Books & Writing
Books and writing: reading lists, essays, authors, the craft of writing, and literature.
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Quarto for amsmath LaTeX users nmfs-opensci.github.io
Notes focused on addressing issues related to using amsmath LaTeX for numbered equations and fancy math in Quarto books, specifically for HTML and PDF rendering.
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Workshop: Quarto Workshop 2024 (NMFS OpenSci) nmfs-opensci.github.io
A seven-module workshop series on reproducible reporting with Quarto, from markdown basics to building a book with Zotero references.
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How to publish your Quarto document/book/website as a Docker container? mickael.canouil.fr
A blog post describing how to publish your Quarto document/book/website as a Docker container by Mickaël Canouil.
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Using Quarto to Write a Book kieranhealy.org
A blog post reflecting on writing a data visualisation book in Quarto, covering plain-text sources, embedded figures, and output formats, by Kieran Healy.
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Introduction to Data Analysis with R jmbuhr.de
Introductory course with videos and lecture scripts as a Quarto book format.
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mlr3book github.com
Book on the mlr3 packages ecosystem (see https://mlr3book.mlr-org.com/).
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Emil Hvitfeldt (@EmilHvitfeldt) github.com
Author of the Slidecraft series on styling Quarto revealjs presentations (BlueSky: @emilhvitfeldt.bsky.social).
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Creating Book Indexes in Quarto friendly.github.io
A blog post on automated book indexing across HTML and PDF using R helper functions and LaTeX macros by Michael Friendly.
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Tutorial: Quarto for Reproducible Research Workflows and Academic Publishing elenlefoll.quarto.pub
An open educational resource covering literate programming, reproducibility, and multi-format publishing for academic writing by Elen Le Foll.
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babelquarto docs.ropensci.org
An R package to help set up and render multilingual Quarto books (see also babeldown).
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How to self-publish a technical book on Leanpub and Amazon using Quarto brodrigues.co
This blog post explains which settings to use to compile an Epub for Leanpub and a print-ready PDF for Amazon's self-publishing service (KDP).
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Tutorial: Writing a book with Quarto blog.stephenturner.us
A detailed walkthrough of transforming an old course website made from RMarkdown documents into a polished e-book using Quarto by Stephen Turner.
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DocGPT workspace.google.com
Writing assistant for Google Docs.
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LearnGPT learngpt.art
Title-based book creation. ($)
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Create your first app using ChatGPT genez.io
Learn how to build an app that enables users to improve their writing by rephrasing text.
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WritingMate.ai chrome.google.com
Writing assistant.
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jupyter-book jupyterbook.org
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PubMed E-utilities (esearch/efetch) nlm.nih.gov
APIs for searching and retrieving biomedical literature from PubMed.
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BioMedLM huggingface.co
2.7B parameter GPT-2-style language model trained exclusively on biomedical literature from PubMed for biomedical question answering and text generation.
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TRRUST v2 grnpedia.org
Manually curated database of human and mouse transcriptional regulatory interactions between transcription factors and their target genes, expanded with literature-derived evidence.
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Statistical Machine Translation cambridge.org
Establishes background in NLP and statistics, then develops the basics through to current research. By the end readers can build their own translation systems. The author is Philipp Koehn.
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Neural Machine Translation cambridge.org
This introduction to machine translation starts from the basics of neural network methods and reaches the state of the art, while giving historical, linguistic, and applied context. Code examples in Python give a hands-on blueprint for implementation. The author is still…
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Translation: An advanced resource book for students amazon.com
Introduces the theory and practice of translation from a variety of linguistic and cultural angles. The authors are Basil Hatim and Jeremy Munday.
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That's Not My Momma's Milk! veganpublishers.com
Really simple book, really easy to grasp and makes anyone of any age think, by exploring the animal kingdom and where baby animals get their milk from.
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Ansible – Was ich am Ad-hoc-Modus schätze my-it-brain.de
Opinion what the author likes about the Ansible Ad-Hoc mode.
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How To Manage Remote Servers with Ansible eBook digitalocean.com
This book is based on the "How To Manage Remote Servers with Ansible" tutorial series.
