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I couldn't agree with the last point more. > A course taught as a bag of tricks is devoid of educational value. One year later, the students will forget the tricks, most of which are useless anyway. The bag of tricks mentality is, in my opinion, a defeatist mentality...In an elementary course in differential equations, students should learn a few basic concepts that they will remember for the rest of their lives... I…
One lesson academics should learn: pdf-naming-skills.pdf. I've been collecting interesting scientific papers and publications since early 2000 (I've a collection of 10,000 or so) and I've not yet seen a single academic, not even a computer scientist, who understands how to name your documents right so that when I download them I could quickly find them. I've to rename every single pdf. It's infuriating. Someone shoul…
http://pgbovine.net/publications.htm
this is something i try to do for all my papers, although of course people will still need to manually re-name to fit their own conventions. but at least it's better than Guo.pdf