PhD student in Conflict Studies | University of Mannheim. Interested in leadership survival, conflict studies and post-civil war stability. - cosimameyer
Provide simple mechanism to repeatedly evaluate an expression until either it succeeds or timeout exceeded. It is useful in situations that random failures could happen.
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Blog Archive Here you can find older posts by date and category. Notice, I more or less stopped using the category system when I moved beyond student advice posts around 2010. The categories, therefore, are mainly useful for navigating my older student articles.
Cal Newport's Blog - The Stone Carver in an Age of Computer Screens - October 27, 2020 15:04
A reader recently pointed me toward a short video titled “A Continuous Shape.” It profiles Anna Rubincam, a stone carver from South London who works...
GTD Refresh, Part 5: Building the Weekly Review Habit
At the very beginning of David Allen’s recorded lecture, Getting Things Done Fast, he tells his audience that the most important but single most difficult
'RStudio' Addins to Simplify 'Markdown' Writing • remedy
An RStudio addin providing shortcuts for writing in Markdown. This package provides a series of functions that allow the user to be more efficient when using Markdown. For example, you can select a word, and put it in bold or in italics, or change the alignment of elements inside you Rmd. The idea is to map all the functionalities from remedy on keyboard shortcuts, so that it provides an interface close to what you can find in any other text editor.