posting from office hours!

[alexr_rwx]

If you have any questions about introductory CS, or maybe about life, feel free to come see me. I'm in room 112 for the next hour or so.

Also: Lindsey lindseykuper and I are both extremely signed up for the Indianapolis Monumental Marathon. Big running, here we come!

I'm enjoying my classes; for two of them, I've been busy LaTeX'ing up some basic problems about probability. It's good practice; I want to be fluent with both probability and LaTeX.

That said, I think I'm developing a distaste for PDFs. (Portable Document Format, not Probability Density Functions) We have this fantastic system for distributing documents (the web), and nice programs for viewing those documents, wherein you can easily search, copy, paste, highlight, resize and restyle the text. But we don't use those for serious academic papers. That seems dumb. Although I guess it doesn't help that MathML is pretty clunky.

I suppose a possible approach is just using LaTeX as a source language, and converting it to HTML/MathML for reading online, and a PDF for printing. (what's the best tool for that?)

Edited to add! Well, it turns out that browser support for MathML is pretty shaky. I just installed some extra Math Fonts, and my Firefox 3.5 renders MathML just fine. But Chrome (or really, browsers other than Mozilla and Opera) don't do so well at it, and IE doesn't do MathML at all without a plugin.

Comments

[oniugnip.livejournal.com]

Awww! :) Thanks for remembering that!

I haven't taught a regular class for years. I might have to start back up finding condiments to give out, though!

(forgive me for not remembering; did you take the class, or just come sit in? Was Stevie teaching too, or was it somebody else?)

[msbeanhead.livejournal.com]

I wasn't in your section of that class, but I ended up at the recitation that you and sstrickl were teaching... no memory of how.