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Who do you mean? The author of the tweet is Levent Alpöge, who does not have a PhD in math from Cambridge... but does have a PhD in math from Princeton. And his advisor was Fields …

You could do the same thing with a Markdown file, but I wouldn't call it simpler than Org. Maybe by simple you meant "familiar to more people"?

Emacs can run external processes asynchronously. It is true that Emacs locks up while updating packages but it is actually not while downloading or unpacking them! It locks up whil…

You replied to the wrong person, then.

But Iverson bracket notation does not occur in APL: you don't need (and cannot use) the brackets there.

Probably the same reason in algebra people went from using "plus" to "p." to "+": for readability.

> feel a little exhausted just thinking about needing to be on 14 different chat networks. You do not need to be on all 14 to find Beeper useful! Even if you only use a few you mig…

And people wishing to delve even deeper switch back to R? I don't use it, but I understood that most advanced techniques in statistics are implemented first, and sometimes only, as…

> As the link shows, the syntax section of the Vim manual offers suggestions to increase speed on slow computers for all syntax categories, tex being one of them. That does not mea…

I was using a third-party plugin for markdown (I think it was called pandoc.vim), but for LaTeX files I was using only plugins that come with Vim. The documentation in :help tex-sl…

Taking notes in math courses in Vim on a netbook (remember those?) is what made me switch to Emacs! I tried taking notes both in LaTeX and in Markdown with syntax highlighting for …

My impression is that all of those are fads, we jsut haven't seen VS Code fade way yet, like the others have. I've used Emacs throughout all of those fads, seems easier than switch…

I wouldn't characterize languages in the K family as particularly focused on math. They have vectors, but do not have matrices or higher dimensional arrays, they don't have a built…

Wow, this looks so much harder than simply running GUI Emacs.

I think if you do write something in Rust it is customary to mention it to avoid getting tons of suggestions to rewrite it in Rust.

In my opinion, the language that comes closest to K's functionality and is also understandable by mere mortals is K itself. It is obviously extremely close to K's functionality and…

In what sense is @\: folding? Doesn't it take a list of functions on the left and a thing on the right, and returns the list of values obtained by applying each function to the thi…

Briefly: yes, you generate lots of temporary arrays, but it is not slow because it often allows the use of vector instructions and parallelism, it can be faster than a constant-mem…

> I think they are called colloquialisms Close, they are called "idioms". > +|x The plus should be an asterisk, but yes, that is an idiom the ngn/k interpreter recognizes.

I think (-.*/~)2}.i.100 is a little more idiomatic.

Yup, UIUA is Polish notation rather than Reverse Polish notation.

Most of the websites I interact with are either very interactive web apps which have no hope of working without JavaScript or are basically made up of text documents I want to read…

This looks great! I think I have access to most of these features already, but for people who don't this seems like an easy way to get it all in one package. Grouping browser tabs …

> thankfully there are tools to convert LaTeX to MathML For example MathJax!

Woah! Chrome finally added support for MathML! I had no idea, apparently it landed in January of this year.