This answer was originally made "Community Wiki" (CW) by the OP when he posted it and the CW status was removed by a moderator recently to reward the OP. I disagree with this action, especially because it was done without any form of community consensus and moderators should not be arbiters of wh...
@belisarius Okay, but I think your wrong to start a flame war, and I'll continually inform you of this of the weeks and months to come. EVERY CHANCE I GET!
@yoda I don't spend a lot of time over there. I pop in maybe twice a day, flag to migrate if needed, and go on my way. In fact, I've seen other users spend a lot more time over there, including some of our up and coming users here. That and @belisarius, you'd think he'd just go away at some point. :P
"You can control precision within a complex calculation (without using N[] on every intermediate result) by changing these values; however, you should only do so within a Block (a local context)."
"For example, compare the difference between a calculation with automatic precision for intermediate results to the same calculation with fixed precision (obtained by making $MinPrecision == $MaxPrecision)." directly from the book
@newprint Have you tried setting $MinPrecision to 32 outside of the block?
@newprint I don't think so. They both use SetPrecision, and it isn't until that is executed that any precision is needed as (1 + Exp[Sqrt[2] + Sqrt[3]])/ 2 ^ 25 is kept algebraic (not numerical) until that point. I think the issue is one of display, but I may be wrong.
@all for good measure, I decide to look at one or two more graduated sites, more out of curiosity at this point then anything else, especially as we are going to graduate soon. Check out the users on SharePoint. We have more high rated users than them, and a little under a third total users. We compare favorably until Ask Different with the obvious exceptions of Science Fiction and Fantasy and Electrical Engineering in terms of high level users. I can see why the agreed to allow us to graduate.
Although, when we graduate some of us will be getting another gold badge: Founder. To bad they're not worth actual money ...
@rcollyer I didn't even notice that. Actually, a lot of people will. We have a very good ratio of conversion of followers and committers to site members. And more than the usual percentage of "fulfilled commitments": 31% and rising.
We are very close to having 4 out of 5 "green" in our Area 51 stats. (Just a few more questions a day - it has been trending up the last few days - and a few more visits.)
I am looking at the WordPress settings and trying to figure out how things work. It's possible to add users who can write and publish posts. It's possible to write a post but not publish it right away.
No, no, not a holiday, just sorting out some paperwork, new ID card, hopefully pick up my diploma, stuff like that.
So it looks like I can create a user for you, @Heike, and you can start working on a post. It can be published when it's time, but you can keep writing, making edits, saving draft versions right now.
@Heike The blog was just created, and now I have an admin account. I can add other people. There are different access levels (i.e. full access or write posts only)
@Heike You can mail me the email address you'd like to use, together with a (lowercase) username that'll be visible on the blog.
@halirutan I can't see the email you used on the SE site ... I'm not a moderator. This account will be separate from SE accounts. But you can always email me your choice.
@halirutan Code blocks should work. To use MarkDown, you will need to switch to the HTML view. I will need to look into MathJax support ... (after lunch)
On area51 there is a proposal for "Alien Language and Useage". The description is "For alien from other planets or earthmen who interested in languages in extraterrestrial civilizations". I wonder if the bad grammar and spelling mistakes are on purpose.
@Szabolcs so what was decided re: rtfm and first hit in documentation type questions? Close? Leave open for new users to answer? Answer with the obvious? (this is re: the kmeans question)
Now that we have a blog, and we can start writing the first post, the question comes up: do we need CDF support on the blog?
Theoretically it should be possible to add CDF support relatively easily because there is a CDF plugin, but we need to list some good reasons before this will be given to...
@RM Well, it seems to me that the most popular opinion was: questions are what you make of them. It's possible to have a great answer to a not so great question. So let's leave it open and give it a chance. Additionally, it's probably not bad to have Google point people here when they search for Mathematica k-means. To to be honest, this is the third hit only.
The first two hits are doc pages, again showing the complete lack of effort on the part of the OP.
@yoda I'm sorry, I missed your messages. I had a headphone plugged in and also cooking ...
@Szabolcs That sounds good to me. Illustrative examples of typical usage would be good additions to the documentation, which can be dry and vague at times
Today we got a blog, and for now I have an admin account. This post serves both as an announcement and for checking with the community on how to run the blog.
How it could work
Make sure you check the chatroom for blog-related discussions! It'll be easier to keep up to date with blog related ...
Now that we have a blog, and we can start writing the first post, the question comes up: do we need CDF support on the blog?
Theoretically it should be possible to add CDF support relatively easily because there is a CDF plugin, but we need to list some good reasons before this will be given to...