC report

AI Education

AI4ALL
AI4K12
FIRST: A global robotics community preparing young people for the future
MinnaLearn Three popular courses: Elements of AI, Building AI, and AI for Built Environment
Teaching AI to young people
The Artificial Intelligence Wiki A Beginner’s Guide to Important Topics in AI, Machine Learning, and Deep Learning.

Evolution of AI

The AI Index Stanford University.
AI at a Crossroads.
Artificial Intelligence’s Grand Challenges: Past, Present, and Future Ganesh Mani (2021).
Artificial Intelligence - Past, Present, and Future.
Artificial Intelligence — The Revolution Hasn’t Happened Yet by Michael I. Jordan, with commentaries.
Cooperative AI Open Problems.
New.jpg Will the Future of AI Learning Depend More on Nature or Nurture? Yann LeCun and Gary Marcus debate

Limitations of AI

(But also see Large Language Models and Vision-Language-Action Models)

"AI is neither artificial nor intelligent" Interview with Kate Crawford, author of Atlas of AI
Artificial Intelligence Meets Natural Stupidity Drew McDermott's old (1974) but still relevant plea for more critical self-appraisal by AI researchers (see, especially, the last section "Benediction").
AI-assisted plagiarism? ChatGPT bot says it has an answer for that - ChatGPT: "It looks like a confident bullshitter that can write very convincing nonsense".
New.jpg Beware the ‘botshit’: why generative AI is such a real and imminent threat to the way we live
Can ChatGPT-like Generative Models Guarantee Factual Accuracy? On the Mistakes of Microsoft’s New Bing
Can computers learn common sense?
ChatGPT/LLM Errors
New.jpg ChatGPT fails
Crochet enthusiasts asked ChatGPT for patterns. The results are ‘cursed’
Ernest Davis LLM-Failures wiki
From fear to action: AI governance and opportunities for all Frontiers in Computer Science Opinion Article
How Trustworthy Are Large Language Models Like GPT? Stanford University Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence
LLM failure archive (ChatGPT and beyond)
Misinformation, mistakes and the Pope in a puffer: what rapidly evolving AI can – and can’t – do
Review of John Haugland's "Artificial Intelligence: The Very Idea" by John McCarthy
TechScape: why you shouldn’t worry about sentient AI … yet
The Stupidity of AI ChatGPT is "inherently stupid ... it has no relation to reality whatsoever."
What DALL-E 2 can and cannot do by LessWrong. Notice in the first image the physical implausibility of the mannequin fingers morphing into folds in the dress.
New.jpg What to Expect When You’re Expecting … GPT-4 by Gary Markus

Ethics in AI

Algorithmic Justice League
Assessment List for Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence for self-assessment
Deep fakes: one element of the dark side of AI and ML
Ethics Guidelines for Trustworthy AI from the European Commission
Ethical issues in AI
Governing artificial intelligence: ethical, legal and technical opportunities and challenges
International Conference on Robot Ethics and Standards ICRES
Video Tutorial 2020 Legal Protection by Design Mireille Hildebrandt, Vrije Universiteit Brussel & HumanE-AI-net
Video Tutorial 2021 AI ActMireille Hildebrandt, Vrije Universiteit Brussel & HumanE-AI-net

AI Applications and Resources

Colab from Google
DALL·E 2 Text to image conversion using deep neural networks
Digital Agriculture for Small-Scale Producers: Challenges and Opportunities CACM (2021)

AI Science and Technology

Definitions of Artificial and Human Intelligence
New.jpg Dynamic Field Theory
IBM Neuro-Symbolic AI Workshop 2022
IBM Neuro-Symbolic AI Summer School
New.jpg LAION Large-scale Artificial Intelligence Open Network
LaMDA, Google natural language foundation model
Neurosymbolic AI: The Third Wave
Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming: Case Studies in Common Lisp open-source repository for the book by Peter Norvig (1992)
The AI behind Watson
New.jpg What Is ChatGPT Doing ... and Why Does It Work? (and a lot more besides) by Stephen Wolfram
XAI Explainable Artificial Intelligence
Yann LeCun Cake Analogy 2.0

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.
Egocentric vision resources
Head Eye Tracking
How to install OpenCV with pip
New.jpg Install OpenCV 3.4.4 on Ubuntu 16.04 (C++ and Python)
OpenCV Python example of contour features
New.jpg 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

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
New.jpg Dynamic Field Theory
New.jpg Developing Dynamic Field Theory Architectures for Embodied Cognitive Systems with cedar
Gordon Pask Archive
New.jpg 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

Bikes

Enigma Bicycle Works
Storck Bikes

Bike Maintenance

Crank & Bearing Removal and Installation - Campagnolo® Ultra-Torque™
The complete guide to bottom bracket standards

