The focus of this article is a subject I’ve been fascinated with for a long time. What started as a simple Email Friday Newsletter topic, transformed into what you see here; far too long for an email. “Knowledge Processing.” Or PKM. PKM = Personal Knowledge Management. PKM is a systems approach to dealing with the …
March 2019
How do consumers protect themselves from surveillance and start to restore some semblance of privacy? Services like Google and Facebook have many settings where you can limit your privacy exposure. This article doesn’t cover those, however, as much already has been written about that. What follows is more like what Doc Searls calls a “wizard kit” of various open-source technologies that I have adopted and customized over the years to protect my own privacy.
A lot of good tips for protecting your privacy.
Read: How I’m able to take notes in mathematics lectures using LaTeX and Vim
I started using LaTeX to write lecture notes in the second semester of my bachelor in mathematics, and I’ve been using it ever since, which makes for a total of more than 1700 pages of notes. To give you an idea of what those notes look like, here are some examples:
I think it is amazing that someone could take math notes using a computer – wow!
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Read: Microsoft open sources Calculator source code
The actual calculation engine is more than 20 years old.