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Comment · 6 years ago
Seeing how that kid went about that problem, seeing how interested he seems, makes me want to teach. It's impressive how natural the discussion was with the kid, the two were on exactly the same page throughout the entire discussion. This video doesn't really show that all kids can get this interested in math, but it does show that for the right kids, of which I suspect there are a substantial number, we can be teaching concepts much much earlier.
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Comment · 7 years ago
OP here, this is just a tool I wanted because I often find myself wanting to send a small equation or two to friends, and couldn't find anything online that could do that. Everything is wrapped in a \begin{align} ... \end{align} (even though I haven't really made that clear...)
Comment · 7 years ago
IMO when anything is rewritten (usually in a modern language), it's faster than the original implementation. That's usually because you have much better hindsight since the entire implementation is finished before the rewrite is started.

I'm sure the more modern languages also help though, but I don't think that using a modern language is the major reason for the speedup.

Comment · 7 years ago
This looks really cool! Is it a coincidence that this has the same name as the Aphex Twin song?
Comment · 7 years ago
Sorry, I meant that the chemical makeup of beef is distinct from that of plants. I wasn't referring to additives. I meant the proteins/enzymes, etc.
Comment · 7 years ago
1. Surely there are other chemical compounds that are present in the fast food meats and not the plant based meats, and vice versa, but that aren’t listed in the article’s table.

2. The plant-based meats are intended to imitate real meat as much as possible, and I would imagine an intuitive way to do this is to include the same amount of ingredients as on the table presented.

3. “Healthiness” is probably unfortunately best measured through a large and well intentioned study, and not objectively by comparing a limited list of ingredients.

Comment · 7 years ago
I have no background in quantum anything at all, just cs & some undergrad math, and I found this article and the one preceding it extremely accessible.
Comment · 7 years ago
I still sometimes have the A<esc> anti-pattern. It's slowly been disappearing since I added gl. The kakoune keybindings were designed with a lot of thought behind them. They seem extremely natural.

Also, I meant to say that the my replacements for 0, $, gg, and G are gh, gl, gk, gj. 'g' for 'go' and 'hjkl' for the standard up, down, left, or right.

Comment · 7 years ago
Using kakoune for the first time made me understand how much better the vim keybindings could be. I switched the weird begin & end of line navigations (0 and $) to (gl and gr) as they are in Kakoune, and I also added the move view (v* in kakoune) commands to vim.

Also my goodness having built-in multiple cursors is fantastic. Kakoune multiple cursors is much much better than the vim plugins for multiple cursors.

As other people have said though, there are some plugins that have yet to be ported to kakoune. iirc smooth scrolling (comfortable-motion) and vim-wiki to name the ones that come to my mind.

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