christopherolah

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by christopherolah 17y ago
It was interesting to read how sage developed. I use it all the time, but had never known... The Magma stuff sounds nasty. All the more reason to avoid proprietary software.
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by christopherolah 17y ago
>theorem proving is mechanical I have to disagree. As theorems become more complicated, proving them becomes anything but mechanical: one must choose between an infinite variety of approaches, many of which are equally valid.
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by christopherolah 17y ago
It would be neat if we could use something like this to render equations on HN...
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by christopherolah 17y ago
It's fine for me, but you can always use the Google cache: http://74.125.93.132/search?q=cache:Xm1IG5QALKUJ:www.mathjax...
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by christopherolah 17y ago
This came up on the sage (FOSS alternative to Mathematica and freinds) mailing lists and I thought I'd post it here. It always surprises me how difficult math on the Internet has turned out to be. Hopefully this can help...
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Mathjax(mathjax.com)
120 points by christopherolah 17y ago|34 comments
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by christopherolah 17y ago
I just read the Wikipedia entry for his views on woman. There's an interesting part at the end: After the elderly Schopenhauer sat for a sculpture portrait by Elisabet Ney, he told Richard Wagner's friend Malwida von Meysenbug, "I have not
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by christopherolah 17y ago
There's also the small matter of whether they should be using tax payers dollars to fund the development of a proprietary product. I realise that most people use Windows but it still leaves a bad taste in my mouth. And I'm not even American
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by christopherolah 17y ago
It'd be cool to make a whole desktop UI around that. Very cool.
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by christopherolah 17y ago
The Internet is killing storytelling? What? http://www.fanfiction.net/ http://www.fictionpress.com/ http://www.scribd.com/ (And lots of others...) I rest my case.
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by christopherolah 17y ago
I'm a high school student presently. The Math is trivial. The only way to learn anything is to read by myself and audit university courses. I'm actually trying to write a math textbook that will actually teach math. If you're interested ema
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by christopherolah 17y ago
But 27.1 says: Everyone has the right freely to participate in the cultural life of the community, to enjoy the arts and to share in scientific advancement and its benefits. Which is directly in opposition to copyright. UDHR seems to stan
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by christopherolah 17y ago
LaTeX/TeX style math, syntax highlighting.
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by christopherolah 17y ago
I'd love to hear it. christopherolah.coATgmail.com
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by christopherolah 17y ago
Hm, is using tau a standard convention? I've thought pi is horrible... and adopted using a loopy pi as 2pi. I loop the first vertical line over the horizontal, right, and then make it the horizontal, and so on. If that makes any sense. I'm
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UN Youtube Channel(youtube.com)
1 points by christopherolah 17y ago|0 comments
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by christopherolah 17y ago
They might be real entries, that doens't mean they're randomly chosen. MS probably selected a bunch that made them look good, and then threw in a few that were somewhat neutral to make it look fair (I'm thinking the downloading, what are th
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by christopherolah 17y ago
And it happens to not mention Linux...
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by christopherolah 17y ago
My opinion is that crackers and hackers are to distinct sets, but there is an intersection (though I think it isn't overly big). Hacking needs to be creative, nothing about that says it can't be malicious. That isn't to say that I approve o
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by christopherolah 17y ago
A few thoughts and questions: What does the y in (Tl4Ba)Ba2Ca2Cu7Oy stand for? Google search for the chemical turns up surprisingly few hits for something like this... http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&client=firefox-a&r...
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by christopherolah 17y ago
Speaking of Copenhagen, UNICEF is having a contest for high school students from various countries to go to Copenhagen. It was a written/Youtube video contest. http://globalclassroomstudentsdev.innovasium.com/en/involved... Some friends a
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by christopherolah 17y ago
> To say software patents are invalid or software can't be patented really puts software programmers at a disadvantage relative to other fields of science and innovation. Why should pharmaceutical companies, civil engineers, mechanical
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Cleverbot vs Emacs Psychiatrist(christopherolah.wordpress.com)
1 points by christopherolah 17y ago|0 comments
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by christopherolah 17y ago
I'm usually not a music person. But this is brilliant. The amount of effort that must have gone into making something like this... Timing the typing and speaking to the rhythm. It helps that I disagree with the modern state of IP. I hope it
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by christopherolah 17y ago
I disagree. I'm more inclined to say: philosophy = science - assumptions Also, mathematics came from philosophy... So did Science, actually.
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by christopherolah 17y ago
I actually thought you were recommending a piece of software that had a punny name...
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by christopherolah 17y ago
The book binding is awesome in and of itself... This particular example is a bit extreme, but if your going to make a physical book, make it worthwhile!
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by christopherolah 17y ago
I posted a couple of hacks for fish here: http://christopherolah.wordpress.com/2009/06/13/a-couple-fis...
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by christopherolah 17y ago
Sent now.
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by christopherolah 17y ago
My letter can be found here: http://christopherolah.wordpress.com/2009/09/12/my-letter-to... Feedback is appreciated. It hasn't been sent yet.

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