Authors just follow any format mandated by the journals.
In unoficial notes for the classes, most authors use single column, and try to remember the magic spell to keep the figures in place. Something like [H!] ???
> We got rid of the regular freelancer thread because most people were cross-posting between it and "Who Wants to Be Hired". So it's best to post there instead: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46108940 .
But the question isn't "what are the odds someone who dies in this period has rabies" it's "what are the odds someone who died after being infected with rabies died before they started showing symptoms" so the rarity of people incubating rabies is irrelevant.
Further, rabies incubation is highly variable - symptoms may not appear for years.
“Yes, the ‘ceramics story’ in ‘Art & Fear’ is indeed true, allowing for some literary license in the retelling. Its real-world origin was as a gambit employed by photographer Jerry Uelsmann to motivate his Beginning Photography students at the University of Florida.
(See the notes in "Atomic Habits" "The Danger of Aiming for Perfection" — "As retold in ‘Art & Fear’ it faithfully captures the scene … except I replaced photography with ceramics as the medium being explored.")
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What would we need to do to make the photography course an experiment rather than a parable?
The story about the photography students was conveyed almost verbatim in the book Atomic Habits fwiw.
But I think this type of principle has been relayed through many forms. Even Bruce Lee has the famous quote “I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once,
but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times.”
I found the name of that photographer (RIP), who lives in Florida and who taught. Also has a thing about quantity over quality. But his own site didn't specifically mention this anecdote. I've also read the pottery one.
I'd love to know if either are real and verifiable.
The lesson is most likely real and applicable either way.
My experience with writing, music, and photography is that I get better results trying a bunch of different things rather than focusing on one or a few. The quality is still variable, but the hit rate is much higher. I can then switch to polishing a batch of hits rather than trying to turn a single idea into a hit.
The problem is that there is a minimum energy bound caused by the second law of thermodynamics. Once you publish hard numbers the efficiency claims disappear in thin air.
Good idea on customizing the names. That’s at least an easy way around translations for everything, although Spanish would be a good one to add anyway.
It’s already supposed to get the country holidays automatically (it uses some free API I can’t recall atm), so I’m not sure what’s wrong there, but I’ll see if I can find out.
> What would you need the month/weekday names customization for?
For me are fine. I thought in the printed were only available only in English and for some weird reason I was seeing the online version in Spanish. I still don't thrust javascript.
One interesting cases, some people (I!!) have a strong opinion about "sePtiembre" vs "setiembre".
For weekdays, perhaps a shorthand "L Ma Mi J V S D" instead of the full names. I have no strong opinion. (I recently saw "L M X J V S D", but I'm not sure it's usual somewhere.) For a calendar I think I prefer the full name.
In unoficial notes for the classes, most authors use single column, and try to remember the magic spell to keep the figures in place. Something like [H!] ???
Also most books are single column.
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