(b)logophile

André Miede’s Classic Thesis LaTeX style is a thing of beauty. Things to like about it: It’s damn elegant. It’s inspired by Bringhurst’s The Elements of Typographic Style, which remains the most eloquent and convincing argument for attention to typography I’ve ever read. Namecheck of the booktabs documentation (on why the tables don’t have vertical [...]

Theory: We of the jury may wish to ignore [a particular possibility], and wish it had not been mentioned. If we ignored it now, we would bend the rules of cooperative conversation; but we may have good reason to do exactly that. [...] We would ignore the far-fetched possibility if we could—but can we? Perhaps [...]

Here’s a book I should be reading: Hans Rott, Change, choice and inference: A study of belief revision and nonmonotonic reasoning. It will be directly thesis-relevant, and judging by a couple of papers by the guy I’ve read it might be something I’d like to own myself. Except for one leetle teeny detail: it costs [...]

I’ve taken the plunge, and posted my first dissertation chapter online. It’s still not quite complete (needs some transition paragraphs and general tidying up) but it’s readable and the content shouldn’t change much from here on in. It’s slightly terrifying, sending your ideas out into the wide world like this, but I think they’re solid [...]

— So when you make dahl, is it mild or can it be hot? — It can be hot, if you accidentally put in too much chilli at Amanda’s wedding.