I'd like to propose a new tab (somewhere) which would allow viewing all posts sorted by thumbs-up. Basically, a way for everyone to see the best posts and replies.

It might have a url something like, http://www.mapleprimes.com/posts/ranked or http://www.mapleprimes.com/recent/ranked

The thumbs-up may turn out to be an ok mechanism by which this community can recognize good quality posts and responses. But most posts are only likely to get rated thusly by a handful of members willing to do the few extra clicks. I wonder whether there might be other good ways to get approval ratings, either automatically or semi-automatically.

One possibility that occurs to me is citation. The buttons/icons on the Editor menubar already have a Link item (the chain link, for inserting URLs). How about a similar button for adding a citation? The idea being that such a Citation would always be positive, and bring about an additional automatic thumbs-up (maybe allowing more than one-per-member for that particular recipient post). A negative or neutral cite could still be made with the existing Link button.

I'm going to guess that, if all the previous links to Joe Riel's Sorting with Attributes post were such citations, that it would already have more than the number of approvals for the great post class.

I sometimes like to use Maple help online as it allows for enlargement of font size very easily.  However, there is no text wrapping and makes reading difficult.

A lot of people want to do very large computations which require a lot of RAM.  But above a certain threshold, the cost of memory explodes.  We had this idea but no excuse to try it.  Buy a good SSD and use it for a swap partition.  I suggest the Intel X25-M.  Make sure you have at least 1/10th of its size in RAM, i.e. 8GB of RAM for an 80GB drive, but of course more is better.  The RAM should act as a massive cache for the SSD, giving you another...

Does anyone see the Maple 2D Math output in the replies to this post?  What I see is a lot of Maple Equation markers.

A certain "competitor" to Maple has started offering a "Home" Edition of their product for a very attractive price...I use Maple at work, but love to tinker with individual research.  Supposedly, this edition is the same full-featured product as the commercial and academic versions.  A "Home" Edition of Maple would be *awesome*.  I'm not prepared to jump ship to that "other" product, given the knowledge capital I have of Maple, but I've started entertaining the idea...

How the badges are updated? Is it done manually?

In particular, I voted many posts up (Thumbs Up), used 2D-math more than 5 times (2-Dimensional), left more than 10 comments (Commenter) etc.

Has the 'tabbing nuisance', as reported in I declare defeat: rolling back to Maple 9.5, been resolved in Maple 12+? And what about the 'XML-contamination', as also mentioned?

PS: Congratulations to MaplePrimes for a visually very appealing interface. With the migration to this new interface, I have finally been able to gain again access to my account, this partly explaining...

How about allowing members to add tags to others' posts/questions?

It could be done without too much risk of vandalism. It could require a certain reputation to be enabled. Or it could allow only addition of tags and not removal. Or it could allow adding tags only from the preexisting tag list (or, getting fancy, the full list from a few days earlier).

There is a huge volume of very nice old posts buried in this site. Without tags, it will be much harder to...

Quite a few of the Questions under the "Unanswered" tab on the Mapleprimes main page, down around the end of the first page worth of results, do actually contain Comments.

It looks like such responses were not migrated properly as Answers.

Joe Riel once posted a very nice post about a package named "tine" that he wrote to measure performance in Maple.

It is cached here by google.

The page

If a function is differentiable at some point c of its domain, then it is also continuous at c. However here we extend the notion of differentiability to be valid for individual points on the real number line, specifically positive integers.

 f(n)=(-1)^n* n^(1/n)

THEOREM MRBK 8.0

f=f' / (I*Pi+(1-ln(n))/n^2)| n ∈ {1,2,3,...}

By THEOREM MRBK 4.0, When n is in the set of (positive) integers the derivative of f is exactly I*Pi*f+(1-ln(n))*f/n^2.

So f' = I*Pi*f+(1-ln(n))*f/n^2| n ∈ {1,2,3,...}

Solving for f, we have the following:

f' = I*Pi*f+(1-ln(n))*f/n^2

f' = f*(I*Pi+(1-ln(n))/n^2)

f=f' / (I*Pi+(1-ln(n))/n^2)

For more on this click here (W/A).

Points and lines, and the relationships between them, are essential ingredients of so many problems in, for example, calculus. In particular, obtaining the equation of the perpendicular bisector of a line segment, dropping a perpendicular from a point to a given line, and calculating the distance from a point to a line are three tasks treated in elementary analytic geometry that recur in the applications....

I spend much of my time traveling for business. These trips often last a week, and we try to visit as many potential customers as possible, and in the most efficient order. This involves matching our hosts' calendars with our own, booking the most cost effective travel options, and coping with last-minute cancellations and changes. It isn’t easy!

This has become so much easier with the advent of shareable calendars and mapping services, like Google Maps. ...