Interesting blogs, newsgroups, chatrooms

Here are some things that someone who likes math, Machine Learning or statistics may find interesting

Technical:

• John Langford's blog -- http://hunch.net/ , high quality technical posts on Machine Learning
  
• Lance Fortnow's blog -- http://weblog.fortnow.com/ , Computational Complexity and related
  
• Notebooks -- http://www.cscs.umich.edu/~crshalizi/notebooks/ , a collection of resources from Cosma Shalizi
  
• Illinois Genetic Algorithms Laboratory (IlliGAL) -- http://illigal.blogspot.com/
  
• AI-complete -- http://ai-complete.blogspot.com/ low-traffic, but high quality AI blog
  
• Neurodudes -- http://www.neurodudes.com/ Neuro-biological standpoint
  
• Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science -- http://www.stat.columbia.edu/~cook/movabletype/mlm/
  
  
  
  

non-Technical:

• AI Knowledge (http://www.karmachakra.com/aiknowledge) -- non-technical AI-related
• Ernie's 3D Pancakes -- http://3dpancakes.typepad.com/ernie/ Jeff is a "computational geometer"
• "Occasional thoughts by physicist Michael Nielsen" -- http://www.qinfo.org/people/nielsen/blog/
• Ferndando Pereira's blog -- http://radio.weblogs.com/0100167/
• Language log -- http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/
• Hanna Wallach is doing a PhD in Machine Learning -- http://www.srcf.ucam.org/~hmw26/join-the-dots/
• The Alpha and Omega -- http://mahalanobis.twoday.net/ interesting snippets from an economist
• Thesilog -- http://www.sologen.net/thesilog/ Amir does research in control theory

Newsgroups:

• comp.lang.ai
  
• comp.lang.ai.neural-nets
  
• sci.stat.math
  
• Machine Learning (http://groups-beta.google.com/group/Machine-Learning)
  

Mailing Lists:

• Connectionists (calls for papers, jobs): http://www.cnbc.cmu.edu/Resources/connectionists.shtml
• COLT mailing list (more calls for papers): http://mail.cs.uiuc.edu/mailman/listinfo/colt
• UAI mailing list (if you can get on it): http://www.auai.org/
  

Chatrooms:

• irc.freenode.org #MachineLearning
  

Finding Blogs:

After looking at "Referring Link" stats of people browsing this blog, I discovered two new ways of finding relevant blogs

• Go to http://blo.gs and search for "Machine Learning"
  
• Go to http://www.technorati.com/, search for Machine Learning related links, and it'll give you other blogs that have that link
  

I found a few people who came to this blog after searching for mentions of illigal.blogspot.com , and their IP's traced to Illinois, I wonder why ;)

Feel free to post other cool blogs, or other methods of finding them