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Re:Textual Paint – MS Paint in your terminal on Tuesday July 25, 2023 @11:33AM (#36863819)
I started a library for this a while ago (using rich):

https://github.com/mahrz24/netext

Recently I tried to adopt it to textual as well: https://twitter.com/mahrz24/status/1679816272509386753?s=46&...

Got to 1200, but am still surprised how easily Portoguese can be mistaken for a slavonic language. And the Bosnian/Croatian samples are really not that easy to distinguish. It would really be cool if the scores somehow reflected this, maybe depending on your native language... not sure what a good scoring system would be here.
Most probably the minister of foreign affairs would be coming from the green party in such a case. Though that might change their rethoric a bit.
Re:PhD vs Startup on Sunday May 26, 2013 @04:18AM (#5770448)
I agree with that, except for the lost income, this recent study [1] showed that your lifetime earnings will quite likely be more if get a PhD (not accounting for tuition, not sure about it then). I think that the differences are so marginal in the end, that it should not be money that decides whether you want to go for a PhD or not ...

[1] http://www9.georgetown.edu/grad/gppi/hpi/cew/pdfs/collegepay...

Re:Physicist proposes new way to think about intelligence on Saturday April 20, 2013 @03:21AM (#5580658)
After a quick glance, this sounds a lot like information theoretic empowerment, which has been around for more than five years:

http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjourna...

https://uhra.herts.ac.uk/dspace/bitstream/2299/6712/1/901919...

https://uhra.herts.ac.uk/dspace/bitstream/2299/9659/1/ContiP...

Also the concept of homeokinesis is quite similar and also not quoted in this work:

http://www.informatik.uni-leipzig.de/~der/Forschung/homeoki....

But only for municipal elections in some federal states. For state elections it is 18 in all federal states except for Bremen where the voting age is also 16.

However, there are students at school that are already 18, so I can see the problem here. Though it seems that it was caused by a misconfigured filter and clearly lack of intent.

Re:Writing a CV in LaTeX on Saturday April 28, 2012 @06:54AM (#3902645)
> typesetting and typography done in html is far superior

Did I miss the irony somewhere? Last time I checked (justified) line breaking was a mess, protrusion is not supported and generally it's quite hard to handle font metrics without using a canvas. I guess you're right that this is changing, but it's nowhere near the quality and the ease (yes even that) of TeX or InDesign. And if you use some content preprocessor like pandoc or xslt the limitation of static information on paper isn't a problem anyway.

Btw, if you like to have more control over the layout have a look at ConTeXt, it's quite nice especially its modular approach.

Re:Typed Set Theory in C++11 on Monday March 12, 2012 @06:43AM (#3692960)
Boost MPL provides similar things with its type_list (more on the practical side though). But as far as I know, it's not yet C++11, so the overall syntax is a bit more clumsy.
Looks quite interesting. Is there any way to export incanter charts as TikZ based figures to include them in LateX documents?