Schlagwort: Schreiben

Editordition.

Text editors are like wine. The older the better. You do not want a shiny new text editor. You want the text editor that has been around long enough and used by enough geeks that every conceivable pattern of manipulating symbols on the screen has been thought of, and crystallized into a re-usable pack.

Vivek Haldar:New frontiers in text editing

Unterdrückt.

I find it telling if a spell checking program does not know the word "oppressed".

Enough for a whole day.

Radiohead and Markdown.

Parantheses.

Yes, (misplaced )brackets can make me angry.

General Paper Lot.

The more sophisticated science becomes, the harder it is to communicate results. Papers today are longer than ever and full of jargon and symbols. They depend on chains of computer programs that generate data, and clean up data, and plot data, and run statistical models on data. These programs tend to be both so sloppily written and so central to the results that it’s contributed to a replication crisis, or put another way, a failure of the paper to perform its most basic task: to report what you’ve actually discovered, clearly enough that someone else can discover it for themselves.

James Somers: The Scientific Paper Is Obsolete