As any new parent knows, you are supposed to feed your newborn 8-12 times per day, which is every 2-3 hours. As any newborn parent will tell you, especially one whose baby takes 30-60 minutes per feeding, such frequency is all encompassing, leaving slivers of time for adult eating and hygiene, much less anything higher […]
TL;DR: If you’re here for the apa7.cls file, go to https://github.com/ZacharyST/apa7.cls. For a recently accepted article, I was asked to use the apa7 (American Psychological Association 7th edition) document class for my Latex document. The request seemed easy because the file was already using the apa6 class. Of course this is Latex, so instead of […]
This writing distresses because Lepore is a very strong writer. I can therefore only conclude this book is a mixture of a rushed job and very poor editing, once the author and editor realized it should not have been a book. 2. The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable by Nassim Nicholas Taleb. […]
I did not start writing this post until April because of Covid. Covid means much less being outside, so many fewer opportunities to see people. Mei Lin. We finally were able to order the Szechuan fried chicken from Daybird, Mei Lin’s casual new place. This is the Mei Lin of Top Chef who then opened […]
I recently had to learn gsutil, a Python package used to interact with Google Cloud Platform. Overall, I guess it was easy enough to learn, though there was one pain point. When I was in the GCP bucket containing the directories I wanted to download, I tried to download the directories directly using the graphical […]
Google may still claim not to do evil. They should also try not to be obtuse as well. I wanted to get the longitude and latitude of a few hundred cities, which is straightforward using ggmaps and Google’s geocoding API. (I tried Geonames but never received the new account confirmation e-mail. It did not go […]
Now that Twitter has released their Academic Research product, I thought I would jot down my initial thoughts. These observations are based on beta testing I was allowed to do in 2020 with the Search endpoint and reading documentation of the other endpoints. I have used Twitter’s API for about 7 years now. Most of […]
The fourth time is the charm, by which I mean I hope I see more celebrities than last year because the third time certainly was not the charm. Jade Chang. Jade Chang is the author of one of the favorite novels I read in 2018, Wangs vs. the World. Even better, I actually met her […]
The Silk Roads: A New History of the World by Peter Frankopan. After reading this 505 page history, I hereby firmly resolve to not judge a book by its cover. Had I spent 10-15 minutes skimming chapters, I would have realized that this book is not in fact about “silk roads”, whatever that means to […]
I always tell my students not to use Excel for data analysis, which I think means never to use it. Confused eyes stare back at me, understandably since Microsoft is like oxygen: imagining life without it sounds deadly. So this post is going to document examples of where using Excel for data analysis has led […]
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