I take notes in LaTeX, using EMACS. I find I can keep up with any math class. Diagrams are a problem, so what I do is keep a composition book for supplementary material. Then, on my LaTeX notes I can say "see sketch 1 in composition book, 7 Feb 2010." But, you need to use trial and error, find what works for you, and do that. I find if I take notes by hand, I run the risk of falling asleep. LaTeXing the notes is fun, produces a good finished product, plus I check the.tex into SVN and one of my colleagues will compare against his handwritten notes and make corrections. Plus, I would lose things that aren't version controlled, including most of my handwritten notes:)
1) Learn Emacs 2) Learn the AucTeX shortcuts 3) AucTeX has a mode called latex-math-mode. This gives you quick shortcuts for entering the Greek letters and some common set notation 4) Create your own Emacs macros 5) Create your own LaTeX commands
For example: \newcommand\probspace{(\Omega, \mathcal{F}, \mathbb{P})} will be helpful if you are taking notes in probability.
I have used this combination of tools and I can take notes in real-time in most math classes.
> very possible TeX does an awful lot more than that.
Very possible? I would say more like established fact. For example, can you embed R code in a Word document to produce research papers such that exact code that generated every number, chart, and table in the paper is in the same document as the writeup (reproducible research). You can with LaTeX with Sweave ( http://www.stat.umn.edu/~charlie/Sweave/ ).
And that is one of MANY things LaTeX can do that Word cannot.
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>That's crazy. Universities don't teach programming languages except as tools to teach more important concepts.
I wish that was the case. I attend the University of Washington, and am in their computer science program. They have just transitioned their entire department to Java. Yes, they do teach general concepts, but most of your time is wasted making "cute little interfaces" in Swing/Java2D. In a perfect computer science class, the implementation language wouldn't matter as long the algorithm you wanted to implement was implementable.
I am planning on writing some letters to the UW computer science department telling them that this was a bad idea. Languages like Java, although they show the OOP paradigm, are so high level that they do not lead to a good understanding of things. The TA for my computer science class, wasn't sure if things were passed by value or reference in Java. That is partially her fault, but also her education's fault for choosing a language that lends itself to not understanding what is going on.
Another thing I dislike about college computer science is that everything operates under the implicit assumtion that OOP is the paradigm to end all paradigms, and that there is not a better way to solve a problem than with objects.
But, back to the point. Most Universities, assuming from my experience at UW, waste a lot of time on the cruft of Java or other high level languages to make GUI's and displays for algorithms that are generally simple and understandable.
I had no idea that I had to REGISTER to read an NYTimes article. NOBODY has ever pointed that out before. If you had put something like (free reg. blah blah) after the article, I would have thought to my self, "Oh! I have to register.". But you didn't!........
Seriously, thanks for not mentioning for the 10^n'th time that NYTimes requires free registration. I think we've all figured it out by now.
It had bugs...Dang, that's too bad. Of course, good software has no bugs, and anybody who says differently obviously has no idea what they're talking about.;)
Then how come mac's come standard with 1 button? Most OS's, including MS, assumes their user base is smart enough to handle 2, and the unix community is often trusted with 3 whole buttons. So, we must be 3 times as smart! Woohoo!
Ford's produce the most reliable cars out there. Maybe from the view of website domain name choices, and where to point them, they are not agreeable. But when I see a souped up Honda Civic, using it's "high output" 1.6 liter VTEC, and laugh because my '68 Mustang will kill it in any race. Ford may not be the best in this (court) case, but I hope the general consesus of the slashdot community isn't support for all those rice-burning Civic's, Integra's, Eclipses. Yuck!
Actually, I could almost make the case that Ford engines are much more "open" and easier to work on then their Asian, difficult to work on (read "closed") counterparts, but that's a whole other post...
I am fairly experienced with some types of programming, mainly small perl utilities to manage servers, server deployment, website testing, etc. Also a fair amount of C++ for my computer science classes I am taking at a local community college (BCC). A problem I am running into right now is how to structure a fairly large program. I have had one-liners grow into month-long, mulit-perl-module scripts. Now, I know advance planning would have been better, but are there books/websites/tutorials that can guide you on how to stucture a scalable program? I know, experience has helped me, but some other medium would provide a good reference. What's out there?
I'm on a modem for a few weeks and downloading countless megs of mail viruses is extremely frusterating. Course I'm still getting sircams.
If you use the IMAP protocol and set your client to just download the headers, using email over a modem becomes much faster. And since with IMAP, everything is synchronized, you don't have to worry about having to maintain multiple copies of your inbox, and worry about which message is where. (Come on, haven't we all forgotten to check that "leave copy of message on server" box when we use a new pop client?)
If you're worried about maintaining an IMAP server, just use sortonce.com. I've been using them and they're pretty cool. They are reliable, and scan for viruses and spam so you don't have to worry about stuff like this anyway. They are in preview mode right now, so if you sign up, I believe you get a free enhanced (SSL and global authenticated SMTP!) account for a year.
They have a web front end too, at mail.sortonce.com which is pretty nice as well.
