Table of Contents

1. Computer Science

1.1. General

• http://ocw.mit.edu/index.html - all MIT courses with slides and questions
• http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~harchol/gradschooltalk.pdf - How to apply for a Ph D? in CS in the US.

1.2. Machine Learning,

• http://www.csie.ntu.edu.tw/~cjlin/libsvm/ - easy to use scientific library for SV Ms?
• Information Theory, Inference, and Learning Algorithms by David MacKay - this free book is quite nice
• http://videolectures.net/site/list/top/ - Machine Learning Videos, like this nice one from Michael Jordan about Dirichlet Processes, Chinese Restaurant Processes, and all that
• http://www.msri.org/calendar/workshops/WorkshopInfo/273/show_workshop - collection of videos from talks on machine learning and computer vision
• http://ssg.mit.edu/~esuddert/papers/sudderthPhD.pdf - Erik Sudderth's thesis, a nice read about graphical models

1.3. Math

• http://www.exampleproblems.com/ - nice compilation of problems in advanced math
• http://www.dartmouth.edu/~chance/teaching_aids/books_articles/probability_book/book.html - free book about probability: Grinstead and Snell's Introduction to Probability
• http://www.ee.ic.ac.uk/hp/staff/dmb/matrix/ - the nice Matrix Reference Manual
• http://www.uwlax.edu/faculty/will/svd/ - a very nice tutorial about Singular Value Decomposition
• http://matrixcookbook.com/ - The Matrix Cookbook (a free ebook)
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mersenne_number
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfect_number - interesting
• http://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Paul_Erd%C3%B6s&redirect=yes
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feynman A very inspiring namesake
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaussian_integral

1.4. Programming

1.4.1. Matlab

• http://vision.ucsd.edu/~pdollar/toolbox/doc/index.html - very nice toolkit to do PCA and other things in Matlab

1.5. Operating Systems

• http://freebsd.org/ - good server OS
• http://www.ubuntu.com/ - laptop
• http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/aix/library/au-badunixhabits.html?ca=lnxw01GoodUnixHabits 10 'Good' Unix Habits

1.5.1. Lisp

• http://cl-cookbook.sourceforge.net/
• http://twinlisp.nongnu.org/ interesting project which combines Java like syntax with lisp's ideas and abilities.

1.5.2. Maple

• http://www.math.uic.edu/~jan/mcs320s03/ huge intro to Maple

1.6. AI

• http://people.revoledu.com/kardi/tutorial/index.html simple tutorials for advanced topics such as LDA, Monte Carlo, etc.
• http://www.norvig.com/ - Website of Peter Norvig, he wrote an incredible book on AI Programming: Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming: Case Studies in Common Lisp. The code in there is unbelievably beautiful (after one takes the time to understand it ; )
• http://www.cs.ubc.ca/labs/lci/CIspace/index.html - interesting and fun tools to learn the basics of artifical intelligence by interactive examples

1.7. Computer Science Graduate Studies

• http://www.greguide.com/gre-practice-tests.html - some free GRE sample tests

2. Software

2.1. Backups

• http://www.xs4all.nl/~edienske/abakt/ - Abakt, a great, free and open source program for your backups in Windows, lots of features, simple and efficient.
• rsync for linux
• http://www.lucersoft.com/files/free/LCISOCreator.zip simple small software to create ISO images from C Ds?

2.2. Antivirus Software

• http://free.grisoft.com/ good and free anti virus software for windows

2.3. Instant Messaging behind Firewalls in Browser

• http://www.meebo.com - a website where you can log in to all your separate IM clients over port 80, good if you are behind a firewall

2.4. Wikis, CMS

• www.pmwiki.org - the engine used on this website
• http://joomla.org/ - seems very cool and has tons of features as well

2.5. Firefox Plugins

• https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4337 Site Delta? - Notifies when websites are changed and highlights the changes since last visit.

2.6. Latex

• http://www.latexeditor.org/ - a very nice free editor for Latex under Windows
• http://miktex.org - the Latex distribution for windows
• http://www.inkscape.org/ - creates eps files or converts png to eps images, can also create diagrams of different kinds.
• http://www.pstoedit.net/ - translates Post Script? and PDF graphics into other vector formats.

2.7. Macros

• http://members.ij.net/anthonymathews/MacroMaker.htm Macro Maker? - awesome tool which lets you save key strokes and then automatically execute them. No more repetitive tasks!

3. Philosophy

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phenomenology
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immanuel_Kant
• http://paulgraham.com/wisdom.html - an interesting article about wisdom and intelligence, titled: Is It Worth Being Wise?
• http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/20/science/20moral.html?ex=1332043200&en=84f902cc81da9173&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss - an extremely interesting article about a connection between morality, ethics, the brain, primates, warfare, evolution, religion. It is influenced by the book Primates and Philosophers by Dr. de Waal. As much as I like Kant, this sounds more reasonable.

4. Literature

• http://vorleser.net/ Hundreds of free German audiobooks

5. Procrastination

5.1. News

• http://slashdot.org - THE geeky news website

5.2. Fun

• http://xkcd.com/archive/ - smart funny geeky comics
• http://www.phdcomics.com/comics.php
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ut1kGmOhzWQ - Ski-Gliding
• http://www.aharef.info/static/htmlgraph/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fsocher.org - graphs from html
• Have you seen 360° videos?
• Mantis Shrimp: the only animals with hyperspectral colour vision, 16 different photoreceptor types (humans have only four), colour vision from ultra-violet to infra-red, each individual eye possesses trinocular vision and depth perception, each eye seems to have its own little brain since the information leaving the retina seems to be processed into numerous parallel data streams.
  • see image 3 from http://www.x-entertainment.com/articles/0723/
• http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/wallpaper/stargal.cfm - beautiful space background images