Chris Simpkins
Research Scientist, PhD Student

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For now, this is a mix of stuff. As it grows I will probably reorganize it, so be forewarned about bookmarking particular pages.

Jim Hendler's funding tutorial slides.

How to do Research at the MIT AI Lab. I got this from here.

How to Be a Good Graduate Student

Ron Azuma's Guides to Surviving Computer Science Graduate School

Symbolic vs. Connectionist AI by Marvin Minsky

I enjoy hacking Lisp using SLIME and SBCL.

Lately I've enjoyed hacking Python even more.

I've been looking into lightweight text formats (and associated Emacs modes). So far, I like reStructred Text (reST), which is part of doctils.

I wrote a short primer on Principle Components Analysis (PCA) (PDF, reST) for my CS 7641 Machine Learning study group. (Please inform me of any errors. I am not a mathematician.)

Unix Command Line Tips