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| | BibTeX is an important part of my workflow in writing papers and books. Here are three tips for getting the most out of it. 1. DOI and URL Links from Bibliography Entries A digital object identifier (DOI) provides a persistent link to an object on the web, via the server at http://dx.doi.org. Most scholarly journals...
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| | In my Handbook of Writing for the Mathematical Sciences I described the spotlight factor, originally introduced by Tompa in 1989. The spotlight factor is defined for the first author of a paper in which there are $latex n$ authors listed alphabetically, and it is assumed that the paper is from a community where it is...
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| Spaced repetition is great for individual learners, but can we apply it to the preservation of institutional knowledge? What would that look like? Maybe it means dedicating some fraction of some employee time to revisiting old documentation and bringing it up to date. Maybe it involves periodic runthroughs of playbooks to ensure they're still working. Is there a reason to want the exponential backoff property of individual spaced repetition when applying it to institutions?