On useless self-education

I'm the kind of guy who will stay up late to learn Markdown in order to write articles, blog posts and nodes faster than ever before.

I'm also the kind of guy that will spend hours and hours learning how to properly use Markdown to make citations and format academic references so that the resulting HTML and/or LaTeX document will be properly rendered.

I'm the kind of guy that will cite seminal papers in biology (Watson and Crick, 1953) in order to support the claims made in a daylog nobody will read

I'm the kind of guy that will have a Markdown editor, Notepad++, the command line, Mendeley desktop and a browser on Google Scholar and ArXiv open at the same time and believe that is a good and productive workflow.

I'm the kind of guy who reads relatively useless papers (Nov, 2007) because they seem interesting.

I'm that kind of guy. All references on this document were machine-generated using an unholy concoction of pandoc, BibTex, Markdown and the Windows cmd. May Eru have mercy on my soul.

Postscript

Clockmaker rightly pointed out that the reference cited in this daylog is «The structure of dna» and not «The Structure of DNA» as it should be. Upon closer inspection, the flaw was in me, failing to properly check my BibTeX reference, blindly exported from Google Scholar:

@inproceedings{watson1953structure,
  title={The structure of dna},
  author={Watson, James D and Crick, Francis HC},
  booktitle={Cold Spring Harbor symposia on quantitative biology},
  volume={18},
  pages={123--131},
  year={1953},
  organization={Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press}
}

Let this be a cautionary tale for academics: Double check your BibTeX file! The reference has been manually updated to reflect this error

Bibliography and recommended sources

Nov, O. 2007. What motivates wikipedians? Communications of the ACM. 50(11),pp.60–64.

Watson, J.D. and Crick, F.H. 1953. The Structure of DNA In: Cold spring harbor symposia on quantitative biology. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, pp. 123–131.