Mr.Wizard

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(also known as Spartacus)

See those two pins? Well today I'm going to... stick them in you.

Ok, let me come clean: Mr.Wizard is actually an alias of mine... I'm glad I can finally confess. ― Sjoerd C. de Vries

No, I'm Spatac... I mean, Mr.Wizard! ― R.M

I'm Mr.W, and so's my wife! ― acl

@Spartacus, it was not fixable. ― rcollyer

check again; I just fixed it. :-p ― Spartacus

"This is the internet, where the men are men, the women are men and the children are FBI agents..." ― yoda Dec 18 '11 at 6:06

"My main purpose of being here is in collecting the votes. I'd even go further and say that this is my main purpose in life." ― Leonid Shifrin

"I am making some voodoo dance and invoking the rain God while we talk" ― belisarius

Some people are fortunate. Others get married. ― belisarius

It's not that easy to do the untangling even manually though. – Szabolcs

Maybe you could turn it into a puzzle and let other people do the untangling :-) – Heike

I could make a web based game, and feed all my graphs to the visitors.
SE is a big game, isn't it? :D – Szabolcs

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19m	comment	Question regarding function definition overloading / argument passing test Related: (1), (2)
35m	comment	FindRoot runs out of memory in Windows but not on Mac Is it possible to include the full code you are running? It may make for a difficult problem to approach without it.
37m	comment	Precision of a complex number I embedded your picture but it would be better if you included copyable code in your question.
37m	revised	Precision of a complex number added 20 characters in body
40m	answered	How to draw tiles with different height?
1h	comment	Weird vertical line when trying to plot a histogram Try `Axes -> False`
1h	comment	Why is there no PositionFunction in Mathematica? @Jacob Good point; I should add that, or change to DownValues on a HoldAll function, etc. I only intended this to be a rough start.
2h	awarded	Nice Question
5h	comment	create function that behaves like continuedFraction Suggested reading: (1), (2)
5h	revised	create function that behaves like continuedFraction added 4 characters in body; edited title
5h	answered	create function that behaves like continuedFraction
5h	revised	Why is there no PositionFunction in Mathematica? deleted 36 characters in body
5h	comment	Tricky selection of elements based on their position I like this. +1
5h	comment	Why is there no PositionFunction in Mathematica? @RodLm Yes, I think `Position` is commonly used by many people, and many of its applications are good. I don't mean to imply that `Position` itself is slow, only a certain use where it is used repetitively. I want to make sure that is clear.
5h	comment	Why is there no PositionFunction in Mathematica? @RodLm -- Thanks! You're getting ahead of the issue as I hope this questions helps establish whether such a function is even practical.
5h	comment	Why is there no PositionFunction in Mathematica? @RodLm I'm not sure how to read that; often `Position` is well used too, and I certainly use it a lot myself (not implying that makes it right). Rather, certain uses of it are quite slow. I hope to bring attention to the issue and perhaps develop a useable general function.
6h	asked	Why is there no PositionFunction in Mathematica?
6h	answered	Why is there no PositionFunction in Mathematica?
6h	accepted	Ordering function with recognition of duplicates
10h	comment	extracting the rows of a matrix satisfying a condition (e.g. all elements negative) @Jacob should have been `Pick[..., 0]` - I just can't get it right tonight. I'm going to do something else.