Author Archives: jcs

Reveal.js and Org Mode

Posted on 2016-07-19 by jcs

Mike Zamansky is back from his trip and has a new video up. It’s on making presentations with reveal.js and Org mode. This is a nice introduction to reveal.js and shows how easy it is to make a nice looking1 … Continue reading →

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Literate Programming with R

Posted on 2016-07-18 by jcs

Since I’ve been writing about literate programming lately, here’s a nice talk by Don Knuth on Literate Programming in R. Knuth begins his talk with an overview of several books that have been written using literate programming and discussing why … Continue reading →

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Tutorial Update (Week of July 10)

Posted on 2016-07-17 by jcs

This is just a quick update on the two video tutorial series that I’m following. These are Mike Zamansky’s series on Using Emacs and Rainer König’s series on Org mode. Zamansky has been traveling so there are no new videos … Continue reading →

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Intelligent Note Taking

Posted on 2016-07-16 by jcs

Günther Hutter has a nice post on taking notes that can be exported to a nice looking document. His strategy is to use markdown to take the notes and then use pandoc to export them to \(\LaTeX\) and produce a … Continue reading →

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Avoiding Data Capture

Posted on 2016-07-15 by jcs

Although I have Linux and FreeBSD machines, most of you know that I mostly live my digital life within the Apple ecosystem. I like the tight integration between my iPhone, iPad, and Macs. The downside, of course, is that it’s … Continue reading →

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Writing Humanity Papers with Org Mode

Posted on 2016-07-14 by jcs

While preparing yesterday’s post on drawers and tags, I came across another interesting post from Clark Donley that discusses how to use Org mode to write humanity papers. This is a great thing not only because it helps non-scientific researchers … Continue reading →

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Drawers and Tags

Posted on 2016-07-13 by jcs

Last year, Clark R. Donley published a very nice post on using Org mode drawers and tags for writing. I missed the post when it was first published but stumbled on it now because it was mentioned in a tweet. … Continue reading →

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Malware and the iPhone

Posted on 2016-07-12 by jcs

Say what you want about Apple and the iPhone but there’s one remarkable fact about it that Graham Cluley points out: the iPhone has had no significant malware outbreaks. Sure there have been some minor incidents but almost all the … Continue reading →

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Tidying Data for Statistical Analysis

Posted on 2016-07-11 by jcs

William Denton has an interesting post on tidying data to make statistical analysis easier. This may be interesting to Irreal readers because he uses Org mode and Babel to tidy the data and then to analyze the data. The idea … Continue reading →

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Encryption and Metadata

Posted on 2016-07-10 by jcs

A graphical illustration of encryption versus metadata when you encrypt content but not metadata pic.twitter.com/j2dj1YTSnG — Martin Shelton (@mshelton) June 1, 2016

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