@AlanMunn I like the Java part... with a similar but less extreme result.... Because it eats the computational overhead by consistently stalling the execution :)
@AlanMunn It's black magic wrapped around with scientific justification.
I have a friend who works at Intel. He told me that the microprocessors are initially identical. However they just break the wafer into smaller pieces to make the less expensive models. That's just the 21st century science I was expecting :)
Here is another on for you, maybe you know the answer
In a time signature of 3/4 (three by four), what is the name given to the 3 and the 4? I know it in my own language, but can't find the answer for the English equivalent.
@percusse I actually don't. I don't recall ever having been taught names for them. There may be some technical music theory term, but I've never studied music theory formally.
And now I see that that's what the accepted answer basically says too.
@JasperLoy Thanks for your comment about delicious plots, but are you sure it was correctly aimed at me?
@PauloCereda Yes, the compiler design course really brings together almost all of the fundamentals of CS. I left CS in university before taking one, though.
@PauloCereda No. Ultimately I decided that problems of the natural world are harder and more interesting than those of CS. Most computational linguistics is heavily statistically based NLP, which is completely uninteresting if you're interested in how humans do language.
@AlanMunn Ah yes, I've seen a few works-in-progress from colleagues of mine in NLP. The main goal for them is to provide a computational model for a certain language, but not how language is used. :)
@Alan: Sadly, what I see from my last interactions with research groups is that theory is losing adepts. There's a strong trend here of practical CS. Trivia: sadly, "compilers" is being deprecated in a lot of CS courses. The only place in Brazil I know "compilers" is still strong is PUC-Rio. No wonder why Lua is a child of them. :)
@PauloCereda What's ironic and sad about that fact is that Lua is highly practical in reality, yet without that kind of basic research such practicality wouldn't have arisen.
@PauloCereda That's simply because of the snobbish attitude of the late researchers. Leaving the difficult parts as exercises and all that jazz about theoretical guarantees ....
People had enough of them.
They are trying to keep the self sustained credibility and it simply doesn't work in real life. That's why you see that the journals are losing prestige and people are simply blogging their stuff and coming together on forums etc.
@PauloCereda This is also happening in medical research to. The National Institutes of Health (which is by orders of magnitude the largest research funder in the U.S. (and probably the world) used to fund lots of basic research, but now unless you have a direct clinical application it's very hard to get funding. This has cut off a lot of opportunity for our research funding, since we work with typically developing children and not with any language pathologies.
@percusse One of the things that bothers me is the lack of consistency from some researchers. I remember one keynote I watched from a very famous researcher and he said library, framework, toolkit, system, model, paradigm and component for the same object in less than 5 minutes.
@AlanMunn That's very sad. :( I suffered a lot to get some publications; most conferences I submitted a paper were expecting a direct application, not an abstract model.
@PauloCereda That's a common theme all around the world. Since the work is now worthless everybody is trying to wrap up an advertorial about their lab, dept etc. in 30 mins. I'm talking about robotics in particular. So many crazy mathematical framework but in the end the robot needs a power central to do a trivial stuff. So people started to loose confidence on people's publish or perish based results.
Hence, the only customers you are left with are your colleagues.
@PauloCereda There was a joke about MIT: Massachusetts Institute of Theory. Also it was claimed that Johns Hopkins CS grads didn't even know how to turn on a computer. On the other hand, I heard a talk once from a Carnegie Mellon guy who read lisp code during his talk...
@percusse Yes, absolutely. I'm on the editorial board of one open access journal, which because it has good editors, high quality submissions and we're a small field, is quickly being taken seriously as a real journal.
@AlanMunn Oh my! :) My favorite professor, which is also a great friend, every time we go for a coffee, he doesn't say, "I want a table with napkins", but "I want a table with drafts". :P
@PauloCereda It's kind of like a wiki, I think. We don't have any in our field, so I've only read about them. People post a draft and then everyone pitches in with a mixture of peer review and revision. I'll see if I can find a better description somewhere. I recall them being discussed in economics or political science, maybe. (Which may say something in itself...)
@PauloCereda It might be more suited to some areas than others, I suspect. History in particular seems a bit more amenable to the idea than more hypothesis driven science.
@PauloCereda This is really sad to hear. Though I got the impression that a lot of states (including the US) are taking CS in a very practical way. Too much money in there...
@PauloCereda Did it ever occur to you to go to another continent for PhD? Some european states have strong TCS research programmes and most of them (Germany at least ;-) should be actively inviting strong foreign PhD students.
@StephanLehmke That's true. The lab next door to mine was in charge of a system for the upcoming Brazilian Digital TV. It was a group of labs in several universities working together. All of them were financed by the government. The amount of money they received to equip their labs was huge, and no real work wasn't being done. The project is in short a fallacy. Nobody works decently, they get a nice monetary fund, and at the end of the day they blame the hardware limitation for a poor implementation.
@StephanLehmke I'm not sure I have the guts for such big step - I get lost in my own house. :) And I don't have too much contacts nowadays, which could give me a real chance of applying for a doctoral program.
