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More about brevity, this time with pictures
13/09/28
Because the last entry wasn't trivial enough, I've rendered the data as a chart.
If a picture is worth a thousand words, what is the worth of a picture where the y-axis is thousands of words?
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Single-authored papers are in blue, and coauthored papers -
Brevity update
13/09/26
My inclination, I like to think, is to write shorter papers rather than longer ones. Several times in the past, reflecting on this has led me to tabulate my papers by length.
It has become a biennial tradition; cf. 2007, 2009, and 2011. So it is about time for an update.
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The accumulation of blog bits
13/09/23
Statistics indicate that, before I wrote this, all the blog entries I had written tallied up to 881,485 bytes of data.
Some contemporary file systems wouldn't even allow a file to be that small. The campus network drive seems to be structured so that the minimum file size is 1 megaby -
A vignette on a scrap of paper
13/09/18
"Look at this," the Professor says.
He presses a button on his great machine, which begins to sputter and shake. Sparks jump from wire to wire. Two or three colors of smoke come from different parts of it. Something that looks like it might be a capacitor explodes, making you ju -
Albany is hiring in early modern
13/09/15
My department is making a tenure-track search this year for an early modern historian of philosophy.
It has been several years since our previous search, and several things are different this time around. Jobs for Philosophers has now combined, Voltron-style with another source of job lis -
Mirrors aren't even mirrors
13/09/07
I am puttering around today and thinking about scientific realism.*
A standard albatross to hang around the neck of realists is that they are committed to thinking that proper science doesn't depend on us at all. Catherine Elgin, for example, writes, "Scientific realism holds th
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More about brevity, this time with pictures
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