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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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Mickey on Diacritics in Emacs

Posted on 2022-06-29 by jcs

Back in the Old Days™ ASCII was king and it was pretty much impossible to faithfully render any language that required diacritical marks or non-Latin characters. So essentially you could render English but anything else was iffy. All that changed … Continue reading →

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Corner Quotes

Posted on 2022-01-19 by jcs

John D. Cook has a useful post on using “corner quotes” (⌜ ⌟) to delimit regular expressions in text. As Cook says, it makes a lot of sense especially when the regular expression begins or ends with a space. Cook’s … Continue reading →

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Blogs and RSS

Posted on 2021-11-07 by jcs

Brandon Quakkelaar has an interesting post on Social Media, Blogs, and RSS. His feelings are amazingly congruent with mine. We both don’t care for social media but recognize that they present a good way of discovering new content. What are … Continue reading →

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Ivy Completions

Posted on 2021-11-01 by jcs

John Kitchin has a new video up on his Scimax Channel. The video’s theme is Ivy’s completion mechanism. It doesn’t seem like there would be a lot to say but, of course, there’s plenty. Kitchin begins by explaining completing-read, a … Continue reading →

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The Scimax Channel

Posted on 2021-10-24 by jcs

As I noted previously, John Kitchin has been busy making and posting videos about Scimax, his Emacs starter kit targeted at scientists and engineers involved in programming and publishing. There are so many videos that I can’t hope to comment … Continue reading →

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RSS for the Researcher

Posted on 2021-10-19 by jcs

At the beginning of his Elfeed video, John Kitchen mentioned a paper by James Fraser on RSS for the researcher. This is notable for two reasons. First, there’s the paper itself, of course, but there’s also the very nice way … Continue reading →

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Emacs as a Tool for Scientists

Posted on 2021-10-18 by jcs

Recently, John Kitchin tweeted a pointer to the draft of a paper by Timonthy Johnson that makes the case for Emacs as the tool for scientists to organize and report their research. The paper, Emacs as a Tool for Modern … Continue reading →

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Scimax Notebook

Posted on 2021-10-16 by jcs

As I’ve said before, John Kitchin is producing so many videos that it’s hard to keep up. One of his recent videos is about Scimax Notebook, his implementation of digital notebooks based on Projectile, Bozhidar Batsov’s project interaction package. In … Continue reading →

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Lets in Elisp

Posted on 2021-10-14 by jcs

John Kitchin has a short video in his Scimax channel that considers another Elisp construct. This video talks about let and its siblings. One of the first non-trivial things a new Lisper learns is how to deal with local variables … Continue reading →

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