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About the Off topic category long read beginner friendly Pinned Wiki Anything adjacent and interesting. Not a rules-free zone, just a relaxed one. This post is a community wiki: any member at trust level 3 or above can edit it, and every edit is recorded with its author and a…	+1	5	20k	21mo
Revisiting: The best-written scientific paper you have read beginner friendly long read Posting this under the heading it deserves: Revisiting: The best-written scientific paper you have read Everything below is what sits behind that. Asking about best-written scientific paper directly, because…	+102	121	21k	1h
What other technical communities get right that we do not beginner friendly long read Wiki What other technical communities get right that we do not — that is the question, and I have not found it answered plainly anywhere I have looked. A digression I have been saving for the right category. It is…	+2	6	23k	5h
Follow-up: The most useful thing you learned here that was not the answer you came for beginner friendly long read On the subject in the title: The most useful thing you learned here that was not the answer you came for Working notes rather than a conclusion. A digression I have been saving for the right category. It is…	+30	34	9.7k	11h
Spreadsheets: an appreciation — what changed since long read beginner friendly Spreadsheets: an appreciation — what changed since — setting out what I have, and where I think it stops being reliable. What changes if the standard account of Spreadsheets is wrong? I ask because I have…	+102	113	26k	17h
The most useful thing you learned here that was not the answer you came for long read beginner friendly The most useful thing you learned here that was not the answer you came for Writing it up because I had to work it out twice and would rather nobody else did. A digression I have been saving for the right…	+54	61	57k	1d
Books and papers worth reading that are not about this at all — one year on long read beginner friendly Books and papers worth reading that are not about this at all — one year on — setting out what I have, and where I think it stops being reliable. Reading back through what has been written here about Books…	+3	7	424	1mo
The best-written scientific paper you have read long read beginner friendly The best-written scientific paper you have read Writing it up because I had to work it out twice and would rather nobody else did. Asking about best-written scientific paper directly, because I have read four…	+69	74	1.1k	2mo
The most useful thing you learned here that was not the answer you came for — a second dataset beginner friendly long read Posting this under the heading it deserves: The most useful thing you learned here that was not the answer you came for — a second dataset Everything below is what sits behind that. A digression I have been…	+111	121	6.6k	9mo
Follow-up: What other technical communities get right that we do not long read beginner friendly What other technical communities get right that we do not I have a specific reason for asking rather than idle curiosity, and the context is below. A digression I have been saving for the right category. It…	+117	126	13k	14mo
Units, standards, and other things that quietly hold the world together long read beginner friendly Closed Units, standards, and other things that quietly hold the world together — setting out what I have, and where I think it stops being reliable. I was wrong about units in a thread last spring and I would like…	+33	38	31k	15mo
Units, standards, and other things that quietly hold the world together — one year on beginner friendly long read Solved On the subject in the title: Units, standards, and other things that quietly hold the world together — one year on Working notes rather than a conclusion. Two things I would like separated before anyone…		2	91	18mo
Books and papers worth reading that are not about this at all beginner friendly long read On the subject in the title: Books and papers worth reading that are not about this at all Working notes rather than a conclusion. Reading back through what has been written here about books and papers, three…	+13	17	13k	19mo
Spreadsheets: an appreciation beginner friendly long read On the subject in the title: Spreadsheets: an appreciation Working notes rather than a conclusion. A methods question rather than a substantive one, about spreadsheets. Everyone quotes the same figure and I…	+26	30	25k	2.1y

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