Gearing up to teach Modern Plain-Text Computing, which I’m pleased to say is now required for new grad students. A real barrier to successful PhD research—a “hidden curriculum”, to coin a phrase—is knowing how to use your computer properly for technical work, which no-one teaches. Except now we do.
MAR—Missing at random
MCAR—Missing completely at random
MDTR—Missing don’t tell reviewer
MBAG—Missing bad at Git
NMUF—Not missing unfortunately faked
MINTATIA—Missing I’m not typing all that in again
MIWHCAF—Missing it would have cost a fortune
MLOMWYMAD—Missing look on my work ye mighty and despair