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I take notes in LaTeX, using EMACS. I find I can keep up with any math class. Diagrams are a problem, so what I do is keep a composition book for supplementary material. Then, on my LaTeX notes I can say "see sketch 1 in composition book, 7 Feb 2010." But, you need to use trial and error, find what works for you, and do that. I find if I take notes by hand, I run the risk of falling asleep. LaTeXing the notes is fun, produces a good finished product, plus I check the .tex into SVN and one of my colleagues will compare against his handwritten notes and make corrections. Plus, I would lose things that aren't version controlled, including most of my handwritten notes :)
1) Learn Emacs
2) Learn the AucTeX shortcuts
3) AucTeX has a mode called latex-math-mode. This gives you quick shortcuts for entering the Greek letters and some common set notation
4) Create your own Emacs macros
5) Create your own LaTeX commands
For example:
\newcommand\probspace{(\Omega, \mathcal{F}, \mathbb{P})}
will be helpful if you are taking notes in probability.
I have used this combination of tools and I can take notes in real-time in most math classes.
I thought surely IBM would provide an engineering-quality display @ > 116 PPI, but if they do, I can't find it
The IBM T221 would work. T221
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> very possible TeX does an awful lot more than that.
Very possible? I would say more like established fact. For example, can you embed R code in a Word document to produce research papers such that exact code that generated every number, chart, and table in the paper is in the same document as the writeup (reproducible research). You can with LaTeX with Sweave ( http://www.stat.umn.edu/~charlie/Sweave/ ).
And that is one of MANY things LaTeX can do that Word cannot.
Care to post the list? That would be quite helpful for me and others as well.
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'No wonder this circuit failed. It says "Made in Japan"' - Dr. Emmet Brown, 1955.
I wish that was the case. I attend the University of Washington, and am in their computer science program. They have just transitioned their entire department to Java. Yes, they do teach general concepts, but most of your time is wasted making "cute little interfaces" in Swing/Java2D. In a perfect computer science class, the implementation language wouldn't matter as long the algorithm you wanted to implement was implementable. I am planning on writing some letters to the UW computer science department telling them that this was a bad idea. Languages like Java, although they show the OOP paradigm, are so high level that they do not lead to a good understanding of things. The TA for my computer science class, wasn't sure if things were passed by value or reference in Java. That is partially her fault, but also her education's fault for choosing a language that lends itself to not understanding what is going on. Another thing I dislike about college computer science is that everything operates under the implicit assumtion that OOP is the paradigm to end all paradigms, and that there is not a better way to solve a problem than with objects. But, back to the point. Most Universities, assuming from my experience at UW, waste a lot of time on the cruft of Java or other high level languages to make GUI's and displays for algorithms that are generally simple and understandable.
I had no idea that I had to REGISTER to read an NYTimes article. NOBODY has ever pointed that out before. If you had put something like (free reg. blah blah) after the article, I would have thought to my self, "Oh! I have to register.". But you didn't! ........
Seriously, thanks for not mentioning for the 10^n'th time that NYTimes requires free registration. I think we've all figured it out by now.
It had bugs...Dang, that's too bad. Of course, good software has no bugs, and anybody who says differently obviously has no idea what they're talking about.
Actually, I could almost make the case that Ford engines are much more "open" and easier to work on then their Asian, difficult to work on (read "closed") counterparts, but that's a whole other post...
~Stephen
Just email Brendan and he'll tell you where to download the software.
(This is being done so that we can manage the size of the community.)
He might be getting a bit more email than he had hoped for...
I am fairly experienced with some types of programming, mainly small perl utilities to manage servers, server deployment, website testing, etc. Also a fair amount of C++ for my computer science classes I am taking at a local community college (BCC). A problem I am running into right now is how to structure a fairly large program. I have had one-liners grow into month-long, mulit-perl-module scripts. Now, I know advance planning would have been better, but are there books/websites/tutorials that can guide you on how to stucture a scalable program? I know, experience has helped me, but some other medium would provide a good reference. What's out there?
~Stephen
Too bad; a machine like this with a modern CPU and display would rock.
Sounds like you've got a potential project....:)
~Steve
If you use the IMAP protocol and set your client to just download the headers, using email over a modem becomes much faster. And since with IMAP, everything is synchronized, you don't have to worry about having to maintain multiple copies of your inbox, and worry about which message is where. (Come on, haven't we all forgotten to check that "leave copy of message on server" box when we use a new pop client?)
If you're worried about maintaining an IMAP server, just use sortonce.com. I've been using them and they're pretty cool. They are reliable, and scan for viruses and spam so you don't have to worry about stuff like this anyway. They are in preview mode right now, so if you sign up, I believe you get a free enhanced (SSL and global authenticated SMTP!) account for a year.
They have a web front end too, at mail.sortonce.com which is pretty nice as well.
~Stephen
>There are security problems in EVERY OS.
:)
Have you ever used OpenBSD?
4 years without a remote hold in the default install! Not bad if you ask me....
~Stephen
BEGIN OFF TOPICNESS HERE: hey Alex, lan party? when?
END OFF TOPICNESS.
Sorry, lost his phone number.....
So, the term Grok has came into common usage. A friend at church, during a talk, said, my friends can't grok,...err..., understand this principal.
;)
~Steve
PS - just had to get something insightful. Hoping for fp!
At work, our @HOME T-1 was fine, but DNS was down. Hope that my dsl provider won't mind if I borrow the use of their server for a bit...
~Steve