mixedmath

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by mixedmath 3y ago
I don't follow the implication. I think you're suggesting that in France, they're not 100% beef. What are they?
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by mixedmath 3y ago
Yes, I do. And open source software can have papers and algorithms documenting various aspects. This is very much like using results of other math research papers, in that there is communal review and trees of dependencies and everything ca
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by mixedmath 3y ago
I'm a mathematician. One reason it matters to me is that if I write a program that computes something in a proof, I need to be able to understand and verify (or possibly check that other people I trust have verified) the source and alg
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by mixedmath 3y ago
I've found digitizing notes is not useful to me. I digitized all my notes from grad school and they're sort of a wash now. I still take lots of paper notes. One thing that had been very useful is to make (short, simple) indices in
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by mixedmath 3y ago
That's interesting. My problem is very similar to the issue I labelled [2] above --- where there would be more than a second of delay in interacting with some snippets. But somehow this suggests to me that I might have been doing somet
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by mixedmath 3y ago
I always like people's LaTeX-based note taking setups. I'm a mathematician, so I write a lot of LaTeX too. (And I use vim, so I really like vim+Latex workflows). It's interesting that this post (or rather, the later post th
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by mixedmath 3y ago
That's super cool! What are you making it out of? I always wondered how they made the markings on the high quality slide rules of yore. Were they engraved? Were there machines that would scribe them? Now we might laser engrave, but tha
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by mixedmath 3y ago
I met my wife when in college. We've had a couple of friends who met and started dating through a figure skating class (not so common, maybe --- this is also where a couple people in my wife's friend's group came from).
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by mixedmath 3y ago
The biggest speed gain comes from a snippet tool that can interact with a programming language. He uses Ultisnips, which can bw filtered through python. This is probably an equivalent in emacs. Interestingly, this is more or less unusable i
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by mixedmath 3y ago
Ah yes, you're right! Thank you.
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by mixedmath 3y ago
This is an unexpected programming application. It's nice that the farmer actually changed behavior after receiving the phone call. At first, I thought there was a clear improvement. This problem essentially boils down to finding the in
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by mixedmath 3y ago
You wanted a thing, it didn't exist, and then you built it. Kudos to you! I don't know if part of the goal is to have a growing list of math problems and their solutions or not, but I see that mathjax is loaded to display the qu
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by mixedmath 3y ago
With an unhelpful Voronoi diagram on top.
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by mixedmath 3y ago
Yeah, something like that. It's hard to be both expressive and useful. This is a small set of primitives around a tkinter canvas. I suppose one could expose a small set of primitives around a pygame too. I have to think hard about what
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by mixedmath 3y ago
This seems pretty great! I love tips like this. I'm going to try out a version of this now.
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by mixedmath 3y ago
This is interesting and serves as a potential "hook" for getting people interested in coding. I understand the BASIC appeal! In something like python, an analogous thing is turtle graphics. Is there something more similar (but sti
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by mixedmath 3y ago
This extra context is very informative, thanks!
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by mixedmath 3y ago
I'll summarize my understanding. A commit that changes how copying (actually "registers", which is a bit more general than copying) works in emacs was recently accepted. Now emacs opens up a minibuffer that shows what is happ
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by mixedmath 3y ago
Possibly `git branch NEWBRANCHNAME` instead of `git checkout -b NEWBRANCHNAME`. When I need to show git to someone in order for them to contribute to something, I give them only these incantations --- and instructions to ask me if weird git
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by mixedmath 3y ago
I didn't understand from the title. But it turns out that Broadcom has pantented "high efficiency video coding" HEVC (which I have seen before as H.265). Netflix uses HEVC to stream 4K video. Broadcom sued to stop Netflix fro
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by mixedmath 3y ago
I could suggest the following Inside Interesting Integrals, by Nahin. This contains integrals with often arithmetic inspiration. Imagine things like, lots of special values of the zeta function or partial sums of harmonic numbers and that s
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by mixedmath 3y ago
This sounded pretty strong to me, so I did a quick napkin-math check of feasibility (in short - it passed the napkin check). On a sunny day, total solar energy hitting the top of the atmosphere gives about 1360 watts per square meter (sourc
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by mixedmath 3y ago
Sage uses sympy for many symbolic things (and maxima for various others). In particular, sage doesn't contain a complete reimplementation, but tries to glue these other tools together.
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by mixedmath 3y ago
I don't quite understand. What happened in September 2021?
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by mixedmath 3y ago
Where would one publish such an experiment?
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by mixedmath 3y ago
Probably Fluent Python comes the closest, I would say.
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by mixedmath 3y ago
I agree with these rules. I would add: * Always assume that no one will reply to a comment. Threads of comments are at most loosely based on a theme.
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by mixedmath 3y ago
I've spent much of the last 7 years on work related to the LMFDB. It's very good at what it does, and is also a very good gathering place for computational arithmetic geometers, number theorists, and mathematicians.
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by mixedmath 3y ago
Perhaps they call it X because of what comes after: why?
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by mixedmath 3y ago
There are a couple of journals in math that ask for the paper to be submitted using their particular latex template, and a typical latex template is incompatible with what I consider "standard" latex, i.e. either the `amsart` docu

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