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7:43 AM
Here's something interesting:
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Q: Gillespie Stochastic Simulation Algorithm

István ZacharThe Gillespie SSA is a Monte Carlo stochastic simulation algorithm to find the trajectory a dynamic system described by a reaction (or interaction) network, e.g. chemical reactions or ecological problems. It was introduced by Dan Gillespie in 1977 (see paper here). It is used in case of small mol...

 
 
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Q: Code for generative-art community ad

SzabolcsYesterday I posted a community ad for our generative-art tag. I wanted to show some of the fun side of this StackExchange site. Of course such an ad has to be made entirely in Mathematica. This post is to share (and archive) the code. Feel free to use it any way you wish, make more ads, impro...

 
@Szabolcs or whoever is in the room. Since I still have Adobe Illustrator open because I created two community ads, do we need some other important ads? I would like to have some for the chat as well. The ads on TeX.se for their chat are so funny and I think we miss an opportunity here.
Look here:
Design and colors are bad, but the idea is great.
Maybe one idea is to use famous quotes. This could be funny. Like using something like this and combine it with Visit our chatroom:
> “Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.”
> ― Benjamin Franklin
 
9:45 AM
There are a few from 2014 that haven't been updated yet:
@halirutan ^ There were links to important posts, such as the one having many references, the one with beginner pitfalls. There were ads for nice free books, like Wagner's and Leonid's.
Maybe it's worth putting one to this old page which shows how functions work through animations: reference.wolfram.com/legacy/flash
And maybe for the new introductory book by SW: wolfram.com/language/fast-introduction-for-programmers I have it also in paper but I haven't looked in detail yet ...
Perhaps these will reduce the amount of trivial questions.
I'm going to put the link for TeX.SE community ads here again for everyone else. Take a look at their chatroom ads. meta.tex.stackexchange.com/questions/6473/…
 
@Szabolcs OK, I'll look into it and see if I can create some of them.
@Szabolcs One trivial question: Have you ever seen one of the ads on the page? I browsed the site yesterday and I have no idea where they are.
 
10:12 AM
@halirutan Yes, about a day after I posted MaTeX & IGraph/M, they kept coming up all the time. I didn't want to keep seeing the same ones all the time so I tried to post some more ...
But today I don't see them.
@halirutan Do you have an ad-blocker?
Today I don't see any. Recently refreshing the page doesn't show new ads, it keeps showing the same.
@halirutan Also check out this page: meta.mathematica.stackexchange.com/ads/display/1779
@halirutan Does this have the wrong link? meta.mathematica.stackexchange.com/a/1899/12 It should link here, no?
 
 
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1:16 PM
@Szabolcs Ha.. yes I have.
@Szabolcs Ughh.. what the heck. Yes, of course the link is wrong.
 
 
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6:21 PM
Hi,

I'm a student of physics with little to no background in programming. I have to learn *Mathematica* for my Physics project. As of now, I need it for doing numerical integration, numerical optimization and making fancy graphs.

How should I go about learning it effectively? What are some good resources for a person in my situation? I came across:

1. reference.wolfram.com/language

2. http://www.wolfram.com/learningcenter/tutorialcollection/. But these seem very long.

3. *Mathematica: A Problem Centered Approach* by Roozbeh Hazrat.
 
 
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11:25 PM
@JunaidAftab you posted the same thing twice so I removed one for you
 

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