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2015-01-31

• 19:22 UTC (new) (history) 2015-01-31 The Return of the King . . . . Marcin Borkowski – I watched fragments of Peter Jackson’s The Return of the King yesterday. I almost forgot how good that book is, and how bad that movie was. Still, there were a few scenes which were quite powerful.

2015-01-30

• 17:29 UTC (new) (history) Komentarz - 2015-01-21 Tree Edit Distance . . . . Michał Jarząbek – "As a side note: many of my fellows working in mathematical analysis seem to be thinking that algorithms/programming/graphs/combinatorics are trivial . . .

2015-01-21

• 21:32 UTC (new) (history) 2015-01-21 Tree Edit Distance . . . . Marcin Borkowski – Today I attended a very interesting lecture on so-called tree edit distance. The lecturer, Mateusz Pawlik, who graduated from my university, has recently earned his PhD at Free University of Bozen-Bolzano in Italy and is currently working at Salzburg.

2015-01-17

• 23:28 UTC (new) (history) 2015-01-17 A quick-and-dirty hack with a dollar sign . . . . Marcin Borkowski – I sometimes yank some fragments of text into my LaTeX files. This creates some problems, which can be more or less easily solved by query-replace and friends. The real problem is with math formulae. In general, anyone expecting that copying a formula from a pdf and yanking it into a LaTeX file will Just Work™, will be seriously disappointed. Converting such yanked formulae to correct LaTeX syntax is a painful process. One can, however, use Emacs to ease the pain a bit.

2015-01-16

• 16:23 UTC (diff) (history) Comments on 2015-01-10 A few random Emacs tips . . . . SJSHunter – And for item 5, you can shorten this into (defalias 'cal 'calendar) and as a bonus, cal will inherit the docstring from calendar (with a . . .

2015-01-10

• 22:59 UTC (new) (history) 2015-01-10 A few random Emacs tips . . . . Marcin Borkowski – I’ve quite busy recently, so instead of a full-blown post I’ll share just a few random Emacs tips. Hopefully someone will find them useful.

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