Author Archives: jcs

Paul Graham on SciHub

Posted on 2022-08-09 by jcs

Paul Graham remarks on SciHub and how broken our current system is that everyone’s advice for getting research results is to use a pirate site. I was talking to a high school student interested in a certain technology and I … Continue reading →

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A Graduate Student Research Workflow

Posted on 2022-08-08 by jcs

Koustuv Sinha is a PhD student in machine learning and natural language processing. Because much of his time is devoted to reading research papers in his field, he’s devoted significant effort into optimizing his workflow. The TL;DR is that he’s … Continue reading →

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Remote Work At The Doctor’s Office

Posted on 2022-08-07 by jcs

If you’ve been reading Irreal for more than the last 5 posts you know that I’m a big supporter of remote work. There are many many jobs that can be done remotely and there’s no reason for many employees to … Continue reading →

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Org-mode Versus Jupyter Notebook

Posted on 2022-08-06 by jcs

John D. Cook, a consulting mathematician, who runs the TeX and Typography Twitter feed as well as several similar—mostly mathematically focused—feeds has two posts that consider using Org-mode instead of Jupyter Notebook. It’s interesting because it comes from someone who … Continue reading →

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Red Meat Friday: PHP Is The Right Choice

Posted on 2022-08-05 by jcs

One thing you have to say for Daniel Abernathy is that he’s not afraid of the heavy lift. He’s got a post that presses the claim that PHP Is the Right Choice in 2022 and Beyond. It’s hard to find … Continue reading →

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Mickey on Evaluating Elisp

Posted on 2022-08-04 by jcs

Mickey from Mastering Emacs has an excellent post on the various ways of evaluating Elisp in Emacs. As Mickey says, there are several ways of doing it depending on the context and it pays to be familiar with them all. … Continue reading →

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Thoughts On Thoughts On RSS

Posted on 2022-08-03 by jcs

Matt Rickard has a—at least to me—provocative post on RSS. As I’ve said many times, I’m a big believer in and user of RSS. Google did its best to kill it off but it turned out to be too useful … Continue reading →

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Dired-rsync

Posted on 2022-08-02 by jcs

Yi Tang has an interesting post on the dired-rsync package. It’s been around for a while, apparently, but I hadn’t heard of it before Tang’s post. The TL;DR is it allows you to use rsync in dired in the same … Continue reading →

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They Never Give Up

Posted on 2022-08-01 by jcs

The Simple Analytics Blog has a disturbing post about Vodaphone and their reintroduction of persistent tracking. Vodafone & Deutsche Telekom are network providers whose job it is to send our data across the Internet and nothing more. They’re supposed to … Continue reading →

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Changing How Emacs Works

Posted on 2022-07-31 by jcs

Karthik has a nifty video on how to change the way Emacs works. We’re all fond of saying that Emacs is infinitely extensible and customizable but then we usually go out for a beer without saying how. Kathink remedies that … Continue reading →

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