Ad Lagendijk
10 November 2015
Tags: Kensington, Logitech, mouse, Presentations, presenter, USB
Posted in Speaking in public, Tips
Your own laptop
When you give a presentation with slides you will either use your own notebook or some computer supplied by the organizers of the meeting. In the latter case there are several drawbacks: (i) the organization will have your presentation as a file and they can do with that file whatever they like, and (ii) the computer of the organization might not have all the necessary software installed or they might not have updated the presentation software to the latest version. Especially video material might be problematic: your video runs on your notebook and not on the computer of the organization (happened to me a month ago). So I always prefer to use my own laptop. Nowadays video projectors are so smart that they can handle both Windows and Apple laptops or notebooks.
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Ad Lagendijk
9 November 2015
Tags: latex onedrive
Posted in Getting published, Technical (ms word, tex), useful software, Web 2.0
Progress
In a post two years ago I discussed how difficult it was to find good tools for editing scientific texts by multiple authors simultaneously. As there is a great demand for this functionality it does not come to a surprise that the situation has improved considerably. I will describe two solutions here that in our group we now use on a daily base.
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jErOEn
9 October 2013
Tags: competition
Posted in Ethics
As a scientist reading a substantial amount of papers I regularly read articles with inadequate referencing. Obviously some papers contain too many self-citations, however my main concern is about missed references. Why are the (co-)authors missing references to crucial and important work of others or, more worrisome on a personal level, to my own work? Here I would like to discuss this issue in more detail.
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