Nahhh it's too much work because he did not post the skeleton. I know what follows. When you made up an answer he comes again and says ... "that is not my scenario"
@Rojo The Higgs is the "mass field". Everything in physics is a field now ... excpt mass. If the Higgs is there, then everything is a field and physicists can forget at once and forever all non punctual particles. Isn't it great?
I tried to plot this: Plot[x^1.2, {x, -10, 10}, PlotRange -> All]
It shows only the positive values in the plot, then I made this: Table[x^1.2, {x, -10, 0}]
It gave me: {-12.8221 - 9.31577 I, -11.2992 - 8.20937 I, -9.80992 - 7.12733 I, -8.35748 - 6.07206 I, -6.94607 - 5.04662 I, -5.58112 - 4.05492 I, -4.27002 - 3.10235 I, -3.02345 - 2.19667 I, -1.85863 - 1.35038 I, -0.809017 - 0.587785 I, 0.}
Those values are complex numbers, aren't they? What happen with them when you try to plot them?
@belisarius I wonder how long it will be before someone writes a book on how the Higgs boson was found. Like Simon Singh did with the proof of Fermat's last theorem.
It has become common practice on Mathematica.SE to us the Unicode characters for a number of Mathematica symbols. This works because these are correctly interpreted when copied and pasted into a Notebook.
Mathematica provides double-bracket characters for Part application. These can greatly im...
I had intended to make the following question community wiki, but there doesn't seem to be an option to force that manually. Didn't there use to be a tickbox to do that?
While there are some cases where a For loop might be reasonable, it's a general mantra – one I subscribe to myself – that "if you are using a For loop in Mathematica, you are probably doing it wrong". But For and Do loops are familiar to people who already know other programming languages. It is ...
@JM well, it's a deliberate attempt to create a canonical resource for new users. I'm just not sure I should actually milk rep for that. But let's leave it and see whether it starts looking like a collective effort CW.
@Szabolcs I noticed while I was working on a recent CUDA question that I couldn't compile the example in the documentation anymore. CUDAQ didn't give me True so I tried CUDAResourcesInstall[Update -> True] to force a reinstall, which didn't work. I then discovered that CCompilers[] didn't return Visual Studio anymore.
Unistalled all compiler stuff. Reinstalled VS and the SDK. SDK install broke. Uninstall all, installed SDK only. Install worked, but compiling didn't.. Unistalled again, VS again and SDK. SDK install broke off with an unspecified error again.
In light of the mess-up that I caused as the result of that merge being late, I propose that in the future, if a question is to be merged with one that must first be migrated from StackOverflow, the new question be Closed or Locked until the migration is complete and the merge is ready. Will this be helpful?
@RM That's certainly an option; I wasn't going to migrate this one until Verbeia suggested it. (FWIW I do think it is a duplicate in the sense that we both intend the same thing, and there was only one answer each at the time.)
@JM People could still be composing answer that are lost, no? It seems like a Lock would make clear that the question is not ready for interaction. Still I think R.M may have the right idea; this just wasn't worth the trouble all around.
@MrWizard the lock and warn might be an option... people can't compose any new answers and those who have started, might get a warning when locked or will at least not be able to submit.
@RM In Oxford and Cambridge, Colleges are part of the university. All undergraduates and grad students and nearly all university lecturers are connected to a college. A student has to be accepted by a college to enrol as an undergraduate of the university. Grad students are usually connected to the same college as their supervisor.
This is crossposted over at SO. The SO version is older by about an hour, so it isn't like they didn't get an answer over there and repost here. Procedures for this? Vote to close the SO post?
@SjoerdCdeVries I'm not too familiar with VS, as it doesn't work so well on this old WinXP machine. But I did use it before and I do know that the VS compiler is detected through environment variables. So the first thing is to open a command prompt and type set to see all environment variables. Verify that you have VS100COMNTOOLS and it's pointing to the correct location of the compiler.
Also, see if you can run cl.exe at the command prompt (if the installation messed up, perhaps not, and that would need to be fixed before any issues in Mathematica's detection would become relevant).
Straw poll: for this question, nobody's yet posted an answer expanding on Daniel's suggestion in the comments. I feel that this method is the best and most elegant and have used it recently, but on the other hand the question is old and has 4 answers already. Worth posting an additional answer, or not?
