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[Speaker 0]: And he can hear us. Can you perhaps do it for

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me? Great. The little angels in the

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background have done it for me.

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So now, finally, that everything is ready.

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Hi, James. How are you doing?

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[Speaker 1]: Good morning. Hello.

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[Speaker 0]: Well, thank you for your talk.

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And sorry for the little hiccup at the middle

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we had to put out a fire with the audio

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going out in the middle and sorry about this.

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[Speaker 1]: It's no trouble.

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[Speaker 0]: So James, you've obviously told us about your

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very fancy setup with the green screen and

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I'm sad to see that you haven't put out the

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green screen for your BBB session right now.

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Do you have it in the background just for

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you? Right, okay. It wasn't that far.

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Great. No. So, I'm just going to ask.

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So, this is the first live Q&A that we have

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for this session, so things might be coming

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into place, so pardon us if we take a little

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bit of time to put the questions on the

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screen and all of this.

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What I'm gonna do, I'm just gonna load up the

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pad. I would invite James to also open the

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pad on his hand. Sorry,

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I've got people talking in my ears and it's

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been a while since I've last had this.

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Okay, so opening the talks right now.

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Opening the pad, if I can find it.

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Open the pad. Okay. Have you got the pad open

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[Speaker 1]: So I can read the question.

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[Speaker 0]: on your end, James? Okay,

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great. Opening it on my end as well.

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What I'm going to do, folks,

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I see some of you have joined us on,

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if I show you, some of the people that have

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joined us in the BBB room.

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You can join us as well,

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all the links are on the talk page or on ISE,

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you can find it very easily.

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But what I'm going to start doing is first

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taking questions in the other pad because

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it's a little faster to ask questions like

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this, and then as soon as we've finished,

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feel free to unmute yourself and ask your

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questions. All right, so I've got some

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reactions about OBS being cool and yes,

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both James and I will be able to tell you

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that it's very cool. We do very fancy stuff

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like when I need to talk to production in the

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background and all the stuff obviously that

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James has been able to show you with a green

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screen. So I don't see a whole lot of

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questions so far. I see a lot of reactions on

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publishing lectures book and a classic

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example is John Kitchens obviously.

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Pedagogy first developments macros are a cool

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idea. Okay questions so how do you overlap

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yourself with a presentation it's so cool.

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[Speaker 1]: It's quite simple OBS provides filters for

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you can have a separate filter for each video

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feed. And 1 of the filters that's available

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is chroma key. You just choose a color to

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make transparent and just make sure that the

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webcam is at the top of the composition.

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And the thing that surprised me the most was

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how quickly my brain was able to mirror

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everything and control my body from a

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separate point of view like the way weather

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broadcasts are done. It took seconds to be

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able to do that. Well,

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and now I have years of practice because that

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setup that you saw that I used to record this

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video, I used for years during the pandemic

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for 4 or 5 semesters to,

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because my courses are all have 2,

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3, 400 students, except for the English class

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which has you know 30 students and so during

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the pandemic and even after lockdowns were no

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longer mandated I taught online just because

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I didn't want to have so many students in the

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room at the same time.

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So I've yeah I'm it I have a lot of practice

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doing that.

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[Speaker 0]: But it pays off because it looks so natural

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you know it feels like it's the same thing

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with weather casters you know it sounds very

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it looks very easy to do but it also takes

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quite a bit of practice.

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1 of the things that you also need to

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remember if you're using a chroma key that

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James has explained is that you need to have

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very good lighting basically for the color to

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pop out in the background and for your body

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to be easily highlightable.

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Okay, were you finished with this question?

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[Speaker 1]: Yeah, let's take another 1.

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[Speaker 0]: Sure. So how do you deal with video in Beam?

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I found it so hard to do that.

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PPT on the other end is easier to achieve.

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[Speaker 1]: Yeah, so remember that the slides get

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produced from Org Mode as PDFs.

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Well, and in fact, even before when I was

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using other software to produce slides I

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produced them as PDFs precisely because I

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wanted to be able to mark them up on on the

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screen with the stylus And so I don't do

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video in the slides. I use OBS to switch from

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static slides that I mark up with the stylus

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over to some kind of video viewer and then

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back. And again that's how I can use Firefox.

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I use OBS to switch between Firefox and video

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and the Shornal++ program where I can mark up

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slides. So those functionalities are...

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That's why I use different software and pull

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it all together with OBS so that I can have

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lots of functional flexibility.

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[Speaker 0]: Great. Do you ever use things like

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org-present and stay for the PowerPoint

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slides? I'm not sure exactly how to read this

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particular question, but at least we can

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focus on org-present. Are you familiar with

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what it is?

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[Speaker 1]: I've played around with org-present,

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And again, I guess you could use OrgPresent

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to show images and to show headings as

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slides. But again, Because it's such a

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crucial functionality to be able to mark them

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up with a stylus. I didn't really show this

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very much, but I also highlight things the

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way I would highlight using a laser pointer

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on the screen. And again,

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I don't see Emacs being able to do that for

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another couple of generations.

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So really the only thing I use Emacs for

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during presentations is to narrow headings

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that we can focus on particular text

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excerpts.

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[Speaker 0]: Right, yeah. A lot of our presentations at

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EmacsConf are usually,

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especially the Org Mode ones,

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are done with Org Present.

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Sorry, I had someone talk to me in the ear.

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You know the problem with EmacsConf is that

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every year, you have to relearn a lot of

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skills, and by the time we finish,

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by Sunday evening, we are masters of it.

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And then we forget everything by the time the

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next year comes around.

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What I was going to say is that org-present

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is often used by people inside Emacs,

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Conf, presenting about org-mode.

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But yeah, whenever you need to do something a

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little more visual, it gets a little more

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complicated. Some people have tried to do

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fancy stuff with SVG, which is probably the

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path forward for this type of stuff.

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But yeah, if you need to draw,

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if you need to highlight,

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it is pretty complicated.

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Perhaps something that you might want to be

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interested, James, in checking out is PDF

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Tools, which is a way to open up a PDF in

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Emacs. And this allows you to have basic PDF

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annotations, like putting a little bit of a

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Nikon on it. Perhaps you've already played

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with it.

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[Speaker 1]: I have used that. PDF Tools is an incredible

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package but until it allows me to make a mark

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on the screen that shows up in a video

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compositor. It's not going to replace

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Shornal.

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[Speaker 0]: Definitely. Alright, moving on to the next

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question. Is the triple-accolade syntax an

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[Speaker 2]: Org Mode core feature that I missed so

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[Speaker 0]: far, or did you program that?

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And thank you for the great talk.

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[Speaker 1]: Thank you very much. No,

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it's just part of all of the export backends.

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Actually, I think the way it works is it

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precedes all of the export backends.

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When you export, the first thing that happens

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is expansion of macros.

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And that's a built-in org mode feature.

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It's definitely beyond my Emacs Lisp powers

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to be able to have made something that

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powerful. That's right.

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I have come a long way.

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[Speaker 0]: For now, for now. You know,

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we always, you know, most of the people who

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show up to Emacs, especially talking about

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stuff that has to do with presentations or

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what they do in academia,

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you know, they always say,

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oh, but, you know, I couldn't have done all

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this, you know, it's just far away.

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And then they come back 1 year or 2 years

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later, and then, oh, I've made my entire

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library for presentation and stuff like this.

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So Be hopeful about what the future holds for

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you in terms of coming up with crazy new

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features for the entire ecosystem.

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[Speaker 1]: Well, let me tell you,

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since the pandemic, I have written,

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I wrote my first major mode.

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It's trivial, but it provides functionality

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that is very useful to me.

