Writing
"640 Pages in 15 Months"
Nothing says ‘Rube Goldberg’ like XML, JavaScript, Dart, InDesign and Photoshop.
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"‘Tortured phrases’ give away fabricated research papers"
When you give the AI a thesaurus, watch out.
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"Robo-writers: the rise and risks of language-generating AI"
The hilarious, and terrifying, lack of commonsense in AI writing.
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Save the gaiters from stress (positions)
Did the science of scientific writing create a masked maelstrom?
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Beef It: My greatest LaTeX achievement
(This is a silly post. You have been warned.)
(For those unfamiliar with LaTeX and LaTeX macros, see the appendix below for a brief introduction.)
Sometimes, when writing, I really need to emphasize something.
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The life-changing science of scientific writing
As a working scientist and scholar, I am, in many ways, a professional writer. I enjoy writing and hope to get better doing it. Heck, that’s one reason I started making these posts.
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Writing Books with Jupyter
I’m a huge fan of the Jupyter project, and love to see all the progress being made with JupyterHub and especially JupyterLab.
Recently learned of another Jupyter project, Jupyter Book:
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A5 – Arguing for attention
A few years ago, I came up with a cute little mantra that I love thinking about. It’s called A5.
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Getting started (A blog? In 2020?)
I’ve decided to start blogging. I can already hear the deafening silence: A blog?!? In 2020? Blogging is dead and buried!
Indeed. Blogs are long gone (having peaked in popularity over 10 years ago), and the world is currently on fire, so why bother now?
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