Peter Dunsby's homepage - Peter Dunsby is a prominent member of the UCT cosmology group. He runs
also online courses in general relativity and vector calculus. This is a very nice site
with a great selection of links to physics pages around the world.
John Baez Webpage of John Baez, a mathematical physicist who works on quantum gravity. Very nice, especially his "Weekly Find in
Mathematical physics.
Max Tegmark - Max Tegmark's homepage. Another famous physicist who takes time to present some interesting
information on his page.
John Preskill - Very nice
page with lots of usefull info on Quantum Information Theory and Quantum Computing.
There is also an introductory textbook on Quantum Information that you can download in
postscript format.
CGPG at Penn State University - The Centre of Gravitational Physics and Geometry is home to people like
Abhay Ashtekar and Leo Smolin who are working on different aspects of General relativity,
in particular on the Canonical quantization of quantum gravity.
The site has an especially nice page on their weekly seminars with scans of all
overheads used and Real audio files of the presentations.
Physics Formularies - Two very nice volumes of formulas for physics and maths. A couple
of interesting links as well.
The Anthropic Principle - Quite an interesting site about the anthropic principle and our role in
the universe. Haven't had much time to look at it though. Have a
look at the "Doomsday argument" there and tell me what you think about
it.
The Mathematical Atlas - Nice maths site. It has a very nice classification of different areas
of maths with short summaries on most fields. I think descriptions are
supposed to be ad hoc so there are still some links without description.
Nonetheless it has nice links on most topics.
Torus and Klein Bottle Geometry Games - Ever wondered
what Tic-Tac-Toe or Chess would be like on the surface of a Torus?
Well wonder no more, just click on the above link to find out for
yourself.
On-line encyclopedia of integer sequences - Strange but true. This website has a huge database on integer sequences which you can search through
a form interface. Apparently the site has even been referenced in some real academic papers.
Online integrals - Type in the integral that you need and hopefully it will be given to you by this nice web interface.
It's probably just a web interface to Maple or something similar but if you're ever stuck in an
internet cafe without your copy of Maple and you desperately need an integral and this will come in handy.
Geometric Algebra - Nice site with stuff on Geometric algebra
run by the geometric algebra group at Cambridge.
Philosophy of Mathematics - A very interesting webpage/article on the philosophy from the greeks
right up to mathematical intuitonism and constructive mathematics.
http://mathworld.wolfram.com/ - Some maths site that looked quite nice. Well I didn't have much time
to look around, but it was one of the only ones that had anything to
say about the p-adic numbers.
Ask a Topologist Bulletin Board - A message board where you can ask questions about Topology and Metric spaces. I've posted
there before.
InformIT - Here you can read IT books online for free.
These are new, off-shelf type books and each usually cost quite a bit.
The only problem is that they only really have IT books, but if you
want to learn Delphi or Java and want to read but not to buy a book
about it then have a look at this site. Unfortunately you also have
to become a member and they will spam you but it's a small price
to pay for getting access to off-the-shelf type books.
http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Horizon/2101/ - My old Geocities page. Very outdated! The best thing about it actually is
that it is one of the few things that aren't Y2K compliant as you will
see when you go there. Especially look at the date and the last updated
parts.
DEBUG Info Page - The only site with useful information
about debug. If you don't know what debug is then let me tell you
that it is a basic assembler/disassembler that comes with any
Dos/Windows based system. Thus there is nothing stopping you from
doing some assembly programming.
Nasm - A great, free
assembler for intel based platforms. Apart from being free it also
has the most consistent syntax compared to other assemlers that I've
tried (which is limited to Tasm, Masm and Spim).
USNews.com - Don't really know
what this site is supposed to do. All I know is that they have
a ranking system of the best universities in the states which might
come in handy when it comes to choosing a university for my PhD.
GAC - Generic Artificial Consciousness:
An interesting project to construct something that is supposed to
resemble consciousness by gathering data about what humans believe/know
and then training a neural network with this data. To me this seems mor like training a machine to replicate human knowledge efficiently rather
than making it conscious as its name, GAC, implies. However I do find
this very interesting since it will probably more than anything else
give a map or some sort of picture of what the average human believes
which is very interesting in it's own right. My one big criticism of
the site is that they want you to answer what you think an average
human thinks but I think this is wrong. From what I think I understand
of statistics this will rather bias your data in a certain way. Users
should rather be encouraged to answer what they believe, since then
averaging over those answers would give a true reflection of what
the average human knows not what the average human thinks most other
humans know which is what GAC is currently recording.