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And it's going to sound like I'm just trying

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to butter everyone up,

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but seeing a lot of the names in the IRC

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channel, people who have taught me so much on

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their YouTube channels and in their blog

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posts and on Reddit and on Mastodon.

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Without many of the people who are here today

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watching my talk, it's very fun to have

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people who have helped me learn so much about

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Emacs. So thanks to all of you.

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[Speaker 0]: Well, and yeah, and now you're becoming part

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of this crew of people inspiring others to do

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very much the same. So thank you for joining

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[Speaker 1]: Thank you very much.

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[Speaker 0]: the crew. Great. Moving on to the 2 last

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questions and then we'll open up the mic to

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other people on BigBlueButton.

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What kind of comparative feedback are

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students giving you regarding your approach?

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[Speaker 1]: Oh my gosh. Students were ready to,

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during the pandemic especially,

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when most of the courses were just being

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taught over Zoom by people sharing their

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screens.

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[Speaker 0]: Just a second, sorry, sorry for the

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interruption, very rude interruption,

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but I've got the intro for the next talk

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playing and I'm not sure what's going on.

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Give me just a second.

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Sasha?

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So... Yeah, I think it's started.

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Sure. I got the times wrong,

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apparently, because of the little delay we

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had getting the audio fixed up.

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The good news is that we're still recording

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the talk right now and we still have James

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around. Obviously, James,

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you're no longer on being broadcast on

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General, but if you want to keep answering

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questions or if you want to,

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anyone in the room right now wants to ask you

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questions, feel free to do so.

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I'm going to need to hop off because I need

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to get other things ready for the next talks,

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[Speaker 1]: But James,

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[Speaker 0]: sadly. great. And sorry,

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I'm a little tense, obviously,

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because I was not expecting this to happen.

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And that led to a very abrupt end to this

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discussion. But people afterwards on

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emacsmo.org slash 2023 slash talks will be

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able to find all the content here.

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So I'll have to leave now.

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Thank you so much, James,

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for doing the difficult task of opening up

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emacs-conf, And I'll probably see you later.

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[Speaker 1]: Thank you, Leo. Bye-bye.

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[Speaker 3]: On your, the external,

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the journal You were, you,

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you were using the tablet as a monitor,

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right? Touchscreen monitor,

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what's that?

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[Speaker 1]: program. Yes. That's exactly right.

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So it's a tablet, so it has a touchscreen.

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And so basically the functionality that that

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program provides is to be able to just mark

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up PDFs with a stylus,

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you know, in the way that you would use any

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other tablet. And to be able to take that

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video signal and put it into another machine.

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That was the that was the key.

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That's the killer app.

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[Speaker 3]: I've thought about grabbing 1 for the purpose

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of like changing my laptop into a tablet to

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read manga, browse the web,

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and I'm kind of curious if it works well like

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as a wireless monitor with a tablet?

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Or how well it like you can use Emacs with it

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in a tablet mode? Or were you just or you

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just use

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[Speaker 1]: the tablet that I use is this is it it's just

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the Microsoft Surface and so it comes with a

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keyboard So you can take the keyboard off.

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But I use it with the keyboard as well.

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And I just.

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[Speaker 3]: You're cutting off right now.

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Audio.

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Your audio is cutting off right now.

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How about now? Now I can hear you.

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[Speaker 1]: How about now? I bumped the mute button on

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the mic. Yeah, so again,

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this is... I'm trying to figure out which

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[Speaker 3]: of the 16 mute buttons you used.

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[Speaker 1]: It's just the Surface Pro 3 that I got used.

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And it runs Emacs, I mean it runs GNU Linux

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really well. And the trouble is that the hard

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drive, you know, the SSD drive is small and

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the RAM is small, but it works for the

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purposes. Basically, if I had a couple

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thousand dollars, I could probably buy a

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touch screen machine or I could run

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everything on it and do the streaming and do

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the video capture and do the PDF markup.

