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Couple of pieces of feedback: 1. There's an order of magnitude difference in the difficulty of problems. Some are hardly more complex than a couple of subscrip
by olooney 7y ago
Couple of pieces of feedback:
1. There's an order of magnitude difference in the difficulty of problems. Some are hardly more complex than a couple of subscripts and maybe a \frac{}{}, while others need matrix notation. However, they all count as "1 problem." That's pretty weird.
2. There were also a couple of problems where I couldn't figure out why it wasn't accepting my answer, as it was visually identical. It must already be allowing for several variations (\text vs. \operatorname, \over vs. \frac), but Latex is so flexible it doesn't seem to be able to catch all the equivalent ways to solve problems. Plus, there's absolutely no feedback, which means you can sink 30 seconds into a hard problem, not have it accept it, and have no idea what to do next.
- barbierocks 7y ago1. That's why we added a point system, but I agree the variation in difficulty is pretty wild. 2. See my comment above - comparison is a tough problem right now, the website is pretty simple. We'd like to improve it though!
- olooney 7y agoI think it's a great start - I'm a big fan of typing games like TyperA, and one of the things I enjoy most about blogging or answering questions on stats.stackoverflow.com is formatting mathematical in beautiful LaTex. It just needs to be just a little bit more polished overall to be a really compelling experience.