Posts tagged writing

• AI for peer review

  I was reading a ‘suggested post’—that I don’t seem to be able to find again—where an academic suggested using AI…
  27 Dec, '24

• The Ghost of p-values Past

  — …but it doesn’t make any sense! — Please hear me out. — You have one minute, nothing more. —…
  25 Dec, '24

• Comment on the Treaty Principles Bill

  I submitted this comment today at 1 am to Parliament.
  15 Dec, '24

• What is in your "incomplete project" drawer?

  I love learning, trying new ways (to me) of analysing data. Most of my learning is self-taught (autodidact would be…
  28 Nov, '24

• Fragmentation of patience

  I have been online since 1993, with my first website in 1996, blog and wiki in 2002, Twitter in 2006,…
  24 Nov, '24

• Last day of teaching

  …for this semester. I was really trying to keep my head above water, but gulp, glug, I kept on taking…
  31 May, '24

• A dollop of Spanish

  Most of my followers are English speakers (native speakers, second-language, third-language, nth-language speakers) so they could be confused by my…
  22 Apr, '24

• Do you remember your first time?

  You were nervous. Would they like it as much as you did? Would you make the cut? Your first manuscript…
  16 Apr, '24

• Essentially

  A month ago I said “trees are much more than wood and one of our PhD students at the School…
  15 Nov, '23

• Looser social media

  On 5th May I wrote something very simple and not new in Mastodon, which appeared to resonate with a few people:
  7 May, '23

• Social everything buckets

  In 2009, Alex Payne wrote an article about the proliferation of Everything buckets, at least in the Mac universe. Software…
  1 May, '23

• I’m not a content creator

  I struggle with the word “content”—as used in “content creator” or “content producer”—to refer to creative endeavours. Content as something…
  8 Apr, '23

• Flotsam 18: writing

  ༄> Adrian Kosmaczewski has an interesting post on How to write a programming book (using ASCIIDOC of all things). And another…
  17 Mar, '23

• Reviewing a manuscript in two hours

  Today I declined to review a manuscript for a journal because the English language in the title and abstract, which…
  1 Mar, '23

• Flotsam 15: inference

  ༄> Before I lose the link—as I’m deleting toots & tweets two weeks after I post the—I should save the address…
  31 Jan, '23

• Why not film?

  [◉¯] “Why don’t you try film?”, he asked.
  11 Jan, '18

• A tad of novelty and adventure

  Traveling for swimming competition—kiddo competing while I officiate—and staying in a motel. There is some novelty and adventure for a…
  30 Jan, '15

• Cicadas

  These last two weeks the soundscape has been invaded by cicadas, sometimes deafening, sometimes slightly highlighting the silence. I am…
  27 Jan, '11

• Dynamic Google maps using Python

  I originally wrote this code on 2 February 2009, as a quick hack to publish air pollution in Santiago. The…
  20 Apr, '10

• Preamble to the instructions on how to wind a watch

  皿 Think of this: when they present you with a watch, they are gifting you with a tiny flowering hell, a…
  7 Apr, '10

• The library of babel by Jorge Luis Borges

  By this art you may contemplate the variations of the 23 letters… The Anatomy of Melancholy, part 2, sect. II, mem. IV
  3 Apr, '10

• Rituals

  I start every morning making coffee. For a long time the routine included putting ground coffee in a very small…
  31 Jan, '10

• Un cronopio no more

  According to the nice domaintools folks, I first registered uncronopio.org on 5 February 2002. That is eight years with a…
  19 Jan, '10

• The art of losing

  皿 Very few things last forever. Forever used to mean a hundred or a thousand years—even the universe had a beginning…
  8 Jan, '10