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Helpful tech when doing science

Anonymous Sat 13 Feb 15:26:14 2021 No.12701457 View Reply Original Report

Quoted By: >>12701643 >>12703496 >>12703500 >>12707708 >>12707768 >>12707823

What technology do you find helpful for research-related tasks?
For me, it's
>Semantic Scholar for finding related papers
>Zotero for organizing papers and taking short notes
>Okular for annotating PDFs
>A big IPS screen for reading papers
>A block of graph paper and a fineliner for scribbling ideas
>Emacs + AUCTeX + auctex-latexmk for writing up results
>Syncthing for synchronizing my scratch folder between desktop and laptop

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Anonymous Sat 13 Feb 2021 16:58:49 No.12701643 Report

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>>12701457
scihub for quickly accessing papers for free

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 13 Feb 2021 19:40:19 No.12702138 Report

Quoted By: >>12702391

Been using Reaxys/SciFinder/Web of Science my entire career. Don't need anything else

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 13 Feb 2021 20:45:17 No.12702391 Report

Quoted By: >>12703480 >>12703569

>>12702138
>Web of Science
Can you describe what it does? I tried to see for myself but apparently I'd have to buy a subscription.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 14 Feb 2021 01:59:24 No.12703480 Report

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>>12702391
Bump for this question

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 14 Feb 2021 02:04:47 No.12703496 Report

Quoted By: >>12703507

>>12701457
sci-hub and MS word
fuck you

Mult

Mult Sun 14 Feb 2021 02:07:42 No.12703500 Report

Quoted By: >>12703503 >>12706832

>>12701457
>pen and paper for bouncing ideas off doodles
>DeepL on multiple tabs for translation work
>wikipedia
>scihub.tw
>python for statistics experiments
>Ditto on firefox for clipboard
>vocaroo&recorder for music theory
>omegle and discord servers for psychology

Mult

Mult Sun 14 Feb 2021 02:08:44 No.12703503 Report

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>>12703500
Oh and notepad for saving short essays or theorems&conjectures, paper di

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 14 Feb 2021 02:10:32 No.12703507 Report

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>>12703496
>MS word
Yikes

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 14 Feb 2021 02:36:43 No.12703569 Report

Quoted By: >>12703570 >>12705368 >>12707788

>scihub plebs don't work at universities with access to all the important journals
SPSS, BLAST and Excel (say what you want, it's still very good for spreadsheets)

>>12702391
It's a multi-database citation information repository and search engine. It's pretty popular, and serves as one of the only real search engines for some disciplines (mostly social sciences and humanities). As such it's really common to be introduced to it in graduate school.

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Anonymous Sun 14 Feb 2021 02:37:30 No.12703570 Report

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>>12703569
>>scihub plebs don't work at universities with access to all the important journals
i have access but scihub is easier to use

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 14 Feb 2021 17:19:34 No.12705368 Report

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>>12703569
I'm a masters student but haven't been introduced to it. Is it worth trying to get access if my area is computer science? And what would be the easiest way to get it if my university doesn't provide it?

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 15 Feb 2021 01:46:04 No.12706832 Report

Quoted By: >>12707618

>>12703500
>DeepL
Is it better than Google Translate?

Mult

Mult Mon 15 Feb 2021 06:56:35 No.12707618 Report

Quoted By: >>12708348

>>12706832
For longer texts, yes, for short texts one or two words it can be weird sometimes, even seems sentient. But mainly I just hate google

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 15 Feb 2021 07:43:19 No.12707708 Report

Quoted By: >>12709217

>>12701457
>big IPS screen for reading papers
absolutely based. my 21" 1440p monitor is what I am currently most happy to be owning. my only regret is not getting 23". fullscreening a PDF with two pages at a time and reading from about 3 or more feet away is super comfy and I absolute abhor using my tiny laptop screen for anything anymore. screen space is just fantastic for pretty much anything productive.

currently I just use emacs for everything science related. org-mode to organize papers, textbooks, presentations, etc. org-mode for notes. org-mode and/or latex in emacs to write assignments. emacs calc to do simple calculations, simplify and rearrange polynomials, graph things, etc.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 15 Feb 2021 08:23:59 No.12707768 Report

Quoted By: >>12710139

>>12701457
>loonix
>emacs
>tex
>multiple monitors
>lots of cores
>cuda gpu
>tilting keyboard tray
>standing desk
>reclining chair with head rest
ergo is key

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 15 Feb 2021 08:40:24 No.12707788 Report

Quoted By: >>12707823

>>12703569
>>scihub plebs don't work at universities with access to all the important journals
>SPSS, BLAST and Excel (say what you want, it's still very good for spreadsheets)

Spreadsheets are a fucking plague

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 15 Feb 2021 08:53:43 No.12707823 Report

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>>12701457
Jupyter for quick prototyping and documentation of ideas. Also visualization.
I also use it for teaching.

Is anyone using ebook readers for papers? Would that be a good idea? I don't want to stare at monitors all day long but I'm unsure whether that would be much better.

>>12707788
>Spreadsheets are a fucking plague
Full ack.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 15 Feb 2021 14:14:49 No.12708348 Report

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>>12707618
>For longer texts, yes
Thanks! I'll try using it when I need to translate something longer.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 15 Feb 2021 19:32:46 No.12709217 Report

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>>12707708
If you're looking for a monitor to buy next, I recommend a 24" high-res IPS. I have one and the size is very close to two A4 pages plus space for a small toolbar on the left. Very comfy with Okular. I also use redshift to extend the time before my eyes get tired from the screen.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 15 Feb 2021 19:37:45 No.12709237 Report

Quoted By: >>12709242

Is anyone using text-to-speech

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 15 Feb 2021 19:38:46 No.12709242 Report

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>>12709237
Excuse me, I mean, speech-to-text

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 15 Feb 2021 19:40:54 No.12709249 Report

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Does anyone use speech-to-text?

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 15 Feb 2021 23:09:22 No.12710139 Report

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>>12707768
>tilting keyboard tray
>standing desk
What are the benefits of this setup? Does it reduce tiredness in the moment or is it just for future health?

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