Georgios Bakirtzis
@exomorphic.bsky.social
Of course, rules are meant to be broken but to break them you have to understand why they are there and have a trained eye. The point is to communicate research not to become designers. So good baselines work.
More important is content based on "who is your audience?" and respecting people's time.
More important is content based on "who is your audience?" and respecting people's time.
November 17, 2025 at 6:08 AM
Of course, rules are meant to be broken but to break them you have to understand why they are there and have a trained eye. The point is to communicate research not to become designers. So good baselines work.
More important is content based on "who is your audience?" and respecting people's time.
More important is content based on "who is your audience?" and respecting people's time.
For presentations:
- Use one sans-serif font (e.g., Atkinson, Roboto, Lucida Sans)
- Learn how to edit master slides to be consistent
- Make the fonts larger than you think
- Vary the font size based on semantic category (title, main text, figure)
- Less is more, start with a completely white page
- Use one sans-serif font (e.g., Atkinson, Roboto, Lucida Sans)
- Learn how to edit master slides to be consistent
- Make the fonts larger than you think
- Vary the font size based on semantic category (title, main text, figure)
- Less is more, start with a completely white page
November 17, 2025 at 6:05 AM
For presentations:
- Use one sans-serif font (e.g., Atkinson, Roboto, Lucida Sans)
- Learn how to edit master slides to be consistent
- Make the fonts larger than you think
- Vary the font size based on semantic category (title, main text, figure)
- Less is more, start with a completely white page
- Use one sans-serif font (e.g., Atkinson, Roboto, Lucida Sans)
- Learn how to edit master slides to be consistent
- Make the fonts larger than you think
- Vary the font size based on semantic category (title, main text, figure)
- Less is more, start with a completely white page
I do not use it myself, but I do like Atkinson. I think for people this is maybe a final tuning step. There is also the very real problem of font selection leading to bikeshedding.
November 17, 2025 at 6:02 AM
I do not use it myself, but I do like Atkinson. I think for people this is maybe a final tuning step. There is also the very real problem of font selection leading to bikeshedding.
Thank you for the advice. This strikes the right balance for me to try some things, because as you said recording can get complicated quickly. One question: you say the camera doesn't matter much but you need good light. Where do you find this good light if it's not naturally available?
November 15, 2025 at 11:28 AM
Thank you for the advice. This strikes the right balance for me to try some things, because as you said recording can get complicated quickly. One question: you say the camera doesn't matter much but you need good light. Where do you find this good light if it's not naturally available?
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LLM poetry has an incredible hit rate for people whose favorite poems are hallmark cards
November 12, 2025 at 1:18 AM
LLM poetry has an incredible hit rate for people whose favorite poems are hallmark cards
It's Kon for me as well.
October 31, 2025 at 7:50 AM
It's Kon for me as well.
Thanks, appreciate you taking into account my opinion :) Yes I am using freedom mode. I will take a look when time permits.
October 31, 2025 at 12:27 AM
Thanks, appreciate you taking into account my opinion :) Yes I am using freedom mode. I will take a look when time permits.
For me personally discussing about gaps allows students to be too vague (want to solve everything at once). So I'd rather them (and me) focus on a particular problem, of course part of that is hypothesizing but I am not sure I like the current way it is being presented wrt gaps.
October 30, 2025 at 8:01 PM
For me personally discussing about gaps allows students to be too vague (want to solve everything at once). So I'd rather them (and me) focus on a particular problem, of course part of that is hypothesizing but I am not sure I like the current way it is being presented wrt gaps.
The standard advice in my field is to answer the following questions: what's the problem? why is it an important problem (in a particular community)? what is your solution? what follows from your solution?
In the general setting I am in agreement with this advice: www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtIz...
In the general setting I am in agreement with this advice: www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtIz...
October 30, 2025 at 4:40 PM
The standard advice in my field is to answer the following questions: what's the problem? why is it an important problem (in a particular community)? what is your solution? what follows from your solution?
