Gihan Jayatilaka : Bookmarks


I am trying to compile a list of articles worth reading. Please note that bookmarking does not equal a blanket endorsement.

  1. My sister's food blog : cholesterol diaries
  2. Blogs (non technical) written by my friends: Bharatha, Dakshina, Kaveesha
  3. Technical blogs written by my friends: Nuwan, Samurdhi, Varuni, Chandima [SauseCode], Jayamine, Hiruna, Isuri.
  4. Programming contest videos by Mahathi -- who introduced the concept of expectation of linearity
  5. Tmux cheatsheet [archived, source]
  6. Latex
  7. Python libraries
  8. PDF manipulation
  9. Image manipulation
  10. Good articles to understand research papers
  11. Planing?
  12. Open Source Society University : Path to a free self-taught education in Computer Science!
  13. Does one have to be a genius to do maths? By Terence Tao
  14. The Search for Randomness - Jean Bourgain (Youtube)
  15. Computer Vision: Algorithms and Applications, 2nd ed. (Richard Szeliski) free download.
  16. Deep learning theory lecture notes by Matus Telgarsky
  17. Luc Devroye's 10 commandments of authorship. [url]

Random reads

  1. 2021-01-13 : Google Research: Looking Back at 2020, and Forward to 2021
  2. 2021-01-15 : Humans of AI (youtube series by Devi Parikh)
  3. ප්ලේන්ටිය / Plain Tea Talk Space meets weekly to discuss interesting topics. [Form to join, Youtube videos of previous weeks' discussions].
  4. The missing semester of your CS education by MIT is a set of tools to make your life in CS easier. The list includes shell, vim, git, debugging etc:. [link]
  5. What Does Any of This Have To Do with Physics? by Bob Henderson
  6. Choosing made easy by Oded Goldreich [click here and go to 9th item].
  7. Tips from neuroscience to keep you focused on hard tasks - David Badre, Nature
  8. Ideas worth looking into:
  9. Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows youtube channel.
  10. To sort:
  11. Cleaning popular datasets [github]
  12. Imgcat
  13. Understanding MMDetection
  14. Meeting rooms in IRB
  15. SSL Cookbook
  16. Cooking : Nipun (IG, English),
  17. Alyssa's photo blog on IG, vsco, and her microscope, bear, Jiaozi, SF, some other photo blog

[Last Updated 25 Feb 2025]