At the age of eleven, I began Euclid, with my brother as my tutor.
This was one of the great events of my life, as dazzling as first love. -- Bertrand Russell
Benoit Mandelbrot's
book on Fractal Geometry.
L. S. Stavrianos's
The World to 1500: A Global History .
Dale Purves and others' Textbook
Neuroscience .
A few intrigering facts about retina extracted from
Masland RH (2001).
The fundamental plan of the retina. Nat. Neurosci. 4 (9): 877–86
Roll's
book on Cerebral Cortex.
Matt Mahoney's
tutorial on data compression.
Homeworks and recitations I designed for the machine learning class in 2010 spring
HW1,
Decision Trees and Information Theory,
solution
HW2,
Multiclass Classification,
solution
HW3,
Linear regression, and bias-variance trade-off,
solution
HW4,
Learning Theory ,
solution
HW5,
AdaBoost,
solution
recitation,
Linear Algebra and Matlab
recitation,
Expectation-Maximization
recitation,
Computational Learning Theory
recitation,
Boosting