You can see the talk at cduvallet.github.io/phdchat-philosophies/.

This is a talk I gave at the Alm lab summit, an annual tradition in our lab which is essentially a day-long group meeting with friends of the lab invited and lots of time for brainstorming.

It provides a very brief overview of some of the most important things I learned during and/or used to guide how I approached my work during my computational PhD.

I think I was a pretty successful student and I know I was a very happy and organized one. I think the concepts in this presentation are largely responsible for both of those things (plus lots of friends, frisbee, and a great environment to do science in, obvs).

This talk is actually just one markdown file, which is converted by reveal.js into a fancy-looking presentation.

I relied heavily on Christian Deiner's example presentation to figure out how to make this presentation.

I installed reveal.js according to the instructions on their repo.

Then, I made this empty repo and copied the css, js, plugin, and lib (from the cloned reveal.js repo) directories into the directory where my index.html and talk (phdchat.md) will go.

Here, I also mostly just copied Christian's code in index.html. I'm not entirely sure what all is necessary to enable the markdown, but I think most of the heavy lifting is done in the following lines:

<div class="slides">
    <section data-markdown="phdchat.md"
    id="markdown"
    data-separator-vertical="^\n----\n"
    data-separator-notes="^Note:"></section>
</div>

In this setup, three dashes (---) makes a new slide that goes horizontally, and four dashes (----) makes a new slide that goes vertically (as specified in data-separator-vertical).

The hardest part of getting this set up was to figure out how to enable the emojis, which I mostly figured out by trial-and-error commenting out parts of Christian's index.html.

You have to run a python server. From one directory above where you have your index.html file, run:

python -m SimpleHTTTPServer

Go to your repo on github.com (e.g. (github.com/cduvallet/phdchat-philosophies)), click on Settings, and under the GitHub Pages heading check that yes you want this to be a github pages website. You can choose for github to host it from the root folder of your repo, or from a docs/ folder. Whichever you choose, just make sure your index.html file is in that. Once it's published, you'll be able to see your presentation at <your-github-username).github.io/<your-repo-name> (it'll also tell you where the site is published after it's done building, in a lovely green box!).