Paul Wintz

After my computer crashed shortly before my PhD defense, I decided I needed a better system to make sure that all my Git repos were backed up. Here is a walk-through of my solution: paulwintz.com/git-check-al... (Suggestions are welcome!) #git

I would frame it differently. It’s important that scientists consistently and impartially seek Truth via reliable methods and disseminate claims they believe to be true regardless of whether it aligns with a particular political ideology. In normal times, this look apolitical, but not currently.

Filing this away for whenever I give up on Windows.

Polynomial roots in loop! Made with #python #numpy #sympy #matplotlib

An abbreviation (ABB) in a journal article (JA) or Grant Application (GA) is rarely worth the words it saves. Every ABB requires cognitive resources (CR) and at my age by the time I'm halfway through a JA or GA I no longer have the CR to remember what your ABB stood for.

Watch Out!

@sconradi.bsky.social I just found your blog. Your math/physics-based art is super cool! It reminds me of an old art project I developed: www.tumblr.com/spiromaniac

Pigeons are 100% underrated.

yeah ur rights it’s not all bad

A useful epistemic heuristic: bexoming more suspicious of something the more exciting it is. Catches scientific bugs, prevents yourself getting fooled by fake news, etc. For real though, it catches so many scientific errors.

This is what happens if you map the latitude of European cities onto North America & vice versa. Some realizations: Most European cities are north of the US-Canadian border. London shares latitudes with an Alaskan island chain. Houston is further south than Cairo. (🧑‍🎨: 7LeagueBoots)

Getting to watch a live feed of elephants on the other side of the world is such a treat. explore.org/livecams/cur...

Tuberculosis (TB) was once a leading killer in rich countries, but it’s now rare in those places. But TB still kills almost 1.3 million people every year, making it the world’s deadliest infectious disease.

Becoming increasingly disillusioned with Google, I am gradually replacing their products. I like DuckDuckGo for web searches but struggled to find a satisfactory maps app. I recently found Organic Maps, an open-source, privacy-focused, on- and offline maps app. I see no downsides! organicmaps.app

@merriam-webster.com, why are the pronunciations for "facie" different between "ex facie" and "prima facie"?

"On Tyranny" is a #1 NYT bestseller again. I wish the moment were different. But I’m glad the book is useful. And grateful for all the kind words about putting the 20 lessons to work. snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-les...

Proudly presenting the (for now) final version of "Why experiments work." To share the materials in a slightly more professional manner, I added a "Resources" page to my website: juliarohrer.com/resources/. That was long overdue anyway; now there's also a curated list of my papers and blog posts.

My latest version of the Dryer Lint extension adds - Rule sets that allow for linting rules to be selectively applied based on file language, glob patterns, and inline comments. - "Dryer Lint: Fix All" command to fix all rules in a file. marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemNa... #vscode #latex

Fascinating and terrifying*! It's always great to find a new weird Nature Thing™. I often feel like I *must* have already seen all of the cool animal behaviors, but am constantly delighted to be proven wrong. * If you are crab-sized.

i’m all fixed up #illustration

Watch seismic waves from the M7.7 earthquake in Myanmar ripple across North America. This animation, called a Ground Motion Visualization (GMV), shows how the ground moved as detected by seismometers across the continent.

I'm excited to announce a VS Code extension I recently published for writing custom lint rules using regular expressions. I use it extensively when writing documents in LaTex (more on this later). #vscode #latex #regex Find it here: marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemNa...

This is not at all the point of the post, but I've never seen text justification where the last line is centered and everything else is fully justified

This is a stressful time for many people, but it seems like a particularly stressful time to be John Green.

In children per year, the US birth rate is at an all-time low, but in Miles’ per hour it’s at an all time high.

My latest post on editing LaTeX in VS Code covers: • SyncTeX to jump between the code and the PDF. • LaTeX-aware spelling and grammar checking. • Pasting images into LaTeX. • Syncing with Overleaf. • Custom snippets and linting. paulwintz.com/latex-in-vscode #latex #vscode

Ever struggled with theorems, definitions, or proofs in LaTeX? My post covers: 💡 Creating new environments 🔗 Auto-formatted references ✨ Custom styles 🔢 Chapter-based numbering 🚫 Unnumbered environments ✅ Custom QED marks paulwintz.com/mathematical-writing/theorem-like-environments-in-latex/

My website has a mixture of pages that I made for my use and those that I think will benefit others. My post on "Choosing Mathematical Symbols" falls into both categories! I use it whenever I'm stuck on picking notation: paulwintz.com/mathematical-writing/choosing-mathematical-symbols/ #math

I will be posting math-related things, especially regarding content I've shared on my website, paulwintz.com I also have a math-generated art blog on Tumblr at spiromaniac.tumblr.com/

This was the post that motivated me to make a Blue Sky account while scrolling through the home page!