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But since both of these are so,

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the hardware that I use is so old and cheap

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and weak, I'd have to split it across 2

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machines.

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[Speaker 3]: There's also a beauty in making the stuff,

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having specific purposes for specific things

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where it's just not, yeah,

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it's like, I don't want a smart TV that plays

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Netflix. I want a Smart TV that has all the

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smarts that I turn my smart TV into a TV

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monitor. I

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[Speaker 1]: Don't want to yeah Really?

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I I totally feel that ethic I totally feel

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that ethic.

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[Speaker 3]: Oh, on the some other things,

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like if you want you To do highlighting in an

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org mode document you can use org web tools.

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I wrote this in the notes But you can use org

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web tools to download a web page And then you

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can use org remark to start highlighting in

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the org mode web page And then because it's

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an org mode document now,

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[Speaker 1]: right

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[Speaker 3]: you can just edit it directly If you have If

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you want other people to join in on an emacs

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session you could use a package like,

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what's it called, crdt.el

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That will allow 2 people with 2 different

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Emacs configurations to edit the same buffer.

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What? And you have a host that can host a

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[Speaker 1]: Interesting.

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[Speaker 3]: buffer too. And they have 1 optional

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extension for org mode that will synchronize

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the folding of the org drawers.

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[Speaker 1]: Interesting, I will look into that.

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[Speaker 3]: Like having I don't like if you want students

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like you have H highlight line mode.

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These are just some ideas.

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It's like you can have like highlight line

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mode so people can easily see which line

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you're on cursor tracking.

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And then you can have other people join in,

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students, or yeah, that's just a possible

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idea.

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[Speaker 1]: Is there anyone else in the big blue button

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room who has a question?

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All right, I'm going to go over to the pad

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and see if there are any pending questions I

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can address. Thanks PlasmaStrike.

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Yep.

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[Speaker 2]: To be tangled into source code or woven into

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a documentation file, which could be PDF,

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could be Markdown, could be OpenOffice,

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could be a notebook format.

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This methodology was conceived by Donald

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Knuth in 1984. The main purpose of literal

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programming is not only to make code or

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documentation or output more manageable,

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but to allow humans to create a data story to

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be pieced from a single source.

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What you see on the slide on the left hand

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side is the story and code inside an org-mod

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file. The file starts with some

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documentation, then you write back down the

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code, and at the bottom you see an output

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file, which is not shown in the slide itself.

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In the middle, you have the source code,

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which is the result of tangling or opening a

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buffer inside offload.

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On the very right-hand side,

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we have a PDF. Actually,

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this is HTML, random.org.

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The very same file that you see in the memory

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language. So the humans look at some of this

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code, and the machines look at other parts of

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the code. I actually did all my programming

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in the literate way even in the early 1990s,

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not using OrgMode, which didn't exist yet,

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but using Norman Ramsey's NoWeb preprocessor.

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They still use it inside Org Mode today.

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This preprocessor, NoWeb,

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allows you to tangle code from within an Org

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Mode file that is a self-standing file,

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much like Org Mode's edit functions,

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which export code blocks into buffers in

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whatever language the code blocks.

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In data science, these interactive notebooks,

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in 1 of the interpreted languages,

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like Julia, Python, or R,

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dominate. The basic technology is that of

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Jupyter notebooks, which take their name from

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Julia, Python, and R. And these notebooks use

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a spruce-stuffed shell,

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for example, IPython, and an option to add

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SQL cells. Alt mode inside Emacs has a large

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number of advantages. Some of them are listed

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here over these notebooks.

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2 of these stand out particularly.

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Different languages can be mixed,

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as shown in the image.

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While in Jupyter notebooks,

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a notebook is limited to running a kernel in

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1 language only. The content of the notebook,

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its document code or output part,

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can be exported in a variety of forms.

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[Speaker 3]: We are

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[Speaker 2]: currently the only person in this

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conference... ...To share with others,

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to use one's work in different reports...