Lisp obviously is an advantage for the AI stuff, but it doesn't appear to me that Lisp is any faster than Java, C#, or even C. I am not a master of Lisp, but I find it incredibly difficult to understand the advantage one would get in writing business software in Lisp.
Yet it is considered as a h...
@SeanAllred -- have checked in-box and spam bucket; no message. am on laptop at home, but the interface is crippled (no linking in chat; have asked question about why and how to fix, but no suggestions forthcoming). the fire alarm was an accident, but when i held the door open for the full crews of an engine and ladder truck, the arsenal they were carrying was most impressive! anyhow, please try again!
oh, i left the office before the fire crews, so i don't know what finally happened, other than that nothing was burning. had a nice dinner, and am now starting to pack for a week on a barrier island on the georgia coast, "chasing alligators". (watch them and the rattlesnakes from a discreet distance. only sneak up on armadillos, geckos and horseshoe crabs -- much safer.)
@SeanAllred -- (no messages yet. very strange.) as far as rattlesnakes, in fact i do know someone. one of the naturalists who used to be on the island is a herpetologist, and he was always ready to make a dive for almost any snake -- he knew what he was doing; quite amazing to watch him dive into the bushes and come out with a black racer or a king snake. the nearest i've gotten to an alligator was when i found one (by the smell) that was maybe 10ft long, and quite dead.
somewhere i have a picture of me and the cleaned-up skull (now in the island's museum) staring at one another like hamlet and yorick. who knows what adventures await this year.
@barbarabeeton I wish I had the kind of gall necessary to work with snakes like that :) Must be rewarding work. And that's a large creature – I try to stick with animals smaller than me, dead or no :)
@barbarabeeton Maybe you can message me – try <tex (a) sean allred (dot) com>
Some serious thunder and lightning in Madison, WI…
My entire bedroom lit up through the blinds, and the thunder is still rolling from it…
@cfr I'm not sure I understand your comment, sorry :(
And you can add custom thingies. Also for the documentation to explain. But neat. — cfr12 mins ago
Are you saying you think I should expand the answer?
@SeanAllred No. Not really. It was just a comment. I can't remember what the thingies are called, though. I thought you might know but I'm not surprised that you can't tell.
I think so. But I think there's another bit as well. Hang on.
@SeanAllred Yes. Rules. And then there's a config file where you tell arara about the rules. I can't remember what they mean now. But I seem to have written a rule for metapost and add some thing to the config file for it. Anyway, yes, thank-you. Thingies = Rules ;)!
@cfr In a sense, I know exactly what you mean. I'm learning a distinct, mostly defunct variant of a programming language I know very well for a job – the differences are small, but they are many. Things I think exist don't and vice–versa.
When using multicols from the multicol package, is is possible to do something like this:
\begin{multicols}{2}
Some text
\begin{escapemulticol}
Some large image or formula spanning the whole page width.
\end{escapemulticol}
Some other text
\end{multicols}
I need this in a more complicated ...
@egreg Thankfully I am recovering very fast. :) No more pain and the fever's gone. Now I'm drinking a lot of water for rehydration. :) And I eating a lot. :)
I knew I forgot something right before the new design launch today. I didn't get a chance to create custom images for the 404/Captcha/error pages on the TeX site.
Do you have any suggestions?
A few examples from other sites:
Cooking site's 404:
Gaming site's CAPTCHA
Photography site's ...
@Johannes_B That is the anode. You can get a much stronger x-ray beam out of the gallium then you can copper, molly or silver. Apparently you can get up to 20 or 30% of a syncatron.
@Johannes_B Yeah, we submit crystals to a syncatron in the US, and have talked about going to the National Light Source, but we'd like to do real-time monitoring of reactions.
Hi. Does a math environment like flalign exist where I don't have to use ampersands on both sides of each line to align it to the left? E.g. where this is automated completely?
@1010011010 note if you have just & stuff & then you are typesetting just the right hand side of the first equation in the line. It sort of almost works as a full equation, set flush left but not really, for example if you start an expression with an infix operator or relation it loses its infix spacing compare ${}+2$ to $+2$ the ams alignments all add {} at the start of the right hand side so that it works as a continuation of the left had side a&=b the = gets infix spacing.
When using multicols from the multicol package, is is possible to do something like this:
\begin{multicols}{2}
Some text
\begin{escapemulticol}
Some large image or formula spanning the whole page width.
\end{escapemulticol}
Some other text
\end{multicols}
I need this in a more complicated ...
I knew I forgot something right before the new design launch today. I didn't get a chance to create custom images for the 404/Captcha/error pages on the TeX site.
Do you have any suggestions?
A few examples from other sites:
Cooking site's 404:
Gaming site's CAPTCHA
Photography site's ...
(with apologies to Don Knuth)
