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Day 1935 (19 Apr 2024)

Latex footnotes in descriptions don't work

\begin{description}
\item[Brown-UK\footnote{\href{https://github.com/brown-uk/corpus}{https://github.com/brown-uk/corpus}}] is an open, balanced ..

Nope. It’s like tables — you’ll get the mark but not the actual footnote. Hard to notice.

Day 1934 (18 Apr 2024)

Footnotes inside table latex

Fought long and hard on this till I got enlightened. The trivial stupid way works.

\providecommand{\dagtab}{%
{\textsuperscript{\dag}}
}
\providecommand{\asttab}{%
{\textsuperscript{*}}
}

% put it wherever in the table

\caption[Evaluation scores]{Scores of selected models. 

\dagtab LMES tasks (shortened for brevity)

This was so easy.

\ddag double dagger also exists
! as well

Latex centering wide tables

… is hard and nothing worked. If it’s over the margin at least.

After trial and error I got this¹.

% \centerline{
\begin{table}[t]
% \begin{center}
\footnotesize
\centering
    \addtolength{\leftskip} {-2cm} % increase (absolute) value if needed
    \addtolength{\rightskip}{-2cm}
% \begin{adjustbox}{center}
% \resizebox{1.0\textwidth}{!}{% Adjust the scale as needed
\begin{tabular*}{1.25\textwidth}{lrrrrrrrrr}
\hline
                          &   LOW &   WIS &   cats\_bin &   cats\_mc &   wordalpha &   wordlength &   UA-CBT &   UP-masked &   UP-unmasked \\
\hline
 BASELINE-human           &       0.97 &       0.94 &            0.97 &           0.98 &             0.92 &              0.94 &     0.94 &        0.84 &          0.88 \\
 BASELINE-random          &       0.09 &       0.05 &            0.50 &           0.20 &             0.50 &              0.50 &     0.17 &        0.10 &          0.10 \\
 Mistral-7B-Instruct-v0.2 &       0.34 &       0.19 &            0.59 &           0.71 &             0.48 &              0.71 &     0.46 &        0.75 &          0.86 \\
 Ms-Inst-Ukr-SFT          &       0.31 &       0.16 &            0.66 &           0.55 &             0.48 &              0.66 &     0.42 &        0.82 &          0.87 \\
 Ms-Inst-Ukr-Slerp        &       0.35 &       0.19 &            0.66 &           0.66 &             0.49 &              0.70 &     0.45 &        0.79 &          0.87 \\
 Ms-Inst-Ukr-sherl        &       0.37 &       0.19 &            0.69 &           0.76 &             0.50 &              0.75 &     0.55 &        0.88 &          0.92 \\
 gpt-3.5-turbo            &       0.68 &       0.34 &            0.68 &           0.91 &             0.78 &              0.89 &     0.61 &        0.77 &          0.86 \\
 gpt-4-1106-preview       &       0.67 &       0.39 &            0.86 &           0.93 &             0.85 &              0.95 &     0.97 &        0.96 &          0.97 \\
\hline
\end{tabular*}
% }
% \end{adjustbox}
% \caption[Evaluation scores]{\TODO{Scores of selected models}}
\label{tab:eval}
% \end{center}
\end{table}
% }

The width 1.25\textwidth has to be manually chosen otherwise the table lines are too long or short for the text.

If it’s too low or too high it causes this (left is low):

As usual, when doing these things, Overleaf’s draft mode is golden.

For positioning on the page, quoting Overleaf²:

The parameter `h!` passed to the table environment declaration establishes that this table must be placed _here_, and override LATEX defaults. The positioning parameters that can be passed-in include:

`h`
Will place the table _here_ approximately.

`t`
Position the table at the _top_ of the page.

`b`
Position the table at the _bottom_ of the page.

`p`
Put the table in a special page, for tables only.

`!`
Override internal LATEX parameters.

`H`
Place the table at this precise location, pretty much like h!.

Day 1933 (17 Apr 2024)

Insights on my writing with Grammarly

The UNLP workshop generously included a 3 months trial of Grammarly Premium, and this was interesting.

