latex-writing

Guide LaTeX document authoring following best practices and proper semantic markup. Use proactively when: (1) writing or editing .tex files, (2) writing or editing .nw literate programming files, (3) literate-programming skill is active and working with .nw files, (4) user mentions LaTeX, BibTeX, or document formatting, (5) reviewing LaTeX code quality. Ensures proper use of semantic environments (description vs itemize), and hyperref (\autoref{} not \S\ref{}).

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latex-writing

Description

Public Writings

This repository hosts all public writings by Daniel Burger: essays, papers, patents, and books. Everything is written in LaTeX using a unified template system in _templates/. See _templates/README.md for template documentation.

Contributions welcome — these are living documents, continuously updated post-publication.

Note: Documents under active development are private Git submodules and will not appear here until finalised and promoted to full folders for publication.

Repository Structure

Writings/
├── 001_patents/    # Technical inventions
├── 002_papers/     # Academic papers and preprints
├── 003_books/      # Extended works with chapter structure
├── 004_essays/     # Long-form scientific/philosophical writing
└── _templates/     # Shared LaTeX templates

Patents

Title	Date	Status

Papers

Title	Venue	Status
Brain-in-Vatism: [Title TBC]	HCII 2026	In progress

Books

Title	Date	Status

Essays

Title	Date	Status
Mind Uploading: A Candidate for the Great Filter	—	In progress
Death is an Engineering Challenge	May 13, 2025	Published
Lab-Grown Human Brain Embodied in a Virtual World	Oct 18, 2024	Published