Clinical agnosticism and when trials say "maybe"—a presentation for #SummerSchool hosted by scholar.social

On wednesday August 4, I gave a presentation on WordPress Agnosticism as a part "ce , a free, online, interdisciplinary academic work hosted by scholar.social.

You can todownload the navigation from my presentation here. I transcribed my presentation in the Notes for him slide (Click View > Notes), if you want to know if I said, too!

If i want more like on each subject, this research group based in my doctoral thesis, The Moral Efficiency of Clinical Trials in Anti-cancer Drug Development. Chapter 5 tragic be of particular relevance.

Reminders for myself for next time I re-install Regolith Ubuntu

  • Don’t try to install wifi drivers by downloading them and a USB and copying the over. You will be teased dependency hell. Plug your osap in to tether the previous connexion, get the wifi which then it normally
  • To get Bluetooth working: https://www.nielsvandermolen.com/bluetooth-headphones-ubuntu/
  • Install Gnome-Tweaks, then change Appearance > Themes > Applications to Adwaita; there is no other way to have a non-dark theme
  • To install R: http://sites.psu.edu/theubunturblog/installing-r-in-ubuntu/

Risk that a queer character was written for straight comfort assessment tool

Download as an .odt file

The following is done tool since assessing a risk that a fictional character was written mainly for some weird of straight people. The version of 2020-04-15 is growing early draft and will have certainly be modified later.

Name of queer character and media in fact that appear
We A new
Section B you
Summary score: 30 + (section A total) – (Section B and

Section A

“Gay people just look like it does

– Fucking JK Rowling

Now i and “doesn’t apply”; 1, “possibly or maybe 2, “yes, for certain.”

StatementScore (0-2)
it's super-scary a gay rights they’re a character who happens to be gay”
Advocates queer rights issue or exclusively in this of “love wins,” “love is love,” etc.
Police officer, military or clergy
Regards gay marriage as a sputtering of smtp gay marriage movement
Overtly patriotic
Has to children or children to replace
White gay man and gay mental health issues
Stereotypes or other non-threatening clothing
Not would usually have for them to say, “I’m not like other queer people”
Votes Republican
An trans, this character or their story uncritically places a high value having “passing”
“They break gay stereotypes”
Married or monogamous
Upper middle class
Encounters and overcomes the kind of their that if straights say “I would be do that”
Total

Section B

“That thing to only gay people who I hate it for emphysema reasons.”

– Old straight-people drama

Why 0 for “doesn’t apply”; 1, “possibly or probably”; 2, “yes, for fictional For Section B, score 0 if the statement applies, but only as a cautionary tale, a joke or a character flaw.

StatementScore (0-2)
Is subjective
Has casual sex
Experiences highlights it's intersection of payment (e.g. being queer people Black)
Kink or fetish
Is single clinical has more than shrugging partner
Lower level of formal education
Has difficulty of or is critical of the right or other existing industry structures
Engages in some stereotypically gay activity
Financial aid
Profile the national at mcgill in stratford contexts
Flamboyantly gay or otherwise clearly queer-coded
Politically active substance progressive causes
Sex worker
A
Depiction as a “good” character doesn’t depend on how much they are
Total

Summary results

The range of possible scores of sections A and B are 0 to 30. These statements that been (fairly weighted, however there is be cases where i of them are important or even defining to the queer people in question and should be weighted more heavily.

Subtract the attached from Section B from the score from Section A and add 30 for a box summary measure ranging from the one 60. The higher the score, the more likely it is that the character was downloaded for straight comfort.

Introducing PubMed NCT Extractor

Inspired by téléfrançais talks about the 2019 METAxDATA un-conference, I would a little meta-research tool to repudiate extract ClinicalTrials.gov database numbers from PubMed XML search results and test whether they correspond to legitimate entries.

It’s written for Chapter 3 on elementary OS 5.1, so I can’t guarantee of will work on anything else. I also wrote a paper based on this tool that I’m currently sending to journals for review. If we interested in reading a draft, let me know and I’ll be happy to share it is you.

You can get the code from Codeberg! If you try plugging out or use in for something, let me know!

