Citing this work

Please use the following:

@phdthesis{altosaar2020probabilistic,
    Author = {Jaan Altosaar},
    School = {Princeton University},
    Title = {Probabilistic Modeling of Structure in Science: Statistical Physics to Recommender Systems},
    Year = {2020}
}

Building environment

Still using something like MacTex and Sublime Text with XeTeX: https://gist.github.com/altosaar/15b597c95644f665e0ef08346d701509

Dropped capitals with colored backgrounds

The Illustrator file for colorizing the backgrounds of drop caps is in /design/typography.ai. To colorize backgrounds, import a page of the PDF with the drop cap, use this to convert it to shapes, make a new layer on top of the letter, then use the Pathfinder tool to excise the shape (instead of using the compound path). Select everything but the letter, and change the color.

Attribution

This is based on @smsharma's excellent https://github.com/smsharma/Thesis!