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batterylow

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About batterylow

contact(at)polyra(dot)com Founder at https://PlotAPI.com and https://DataCrayon.com

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    It was often brought up in conversations with universities and their libraries - having them made things more convenient. The books were selling for a year or so without ISBNs, no …

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    Things like this are why I purchased some ISBNs and self-publish/distribute. The books (e.g.:Data Analysis with Rust Notebooks[1] and Practical Evolutionary Algorithms[2]) are doin…

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    Similar for the PlotAPI docs [1] which are all Jupyter notebooks! [1] https://plotapi.com/docs/

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    Pen plotters are great fun. I set mine up a while ago - a slightly cheaper setup than most https://shahinrostami.com/articles/my-pen-plotter-setup/

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    I run a plotting/visualization library. Instead of a time-limited trial, we have just one of the plot types (Sankey) freely available indefinitely ( https://plotapi.com/page/sankey…

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    Yes! I need to test it on some devices first, then re-register as a play store dev.

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    My daughter wanted an app like this that would help her with sheet music, so that was enough motivation! I was tinkering with Unity at the time, so I thought I’d use it to make fut…

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    Nice analysis and visualisation! I used a Pareto approach for my exercise and a project I’m working on - https://limitgym.com

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    I used to write long and technical blog posts. I think it's unlikely someone will go out there way to give you negative feedback, i.e. not constructive. My motivation came from my …

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    It doesn't work for me on Safari, macOS, M1: "Error: WebGPU not supported". WebGL pixels works in the same browser, e.g.: https://plotapi.com/docs/visualizations/terminus/#default-…

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    Official Rust book is great. If you want to give Rust a go through Jupyter Notebooks, check out https://datacrayon.com/data-analysis-with-rust-notebooks/set...

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    > Could you elaborate on why you switched away from it? I started using KaTeX sometime after 2015 because it promised to be fast (the fastest! [1]). I had to change the representat…

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    I was using KaTeX for a while on DataCrayon (e.g. https://datacrayon.com/practical-evolutionary-algorithms/pop... ), but recently switched to server-side rendering with MathJax. I'…

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    Nice project! I was gifted a pen plotter [1] a while ago and have enjoyed it so far. I would love to build one that supports larger pieces. [1] https://shahinrostami.com/articles/m…

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    I made a VESA mount for my iPad [1]. It wasn't exactly brain surgery [2], but I thought it was cool! [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jMZtt37vgY [2] https://www.youtube.com/wat…

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    > The major change is building the Jupyter Notebook 7 interface with JupyterLab components so that the two applications share a common codebase and extension system. This is intere…

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    The one I was gifted ( https://shahinrostami.com/articles/my-pen-plotter-setup/ ) will have been more affordable https://idrawpenplotter.com

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    Looks great! I was gifted a pen plotter 6 months ago and wrote a short post on my setup and workflow https://shahinrostami.com/articles/my-pen-plotter-setup/

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    https://shahinrostami.com I used to write about evolutionary computation, data science, and other tech bits. I'm on my sabbatical right now and mostly writing pieces with no real c…

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    I’ve just relaunched https://shahinrostami.com after spending a little too long writing the static site generator that now generates it. That, and https://datacrayon.com , have bee…