Useful links

Software

• NGC Container catalog
  • Everything you need to run Tensorflow or PyTorch, for example, in Docker. No more struggling with compatibility issues.
• pureline
  • One of the first things I install on Linux or WSL. Beautify your command prompt, with useful information such as git and virtual environment states.
• vhs
  • Generate GIF demos for your command-line tools.

Academic software

• Jabref: BibTeX reference manager.
• LyX: combine the power of \(\LaTeX\) with the user-friendliness of a graphical interface.
• Quarto: embed Python/R/Julia code blocks in Markdown; output to a variety of formats such as HTML or PDF.

Python

• pipx: install Python apps in an isolated environment.
• uv: package and project manager for Python, written in Rust.
  • Example Dockerfile using uv

Free books

Data Science and Machine Learning

• Rafael Irizarry; Introduction to Data Science
  • Part 1: Data Wrangling and Visualization with R
  • Part 2: Statistics and Prediction Algorithms Through Case Studies
• Marc Peter Deisenroth, A. Aldo Faisal, Cheng Soon Ong; Mathematics for Machine Learning
• Ian Goodfellow, Yoshua Bengio, Aaron Courville; Deep Learning
• Aston Zhang, Zack C. Lipton, Mu Li, Alex J. Smola; Dive into Deep Learning

Queueing and teletraffic theory

• Moshe Zukerman; Introduction to Queueing Theory and Stochastic Teletraffic Models
• Villy B. Iversen; Teletraffic engineering and network planning
• Frank Kelly, Elena Yudovina; Stochastic Networks

Programming

• Ankit Mahato; Learn Python 3
• Free programming books (Github)