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Artificial Cognitive Systems

Artificial Cognitive Systems (separate list of links)

Cognitive Robotics

Cognitive Robotics Resources (separate list of links)

Computer Vision

Autonomous Road Following Application, Use case demo
Andrej Karpathy's course CS231n Convolutional Neural Networks for Visual Recognition
Deep Learning for Computer Vision with Python; great book and software, including a fully-configured virtual machine.
How to install OpenCV with pip
Head Eye Tracking
Bag of Features Descriptor
OpenCV Python example of contour features
2-Dimensional Motion Perception in humans; seminal video from the 1970s.
Biological Motion clip from Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
Biological Motion II
Attention: scan-path prediction
Attention: SALICON eye-tracking dataset
Cartographer SLAM software from Google

Cybernetics and System Dynamics

The W. Ross Ashby Digital Archive
Gordon Pask Archive
System Dynamics Society

Cycling

A sample Tallis Woomert's Photography from the GLO African Tour 2018
11 of the best cycling challenges in Ireland
The Rules
Vätternrundan in Sweden
Tre Berg Sportive in Sweden & Map
Ride the Rift sportive in Uganda
GPSies Routes
Randonneurs Sverige
Enigma Bicycle Works
Grand Trophee Cycling Events
Sturmey Archer S2C Duomatic
Musguard
Carbonfibre-like Insoles
Thermosoles
Assos Factory Outlet
Guide to studded bike tyres
Carbohydrates and Endurance
Glycemic Index Lists

Education

Bloom's Taxonomy
Standards and Guidelines for Quality Assurance in the European Higher Education Area
Project Management for PhDs

Emergence and Self-Organization

Emergence: Complexity & Organization - An International Transdisciplinary Journal of Complex Social Systems
The Information Theory of Life

Fountain Pens

The Parker 51
Parker 51 History
The Sheaffer Imperial
The Evolution of the Sheaffer Inlaid Nib 1959-Present
The Writing Desk
Montgomery Pens

Graphs and Networks

GraphViz graph visualization

Helping People in Need

MindLeaps
The GLO Africa Tour 2018

History of Technology

Reverse Engineering Sinclair's amazing 1974 calculator

Independent Component Analysis

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

Innovation and Entrepreneurship

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

LaTeX

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)

Mac

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

Machine Learning

Good overview of Deep Learning
Perhaps the definitive book on Deep Learning
Great online book on Neural Networks and Deep Learning
Deep Learning for Computer Vision with Python; great book and software, including a fully-configured virtual machine.
Kaggle Facial Expression Recognition dataset FER13
Deep fakes: one element of the dark side of AI and ML

Neuroscience

Has dopamine got us hooked on technology?

Robots

Cognitive Robotics Resources (separate list of links)
IEEE guide to the world of robots
Lynxmotion AL5B 4DOF Robot Arm
Lynxmotion AL5D 4DOF Robot Arm (ask me for inverse kinematics & C/C++ software)
Cozmo robot from Anki
Vector robot from Anki
Anki Developer Forum for the Cozmo robot
Meca500 robot arm
Active Robots online shop
Haru: An Experimental Social Robot From Honda Research
PARC - Pan-African Robotics Competition

Software Engineering

Paul Graham's website ... warning: click on this only if you want your perspective on programming, Lisp, and life changed forever.
Journal of Software Engineering for Robotics
10 Quotes from David Parnas
How to write unmaintainable code
Absolute Beginners Guide to Emacs
Common Lisp: A Gentle Introduction to Symbolic Computation ... David Touretzky's great introductory text if you want to learning Lisp

Irish and Swedish

Irish 101: An Introduction to Irish Language and Culture
Basic phrases in Swedish
Folkets Lexikon
DuoLingo

Trinity College Dublin

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

Tutorials

Information Theory Primer
POMDPs for Dummies
What does a data scientist do?
Why Model?
Reinforcement Learning Tutorials
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

WikiMedia and Redmine

WikiMedia Formatting Guide
Redmine Formatting Guide

Writing: Grammar, Composition, Style

The Elements of Style
Thinking in Threes: The Power of Three in Writing
The Rule of Three in Writing
Seven tips from Ernest Hemingway on how to write fiction (also useful for writing theses)
SI Unit rules and style conventions
Punctuation rules: commas

Women in Computer Science

Timeline of Women in Computing
SHE++
Barbie Robotics Engineer: inspiring girls to learn how to write software
Gender diversity in technology in Rwanda

Odds and Ends

Dilbert - The Knack
The Guardian Optical Illusions
Motion-triggered figure-ground segmentation
Ineffective Sorts
Meta-analysis
The Grant Cycle
The Point Magazine
Apophenia
Rwenzori Trekking
Breaking waves audio
Visual explanations