fast matrix multiplication

http://software.intel.com/en-us/intel-mkl/

More Chinese Online

http://www.minmm.com/

Chinese Reading Lessons

http://collections.uiowa.edu/chinese/topic_beginning.html

Convex Optimization Book (Online)

http://www.stanford.edu/~boyd/cvxbook/

Funny Hungarian Rhapsody

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aajtw30-YG0

The Subprime Primer

http://docs.google.com/TeamPresent?docid=ddp4zq7n_0cdjsr4fn&skipauth=true

Correspondences

http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/34.908967

http://books.nips.cc/papers/files/nips19/NIPS2006_0692.pdf

Leverage Graph

Gaussian Belief Propagation

http://www.cs.huji.ac.il/~dolev/pubs/bickson-ISIT1.pdf

http://ssg.mit.edu/~jasonj/jmw-nips05.pdf

http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/TechRpts/1999/CSD-99-1046.pdf

http://www-elec.enst-bretagne.fr/equipe/berrou/Near%20Shannon%20Limit%20Error.pdf

Approximation of Functions Book

http://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Approximation-Functions-Theodore-Rivlin/dp/0486640698

Gaussian Marginals and Conditionals

http://fourier.eng.hmc.edu/e161/lectures/gaussianprocess/node7.html

Rotation Matrix

http://xkcd.com/184/

Imaginary Friends

http://xkcd.com/410/

Industry and Object Recognition Paper

Industry and Object Recognition: Applications, Applied Research and Challenges http://www.springerlink.com/content/p3157h542jp80577/

Cooking Robot

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FtjC-BXGgAE

Cool Robot Videos

beer-pouring robot - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5kIs9H0WFus&feature=related

rubiks cube robot - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNAnUygqOYc&feature=related

factory arm cooks octopus balls - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ppUo5iCTnx0

chinese cooking robot - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hta2l1knX0U

munich kitchen robot - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vhN0ZeYhioI

Scissor List

From the TV show "how it's made" - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3oNrsO2_c8

Interesting NY Times Books 2008

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/16/books/review/Berreby-t.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/23/books/review/Jones-t.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/08/books/review/Johnson-G-t.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/13/books/review/Row-t.html

Kiva Robotics

http://www.kivasystems.com/index.html

Intel Robotics

http://personalrobotics.intel-research.net/index.html

Computer Vision Companies

David Lowe's list of computer vision companies

*** COGNEX ***
http://www.cognex.com/ApplicationsIndustries/TypesOfApplications/default.aspx?id=78
pizza robot
part recognition
meat picking

*** BRAINTECH (INTELLIGENT VISION) ***
http://www.braintech.com/videos-rbp.php
random bin picking

*** MONTROSE TECH ***
http://www.montrose-tech.com/
computer vision for baked goods inspection

*** ELLIPS ***
http://www.ellips.nl/
inspecting and sorting fruits and vegetables

*** SEEGRID ***
http://www.seegrid.com/
mobile robot inventory management

Haptic Grasping Paper

Shinya Takamuku, Atsushi Fukuda and Koh Hosoda

Repetitive grasping with anthropomorphic skin-covered hand enables robust haptic recognition

http://www.robot.ams.eng.osaka-u.ac.jp/2008/Takamuku08a.pdf

Beginners' Guide to Financial Statements

http://www.sec.gov/investor/pubs/begfinstmtguide.htm

How to download financial statements from the SEC

http://www.sec.gov/cgi-bin/browse-edgar?action=getcompany&CIK=IBM&type=10-Q&dateb=&owner=include&start=0&count=100&output=atom

1) parse xml for 10-Q document list links
2) curl each 10-Q document list page and parse for 10-Q html document
3) parse 10-Q html document for financial data


Complicating matters...10-Q forms are not the same for every company!!!

http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/51143/000110465908066201/a08-26479_110q.htm

http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/21344/000104746908011110/a2188581z10-q.htm

http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/4962/000110465908067075/a08-25726_110q.htm

http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/66740/000110465908067346/a08-25778_110q.htm

Changes in the S&P 500

http://www2.standardandpoors.com/portal/site/sp/en/us/page.topic/indices_500/2,3,2,2,0,0,0,0,0,4,1,0,0,0,0,0.html

Quantitative trading websites

http://epchan.blogspot.com/
Quant blogger

http://www.maxdama.com/
Quant blogger

http://individuals.interactivebrokers.com/en/main.php
Automated trading brokerage

http://www.exchangeapi.com/ProductOverview.htm
(matlab2ib api) Matlab interface to InteractiveBrokers

CMU Optimization Course Website

Taught by Geoff Gordon and Carlos Guestrin

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~ggordon/10725/10725-S08/