Jordan Matelsky

I have a pen-plotter!

Do you know that story about when Sally Ride was preparing to go to space for seven days, and NASA engineers asked her, would 100 tampons be enough?

Update!

By popular request, I’m going to share how I wrote some recent projects and their corresponding LaTeX manuscripts in Overleaf using the Scientific Repositories approach I outlined in my previous post in this series.

I’ve been writing recently about best practices — or at least, the best practices that I keep — for reproducible, rigorous scientific software development during research.

I saw this article yesterday from Daniel Lemire about how newline characters are valid in text representations of URLs, per the WHATWG URL Standard.

If you’re writing code, you should be using conventional commits!

I mean… kind of?

AI will soon dominate key professional fields—not because it’s ready, but because we’re not prepared to stop it.

More recently: Human-assisted scientific manuscripts with LLMs Much has been said about AI language models’ role in scientific publishing (see also Mapping the Increasing Use of LLMs in Scientific Papers) and the implications of AI authorship more general…