Useful resources on the web

• Extremely useful research resources
  • Matrix Reference Manual (a useful summary of matrix operations)
  • R (a language for statistical analysis)
  • David MacKay's Information Theory
  
  
• Useful notes
  • Notes on Giving a Research Talk by Charles Elkan
  • How to write a review by Hany Farid
  • The three laws of professional communication by Jean-Luc Doumont
  
  
• Scanned classic paper
  • S. Laughlin. A simple coding procedure enhances a neuron's information capacity. Z. Naturforsch., 36(c):910--912, 1981. [PDF]
  
  
  

• My advisors and colleagues
  • Toshio Inui (advisor at Kyoto Univ.)
  • Te-Won Lee (advisor at INC/UCSD)
  • Terry Sejnowski (advisor at INC/UCSD)
  • Thomas Wachtler (collaborator at INC/UCSD)
  • Mike Lewicki (current advisor at CMU)
  • Doru Balcan (collaborator at CMU)
  • and Mike' lab members, Tai Sing's lab members

• Random links
  • Yanagida sensei's blog (Prof. in molecular biology when I was an undergrad.)
    
    
  • TOMLAB (commercial optimization toolbox for MATLAB)
  • Numerical Recipies in C (all text is available in pdf)
    
    
  • Spatio-Temporal Receptive Field Estimation Software
  • CVRL (numerical data and definitions for color vision)
  • WebVision (detailed description and figures about retina)
  • IEEE Xplore (archive of IEEE papers/proceedings)
    
    
  • Citysearch Pittsburgh
  • Craigslist Pittsburgh
  • Official U.S. Time
    
    
  • Emacs lisp list (e.g., matlab.el)
  • TexPoint
  • Emacs for Windows XP
  • XEmacs
  • MiKTex (TeX on MS-Windows)
  • AUCTeX (utility for writing TeX with (X)Emacs)
  • How to swap Caps and Ctrl keys