Paper Writing, Plotting and Coding Tips
See also time plan by tomato-timing.
Variable Names #
several types:
- var name in paper, usually single char, e.g. $d$.
- col name in df/dt, usually several words, e.g. “search_step”.
- human readable string, e.g. “Search Step Length”.
- other variables in R/Py, e.g.
t_searchStep,algorithmSetup$searchStepLengthListing.
Linguistic & Journals Tools #
- English colocations (搭配): Linggle.com & NetSpeak.org & Writefull & Grammarly
- English Corpus (inc.colocates ) (语料库) Contemporary American English & British National Corpus (BYU-BNC) (see ref-Corpus for usages !!!)
- Domain journals: Scimago Journal Country Rank: scimagojr.com (similar to JCR but free) (see ref-zhihu for usages !!!)
- More accurate academic search (can search by datasets) (currently CS only): SemanticScholar.org
Datasets #
UCI
See also Bookmarks.
LaTex Tools #
- Handwritten symbol to LaTex (recognition): Detexify
- Draw equations on PC/papers/mobile phones, convert to LaTex: MathPix (online API is payable)
- Draw equations online, convert to LaTex: MyScript
- Draw diagrams/equations/etc. online, convert to Pictures/PDF/LaTex etc.: GeoGebra (powerful but complex)
- Equation generator online mathcha.io (所见即所得) & CodeCogs.com (traditional) & integral-calculator.com (for “manual” calculus calculation)
- Table generator online: TablesGenerator.com & truben.no
- IDE: overleaf online; texstudio + miktex
Latex Skills #
Auto generate Table of Figures.
PDF Tools #
PDF to many many … 1: ILovePdf.com 48 USD/year, free if non-OCR, <15MB.
PDF to many many … 2: LightPdf.com 6 RMB/mon.
