I have a long-time collaborator who lives in Georgia (I’m in Pennsylvania). I’ve had good luck collaborating with him via email, but it is a pain. As soon as one of us edits a file he sends it to the other person as an email attachment. We haven’t had any “forked” files, but we do…
Tag: Google Docs
LaTeX now available in Google Docs
Google Vice President and Chief Internet Evangelist (yes, that is really his title) and inventor of the internet Vint Cerf visited our campus a couple of years ago. At one point he asked about what people wanted from Google. I said that I would love a Google Docs/LaTeX mashup. How great would it be for…
Putting CVs online
I’ve had my CV online for quite some time. For a while I’d type it up, export it as a pdf, then upload it to my website. The problem was that I would only upload it once every six months or once a year—it was perpetually out of date. Then I made the switch to…
How to curve an exam and assign grades
We have all given exams where the grades end up lower than we hoped. A curve is in order. How do we do it? In this post I share my thoughts on when you should (or should not) curve an exam. I give ten sample curving techniques, including pros and cons of each, I explain…
Cloud computing makes me nervous
After the recent news of Freddie, Fannie, Bear Sterns, Lehman Bros, Merrill Lynch, and AIG, I got to thinking about how much of my work is online—Google Docs, Gmail, WordPress, Wikidot, etc. If our highly-regulated banking industry can fail, why not these young unregulated internet sites? Should there be an FDIC equivalent for the “banks” that…
David Richeson: Division by Zero 