unsorted bookmarks
- Northern Arizona University see especially their Pinion Ecology Research Group studying the effect of global climate change on forest survival versus beetle predation.
- The University System of Nevada's Desert Research Institute explained here on their "About" page, maintains the Western Regional climate Center with both current and historical Climate data for the Western United States.
- The US Weather Service is part of NOAA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
- The National Resources Defense Council is one of the organizations attempting to preserve the environment.
- The United States Department of Argiculture Forest Service
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
- Know the enemy: the Frontiers of Freedom political and environmental despoilation supporters
- Know the enemy: the George C. Marshall Institute, which first picks a political goal, then leaps upon any badly done scientific research or commentary that happens to support it, or failing that, creates its own.
- Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory
- List of links and descriptions for GIMP Plugins to download.
- Particle Swarm Optimization Java Applet
- Home Page for Computability Logic -- a new way of looking at the theory of computability from the viewpoint of computation being a competitive game between computer and problem/environment.
- Genetic Programming "home Page"
- My tool clone and extension of my movie scheduler, now commercial software
- How to Compile The GIMP on MS-Windows.
- Freeware Maxima Symbolic Integration Tool
- Gimp for Photographers
- Photo Touch Up and Enhancement in the GIMP
- How to create dynamic brushes in The GIMP.
- Yet another page of tutorials for The GIMP
- Evolutionary algorithm auxiliary repository of test data generator scripts.
- Wonderfully sane writeup on the speed of Java relative to other languages.
- Main page for Geometric Calculus an attempt to rationalize the mathematics of Physics. Contains good links to parallel efforts.
- More accomplishments in Emergent Robotics than you would have believed have happened, including this working model whose implications would give any technically literate person pause.
- Individual's site on artificial intelligence and robotics -- in Italian, but easy enough to read anyway.
- Java applet that is a very fast Monopoly whole game player.
- online math texts
- Paul Graham writes on nerds and why they suffer so.
- Table of Contents at Indiana University for Minimal Surfaces research and images.
- Everything you ever wanted to know about Windmills is here.
- Telnet via HTTP Gateway-- Yaaaaay!
- Google Search for Geographic Markup Language which looks slick.
- Tracking system for GIMP Bugs
- Web site for GIMP Developers
- Now this creationist loon proves that creation happened by the population growth due to extreme longevity before the flood. Two guffaws for originality.
- The StarLogo users email reflector list archives at MIT
- Guide to Lock Picking tells all.
- The NetHack dump patch to HTML lives here.
- GNU Octave is a freeware work-alike for MatLab.
- Training and consulting firm's links page to documents full of wisdom about doing OOP, including Responsibility-Driven Design and Agile Design.
- Genetic programming toy in Java that solves problems, writes music, grows plants.
- The freeware Irfanview image tool homepage.
- Sun Java release notes for version 1.2 are here.
- Sun Java release notes for version 1.3 are here.
- Sun Java release notes for version 1.4.1 are here.
- Sun Java release notes for version 1.4.2 are here.
- copyright-free images 1
- copyright-free images 2
- copyright-free images 3
- How to make gimppipes which are used to implement GIMP active brushes.
- The great quotes page at bugbear.com.
- The Apache software logging tool log4j project base page.
- IBM's Logging Toolkit for Java home page.
- JavaWorld article describing the log4j Java logging functionality.
- Letter from Peruvian Congressman explaining why use of closed source software by governments is a violation of public trust.
- Sun's JFluid allows dynamic runtime insertion of profiling capabilities for Java code
- GNU cgicc a common gateway interface programming class library for C++
- Lots of GIMP plugins live here.
- This search of SourceForge for "state machine" returns many interesting hits.
- A different kind of Travesty generator, the Cut Up machine.
- Home page of nikolai kingsley of talk.bizarre fame.
- job shop
scheduling
- Java Design Patterns
- David Longley's grotesque Fragments net.kookery document.
- $5/month web hosting at Drex Host gives 300MB, unlimited bandwidth.
