Sidebar
This is an old revision of the document!
Warning: Declaration of syntax_plugin_fontsize2::handle($match, $state, $pos, &$handler) should be compatible with DokuWiki_Syntax_Plugin::handle($match, $state, $pos, Doku_Handler $handler) in /s/bach/b/class/cs545/public_html/fall16/lib/plugins/fontsize2/syntax.php on line 19
Warning: Declaration of syntax_plugin_fontsize2::render($mode, &$renderer, $data) should be compatible with DokuWiki_Syntax_Plugin::render($format, Doku_Renderer $renderer, $data) in /s/bach/b/class/cs545/public_html/fall16/lib/plugins/fontsize2/syntax.php on line 19
Warning: Declaration of syntax_plugin_comment::handle($match, $state, $pos, &$handler) should be compatible with DokuWiki_Syntax_Plugin::handle($match, $state, $pos, Doku_Handler $handler) in /s/bach/b/class/cs545/public_html/fall16/lib/plugins/comment/syntax.php on line 30
Warning: Declaration of syntax_plugin_comment::render($mode, &$renderer, $data) should be compatible with DokuWiki_Syntax_Plugin::render($format, Doku_Renderer $renderer, $data) in /s/bach/b/class/cs545/public_html/fall16/lib/plugins/comment/syntax.php on line 30
Warning: Declaration of syntax_plugin_tablewidth::handle($match, $state, $pos, &$handler) should be compatible with DokuWiki_Syntax_Plugin::handle($match, $state, $pos, Doku_Handler $handler) in /s/bach/b/class/cs545/public_html/fall16/lib/plugins/tablewidth/syntax.php on line 57
Warning: Declaration of syntax_plugin_tablewidth::render($mode, &$renderer, $data) should be compatible with DokuWiki_Syntax_Plugin::render($format, Doku_Renderer $renderer, $data) in /s/bach/b/class/cs545/public_html/fall16/lib/plugins/tablewidth/syntax.php on line 57
Warning: Declaration of syntax_plugin_mathjax_protecttex::render($mode, &$renderer, $data) should be compatible with DokuWiki_Syntax_Plugin::render($format, Doku_Renderer $renderer, $data) in /s/bach/b/class/cs545/public_html/fall16/lib/plugins/mathjax/syntax/protecttex.php on line 157
Table of Contents
Machine Learning and Python resources
Machine Learning Groups, Societies, Journals and Conferences
Machine Learning News Google Group, join this very active group, which includes postings of jobs in machine learning.
The International Machine Learning Society and its International Conference on Machine Learning
Journal of Machine Learning Research, free, on-line
International Journal of Intelligent Systems
Neural Information Processing Systems conference (check out their promotional video!)
Remote Access to CS Department Machines
See the Remote Access page in the Department of Computer Science. Most useful is the description of using VNC.
Python
Python Programming Language, the official Python website
Resources for learning python
- Think Python, on-line
book by Allen Downey
- Dive Into Python, on-line book by Mark Pilgrim
- Dive into Python slides, by Bartosz Telenczuk
Python resources
Python Debugging Techniques and Python Conquers the Universe
Code Like a Pythonista: Idiomatic Python
High Performance Python, by Ian Ozsvald
IPython
IPython main site
Video tutorial on using ipython, in five parts by Jeff Rush
Video: IPython in-depth: high-productivity interactive and parallel python, at 1:22 this video summarizes the IPython Notebook.
Python on ...
... MS Windows
... Macs
Python in ...
.. in Spyder
Spyder, stands for Scientific PYthon Development EnviRonment
.. in Eclipse
.. in Emacs
A Guided Tour of Emacs, helps answer the question “Why emacs?”
Here is a two page Emacs Reference Card.
numpy, matplotlib, scipy
The NumPy Array: A Structure for Efficient Numerical Computation, by Stéfan van der Walt, S. Chris Colbert, and Gaël Varoquaux
Python Tools for Science, by Bartosz Telenczuk
Some links provided by Brian Kraus:
Introducing Numpy Arrays, video.
Many other related vides can be found here.
For installing on MS Windows, see Installing SciPy / Windows. See the first sentence and follow the “Download” link.
Matplotlib
Save and edit the customization file described here to modify how matplotlib makes plots.
Here is a nice short tutorial on how to combine matplotlib plots within a gui application based on wxWidgets and wxPython.
LaTeX
Lots of tutorials and quick starts out there:
- The Not So Short Introduction to LATEX 2ε or LATEX 2ε in 157 minutes by Tobias Oetiker, Hubert Partl, Irene Hyna and Elisabeth Schlegl, with an excellent index useful for looking up commands
- Emacs as the Ultimate LaTeX Editor, by Piotr Kaźmierczak
- LaTeX: from quick and dirty to style and finesse, by Tony Roberts
- Online tutorials on LaTeX by the Indian TeX Users Group
- Getting to Grips with LaTeX by Andrew Roberts
IDEs
On the computer science department's network, we have texmaker installed. Just type
> texmaker
at the unix prompt to get started. We also have LyX, which you run by
> lyx
And we have kile, which you run by
> kile
Latex on Windows and Macs
Matrices
Don't Invert that Matrix, by John Cook
The Matrix Cookbook, by Kaare Brandt Petersen and Michael Syskind Pedersen
Page Tools
