johnmorrison

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   by johnmorrison 6y ago

   > Establishing causality can be difficult but not impossible - the standard is "necessary and sufficient". You must show necessity: CO2 increase (for example) is necessary for global warming; if CO2 remains constant, no matter
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   Rocket Lab successfully completes Electron mid-air recovery test (+ video)(rocketlabusa.com)

   26 points by johnmorrison 6y ago|1 comments
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   by johnmorrison 7y ago

   Okay, I've had a look at the project, and it seems to me like these are two fundamentally different things solving two different problems. Doesn't seem like a direct competitor - although the names are 60% similar.
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   by johnmorrison 7y ago

   Yeah, if I'm interpreting your words correctly, this would be like turning p {b This} {b text is} {b bolded} this isn't into p {b This text is bolded} this isn't But then the issue is as follows: In Polymath, I&
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   by johnmorrison 7y ago

   They abstract away from the underlying code. You wouldn't be able to tell the difference between {b Bolded} {b text} and b Bolded text this becomes especially concerning with TeX, custom styling, etc
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   Revenue by Music Format, 1973–2018(observablehq.com)

   1 points by johnmorrison 7y ago|0 comments
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   by johnmorrison 7y ago

   It really depends on the specific user and why they need the language. Ultimately, Polymath is meant to provide a file format that will work for the long term, so I don't think users should be always getting an abstraction of the lan
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   by johnmorrison 7y ago

   I'm sure that could be done but I'm not sure if it's the right thing to do. I think it's important for people to understand the syntax and what they're using. I think it'd be cool to do a side-by-side web app w
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   by johnmorrison 7y ago

   I basically started this thing very recently so idk what I'm doing yet, but the plan is for the language to be open source. I'm just trying to figure out what type of monetization I can potentially build around it (maybe a paid ho
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    by johnmorrison 7y ago

    Yup. For my personal site, I'll probably move the rendering server side soon if it doesn't add too much to the render time. Likely will make both options accessible to other Polymath users - I think server side and client side bot
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    by johnmorrison 7y ago

    Thanks! Sorry, from your wording I'm not sure whether you are suggesting custom tags or saying there already are, but to clear up any confusion, there will be. That's kind of what I was hinting towards at the end of the demo - you
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    by johnmorrison 7y ago

    Thanks, and actually, you should be fine with just a text editor. If the text editor doesn't support line folding spaced indentation, you can fall back to tabs, and if it doesn't support any indentation, you can actually write a p
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    by johnmorrison 7y ago

    I'm open to MathJax or KaTeX or anything, nothing is set in stone.
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    by johnmorrison 7y ago

    I'm not sure yet, especially considering that there are a few different components to the overall thing. The language itself will almost definitely be open source, and I've created a MIT-licensed GitHub repo to support it as of ea
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    by johnmorrison 7y ago

    Thanks for the reference! I've had a look at a lot of examples and it seems great, but I really dislike the idea of homodirectional delimiters because I fear it unnecessarily complicates formatting and introduces a pointless risk of co
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    by johnmorrison 7y ago

    Thanks for the link! In my example I was referring to the Cartesian plane graph of x vs. f ( x ), but I do certainly hope to support the kind of general graphs / directed graph structures you're referring to. If there are open
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    by johnmorrison 7y ago

    I'll send an email to everyone on the list when there's a prototype you can play around with. I've also made a GitHub repo where I might keep code and a wiki, or I may host a wiki written in Polymath on my site. It will expla
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    by johnmorrison 7y ago

    That thing is insane! Although I guess if you have an arbitrary number of divs, CSS just becomes a much more esoteric equivalent to SVG
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    by johnmorrison 7y ago

    Definitely! In fact there are a lot of concepts from notebooks I've been borrowing for Polymath / other features on my website. I'd certainly much prefer to use the Polymath syntax when using something like Jupyter (although
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    by johnmorrison 7y ago

    This is a really great thought! I hadn't considered that before but what you're saying is really important for intuition as well, I think, for considering something like the Fermi paradox or great filter. Perhaps not only is the E
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    by johnmorrison 7y ago

    Thanks! Currently the MVP is basically hardwired into my personal backend but I've added an email subscription button which will notify you once I release a public/beta version. Still have a few things to fix up!
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    by johnmorrison 7y ago

    This is the Human Era ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocene_calendar ) I believe it is a humbler, more appropriate calendar for talking about human history. I use it on my personal site because I don't need to co
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    by johnmorrison 7y ago

    Thanks for the link! I haven't used TikZ too much, maybe only a dozen or so times, but definitely am hoping to have something great for interactive diagrams. Will certainly keep this in mind as I add more features. I'd be interest
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    by johnmorrison 7y ago

    Thankyou :) I actually haven't tried org-mode but I've been hearing about it for a while now. Can't comment. > Besides not requiring emacs, is there a value-add with Polymath? Or is this mostly scratching your own itches —
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    by johnmorrison 7y ago

    Thanks! I've actually been putting some thought into that exact question with a lot of things (i.e. using Markdown-style identifiers for things like Headings [#, ##, ...]) I think what I'll probably do is support both the raw CSS&
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    by johnmorrison 7y ago

    > But is it as fast as running MathJax pages through mathjax-node-page to create static pages which don't need JS at all? Not sure, I should note that I've only ever used MathJax and KaTeX with the client-side JS rendering opti
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    Polymath: A Markup Language for Everything(jwmza.com)

    109 points by johnmorrison 7y ago|57 comments
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    by johnmorrison 7y ago

    Despite the unfortunate state of the industry at the moment and in recent memory, it should be noted that nuclear still counts for a significantly larger share of global energy supply than renewables ever have, and also has contributed more
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    by johnmorrison 7y ago

    Thankyou! These are some really great points. I think it's always important to look at the full supply chain life cycle effects of energy sources - keeping in mind that they need to be built from processed materials, potentially repair
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    by johnmorrison 7y ago

    This is really saddening. I am baffled by world leaders repeatedly suspending, cancelling, or shutting down nuclear reactors. Even after Fukushima Daiichi, nuclear energy remains in Japan and worldwide the (1) safest by far [deaths/kWh