ITT: tools for high IQ people
one tool that blew my mind when I studied multimedia was Mathlab, that shit's OP as hellI want my child to live the maths fueled future that I unknowingly cockblocked myself fromI was top dog at maths, even when I barely studied (I still studied and did homework though) and was smoking hash on the breaks. For reference I beat both the class nerd and the token chinese class nerd at maths.
>>16973015now I just realised the cool graph part most of it can be don by wolfram alphapretty sure wolfram can't do in-detail image manipulation though, image manipulation is hella cool 2bh
>>16973108I've created similar menus in C# it was relatively easy, just fucking characters and pseudo characters (spaces, shapes which take a char's space), bg color and font color. what you can do with that is mind blowing, not to mention the beauty of enriched ascii art, fuck I have to dive in that world again if only for pure enjoyment
pretty sure it can do more than I know, but based in my experience, it can give you 2D and 3D algebraic representations and yes that includes ebin 3D graphics derived from x y z formulashttps://www.wolframalpha.com/
>>16973024Wolfram can definitely do image manipulation, I use it for basically all my graphing, animations, etc.
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https://idris-community.github.io/idris2-tutorial/Preface.html
Is Mathematica worth buying for learning, personal use and individual productivity?Or is more of an "if your employer or university doesn't use it too don't bother" type of tool?The features sound appealing but I'm unsure whether it is worth investing the time and money when I can just keep using Julia.
>>16972994Tools are made to do a job, being smart is not a job or a purpose.What exactly do you want to do?
>>16974190It is basically lisp but good. Notebook interface is polished and great.
>>16973533To add to this, the Uni Kuru Toga Advance mechanical pencils. They have a mechanism that, when the lead is pressed and released, rotates the lead slightly (I think I counted 20° on the earlier Roulette model where you can see an indicator icon) so that it stays even and sharp. I own a few of them (5 I think), had them for years, went through many lead refills without issues, and love them. Only problem is the erasers are tiny, you cannot find a satisfactory 3rd party replacement, they wear down fast, and are not cheap, so make sure to have some other external eraser like a Sakura Arch (another high-IQ tool) on hand. I once measured one of the erasers with calipers and bought a box of tiny erasers by Mr. Pen that were supposedly the same size. They were 0.001" undersized and fit loosely, not to mention that they're also too long and have to be cut down to 2/5 to fit properly lengthwise. 1/2 is too long, the end cap will still fit, but they pull out of the end of the pencil when you try to erase due to the way they bend with so much leverage on the end.I still have a box of 97 of these god damn things that I can't use comfortably. It was only like $5, but still, I don't like to waste things so I can't bring myself to throw them away. I don't really know what to do to make them useful. I no longer have a whole machine shop at my disposal to make a holder just for them, or I would have a nice aluminum handle that could fit at least 5 of them in the barrel and a mechanism to push them out as they wear. I just don't know anymore. My life is in shambles.tldr: these mechanical pencils are a joy to write with!
>>16974409I respect and admire the autism required to make such a long effortpost about a fucking pencil
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>>16976567engies use LaTex tho, don't they?
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>>16974190>Is Mathematica worth buyingNo.>Or is more of an "if your employer or university doesn't use it too don't bother" type of tool?This one.To be up front, I absolutely loved using Mathematica to do data analysis and make figures for research papers when I've been a student and faculty member at institutions that have it. It's a solid system with a lot of great tools and I found its syntax to be very straightforward compared to coding in Fortran, C, and if I'm being honest even Python at times... BUT, a legitimate license or subscription is obscenely expensive (last I checked, even with academic discounts it was still ~$200/yr for students, ~$2K for an individual perpetual license, and ~$20K/yr for a site license at a small college). You can get away with using a cracked copy for personal use, but WR and companies like it can and do frequently put pressure on journals to retract articles if they suspect someone of using unlicensed versions of their software to produce figures or generate results... so, yeah, Python it is.Frankly, it's baffling to me that Wolfram doesn't price their software more reasonably or is at least less anal about enforcement. Back in the day when Flash was a thing, everyone openly acknowledged that 99% of the content on sites like Newgrounds was being made with cracked versions, but Macromedia/Adobe didn't really do much about it because they recognized it was good advertising for their product and they still made a solid profit getting schools with art or game design programs to shell out for site licenses.
what's best for 3d algebraic representations?
>>16979785I heard R is king of shit like 2d maps and so, maybe that'd make sense. anyone here knows?
>>16973533I prefer to paint on cave walls instead.
>>16982248I had a time where I picked some poisonous kind of berries that could be used for ink, they "worked" but the ink degraded with the time after some time on the paper. my assumption was that I needed to do some process like drying the berry first or some bullshit
>>16974811You should see the FAQ that was rapidly built until the mods killed the ppgh general.
>>16972994APLs
There can be no replacements. Maybe SICStus Prolog?
>>16974409lol, just use a regular pencil at that point.
>>16972994
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>>16991870I was in awe at the capabilities of matlab back in uniwhat do /sci/ence people use it for? I recall we used it for digital imaging post processing, aka photoshop for nerds
>>16974409Pencils are for people who make mistakes. I only use pen. I don't make mistakes.
>>16991933Me too. I've been playing life on iron man for 15 years now. The idea is: as soon as you make the tiniest mistake, kill yourself. That ensures you will only experience timelines where you succeed first time every time.
>>16973108Only based post itt, proprietary is automatically trash