- Jeremy Gibbons' publications page has a ton of computer science wisdom to share about programming as a formal task.
- The December 2002 revision of The Haskell 98 Language Report describes the functional programming language Haskell formally.
- Online "state of computing" book Out of Control by Kevin Kelly
- The Stephen Downes Logical Fallacy Guide
- The humor of Evil Twin Astrology puts everyone in their right place.
- GIMP Animation tutorials
- Table of contents for the splendid Visual Elements website of the American Chemical Society.
- Rob Ellwood's How to Change Nethack link page to other documents.
- PDFs of class ECS 120: Introduction to the Theory of Computation from University of California, Davis
- Java Genetic Algorithm DrumGA beat pattern evolution demo.
-
The
Reactive Tabu Search
page.
-
Ambassador
Carol Moseley Braun for President
home page.
-
Top of the index for
King Features Comics
-
The works of
HP Lovecraft
online.
-
Base page for a huge
Greek Gods
table.
-
Free Evolutionary Timetabling
FET
Software.
-
Name dungeon characters from this
character typifying name list
-
Name dungeon characters from this
worldwide baby name list
-
Name dungeon characters from this
baby name list
-
huge set of made-up
name generators
-
Download page for
Visual Works 7 Smalltalk
free for non-commercial use
-
In a thesis excerpt, Phil Brierley describes
GAs and Hill climbing
in a PDF document.
-
MIT's splendid
Open Courseware
initiative.
-
GA Maze Solver
really fun and evocative GA demo in Java.
-
50 job interview questions
-
One possible entry point to Warren Siegel's wonderful
incremental discussion
of bleeding edge theoretical physics, an education in itself.
-
John Baez'
How to Learn Math and Physics
extended book recommendation page.
-
Online book:
Introduction to Tensor Calculus and Continuum Mechanics
-
J Software home
page
for free tools and online books. J is a linear descendent of APL
-
The
Forum Romanum
attempts to collect all of Latin writings. It includes an extensive geneology of the Roman Gods.
-
The Little Prince
online, with music.
-
The
AnnEvolve
project (Artificial Neural Network Evolution) seeks to breed neural net weights using genetic algorithms, and has a nice proof of concept demo breeding sailboat navigators to sail efficiently downwind and upwind to circumnavigate an island.
-
Thales Communications location
map
-
More than everything you ever wanted to know about the
science of paper
-
Cleaned up Java sort
applet demo
page
-
GIMP
scripts
-
GIMP
scripts
-
A great
quotes page
from mathpages.com
-
Good site for learning about math without being overwhelmed
Math Pages
-
Map of the
Lake Minnetonka
area, Kent's old stomping grounds.
-
James O'Rourke's Computational Geometry textbook's
source code
download page.
-
A full online sourcebook in
Complex Analysis
from Harold V. McIntosh, Departamento de Aplicacisn de Microcomputadoras, Instituto de Ciencias, Universidad Autsnoma de Puebla, Apartado postal 461, 72000 Puebla, Puebla, Mixico.
-
C++ Simplex Search Source Code
-
Online collaborative Math encyclopedia
Planet Math
is a great way to learn or review math.
-
Home Page of the
R Project
which provides an environment for statistical computing and publication quality data display.
-
Home page for the R version of
Genoud
a mixed Genetic Algorithm and Hill Climbing package.
-
Lawrence Schimel's set of
guidelines
for writing poetry, first of six.
-
Use of
monads
in the programming language Haskell.
-
Home of the
TMDA
anti-spam mail server.
-
The japanese site with all the extra plugins for Gimp for windows is back online
here
The author has put a page with a list of all the plugins, so that adding the file name at the url downloads the plugin. There are many new or updated ones.
-
George Maydwell's wonderful online CA stuff has gone
hexagonal
and it is gorgeous!
-
Wonderful
kite making
site with directions and illustrations for perhaps hundreds of kites.
-
A Java based distributed computing enabler,
GreenTea
looks like powerful stuff.