Yeah, have at it. I will be needing all those answers next week and I was thinking about doing it as Daniel suggested :D. Glad you linked at that question, I hadn't seen it
I just saw that last question on the game of breakout, that's probably going to be closed, but
it gave me the idea that even though I never did something like that, I'd probably like to do some blog post on the process of creating some game like such as that, in some organized way
I think even though I have no experience and I'm not an expert on dynamic and such, 95% of the people in here aren't either
@Heike and if not, I put it to play randomly, and he/she who loses against it can't join the forum
@acl, making MMA play well should be terribly hard, and there sure is 203957829348 of research on that. Makes no sense for me to dig in only to make something lame
I think
By the way, all of you, if other ideas not dynamic-related on blog posts you think I might be able to do come to mind, let me know
@Szabolcs The VS100COMNTOOLS variable is there all right, but no other compiler related variables. It's pointing to the tools folder, but that's not the folder where the compilers reside. I don't know why it doesn't work anymore.The first time I didn't have to set anything. It worked straight out of the box.
So far Tetris seems a little bit more itneresting... But I'm still open to anyone who sees this to suggest/vote, since I won't be having too much time for a few days
in addition, my collaborators tend to get lost when they see things like MapThread[Join, {rtmp, Rest /@ Flatten[rtmp, {{2}, {1}}]}] in the codeme
@Heike I find it's generally more useful the closer your code is to C. if you have actual functions, it probably won't make much difference (but that could just be a side-effect of my programming style)
@Heike using this kind of short but dense code is good up to a point of complexity. beyond that, I give up and just write loops. I guess different people have different thresholds (this is what it looks from reading code by some people here).
aside: in my previous comment, I meant complexity of the local code itself, not of the whole program. I find this kind of coding allows me to keep more of the program "in view" at the same time, but the upper limit for local complexity for me is something like Flatten with a second argument like {{2},{1}}. more than that and it slips from my mind immediately (but I admit stuff slips out of my mind easily)
@Heike hang on, it seems I missed the second Import. Now see a rising memory usage
(and a comment has been added that this needs memory...)
@acl good Flattening there! Could have written it as {{2}} instead of {{2},{1}} as well.
@SjoerdCdeVries I think you have to load the vcvarsx86.bat or vcvarsamd64.bat first to set up the environment. The question is, whether or not the C compiler actually works outside of Mathematica.
@JM @Rojo okay then! I will do an answer in a bit.
Before you know it, it’ll be October and time for the Wolfram Technology Conference 2012. We thought you’d be interested in finding out more about some of the things we’re doing this year. First, we’re offering a social networking and personalized schedule-building tool for all registered attendees. You can connect with your fellow attendees, arrange [...]
Not certain if the site can do this, but I think it could help keep things lively if it could.
Could we set up a "Good Citizen" badge awarded when one has answered more questions than they have asked.
Even better if it could operate dynamically -- too many questions without answer contributio...
@OleksandrR in OS X, there is a separate environment (shell vars etc) for GUI programs; does windows offer a unified environment for GUI and command line applications?
tried a complete new installation. Now downloaded the SDK ISO instead of the webinstall. Result seems the same. Installation was broken off. Last few words in the log file: === Logging stopped: 6/07/2012 00:02:08 === MSI (s) (74:64) [00:02:08:440]: Product: Microsoft Visual C++ Compilers 2010 Standard - enu - x86 -- Installation failed.
MSI (s) (74:64) [00:02:08:440]: Windows Installer installed the product. Product Name: Microsoft Visual C++ Compilers 2010 Standard - enu - x86. Product Version: 10.0.30319. Product Language: 1033. Manufacturer: Microsoft Corporation. Installation succes…
@acl Windows is like Linux in that respect, if you know how that works. Windows also doesn't really make a distinction between command-line or GUI apps.
@SjoerdCdeVries sorry, no idea what that's all about. When I've used it, Visual C++ has always worked fine, although as you know, I mainly use MinGW anyway.
@SjoerdCdeVries oh right, well anyway I posted about it on Mathgroup on a few occasions. gcc generally is a better compiler than Visual C++ and you can use gfortran too. Other than that, not really.
@MrWizard sorry, I went to bed after that, and then my phone and internet at home went down. Now I'm at work so I can't really do anything for a while. I agree that questions that are about to be merged should be locked.
@MikeHoneychurch sounds expensive. I've never had a problem with Optus before - been with them since the mid90s for phone and since about 2000 for cable internet.
It has become common practice on Mathematica.SE to us the Unicode characters for a number of Mathematica symbols. This works because these are correctly interpreted when copied and pasted into a Notebook.
Mathematica provides double-bracket characters for Part application. These can greatly im...
Not certain if the site can do this, but I think it could help keep things lively if it could.
Could we set up a "Good Citizen" badge awarded when one has answered more questions than they have asked.
Even better if it could operate dynamically -- too many questions without answer contributio...
