resources

Note:

People need to read different books based on their specific needs. Therefore, the following recommendations might be most helpful for college students who share similar research interests in artificial intelligence, machine learning, robotics, and control.

Books:

  1. Reinforcement Learning and Optimal Control      by D. P. Bertsekas, Athena Scientific, 2019. [Bertsekas19]

  2. Dynamic Non-cooperative Game Theory               by T. Başar and G. J. Olsder

  3. Control System Design: An Introduction to State-Space Methods               by B. Friedland

  4. Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach [4th ed.]               by Stuart Russell

  5. Understanding Machine Learning: From Theory to Algorithms               by Shai Shwartz and Shai David

  6. An Introduction to Statistical Learning with Applications in R [2nd ed.] Springer

  7. Robot Modeling and Control               by M. Spong, S. Hutchinson, M. Vidyasagar


Videos:

  1. Control Bootcamp

  2. Understanding Machine Learning - Shai Ben-David

  3. MIT OpenCourseWare

  4. Princeton Intro to Robotics


Interesting Concepts:

  1. Occam’s razor


Beautiful Quotes: (unknown or falsely attributed authors are not included)

  1. ‘Education Is Not the Learning of Facts, But the Training of the Mind To Think.’ — Einstein

  2. ‘Mathematics is the queen of the sciences and number-theory the queen of mathematics.’ — Gauss

  3. ‘In mathematics you don’t understand things. You just get used to them.’ — Neumann

  4. ‘Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.’ — King

  5. ‘Ask the right question is more significant than blindly try to solve a question.’ — Musk

  6. ‘If you are depressed, you are living in the past. If you are anxious, you are living in the future. If you are at peace, you are living in the present.’

  7. ‘Two things could be equivalent, however they look very differently. Two things could be different, however they look very similar.’ — from propositional logic

  8. ‘Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.’ — Russell