@StephanLehmke I'm sure there still are good theoretical CS schools in the US too, although you may be right about the trend. But I think MIT, Berkeley, Stanford, CMU, Cornell are still doing theoretical CS.
@AlanMunn Yes I'm sure my personal view is biased. I left University probably too early to get a really general overview. But in the field I was in, the real basic research was mostly done in europe.
Do you know of the moral dilemma question: Version 1: There's a runaway train that is going to kill 5 people. You can pull a lever that diverts it, in which case the train will kill another person. Do you pull the lever?
Version 2: There's a runaway train that is going to kill 5 people. If you push another person in front of the train you will stop the train and save the 5. Do you push the person in front of the train?
After you decide, I'll relate it to mice, I promise.
@AlanMunn Dammit! They should invest more in maintanence of these trains. OK then I take it back. Morally I can't do anything and probably stare at the catastrophe. I don't think I can handle the thought of being a killer.
But the fact is, when you ask this question to lots and lots of people, there are some like you who take an absolute moral "I won't kill anyone" stance, and others who take a kind of utilitarian stance, and will kill the one person. But the interesting fact is that there are many people who split on the two scenarios: they will pull the lever, but won't push the person in front of the train. So to them direct vs. indirect causation is a big part of their moral calculation.
I think I'm in that group, and I came face to face with the reality of it when I had some mice to kill in my house. I had no problems setting the mouse traps and throwing away the dead mice with their nicely broken necks. But every once in a while, a mouse would still be alive although caught in the trap. I would then have to actually kill the mouse, and this gave me qualms.
@percusse Right. There are many variants that you can think of.
@AlanMunn I see your point. But thinking about it,
there must be some kind of a truth in what you are doing. Mouse trap is a little too irrelevant since it's a nuisance, I'm sure when you have to you can kill a mice like you can do with a mosquito.
@percusse Oh sure, I killed the mice, but the feeling I had actually drowning it was very different from the non-feeling I had setting the trap, even though the outcome would be the same.
I imagine a scenario where one pulls the lever with tears in his/her eyes and that's more repugnant than actually pushing someone and facing the consequences.
Almost a fake guilt since the only thing you have to forget is the lever, not the memory of a person going under a train.
so I don't think mouse trap is a good analogy since I almost get happy to get rid of that problem. Because I can even sit and watch the mice gets killed by the trap.
I see it as a tool I guess or a technology to kill.
@percusse The creepiest version of the dilemma that I've heard is: You're hiding in a basement with 10 other people and your baby. Soldiers come into the house and will kill you all if they find you. Your baby starts to cry, and the crying will cause you all to be killed. Do you kill your own baby?
The other thing that's interesting about these dilemmas is that peoples reactions to them are very stable across cultures and independent of things like religiosity.
@AlanMunn That reminded me of the pig that wants to be eaten .
I think it was Julian Baggini's book that I've read.
So as far as I remember, you are a vegetarian because you think that the animals suffer because of you etc. but there is a pig that really absolutely wants to be eaten. Should you eat the pig?
@percusse Trivia fact for today: the pig-who-wanted-to-be-eaten was not in the original radio series but was in the TV series. I believe he was played by Doctor Who.
@percusse: You rejected the suggested edit on the Penrose tiling question, right? I guess the editor does have a point though that that's quite important information that's missing from Herbert's answer?
Both the packages tgpagella and mathpazo (with "sc"-option) provide the font Palladio with true small-caps. tgpagella additionally offers a bold small-cap font. Yet when comparing the normal small-caps, I realized that there is a noticeable difference between the small-caps: those of tgpagella ar...
@Jake Yes, I did. But if we start doing it, we have to do it for all Herbert's answers :) Besides, he mentioned this in the comments. Lastly, many Tikz solutions do not ask for permission to enter a tabular, PSTricks or any other \tikzmark question. So I think it is acceptable. Am I off with this?
@AndrewStacey I feel like I should revisit all the episodes again.
here is my LaTeX: (how does one format it nicely?):
[Edit:] Reducing the example
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{longtable}
\usepackage{lscape}
\begin{document}
\begin{landscape}
\noindent
\begin{longtable}{ll}
\caption[]{Decomposition } \\
& \\ \endhead\hline
&
$ \begin{arra...
@percusse I generally agree, but I have the feeling that usually, if someone suggests using TikZ to tackle a problem, they do announce that in the answer, instead of just posting the code and letting the readers figure it out. For someone not well acquainted with the different graphics packages, they could well assume that Herbert's answer somehow answers the question of how to get the tiling with TikZ. We should probably just leave it, but I am a bit irritated by the fact that (ctd.)
@Jake You are right he is a little too concise and often slightly snobbish (which is probably normal given the knowledge he has ). It also applies to his manuals and PSTricks community in general. However, in the TeX.SE locality, I think it might lead him to delete his answer. He's a happy-trigger-finger owner :)
@JosephWright Must admit, if asked to guess then I would have said "cow" as well, but the original interlocutors talked about "pig" so I left it at that.
