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Welcome to my hoard of knowledge, shared freely and openly on the internet.\n\nI was motivated to create this resource after continuously running up against walls when reading technical papers in various STEM fields. \n\nNot being able to quickly look up a concept and get a succinct, understandable definition or listing of important implications is very troublesome. Even searching for them online might yield less than stellar explanations, or take far too long to find a satisfactory one. And once I've learnt something, without repeated practice or refreshers, concepts get forgotten or become murky again.\n\nSo I figured, why not apply [the](https://github.com/methylDragon/coding-notes) [same](https://github.com/methylDragon/ros-tutorials) [approach](https://github.com/methylDragon/python-data-tools-reference) [I've](https://github.com/methylDragon/linux-reference) [had](https://github.com/methylDragon/docker-reference) [when](https://github.com/methylDragon/moveit-tutorial) [learning](https://github.com/methylDragon/pcl-ros-tutorial) [something](https://github.com/methylDragon/ros-sensor-fusion-tutorial) [new](https://github.com/methylDragon/opencv-python-reference) with general or technical knowledge, and **write or record it down in a searcheable manner**? I will also be attempting to learn or explain these concepts ideally using something like the [Feynman technique](https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-Feynman-technique-in-detail), but this project is meant to be quite free flowing and informal.\n\nAs such, this project will be **evergreen** for as long as I keep continuously learning. Built for myself, questionably organised, but **free and open to share**. I will be curating a list of disparate and obscure topics, as well as including explanations that I find online or come up with myself to help render those topics as understandable as I can make them.\n\nAll motivated from the idea that, **I cannot say I've learnt or understood something until I can record it down and explain it to someone else**.\n\nAgain, I'll hope to do it **as informally as possible**. I believe that keeping things light and not couched in an academic context should help a lot of making the material more accessible, and aid in avoiding burnout or anxiety from not understanding.\n\nWhat are you waiting for? Time to start learning!\n\n\n\n## Contents\n\nI will be exploring many different topics, but I might focus on a couple, such as:\n\n- Math\n- Computer Science\n- Machine Learning\n- Engineering\n\nThough you might find the occasional life sciences or humanities, or even game design/creative concept floating somewhere in my notes! I have wide and varying interests, which don't exactly lend well to deep research, but definitely helps with integrating across domains.\n\n\n\n## Using This Resource\n\n### On Depth of Topics Covered\n\nBy nature of the concise way the concepts and topics are presented, this resource should be treated as a way to quickly get an introduction to and familiarity of the topic. This is because this is written to aid in understanding or reading jargon-heavy literature or papers, as well as provide quick intuitive refreshers for concepts.\n\n**The hoard is not meant to be exhaustive or definitive!**\n\nIf you needs a much more in-depth treatise on a topic, you can either look at the references if they are cited, or search up the terms yourself with the (hopefully) better understanding of the topic you've gotten from this resource.\n\n\n\n### Using It\n\nYou should be using this resource like an encyclopedia or a reference! This is not like my other tutorials out there!\n\nTrying to read everything in one go might overwhelm you, I think it'd overwhelm me too!\n\nSome recommended ways to use this resource are:\n\n- Come to this resource to get an introduction to a particular topic you are interested in.\n- Keep the relevant resource for a particular domain open while you are reading a paper to quickly `ctrl-F` and search up a concept or topic.\n\n\n\n### Programs for Reading It\n\nEven though this is hosted on GitHub, I'd recommend cloning the repository and using something like [Typora](https://typora.io/) to read and go through the notes! This will let you:\n\n- Visualise the `LaTeX` math (since GitHub does not support dynamic generation of math expressions, and I don't exactly want to keep regenerating math expression images\n- Easily search through outlines\n\nThis is because having access to an **outline** of headers will make searching for topics much easier. **You can also scroll up on the outline to search just within the outline**!\n\nThis will help prevent spurious matches with the body text and help focus your searches to keywords in the headers!!\n\n**N.B.**: I'd have preferred to use something hosted online like [HackMD](https://hackmd.io/), but due to size and visibility constraints I decided against it.\n\n\n\n## Things to be Grateful For\n\nReferences will be mentioned in the individual topic sections under the notes. But [r/explainlikeimfive/](https://www.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/) is going to be given a special mention for helping massively in the first few moments of trying to understand a topic.\n\n\n\n## Contributing\n\nContributions by pull request will be entertained, but as this repository is a collection of things I have personally learnt, I will not merge them in until I've understood the concept!\n\n(Of course, a quality contribution will allow me to quickly learn something new, which will then warrant it being merged in... So I guess what I'm saying is **feel free to contribute to the knowledge hoard**!)\n\nDo ensure that any contributions are formatted similarly to the other items in the notes, and to also give credit where credit is due, and mention your sources.\n\n\n\n## Disclaimer\n\nI make no guarantees for accuracy! But I will be citing my sources, so please do feel free to explore on your own or issue corrections.\n\n\n\n## Support my efforts!\n\n[![Yeah! 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