It's incredibly light too... Well, at least I can feel it dramatically because my previous one was a 2008 model which weighed about 6-7 lbs
The high density display is very addictive... I'm struggling with adjusting to the display in mma now. And to think I didn't have any of these "issues" just yesterday :)
@R.M I assume that is a MacBook Pro with retina display. I still have a 17" MacBook Pro. Nice display, but I know how high the resolution is on the retina display on my iPhone. That should be amazing.
Right, I read that they removed the glass casing or something like that
I'm happy that I have something that boots fast... I made a mistake upgrading the previous one to Lion. It was not built for it — it barely met the minimum spec requirements (which I did not check before upgrading)
It sometimes took 45 mins to boot (or even wake up), which is why I almost never restarted it or let it sleep
I'd drive/bike home with the laptop on and running... Nightmares.
If I ever needed to restart it, I'd do it just before going to bed... then I'd wake up and login while fixing breakfast and tea (logging in took 10+ mins)
Yeah, it wasn't pleasant. It was a great laptop on Snow Leopard, but Lion killed it
The funny thing was that all these issues were only related to startup and waking up from sleep. Everything else was smooth
I liked Snow Leopard. I still miss Spaces laid out as a grid... I used to use a 9x9 grid and no space was more than 2-3 key presses/swipes away. Lion lays it out in a row
I want to create multiple variables with iterated names in Mathematica, something like this:
Do["f" <> ToString[i] = i*2, {i, 1, 20}]
where I get f1=2, f2=4, f3=6, ... and so on.
I the error:
Set::write: Tag StringJoin in f<>1 is Protected. >>
Any help would be great. Thanks!
@belisarius do you think this and this should be closed (TL)/deleted? It looks like you've answered his question but he seems to be giving bizarre and unlikely inputs and essentially asking "why doesn't this work?". For me these are both too close to "give me teh codez" questions (or RTFM, at best).
@belisarius what perturbed me about that is that FindDifferenceRoot is not a Mathematica function (that I've ever heard of). What is he really using to get the DifferenceRoot?
Okay. I thought you might have had some stronger feelings about it one way or the other since you answered these questions. Usually I ignore questions like this even if I know the answer.
I'm trying to solve non-linear system of equations in Mathemtica.
I tried Solve and NSolve, I also tried to define a_{ij} and b_{ij} and m33=1 numerical to simplify equation, but Mathematica seems to work too long or I doing something wrong.In Mathematica I just trying to find solution, but I als...
Definitely! Although I feel that answering a question on SO (presumably only because it is a low quality question that we don't want migrated here?) is prizeworthy in itself.
Try edit the shape of the triangle by mouse. Points whose positions controlled by DynamicLocation response in a not so obvious way. I can't figure it out.
And didn't find out what the second argument in DynamicLocation["someDynamicID", arg2, arg3] can be besides Automatic.
@Silvia I didn't even know there was a DynamicLocation. Ping me up if you learn what it is. I'll join in with you trying to guess what it is when I have time
I assume he has seen my comment, because he's seen by the SE after I posted it, but he doesn't seem to act on it or respond in any way. It's the same pattern as before.
people should vote to close questions that are NaRQ/low quality and tell the OP to improve instead of answering them (or if they answer, improve the question). I get a feeling the number of users voting to close has gone down (can't blame them — people get busy. Newer users should pick up the slack)
That's one huge advantage over MG, but if it isn't used...
yes... I have an idea for the summing pairwise potentials question, but it'll take me longer to produce the numbers to test than to write the code for the idea.
A new OP mentioned somewhere that he read the "How to Ask" page that shows up for their first question and it said "show your research" (it's also in the FAQ) and felt he had to dump a preprint of his next paper
@SjoerdC.deVries I wasn't referring to his question specifically... It was just a general remark that one really good feature that we have (and MG doesn't) is community moderation. If the community desires and is active enough, a good deal can be done without the need for moderator intervention. If people slack on that, quality will slowly go down (but we can't force anyone to do it either)
@acl Mathematica is magic, you didn't know that? I heard CERN found the Higgs boson with FindHiggsBoson["Now"]
They waited all these years and spent all that money because it was undocumented
@acl I saw that and facepalmed. I'm voting to close as too localized. Not because there isn't a valid list-manipulation question underneath, but the OP refuses to move away from the domain specific problem that he has presented despite being guided in that direction.
Latexit is very useful. I've used it before when I made presentations with powerpoint/keynote (now I use beamer) and sometimes also to use math on SE sites without mathjax support
I like keynote... the thing I miss with beamer is the presentation tool. I know there are some open source equivalents, but still don't measure up to keynote/ppt (at least, as of the last time I checked)
@R.M I like the transitions :) (although I don't have much reason to use them). I don't really use any of the fancy features (notes etc). usually just wing it
the main annoyance with latexit and pasting equations is that it can be fiddly to arrange everything just so. had it not been for that, I'd just use keynote/pages for everything
Heh, me too... I rarely, if ever, practice and mostly wing it. However, I do like being able to keep track of the time and know the slides ahead (although, the need for that is going down the more familiar I get with my talks)
@R.M I find that I get so excited when I give talks that I somehow manage to think fast enough to avoid screwups. which is good because I rarely practice and each of my talks is on completely different things, so I don't really give any talk twice
my premise is: I've been thinking about this for x months. the chances these guys will spot something I missed are nil. thus, there's nothing to worry about
(of course I still get stressed before the talk since I know perfectly well where each of the numerous huge holes in my understanding is)
The attached graphic from the current Rexer Analytics 2012 Data Miner Survey finds Mathematica's market in analytics ranked 13th - that's pathetic - below R, SAS, SPSS, Matlab and others, with only a sliver of practitioners using Mathematica as the primary tool.
How can Mathematica.SE be used t...
@R.M ah that's nice. and I like how people seem to upvote it too. well, OK, in a democracy the people get exactly what they deserve
I think I'll post a question on how to to expand things in terms of the irreducible characters of O(2) and waste people's time before revealing that this means "I want to expand in a fourier series"
I want to create multiple variables with iterated names in Mathematica, something like this:
Do["f" <> ToString[i] = i*2, {i, 1, 20}]
where I get f1=2, f2=4, f3=6, ... and so on.
I the error:
Set::write: Tag StringJoin in f<>1 is Protected. >>
Any help would be great. Thanks!
The attached graphic from the current Rexer Analytics 2012 Data Miner Survey finds Mathematica's market in analytics ranked 13th - that's pathetic - below R, SAS, SPSS, Matlab and others, with only a sliver of practitioners using Mathematica as the primary tool.
How can Mathematica.SE be used t...
