@OleksandrR. I think most of mine was written (and the research for it done) after 1am, so I am not sure that's an excuse

@acl probably isn't. I don't mind admitting that I'm lazy, though. :P

Also, I hate writing so it's easy to lose concentration...

@OleksandrR. you're not alone. my memories from writing mine are mostly of extreme boredom, and I guess most people are the same

Well, last week I decided to drop a results chapter and my supervisor pulled a few strings to get me an extension to the submission date; after working 7am - 2am for a while I was about on the edge. With twice the time and half the work this last few days have been characterized by extreme relief and somewhat of a lack of motivation. Still, must keep up the pace, otherwise in a month's time I'll be back in the same position.

I had initially planned 2 results chapters, but each one was going to be 160 pages long, so in the end it's going to be just one.

@OleksandrR. yes, keeping up momentum is important. once you stop that's it, you need to reboot yourself to restart

but ok it's not that big a deal at the end of the day, just write the thing. try to take an external perspective: you can see all the rough edges but chances are nobody else can

but it's no fun either way

@acl yeah, you're right. I gave my supervisor a small part of the remaining chapter to look at, and he said he expected it would be good, but it exceeded his expectations. I was surprised since I thought it was crap. A good sign, I think; the main concern is not finishing in time (which, with the extension, is no longer an issue).

@OleksandrR. unless you keep procrastinating of course :)

(which is everybody's ground state)

Bye @Verde

How do you get inline cells inside Text cells to evaluate?

@LukeAllen you can select the contents and evaluate in place

yeah that works for every type of cell i tried (like section, subsubsection, output cells) but not text cells

it will act like it worked, but functionality like tooltips dont work

Mouseover[False, Graphics[Disk[{0, 0}], ImageSize -> 50]]

try that in an inline text cell

the mouseover wont work

@LukeAllen mark the inline cell Evaluatable

how do you do that

Select it, then Cell|Cell properties|Evaluatable

Or set Evaluatable -> True in its cell expression

I did it the first way you suggested it didnt work, dont know how to try the second way

Cell[TextData[{
 "TEXT CELL ",
 Cell[BoxData[
  StyleBox[
   PaneSelectorBox[{False->"False", True->
    GraphicsBox[DiskBox[{0, 0}],
     ImageSize->50]}, Dynamic[
     CurrentValue["MouseOver"]],
    FrameMargins->0,
    ImageSize->Automatic],
   Evaluatable->True]]],
 " REMAINING TEXT"
}], "Text"]

@LukeAllen, there are some stuff

Some GUI stuff

that only show interactively

in cells with the option ShowStringCharacters set to False

whats that mean in noobspeak

that it cant really be done

No

?

It can

1 sec

maybe a better question would be:

why do text cells make the text read so much nicer than other cells even with the same font and font size and coloring etc

@LukeAllen, do you know about styles and stylesheets?

yes but only how to open stylesheets and stuff

If they look differently there surely is some option that is different

but those options are mostly inherited

from stylesheets

well they don't I cant figure out what the hell is changed between the two

my subsubsection and text cells look the same in the stylesheet

but there are minor indentation and line spacing differences or something

that make text cells awesome to read

and subsubsection cells all ugly

You go to edit stylesheet

then into Default.nb

and look for those 2 styles

or

you select those styles and go to the Options Inspector to see what they are inheriting

It's hard to help out when I don't know what have you been changing already

Going to have dinner, be back later

Gl

@OleksandrR. I wouldn't exactly call Brent's method "undocumented", but I guess it's not commonly known that FindMinimum[] and FindFit[] take similar options...

@OleksandrR. Haven't you heard? It's a series of tubes... ;)

@J.M. yes, I know that this is Brent's method and documented as such. The point is, though, that it's not documented that FindFit can take this option, and FindFit itself even claims that it can't.

Anyway, I found the reason for the problem. It is overzealous common subexpression elimination in the compilation step: pieces of the parameters which are meant just to be labels (and as such have no values) get factored out, and then FindFit complains that the model takes non-numerical values. The solution is to rename all the parameters so that they don't contain any common subexpressions.

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Am I the only one who finds it strange that Mathematica is not listed anywhere in the Tiobe language index tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci ? They show PLI and ALice and Forth? I find this very strange. Mathematica not even in the top 50 languages in use?

@NasserM.Abbasi How do you want it? Above or below Visual Basic?

@Verde. sorry I do not understand. I mean it is strange it is not even listed anywhere on the list. According to WRI Mathematica is used by millions of users worldwide. So it should be used more than Alice I would think? " With millions of dedicated users " see wolfram.com/company/background.html so, something does not fit here, that is all what I am saying.

@NasserM.Abbasi Now, take a look at how Tiobe builds its index, and you'll understand it better

@Verde, I know how. And Mathematica is listed as the languages being tracked, see tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/tpci_definition.htm Hence it still makes no sense. Matlab shows up there at #20. So, it still makes little sense to me why Mathematica does not show up in the first 50 languages gives what WRI says.

@NasserM.Abbasi if you use a junk index, you get junk ratings :)

@NasserM.Abbasi Probably WRI numbers are somewhat inflated, but anyway, the typical Mma user is not very active in the Internet posting company confidential code

@Verde I'm sure WRI numbers include the entire population of a university/organization that they have a special licensing agreement for, regardless of how many actually use it

@R.M You can take that for granted , just because they don't have any available mean to count the real users subset

they can, if they really wanted to, because they have access to counts of how many unique users request a license from the university server

@R.M Ok. Let them tell to invest some money in reducing their user base :)