• The UCI machine learning data repository.
• MLOSS: machine learning open source software repository.
• ML competitions.

• The International Machine Learning Society and its International Conference on Machine Learning
• Journal of Machine Learning Research, free, on-line
• Neural Computation
• International Journal of Intelligent Systems
• Neural Information Processing Systems conference.

The official Python website

• The official Python tutorial
• Think Python, on-line book by Allen Downey
• Dive Into Python, on-line book by Mark Pilgrim
• Dive into Python slides, by Bartosz Telenczuk

• Python Debugging Techniques and Python Conquers the Universe
• Code Like a Pythonista: Idiomatic Python
• The Python Standard Library
• High Performance Python, by Ian Ozsvald

• IPython main site
• Video tutorial on using ipython, in five parts by Jeff Rush
• Video: IPython in-depth: high-productivity interactive and parallel python, at 1:22 this video summarizes the IPython Notebook.

• Using Python on Windows
• Python Tools for Visual Studio

• Installing Python on Lion or Mountain Lion
• Using Python on Macs

• A Guided Tour of Emacs, helps answer the question “Why emacs?”
• Here is a two page Emacs Reference Card.

• Spyder, stands for Scientific PYthon Development EnviRonment

• Pydev for Eclipse

• The NumPy Array: A Structure for Efficient Numerical Computation, by Stéfan van der Walt, S. Chris Colbert, and Gaël Varoquaux
• Python Tools for Science, by Bartosz Telenczuk
• Tentative (basic) tutorial
• Example list
• Reference guide
• Introducing Numpy Arrays, video.

Many other related vides can be found here.

• For installing on MS Windows, see Installing SciPy / Windows.

• Save and edit the customization file described here to modify how matplotlib makes plots.
• Here is a nice short tutorial on how to combine matplotlib plots within a gui application based on wxWidgets and wxPython.

Lots of tutorials and quick starts out there:

• LaTeX Documentation
• The Not So Short Introduction to LATEX 2ε or LATEX 2ε in 157 minutes by Tobias Oetiker, Hubert Partl, Irene Hyna and Elisabeth Schlegl, with an excellent index useful for looking up commands
• Emacs as the Ultimate LaTeX Editor, by Piotr Kaźmierczak
• LaTeX: from quick and dirty to style and finesse, by Tony Roberts
• Online tutorials on LaTeX by the Indian TeX Users Group
• Getting to Grips with LaTeX by Andrew Roberts

On the computer science department's network, we have texmaker installed. Just type

> texmaker

at the unix prompt to get started. We also have LyX, which you run by

> lyx

And we have kile, which you run by

> kile

• Obtaining LaTeX, includes links to ProTeXT for Windows, and MacTeX for Macs.

See the Remote Access page department wiki.

• Don't Invert that Matrix, by John Cook
• The Matrix Cookbook, by Kaare Brandt Petersen and Michael Syskind Pedersen