Shown in Fig. XXX
Oxford commas — Grammarly wants them, I seem to not, but I should decide on one
it specified the requirements, THE complexity of the story, … — when I list things I can’t use one article for all of them!
- I would never write “I have a cat, dog, rabbit”, and that’s the same thing
e.g. requires a comma only in American English
I do A LOT of errors with duplicated words (the the)
- A book I’m reading suggests using a different font and column width when proofreading just to catch such things
I don’t know how to spell a number of English words
- accommodate
Many typos are acoustical ones if I’m tired, e.g. doc instead of dog
I use too many words
- A lot of my passive can be really neatly rephrased into not-passive, for shorter sentences with fewer words
- verb+noun often can be just a better verb (like make predictions => predict)
it removes many of my commas
- I know it’s my Slavic language interference, but in many cases it makes the text way less clear imo

General impressions

It even knows that written in python requires Python to be capitalized!

i.e. and e.g. and commas

Comma after ‚i.e.‘ and ‚e.g.‘ – Business English & Übersetzungen:

i.e. means that is / in other words (from id est)
e.g. means for example

They are followed by commas in American English but not in British English.

Day 1932 (16 Apr 2024)

CLI webservice for easy sharing of files via curl

kubectl cp failed with errors, so.

curl bashupload.com -T rd3.zip

file.io - Super simple file sharing



(rapids) root@lm-eval-sh:/data/output# curl -F "file=@more.zip" https://file.io

{"success":true,"status":200,"id":"xxx","key":"xxx","path":"/","nodeType":"file","name":"more.zip","title":null,"description":null,"size":46277219,"link":"https://file.io/xxx","private":false,"expires":"xxx","downloads":0,"maxDownloads":1,"autoDelete":true,"planId":0,"screeningStatus":"pending","mimeType":"application/octet-stream","created":"2024-04-16T15:19:10.227Z","modified":"2024-04-16T15:19:10.227Z"}

Generally, free curl file sharing online - Google Suche returns many services with potential.

Day 1931 (15 Apr 2024)

Seaborn barplot ordering gotcha

seaborn.barplot — seaborn 0.13.2 documentation:

passing order=[list,of,cats,in,order] decides the ordering.

Otherwise “it will be inferred” except that it’s not always trivial to understand how exactly (or I’m too sleep-deprived).

And if I’m drawing horizontal lines on top of the bars in the barplot based on indexes then the order may be sligthly different.

Latex automated title case in titles

With the help of ChatGPT

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{titlecaps}
\usepackage{etoolbox}

% Specify words to remain in lowercase unless they are the first word
\Addlcwords{the and but or nor for a an at by to in on with of}

\let\oldchapter\chapter
\renewcommand{\chapter}[1]{\oldchapter{\titlecap{#1}}}

\let\oldsection\section
\renewcommand{\section}[1]{\oldsection{\titlecap{#1}}}

\let\oldsubsection\subsection
\renewcommand{\subsection}[1]{\oldsubsection{\titlecap{#1}}}

\begin{document}

\section{an example of a section with and without uppercasing specific words}
This is some text.

\subsection{exploring the integration of tools in the workplace}
More text here.

\end{document}

Day 1928 (12 Apr 2024)

In LaTex you can put multiple labels to the same object

The same thing can have multiple names and that’s alright!

\label{old-subsection-name-maybe-linked-to-elsewhere}
\label{sec:eval-task-2}

Day 1927 (11 Apr 2024)

Latex quotations

symbols - What is the best way to use quotation mark glyphs? - TeX - LaTeX Stack Exchange:

``this'' / `this' is the proper way
"this"/'this' produces two closing quotes and 'is annoying to readers'

There’s also CTAN: Package csquotes that ‘is fantastic’, including smartly doing nested quotes, correct quotes for diff languages, and ‘generally always doing what you want it it’:

\usepackage[autostyle]{csquotes}

...
\enquote{My quoted text}

Another answer suggests

\newcommand{\q}[1]{``#1''}

...

\q{whatever}

I’ve been using more custom latex commands lately and this goes in that direction.

I guess creating a \q that does autoquotes w/ csquotes is the way to go?