@RM I must admit, I had thought that the "I'll work on it over the weekend and hopefully show you something early next week" was very optimistic. It'd take me several weeks (at least) to do a design. True, I'm not a graphic designer or an artistic person in general, but still, I'd hardly blame Jin if it takes him longer than a couple of days.
@OleksandrR Heh, I know... I used to do semi-serious graphic design 7-8 years ago, and I can fully relate. This was more the words of an impatient end-user...
I don't have to be rational when on the other side, dammit! :P
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@OleksandrR I'm not worried - it gives us a bit more notice to do last-minute tidying, not to mention have a few more people over certain rep thresholds.
There are some replies that are used quite often. For example, the first reply to many questions is a demand for a minimal example. These replies should typically include a link with additional information. So I thought that it might be useful to collect some standard replies for quick copy&p...
@RM it looks like the TeX guys have really thought about their site a lot and made a big effort to have everything formally put in place. We could do a lot worse than emulating them.
@OleksandrR Actually, they were very useful in getting this site up and running in the first place; they broke away first despite being a "programming" language. We have a lot to thank them for. Emulating them would be a good step in doing just that as it implies they're doing it right and we have something to learn from them.
@RM I'm aware of those questions, and yes the same issues: where do they fit. They're not like us ... yet they are ... but some of their topics obviously don't belong here ... but they don't belong anywhere else either ... I know: ban them outright!
@Heike I think as CHM suggests we should make sure it does. It would be even better if we can have a nice Mathematica app/demonstration at launch time, again assuming this is not vaporware.
This question needs two parts to be answered fully:
How to extract the range of height values from a ListDensityPlot
How to get a legend, because ShowLegend has many problems: e.g., the numerical labels on the color bar are cut off, and it's just plain ugly.
So I'll address both points here. ...
@Heike would you please select and post (links) here three answers, your own or otherwise, that you think have not received the attention/votes they deserve?
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@RM I think it's a good idea. Why don't you go ahead and start a post? (We can make a copy of the TeX.SE one, slim it down a bit and edit it to be appropiate for this site)
Hi @MrW, I need to leave now unfortunately (people are waiting and compaining...), but just send me an email with your desired blog e-mail address (hidden) and username (visible, but you can change the display name)
@SjoerdCdeVries Okay, let me try it this way: could you be convinced to change your opinion temporarily until a better place is found for the post? :-)
@SjoerdCdeVries I respect that position, but I also think the rules are made for the benefit of the community, and in this case I wonder if the community would not benefit more from being involved in this (again, assuming it's not a scam or something; I'm honestly a bit skeptical still.)
Anyway, I won't take action in opposition of either you or CHM so it will remain deleted.
Repeatedly I have seen good answers, some very good, receive next to no recognition. Sometimes this can be explained by the answer being of such an esoteric nature that few are interested or qualified enough to vote. Other times there is no reasonable explanation that I can see. Take for examp...
@SjoerdCdeVries Are you saying you don't think I should bring up other people's answers that I think deserve another look?
A few times I've referenced my own answers that have low votes, but IIRC it's always in the form of a question because I legitimately want to know if there is a reason for the low vote count.
Hm... okay. I'll have to think about this. I really think some good questions/answers get overlooked; I know I miss some, and I would appreciate being directed to them myself.
@mr.wizard That's true, but the argument is that who are we that we decide which questions deserve more attention?. Perhaps a button with a voting system, like the close button, could be used to get a question extra attention? When it reaches 5 votes it will be on the 'featured' page for a day or so?
But that wouldn't help for late answers...
Let's say that for every 1000 rep you get a 'featured' vote, to be used on someone else's answer?
Another mechanism that would help is some way to track new answers to questions you already visited. I don't have time to get back to any question I ever visited, and I don't use the 'active' tab that much, as it is quite distracting. Perhaps you should be able to subscribe to a question and get warned if new answers are added.
@SjoerdCdeVries Interesting suggestions. I was thinking more along the lines of a personal blog listing posts I find of interest. Re: "Perhaps you should be able to subscribe to a question and get warned if new answers are added." Isn't that what the Favorite feature does?
@SjoerdCdeVries Sorry, I missed your notification. Favorites does show you the questions that have had activity since you last viewed your Favorites list.
I just find it funny myself. If the site had a level of activity comparable to math.SE or, heaven forbid, SO, then I can excuse the possibility that there are indeed answers that are possibly not getting read by their intended audiences.
Here, however, the activity is relatively modest, so I would assume that if it wasn't voted on, then that's because it was read and found wanting; and since people don't have to explain why they like/don't like a post, there's the rub.
I just use the front page, sorted by "active". What I'm talking about is that usually I have a good idea of which stuff I haven't read, just by looking at the time they were posted, since I know around what time I went away from the keyboard.
Probably the only time I've missed questions was during my long breaks, but I believe I've wiped my backlog from that (as well as spreading my votes over old answers over two weeks).
@J.M I guess I'm skipping probably like 1/3 of the questions that don't have very interesting titles and a sufficient (whatever that may be) answer count. Life is short and I already spend too many hours/day here. Main problem is that questions are not nicely distributed. When I wake up there's usually a whole string of them (answered and all).
@SjoerdCdeVries @MrWizard I agree with RM's post. I don't think it is up to moderator X, or people chosen by them, or other people, to draw attention to answers they think are underappreciated.
There's the bounty system, with which you can reward answers you think are worthy.
But otherwise no, I don't think anybody should solicit votes or anything for those questions, for the reasons RM said (and others)
@SjoerdCdeVries Sure, I can see the good intention. But I've always thought good answers should stand on their own, and we shouldn't have to influence other people's viewing habits.
