Monthly Archive: September 2014

Using Zotero with LaTeX (and, naturally, BibTex)

If you don’t yet know, Zotero is a fantastic choice for reference management.  If you manage references you should use it.  It does everything at least as well as the competition and does one thing the competition does not–it clips not only citations, but also full text PDFs from all major...

Calculus Refresh?

For stat students (or anyone) wanting a fast refresh on calculus with a few different learning options, allow me to share my suggestions. 1.  20 minutes.  And who knew learning Calculus could be this entertaining?  It’s worth it for the sound effects alone. 2.  I like P. Lutus, he’s an interesting fellow and...

camelCase

As Apple released yet another iPhone today, I would like to commemorate with a discussion of camelCase (of which iPhone is an example) and resolve its primary problem as a naming convention–acronyms. camelCase is a naming convention for programming (although it is used more broadly).  The idea is quite simple, you capitalize every...

Narcissism in the Workplace: Fit Matters

Below, you can watch my (rejected) submission to Google’s re:Work conference.  A straight-forward and applied explanation of our (with Emily Grijalva) finding that when narcissists are in jobs that fit their grandiose self-concept and need for admiration, they stop doing certain bad things in the workplace (namely, counterproductive work behaviors)....