-
Obscure poison
aconitum
as recommended in Robert Ludlum's Bear Island
-
Home page of a simple text editor in Java,
JE
-- GPLed with source and compiled class files.
-
At long last! A table in
this paper
gives the tail integrals for the Gaussian curve for ridiculously large standard deviations!
-
Photo and brief writeup of the US Navy Fleet Ballistic Missile Submarine
USS Nathan Hale
on whose Gold Crew I served from 1968 to 1973.
-
Allen Hatcher's lecture notes on
3-Manifolds
can be downloaded from this page.
-
Marc Lackenby's notes on
3-Manifolds
are available below this homepage of his.
-
Nice test page for depiction of
math symbols
in HTML browsers.
-
Neural Net, Genetic Algorithm, and "Brain Building"
lecture
notes as a nicely implemented slide show. See especially starting at slide 22 or so for guidelines on how to implement a GA-evolvable NN.
-
Ryszard S. Michalski
home page
, with lots of good stuff about EAs, GAs, Knowledge Engineering, and more.
-
Cornell collection of online
Math Monographs
(textbooks) old enough that they can be safely published without copyright worries.
-
"I don't know exactly what you need it for, but some programs that come
to mind (each one doing something different for an animation) are:
anim8or,
POV-Ray,
virtual dub,
bbmpeg,
Terragen,
OpenFX,
TMPGEnc, and
anasazi for clay animations,
to name a few of those having windows versions."
-
The splendid Gimp User Group
(GUG) Tutorials
entry page.
- More GIMP tutorials:
Miles O'Neal's Roadkills R Us Tutorial page.
the Team Gimp folks from Gimp.Org Tutorials Index page.
Nem W. Schlecht's GIMP Tutorials Pointer Page links out to many tutorials.
Eric R. Jeschke's GIMP Image Editing Tutorials for Photographers page.
-
Here's the raw FTP directory for current and historical releases of
GIMP for MS-Windows
executable self-installing archives; it helps to know which
ones you need before you get here, so check for which are the
latest self-installing MS-Windows GIMP downloads
here
-
This is the place to get The GIMP's
User Manuals,
especially Grokking The Gimp.
-
For The GIMP, try
cinepaint
(previously known as filmgimp)
-
The GIMP's
plugin registry
contains information for accessing lots of goodies to add to the vanilla release.
-
Zip file for The GIMP contains a
Channel Mixer Plugin
-
Compose/decompose plugins with
lab mode
and use of layers.
-
Zip file for The GIMP
smart print tool
script-fu, with a corrected version of guash.
-
The
GIMP 1.2.4 and older
ftp downloads.
-
The
GIMP 1.2.5
download page
-
Wacom sells
graphics drawing tablets
and such stuff.
-
A
Compendium
of NP optimization problems.
-
Well considered modern book
Streamlined Modeling
teaches the basics of Object Oriented Analysis, Design, and Programming object breakdowns.
-
Calresco
computer art
link on its larger Applications of Complexity Methods to Academic and Business Fields page.
-
Calresco
Journals and Resources
links on Self-Organization, Complexity, and Artificial Life page.
-
Calresco
Complexity Related Application Papers
page.
-
Calresco
Major Complex Systems Software
links page.
-
Archive of The GIMP releases for
GimpWin
the Windows packaging of The GIMP.
-
Free French
Usenet news
service.
-
Free Hong Kong
Usenet news
service.
-
Free German
Usenet news
service.
-
-Computer Shows How Complex Functions Evolve
-
-Engineered Proteins Will Lead to 'Synthetic Biology'
-
-Genetic Regulator of Lifespan Identified
-
-New Role For Brain Chemical in Mammary Glands
-
-Potential B-Cell Based Therapy for Lupus
-
-Without Enzyme, Reaction Takes 1 Trillion Years
-
-First Peer-Reviewed SARS Genome Sequence
-
-FEATURE: How Prion Proteins Kill Neurons
- Common Cause for Aging and Age-Related Disease
link
Scientists have discovered that a class of molecules found in
worms and in people can both prolong life in the worm and prevent
the harmful accumulation of abnormal proteins that cause a
debilitating Huntington's-like disease.
