http://valis.cs.uiuc.edu/blog Sariel's blog Mon, 23 Nov 2009 03:43:18 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en In Indiana university. You can tell they really want somebody in algorithms because it is listed in the bottom of the list. It is also a good place for breaking away if you know how to bike. http://valis.cs.uiuc.edu/blog/?p=3188 http://valis.cs.uiuc.edu/blog/?p=3082 The fact remains that getting people right is not what living is all about anyway. It's getting them wrong that is living, getting them wrong and wrong and wrong and then, on careful reconsideration, getting them wrong again. That's how we known we're alive: we're wrong. Maybe the best thing ... http://valis.cs.uiuc.edu/blog/?p=3075 See here. http://valis.cs.uiuc.edu/blog/?p=3073 I just bought a new superzoom lens (the Tamron 18-270) since my old one stopped working. It has a pretty amazing range. Here is an example from today. See the bus? No? Let me zoom in: (The picture was taken while standing in one place and only zooming in and out.) Real photographers will ... http://valis.cs.uiuc.edu/blog/?p=3025 I currently use ipe for my drawings - it has a good integration with latex, views, layers, etc. Some "people" use it even to make complete presentations. In the last few decades Otfried Cheong had repeatedly spoken about the upcoming new version of ipe (totally rewritten from scratch using Cobol) ... http://valis.cs.uiuc.edu/blog/?p=3005 Emacs can remember your location in the file you are editing, so next time you open it, emacs jumps to your old location. Put in your .emacs: ;;; Save place in buffer (setq save-place-file "~/.emacs.d/saveplace") ;; keep my ~/ clean (setq-default save-place t) ... http://valis.cs.uiuc.edu/blog/?p=2996 Imagine there's no universities It's easy if you try No high school below us Above us only ignorance Imagine all the people Living for today... Imagine there's no journals It isn't hard to do Nothing to write or submit for And no conferences too Imagine all the people Living life in peace... Imagine no rejections I wonder if you can No need for grants ... http://valis.cs.uiuc.edu/blog/?p=2984 It is sometime useful to have enumerate inside a paragraph, because: (i) it looks better, (ii) it is shorter, and (iii) its cool. Especially as the regular itemize/enumerate environments in latex take too much space. Anyway, an easy way to achieve this is to use the paralist package in latex. You ... http://valis.cs.uiuc.edu/blog/?p=2978 See here. That is all. http://valis.cs.uiuc.edu/blog/?p=2972