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An Introduction to Optimization on Smooth Manifolds(nicolasboumal.net)
4 points by fanpu 3y ago|0 comments
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by fanpu 3y ago
Yes, but it is precisely because they are trying to get a slice of the pie from large studios that whatever happens to indie devs with their changes are just collateral damage
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Advice for Technical Speaking(cs.cmu.edu)
2 points by fanpu 3y ago|0 comments
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by fanpu 3y ago
The title is actually perfect, but requires some context, after which you might appreciate its tongue-in-cheek beauty: The author studied at CMU, where the proudly-paraded slogan for an introductory functional programming classes is "F
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Score-Based Diffusion Models(fanpu.io)
2 points by fanpu 3y ago|0 comments
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by fanpu 4y ago
Overleaf ( https://overleaf.com/ ) is pretty popular for this, and also tracks things like edit history
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by fanpu 4y ago
> Many LaTeX tricks only get passed down from advisors to students, or from collaborators to collaborators. Which is a great point on why the average quality of LaTeX homework submissions by undergraduates without any research experience
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by fanpu 4y ago
Wish I knew about autoref earlier, it also increases the area spanned by the hyperlink generated to the entirety of "Figure 1" instead of just "1" in the case of ref.
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by fanpu 4y ago
Interesting explanation on how it developed historically. I've seen mathbf used in some books, but I guess old conventions are hard to change.
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by fanpu 4y ago
Ah, I guess that's what happens when you do both Markdown and LaTeX in the same document! Thanks for pointing it out, I've also been pretty sloppy with hyphen and em-dash in normal writing. Maybe someone could write a similar post
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by fanpu 4y ago
Should be fixed now. First time hearing about Muphry's Law, definitely gave me a chuckle!
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by fanpu 4y ago
Thanks for flagging the image issue, I think there's an issue with the responsive image serving code that doesn't work consistently across browser. Temporarily disabling that for now & pushing a new update. Also, you are right
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by fanpu 4y ago
Refreshing might help (my guess is it might be due to img fallback issue), thanks for flagging this and I'll be investigating!
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by fanpu 4y ago
Thank you! :) and sure!
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by fanpu 4y ago
I was initially dreading that it would be something inefficient like the equation symbol selector in Word, but after viewing the video demo on their website and seeing the speed of typing aided by heavy use of shortcuts, I'm intrigued.
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by fanpu 4y ago
There are tools (i.e https://mathpix.com/ ) that actually does a pretty great job at LaTeX OCR, although you'll need to re-create labels and the like. I was pleasantly surprised that it replicated alignments & chose
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by fanpu 4y ago
Realized I misunderstood your question. IMO the main design problem with LaTeX from a usage-standpoint is that there are too many ways of achieving the same thing, and oftentimes none of them is a clear winner. It's still the best opti
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by fanpu 4y ago
Great question! Is there a specific domain/example that you have in mind? I don't think people intentionally use archaic language if their goal is to educate and enlighten, but in papers it is quite common for unnecessary jargon t
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The Art of LaTeX: Common mistakes and advice for typesetting proofs(fanpu.io)
277 points by fanpu 4y ago|146 comments
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Reinforcement Learning Policy Optimization: Deriving the Policy Gradient Update(fanpu.io)
1 points by fanpu 4y ago|0 comments
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The Computational (Im)Possibilities of the World That We Live In(fanpu.io)
2 points by fanpu 4y ago|0 comments