- Another Way Cancer Cells Can Outsmart Therapies
link
Researchers have identified a genetic abnormality that makes some
ovarian tumor cells initially sensitive to a common chemotherapy
agent, cisplatin, and then resistant to the drug over time.
- Critical Early-Defense Trigger in Plants Found
link
The gene for an enzyme that is key to natural disease resistance
in plants has been discovered. The researchers say that by
enhancing the activity of the enzyme they might be able to boost
natural disease resistance in crop plants without resorting to
pesticides or the introduction of non-plant genes.
- Extreme Strength of Biomaterials at the Nanoscale
link
The nanoscale size of mineral particles in bone, tooth, and other
biological materials may have evolved to ensure optimum strength
and maximize tolerance of flaws.
- Broccoli Chemical Blocks Cancer Cell Growth
link
Those seeking yet another reason to eat their veggies, take
note. Researchers have found that a chemical produced when
digesting such greens as broccoli and kale can stifle the growth
of human prostate cancer cells.
- Polymer Liquids for Drug Delivery, Fluidic Memory
link
Polymer solutions pulsing through miniaturized plumbing may
control implanted drug delivery devices and provide memory for
liquid computers.
- Moody Wallpaper
link
Researchers in Madagascar recently discovered a very peculiar
protein from the epidermis of a rare species of chameleon, which
is in fact a pigment and takes on different hues depending on
various environmental criteria.
- Mouse Study Suggests Mammoth Evolutionary Change
link
A study of a common wild mouse has found evidence of dramatic
evolutionary change in a span of just 150 years, suggesting genetic
evolution can occur a lot faster than many had thought possible.
- Researchers Expect Big Things from Nanostructures
link
Arrays of nanofibers able to deliver genetic material to cells
quickly and efficiently have researchers excited about potential
applications for drug delivery, gene therapy, crop engineering and
environmental monitoring.
- Getting Through the Matrix
link
Researchers describe a new technique for assessing the
permeability of tumors and a promising new way of improving
tumors' accessibility to drugs.
- First 'Knockout' Rats Created
link
Using a novel combination of tried-and-true techniques,
scientists have created the first "knockout" rats, specifically
rats whose genomes have been stripped of genes that suppress
breast cancer.
- Two-Proteins at the Heart of Insulin Response
link
Researchers have traced runaway sugar production in the liver -
an important feature of diabetes - to flaws in a two-protein
combination at the heart of a molecular switch that responds
to insulin.
- Chemists Create Unusual Lariat RNA
link
The study of splicing has been very difficult in part because
lariat RNAs have been nearly impossible to make artificially.
Now scientists have found artificial deoxyribozymes (DNA enzymes)
that synthesize branched and lariat RNAs.
- Apes Help Scientists Understand the Human Genome
link
Scientists have developed a powerful new technique called
"phylogenetic shadowing" that enables scientists to make
meaningful comparisons between DNA sequences in the human genome
and sequences in the genomes of apes, monkeys, and other
non-human primates.
- A site with GIMP art
- A site about human Visual Sensing and image processing.
- NASA vision research at Ames Research Center.
-
Sports theme
songs
for the times when you just cannot quite remember the tune! In midi format, so they download and start up really fast, but the quality is kind of tinny, or maybe it's just my ear.
-
W3C's Web Page
Validator
service.
-
Markup language engine
Jade
implements the DSSSL markup language.
-
The
CGM Open
organization maintains WebCGM, a web-ready version of the Computer Graphics Metafile.
-
The
FLAME
(Formal Linear Andalysis Methods Environment) home page has lots of good numerical analysis info plus links.
-
Page proving Java source code for Linear Programming tool
lp_solve 2.0
as ported by Hongzhou Ma and Inderjeet Singh.
