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@rm-rf Bookmarked..
 
 
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6:43 AM
@rm-rf Cool! I was waiting for that ...
I modified the Jon Skeet comparison to a Leonid comparison.
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We could also do a Mr. Wizard comparison, but Leonid is the real person to beat.
 
7:17 AM
@rcollyer It's mostly pointless, actually, because in most of Leonid's answers, he's either the sole answerer or has very little competition :)
 
@rm-rf Thanks!
 
 
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11:50 AM
Got my swag today. Too bad we don't get a mug... :(
 
12:26 PM
@J.M. ew... I must have overlooked the MapAt.
Anyway, you can use

MapAt[Reverse, Map[Partition[#, 2, 1, {-1, 1}] &, {h, del}], {1, All}]
which should be the same as
    MapAt[Map[Reverse, #] &, Map[Partition[#, 2, 1, {-1, 1}] &, {h, del}],
  1]
 
12:50 PM
@halirutan Wait, All works with MapAt[]?
I don't remember this working (can't test ATM; I'm running something).
 
1:07 PM
@rm-rf that was a lot less true on SO.
 
 
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2:43 PM
@J.M. Yes, when I see this right, then you can specify your Map[Reverse, #] & by just giving All to MapAt. This means, it is mapped at all elements in the 1st level which should be equivalent.
 
 
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6:26 PM
The system didn't let me downvote my own answer...
 
@Rojo I'd be happy to help you there =)
 
6:48 PM
@rm-rf Too late, already deleted it. Thanks anyway, I'll remember that
:P
According to Szabolcs's conjectures, toweek is the week
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Gah, people in the lab! One would think they had never seen vacuum systems or lasers before!
 
7:10 PM
@OleksandrR. so you wanted to say, you had a nice day?
 
If tomorrow there's still no v9, I should probably stop holding my breath ...
 
@halirutan I mean, I want to put notices on everything saying, "this is why we can't have nice things".
@Szabolcs I doubt if they have a specific release date set except perhaps as a target. I'd guess that it's just going to be ready when it's ready...
 
There's been talk that it's real soon now ..
@J.M. Oh yes, I was hoping for a mug too!
 
Well the final beta has been out for a while, sure. But who knows what feedback they got from that. Could have been a showstopping bug, who knows.
 
It would be on display at the office all day ;-) A shirt---only sometimes and only in warm weather
 
7:20 PM
The shirt doesn't fit me well :(
A mug would've been nicer
 
I would be happy enough to see the v9 docs for now
 
I had no idea what size to ask for, but I was lucky, it fits :) In China I need to get "large" things, here the "small" ones.
 
Yes, in the US, you need to get things 2 sizes smaller than you're used to...
 
Microsoft Word's attempts at producing a PDF are a joke. Stupid font substitution.
 
7:52 PM
@Rojo okay, okay... I know, this is not a place for complaining :P
 
@J.M. I got a StackExchange mug! It's huge. It fits about 3-4 standard doses of coffee, so I have to take care not to OD.
 
Maybe we didn't get it because we filled out the form late (I was several weeks late because I didn't know what my address would be)
Have you seen this? --> Wolfram Community
Looks very similar to StackExchange ...
I found it using Google by accident
 
8:14 PM
@Szabolcs yep
Nothing known about it, though...
 
No one from here has an account then? (Other than Vitaliy or other WRI employees)
 
Probably some do. But I guess like MMA9 beta, it's under NDA
 
Well, it seems anyone can ask for an invite.
 
@Szabolcs You can ask Arnoud. He knows more about this.
 
I don't
and I asked
and I doubt the NDA makes you say you don't have an account so you can trust me :P
 
8:21 PM
@rojo Do you have a premier License? I.e. will you get v9 when it arrives?
 
Yep
 
and @Szabolcs?
 
Yes
 
hmmm, I'm working on it.
And, if everything fails, my wife has still a home-use license that I could use.
 
The reason I found this site is that Google can index it (even if we can't see it without registering.) This Google search reveals a little.
(you'll have to press enter after clicking that link)
There are questions about Mathematica 9, so I guess they won't give us an invitation (except to beta testers)
 
8:25 PM
@Szabolcs The same way I found it. Probably the site manager forgot to close it down for a short time.
 
@SjoerdC.deVries did you get it with the package they sent us? Or did you buy it from the store when it existed?
 
@SjoerdC.deVries Some sites are purposefully made so that google can index them, but we can't see them without special access (e.g. most online journals)
 
@rm-rf I guess you have to resign as mod to get it ;-)
 
Google Cache won't work either. The only bits I can see are the actual search results (page titles)
 
@SjoerdC.deVries I wasn't a mod when I got it ;)
Maybe you had to be a mod to get it then... :)
In any case, the meta post didn't say they were sending mugs, so you probably bought it from the store
 
8:27 PM
And they already have the "Mathematica vs Matlab" questions there :P
 
@Szabolcs very interesting. There are discussions both about MMA9 and Mathematica vs. MATLAB. The former might be the reason why the community is not public yet. The latter is encouraging with respect to possible censorship of the type applied on MathGroup.
 
