How to recognize if the study you’ve embarked on might not be among the hard sciences (in case you didn’t already know): – assignments have word count limits – Harvard style citations (yuck!) – not only is use of LaTeX neither required nor encouraged for assignments, it is actively made harder by a file-type filter […]
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Purchase recommendation algorithms will forever amuse me. Sure, I get the electronics suggestion. The glittery whatever that is is a natural consequence of my phone case purchases. The bedding makes sense – I ordered some sheets last week. The Frozen thing? Could perhaps be inferred from my purchases? I suppose? But two convenient cases of […]
I just made a terrible discovery! Audible’s Douglas Coupland selection is abysmal! I felt like revisiting classics like Generation X or Microserfs, but neither of those were available. Now, I’m stuck having to read them myself (which is not really shower- or biking-compatible) or dive into his post-2000 material… JPod and Generation A – no […]
I can’t be the only one: whenever my Audible morning summary of The Wall Street Journal goes “here are 5 things you need to know in tech” – which is pretty much daily – I begin listing “LaTeX, BibTeX, plainTeX, XeTeX, TeX Live, …” […]
Todo Items
This week, I’ve made a point to create a todo item for every evening. Just a small thing I’ve put off forever because it wasn’t terribly important and kind-of just drowned in the sea of little things I needed to do, more immediately important things, and just letting off steam. Just one thing to stay […]
This week, I’ve made a point to create a todo item for every eveining. Just a small thing I’ve put off forever because it wasn’t terribly important and kind-of just drowned in the sea of little things I needed to do, more immediately important things, and just letting off steam. Just one thing to stay […]