Can you convert Latex to Word (or ODT, etc.), perhaps with Pandoc, and then from that to epub (e.g. Google Docs allows you to download a Doc as an epub)?
Yes, in theory.. but in practice it didn't work when I tried that route. Because I use the Tufte-Book template, there is a constant margin to the side of the main content that holds figures, equations, and such.
This margin gets brutalized by every program (even the propriety ones Amazon built).
Lessons learned. I need to be more mindful of the various conversion processes in the future.
My conclusion with a self-published book a number of years ago was that, once you get beyond flowing text, creating a Kindle version gets a lot harder. It can clearly be done--e.g. there are Kindle format guidebooks that work well. But when I did another self-published book a few years later, I was giving it away anyway so I just did a PDF version for tablets. (My last one is through a publisher but it's also mostly text.)
I've often been disappointed at the type of html it's possible to force out of (La)TeX. And epubs are pretty much html, css and images.
I generally think that some kind of markdown with the help of pandoc is the happy path for pleasant writing/editing and good output for html/epub and print/pdf.
I did find this, that have some hints on how to get xml, and then xhtml with support for equations - but it looks cumbersome:
You know, the book looks interesting - but not in pdf, and not as a physical book (I try to live without physical books - won't I be a sad case when the singularity pushes us into post-apocalypse?)
Did you cconsider selling access to the source (eg: private github repo, suitable license)?
Not sure I get the reference. Apparently it's easy to end up in a position like the author, with a large (La)TeX manuscript that easily produce good pdf/PS, but mediocre to awful html/epub.
One option for getting help would be to open up everything to everyone - selling access to the source might be a way to retain some income while enlisting some help in conversion from volunteers (yes, we would first pay full price for the content, then volunteer to try conversion options to produce passable epub output).
There's a Youtube playlist[1] of recorded lecture videos by Wasserman from his CMU course that uses All of Statistics as a textbook.
I haven't watched more than a couple of mins of them (yet), so no idea how good they are (but the blackboard is quite hard to see in the recordings). However, it obviously doesn't have all the extra stuff that you would get in a proper MOOC.
I think the stick outweighs the carrot! Like many of these complicated problems, there are always pros and cons, and the question is how does society weight the importance of achieving/avoiding those.
I suspect the unpleasantness of prison plus the shackles of a felony on your record more than outweighs the benefits of the education you receive - at least in the USA. But like many people, I think that prisons should reform as well as punish, so I assign a strong weight to the importance of this (IMHO) very minor moral hazard.
I was being a little facetious before re: post protest cleanups rather than engaging with you properly, and I certainly support the idea of helping minority owned businesses in principle. I suspect (or hope?) that most cleanup companies would not try to make rioting worse. On the other, the moral hazard definitely exists, there are limited downsides (i.e. the off-chance that you get caught), and if the financial incentives for the cleanup operations became big enough...
They are in order, and Bond evolves based on his experiences in previous books. I would start with the first, Casino Royale and go from there. Bond of the novels is a more complex and less hero-worshipable character than his movie equivalent. My personal favourite is On His Majesty's Secret Service - I also loved the short story A Quantum of Solace (which has nothing to do with the movie of the same name).
And while I personally enjoy the novels, I will say that some of them have not stood up to the test of time as well as others, and now read as very dated. Not discouraging you from reading them, just be forewarned!
OHMSS is also my favorite. Out of curiosity which would you say have not aged well? Dr. No has some issues racially as I recall but not that I can think of as outright offensive. I ask because I want to know what I have missed (sometimes the blinders are up and you don’t see what you should).
I've resisted Twitter for a long time, but this would be the only reason I could see myself becoming a user.
In the past I've had a hard time finding people to follow with a high enough signal to noise ratio (or who don't flood my feed with a new tweet about their cat every 5 mins).
Do you have any tips for picking sources? Or choosing when to fill them? And how do you stay on top of the flood of information?
All the people on it are serious experts. I've also left out some people who are worth listening to, but have a political bias or express a lot of emotion (it's hard not to be angry).
I spend way too much time getting up to speed, but (a) there's a lot of stuff I find interesting (I studied molecular and cell bio a bit during my Masters), and (b) would rather err on the side of over-learning than being misinformed.
If you want secondary sources rather than primary, try STAT news. They've been excellent.
The quality of discussion in other fora (including HN) has been quite disappointing.
Thank you so much for this! I recently got into Twitter and following local news in an effort to stay informed but boy do the comments enrage/scare me. It’s just crazy how tribal things have gotten. Is there any end of this sort of division in sight? Every year I think it will get better but it doesn’t.
This exaggerates the problem. You can enroll in ACA outside of open-enrollment if you have a qualifying event, such as losing coverage through a job. You just have to submit paperwork that you lost a job.
I'm not saying open-enrollment wouldn't be preferable, or that the administration might not be trying to encourage people to enroll, but the option is still open for many, in theory.
Do you use the FFupdater app?