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rcapon The Mathematics of Artificial Intelligence (2022)

It's standard practice for mathematics papers. Some people like to view it as "we, the author and the reader".

rcapon My Mathematics PhD research workflow: LaTeX notes and instant pdf referencing

Author here, if you have any questions, feel free to ask them.

It really is amazing how hard it is just to retrieve the currently opened pdf file and its page number in a pdf viewer. Some pdf viewers (Like Zathura) provide this via DBus, but even very common ones like Evince don't. I managed to find a way using gvfs, although it's a bit of a hack.

For others (e.g. Mendeley), I have no idea on how to do this... Anybody have ideas? it is Qt based, maybe I can hook into that via some debugging tool?

rcapon Taking notes in mathematics lectures using LaTeX and Vim (2019)

See https://castel.dev/post/lecture-notes-2/

rcapon Show HN: A simple recording program with the ability to record the screen

Assigning `killall ffmpeg` to a hotkey does the job.

rcapon Show HN: Python Tests That Write Themselves

This is basically what they call snapshot testing

rcapon An Introduction to the Mathematics of Uncertainty (2010) [pdf]

Actually, this was made with LaTeX. Sadly, LaTeX doesn't prohibit you from making ugly documents.