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Swiss chard and spelt soup
As I write this I am enjoying some extremely tasty leftover soup that Clare made last Sunday. It kind of has everything in it, but I think that the swiss chard and the spelt are the most distinctive parts. She had bought some swiss chard at Trader Joe’s (on sale I think), and wanted to…
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umthesis now on CTAN
I just submitted the umthesis package to CTAN. I will of course keep an up to date version on my own server, but now it will be more accessible to others. If you have not checked out CTAN, I highly recommend it. There are many packages of all sorts that will make your TeXing more…
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Intro to LaTeX multimedia presentations
As many people know, I have really become a big fan of LaTeX in the last couple years. Earlier this year when I finally decided that I needed to start using slides (like Powerpoint) with my presentations instead of a handout, I actually started to learn how to use Powerpoint. About a week later, I…
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updated umthesis.cls
Just a brief note that I have updated the umthesis.cls Revision 14 has the following improvements More documentation in class file Two different abstract environments Nicer copyright page An already compiled example file (pdf) which demonstrates all the features in the class, plus all the files necessary to compile it You can download the umthesis…
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syllable-based confusions
So my current research focuses heavily on confusion, specifically phonetic confusions. For my disseration, I play people words mixed with noise, and ask them to type what they hear. Then I look at the types of mistakes they make. For example, pit and kit are often confused with one another, but pit and lit are…
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