Most Useful Sites and tools (All Online)
These are primarily bookmarks I have in my browser. I thought they could be helpful to others, so I compiled them here.
For Researchers
This is an excellent tool for researchers, especially when searching for review articles. Enter the paper title, and you’ll be able to see a beautiful graph of connected papers, as the name suggests!
I have always wanted a tool to find related papers to the ones I am already reading. This one does that. So, you don’t need to search for the state of the art papers using different keywords now and then.
This powerful program converts math formulas in Image or PDF to Latex.
A fast way to write and share mathematics, especially when you don’t have access to LATEX. Also, whenever I need to write some formulas, I first come here and write them, then export them into LATEX. It is a lot easier.
The best tool (language) for drawing a diagram is Mermaid. You don’t have to use a mouse anymore. Just describe what you want, and it will render a beautiful diagram. This is also supported in GitHub markdown.
Also, when creating more complex layouts that can not be defined easily via Mermaid, I have this one in mind.
Journal and Conference Ranking
Text Editing and paraphrasing tools
Who doesn’t know about Grammarly? It has become a de facto standard when checking grammar. However, what it does is very simple. Often I find it boring since It can not rephrase the whole sentence. I had an educational premium account, but I don’t use it anymore.
It paraphrases my sentences into better ones, and I found this one very intelligent too.
This one is pretty interesting too. It offers unlimited free paraphrasing, so I use this one more than Wordtune.
Other Tools
TIME.IS Exact time for any time zone
Photoshop-like software for editing purposes. It is a fantastic alternative for someone like me who, you know, edits photos once a year! If you want something to use daily, I recommend Krita.
You can call any API with Postman.
Seamlessly visualize your JSON data instantly into graphs!
A great tool to flash ISO to USB
Also, for windows, you can use Rufus. I prefer to use Ventoy as it simultaneously supports multiple iso files.
Clipboard Service Online Clipboard Sharing
Just another clipboard service that I use
Real-time codesharing platform
Here I can share my code in real-time! This is also good as a clipboard-sharing platform!
The official list of applications - ArchWiki
If you are familiar with Arch Linux, you know these two are the only sites you need to install any software!
A Useful site that provides compiled files to quickly install a package
A good website which I use from time to time to check my internet connection.
Find the right commands you need without digging through the web.
ML learning
Machine Learning researchers should check out this site. There’s no better explanation than what its creators say, “Distill is dedicated to clear explanations of machine learning.”
This is an intuitive explanation of Machine learning, for starters.
Reviewing current state-of-the-art in machine learning (SOTA)