« first day (75 days earlier)      last day (4410 days later) » 

R.M
12:01 AM
Just an average guy hopping through grad school :)
 
CHM
Ok
 
R.M
Gotta run though — loads of work to catch up on. That's probably the only thing on my mind. And an iPod :P
 
CHM
Hehe. Good night.
 
R.M
Also, apparently I have the same problem as J. M -- I don't get pings because 3 alpha-numeric characters are necessary. So I see messages only if I catch them in the transcript
Good night
 
CHM
Oh. Weird.
 
 
2 hours later…
2:27 AM
@Jens per this conversation: Needs["Brewery"]; link=LinkLaunch["uubp jens"]; LinkWrite[link, Beer[]]; LinkClose[link];
 
 
1 hour later…
CHM
3:47 AM
http://www.france-offshore.fr/

There doesn't seem to be an English version of the site, but you can still use google translate.
I wonder how much money disappears in tax havens each year.
I've heard the loss is as big as the world's economy, but I've got to say I couldn't verify the source.
 
CHM
4:27 AM
I've checked WRI's site three times a day since reading this.
Eager to see all the new functions...
 
 
5 hours later…
F'x
9:25 AM
@RM same for me :)
@SjoerdCdeVries we can still get a good 1024th question! that's more of a round number…
by the way: we have 4 close votes on that one, just saying in case somone wants to pay it a visit :)
0
Q: Trouble installing Mathematica on Linux in personal folder

Jonas TeuwenI'm trying to install Mathematica in the home folder on the university computer of a friend. The system administrator does not want it in /usr. Fine. Install went fine, also installed the scripts in the personal folder, added that folder to the path. Then the first thing was that the fonts didn't...

 
10:11 AM
@Fx done :)
 
0
Q: Should we try harder to accept answers?

F'xI looked at the “accept rate” of some of the site’s top users and found that it varies widely in the range 45%–100%. I was surprised with that, as it may be taken as an indicator that either: hard questions don’t tend to get very good answers (let's assume that top users ask difficult questions...

 
 
3 hours later…
1:11 PM
@rcollyer That's a nice plot. Care to share the code?
 
1:39 PM
@EliLansey emailed it to you. Way to big to post, otherwise.
 
@rcollyer awesome, thanks
 
@EliLansey let me know if you break it (likely) and how. I'll endeavor to fix it.
At some point, soon, I'll put it in a package, and possibly put it up on bitbucket, or something similar.
Hi, @Fx
@RM we could do tutorials and the like.
 
@rcollyer what's the appropriate data format for it?
ie, {x,y __, __}, right?
 
@EliLansey {x, y, ___}
It might be best if the tuples were the same size, but there is nothing there enforcing it.
Each coordinate is associated with the entire tuple submitted via
`dat /. pt : {x_?NumericQ, y_?NumericQ, ___} :> (data[N@{x, y}] =
Sequence @@ pt; {x, y});`.
 
@rcollyer can you give a sample dataset?
 
1:54 PM
Sure, give me a couple and I'll send you one.
@EliLansey I sent you the data set I used in the above plot.
 
@rcollyer thanks
 
acl
-1
Q: Find direction of the shadow given latitude / longitude, date and time

MHFIs there any algorithm that gives the compass direction and the size of a shadow given latitude, longitude, date and time? also we have the size of object and the angle of object from ground plane (Assuming we are an flat ground and that whatever the shadow falls from stands upright.)

 
@acl It's a double post: asked, answered, and accepted on SO.
 
acl
@rcollyer ok, I had not noticed (don't watch SO)
 
@acl I'd still like a silver badge over there, but it is becoming less likely by the day, so I occasionally watch.
 
2:14 PM
@rcollyer I've already given up on ever getting a golden badge on SO.
 
@Heike yeah, there is no way you're going to answer another 95 questions over there. I'm only shy 30 upvotes, on the other hand. I've got the answers count needed.
 
@rcollyer I'll see what I can do :-)
 
@Heike Thanks. But, be careful, you don't want to trigger a massive loss of rep due to serial voting.
 
@rcollyer I'm aware of that.
 
I could just imagine the loss of huge amounts of rep, as I believe you've upvoted me before.
 
2:26 PM
@rcollyer I have by the looks of it.
 
@Heike I find your rep graph on SO amusing with this huge spike in it. :)
 
3:12 PM
@Heike It's no Waldo, but any ideas?
4
Q: How can I extract data points from a black and white image?

Eli LanseyConsider the following graph (source): Is there any way to extract the data points from this image in a semi-automatic way? I have seen, and tried the methods suggested in this question, but they did not work, as most of the approaches there utilize color contrast to extract the data; I couldn...

 
3:50 PM
@Eli I would give ImageLines a try for the axes as in the other question, and ImageCorrelate for the plot markers (which fortunately are all a uniform size and have distinctive shapes).
 
 
1 hour later…
5:05 PM
MorphologicalTransform shows some weird caching issues.
If I define some function f and do MorphologicalTransform[img, f], and then clear f and change the definition of f, MorphologicalTransform[img, f] still uses the old definition of f.
The only way I can get MorphologicalTransform to behave is to Remove f before redefining it.
 
Odd.
 
 
2 hours later…
7:05 PM
0
Q: Output: separate markup?

DavidIt became customary among many users to abuse the quotation markup to indicate Mathematica output, like Range[5] {1, 2, 3, 4, 5} I wonder whether it would be possible to create a MMA.SE specific markup, maybe something similar to the ==> used by the copy/paste palette, that would create...

 
 
2 hours later…
8:57 PM
0
Q: 3x+1 arithmetic chain graph layout challenge

alancalvittiThe 3x+1, or Collatz problem remains open despite 70+ years of theoretical and computational work. Two key conjectures listed in Lagarias' recent book are the Finite Cycle Conjecture (FCC) and Divergent Trajectory Conjecture (DTC). Instead of following the trajectories of individual numbers, con...

 

« first day (75 days earlier)      last day (4410 days later) »