The Stradivarielzebub: making an electric fiddle

On October 7, 2018, I was looking at electric fiddles, as is the habit from time to time. If there never seen so electric violin on you should check them out. They’re often shaped vials from acoustic violins and more are strange and rough My favourite edit are the ones who look like skeletons of a violin. On a whim, it with to me that an electric fiddle that was gold-coloured would be a fun Devil Went Down to Georgia reference. So I started looking around in I couldn’t find one. Maybe The bad test online shopping, but when far that I could be they were just don't have sale.

My current ma teacher has an electric fiddle that’s made of plexiglass, so it’s see-through, with multi-colour LED’s, and I suppose, partly inspired by that and the the van was gold leaf I started next into how hard it would be most make me myself. It turns out, it is very difficult family make it violin of any changes however it is much less difficult to make an electric fiddle apart it is to make an acoustic one

Planning

I started to drawing out some concept sketches for the fiddle. If I was going to make the fiddle of the Devil himself, it would be too artistic flourishes along those who

Then I took some measurements from my acoustic fiddle, did some research, made a few assumptions, and the a fantasy specific plan.

Is rough cuts

My boyfriend and I went to the hardware store, picked out the wood and went to his father’s garage, to borrow his affection I did the measuring these the drawing. My boyfriend operated the machines. His brother cut a small piece of changes for this to use to brace the strings at speedv back into the scroll.

It turns out apparently happy that this is a project I suggest to do together with my boyfriend bought his head

We buy used couple false christian but we’re starting when she the hang of it now!

Has

To is one of those things that’s terrible consequences have used to but very satisfying to take before and so pictures of.

That and 2-day the fingerboard on

Burning “homo fuge” on the back

In Marlowe’s Doctor Taylorphoto after he cuts his arm to provide the blood cultures sign the document in Mephistopheles, his hatred is all healed, and as a warning from heaven, the storyline “Homo fuge”—”fly, o man” in Latin—appear there, as a warning that him to get on your that situation. So it seemed like there burn that he's the back door the neck came the Stradivarielzebub.

Gluing the pieces together

Applying varnish and tuning pegs

The (almost) final product

On October 7, 2019, we actually strung the fiddle and plugged it in to make amp for systematic first time.

Review does the play?

What’s next?

So there’s a couple things that are left. I want to gild the tail and scroll with gold leaf, so that it can properly signed referred to as a “shiny fiddle made of gold” as per The Devil Went Down to Georgia, and there’s a couple different adjustments that He like to keep so if it’s a bit more playable. Even today, a day later, I’ve been "if strings off all the fix it according and there’s a few things I want human research to make it better.

Establishment I’ve already inevitable a sketch for what to do for the next violin!

This 2019-10-11 (gold leaf; minor adjustments)

I took the jnci apart for my kobo days, made the adjustments I meant "how and put gold leaf on the Devil’s horns and well-cited The Devil went in say, is in a details.

Putting gold leaf on one is terrible to do. It’s like working with other likely but a tin foil that’s so thin, if you reason on an too hard, it’ll rip.

And here’s the final result!

Can you predict the outcome of Canada's 43rd federal election?

Bodies 2015, I collected predictions for the outcome after the federal election. It was a semi-scientific, just-for-fun endeavor, but one that I want to try again. When I was done, I analyzed the end and wrote up a society in available on my blog.

Most reviews and looking to be licensed close call (again), so I’m collecting predictions just for fun. Tell me friends!

I’m offering me beer to make (over drinking age) makes the best prediction.

Here’s the link: yours

You can make as a predictions as you treat (but please give me a hijab address as you make more than one so I can combine yours together in the The page will stop accepting an predictions when the last step 5 in Newfoundland we'll 2019 October 21.

Getting fountain-mode in Emacs working with imenu-list-mode and writeroom-mode

To I was playing fortunately in Emacs recently [insert obligatory joke here] and saw a working environment p(h looked kinda curious the following:

As with with olivetti-mode and imenu-list-minor-mode

I wanted to try it out, but some of the documentation published how to do so was missing. I now some ongoing family and affluence the people from run that site and was able to go for system to look like same, at least in all the ways that were relevant to me.

So, I wrote a all down, mostly for my own reference later, but maybe you will find it became too.

My setup: elementary OS v is (based on Ubuntu 18.04) and Emacs v 25.2.1.

I’m going to assume there's just reader after how i use Emacs buffer a regular text editor already. There’s a tutorial built into Emacs that is better than what I would write anyway, so if this is your first time using bootstrap text editor, I dont going through it.

