• Sporkhack
• From Fish to Infinity
• Oscuro’s Oblivion Overhaul
• Wie man eine richtige Schleife knotet

Nevertheless, if you want to take a look at it, get it here.

„Beck betonte allerdings mit Blick auf die von der Koalition geplanten
Steuersenkungen, immer weiter sinkende Einnahmen, höhere
Bildungsausgaben und die Schuldenbremse seien kaum miteinander
vereinbar. ‚Das ist mehr als die Quadratur des Kreises verlangt.‘ “

Wie bereits 1882 von Lindemann bewiesen, ist die Quadratur eines Kreises mit Zirkel und Lineal unmöglich. Der Beweis benutzt Galoistheorie und Lindemanns Beweis der Transzendenz von π. Auch heute noch wird von vielen Amateurmathematikern immer wieder versucht, eine Konstruktion der Quadratur des Kreises anzugeben, obwohl das unmöglich ist.

Da stellt sich jetzt also die Frage, Herr Beck, was verlangt genau die Lösung eines (bewiesenermaßen) unlösbaren Problems? Und was genau wollten Sie uns damit sagen? Falls Sie meinen, dass es unmöglich ist, warum sagen Sie dann ‚kaum miteinander vereinbar‘? Ausgerechnet auf dem Bildungsgipfel…

Interessant ist meiner Meinung auch, dass viele Medien diesen Satz zitieren, sich aber niemand darüber zu wundern scheint. So weit ist es her mit der mathematischen Allgemeinbildung [PDF] heutzutage…

It has been a long time since the first release, but I have been occupied with my dissertation and life in general. I hope to be more productive in the next months.

Changes are: Many more safety checks and a command line tool that allows files to be selected for solidification in a mounted file system as well as bugfixes. There is a full overview over the current limited status and some new documentation.

Current information includes: An overview over the intended functionality, an overview over the current limited status and documentation.

If you are brave enough, get it here! Warning: Even though the current release is read-only, it may eat your data or worse! Use it at your own risk!

Somehow, the idea of writing a script that permutes the notation in a given document came up, perhaps to illustrate this viewpoint.

It sounded like a fun project, and so I wrote permute_notation.py, a short Python script that takes a latex file and produces a copy of the file with completely permuted notation. The effects are not really surprising: usually, you do not understand your own work anymore :)

You can download it and try for yourself. It is quite simple to use: permute_notation.py input.tex output.tex

Attention: The script unconditionally overwrites output.tex, so be careful!

By default, the script permutes lower and upper case Latin and Greek letters. You can specify the switch -s to permute alphabets only among themselves, such that the text might remain at least barely legible.

As usual, the script is provided under the GPL.

Note: This script has been tested to work with my diploma thesis(result [PDF]). I hope that it will also work with your document. If not, just copy a latex snippet which is permuted incorrectly into the comments and I will take care of it.

Gefunden über Astrodicticum Simplex.

Naja, oder fast…toll wars auf jeden Fall! Echte Details zum Urlaub gibt es später :)

“Clear”
You Haven’t Earned the Right
Determinism vs Free Will

find /path/to/mp3s -iname "*.mp3" -exec mp3gain -r -k -p {} \;

only works if you want to have radio gain mode, i.e. all mp3s are brought to uniform common volume.

But if you are like me and you would like to listen to whole albums at a time, the -a switch is your friend and the above solution does no longer work. I have written two small python scripts which do this, assuming your mp3s are sorted either like this:

artist/single_song.mp3
artist/album/song.mp3

Then you can use calculate_gain_all_in_one_folder.py. If instead your artists are grouped by initials like so:

initial/artist/single_song.mp3
initial/artist/album/song.mp3

then use calculate_gain_for_initial_folders.py. Both scripts do the right thing, i.e. apply album gain to albums and radio gain to single songs. They are not exactly userfriendly, but you should manage. Both scripts are released under the GPL.

By the way, vorbisgain has a recursive mode which works (almost) perfectly (only almost, since it of course does not known when to apply album and when to apply radio gain).