Books are yellow

This particular script here checks of Chromium is running, if it does, it becomes the focused window. If it is not running, it will be started.

#!/bin/sh
if wmctrl -l | grep -v grep | grep "Chromium" > /dev/null then
    wmctrl -a 'Chromium'
else
    chromium-browser
fi

This assumes wmctrl is installed.

Another thing I’ve had to look up twice regarding latex.

When saving a figure as pdf in MatLab, margins are enourmous. This one fixes by running pdfcrop -margins 10 figure.pdf figure.pdf.

RT @standupmaths: They even name it after themselves. RT @EvidenceMatters: Medical researcher discovers integration, gets 75 citations - …

Hurra lite pengar tillbaka från SJ! Men tycker det är fult att man bara får hälften så mycket i kontanter som man skulle fått i värdebevis.

• Books I want to read
• Foucault’s Pendulum - Umberto Eco
• Hackers and Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age - Paul Graham
• Thunderer - Felix Gilman
• The Mind-Body Problem - Rebecca Goldstein
• Riktig vetenskap och dåliga imitationer - Häggström, Olle
• Beyond the Hoax - Alan Soakal
• A Wrinkle in Time - Madeleine L’Engle
• Don’t Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability
• Liberation Biology - Bailey, Ronald
• Emotional Design - Donald Norman
• Wrinkles in Time - George Smoot
• On Quaternions And Octonions
• The 85 Ways To Tie A Tie : The Science And Aesthetics of Tie Knots
• The Prince - Niccolo Machiavelli
• The Blank Slate - Steven Pinker
• The Selfish Gene - Richard Dawkins
• Tao Te Ching - Lao Tzu
• Against The Day - Thomas Pynchon
• Group Theory in the Bedroom, and Other Mathematical Diversions - Brian Hayes
• Geometry and the Imagination - D Hilbert– •
• The Road to Reality: A Complete Guide to the Laws of the Universe - Roger Penrose
• Cryptanalysis - Helen Fouche Gaines
• Atlas shrugged - Ayn Rand– •
• I Will Teach You to be Rich
• Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution - Steven Levy
• The Shape of Space
• First Principles: The Crazy Business of Doing Serious Science
• The Bro Code
• Voodoo Science: The Road from Foolishness to Fraud
• Naming Infinity
• Light: Science and Magic
• Night Sessions - Ken MacLeod
• Alchemy of Stone - Ekaterina Sedia
• Saturn’s Children - Charles Stross
• Rainbows End - Vernor Vinge
• Flesh and Machines: How Robots Will Change Us - Rodney Brooks
• The Zenith Angle - Bruce Sterling
• Naked - David Sedaris
• Mathematical Mind-Benders - Peter Winkler
• Spycraft: The Secret History of the CIA’s Spytechs, from Communism to al-Qaeda
• Beak Of The Finch - Jonathan Weiner
• Ratio - Michael Ruhlman
• Inner Game of Outdoor Photography
• Naive Lie Theory - John Stillwell
• An Introduction to the Theory of Numbers - Hardy
• bokusThe Four Pillars of Geometry 1
• Topology from the Differentiable Viewpoint - Milnor
• Winning Ways for your Mathematical Plays
• Finding Moonshine - Marcus du Sautoy
• General Relativity from A to B - Robert Geroch
• The Praise of Folly - Erasmus of Rotterdam
• God is not great
• Wicked Plants
• QUIRKOLOGY
• Pattern Recognition - William Gibson
• Measure for Measure - Shakespeare
• The Magicians - Lev Grossman
• The Execution Channel - Ken MacLeod
• Certain Ambiguity
• Permutation City - Greg Egan
• Halting State - Charles Stross
• Everything Bad Is Good For You, by Steven Johnson
• The Game of Humor
• Practical Cryptography (or the newer one, cryptography Engineering, if it exists)
• Soon I Will Be Invincible
• The book by Matthew Hurley and others about humor as debuggin (“the hurley model”)
• A Shadow in Summer
• The Peace War - Vernor Vinge
• Laughter: An Essay on the Meaning of the Comic
• Look to Windward - Iain M Banks
• Maul - Tricia Sullivan
• Prisoner’s Dilemma - William Poundstone
• Logicomix: An Epic Search for Truth
• Rendezvous with Rama - Arthur C Clarke
• Collected Maxims and Other Reflections with Parallel French Text - Francois de La Rochefoucauld
• Touch Me, I’m Sick - Tom Reynolds
• Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman! - Feynman
• The Quiet War - Paul McAuley
• The Stonekeeper (Amulet, Book 1)
• The Last Theorem - Arthur C Clarke, Frederick Pohl
• Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom - Cory Doctorow
• ‘Country Of The Blind’ And Other Selected Stories - H G Wells
• Från fatwa till jihad - Kenan Malik
• Gödel, Escher, Bach - Hofstedter
• Pythagoras’ Revenge: A Mathematical Mystery - Arturo Sangalli
• Adventures Of Luther Arkwright - Bryan Talbot
• Son of a witch - Gregory Maguire
• A lion among men - Gregory Maguire
• The Puzzle Palace
• Coders at Work
• When It Changed - Geoff Ryman
• The Visual Display of Quantitative Information - Tufte
• Sky Doll (it’s a comicbook)