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Ansible for DevOps ansiblefordevops.com
This book helps to start using Ansible to provision and manage anywhere from one to thousands of servers. Free sample can be read here.
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Network based credit risk models tandfonline.com
Peer-to-Peer lending platforms may lead to cost reduction, and to an improved user experience. These improvements may come at the price of inaccurate credit risk measurements. The authors propose to augment traditional credit scoring methods with “alternative data” that consist…
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Benchmarking state-of-the-art classification algorithms for credit scoring: An update of research sciencedirect.com
There have been several advancements in scorecard development, including novel learning methods, performance measures and techniques to reliably compare different classifiers, which the credit scoring literature does not reflect. This paper compares several novel classification…
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A literature review on the application of evolutionary computing to credit scoring link.springer.com
The aim of this paper is to summarize the most recent developments in the application of evolutionary algorithms to credit scoring by means of a thorough review of scientific articles published during the period 2000–2012.
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Credit Risk Assessment Using Statistical and Machine Learning: Basic Methodology and Risk Modeling Applications link.springer.com
An important ingredient to accomplish the goal of a more efficient use of resources through risk modeling is to find accurate predictors of individual risk in the credit portfolios of institutions. In this context the authors make a comparative analysis of different statistical…
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Random Survival Forests Models for SME Credit Risk Measurement link.springer.com
Extends the existing literature on empirical research in the field of credit risk default for Small Medium Enterprizes (SMEs), proposing a non-parametric approach based on Random Survival Forests (RSF) and comparing its performance with a standard logit model.
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Consumer credit-risk models via machine-learning algorithms alo.mit.edu
The authors apply machine-learning techniques to construct nonlinear nonparametric forecasting models of consumer credit risk. They are able to construct out-of-sample forecasts that significantly improve the classification rates of credit-card-holder delinquencies and defaults.
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The Web as History uclpress.co.uk
An open-source book that provides a conceptual overview to web archiving research, as well as several case studies.
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Wget gnu.org
An open source file retrieval utility that of version 1.14 supports writing warcs. (Stable)
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Scrolling en.wikipedia.org
Screen content is often less like a book with discrete pages and more like a continuous roll of parchment, i.e., a scroll.
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a11y, i18n, k8s, ... en.wikipedia.org
Abbreviating long words by keeping the first and last letter and writing the number of omitted letters in between.
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Code golf en.wikipedia.org
Writing a program in as few characters as possible. Just like how Golf players try to win in the fewest club strokes.
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IRCv3 Working Group ircv3.net
A group of IRC software authors working to enhance, improve, maintain and standardize the IRC protocol. (source)
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Rolling rocks downhill, by Clarke Ching amazon.com
Business novel about agile and lean software development :orange_book:.
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The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement, by Goldratt amazon.com
Business novel about contiuous improvements in a manufacturing setting. Easily adaptable to software development as well :orange_book:.
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Turbo Piranha turbopiranha.com
Bulk product search, profit calculation and competition analysis software using UPC, ISBN, EAN and ASIN lists in Excel/CSV/TXT format for wholesale and arbitrage business models, and also book sellers/flippers.
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The Writer thewriter.com
How readable is your writing?.
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LukeW lukew.com
Publications on the critical details and big picture behind digital product design.
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Google Design design.google.com
Google Design is a cooperative effort led by a group of designers, writers, and developers at Google.
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Google Ngram books.google.com
Enter phrases into the Google Books Ngram Viewer, it displays a graph showing how those phrases have occurred in a corpus of books.
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kandi Kits Topic kandi.openweaver.com
Discover popular Jupyter libraries, top authors, trending project kits, discussions, tutorials & learning resources.
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dhammatalks.org dhammatalks.org
English translations of suttas, audio talks, and books by Thanissaro Bhikkhu.
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Universität Hamburg: Prof. Bhikkhu Analayo buddhismuskunde.uni-hamburg.de
Author of several books and papers on Theravada topics.
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Atammayatarama Buddhist Monastery atamma.org
Woodinville, Washington - Theravada monastery that offers free services, books, and meditation sessions.
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