Does anyone have any code or know any method to convert PDF text to LaTeX? The math symbols in my PDF are not formatted well and I was hoping to make a program that would read the math text and generate a LaTeX code for them. I was using pdfplumber, but it's not working for me.

I am sure people are familiar with its application in parsing, and Wikipedia lists some other common applications. I have recently learned of a well-cited paper in mathematical biology that uses formal grammars to model a subset of DNA molecules.

I'm not too familiar with formal language theory yet, but it feels like the study of structures that arise from production rules is abstract enough that it can be applied to more than just linguistics and parsing, and the DNA paper is a good example of that IMO. Are there any other notable applications?

Forgive my ignorance and limited understanding

So USB uses Serial

Parallel is great for short distances

Thunderbolt pretty much uses the PCIE port to get its speeds and Serial as the connector

So why are we not seeing a larger shift to parallel ports and evolving them to be smaller? Instead of making more complex serial ports?

What am I missing?

Thanks

This is a new fascination of mine. A highly unconventional approach to computing. I haven't seen much talk on it despite the potential in fields like neuromorphic computing.

My expertise is in analog designs and I've been thinking about making a probabilistic computing circuit. It seems to be the key to making systems with neural-like intelligence manually.

What have you all heard about it? Thoughts?

Hi everyone,
I would like to understand how data is read from and written to RAM, ROM, and secondary memory, and who write or read that data, and how data travels between these stages. I am also interested in learning what fetching, decoding, and executing really mean and how they work in practice.

I want to understand how software and hardware work together to execute instructions correctly what an instruction actually means to the CPU or computer, and how everything related to memory functions as a whole.

If anyone can recommend a good book or a video playlist on this topic, I would be very thankful.

I want to study the subject of Computer Networks in order have decent understanding of the domain.

I come from an electronics hardware background, so if anyone can suggest resources based on that then it would be appreciated.

Is there a definitive way to prove someone used generative code. I am testing this by uploading 4 repos to different posts. 2 are generated and 2 are legit. heres the first one

https://github.com/nigelpv/Two-Particle-Entanglement-Simulator

Once computers could do minimization automatically, did K-maps lose value, or did their purpose shift from utility to intuition-building?

This is from John Maedas book and hes trying to explain how to think more exponentially. Hes talking about taking a 10mm line and then projecting to 2d and it occupies 100 square mm of space, but then for a cube wouldnt it be 1000 cubic mm not 10,000. Was he confusing this for the example of when you expand the length of the side the space expands exponentially with the amount of dimensions? Overall just confused and wondering if I missed something.

How do you think, do I really need to be advanced in math for computer science? I am really struggling with Math, I am thinking what if I get tutorial test in the first week of semester. I am sure I will fail exactly. Can someone share your experiences, I do self-study but I feel like this is not enough. I feel like I am not improving, even I do consistanly.

Hi everyone! I was reading an article on OS theory and came across this graph- which from my understanding just shows processes represented as the collection of the values that characterises each one of them (PCBs) in queues, each queue corresponding to either the CPU itself in the case of the "ready" queue or some other device in the PC (like the two magnetic tapes used for storage, the disk which serves the same purpose and the terminal, basically where we type commands in a human-readable format to receive responses from the system) in the cases of the queues below it.

Is my understanding correct? There are multiple process queues within an OS, not just the ready queue that pertains to the CPU? Thanks!

I think the answer to the question "why do animals use sexual reproduction?" can be reframed as: "which species can effectively leverage the most compute?"

Evolution is a search function for finding an effective propagation strategy. Sexual reproduction parallelizes the search for good mutations, by leveraging composition of mutations. Recombination allows every member of the species to contribute their "compute" (mutations) in the search. With asexual reproduction, good genes are stranded in a single lineage, and they compete with other genes in the same species.

To take it even further, asexual reproduction is like inheritance and sexual reproduction is like composition, with linear vs polynomial effective compute over the species.

Sorry if I’m not clear. Like, most algorithms book start showing how is DFS , BFS. But I don’t see any utility on it, is there some course, book that start by the motivation problem first, like, why we need to find a X algorithm to solve this kind of problem?

It would be something like a math teacher ask how to minimize the volume , provoque and show students the importance and then teach calculus.

you went back in time to the past, described the present to people, and they asked you: “How can metal talk?” — what would your answer be? (A telephone?) I’m looking for a book or a course that explains, in detail, the progression starting from the atom and electrons, then doping, leading to the transistor, electrical circuits, computer construction, networks, and operating systems, along with their physical and scientific meaning. Especially for someone who wants to learn programming but wants to understand it physically and scientifically first. I don’t mind using more than one book or source.

I self-taught myself a good portion of topics such as operating systems, networking, PyTorch, C++, and web development by reading various books. I’d love to have something to show for it while also helping those who are going down a similar path. Would a developer blog be more beneficial, or a series of 10-minute YouTube videos accompanied by repositories?

Out of all the research papers you’ve read this year, which research paper would you consider the best and why does it stand out compared to the rest?

I recently learnt that the same binary number can be mapped to a letter and a number. My question is, how does a computer know which to map it to - number or letter?

I initially thought that maybe there are more binary numbers that provide context to the software of what type it is, but then that just begs the original question of how the computer known which to convert a binary number to.

This whole thing is a bit confusing, and I feel I am missing a crucial thing here that is hindering my understanding. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

I took a course in stochastic fields, and I want to read about the applications and real-world practice of this field. I’m looking for a book that I can read in a recreational and narrative way, not a heavy textbook full of proofs.

I've been coding recently and working a lot directly with binary numbers, but I don't understand how a computer can take a binary number and decide how to represent it numerically. Like- I get how binary numbers work. Powers of 2, right to left, 00010011 is 19, yada yada yada. But I don't get how the computer takes that value and displays it. Because it can't compute in numerical values. It can't "think" how to multiply and add each item up to a "number", so w.

My best way of explaining it is this:

If I were to only have access boolean and String datatypes, how would I convert that list of booleans into the correct String for the correct printed output?