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Watch a Ph.D. thesis dissertation being written in (somewhat) realtime

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Re: Watch a Ph.D. thesis dissertation being written in (somewhat) realtime

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Excellent! People writing important papers really should be using Git. When documents are extremely complex, previously removed portions can have pertinence later.

Seconded -- at least for anyone using LaTeX or another git-friendly format. I used git for my masters dissertation recently, and it was very useful to be able to checkout old versions and compare them with its then-current state.

Re: Watch a Ph.D. thesis dissertation being written in (somewhat) realtime

#25

This is really cool stuff. Reminds me of a stripped down version of notch's live coding sessions for Ludum Dare. Any reason you chose LaTeX as your content dev language and publishing over something a little "easier" like DocBook XML and Publican (which uses LaTeX as an intermediate build language to create PDFs)? Is it required, what you're used to, or purity of notation?

There's nothing more suspicious than a math paper written in something besides TeX.

Re: Watch a Ph.D. thesis dissertation being written in (somewhat) realtime

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That's really neat! I'm not sure if this is intentional because your work is private, but I would love it if I could click on the images or SHAs to go actually see the thing.

At the moment I'm a little hesitant to make it public. Partly because there's a large chunk of unpublished research in there, but also because some of the early drafts are a little embarrassing. Perhaps when the thesis is deposited (and hence public) I could add that in for "historical" interest.

Definitely don't make it public. I know people who have had their thesis topics scooped.

Re: Watch a Ph.D. thesis dissertation being written in (somewhat) realtime

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This is really cool stuff. Reminds me of a stripped down version of notch's live coding sessions for Ludum Dare. Any reason you chose LaTeX as your content dev language and publishing over something a little "easier" like DocBook XML and Publican (which uses LaTeX as an intermediate build language to create PDFs)? Is it required, what you're used to, or purity of notation?

'content dev'. yuck.
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