in language acquisition lecture something I do is grab the day's most trending headline and record myself reading it aloud, as a demo of the acoustic complexity of word segmentation in newly uttered speech this was today's trending headline so, uh, I guess that's what I'm reading aloud to the class

Scientist: no but when I asked an LLM it got it wrong too

Interviewer: Can you explain this gap in your CV? Scientist: I made it in TeX and can't figure out how to remove the gap but I also don't want to get yelled at if I post a question on stackexchange, so I have instead decided to appreciate the gap, which is still there

Fans of MAD MEN will recall that this mishap leads to a good idea for advertising telegrams ("you can't frame a phone call") but I shan't be so lucky with my own failure of documentation

last night I had a thought for something to put in this chapter, scribbled a note, and looking now I found it is completely indecipherable. i have no clue what it was. my thought is gone forever let this, and Kinsey from MAD MEN be a reminder to you all: when you have a good idea *write it down*

Reviewer 3 reading my paper

i just spent 5 min trying to download a paper through the Official Library Website before giving up and getting it instantly (and illicitly) on sci-hub instead

annals of book research, vol. 12, comparative psych edition in land-dwelling vertebrates, the animal holds still and the sound shakes the ear. in water-dwelling animals, the ear holds still while the sounds shake the fish

Lol no just a gdoc, I like my recipes simpler than my scientific documents

Will be keen to try when it's ready. In general though I've found we don't tend to work on docs at exactly the same time (maybe because of geographic spread) so have been pretty happy without a real-time collaborative editor

Nice! We used to use latexdiffr but in qmd that won't work (using typst), so will try this....

We've found gh comments a bit unwieldy but it's certainly an option

48. SHORT TALKS (Anne Carson). This is one of Carson's early books of poetry, or maybe better to call them vignettes, or short talks since that's what she called them For me, reading this was a bit like walking through a well-curated gallery without knowing much about the painters

When is bsky making private accounts lolol

i just lol'd

hahahah totally fair as my late father-in-law would say, de gustibus non est disputandum

I think what I don't like about the Oxford series is that it almost seems intentionally lacking style. The Kittel physics ones are very simple and minimalist but I find them stylish (the colours vary from edition to edition; the typefaces are carefully chosen; etc)