In the general setting I am in agreement with this advice: www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtIz...
In the general setting I am in agreement with this advice: www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtIz...
I guess the standard advice is that when doing research you are speaking to a community, that community ostensibly has problems and you are trying to solve problems for them.
October 30, 2025 at 4:39 PM
I guess the standard advice is that when doing research you are speaking to a community, that community ostensibly has problems and you are trying to solve problems for them.
I tried this with one of my students. Mostly to make sure we are on the same page on things. I guess my biggest pet peeve is seeing science as having gaps rather than being in a continuum. I'd prefer an option to have a _problem construction_ instead of gap.
October 30, 2025 at 12:26 PM
I tried this with one of my students. Mostly to make sure we are on the same page on things. I guess my biggest pet peeve is seeing science as having gaps rather than being in a continuum. I'd prefer an option to have a _problem construction_ instead of gap.
University of Virginia doesn't have any need for the state funding, it's a minuscule amount compared to the rest of the funding sources it gets. So the question becomes, what is the use of this letter?
October 11, 2025 at 8:53 PM
University of Virginia doesn't have any need for the state funding, it's a minuscule amount compared to the rest of the funding sources it gets. So the question becomes, what is the use of this letter?
No this helps. @gioele-zardini.bsky.social and I have been thinking about how to actually make category theory compelling and convincing and useful.
September 28, 2025 at 6:31 AM
No this helps. @gioele-zardini.bsky.social and I have been thinking about how to actually make category theory compelling and convincing and useful.
Thanks, appreciate the detailed view :)
September 27, 2025 at 5:29 AM
Thanks, appreciate the detailed view :)
And what is the thresholds that makes this usable compared to other applied category theory papers that are "mumbo jumbo"? Why did this one make the cut and the rest didn't for you?
Genuinely curious.
Genuinely curious.
September 26, 2025 at 6:18 AM
And what is the thresholds that makes this usable compared to other applied category theory papers that are "mumbo jumbo"? Why did this one make the cut and the rest didn't for you?
Genuinely curious.
Genuinely curious.
Interesting, there is some work that lexicographically prioritizes metrics for autonomous vehicles and I have done some of that. Is there something specific you do not to run into the "lexicographic dominance" problem, which would be a much bigger problem for LLMs?
July 30, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Interesting, there is some work that lexicographically prioritizes metrics for autonomous vehicles and I have done some of that. Is there something specific you do not to run into the "lexicographic dominance" problem, which would be a much bigger problem for LLMs?
In the south places like these come with more services, such as divorce attorneys and guns.
July 23, 2025 at 4:24 AM
In the south places like these come with more services, such as divorce attorneys and guns.
Is this the beginning of the redneck militia?
June 29, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Is this the beginning of the redneck militia?
That doesn't seem like a very useful response to my question.
June 18, 2025 at 6:36 PM
That doesn't seem like a very useful response to my question.
Maybe I am not familiar enough with how this community measures things, but is "human PhD range" a useful metric? If so what does it mean?
June 18, 2025 at 3:22 AM
Maybe I am not familiar enough with how this community measures things, but is "human PhD range" a useful metric? If so what does it mean?
I only wish they would also support org mode, but I do use it to share lists with people :-)
May 22, 2025 at 4:02 PM
I only wish they would also support org mode, but I do use it to share lists with people :-)
This is generally known to be true for expert writers: writers that are experts on a particular topic not experts at writing. See, for example, here www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtIz...
May 20, 2025 at 5:04 PM
This is generally known to be true for expert writers: writers that are experts on a particular topic not experts at writing. See, for example, here www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtIz...
This is before LLMs: A student submitted verbatim code including the _other_ students name in the top comment. Failing the class, the student retakes and does exactly the same but with _another_ student. I was beyond flabbergasted.
May 13, 2025 at 11:15 AM
This is before LLMs: A student submitted verbatim code including the _other_ students name in the top comment. Failing the class, the student retakes and does exactly the same but with _another_ student. I was beyond flabbergasted.