-
Good general guideline for how to
debug
software by Patricia Shanahan.
-
Standards for
GSM
live here.
-
An utterly awesome bestiary of
JVM languages
that are not Java, but either compile directly into Java
bytecode, or are implemented in Java, essentially the same
thing.
-
Huge
Urban Legends
site, lots of pages.
-
Complete handouts for a course on
Constructive Logic
at Carnegie Mellon University, some links are broken, needs some from
here
and this one:
Martin-Löf (Meaning)
-
Paul Campbell jobsearch link 1
-
Paul Campbell jobsearch link 2
-
Paul Campbell jobsearch link 3
-
Paul Campbell jobsearch link 4
-
Paul Campbell jobsearch link 5
-
heuristics
and artificial intelligence in finance and investment
-
Symbolic
Programming versus the "Advanced Placement Test"-driven
Curriculum
Brian Harvey on why early computer science training should
not focus on software as engineering but on software
as creativity.
-
From John Baez
This Weeks Finds in Mathematical Physics
is a continuing series of illuminations of mathematical
concepts, most tied to physics concepts.
-
A nice article on using
Mini-languages
such as Logo to teach beginning programming without so much
pain to students.
-
Everything you ever want to know about
Map Projections
-- a fabulous site.
-
Huge full text ancient literature
site
-- apparently part of the Gutenberg project.
-
The
Achewood
cartoon site.
-
Big
list
of artifical life software.
-
Genetic programming wrapper package
package
in Delphi.
-
Promising new genetic algorithm site
bestjohnny
with complex multiperiod curve maximizing example.
-
Java game software framework
GENUTS.
-
Eric Postpischil's Math and other
quotes.
-
NIST's list of binary multiple
prefixes
-- designed to remove ambiguation with decimal multiple
prefixes.
-
Fresno State University Savemart Center Basketball
Stadium
seating and virtual exploring tool.
-
An online electronic book on
Mathematical Optimization
-- see especially chapter 5, "methods of last resort" which
covers AI search techniques.
-
Genetic algorithm
pubs page
For Genitor at Colorado State U.
-
Ant
System
for TSP.
-
Look
here
for the remastered songs of Richard Dyer-Bennet.
-
The home of the State Machine
Compiler
, a tool for compiling state machine diagrams into Java, Tcl, or C++ code.
-
Computational Complexity
Glossary
— from the book The Computational Beauty of Nature.
-
A nice, small
glossary
about computational complexity.
-
Massively Parallel Computing Message Passing Interface technical papers
Bibliography
at Argonne National Lab.
-
Discussion of the
SWT
alternative to Java AWT or Swing; sort of a portable, "use
native widgets when possible" GUI.
-
TSP
demos
in Java.
-
Java assembler home page for
Jasmine
-
Java 1.1 Quick Reference
online
-
Cael Sanderson
best real wrestler ever anywhere.
-
Stephen Abas
excellent FSU wrestler, going to pro real wrestling.
-
HOW TO DO THE RIGHT THING
online paper
-- Absract: This paper presents a novel approach to the problem
of action selection for an autonomous agent. An agent is viewed
as a collection of competence modules. Action selection is
modelled as an emergent property of an activation/inhibition
dynamics among these modules. A concrete action selection
algorithm is presented and a detailed account of the results is
given. This algorithm combines characteristics of both
traditional planners and reactive systems. It provides global
parameters, which one can use to tune the action selection
behavior along several criteria, such as goal orientedness
versus situation orientedness, bias towards ongoing plans
versus adaptivity, and sensitivity to goal conflicts and
`thoughtfulness' versus speed.
-
Stephan Mertens' "Animated Examples of Heuristic Algorithms"
TSP Algorithms in Action
-- Abstract: The travelling salesman problem (TSP) probably is
the most prominent problem in combinatorial optimization. Its
simple definition along with its notorious difficulty has
stimulated (and still stimulates) many efforts to find an
efficient algorithm. Due to the NP-completeness of the TSP,
only approximate solutions can be expected. This contribution
presents animated, graphical Java-Applets of some approximate
algorithms for the TSP. The applets allow to watch the
algorithms in action and to play around with them.
