Awesome List Updates on Dec 19, 2016

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1. Awesome Markdown

CMS / Blogs

• Ghost - Publishing platform for professional bloggers.

• Grav - Modern Flat-File CMS.

• Svbtle - Blogging platform designed to help you think.

Tools / Linters

• Markdownlint (⭐668) - Node.js style checker and lint tool for Markdown/CommonMark files.

Resources / Documentation

• The text/markdown Media Type (RFC7763) - This document registers the text/markdown media type for use with Markdown, a family of plain-text formatting syntaxes.

2. Nlp with Ruby

Pipeline Generation

• ruby-spark (⭐224) - Spark bindings with an easy to understand DSL.

3. Awesome Vue

Resources / Tutorials

• VueJS 2 - The Complete Guide (incl. Vuex) - Udemy Tutorial

• Develop Web Apps with Vue.js on egghead.io

4. Guitarspecs

Strings / Active Pickups Electronics

• Construction (Flat Wound/Round Wound)

• Material (Steel/Nickel) and

Scale Length / Active Pickups Electronics

• quick response, crisp attack

• transparent sound with well-defined basses and heights

• larger finger spread

• higher string tension at constant gauge

• warmer

• more sustain and longer decay

5. Awesome Angular

Documentation tools / Google Developer Experts

• Compodoc (⭐4k) - The missing documentation tool for your Angular application.

6. Awesome Cpp

GUI

• nana - Nana is a cross-platform library for GUI programming in modern C++ style. [Boost]

Logging

• Blackhole (⭐199) - Attribute-based logging framework, which is designed to be fast, modular and highly customizable. [MIT]

7. Awesome Dotnet Core

Frameworks, Libraries and Tools / Tools

• docfx (⭐4k) - Tools for building and publishing API documentation for .NET projects http://dotnet.github.io/docfx

8. Awesome Ruby

Coding Style Guides

• Fundamental Ruby (⭐473) - Fundamental programming ruby with examples. Threads, design patterns, data structures, OOP SOLID principle, algorithms.

9. Awesome Courses

Courses / Programming Languages / Compilers

• CS 75 Principles of Compiler Design Swathmore College
  • Modelled after the influential paper on incremental approach to compiler design, this course teaches how to build a compiler in OCaml
  • Course on Github
  • Notes (⭐37)

• CS 91 Introduction to Programming Languages Swathmore College
  • Uses the Pyret programming language & PAPL book to understand the fundamentals of programming languages.
  • Labs

10. Awesome Information Retrieval

Books

• Introduction to Information Retrieval - C.D. Manning, P. Raghavan, H. Schütze. Cambridge UP, 2008. (First book for getting started with Information Retrieval).

• Search Engines: Information Retrieval in Practice - Bruce Croft, Don Metzler, and Trevor Strohman. 2009. (Great book for readers interested in knowing how Search Engines work. The book is very detailed).

• Language Modeling for Information Retrieval - W.B. Croft, J. Lafferty. Springer, 2003. (Handles Language Modeling aspect of Information Retrieval. It also extensively details probabilistic perspective in this domain, which is interesting).

Datasets / Standard IR Collections

• TREC Collections - TREC is the benchmark dataset used by most IR and Web search algorithms. It has several tracks, each of which consists of dataset to test for a specific task. The tracks along with suggested use-case are:
  • Blog - Explore information seeking behavior in the blogosphere.
  • Chemical IR - Address challenges in building large chemical testbeds for chemical IR.
  • Clinical Decision Support - Investigate techniques to link medical cases to information relevant for patient care.
  • Confusion - Study Known Item Searching problem.
  • Contextual Suggestion - Investigate search techniques for complex information needs (context and user interests based).
  • Crowdsourcing - Explore crowdsourcing methods for performing and evaluating search.
  • Enterprise - Study search over the organization data.
  • Entity - Perform entity-related search (find entities and their properties) on Web data.
  • Filtering - Binarily decide retrieval of new incoming documents given a stable information need.
  • Federated Web Search - Study merge performance for results from various search services.
  • Genomics - Study retrieval efficiency of genomics data and corresponding documentation.
  • HARD - Obtain High Accuracy Retrieval from Documents by leveraging searcher's context.
  • Interactive Track - Study user interaction with text retrieval systems.
  • Knowledge base acceleration - Study algorithms that improve efficiency of human Knowledge Base.
  • Legal Track - Study retrieval systems that have high recall for legal documents use case.
  • Medical Track - Explore unstructured search performance over patients record data.
  • Microblog Track - Examine satisfaction of real-time information need for microblogging sites.
  • Million Query Track - Explore ad-hoc retrieval over large set of queries.
  • Novelty Track - Investigate systems' abilities to locate new (non-redundant) information.
  • Question Answering Track - Test systems that scale beyond document retrieval, to retrieve answers to factoid, list and definition type questions.
  • Relevance Feedback Track - For deep evaluation of relevance feedback processes.
  • Robust Track - Study individual topic's effectiveness.
  • Session Track - Develop methods for measuring multiple-query sessions where information needs drift.
  • SPAM Track - Benchmark spam filtering approaches.
  • Tasks Track - Test if systems can induce possible tasks, users might be trying to accomplish for the query.
  • Temporal Summarization Track - Develop systems that allow users to efficiently monitor the information associated with an event over time.
  • Terabyte Track - Test scalability of IR systems to large scale collection.
  • Web Track - Explore information seeking behaviors common in general web search.

Talks / Technical Talks

• The next web - Tim Berners-Lee (Ted Talk) [Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web. He leads the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), overseeing the Web's standards and development].

• Internet Privacy - Dr. Alma Whitten (Google Brussels Tech Talk).

Talks / Philosophical Talks

• The case for anonymity online - Christopher "moot" Poole" (Ted Talks) [Christopher "moot" Poole is founder of 4chan, an online imageboard whose anonymous denizens have spawned the web's most bewildering and influential subculture].

11. Awesome R

Spatial

• Leaflet - One of the most popular JavaScript libraries interactive maps.

• CRAN Task View: Analysis of Spatial Data- Spatial Analysis related resources.

• ggmap (⭐755) - Plotting maps in R with ggplot2.

• REmap (⭐255) - R interface to the JavaScript library ECharts for interactive map data visualization.

• sp - Classes and Methods for Spatial Data.

• gstat (⭐185) - Spatial and spatio-temporal geostatistical modelling, prediction and simulation.

• spacetime (⭐69) - R classes and methods for spatio-temporal data.

• spatstat (⭐178) - Spatial Point Pattern Analysis, Model-Fitting, Simulation, Tests

HTML Widgets

• wordcloud2 (⭐394) - R interface to wordcloud2.js.

Books / Paid

• Learning R Programming - Learning R as a programming language from basics to advanced topics.

12. Awesome AutoHotkey

Integrated Development Environment / Web

• Sublime 4 AutoHotkey - Sublime 4 AutoHotkey is a patch for Sublime Text text editor which adds support for AutoHotkey. - (discontinued)

13. Awesome Talks

Software Design

• Therapeutic Refactoring by Katrina Owen [26:04]

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