Even if I don't fully 'get it', it looks great and
congratulations! I've tried using the format; - I just... can't.
I'm not sure why it gives me trouble. I mean, I understand the
pattern and the methodology for putting things in that format. I
guess it's the patterned nature of it, like filling out a form:
put this part here, this part there, that part there, form your
sentences in this way, put graphics in this place, that place or
the other place, keeping everything at a certain number of
sentences...
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I've never been good at working with formatted writing. In
school, I'd write a sentence when they expect a paragraph, and
two pages when they expected a single sentence answer.
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Always did great in school but formatted writing with limited
creative style was always troublesome to me.
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Also, having a strong slant towards programming and a strong
slant away from mathematical formulas, also makes it difficult.
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There's also a fear I have too: Were I to master the format, as
a vehicle to put my ideas into, I fear overproduction. Severe
over production, over publication, excessive submissions. I
process word-data, for example, very frequently and my typical
toolset is whatever I have at hand:
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Excel is my favorite tool by far; I can row-and-column in my
sleep. But each tool has its strengths and weaknesses; I have an
array of text editors, command-line uitilities that process word
data etc. I have a similar array for video data, audio data and
image data.
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I can transform anything into anything, and I love cleaning up
noisy data and finding resulting patterns and then working with
them. I'm a stickler for accuracy and high production level (and
I do this for fun), because I have an insatiable curiousity.
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If I was to translate even some of those things into the
academic-paper language... oh, I'd never stop - especially with
the Open source journals available.
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Yeah, I'd be entirely addicted to writing scientific papers....
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One of my alternate-Universe Ken's that I recently found is:
Florentin Smarandache. I could easily do what he does, with just
a little tweaking of my method of output. It's not that what
he's doing is wrong or bad or anything; to me, he's a poet and
pattern finder that's going to get his name in the history books
one way or the other.
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He's already gotten a few number patterns named after him, and a
logic system named after him because... well, he wrote up the
papers and named the stuff after him. He submits until someone
accepts and self-publishes.
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I have to be aware of that tendency ... as I can see, knowing
how I get about things, that's what I'd probably do; but try to
do it even better, because I saw what he did that was good, and
see some of the flaws in his scientific self-marketing efforts.
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Yeah... I'd have a paper to write for many journals, all
cross-referenced, legitimate (and legitimate sounding).. I'm
afraid of learning the methodology as it would be like eating
potato chips or candy or crack to me.
