Post-its

These are things I keep having to derive & post them here for my reference.
Qualifier: No guarentee provided.
Credit: Vidya Setlur for giving me the idea; John Owens for some of the latex pointers.

  • How to give a presentation
    • Steal this presentation
    • ColorLovers.com: helps picking a color scheme
    • Color Brewer
    • Screen capture on a mac: Command-Shift-4
    • Skitch.com: screen shots and add little things like arrows, annotations, etc. 
      Amy's Presentation Criteria:
Preparation:
	•	Goal for talk
	•	Appropriate for audience
	•	Slides/Visuals are brief
	•	Well practiced
	•	Tools are appropriate
	
Content:
	•	Motivation
	•	Organized structure: (Chronological, sequential, hierarchical, compare/contrast/story)
	•	Cite Sources (but not too much)
	•	Brief visuals
	•	Time on individual slides
	•	Titles appropriate
	•	Text appropriate
	•	References
	•	Thank you/funding/etc.
	
Clarity:
	•	Color used sparingly
	•	Legibility: font > 20pt
	•	Spell check
	•	Density of data
	•	Level of detail o text
	•	Slide contrast fits room (white for light rooms, dark with light text for dark roms)
	
Delivery:
	•	Attire
	•	Introduction (joke or simply "I'm happy to...")
	•	Audience participates in talk
	•	Questions handled appropriately
	•	Pace (~ 1 min/slide)
	•	Body Language (smile, eye contact)
	•	Extra slides or ability to skip slides
	•	Tone
	•	Time
	
Don't:
	•	display code
	•	overview/outline for short talk
	•	abuse color
	•	talk down to the audience
	•	read from slide
	•	get of topic
	•	use pointers too much
	•	refer to Left or Right
	•	use Jargon
      Uvic Links:
      [..choke..] USource
    • Things I've learned about finding an academic job
    • Amy's how to run experiments
    • Mac OS X stuff
      • Getting OpenCV to compile on Mac OS X
      • Mount drive:
        In Finder -> Go -> Connect to Server -> smb://machine.cs.northwestern.edu/netid
        Only works with wired connection (not NU wireless)

    • Image Databases
    • Latex
      • Generally of good help for debugging the look of the document (has a section on thesis latex)
      • Adding umlautes in bibtex
         {\" u} or {\"{u}}  works;  {\"u} doesn't
      • How to sort citations automatically:
        Use the BibTex Edit menu of Emacs;
        (BibTeX Edit -> buffer/region -> sort entries) (or M-x bibtex-sort-buffer).

      • How to cite all of your citations, not just the ones you use
        \nocite{*} (at bottom of LaTeX)

      • How to make bib file use capitals as you specify them
        Or you can edit the .bst file and delete every instance of 
         '    "t" change.case$  '.

      • Adding Tildas: \textasciitilde{} or *~*
        Also, $\sim$, and \url{~} might also work nicely (\usepackage{url})
    • Fixing Mozilla mail
        Occasionally my folders disappear, and Bruce & I just figured it out: click on Server Settings -> Advanced
        • Key is that IMAP server directory should be blank
        • uncheck show only subscribed folders
        • check Server support folders that contain sub-folders and messages
        • check allow server to override these namespaces 
      Mounting web space on mac OS X:
In the finder, press Apple-K  or Go > Connect to Server
type in server address:
    smb://zappa.cs.northwestern.edu/ago820
I was warned this only works on the CS network and not on NU wireless
because it uses Samba
Workgroup/Domain should say
    CS
correct Username and type in your password.
Ta Dah!
    • Subversion