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bmf

Sun 16:51

Another reasoning is that it could be that we are reaching the critical point that MmaSE has completed its circle; almost anything but special cases have been answered

bmf

Sun 16:50

@Nasser That's interesting. It could be as you say that people move to python due to greater applicability; there are a lot of STEM Ph.Ds, postdocs, and even professors who leave academia for data science and related fields. It could, also, be that due to a lot of questions being closed as duplicates or simple mistakes new users misinterpret this as a punishment and are more reluctant to post questions.

bmf

Fri 14:42

I had a quick look at the thread with the undocumented functions and there is no mention there. Would you like to update the thread with an answer or do you want to ask a fresh question?
All undocumented stuff should be publicly available :-)

bmf

Thu 16:21

I did not recognise it as a pool ball, mainly because of the font. This is the same point that Michael raised. I have never seen any billiard balls with that particular font.

bmf

Feb 12 16:36

@Szabolcs yes, they do from a quick check I did

bmf

Feb 12 13:28

@Szabolcs if I understand correctly what you want perhaps the following does the trick

matrix = RandomReal[10, {3, 3}]
% // MatrixForm
LinearAlgebra`Private`SetMatrixDiagonal[matrix,
Array[0 &, Length[matrix]]] // MatrixForm
LinearAlgebra`Private`AddVectorToMatrixDiagonal[
matrix, -Diagonal[matrix]] // MatrixForm

bmf

Feb 12 10:25

@user21 that's the best approach I think. explaining to a person some basic facts about the colours on the avatar, plus some of its interpretations etc. as you said education is the best weapon in our quivers

bmf

Feb 11 16:08

@JimB Yes, your description is more fitting to be honest.

bmf

Feb 11 15:16

My comment was a bit more general though. It's not only the job of the mods to say something about things like that. The rest of the members have opinions I believe

bmf

Feb 11 15:15

@xzczd thanks for the answer. There are some other codes that have been being used in this context. One of said numerics, involves the numbers 1 and 11, which are the letters A and K.

bmf

Feb 10 14:59

I left a comment, but deleted that because no other member seems to have a problem and since nobody is bothered it seems to be completely off-topic.

bmf

Feb 10 14:58

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bmf

Feb 10 14:58

Am I the only person who finds the avatar weird?

bmf

Feb 10 14:58

Hey people, quick question

bmf

Oct 10, 2024 00:42

Does any of you have severe time limitations? I am asking such that I know how to vote and don't make anyone face an inconvenient situation

bmf

Oct 10, 2024 00:41

Out of respect to both users I want to ask the following

bmf

Oct 10, 2024 00:40

Huge thanks to @E. Chan-López and @ubpdqn for nominating themselves, such that things run smoothly

bmf

Jul 10, 2024 01:52

@C.E. thanks for sending the link :-)

bmf

Jul 7, 2024 00:35

I was reading on the Physics stack and as I was checking an answer I saw an interesting name "Stack Exchange Supports Israel" and decided to check the profile of the user. There's an interesting claim "After an incident on the Politics sub-forum, Stack Exchange staff have clarified that Palestine support is banned network-wide."

Does anyone know what's happened? What is described is complete lack of freedom of speech and the definition of stupidity in my opinion. And I am not even mentioning an active support to genocide

bmf

Jun 10, 2024 10:26

@C.E. Thanks for your input. I do recognize that the author indeed tried to provide a genuinely helpful answer, I was unsure about the rules of the site pertaining to such answers

bmf

Jun 10, 2024 07:05

I am asking, because I am little confused. Are we accepting answers based on pseudo-code?
https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/42745/generating-gelfand-tsetlin-patterns/303942#303942

bmf

Feb 23, 2024 09:19

@user21 no reason for apologies at all. I just mentioned it, because I read it in the description and thought it to be a hard-cutoff rule to support people from those countries. Anyway, all is well and good luck to all those who apply :-)

bmf

Feb 22, 2024 11:50

@user21 For me at least that was the reasonable translation. I did not understand that it meant all nationalities, but work remotely from these countries.