Equipment and Kit

Sturmey Archer S2C Duomatic
Musguard
Carbonfibre-like Insoles
Thermosoles
Assos Factory Outlet
Guide to studded bike tyres
New.jpg How to install OpenStreetMap on your Garmin
New.jpg Rotor Q-Rings reviewand here is what Joe Friel thinks of them

Events and Routes

11 of the best cycling challenges in Ireland
Biking in Rwanda - Downloads and Interactive Maps by Kaspar Kundert
New.jpg Cycling the Wild Atlantic Way by Rolling Resistance
Cyclo Calendar
Donegal Cycle Route
EuroVelo 1 - Atlantic Coast Route
GPSies Routes including file format conversion, e.g. GPS to TCX.
Grand Trophee Cycling Events
Race around Rwanda with an alternative non-competitive Journey around Rwanda
New.jpg The Complete Guide to the Congo Nile Trail Ebook
New.jpg The Congo Nile Trail with satellite maps and elevation profiles for each stage.
New.jpg Basic Kinyarwanda for the Congo Nile Trail and Beyond
Vätternrundan in Sweden

Guides and Rentals

Cork Bike Rental Ireland
New.jpg Lucca Cycling Club Italy

Nutrition

Glycemic Index Lists
Regulation of Muscle Glycogen Repletion, Muscle Protein Synthesis and Repair Following Exercise

Organizations

Randonneurs Sverige

Engineering Education

A Whole New Engineer: a different way to approach effective teaching and learning (watch the video)
Bloom's Taxonomy original and revised
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)
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
New.jpg Methodology: 2023-2024 Best Engineering Schools Rankings

Engineering Mathematics

New.jpg The ten best linear algebra books
Introduction to Independent Component Analysis - Barnabás Póczos, University of Alberta
Blind Source Separation and Independent Component Analysis
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

Emergence and Self-Organization

Emergence: Complexity & Organization - An International Transdisciplinary Journal of Complex Social Systems
The Information Theory of Life
New.jpg Complexity Explained
New.jpg Complexity Explorables

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

Innovation and Entrepreneurship

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

New.jpg Ireland

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
New.jpg Cycling the Wild Atlantic Way by Rolling Resistance
Donegal Cycle Route
EuroVelo 1 - Atlantic Coast Route
Irish 101: An Introduction to Irish Language and Culture
New.jpg Irish Culture A short overview talk at CMU-Africa in 2023
The Craic
The Crock of Gold by James Stephens
The EPIC untold story behind Fairytale of New York
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
New.jpg Cycling the Wild Atlantic Way by Rolling Resistance
The Wild Atlantic Way Pocket Route Atlas
You Don't Get To Be Racist and Irish Imelda May's brilliant poem

LaTeX

Get LaTeX here
MacTeX for MacOS
New.jpg 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
The Listings Package
New.jpg NASA LaTeX Docs with great examples and templates
New.jpg Creating questionnaires with LaTeX from Sven Hartenstein

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)
New.jpg Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming: Case Studies in Common Lisp open-source repository for the book by Peter Norvig (1992)
New.jpg 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
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 for Mac OS X
Disable photoanalysisd
Reset the SMC of your Mac
New.jpg How to Type Letters with Accents on Mac

Machine Learning

(Also see Artificial Intelligence and Robotics)

Bayesian Approaches

A Gentle Introduction to Bayesian Belief Networks

Books and Resources

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 for Computer Vision with Python; great book and software, including a fully-configured virtual machine.

Comparisons

New.jpg Classifier Comparison with instructive visualization
New.jpg Computer Scientist Explains Machine Learning in 5 Levels of Difficulty
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

Datasets

Kaggle Facial Expression Recognition dataset FER13

Deep Learning

Deep Learning overview
Neural Networks and Deep Learning
New.jpg On the Origin of Deep Learning Haohan Wang and Bhiksha Raj
The original paper on the CNN by Yann LeCun, Leon Bottio, Yoshua Bengio, and Patrick Haffner

Environments

Colab from Google
Using Keras and TensorFlow for Anomaly Detection (including the use of LSTM)

Ethical Issues

Deep fakes: one element of the dark side of AI and ML
The rise of the deepfake and the threat to democracy
The Tank Story

Gaussian Processes

Gaussian processes - Visual exploration of Gaussian processes
Gaussian processes - Interactive Gaussian process visualization
Gaussian processes - Gaussian Processes for Machine Learning (Rasmussen and Williams, 2006)
Gaussian processes - The Kernel Cookbook: Advice on Covariance functions
Gaussian processes - An intuitive guide to Gaussian processes
Gaussian processes - An Intuitive Tutorial to Gaussian Processes Regression (Wang, 2022)
Gaussian processes - Introduction to Gaussian Processes Video Lecture (Nando de Freitas, 2013)

