The h Bar

Emilio Pisanty

7:00 PM

unless you muck about with the counters

0celoñe7

@EmilioPisanty I mean morally

Emilio Pisanty

wut

0celoñe7

Should it be Table 1. Table 2. Figure 1. or Figure 3.

Emilio Pisanty

@0celoñe7 should be Table 1. Table 2. Figure 1.

that's the default, don't change it

0celoñe7

ok

@EmilioPisanty Default where?

Emilio Pisanty

7:04 PM

@0celoñe7 most standard classes

0celoñe7

@EmilioPisanty I am using Word.

Emilio Pisanty

@0celoñe7 ah

0celoñe7

@EmilioPisanty Not by choice, so no h8 pls.

Emilio Pisanty

no hate

just, you know

ewww

0celoñe7

@EmilioPisanty There are classes that number tables/figures automatically?

Emilio Pisanty

7:07 PM

@0celoñe7 on TeX?

yes

all of them

0celoñe7

@EmilioPisanty I've needed TeX tables exactly twice in my life

Mostafa

@0celoñe7 is that better than TeXWorks? (Have you ever used TeXWorks?)

I'm having some problems with TeXworks

Emilio Pisanty

@0celoñe7 I see you've not been asked to prepare uni lab reports in tex

0celoñe7

@EmilioPisanty We've been over this.

Word only.

The Dark Side

@EmilioPisanty Perhaps because of this:

$user image$

2

Emilio Pisanty

7:10 PM

@TheDarkSide that's a pretty accurate depiction

also, prepared with conspicuously placed Computer Modern

hmmmmm

20

Q: Post-doc advice for a low publication grad student

As a grad student, I have a single publication, a conference proceeding, to my name. So, my question is what do I need to do to obtain a post-doc position? Obviously, my references are going to be important. But, what other methods are available to me to demonstrate my competence? As I am US bas...

^ can someone find out a trace on the question timeline / revision history / whatever that this came from the Theoretical Physics beta?

ACuriousMind

@EmilioPisanty nope

Not the slightest trace

Emilio Pisanty

@ACuriousMind data.stackexchange.com/physics/query/701487

SEDE's got nothing, either

and yet

physicsoverflow.org/61/…

ACuriousMind

I think the folding of TP.SE into physics.SE has made TP.SE posts for all intents and purposes native physics.SE posts

Anonymous

How to begin two sentences same distance away from page margin in latex?

Anonymous

0celoñe7

7:18 PM

@Blue What?

@Blue If you're doing definitions like that, you need to use the amsthm definition environment.

Anonymous

My definition 1 and definition 2 don't begin from same distance from left margin

ACuriousMind

@Blue Ah, see, don't do that. If you want to use the "definition X" style, you should use a package like amsthm, which will take care of such formatting on its own

0celoñe7

Literally what I just said.

Emilio Pisanty

@ACuriousMind that's way weird

Anonymous

@ACuriousMind Okay, trying

Emilio Pisanty

7:19 PM

you'd hope for a Post Migrated event on the timeline, no?

ACuriousMind

@EmilioPisanty Kinda, although they weren't migrated - if they were migrated, closing them would have rejected the migration, which I'm pretty sure would have driven the system bonkers trying to send the rejected question back to a site that didn't exist anymore

Emilio Pisanty

@Blue also, we're happy to help and for intro stuff we're just as good, but keep in mind that there's also a tex.se chat chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/41/tex-latex-and-friends

@ACuriousMind yeah, there's that

Anonymous

@EmilioPisanty Oh, yeah. I've never been there. I'll check that out. :)

Emilio Pisanty

I would like to know how many of questions in physics-careers came from tp.se

ACuriousMind

So I wouldn't have expected a migration event in the history, but...something

0celoñe7

7:27 PM

@Slereah I am unironically citing [private communication]

Sir Cumference

@ACuriousMind Here's what I see

No doubt about it, that's gotta be him

ACuriousMind

And you never had correspondence with him before that?

0celoñe7

@SirCumference That is not his current gmail avatar.

Sir Cumference

@ACuriousMind No, and I checked the chat logs. Never gave out my email.

0celoñe7

Ah, wait.

Sir Cumference

7:31 PM

@0celoñe7 For his personal email?

ACuriousMind

@SirCumference You might have given it out and then deleted it.

0celoñe7

@SirCumference I have his work, nvm.

Sir Cumference

@ACuriousMind I certainly wouldn't have given my backup one, though

0celoñe7

@SirCumference Open the .py!

Sir Cumference

@0celoñe7 >_>

That doesn't necessarily seem safe

0celoñe7

7:32 PM

I said open, not run.

Sir Cumference

Also got this

0celoñe7

I'm sure @BernardoMeurer can help you.

Sir Cumference

Same day

Bernardo Meurer

What's happening?

