Sean Laverty
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on a quest for non-lethal idioms
Bummer to be outside of the paywall on a paper from 1935.
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Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London
The Balance of Animal Populations.-Part I.
A. J. Nicholson D.Sc, V. A. Bailey M.A., D.Phil. (Oxon.), F.Inst.P.
First published: September 1935 | https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1096-3642.1935.tb01680.x | Citations: 662
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THE BALANCE OF ANIMAL POPULATIONS.
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36. The Balance of Animal Populations.-Part I. By A. J. NICHOLSON, D.Sc., Division of Economic Entomology, Commonwealth Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, Canberra, and V. A. BAILEY, M.A., D.Phil. (Oxon.), F.Inst.P., Associate Professor of Physics, University of Sydney*
[Received November 9, 1934 : Read April 2, 1935.]|](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:7aqzd7keylyebqivvhei5ahn/bafkreihhkcibkchywtxjjf45euymwbg4olly7znmwt42cw4briwhcoyj7u@jpeg)
November 12, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Bummer to be outside of the paywall on a paper from 1935.
![A Reddit thread redefining standard LaTeX syntax as a shortcut for something sloppy, superimposed with puke emoji.
X r/LaTeX
Why should I use |(...)) instead of $...$?
176 upvotes • 57 comments
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earendil66 • 1d
To me the advantages of V are too marginal to justify its use. The $ $ for inline math is fast, easy, and produces less visual clutter when reading the code.
However I prefer \[ l] for displaystyle ma
Edit: i forgot to escape the \
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BVPs • 1d
I have been using $ ... $ for inline mati redefine |( and V) as:
lact, I
\renewcommand{/\left(}
(renewcommand{Kright)}
These are so convenient to use for matching and appropriate-sized parentheses. But one has to be careful. Some of the LaTeX packages assume the inline math constructs using |(... V), not $ ... $.
...
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Phibik • 1d
That's genius gonna use, it's so annoying to write all of that for clean parenthesis.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:7aqzd7keylyebqivvhei5ahn/bafkreihzakhndlmyqbyoz6vftvwbvhxalbyc4kllxtghy6vdzynyegvkoa@jpeg)
And how are we doing at that?
November 11, 2025 at 1:35 PM
And how are we doing at that?
What an interesting question…
November 10, 2025 at 4:24 PM
What an interesting question…
Maybe I should have posted pictures of misbehaving chickens last night.
Here they are behaving.
Here they are behaving.
November 7, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Maybe I should have posted pictures of misbehaving chickens last night.
Here they are behaving.
Here they are behaving.
Back in my saffron hustle era.
November 1, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Back in my saffron hustle era.
A sign of how things are.
October 31, 2025 at 12:47 AM
A sign of how things are.
“For whatever reason…”
October 30, 2025 at 12:50 AM
“For whatever reason…”
Britt tried using it last year because nobody would shut up about it and she thought she should try it.
Here’s what it did.
Here’s what it did.
October 29, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Britt tried using it last year because nobody would shut up about it and she thought she should try it.
Here’s what it did.
Here’s what it did.
Is that color called Ballroom Gold?
October 29, 2025 at 2:12 AM
Is that color called Ballroom Gold?
I feel bad for the people negatively-affected by this, but most of the people I work with have been negatively-affected by Chegg.
October 28, 2025 at 7:00 PM
I feel bad for the people negatively-affected by this, but most of the people I work with have been negatively-affected by Chegg.
Printed a paper out for off-screen reading and let me tell you, the reference page being in almost solid blue really adds a lot to the experience.
October 28, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Printed a paper out for off-screen reading and let me tell you, the reference page being in almost solid blue really adds a lot to the experience.
Kind of hard to focus on work with this guy in the way.
October 25, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Kind of hard to focus on work with this guy in the way.
I came here for pictures of birds and flowers.
October 25, 2025 at 3:13 PM
I came here for pictures of birds and flowers.
Fox says, `hens are safe tonight.’
October 25, 2025 at 1:41 AM
Fox says, `hens are safe tonight.’
Admirable goal that I want to be a part of, but wow this is exhausting to try to plan and enact.
October 24, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Admirable goal that I want to be a part of, but wow this is exhausting to try to plan and enact.
Stop changing my background.
October 24, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Stop changing my background.
When our last forced update took place, I simply unplugged my computer.
October 24, 2025 at 1:51 PM
When our last forced update took place, I simply unplugged my computer.
Can someone share the benefit of having me type my email and password on separate screens?
For example, “which email address did I used for this?”
“Oh, nope, must not have been that one.”
For example, “which email address did I used for this?”
“Oh, nope, must not have been that one.”
October 23, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Can someone share the benefit of having me type my email and password on separate screens?
For example, “which email address did I used for this?”
“Oh, nope, must not have been that one.”
For example, “which email address did I used for this?”
“Oh, nope, must not have been that one.”
* AI hallucinates software package names that can be exploited by hackers.
* Does “accelerating research” just mean more papers more exploited reviewers and editors? Data analysis is where you learn and build new skills.
* Automate by learning a meaningful skill like programming or hiring a person.
* Does “accelerating research” just mean more papers more exploited reviewers and editors? Data analysis is where you learn and build new skills.
* Automate by learning a meaningful skill like programming or hiring a person.
October 21, 2025 at 1:55 PM
* AI hallucinates software package names that can be exploited by hackers.
* Does “accelerating research” just mean more papers more exploited reviewers and editors? Data analysis is where you learn and build new skills.
* Automate by learning a meaningful skill like programming or hiring a person.
* Does “accelerating research” just mean more papers more exploited reviewers and editors? Data analysis is where you learn and build new skills.
* Automate by learning a meaningful skill like programming or hiring a person.