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Held Together With Negative Vspace And Duct Tape

Academia Math Research

2 months ago 8.3K views 0 shares

Held Together With Negative Vspace And Duct Tape

The academic collaboration paradox in its natural habitat. First they want your slides, which is fine - sharing knowledge and all that. Then comes the dreaded request for your TeX code, which is basically asking to see your mathematical underwear. That pristine presentation hides 3am coding sessions, commented-out failed approaches, and variable names like "final_final_ACTUALLY_FINAL_v2." Sharing slides is science; sharing TeX code is therapy.

Every Astrophysics Package Ever

Astronomy Physics Science Research

4 months ago 11.0K views 0 shares

Every Astrophysics Package Ever

The eternal purgatory of astrophysics coding. Naval officer criticizes your simulation package as "the worst code I've ever run," but Jack Sparrow delivers the universal truth of computational astrophysics: it's horrifically written, violates every programming principle known to mankind, and yet... somehow... it produces results. That's not a bug, that's just how the universe works. The real dark matter was the spaghetti code we wrote along the way.