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.
• dbcli
  • TUIs (terminal UIs) for various databases.

AI and LLMs

• OpenAI API reference
  • Standarized API for communicating with various LLMs. Note compatibility and API coverage may vary between providers. Pricing for the official OpenAI API can be found here.
• Hugging Face Hub
  • A large collection of pre-trained models for various tasks, including LLMs.
• vLLM
  • A high-performance LLM inference engine, with support for various hardware and model types.
• LM Studio
  • A local LLM playground, with support for various models and a user-friendly interface. Includes both a desktop version and a CLI version (lms).
• ChatUI
  • A browser-based chat interface for LLMs.

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

Rust

• blessed.rs: A curated list of Rust packages for networking, databases, and more.

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

• Elias Yilma; The Interactive Handbook on Data Structures and Algorithms
  • Interactive textbook using the Unity game engine, available for Windows, MacOS, and Linux.
  • One free chapter, full book available for purchase.
• Ankit Mahato; Learn Python 3
• Robert Nystrom; Crafting Interpreters
• The Rust Programming Language
• Free programming books (Github)

Other educational links

• Nand2Tetris by Shimon Schocken – teaches computing from logic gates to operating systems.
• NandGame: online simulator covering some of the Nand2Tetris topics.