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  • I’ve used rmarkdown back when i was in academia, having dabbled in jupyter years before. I think the main issue with literate programming is knowing your target audience. people differ wildly in their tech skills, and i guess that those people who use literate programming to its potential are the same who are happy to use org-mode.

    others just copy paste their analysis scripts they cobbled together into whatever interface and copy the result into word and start formatting.

    just a thought





  • well yeah, but there is money in knowing what to avoid. in academia it’s more like “why can’t i reproduce this effect i read about in this fancy paper, am i stupid or what”, when maybe, they just got lucky, or had plenty of very reasonable analysis options to choose from, or simply fudged the numbers. i fear that in much of academia there is a huge incentive to publish at whatever cost






  • Late to the party, and no offence to buddhism, but i always loved this quote from Terry Pratchett

    “Master, what is the difference between a humanistic, monastic system of belief in which wisdom is sought by means of an apparently nonsensical system of questions and answers, and a lot of mystic gibberish made up on the spur of the moment?"

    Wen considered this for some time, and at last said: “A fish!”

    And Clodpool went away, satisfied.” ― Terry Pratchett, Thief of Time

    (copies the quote from https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/46982-thief-of-time?page=2 but i’m rather sure its correct, so i didn’t check my copy).