Recently I attended a technical conference, and I was disappointed in the number of presentations that I found completely incomprehensible. I’m not referring to people who didn’t speak English as their first language. In fact, many times those people had BETTER presentations. I’m primarily referring to those presentations that devolved into endless equations and minute details that almost no one in the audience could understand.
Recently I wrote a paper for a conference, and I wrote it entirely in LaTeX (an alternative to Microsoft Word that is much closer to a scripting interface than a What-You-See-Is-What-You-Get interface like Microsoft Word). After the paper was written, I needed to generate a presentation about the paper for the conference. At this point I realized that I had generated all of my equations using LaTeX, and thus I could not copy them over to the PowerPoint slides like I could do when I wrote my previous paper in Word.
I recently had a request to write about any good tips I had for working with Microsoft Excel, so below are a few tips and tricks you might not come across easily when using Excel. This is not intended to be a comprehensive list of every cool feature in Excel, but I want to share a few tips that I use on a regular basis.
I know those of you with your minds in the gutter will giggle and want to add “in bed” to the title of this article, but let’s move past that for now. You can giggle later.
Using both hands allows you to be far more effective and efficient when you are doing a variety of tasks. One example is when you are trying to flip through papers to separate them or trying to find a particular page, you will handle this task much faster if you involve both hands rather than one.
One of the first concepts I teach new students of Tae Kwon Do is the K’ihap. This roughly translates to “yell” in Korean. For the origin of the word, see the wikipedia article and search for K’ihap.
Why do we K’ihap in Tae Kwon Do and other martial arts? It has several purposes: