Hi! Nice to see you here! My name is Alex. I am a researcher, developer and instructor, fascinated by discrete mathematics and its powerful applications. My wife Natalia Zevakhina is a linguist specializing in experimental semantics and pragmatics. Feel free to contact me on LinkedIn. Check out my open source software on GitHub.
Here are some of my projects:
- Reveal.js plugins for math and CS lecturers. The GitHub repository is here. See an example of what is possible with Reveal.js regarding mathematical lecture slide decks, even if they are purely text-based.
- PlaGraphβ is a tool that visualizes a given collection of text files as a graph based on NCD metric. This has proved to be a very effective way of finding plagiarism cases among student submissions of code snippets and math texts in TeX.
- iLaTeXPrimer is an interactive lesson on the LaTeX typesetting system. Useful for learning the MathJax/KaTeX-supported subset of LaTeX commands, i.e. for writing math on the web and in Jupyter notebooks.
- LaTeXCheck is a checker for LaTeX documents. It checks for some deprecated commands and style. E.g., using
\bf instead of \textbf, using hyphen where dash is needed, etc.
- Jinja2 Playground is a web-app for debugging Jinja2 templates. It is useful for generating text files with repetitive structure, such as LaTeX documents, HTML pages, etc.
- FrenchGREP is a tool that allows searching for French words that contain given combinations of letters. Ever wanted to know what words contain combination “-ééé-“ or what verbs end on “-uire”, or maybe you want to find a masculine word ending with “-ette” (yes, there is one!) — then this tool is for you!
- TCF-EO is a minimalistic yet effective web-app to help you prepare for the TCF Expression Orale examination. It is based on the official TCF exam structure and is designed to be used on mobile devices.
- Slideshow Frameworks Catalogue is a list of slideshow frameworks, i.e., tools for creating presentations. It is useful for choosing the right tool for your next presentation.