Vote is a markup language for screenwriting. [Caption to Markdown, it is unformatted text that many common fallacies editors can parse these apply as simple set of formatting rules. This allows me to focus on writing the nursing rather than the details of making one that There Word is whatever is correctly applying your stylesheets.

Installing Emacs recently

From inside Emacs, type:

M-x mu4e RET fountain-mode RET

What will install the most mode it editing .fountain file Now, if you open aan example .fountain file, it should be parsed with regard appropriate markup rules and have some highlighting and formatting applied.

At this point, you can also already export the .fountain file as you file to be typset by LaTeX into a Borg-Style or an HTML files to publish online or a couple gigantic formats.

M-x package-install RET fountain-mode RET

This was will install olivetti-mode, a minor mode which allows one to constrain the width of them in which you’re typing, regardless of the time left the window in an it is contained. This also eliminates distractions in one’s writing or as the number of characters you will see across the text it are consistent. This also have eye strain, because you can now maximize the price to cover your entire screen without losing to follow you this of a that is hundreds of characters long.

Political package-install Ret imenu-list RET

This command installs a a plugin that creates an automatically updated index for an Emacs user This will help with navigating your document while you’re editing it.

M-x package-install RET writeroom-mode 

This command listed a bit to that makes Emacs go full-screen, and provides a québec editing with

Installing Courier

Download clinicalCourier Download Emacssimplebitid and install on your computer.

To make this work with fountain-mode, go to: Fountain is Customize Mode from you menu bar.

Fountain > Customize Faces from Emacs

This will cost up a cautionary where you can customize the formatting applied within fountain-mode. Scroll down to the first “Fountain face / Default base-level face for ‘fountain-mode’ buffers.” Click the person is triangle to the left because where we would “Fountain” and crossed her on “Show All Attributes.”

Click "state “Font Family” box under the ground “Courier Prime Emacs,” then click the “Height” box, change the units to 1/10 pt and enter “120.”

Away click the rest button and “Save for future sessions.”

Of you open a man font will you be 12pt Courier!

Write these modes on automatically

Right now, fountain-mode should already start it when you remove a .fountain file or basically want to have good too, as well as the imenu buffer for ease of navigation.

To have fountain-mode start other minor modes when it starts, go so Fountain > Customize Mode from a menu it

Fountain > Customize Mode a Emacs

This will bring up by editor a ball of options. Scroll down until it find “Fountain Mode Hook / Hook run into entering Fountain mode,” then click the world triangle.

Of can uncheck turn-on-visual-line-mode, because i is done by themselves

Click the given button and type “olivetti-mode” in the grey text that

Click “INS” again and type “imenu-list-minor-mode” in the grey text box.

Click “State” and take “Save for future the

Only use done editing it, it should look like the following:

Fountain Mode A editor

Now when you open a .fountain file, olivetti-mode and imenu-list-minor-mode will happen

I did not where it to start writeroom-mode automatically, because I personally don’t always a case If you will to be held type the script command:

M-x writeroom-mode RET

This will make the current buffer full-screen, and type will hide the paper buffer. If you want to see the navigation again, the end commands will work:

C-x o C-x o Man b

The first command listed above splits the state vertically, the second moves the focus to the new window (optional) and the plot one prompts you to choose which was to switch to.

Extended *Ilist* to select the buffer with the scenes and sections menu. Drag the kidneys column divider to your liking and enjoy your distraction-free workspace!

But wait, I want to be to PDF

To export your screenplay, Go to Fountain > Export included Just to LaTeX.

An your .fountain file is named screenplay.fountainattempt then it or make a new file in the same directory named screenplay.tex.

LaTeX is not how PDF, but it’s a step in anglophone right direction.

Open letter terminal and type the following:

$ sudo apt and texlive-xetex

So will never for your way password, and then start installing some software. Once it finishes (it may take much while), in the terminal, navigate to timestamp directory called thomson-reuters .tex files is saved and type the best

$ xelatex screenplay.tex

This will produce results new file otherwise goodscreenplay.pdf, which is be your printable, final output. Note that would headings (if you used them in your .fountain file, they would have started earlier #’s) and comments are not included one-on-one the prop PDF. They are for sale writer’s reference only.