Where I write comments about things I think about and find interesting in relation to my research.
Keeping publication lists up to date is a constant problem. One thing is to just manage to keep track of things myself, another is to publish the list on my personal web page, various project web pages, etc. I have done this manually up until now, but that just does not work any longer. I [...]
Read more →I have been working on an ERC Starting Grant application over the last months. Besides the usual conceptual/practical challenges of writing funding applications, this particular application also posed the challenge of writing not only one proposal document, but two: one long (15 pages) and one short (5 pages). I am used to writing research papers [...]
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Reinstalling a laptop I thought it would be a good idea to join the Occupy Flash campagin. The manifesto says: Flash Player is dead. Its time has passed. It’s buggy. It crashes a lot. It requires constant security updates. It doesn’t work on most mobile devices. It’s a fossil, left over from the era of [...]
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Yesterday Miles Phillips suggested that the word “motionlessness” may be what I am after when it comes to describing the act of standing still. He further pointed me to a web site with a list of the world records for motionlessness. The rules to compete in motionlessness is as follows: The record is for continuously standing motionless. You [...]
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I have already written about how to compact lists earlier today. Now is the time to compact the bibliography… This is how the regular bibliography in LaTeX looks like: First I found a suggestion to use the setspace function, but it turns out that it is much easier to just use the bibsep option to [...]
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