@Szabolcs Really? I didn't think articles were indexed beyond the abstract.
 
@rm-rf No, I really got it when I stepped down as mod
 
@SjoerdC.deVries Ah, I see. brb, resigning now...
 
@rm-rf And the t-shirt really fits well. I carefully went over the page with size instructions.
 
8:31 PM
The sleeves were a bit too short in my case. I have broader shoulders than most do for my height, but I'm not tall... so it's a hit and miss most of the time.
 
@Szabolcs I have take to the habit to search Google every day for the last 24 hrs of news on "Mathematica 9". It's mostly download sites you get, but sometimes there's a nugget of information.
 
@Sjoerd Did you ask Arnoud about it? (The community site)
 
@Szabolcs Not sure whether I can comment on an email exchange we had...
 
OK, better not :-)
I need to teach a class tomorrow, so I better close this window and go back to work
 
@Szabolcs what classes do you teach?
@rm-rf My wingspan is 10 cm more than my height of 1.90m. Always have to take extra long shirts sleeves
Hi @acl
 
acl
8:38 PM
@SjoerdC.deVries hi!
 
Did you see the Mathematica 9 announcement?
 
@SjoerdC.deVries Statistical Mechanics, but just this one time. My professor can't come tomorrow. That's why I have to be prepared (I have to go through the previous lessons)
 
@Szabolcs Difficult stuff. Didn't do too well in that area
@acl Neither did I ;-)
 
acl
@SjoerdC.deVries come on don't tease
 
@acl I couldn't resist
 
acl
8:42 PM
@Szabolcs just say $F=-T ln(Z)$ and leave the lecture hall
 
I still have to discover what entropy is, apart from being the letter S
 
Yes. Calculating Z is homework ;-)
(btw this one is about quantum gases :( )
 
acl
@Szabolcs "exercise for the reader"
@Szabolcs noninteracting I guess?
@SjoerdC.deVries I think you're not alone there.
 
@acl It was introduced to me as simply S=dQ/T. Didn't know what to think of it, at all
 
acl
@Szabolcs in this case, say "this is §53-62 in Landau-Lifshitz vol 5" and leave it at that. Should weed out the weaklings :)
@SjoerdC.deVries OK yes these thermodynamic relations aren't really how I think about the world either. Stat mech is much more concrete as far as I'm concerned
 
8:51 PM
@acl I think I would do better now, with hindsight
I'll start all over again if and when I retire
Hi @halirutan
 
@SjoerdC.deVries Hi
 
@halirutan Is your name in one way or another related to the German word naturlich?
It seems to be a case of "Close, but no cigar"
 
@SjoerdC.deVries Nope. It was a boring school-lesson about 15 years ago and my friend and me were thinking about new words.. I came up with this.
 
I only need to swap an 'a' for a 'c'
@halirutan I just discovered that 'naturilah' is a Russian herb: "The seeds contain a lot of mucus. Used in folk medicine as a laxative, regulating a chair, and in catarrhal diseases of the gastrointestinal tract. "
I guess that's also not what you had in mind, right? ;-)
 
acl
"regulating a chair"?
 
9:10 PM
@acl I prefer it that way.
 
@SjoerdC.deVries Hmm.. so I'm a russian laxative ;-)
I thought I made up something unique.
 
@halirutan Don't forget it's your name in reverse. Uhmm, a laxative in reverse should be...
 
evitaxal?
 
evita! Argentina!
Small world
Where's @belisarius when you need him...
 
10:10 PM
@SjoerdC.deVries Ah, damn. My nephew got curious on the brittleness of ceramic the other day, and decided to use my math.SE mug for tests... :|
@OleksandrR. If they start operating lasers while wearing flashy bling, I believe you have express permission to kick them in the teeth...
@SjoerdC.deVries the entry said "mucus" and not "mucilage"?
 
@J.M. A literal copy and paste from here
The English is not really Shakespearian
 
10:30 PM
Oh, it's psyllium husk! I see. In my neck of the woods, people use it all the time for dieting...
 
@Szabolcs I do.
 
@acl Now you're just being evil... :P
 
11:13 PM
@J.M. yes, to kick them in the teeth would solve the problem in a psychological and a, hmm say direct way:
Bling bling and laser = bad
 
VF1
@halirutan I check in here once in a while, and usually you guys are debating something... refined. Thanks for breaking my misconception.
 
@VF1 yep, somethimes we just joke around ;-)
 
acl
11:37 PM
are you guys implying that that gentleman's dental adornments are unrefined?
 
@acl No, just the ghetto-ized versions...
@VF1 it's chat. Don't take things here as seriously as things in, say, the main site... ;)
 
acl
@J.M. (there are two "that's" :): I am referring to the specific... err... gentleman )
 
@acl (The two "that"-s are fine. ;) ) At the least, his shiny teeth is somewhat distracting. Any further judgment would depend on, say, whether he has a big "Juggalo Ninjaz" tattoo near his buttocks...
 

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