0celoñe7

@SirCumference I summoned your savior.

Sir Cumference

7:33 PM

I certainly wasn't taking SR back then

Slereah

uridimma.hopto.org/misc/CatAdventure

Behold

The disk of the $L_1$ metric

Sir Cumference

@BernardoMeurer Weirdest situation ever

Bernardo Meurer

@SirCumference Lemme see the code

If it's evil I'll warn ya

Sir Cumference

I don't know if he'd want that distributed

0celoñe7

@Slereah $L_1$?

Bernardo Meurer

7:34 PM

@SirCumference I went to his wedding, I'm moving to SB to be next to the man

He's teaching me how to drive

Slereah

@0celoñe7 $d(x,y) = \sum |x_i - y_i|$

Sir Cumference

ಠ_ಠ

Bernardo Meurer

He's basically my father

0celoñe7

@SirCumference It's very weird, don't question it.

ACuriousMind

Jan 6 '16 at 3:32, by DanielSank

Hey @ACuriousMind, I made a broke-ass program to plot space time diagrams.

ah, I remembered something like that

0celoñe7

7:35 PM

@Slereah You mean $\ell^1$ metric

Mithrandir24601

@SirCumference I can confirm that it's not his work e-mail (unless he has more than 1), but it could very easily be his personal one...

0celoñe7

@SirCumference Just send it to Bernardo.

Sir Cumference

@0celoñe7 I'd also really prefer not to download it without knowing what it is

0celoñe7

@SirCumference Then don't. Forward it.

ACuriousMind

@SirCumference Apparently you forgot you helped Daniel test that program

Emilio Pisanty

7:39 PM

@SirCumference ah, that's what that is

0celoñe7

@EmilioPisanty Ubuntu messing up?

Emilio Pisanty

had to look up the unicode

0celoñe7

@EmilioPisanty There was a girl who had to drop out of college because of Ubuntu

Sir Cumference

@ACuriousMind Oh, wow...

0celoñe7

@BernardoMeurer can confirm

@SirCumference Hahahahaha

Sir Cumference

7:41 PM

My memory is actually frightening

0celoñe7

@SirCumference Get adderall, you clearly have adhd

Emilio Pisanty

0

Q: Why does the surface of a lake suddenly change texture

What causes the surface of a lake to suddenly change texture. More specifically, what causes short wavelength water waves to dissipate in certain regions of a body of water with fairly sharp transition between regions with short wavelength waves and those without? I took a kayak out on lake M...

waves water

you can smell the HNQ on that one

Sir Cumference

@0celoñe7 >_>

ACuriousMind

...or maybe he instructed to you write it? I'm not sure what exactly went down there but in any case, I found the room where you gave out your email @SirCumference

Sir Cumference

Welp, guess people know my alt now

0celoñe7

7:42 PM

@EmilioPisanty Hey, I get that same bug in Skyrim

Maybe it's a feature :o

Emilio Pisanty

Is it a duplicate, though?

Sir Cumference

@JohnRennie What the hell. Facebook is suggesting you as a friend of mine.

How does that even work

0celoñe7

@SirCumference You probably use SE through facebook

Sir Cumference

@0celoñe7 Not anymore

Creepy af stalker company

0celoñe7

@SirCumference Maybe stop googling "John Rennie nudes."

Wonder what you said.

@SirCumference Ah yes, you're the innocent one.

Why do you keep deleting?

Anonymous

7:53 PM

Got amsthm working using these instructions en.wikibooks.org/wiki/LaTeX/Theorems. Using latex to typeset seems time-consuming. Maybe I'll stick to pen and paper while taking notes and use latex only to make formal projects and stuff. :P

0celoñe7

@Blue It gets much easier.

Pen and paper was once very time consuming too.

ACuriousMind

@Blue the learning curve is pretty steep, but once you know all the things you regularly need it gets less time-consuming

Sir Cumference

@0celoñe7 Also guy, straight, not into people >5 years older than me

0celoñe7

@SirCumference You should appreciate my restraint rn.

@ACuriousMind Can I crop images in Word?

Sir Cumference

@0celoñe7 Much appreciated

Anonymous

7:56 PM

@0celoñe7 @ACuriousMind Do you guys typeset all your math/physics lecture notes ? Or only the important ones?

0celoñe7

I can!

@Blue None.

I typeset things that I have proven on my own and want to immortalize.

ACuriousMind

@Blue I have typeset exactly one lecture until I decided it wasn't much of an improvement over my handwritten notes

I've used LaTeX mostly for my thesis, a few lab reports, and personal projects

Anonymous

Makes sense. :P It would be way too time-consuming if I sit down to typeset all the lectures.

