If you don't have to program for very long schedules and need the smoothest production schedule, you can minimize the variance of the daily production.
I'll show you a way to solve the problem without specifying the list length a priori. This "method" can be used also when there are an unspecifi...
I was browsing Mathematica user communities for original projects and came by the following question: “How can I calculate a jigsaw puzzle cut path?” Such creative problems are in abundance at our user forums, the Wolfram Demonstrations Project, and The Mathematica Journal, which tells me that Mathematica, at its heart, is a conduit for creativity: [...]
@belisarius they implement silent banning at random, and increase frequency if you post a lot of links from the same domain
it's a catch 22... if you post a lot, they do this, but if you try to circumvent with a new account each time, then the silent banning is even worse because you're spankin' new
@belisarius yeah, it's not simple. Besides, @Sjoerd kept using the word "Mathematica" in all his post titles, so to a "serious" redditor, it looks like spamming
@VitaliyKaurov You can use this link: mathematica.stackexchange.com/q/6706/13 Note the 13 at the end: it's your user ID. It will let StackExchange know that you're the one who shared the question.
@Vitaliy When the question was posted, I started to implement a puzzle game with mouse-draggable pieces, but then hit a performance problem, put the problem aside, and have forgotten about it. Maybe I should finish that
I've constructed a number of smoothed, interpolated contour plots in SAS. The contours do not pass through the actual fairly 'noisy' data points, but are purposely adjusted so as to produce clean readily understandable contours.
I'd like to compare the SAS contour plots with what Mathematica pr...
@RM Not exactly, see my comment there. Based on what I read in the docs, I had the impression that there may be a situation where they return different things when evaluated in the same contexts.
already 7200 views ...
that's the same as the usual daily total page view count
@Szabolcs I'm typing this on my phone. I'm away from my computer right now and I won't be able to edit my post until after midnight. Maybe someone could do it for me? The .GIF I posted in chat yesterday should work.
@szabolcs I'm actually not that familiar with reddit. I have been reading the frontpage for a couple of years using an iPhone app, but that's about it. Thought it would be good to make the programming community over there aware of the Mathematica site over here.
just like I did with twitter and the Mathematica Linked-in group.
Anyway, it also helps to make the point that the publicist badge is way too easy. It takes less than five minutes to get one, whereas gold badges are supposed to take blood, sweat and tears. I'm at 35% (175 posts edited) for the copy editor badge which means that It'll take me another year to get it. Perhaps I should post about it on Meta.
I love the gold Reversal Badge
An outstanding answer to a bad question is something not seen on a daily basis.
I enjoyed reading those answers, and I was even able to provide one.
But the questions are awful, and SO is a Q&A site ... so they are getting deleted.
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@RM 14k now. I'm reading the reddit thread now. What a heap of paranoia over there. Not sure whether I should react. Anything that you say can and will be used against you.
@SjoerdCdeVries Publicist is actually not all that easy... In nearly 4 years of existence and a broader scope, SO has only 180 publicist badges. It's easy here because we choose good questions to share.
This question of mine is the first I've seen that's gotten 1k views in about 20 minutes. Most of my other badges took 1-2 days to get there (except the boggle and word cloud questions)
You're right... Copy Editor is a much harder badge to earn (I can tell you that!), but Publicist isn't as pointless as Fanatic
@SjoerdCdeVries No, all edits to the post count... it is a dry and tiring badge to earn
@SjoerdCdeVries Yeah, that played a role. Bagels are staple in North America (don't know about Europe)... same with Waldo — everyone could relate to it immediately even if they didn't know what was going on
I can see how that would be helpful in a post for the reasons you say and to attract those who have tangentially heard of Mathematica. There are "Awesome X in Clojure" and "Blah in CSS" all the time on r/programming, so this is no different. I didn't do so in mine because I use this account only for link sharing and answering questions related to Mathematica. So if anyone were to check my account, they'd only see a bunch of Mathematica links. I tried to keep the titles generic or say "programmitically" or "few lines of code" or something like that, so that it is also of interest to someone …
If you're using your account for other stuff, participating in several subreddits, etc., then this would be masked by other activity
I remember a while ago someone mentioned here in chat that I wasn't posting in r/mathematica and in r/programming... actually I was posting in both. I removed my earlier posts and stopped posting to r/mathematica because once everyone here started posting, the frontpage became filled with posts from mma.se and they had too low of a traffic to refresh them regularly.
We don't necessarily see it as a bad thing, but we should remember that it's their community and spamming them with links to our site (even good ones) can be taken the wrong way
It's actually only one guy that seems to have taken it personally... I say just ignore and not respond to any further comments.
@SjoerdCdeVries I'm happy with what they have added to their profiles... we can't satisfy everybody and we certainly shouldn't be satisfying some random chap on a different site.
Someone is always going to say that I work at WRI and I'm just not acknowledging it because, well, why would I do that if I'm peddling my own product...
@SjoerdCdeVries I think they're clear enough. Someone's always going to be upset over any given thing you do. I'd let it go, nothing good can come out of arguing on the internet :)
wow, I haven't answered a question in almost a month... once I finish the couple of papers that I have been "finalizing" for the last month I should get back to it...
@belisarius I have my hands full teaching myself topology and floquet theory simultaneously (while finishing the aforementioned papers). talk about bad time management
@belisarius now that I think of it, I remember reading a series of books on "mythology" my father had when I was young. gilgamesh was mentioned but I remember little else
I've constructed a number of smoothed, interpolated contour plots in SAS. The contours do not pass through the actual fairly 'noisy' data points, but are purposely adjusted so as to produce clean readily understandable contours.
I'd like to compare the SAS contour plots with what Mathematica pr...
