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by omaranto 2mo ago
Who do you mean? The author of the tweet is Levent Alpöge, who does not have a PhD in math from Cambridge... but does have a PhD in math from Princeton. And his advisor was Fields Medalist Manjul Bhargava. Also, there is no way this counter
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by omaranto 1y ago
You could do the same thing with a Markdown file, but I wouldn't call it simpler than Org. Maybe by simple you meant "familiar to more people"?
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by omaranto 2y ago
Emacs can run external processes asynchronously. It is true that Emacs locks up while updating packages but it is actually not while downloading or unpacking them! It locks up while byte-compiling them. :)
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by omaranto 2y ago
You replied to the wrong person, then.
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by omaranto 2y ago
But Iverson bracket notation does not occur in APL: you don't need (and cannot use) the brackets there.
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by omaranto 2y ago
Probably the same reason in algebra people went from using "plus" to "p." to "+": for readability.
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by omaranto 2y ago
> feel a little exhausted just thinking about needing to be on 14 different chat networks. You do not need to be on all 14 to find Beeper useful! Even if you only use a few you might still want them to be together in a single app. As to
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by omaranto 3y ago
And people wishing to delve even deeper switch back to R? I don't use it, but I understood that most advanced techniques in statistics are implemented first, and sometimes only, as R packages, no?
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by omaranto 3y ago
> As the link shows, the syntax section of the Vim manual offers suggestions to increase speed on slow computers for all syntax categories, tex being one of them. That does not mean all those categories are a problem in Vim itself. Oh, a
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by omaranto 3y ago
I was using a third-party plugin for markdown (I think it was called pandoc.vim), but for LaTeX files I was using only plugins that come with Vim. The documentation in :help tex-slow did suggest things to put in .vimrc to help make syntax-h
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by omaranto 3y ago
Taking notes in math courses in Vim on a netbook (remember those?) is what made me switch to Emacs! I tried taking notes both in LaTeX and in Markdown with syntax highlighting for embedded LaTeX math formulas, and Vim just lagged behind my
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by omaranto 3y ago
My impression is that all of those are fads, we jsut haven't seen VS Code fade way yet, like the others have. I've used Emacs throughout all of those fads, seems easier than switching editors every few years.
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by omaranto 3y ago
I wouldn't characterize languages in the K family as particularly focused on math. They have vectors, but do not have matrices or higher dimensional arrays, they don't have a built-in to compute factorials, binomial coefficients,
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by omaranto 3y ago
Wow, this looks so much harder than simply running GUI Emacs.
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by omaranto 3y ago
I think if you do write something in Rust it is customary to mention it to avoid getting tons of suggestions to rewrite it in Rust.
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by omaranto 3y ago
In my opinion, the language that comes closest to K's functionality and is also understandable by mere mortals is K itself. It is obviously extremely close to K's functionality and is a very simple language, the only reason it d
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by omaranto 3y ago
In what sense is @\: folding? Doesn't it take a list of functions on the left and a thing on the right, and returns the list of values obtained by applying each function to the thing?
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by omaranto 3y ago
Briefly: yes, you generate lots of temporary arrays, but it is not slow because it often allows the use of vector instructions and parallelism, it can be faster than a constant-memory loop that does not take advantage of vectorization or pa
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by omaranto 3y ago
> I think they are called colloquialisms Close, they are called "idioms". > +|x The plus should be an asterisk, but yes, that is an idiom the ngn/k interpreter recognizes.
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by omaranto 3y ago
I think (-.*/~)2}.i.100 is a little more idiomatic.
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by omaranto 3y ago
Yup, UIUA is Polish notation rather than Reverse Polish notation.
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by omaranto 3y ago
Most of the websites I interact with are either very interactive web apps which have no hope of working without JavaScript or are basically made up of text documents I want to read. It is shocking how much the document-style websites improv
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by omaranto 3y ago
This looks great! I think I have access to most of these features already, but for people who don't this seems like an easy way to get it all in one package. Grouping browser tabs is of course already handled by browsers, or you can us
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by omaranto 3y ago
> thankfully there are tools to convert LaTeX to MathML For example MathJax!
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by omaranto 3y ago
Woah! Chrome finally added support for MathML! I had no idea, apparently it landed in January of this year.
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by omaranto 3y ago
You don't mention any specific part of this so-called industry-standard UI that CUA mode does not provide. I guess if I were really motivated I could try to figure that out on my own, but it seems like a lot of effort because I'd
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by omaranto 3y ago
Why is CUA-mode not enough?
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by omaranto 3y ago
If you find an interesting search result on page 3 you seriously bookmark page 3 rather than bookmarking that link?
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by omaranto 3y ago
> BuzzFeed has made no considerable effort to position themselves as a platform worth listening to. Well, they did win a Pulitzer. That sounds like it would position them as a platform worth listening to and also like something that took
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by omaranto 3y ago
Bryce Adelstein Lelbach, the ISO C++ Library evolution chair, says that he would rather be consistently wrong than inconsistently right. Maybe that's what the Python core team thought, "we'd better make this consistent with +

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