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Python is my day job and I'm very fluent in the common data science tools like Pandas, but you'll hardly ever catch me using Pandas because Excel is just so much easier for 2d data…

> It still takes lot of expensive human work to select the good quality works and proofread /edit/ peer review them etc before it is fit for publishing in a decent journal Good thi…

Pandoc?

In my field, if you get a TT position and play nice, you usually get tenure. But yeah - it's basically all about money. You can't do good research if you don't have solid funding, …

One thing they mentioned in the 'left out' section is code review. I'm a researcher in a computation-heavy field and I think that anything I write that is intended to be used in ou…

This is more likely to be applied to topology optimization imo

Retain means pay monthly.

> Python in some cases can be 100x slower than C Yeah, the Python implemented version is. But people doing serious computing in Python that requires speed are doing it with NumPy o…

Maybe that's just the language, not the support?

To me the Hardee's burgers are just like Burger King.

Not a field, but a person who everyone thought was Nobel prize bound and it turned out to be all BS. You may think that it's just one person, but the amount of research dollars tha…

I would pay actual dollars for an org-mode spacemacs reference

I understand the GPL, but I personally prefer BSD/MIT and I am disappointed when I come across things I like in the GPL. IMO the GPL is not really 'free'. On the other hand, the GP…

Just because the API is bad doesn't mean we should throw money at it. I agree that NumPy might not be the best recipient either. It's hard telling, really. Personally, I believe th…

Word has built in diff. Review -> Compare. It's kind of slow though in my experience. Diffing plain text is amazing. I recently used it to diff a research paper I was peer reviewin…

People are dogging on you for suggesting learning styles. Learning style aside, seeing something with your eyes helps you see it with your mind. I think very few people would find …

Not sure if you are aware of detexify [0], but it recognizes my trackpad-scratch quite well. The backend and all of the training data are open source, so you could indeed implement…

I use Microsoft OneNote to take notes. The math notation is almost exactly the same as in LaTeX and you basically compile it on the fly with the spacebar. +'=' toggles math mode on…

Same in Python Juypter Notebooks. I wish I could use rst though. I have to google it every once in awhile to remind myself that they won't support it ( https://github.com/ipython/i…

You make some good points regarding LaTeX. In my opinion, anything that you can express in markdown is not that hard to read in TeX source. Most of md is centered around section he…

If you are more of a vim person and don't like emacs modifier keys, I suggest checking out spacemacs.

I like reStructuredText, but the format is grating compared to markdown. The two things I do the most are sectioning and links. Inline links are ok in rst, but I prefer markdown. S…

I haven't used the iOS version, but you should check out Affinity Designer. The Mac version is amazing (better than Illustrator IMO) and I'd have high expectations on iOS. The Mac …

I feel like we are inching closer to being able to write code on iOS. Swift storyboards on the iPad kind of opened the door and I hope we can keep chipping away at this. The day I …

> I do a deeper hour-long review of lower priority content at least once a week, but my email is an effectively infinite backlog of interesting-possibly-relevant information. As a …