bmf

Feb 22, 2024 11:49

@user21 I was referring to what Nasser observed as well. The way it was written I understood it as certain nationalities. That's all.

bmf

Feb 21, 2024 11:20

@user21 perhaps you should also mention that the job is for specific nationalities so people know about this

bmf

Dec 31, 2023 14:54

Happy new year to all. Best wishes!

bmf

Dec 24, 2023 05:51

Happy holidays everyone!

bmf

Dec 23, 2023 14:15

@Nasser it's probably a generation-related thing. I am only saying this because I have an increasing struggle to make students write down equations, they seem to be under the delusion that they understand physics so well and can express everything so perfectly that they don't need anything else other than vague, verbal arguments. And I do believe that this is internet related or chatgpt related or inspired by these trends.

bmf

Dec 11, 2023 08:38

@Tim I saw your message. Thanks for the offer, but I am looking for something else at the moment

bmf

Dec 7, 2023 06:56

false alarm

bmf

Dec 7, 2023 06:46

Has anyone tried to install physik.uzh.ch/data/HPL on a macbook with apple silicon?

bmf

Dec 5, 2023 06:16

@Kuba my brain is severely damaged during postdoc applications... XD

bmf

Dec 5, 2023 05:49

@Kuba thanks for letting me know. I was curious because I know you and the other mods usually leave an explanatory comment. in any case, it was just some stupid curiosity that's all :-)

bmf

Dec 4, 2023 13:42

Usually when mods remove comments they leave some explanatory reasons

bmf

Dec 4, 2023 13:41

Does anyone know why some comments were deleted in this answer of mine?
https://mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/293501/why-does-mathematica-not-recognize-a-convergent-series/293505#293505

bmf

Sep 16, 2023 13:48

@LukasLang yes, thank you. That's what I forgot to do....

bmf

Sep 15, 2023 06:24

I don't recall reading a polygon reduction algorithm. Sorry

bmf

Sep 15, 2023 06:02

while this ((a*b)/c)^5 /. (a_^n_.*b_^n_.)/c_^n_. :> (1/x)^n does not

bmf

Sep 15, 2023 06:02

It is just me or the following is weird?
This works fine: (a*b)^5 /. a_^n_.*b_^n_. :> (1/x)^n

bmf

Mar 15, 2023 08:02

@MichaelE2 and now you broke the streak :P

Discussion on question by onepound: H…

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bmf

Feb 25, 2023 19:59

@MichaelE2 you said that it is obvious that the residue at $z=0$ is sought but the code in the OP reads Residue[(n/z/(z^n - 1)), {z, 1}]. Am I being that stupid here? Yes, I am being that stupid because I followed the comments and missed the original point. Thanks for spotting this :-)

bmf

Feb 25, 2023 19:59

Finally, as a comment: it is worthwhile noting that following the approach suggested in the link answer by Carl Woll the result agrees with what @Artes suggested from a quick check that I performed.

bmf

Feb 25, 2023 19:59

@Artes this is something related to your question about assumptions in taking residues 180179. I hope you'll find this interesting.

bmf

Feb 25, 2023 19:59

to the author of the O.P: can you clarify what you mean in light of all the comments? What value do you want $n$ to be and do you want the residue at $z=0$ or $z=1$?

Discussion between bmf and Red Banana

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bmf

Feb 25, 2023 15:31

@Syed yup. agreed :-)

bmf

Feb 25, 2023 15:28

otherwise our solutions do the trick with yours preserving the structure since you don't Flatten

bmf

Feb 25, 2023 15:28

probably something like: pick whatever is f and its derivatives

bmf

Feb 25, 2023 15:27

@Syed it is possible that this is a typo in the OP from the discussion here

bmf

Feb 25, 2023 15:26

yes, I did. sorry. it's obviously getting too late here. I deleted my comments to avoid spamming your OP

bmf

Feb 25, 2023 15:25

did I misunderstand?