Generative Adversarial Networks

GAN Series; comprehensive overview of Generative Adversarial Networks

Large Language Models

(Also see Vision-Language-Action Models and Limitations of AI)

A robot wrote this entire article. Are you scared yet, human? GPT-3
New.jpg How Trustworthy Are Large Language Models Like GPT? Stanford University Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence
Music publishers sue Amazon-backed AI company over song lyrics
Sarah Silverman sues OpenAI and Meta claiming AI training infringed copyright
TechScape: why you shouldn’t worry about sentient AI … yet

Physics Informed Machine Learning

New.jpg High Level Overview of AI and ML in Science and Engineering

Recurrent Neural Networks

Illustrated guide to LSTMs and GRUs: a step by step explanation
Introducing Deep Learning and Long Short-Term Memory Networks
The original paper on the LSTM by Sepp Hochreiter and Jurgen Schmidhuber
The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Recurrent Neural Networks
Andrej Karpathy's Blog
Understanding LSTMs

Reinforcement Learning

A (Long) Peek into Reinforcement Learning
Learning to Optimize with Reinforcement Learning and learning to learn
Learning to Optimize

Self-Supervised Learning

Self-supervised Learning Andrew Zisserman
Yann LeCun Cake Analogy 2.0; the slides from his ISCC talk are here and the video of the talk is here

Transformers

Multimodal Perception and Interaction with Transformers HumanE-AI-Net Micro Project
Multimodal Perception and Interaction with Transformers Tutorial Presented at ACAI 2021
Multimodal Perception and Interaction with Transformers Research Tools
Multimodal Perception with Transformers Research Challenges and Data Sets
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?
How a synapse works, part of an online course on the fundamentals of neuroscience
New.jpg 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

Robotics

(Also see Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning)

Cognitive Robotics

IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Technical Committee for Cognitive Robotics
Cognitive Robotics Resources separate list of links

Competitions

PARC - Pan-African Robotics Competition

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

Best Practices in Robotics Education IEEE RAS Women in Robotics Panel Discussion
Black in Robotics Building Community, Advocating for Diversity, Encouraging Accountability
Black in Robotics Special Series at IROS 2020
The No Excuses List Women Faculty in Robotics
New.jpg Women in Robotics

Featured Robots

Beatbots, including Keepon Pro
Elegoo robot car
Elegoo Tumbller
Eva: facially expressive humanoid robotic head and demonstration video
Franka Emika Robot
Haru: An Experimental Social Robot From Honda Research
iRobot Create 2
iRobot Create 3
Lynxmotion AL5D 4DOF Robot Arm
Makeblock robot kits
Meca500 robot arm
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

Industry

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"
Intrinsic a new Alphabet company dedicated to facilitating widespread deployment of robotics
The real cost of robotics

Navigation

A* Algorithm: a great place to begin
A* Pages: super place to learn more
A* algorithm graphic interactive demo
Pathfinding in maps: graphic interactive demo of
Path planning with A* and RRT & RRT*

Origins

Theseus Claude E. Shannon's 1950 maze-learning mouse robot

Research

EASE - Everyday Activity Science & Engineering: how human-scale manipulation tasks can be mastered by robotic agents
Maria Petrou's Ironing Robot Challenge

Resources

Awesome Robotics: a list of various books, courses and other resources for robotics
Cognitive Robotics Resources separate list of links
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
RoboHub All the latest news about robotics
The Construct A Platform to Learn/Teach Robotics from Zero. Everything from robotics theory to ROS based robot programming
The Robotics Primer Workbook

ROS

A Gentle Introduction to ROS

Shops

Active Robots online shop

Simulators

Bullet Real-Time Physics Simulation

Societal Impact and Ethics

Here’s why robots are actually going to increase human employment
New.jpg International Conference Series on Robot Ethics and Standards
New.jpg Principles of Robotics

STEM Education

Edison
Promoting Innovation in Rwanda through Robotics Education
STEM Robotics
Robotics in STEM Education: Redesigning the Learning Experience
Nine dimensions of STEM learning that can be supported by digital technologies PDF Report (2019)
Using Robotics and Game Design to Enhance Children’s Self-Efficacy, STEM Attitudes, and Computational Thinking Skills (2016)
Experiential learning of electronics subject matter in middle school robotics courses (2015)
Shape Robotics Fable robot
Robotics in Australian Schools with extensive list of robot resources, including Sphero, Edison, Ozobot, Makeblock, Bee-bot, Tetrix, Botley, Blue-bot, Cozmo, Strawbees
Tech-Labs STEM Robotics Education
The Steam Connection building the future, one robot at a time

Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

Sustainable Robotics

Vision-Language-Action Models

(Also see Large Language Models and Limitations of AI)

ChatGPT for Robotics: Design Principles and Model Abilities Microsoft article
PaLM-E: An embodied multimodal language model
RT-1: Robotics Transformer for Real-World Control at Scale arXiv article on RT-1
Supplementary video for RT-1: Robotics Transformer for Real-World Control at Scale Video
RT-2: Vision-Language-Action Models Transfer Web Knowledge to Robotic Control arXiv article on RT-2
RT-2: Vision-Language-Action Models RT-2 website
RT-2: New model translates vision and language into action Google DeepMind Blog
New.jpg RT-X: Scaling up learning across many different robot types
Do As I Can, Not As I Say: Grounding Language in Robotic Affordances arXiv article on SayCan
Do As I Can, Not As I Say: Grounding Language in Robotic Affordances SayCan website
Open X-Embodiment: Robotic Learning Datasets and RT-X Models arXiv article on Open X-Embodiment
Open X-Embodiment: Robotic Learning Datasets and RT-X Models Open X-Embodiment Website
Using an LLM to direct our robot Digit Agility Robotics video
New.jpg Foundation Models in Robotics: Applications, Challenges, and the Future
New.jpg LEAP: LLM-Generation of Egocentric Action Programs

Software Engineering

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

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

Tutorials

How to create mathematical animations like 3blue1brown using Python
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
A (Long) Peek into Reinforcement Learning
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
New.jpg The Illustrated Transformer by Jay Alammar

Women in Science, Engineering, and Technology

New.jpg 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 Women in Engineering (WiE)
IEEE Robotics & Automation Society Women in Engineering (WiE)
New.jpg IEEE Robotics & Automation Society - Women in Engineering (WiE) LinkedIn
International Women in Engineering Day
New.jpg 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)
New.jpg 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 - Grammar, Composition, Style

New.jpg Axes: set the X, Y, and Z in capitals and italics, and use a hyphen.
The Bluestocking: On Writing
Title Case and Sentence Case Capitalization in APA Style
On dangling prepositions and rules "up with which I will not put" (here is the Benjamin G. Zimmer article on the quotation)
Henry Kissinger: "Is this the best you can do?"
The Elements of Style
Link Grammar a syntactic parser for the Link grammar of English, with a neat interactive sentence parser that identifies the parts of speech.
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
New.jpg 5 am or 5 a.m. The Chicago Manual of Style on how to write abbreviations for ante meridiem and (before noon) and post meridiem (after noon).
New.jpg Using the prime symbol to designate units
SI Unit rules and style conventions
Punctuation rules: commas; also see Section 2 in The Elements of Style
Footnote markers are placed after the punctuation mark
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
An example of great technical writing: Scientific Background: The Brain’s Navigational Place and Grid Cell System (pdf)
An example of great narrative writing: 'The good guys don’t always win': Salman Rushdie on peace, Barbie and what freedom cost him.
"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.
Example of Inspirational Writing: the text of J. K. Rowling's "Very Good Lives" - the book and the Video.
New.jpg To Beg the question explained (and why one should avoid phrases with esoteric or ambiguous meanings, even when used correctly)

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
... and on a related topic:
New.jpg 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
New.jpg A Short Guide to Sharing Pronouns for Trans Allies
Administratium
Apophenia
Battery University
Bing Crosby & David Bowie Peace on Earth / Little Drummer Boy duet
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
New.jpg Generational Differences in the Workplace: Boomers, Gen X, Gen Y, and Gen Z Explained
Heilmeier's catechism for researchers
New.jpg History of Technology articles from IEEE Spectrum
In Defense of J.K. Rowling (and read a full account of the controversy by Rhona Shennan in the Scotsman)
Ineffective Sorts
Julia Gillard's Misogyny Speech
Kigali Master Plan 2020
New.jpg Less Wrong A website dedicated to rationality.
Lobachevsky by Tom Lehrer
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
New.jpg What’s a Research Roadmap For? Why do we need one? How can we produce one? (linked from Aaron Sloman's website)
Robert Frost: The Road Not Taken and how it is almost universally misunderstood
New.jpg RwandAir Airbus A330 Seat Plan
Rwenzori Trekking
PC2Paper Send Letters from the Internet
Revisiting Rwanda by Murray Shanahan
Riverdance
New.jpg 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)
Tactile Sensing
Teamwork: The four stages of team development
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 Intertwine Charter: Going beyond anti-discrimination and towards pro-active change to welcome others
The knowns and unknowns framework for design thinking
The Limits of Quantum Computers
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
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
Visual explanations
What / Where is the Global South?