My current laptop (late 2008 model) has CUDA support... later MBPs didn't have it, until the new one. The downside is that it's low on processing power and memory, so I can run those examples if I set ImageSize -> 50 or maaaybe 100. It's like the goodness of CUDA in a postage stamp
@JM or just to damned difficult. There were multiple minima that it could find. So, I turned to an alternative. I'd still like to figure out a different way to do the fitting.
@RM my 2010 model has it, but that was the last of them for a while.
@JM I was effectively using that basis set, but I just had the Hamiltonian and the band structure I wanted to fit it to. At issue, a number of bands only incorporate part of the d-orbitals, so the question is how do I fit the eigenvalues to that? Using the Wannier basis, though, is a complete change in method, and starts from the orbitals, themselves, and not a Hamiltonian.
@rcollyer my preference in difficult cases is for differential evolution. It is quite computationally expensive (due to a large number of function evaluations), but probably not more so than simulated annealing.
@JM okay, fair enough. In practice you usually have to restart it multiple times from random initial positions if you want a good result, but it doesn't have to be done that way. If you don't, then I agree.
The way Mathematica uses it, it's "pick a bunch of random starting points, build starting simplices from those random points, and have downhill simplex at them."
@OleksandrR Well, trying different initial conditions is what one would do even if you were using, say, quasi-Newton...
@JM yes, that's the same way I did it in my compiled version. I don't exclude the possibility of wrapping my Nelder-Mead core in a restarting function that looks for a sufficient decrease though.
(Sorry I can't help for now; I didn't look much at PDEs when I was dealing with Monte Carlo. I'll ping you if I find something nice in my ref lists...)
@jmlopez if you added the TaggingRules like you suggested, it should work as you said it works for you. So now I'll focus on your last issue, hehe, which is that error message, right?
@Rojo, yup!, that's the last thing to have a complete answer. I already accepted it since it works but it would be nice to have it work without the ugly error message.
@Rojo, wait, so, the taggin rules that I'm defining in Cell[StyleData["Notebook"]] are for the notebook in which I'm putting my content, not the stylesheet. Oh, so that's why you want to be able to refer to the notebook which uses the stylesheet.
@Rojo, oh no, it is very necessary! lol, I don't want to see those dumb messages and I do not want to be evaluating anything in the stylesheet notebook.
Prepend a cell, copypasting the only one you have there inheriting from privatestylesheetformatting.nb, but changing that stylesheet to the name of your very same custom stylesheet
Question, is it possible to set Accuracy of calculations globally ? I am optimizing the equation that has Exp[] & Sin[] in it, and I want all my calculations to have 120 to 200 digits after the decimal point
@jmlopez, the option that surely works is to use a third stylesheet to only store the Cell[StyleData[Notebook], TaggingRules... stuff, and then make both the stylesheet and the stylesheet's style inherit that
thus storing your "parameters" in a totally different file
@jmlopez, as a I con, I think that you can't avoid overriting the TaggingRules of all previous stylesheets you're inheriting from. but the defaults don't have any...
@Rojo, its the applicationMaker I made a year ago. I want to be able to create packages with documentation, so I want to make stylesheets to make it easy to create them. Also, i want to add some libraries to make the writing of MathLink programs easy... :)
a little too ambitious but it is certainly possible with Mathematica.
I am pretty sure that it is not the best solution but how about this?
numbering[x_] := Block[{n = 0}, Replace[x, y_ :> {++n, y}, {-1}]]
Some example outputs:
In[1]:= numbering[{a, b, {c, d}, e, {f, {g, h}}}]
Out[1]= {{1, a}, {2, b}, {{3, c}, {4, d}}, {5, e}, {{6, f}, {{7, g}, {8, h}}}}
I...
@Rojo, when you said: "but inheriting from "myStyleParameters.nb"" Cell[StyleData["myStyleParameters.nb"] did you mean Cell[StyleData[StyleDefinitions -> "myStyleParameters.nb"]]?
@Rojo, the problem is, well, it works in the sense that it changed the color, but the stylesheet doesn't know about the tagging rules...
@Rojo, so, lets see if we are talking about the same thing. First I created a plain notebook where I will define my tagging rules. I can do this from any notebook with this: `CreateDocument[{ Cell[StyleData[StyleDefinitions -> "Core.nb"]], Cell[StyleData["Notebook"], TaggingRules -> {"color" -> GrayLevel[0.5], "height" -> 222}] }, StyleDefinitions -> "StylesheetFormatting.nb", Editable -> True, Saveable -> True]`
Then I saved this file in $UserBaseDirectory/SystemFiles/FrontEnd/Stylesheets
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There are some replies that are used quite often. For example, the first reply to many questions is a demand for a minimal example. These replies should typically include a link with additional information. So I thought that it might be useful to collect some standard replies for quick copy&p...
This question needs two parts to be answered fully:
How to extract the range of height values from a ListDensityPlot
How to get a legend, because ShowLegend has many problems: e.g., the numerical labels on the color bar are cut off, and it's just plain ugly.
So I'll address both points here. ...
Repeatedly I have seen good answers, some very good, receive next to no recognition. Sometimes this can be explained by the answer being of such an esoteric nature that few are interested or qualified enough to vote. Other times there is no reasonable explanation that I can see. Take for examp...
I am pretty sure that it is not the best solution but how about this?
numbering[x_] := Block[{n = 0}, Replace[x, y_ :> {++n, y}, {-1}]]
Some example outputs:
In[1]:= numbering[{a, b, {c, d}, e, {f, {g, h}}}]
Out[1]= {{1, a}, {2, b}, {{3, c}, {4, d}}, {5, e}, {{6, f}, {{7, g}, {8, h}}}}
I...
