Steve Engels' Home Page

Lecturer, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Toronto

Last modified on May 27, 2006

Links

My old Statistical NLP reading group web site.
A page that plots various probability distributions.
A reference for the EM algorithm.
Relu's tutorial for the EM algorithm.
A reference for Monte Carlo methods.
A reference for the condensation algorithm.
Mike Brookes' Matrix Reference Manual, with lots of useful tricks and properties.
Radford Neal's infamous technical report on probabilistic inferencing (in postscript and PDF form).

Zero Punctuation. I'm a fan of Yahtzee's animated video reviews. Just don't expect him to be a fan of your Wii games.
Metacritic. A mixture of experts approach to video game reviews.
CSSU Games Night. Every year the computer science students association hosts a video game night that lasts all night and is lots of fun. Hopefully it'll still be running by the time you read this :)
Video Games Live. Video game music, performed with a live symphony orchestra. When you want to attend the symphony and actually know what the songs are.

Pictures from my classes. Long-awaited, much anticipated, somewhat overrated, seldom imitated.
Online Comics (aka MWF time-wasters):
- XKCD. Great strip for us geeks. If you want to further prove your geekiness to your non-technie friends, there's no better way than a comic strip from XKCD.
- PHD Comics. For all you grad students and grad student wannabes out there.
- Penny Arcade. Good for gaming jokes, and for rants about video games and life in general.
- Sinfest. Used to be one of my fave comic strips, but got a little political for me after a while.
- Something Positive. My new online comic favorite. Lots of really good lines in this one.
Wikipedia. The modern-day Oracle of Delphi. If you don't know what the Oracle of Delphi is, you can even look it up.
Toronto Gas Prices. Because in this day and age, we need all the help we can get.
Google Maps. Mapquest? Puh-lease, that is so last year. Besides, does Mapquest offer a satellite view?
The Catfish Recipe Page. Great recipes of my favorite fish.
The Onion. My source for illegitimate online information.
Happy Tree Friends. I don't even know why I put this here. This is just sick.