Add links relevant to Machine Learning, theory and criticism here.
Tools
Accessing O'Reilly books online using NYU's account:
(links to try)
From on campus
From off-campus
Another off-campus link
From off-campus you probably need to login using netid and password. Neither off campus link worked for me off-campus; update with your discoveries.
Applications
IBM is training an AI to compete on Jeopardy
Articles
Questions raised over fingerprinting of food stamp applicants
Myths and Facts about welfare
Medicare fraud
Python
Main Python Site
External Python Modules (The Cheese Shop)
Python Imaging Library Downloads
Enthought Python Distribution
NLP
Glossary of linguistic terms
Neural Networks
great tutorial about self-organizing maps, focused on dimensionality reduction.
Ensemble Methods and Face Detection
Google Tech Talk covering adaboost and other algorithms
c++ implementation of face detection from a webcam using haar features and cascades.
Object detection in OpenCV
Orange Data mining package with visual frontend and Python scripting
Orange ensemble methods module
Textbook Related
Errata for Collective Intelligence
Speech and Language Processing Author's site