For a long time I’ve not known how to produce, with minimum fuss, diagrams of veto players in political space, even in one dimension.
I’ve now bothered to learn some PGF syntax, for use within latex. Here’s come code, mostly stolen from an example by Till Tantau which will draw a nice example of instability [...]
There are a number of things which annoy me about academic publishing.
Matching my output to the requirements of the journal is the worst of them.
I spent a lot of time learning LaTeX in order to make my documents look good.
But now I find that journals require me to make changes to my document which, in [...]
I’ve just emailed the final version of my thesis to the department.
I’ve spent most of today listening to my robotic overlord (his name is Alan) read out chunks of my thesis in the vain hope that I would better spot typos or errors that way. The idea — far too good to be my own, [...]