Ganesh Swami

Superhacker Federico Mena-Quintero talks about using Emacs for GTD. I do something similar but in a less organized fashion. He mentions that it would be nice if it were better integrated with the desktop. For URLs, I’ve been using the browse-url package for many years. Dropping the following line into your .emacs enables the feature.

(global-set-key (kbd "C-c b") 'browse-url)

Pressing C-c b parses the text around the cursor for a plausible URL and uses that as the default. Pressing enter will open the default browser with the chosen URL.

Pretty cool, huh?

I’ve written previously about Mathematica. I’m going to describe a really cool feature that none of the other symbolic manipulation programs have.

Integrating

depends on the value of n. If n equals 1, then the integral value is Log(x). Otherwise it’s just x^(-n+1)/(-n+1). Mathematica allows one to manipulate the value of n in realtime. Here are three screenshots with n={0,1,2}.

I wish I had this when I was studying Calculus for the first time!

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