Anonymous

Also it doesn't seem necessary

0celoñe7

@Blue there are some crazy people who typeset in real time

Anonymous

8:00 PM

@0celoñe7 yeah, exactly. One of my seniors from my uni told me today morning that he typesets the lecture notes (in class itself) and sells them before exam time (to the lazy guys who don't take most of the notes in class or the ones having terrible handwriting) :P lol

ACuriousMind

He sells them?

0celoñe7

Ah, capitalism.

Anonymous

@ACuriousMind yup :P

Mostafa

@Blue Why don't you just use an available template and typeset your text, without worrying too much about the technical details? and this way you slowly learn the details as you tweak different parts of the code over time

Anonymous

It's his business plan :D

0celoñe7

8:01 PM

@ACuriousMind Why not?

ACuriousMind

Here in Socialist Germany, people usually just give away the link to their TeXed notes for free.

heather

o/

Bernardo Meurer

@ACuriousMind Which is why you lost the war

0celoñe7

@ACuriousMind And look where that has landed you.

Bernardo Meurer

Hitler would never have thrived in a country where people sell their TeXed notes

That's a FACT

Danu

8:02 PM

I give away my notes for free.

Anonymous

@Mostafa I'm doing that only. I've downloaded a few templates to help me.

Emilio Pisanty

@0celoñe7 why here, of course

politico.com/magazine/story/2017/03/…

ACuriousMind

@0celoñe7 In a nice education system without undue stress on competition that doesn't load its graduates with crippling debt for years?

Emilio Pisanty

=P

Danu

Anyone want any? ;)

Bernardo Meurer

8:02 PM

@ACuriousMind Ouch :P

Emilio Pisanty

@Danu is that class notes or banknotes?

Danu

Notes from the knowledge bank

0celoñe7

@ACuriousMind It was a rhetorical question, jeez.

Mostafa

I think they sell the hard copy not the pdf file (although they don't give the pdf to anyone) @Blue

heather

@Blue yes, ShareLaTeX is great!

Anonymous

8:05 PM

@Mostafa Yeah, he sells the hard copy :'D If he sold pdf's then one would buy it and distribute it to the rest

Anonymous

@heather Yeah. No need to download any extra software. :)

heather

though i do like texmaker as well.

ACuriousMind

@Danu lol

0celoñe7

word, in all its infinite glory, is putting in the image sideways

and when I rotate it, it puts the rotated image off-center

Mostafa

When using MS Word, I usually have to find a way to deceive Word to achieve what I want. Its standard methods are rarely helpful

skullpatrol

8:15 PM

how infinitely glorious

Anonymous

We really need some AI typesetting software to replace these Word and Tex softwares.

Emilio Pisanty

oh fcs

-1

A: Can we blacklist the general-physics tag?

No .

Possibly the most helpful meta post in the history of meta

skullpatrol

Gotta be the shortest.

Emilio Pisanty

@skullpatrol actually, yeah, I'm surprised that didn't get stopped by some length filter

skullpatrol

O.o

Mostafa

8:25 PM

@Blue Yeah...something that takes the lecturer's voice as input, takes notes and typesets it in LaTeX automatically....or takes the homework problem set as input and typeset the soultions in LaTeX...

ACuriousMind

@EmilioPisanty The poster was "crafty" and added a bunch of spaces between the "no" and the period.

apparently, the SE length filter is not very smart.

Emilio Pisanty

ah

yes, that is a lot of spaces

skullpatrol

Clever

Anonymous

@Mostafa And something that does the homework for me XD

Mostafa

@Blue an AI software that takes a textbook, its solution manual and the lectures (video) as input and learns the material, does all the homeworks and exams, and even does high quality research....

How come no one has ever thought of this idea?!

Danu

8:33 PM

@ACuriousMind I "improved" it a bit :D

Anonymous

@Mostafa lol. We humans could then just relax on sea beaches :P

Emilio Pisanty

8:56 PM

@skullpatrol turns out it might just be students practicing

0celoñe7

9:10 PM

Ok people, calling something by one name and then referencing a book that doesn't call it that is a bit low

skullpatrol

9:36 PM

Eternal September @EmilioPisanty

Dawood ibn Kareem

10:27 PM

@Mostafa Pretty sure they have.

Sir Cumference

11:27 PM

@0celoñe7 Is your name Ryan Unger?

I'm getting a friend request from some guy in UT med school

Slereah

11:42 PM

List of stories set in a future now past

This is a list of fictional stories that, when written, were set in the future, but the future they predicted has now passed. The list excludes works that were alternate histories, which were composed after the dates they depict. The list also excludes contemporary or near future works (e.g. set within a year or two), unless it deals with some notable futuristic event as with the 2012 phenomenon. It also excludes works where the future is passively mentioned and not really depicting anything notable about the society as with an epilogue that just focuses on the fate of the main characters. ��2...

Better luck next time, science fiction!

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