Category: Reading
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Semantic Reader update
A brief overview of some of the skimming features available in Semantic Reader.
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Trying to read a paper a day
I’m trying to re-commit to the practice of reading original research papers, instead of relying solely on summaries and overviews. I’ve reconfigured my daily schedule to build a daily reading habit that will enable me to engage with difficult ideas more deeply.
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The New Beijing City Library Has the World’s Largest Reading Room
https://mossandfog.com/the-new-beijing-city-library-has-the-worlds-largest-reading-room/
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Semantic Reader for intelligent skimming of academic papers
Semantic Reader is an “AI-powered augmented scientific reading application”. The problem that Semantic Reader aims to address are the “…many points of friction that break the flow of comprehension when reading technical papers:” “Semantic Reader uses artificial intelligence to understand a document’s structure and merge it with the Semantic Scholar’s academic corpus, providing detailed information…
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Poem: If librarians were honest
in ReadingBy Joseph Mills If librarians were honest,they wouldn’t smile, or actwelcoming. They would say,You need to be careful. Herebe monsters. They would say,These rooms house heathensand heretics, murderers andmaniacs, the deluded, desperate,and dissolute. They would say,These books contain knowledgeof death, desire, and decay,betrayal, blood, and more blood;each is a Pandora’s box, so whywould you want…
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Tool: Wikiwand – a modern reader for Wikipedia
Wikiwand is a modern reader for web and mobile, that optimizes Wikipedia’s amazing content for a significantly improved reading experience. Fortunately, all articles on Wikipedia are released under a free license, which allows us to fetch Wikipedia articles and optimize them for maximum readability and enjoyment. At Wikiwand, we’re all about providing you with a…
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Thinking in public: From note to publication – A conversation with David Nicholls
Towards the end of 2021 I recorded a conversation with David Nicholls.[1] I wanted to talk to Dave about his process for converting incoming information into the kinds of outputs that so many in the health professions community find valuable. We talked about how we both try to limit the information we’re exposed to, how we…
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Thinking in public: A conversation with Tom Jesson
Tom Jesson is a physiotherapist, and self-employed researcher and writer based in Houston Texas, who I’ve wanted to speak to for a while. While I’ve always known Tom to be a thoughtful and careful writer, evident in his work that’s been published and shared widely in physiotherapy circles, I’ve not really thought much about how…
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On reading less, and reading with intent
in ReadingUpdate (28/02/2022): The conversation I recorded with Tom has now been published here. Yesterday I had a conversation with Tom Jesson (website, Twitter, newsletter). Tom and I have been emailing each other over the past few months, touching lightly on topics that fall within overlapping spheres of interest, and finally had enough space in our calendars (and…
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Resource: An overview of note-taking workflow and tools from Ton Zijlstra
There are hundreds of resources on note-taking systems so don’t take this post as anything more than a collection that caught my attention. Once you go down the ‘zettelkasten’ or ‘digital garden’ rabbit holes, you may find that it takes a while to get out again. If you already have a sense of what the…
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Using Hypothesis and Zotero to create notes while reading online
In this short video I demonstrate how I take notes using Hypothes.is while reading on the web and in Zotero. I try to show the early stages of creating links between ideas that I’m interested in, and eventually where I add those ideas into my permanent notes. I didn’t do much planning for this video;…
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Resource: Open Syllabus Galaxy
Open Syllabus Galaxy is a visualisation representing more than a million of most frequently assigned texts in the Open Syllabus corpus, a database of almost 8 million university syllabi.
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Why and How Academics Write
Badley, G. F. (2020). Why and How Academics Write. Qualitative Inquiry, 26(3–4), 247–256. …non-academics regard writing as bullshit when it is abstract and vague and full of jargon. Here, academics are accused of hiding behind prose which is dense, exaggerated, obfuscating, overblown, and full of deepities as our frequent claims to profundity have been termed.…
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Conceptual frameworks to illuminate and magnify
Bordage, G. (2009). Conceptual frameworks to illuminate and magnify. Medical Education, 43(4), 312–319. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2923.2009.03295.x Conceptual frameworks represent ways of thinking about a problem or a study, or ways of representing how complex things work the way they do. A nice position paper that emphasises the value of conceptual frameworks as a tool for thinking, not…
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Resource: Towards a curated library for AI in healthcare
I’ve started working on what will eventually become a curated library of resources that I’m using for my research on the impact of artificial intelligence and machine learning on clinical practice. At the moment it’s just a public repository of the articles, podcasts, blog posts that I’ve read or listened to and then saved in…
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PSA: Peter Singer’s “The life you can save” is available for free
In 2009, Peter Singer wrote the first edition of The Life You Can Save to demonstrate why we should care about and help those living in global extreme poverty, and how easy it is to improve and even save lives by giving effectively. This morning I listened to an 80 000 hours podcast with Peter…
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It’s Time for Medical Schools to Introduce Climate Change Into Their Curricula
Wellbery, C., Sheffield, P., Timmireddy, K., Sarfaty, M., Teherani, A., & Fallar, R. (2018). It’s Time for Medical Schools to Introduce Climate Change Into Their Curricula. Academic Medicine, 93(12), 1774–1777. https://doi.org/10.1097/ACM.0000000000002368 This is a position piece that begins by describing the impact of human beings on the planet (the Anthropocene). The effects of climate change…
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Book publishing
I enjoyed this video by Andrew Sullivan on the Daily Beast. His views on the publishing industry are worth listening to.