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Hello, just dropping in to say I'm glad this is happening. Because of real-life commitments (job/family), I've really stepped back from the site, and I felt bad that I wasn't doing my fair share. It would be great to have another mod.

@Sascha I received my notification two days ago.

Has anyone else had an issue where version 9 can download curated data such as from CountryData[] but version 11 gives an internet connectivity error from the same machine? Both versions give a positive response from the "Test Internet Connectivity" button, though in version 11 it takes a lot longer.

@J.M. thanks anyway - I've posted a question, as I don't have time to think about this now.

@J.M. Isn't that the default?

I just tried GraphPlot3D[ChemicalData["VanadiumIVOxide", "EdgeRules"]] and it looks boring :-D

It might be possible to use EdgeRules and ElementTally with GraphPlot3D? Hmmm, maybe I have a question for the main site for the first time in ages.

@J.M. I wonder if they have any plans to expand the list or if there is a way to "create" the 3D plots from the 2D structure diagrams.

Both v9 and v10, even after refreshing the curated data. Turns out the only thing with Vanadium that has a working MoleculePlot is "VanadiumIIIBromide"

Does anyone else find that some chemicals in ChemicalData have flat diagrams but not the nice 3D "MoleculePlot" option? e.g. ChemicalData["VanadiumIIIOxide", "MoleculePlot"] gives Missing[NotAvailable] but ChemicalData["VanadiumIIIOxide"] shows the flat molecule diagram.

I confess I upvoted it because I thought it was an interesting image processing question, a bit like the "find something on Mars" question that went viral.

Oh right, in the comments to your answer

@belisariushassettled Where does it say it was a Matlab question?

...tomorrow!

I've got it down to 270. Too far to go. Will have to come up with another idea.

Do front end special characters tweet?

@R.M. thanks - I'm surprised I can do this at all after flying for 24 hours

I'm quite proud of this fake tartan maker but I don't think I can golf it down to get it into the one-liner competition.

I'll see those of you going to the conference in a couple of days. I'll be the jet-lagged, bleary-eyed woman with an Australian accent.

I downloaded 10.3 yesterday, but as I'm getting on a plane in a couple of hours to go to the conference, I haven't played with it yet.

@RolfMertig I couldn't reproduce on Mavericks - maybe it's El Capitan specific? Let me know if I can help further.

@RolfMertig I'm at work and can't check until tonight Australian time, but it sounds like there is something going wrong with ligatures and font encodings. Do you have the same problem with fi?

DateListStepPlot but still no DateListBarChart?

@YvesKlett Actually, this is why: meta.stackexchange.com/a/267080/168088

@YvesKlett Probably someone trying to work off some of the backlog of unanswered questions (meta.mathematica.stackexchange.com/q/1673/8). Please flag or vote to delete any late answers you think are inappropriate/spam/etc

Has anyone installed the egis github add-on in Eclipse Kepler for use with Wolfram Workbench in Kepler? Just wondering if there are any traps for young players.

@Szabolcs I think the first step is that people need to have their code in something like GitHub, and for a lot of us, that's well down the to-do list at the moment.

survivaltimes =
  Table[With[{theresult =
   NestList[
   Fold[ReplacePart[#, {#2@"entity", #2@"property"} -> #2[
          "rule"][#[#2@"entity"][#2@"property"], #]] &, #, <|
        "entity" -> #, "property" -> #2, "rule" -> #3|> & @@@
      rules] &, state, 1000]},
   Total[Sign[theresult[[All, 1, 1]]]]], {5000}];

@MichaelHale Nice, but the village always dies. here is a histogram of the survival times

@barznjy I answered your question in the main site.

I'm just impressed that @Silvia's T-shirt is still in good condition. I declared mine to be nightwear and it wore out quite quickly.

@halirutan there's a few women here (not girls - StackExchange has rules about underage participation) - some of us are even Celtic goddesses!

I just linked up my HPFilter code to Package.net. It was a double-first, since I've only just started using GitHub

@JanMurphy Good point - I'll create a plan of attack and have a go. Nice chatting and have a good evening.

@JanMurphy One of my grandmothers died when I was 3, but the other made it to 98, when I was 18. My family had stayed in the same city in Australia since the mid-1800s, so there was lots of first-hand information back that far. One of the branches on my mother's side is from the Isle of Man, which has good records back to the 1600s.

@JanMurphy I was lucky: my aunt (dad's sister) actually wrote two books about that side of the family, and my mother has always been interested in the family tree. I got into it as a way of mother-daughter bonding, since Mum doesn't use computers or the internet.

@JanMurphy I take it there are no other living relatives you can ask?

Now that we are finally settled in our new house, I might have time to go back and work out what is left to dig out in my trees. I feel like I've already picked all the low-hanging fruit of what can be worked out from Ancestry and FamilySearch.

@JanMurphy That's a pity. I'm kind of lucky that I already had good first-hand information back to the late 19th century because my own family's generations are so long. My grandparents were all born in the late 19th century and my grandmothers were both still alive when I was young (I'm now 45), so we already had pretty complete information back to the mid-19th century.

@JanMurphy The 1911 UK Census did the same thing, but by then it was actually quite hard to find the infant deaths, because babies weren't necessarily christened within the first few days of birth. Civil birth registrations aren't easy to trace by parent.

Interestingly this was the same family that had a strong thread of unusual first names - six generations of Sibella and "Underhill" as a first name.

This was in the late 18th century

When child mortality was so high, it was common for families to re-use given names if the previous one with that name had already died. One family in my mother-in-law's tree had two Johns, two Charleses and three Thomases amongst their 14 children.

@JanMurphy I suspect it was the 19th century, when families were larger and people had to use more names.

I did the same thing: my son's first name is a name we liked, and his two middle names are from his two grandfathers

@JanMurphy It's pretty clear things shift more frequently now. People name their kids to be unusual or because they think a name is pretty. Middle names more often carry the family connection now.

I should probably fill in more details on my sources but you can see how it works from the screenshot.