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LuaTeX is what TeX should have been from the start (and would have been, if the technology of the time had permitted it). Apart from modern font-handling and Unicode, the main thing IMO is the hooks it provides (in the form of callbacks). W
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Another one is here: https://blog.cr.yp.to/20201206-msword.html
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I hadn't seen Emacs's markdown-mode's markdown-hide-markup before, but trying it just now, it goes too far and has the opposite problem: it's harder to see the markup when you do want it. What Typora and MarkText (and,
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by svat 5y ago
To the best of my knowledge this (Marktext) is the only free/open-source Markdown editor that has WYSIWYG (like Typora: https://typora.io/ ). Not a separate preview window, but the actual editor window renders each Mark
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Oh yes, definitely, I didn't mean that MathML was a nefarious corporate plot. Just that there's a tension between pragmatists and idealists: in this case those who just want to put math on the web for the common case in any way at
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I briefly tried using it a couple of weeks ago, when there was a post here ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29406322 ) about it. I took a small notebook I had made in Colab: https://colab.research.google.com&
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by svat 5y ago
What makes you suggest Karmarkar's algorithm as relevant to Indian patent law? As the Wikipedia article you linked points out, Narendra Karmarkar left India in 1978, getting an M.S. from Caltech in 1979, PhD from Berkeley in 1983, and
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If this is indeed not new, one should be able to find a published source anywhere in the world's literature from before 2019 that does it this way, correct? The author mentions in his blog post / paper that he has looked for this
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Ah I see, thanks for clarifying. I had missed the subtle distinction in your comment between "interact with" and "read": I treated them as synonymous, when in fact you were referring to the interaction that is confined t
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I agree with this: I found it very hard, at least until I got a good sense of the overall structure and conventions etc, to be able to understand just one part and ignore the rest. On the other hand, ironically, Knuth recommended getting fa
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I actually agree with your main point — in fact I would go further and say that in an ideal LP system, the (or at least a ) source format would just simply be valid files in the target language, with any LP-related markup or whatever in th
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Minor correction: C code is extracted directly from the WEB. (web2c doesn't use `tangle`, the program that converts WEB to Pascal.) (Unless there's something I've missed…)
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I made some attempts a few years ago to read this program in its entirety. I managed only the faintest glimpse and had grand plans of making it easier. I wrote down some of it: https://shreevatsa.net/tex/program (Actua
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Wow, thanks for sharing. Even the 320 print "(brmmmm-brmmmm-putt-putt-vraow-chatter-chatter bye mr. fibonacci!)" shows something beyond most of us. :-)
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There are a few things wrong with Cringely's story: - According to this story, TAOCP Volume 1 was typeset using hot-metal printing, Volume 2 was typeset using "photo-offset printing to save money for the publisher" (which Knu
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This is from the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy; see also the corresponding article in the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy: https://iep.utm.edu/mathplat/ Also, frequently quoted (by me at least): from an inter
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In fact, the syntax of LaTeX (not TeX)—the idea of environments etc—is heavily based on Scribe: Leslie Lamport, who was a Scribe user, basically reimplemented parts of Scribe in TeX macros; the result was LaTeX. You can see the resemblance
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Bubble sort only swaps adjacent elements. The one I used is a lesser-known sort apparently called "exchange sort".
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Wow how did you find all these? Have you been keeping track all these years, or did you somehow search for and find this just now?
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See the edit: https://cs.stackexchange.com/review/suggested-edits/26152
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Oh yes, good point: I got carried away; there is a difference! Simplicity is subjective (I think mine is simpler of course :P), but the algorithm in the post is indeed more surprising.
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[Edit: I took a quick glance at the paper and got carried away; the rest of this comment is about a different algorithm apparently known as "exchange sort", and an interesting property of it. The algorithm in the paper is actually
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The irony is that the very paragraph in which Knuth made that statement (and the paper, and Knuth's programming style in general) is very much pro-optimization. He used that statement in the sense of "Sure, I agree with those who
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> Seems interesting they chose to limit it to a maximum of 6 colors. Where do you see this? The article talks about nesting levels being bounded by O(log N) levels where N is the length of the document, and from what I can tell this is
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> The core idea is to use a recursive descent parser to build an abstract syntax tree (AST) that describes the structure of all bracket pairs. This is a really nice and clear blog post on an algorithmic challenge wonderfully addressed to
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I guess the affordances of the device influence what notes/annotations are likely to come into existence. On the Kindle, where IIRC input is through a keyboard (apart from highlighting), textual notes would be more common. On printed b
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I have a rM2 that I've never connected to their reMarkable Cloud and I'm pretty happy with it; you can get the screen-sharing via other software. (Bunch of options here: https://github.com/reHackable/awesome-r
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> But I'm taking "notes" to mean commentary. In the context of the reMarkable / this conversation, “notes” means whatever the user draws on the device with the stylus: underlining or circling or crossing-out words o
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Also, Columbo's Peugeot 403 Cabriolet shows up in each of the first-season episodes (according to imcdb.org the "Internet Movie Cars Database" that I just discovered the existence of): • 1. "Murder by the Book" htt
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They are just different perspectives, not mutually exclusive. Maybe biology means someone has a higher need for (say) security, or makes their need less easily met (resulting in more anxiety, say, than for other people in similar situations

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