Category Archives: General

Word versus LaTeX: A Coda

Posted on 2015-01-12 by jcs

A short while ago I wrote about the Knauff & Nejasmic study claiming to show that when Academics are writing papers they are more efficient with Word than with LaTeX. That study was, in my and several others’ opinions, completely … Continue reading →

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Introduction to PGP Video

Posted on 2015-01-11 by jcs

The good folks over at New York Emacs Meetup have posted their monthly talk. This time, it’s George Brocklehurst with a talk entitled A Pretty Good Introduction to Pretty Good Privacy. It’s a mostly narrated slide show, although there are … Continue reading →

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Happy Birthday

Posted on 2015-01-10 by jcs

Happy birthday to one of my heroes. Keep on doing what you’re doing.

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Open-Offices: Still Going Strong

Posted on 2015-01-10 by jcs

The Washington Post has a nice article by Lindsey Kaufman entitled Google got it wrong. The open-office trend is destroying the workplace. As the title suggests, the article is a crie de coeur on the horrors of the open-office. Kaufman … Continue reading →

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Using AUCTeX

Posted on 2015-01-08 by jcs

Before I started using Org-mode for most of my writing, I typeset everything using groff. I occasionally used TeX but very little LaTeX. One of my New Year Resolutions is to learn more LaTeX. My recent post on Piotr Kaźmierczak’s … Continue reading →

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Org Mode for Research Papers

Posted on 2015-01-07 by jcs

Vikas Rawal has an excellent introduction to using Org-mode for writing academic research papers. Rawal is mainly interested in statistical studies so his introduction emphasizes R but not in a way that excludes using his notes for other languages. Almost … Continue reading →

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Looking for a Fancier Mode Line?

Posted on 2015-01-06 by jcs

Here’s a Stack Exchange post that tells you how.

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Attack on the Scientific Method

Posted on 2015-01-03 by jcs

I just read a horrifying article in Nature. The article, Scientific method: Defend the integrity of physics, recounts an effort among some theoretical physicists to redefine the scientific method so that it no longer requires experimental verification or even that … Continue reading →

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Multiple Info Buffers

Posted on 2015-01-02 by jcs

Marcin Borkowski (mbork), who’s an occasional commenter here on Irreal, has an interesting post on his info workflow. He likes to have multiple info buffers open at the same time. That may seem a little odd but as Borkowski explains, … Continue reading →

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Using Emacs to Run a Course

Posted on 2015-01-01 by jcs

Via Sacha I found this really interesting post by John Kitchin, whose work Irreal has mentioned many times. In this post, Kitchin writes about how he used Emacs to run a graduate course in Chemical Engineering. Emacs was used to … Continue reading →

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