Wednesday, July 6, 2016

Notes on Yihui.name

I am trying to compare Markdown and Latex in my last post, and happened to find this guy, Yihui. He is an early pioneer in R and a founder of  online community on statistics http://cos.name.

Here are some interesting excerpts:
要说经验嘛,
  • 一是要知道自己爱干啥,不然干啥都累
  • 二是从兴趣中做出一点成果,否则跟人说话苍白无力;
  • 三呢,有自己独立的想法,不要为了出国而出国,人到哪里都是这山望着那山高,外国不一定有想象的那么好,先想清楚要做什么,再想什么地方适合自己(比如我觉得数学伤脑子我就不想去数学气氛太浓的学校

build website by https://jekyllrb.com

混开源社区就有这问题,人总是有种印象,啊你开源免费那你就该无偿帮我忙。哎凭啥呢?有些人混着混着就把自己混进去了,激情万丈,家破人亡。蟒蛇神教千秋万载一统江湖还是一桶浆糊?窃以为还是破帽遮颜靠谱一点。

Best Markdown Editor and Solution

Update on 2017-1-18

After 6 months, I stick to the little software Typora. The best features are immediate feedback, autosave and elegant. To render markdown in blogspot, just copy the source mode and convert it by an Chrome Extension “Markdown here“, which supports MathJax. Everything is nicely done.
By the way, the windows version of typora seems very unstable. Once it died half way and everything I wrote was lost.
In case you are in a public computer, then https://stackedit.io is the best choice.

Equations in Markdown

try $3n+\sum_2^n{\pi}$ to see whether it supports MathJax.

convert equation to LaTex code

However, remember LaTeX Math Symbols will help you type equation faster.

Write equation in Github Markdown

Sadly, Github flavored Markdown doesn’t support MathJax. The solution is to use some websites to convert it into image, and insert it using ![]() syntax. Such websites include:
how to use: convert-> download -> copy and paste

Write equations in gmail

A chrome extention “Tex for Gmail“ do the job. write equation by the above link and paste.
Note: simple equation is good, complex equation is terrible

MarkDown vs LaTex

MarkDown->html -> scrolling in one page
LaTex->PDF -> printing multiple pages
Let’s rock:
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