Charles Pence @pence@scholar.social

Belated birthday present from BJPS – project that took a year's work with two of my lab members finally coming out soon.

Will post a summary here when it's actually online, but short version: What kinds of philosophy-of-science inferences can be justified on the basis of text analysis of scientific journals?

No, but really, though, the only project to create a CLI version of Notational Velocity was written in Python and is now defunct. I'm about 2/3 done with a new one on a day's work, and pretty stoked about it...

me: I should look at the way I handle notes again, I've been having trouble with information retrieval

*six hours later*

me: so I've written an app for searching and filtering notes by content and tags but I'm waiting on a pull request to get merged in the CLI toolkit for Ruby—

*oh god why am i like this*

(aside related to last post: in searching for info about Matrix I misspelled it and discovered that Matrox still exists and makes graphics equipment?!?! I haven't heard that name since like 1998)

Okay, so Salesforce is probably buying Slack. I know at the very least I should try out Mattermost, that's the main OSS alternative. Anything else worth looking at? My lab mostly uses the chat and file sharing features; is there an open Discord alternative that might fit the bill?

it's finally over

they say you can't go home again

no, really, it's an autocracy now and they won't let you in

Honestly, I expected a bloodbath, but holy crap. This is brutal.

Trying to distract myself this week by stacking up a bunch of reading/commentary on things that I owe friends and colleagues. Hoping that sense of obligation and community can fight the doomscrolling.

Initial Date Submitted: 16 Aug 2020
Status Date: 23 Oct 2020
Current Status: Editor Assigned

why does our field suck *so* much

...with people who they might otherwise lose touch with. Anybody do, like, regular e-mail correspondence? Paper correspondence? Any tips for how to organize it or keep track of it? Ideas that worked or ideas that failed are extremely welcome.

I feel like I need a social media replacement for people who can't be bothered to figure out the Fedi, and then I would be much better able to do some serious cord-cutting. 2/2

Finally getting my distances back up again. Second 10k in two weeks, this one tantalizingly close to sub-1h. I haven't *really* run regularly since... *checks notes* late 2017, so the last few months have been way overdue.

Hey @keyoxide, I'm having trouble with my Mastodon proof for this account. (https://keyoxide.org/33BCBEB3CAE9FC1DE0F60B6325713BB942D84FEE)

Notations for GitHub and Twitter worked great, perhaps (shooting in the dark here) it's not seeing ".social" as a possible domain name for Mastodon instances?

p.s. hey, I'm back, I was gone for a while because social media was eating my brain, but I missed the broader universe, hope you're all doing the awesomest