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Spys in the Lab: Reference Managers are all spyware

Last post by Blogio « Tue Mar 23, 2021 1:21 pm
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by Blogio » Sun Nov 08, 2020 6:34 pm
This topic was posted 1431 days ago

A reference manager is a conceptually simple piece of software. You need to maintain a database of articles that you have in hand or that you know...

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Adobe PDF reader to blame for dropped graphics, not Fiery Commander (probably)

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by Blogio » Tue Oct 27, 2020 10:21 am
This topic was posted 1443 days ago

The time finally came to self-print my book. However, my Epson color printer hit its print limit, and even though there was nothing wrong with it,...

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The Lies of the Self-Publishing Industry

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by Blogio » Sun Jul 19, 2020 2:05 pm
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LYING CON ARTISTS say it's easy to self-publish:
I really thought that I could self-publish my book by using one of the many web sites that offer...

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PDF became non-standard while we weren't looking

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by Blogio » Thu May 28, 2020 10:31 am
This topic was posted 1595 days ago

Remember the PDF standard, the file exchange format for documents that's incredibly convoluted and difficult to program for, but, hey, at least it's...

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Nature magazine hypes AI automated protein folding

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by Blogio » Thu Apr 30, 2020 1:37 pm
This topic was posted 1623 days ago

Anything in Nature magazine these days is secretly an advertisement for some product.

In this article , the product appears to be AlphaFold....

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Ancient "Cart Ruts" might be noise abatement technique

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by Blogio » Thu Apr 30, 2020 12:37 am
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The cart ruts of ancient Pompeii are definitively ancient. They were buried along with the city. For the same reason, we also know they were built by...

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Elephant Cancer Resistance: Getting the wrong message from research

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by Blogio » Wed Apr 29, 2020 1:01 pm
This topic was posted 1624 days ago

There's a relatively new story that elephants don't get cancer. It's difficult to believe we have sufficient expertise in elephant cancer in wild...

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Find out about the Unix family history at Ancestry.com

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by jake-boards » Mon Sep 09, 2019 10:23 am
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That's right, Ancestry.com has all the details on Unix , including what the family was doing in the 1800s. Surprisingly, they didn't come from New...

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The Cult of Matlab

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by jake-boards » Thu Aug 29, 2019 1:04 pm
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I'm dismayed when I see how popular R, Python, and Matlab have become. They're all a bunch of bolt-on centric scripting languages, about as bad as...

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