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The Guardian on Cursive

Posted on 2015-02-08 by jcs

Since we’re talking about cursive, let’s take a look at what the Guardian has to say. They report that in Britain and the United States handwriting of all types—printing as well as cursive—is rapidly disappearing. Of course, we all write … Continue reading →

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Google It

Posted on 2015-02-07 by jcs

Via Magnar, here are some tips on fine tuning a Google search: How to Google It. pic.twitter.com/KL49Cp5mOH — Max Roser (@MaxCRoser) January 17, 2015

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Vox on Cursive

Posted on 2015-02-07 by jcs

I haven’t written about cursive handwriting in a while so here’s some red meat for those, like me, who hope to see its elimination from the curriculum. Vox.com posted an article with the provocative title Cursive handwriting is useless, but … Continue reading →

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Help GNUPG

Posted on 2015-02-06 by jcs

.@facebook and @stripe each vow to donate $50k a year to @gnupg https://t.co/YTwn9zC68X — Julia Angwin (@JuliaAngwin) February 6, 2015 Here’s why. If you can chip in a few dollars to keep this absolutely vital project going, please do. Kock’s … Continue reading →

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Kitchin on Using helm to Ease Navigation

Posted on 2015-02-06 by jcs

John Kitchin, who in addition to being a professor with all the work that that entails, has been busy showing us how to leverage Emacs to ease our work flows. If you’re a helm user, Kitchin has some nice Elisp … Continue reading →

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Uncommon Bigrams

Posted on 2015-02-04 by jcs

Recently, Sacha Chua wrote about how she leveraged abo-abo’s def-repeat-command to easily call windmove and ace-window. She bound the function to the prefix key-chord of yy. That seemed an odd choice to me but I just shrugged and moved on. … Continue reading →

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Sacha on Org Using Org Tables

Posted on 2015-02-02 by jcs

Sacha Chua has an outstanding post on how to add data to and get data from Org mode tables. I’ve written a lot about using Org tables and what used to be called Babel to calculate results from the tables … Continue reading →

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The Emacs Honor Society

Posted on 2015-02-01 by jcs

John Kitchin, whose work I’ve mentioned many times, states the obvious. What would the Emacs honor society be called? λλλ of course. #emacs — John Kitchin (@johnkitchin) December 20, 2014

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Deanonymizing Metadata

Posted on 2015-02-01 by jcs

I’ve written a couple of times about the New York City Taxi Commission’s metadata and how easily it can be abused even though it was anonymized by removing the personally identifiable information. The anonymization notwithstanding, data analysts were able to … Continue reading →

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Running a Course Video

Posted on 2015-01-31 by jcs

My New Year’s post was about how John Kitchin used Emacs and Org-mode to run a graduate course in Chemical Engineering. If you want to see it in action, he’s posted a short video that shows the system from both … Continue reading →

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