@JosephWright Any advice to when this package is useful? I have used it once before writing a science report, but I can not really see the use in wrapping \SI or \num around every number in my paper. That would certainly do more harm than good.
@N3buchadnezzar The key idea in siunitx is formatting units correctly and flexibly. So it's major strength if when you input quantities (a number with a unit). The \num command is there for allowing the same formatting for numbers as is seen in the \SI command. As such, it depends on what you want.
If you use a sensible font set up then you should not see the difference between 1234.5 and \num{1234.5}, so you don't need the command. On the other hand, if you might be using the same text in documents where . should come out as . in one and , in a second, then \num is handy
@N3buchadnezzar The tables stuff is essentially an add-on that I was asked about late in initial development :-)
@JosephWright Here in Norway it is standard to use commas for everything. Like writing (5,3 , 2) I really dislike this. Commas are for seperating numbers, not as a decimal marker.
@PauloCereda OK so what would you like bugs classified as, you can choose between "features" "user errors" "interesting behaviours" (the classification applies to all incoming mail)
I am putting together a series of slides using beamer, and I'm using tike to do most of the figures. On one particular slide, I need to make nodes appear, then some more nodes, then edges between them. The code looks like this:
\begin{tikzpicture}[>=latex,text height=1.5ex,text depth=0.25ex]
...
I am using TikZ to draw standalone pictures using the PreviewEnvironment (which cuts the PDF size around the picture). I then import the PDF figure inside LaTeX using \includegraphics.
Let say my font size in LaTeX is 12pt. I want to bring in a PDF figure with a good looking size and such that t...
@cgnieder: I have no words to express my gratitude. You wrote a lovely tutorial about arara, thanks a million for the kind words. I'm working hard to finish the new manual - examples, TeXworks integration, etc. The final 2.0 version seems very stable and I'll release it together with the manual and a brand new cross-platform installer. :)
Back from the tour: Trento (passing through Vigolo Vattaro), Monte Bondone (a famous climb, dedicated to Charly Gaul) and then the west coast of Lake Garda. Yummy.
For example, I have one manuscript that will create a PDF file in German and one in English.
My idea is that it should be used like i18n in Java, so I have a key for a text block or a sentence and a language file for each language. For example:
\documentclass[a4paper,12pt]{scrartcl}
\usepackage...
@StephanLehmke: I think I know what the OP is referring to in Java. Sometimes, we have something called resource bundle, which contains locale-specific data. I can have an application with, say, Foo.properties, Foo_pt-BR.properties, Foo_en-US.properties and so on. If the Java locale property is set to, say, Brazilian Portuguese, the PT-BR resource would be loaded, with a fallback to Foo.properties is there's a missing key. If it's German, the fallback bundle is loaded. >>
This approach works with "translating" GUI's or even system messages, but not the way the user is proposing.
I would like to distinguish between a vector of betas and the individual betas
I want to use bold, rather than an error, to indicate the vector
However, the difference between \beta and \mathbf{beta} is not very clear. Can I make the beta's extra bold, or have a double line on the left side? My...
@PauloCereda However internationalization works for user interfaces from the technical POV, I don't believe it's applicable to TeX documents of any kind, because the latter is not about translating short text snippets.
@StephanLehmke Agreed! :) There's no way. Besides, I don't get why the OP wants a literal translation on every single word, even because there's no 1:1 mapping. :(
@StephanLehmke Right. And that's why the answer by Ivan works: it's a very circumscribed application, quite similar to that which Paulo describes, but not generally applicable.
@PauloCereda Like the comment today after the first half: "Scoring is like pouring ketchup: you get nothing at first but then it all comes out at once."
@AlanMunn My grandfather used to remember an episode at the opera theater in the small town where he lived: the tenor had to fetch the soprano out of the scene, but she was a very fat lady. So from "loggione" one cried: "Do it in two travels!"
I don't know why there are many people in the street shouting. :)
In a time signature of 3/4 (three by four), what is the name given to the 3 and the 4? I know it in my own language, but can't find the answer for the English equivalent.
here is my LaTeX: (how does one format it nicely?):
[Edit:] Reducing the example
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{longtable}
\usepackage{lscape}
\begin{document}
\begin{landscape}
\noindent
\begin{longtable}{ll}
\caption[]{Decomposition } \\
& \\ \endhead\hline
&
$ \begin{arra...
I am putting together a series of slides using beamer, and I'm using tike to do most of the figures. On one particular slide, I need to make nodes appear, then some more nodes, then edges between them. The code looks like this:
\begin{tikzpicture}[>=latex,text height=1.5ex,text depth=0.25ex]
...
For example, I have one manuscript that will create a PDF file in German and one in English.
My idea is that it should be used like i18n in Java, so I have a key for a text block or a sentence and a language file for each language. For example:
\documentclass[a4paper,12pt]{scrartcl}
\usepackage...
I would like to distinguish between a vector of betas and the individual betas
I want to use bold, rather than an error, to indicate the vector
However, the difference between \beta and \mathbf{beta} is not very clear. Can I make the beta's extra bold, or have a double line on the left side? My...