-
Michael Jennings of Futurepower
explains
what makes WinXP such a mess.
-
Unicode character ranges and the Unicode fonts that support them
list
-- part of Alan Wood's Unicode Resources
-
Tim Hutton's home page, featuring his Cellular Automaton
Evolution
stuff like squirm.
-
Turkey University's
math links
-
A picture of
dervishes
for some web postings I once made.
-
Wonderfully useful
SNMP links
site.
-
Tiny home page of
Paul W. Ogden
-- Deaf person, Fresno State University professor, and author
of The Silent Garden: Raising Your Deaf Child, with a
link to that book.
-
Ad for Fridtjof Siebert's book:
Hard Realtime Garbage
Collection in Modern Object Oriented Programming Languages
from a company also offering a hard realtime Java Virtual
Machine.
-
Home page for
JamaicaVM
which is a Java VM for hard realtime programming uses.
-
Cleanroom freeware Java VM
Wonka
provides a real time executive OSwald for embedded use.
-
The
linktionary
provides a wealth of technical information about network
communications.
-
Freeware C++ Evolutionary Computation programming library and toolkit
Open Beagle
with example GA and GP instantiations. Tries to be a model OO
development environment.
-
Wireless telephone game
reviews
for games in Java or Brew (Qualcomm's attempted cellphone
de-facto programming standard).
-
Java technology
XQX
binds XML to and from many available databases.
-
Gershom Zajicek M.D.
models a variant of Cellular Automata on life, and models life
with Cellular Automata, in his Cancer and Wisdom of the Body (
WOB
) site. The site is a bit over the top, but the CAs seem sound.
-
Keenspace is this gonzo indie
Comics
site that hosts them for free.
-
Seattle Times Jobs ads
-
xanthian personal stuff
-
Advocacy Stuff
Opinions I have by the cart-load.
-
Satellite Telephony
-
Margie's page
-
Froggy Page
-
Kelly Freas: Bio
-
xanthian personal stuff
-
Advocacy Stuff
Opinions I have by the cart-load.
-
Computer Stuff
-
Computing Practices stuff
-
Discovery of Services in Pervasive Computing
-
Computer Hardware
-
Computer Reference Material
-
Perl Related Sites
-
Perl Home Page at O'Reilly -- www.perl.com
-
Comprehensive Perl Archive Network -- O'Reilly
-
Comprehensive Perl Archive Network -- www.cpan.org
-
Java Related Sites
-
Perl Related Sites
-
Perl Home Page at O'Reilly -- www.perl.com
-
Comprehensive Perl Archive Network -- O'Reilly
-
Comprehensive Perl Archive Network -- www.cpan.org
-
www.perl.com - FAQs
-
Perl FAQ Index
-
CPAN Mirror Sites for FTP
-
Switzerland, Swiss SunSITE, /mirror/CPAN
-
South Africa, Internet Solutions, /programming/perl/CPAN
-
Texas, MetroNet, /pub/perl
-
Netherlands, Utrecht University, /pub/PERL/CPAN
-
Japan, Dream Train Internet, /pub/lang/CPAN
-
Chile, Universidad Catolica de Chile, /pub/unix/perl/CPAN
-
California, CDROM site, /pub/perl/CPAN
-
Australia, Topend.Com.Au, /pub/CPAN
Site is
threatened
by
rapacious
monopoly
Telstra
phone
company
charges.
Operated
by
Robert
Nagy,
in
Darwin,
The
Northwest
Territory.
-
Other Programming Languages I Like
Or ones I want to learn but haven't had the time yet.
-
Other Programming Languages sites of Interest
-
Computer Graphics related sites
-
General Computer Science Stuff
-
Software Engineering
-
Reading
-
Misc. and Unsorted
-
Metrics
-
User Interface Design (HCI/MMI/Usability)
-
OOP