… from pamphlets to Ben Hur …. Over at Writing Across The Curricula, Professor Ellen Carillo has written a beautiful book on reading mindfully. If you have not read it yet, here is a free copy (legit free copy), PDF A Writer’s Guide to Mindful Reading — WAC Clearinghouse And…

… for PDF and more Typst (https://typst.app/) is a content authoring app that let’s you use plain text based markup to generate a well-formed PDF document, its main output at this time of writing is to generate PDF suitable for writing book chapters, journal articles and the like. …

Happy to try it out. What is the difference between this and something like, say Gadfly or Algebra of Graphics? From what you have written, seems like employing a layered grammar of graphics.

… step by step story of developing the Meta-analysis package What is meta analysis What is needed to perform Meta-analysis (steps of meta analysis) Study question framing with PICO (Participants, Intervention or Exposure, Comparator, Outcomes) Selection of studies with databases PRISMA chart construction Identification of individual studies and coding them …

So I was here in this conference and someone has written an R meta-package etc. I meekly asked the guy how about Julia. Pat came the reply that they had considered #Julia ten years ago, and it didn't meet their needs. I am sick and tired of these bullshit logic that Julia is new, julia is not popular. Those of us who use Julia on a daily basis and love it need to do something about it. Keep these articles flowing, they are very helpful.

Something new? In what way unless I have missed some major feature not present anywhere else? Onboarding? Porting contacts? It adds a threaded discussion, that's pretty much it, but so does lemmy. it looked like bog social media app. Mastodon/Calckey/Pleroma/kbin are more feature rich. What did you mean by "new"?

… part I of a three-part series of writing data science and reproducible notebooks with curvenote and jupyter notebook This is part I Go to Part 2 (TK) Go to Part 3 (TK) First things first: Get an account on Curvenote, it’s free and easy to get Start a project…

This article lays bare the myth of #India has experienced economic boom under #Modi, much of it is true. https://foreignpolicy.com/2023/06/23/modi-india-economy-success-story/ states when U.S. elites refer to India having a functional free press, judiciary, and democracy, they are either dishonest or in denial about how the country’s political system has developed…

India is not considered a democracy anymore. V-dem [1] classifies India as an electoral autocracy. Global State of Democracy Initiative rank shows that India has slipped significantly and steadily since 2013, since the demagogue Modi took over [2] Backsliding of democracy in India is nothing new, but has happened rapidly over the past 7 years [3] India is not only a fragile democracy, it is completely broken now.