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Jin intends to print some site minicards for promoting Mathematica.SE at the WRI conference.

I suggest posting here the questions we consider appropriate, and voting on those.

Jin's guidelines are:

The idea is that when we pass out these cards to people, the questions are so interesting that they'd be inclined to get on the computer and type in the URL to find out the answer.

I prefer to have the 3 questions to cover different scopes of the site. All should have accepted answers. It'd be great if the question is in the "How to ... ?" or "What ... ?" format.

If you need to tweak a little the question title to meet the requirements, go on as far as the meaning is not distorted. And remember that both "serious and informative" and "flashy" questions are good choices.

I am posting below some questions already mentioned for this purpose in chat

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    Many good questions below. I feel like voting for each and everyone of them, but that would be as good as not voting at all. I think everyone should restrict him/herself to voting on only half of the questions here.
    – Sjoerd C. de Vries Mod
    Commented Aug 30, 2012 at 21:19
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    Damn... I can't vote ... need a sockpuppet ... now
    – Dr. belisarius
    Commented Aug 30, 2012 at 21:24
  • @Verde Ah, I see. The trick I normally use is to add as many []() as necessary. See the answer I edited below :)
    – rm -rf Mod
    Commented Aug 30, 2012 at 21:32
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    Thank you for creating this post. I'll create the cards based on the highest voted answers next week!
    – Jin
    Commented Aug 31, 2012 at 17:10
  • I am trying to add a question (this one), but it is automatically converted to a comment ("trivial answer converted to comment"). How did you do it?
    – a06e
    Commented Sep 3, 2012 at 2:08
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    @becko Insert a few []()[]() sets until you reach the minimum answer length that doesn't get converted to a comment
    – Dr. belisarius
    Commented Sep 3, 2012 at 3:01
  • I wish the people who had down-voted answers had left a comment why... (And I'm surprised how many do have down-votes.)
    – Brett Champion
    Commented Sep 7, 2012 at 21:53
  • @BrettChampion I downvoted 2-3 suggestions only because they didn't have an accepted answer, which was a specific requirement from Jin. It doesn't reflect on the actual question itself (I've upvoted all of them and their answers) but rather that the user didn't bother to read the instructions above. I saw a couple of comments mentioning that it had no accepted answer, so I didn't make my reasons further explicit. I don't know about the downvotes on questions with accepted answers...
    – rm -rf Mod
    Commented Sep 8, 2012 at 14:38
  • @BrettChampion That is not unusual, and it is OK. In meta, downvoting means "I don't agree", and is just a subjective issue. I myself downvoted one question because, although excellent as a question per se, I don't think it is a good match for a minicard.
    – Dr. belisarius
    Commented Sep 8, 2012 at 16:27
  • @BrettChampion Suppose you think we shouldn't provide Jin with a questions list, and let himself do the choosing. Then you should downvote my question here. Each question/answer in meta is like a poll.
    – Dr. belisarius
    Commented Sep 8, 2012 at 16:30
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    UPDATE: I have created the minicard designs based on the highest voted answers: "What are the use cases for different scoping constructs?" / "Using Mathematica's Graph functions to cheat at Boggle" / "How to create word clouds?" The designs have been submitted to Moo.com and the cards will be made in less than 2 weeks. Thanks!
    – Jin
    Commented Sep 11, 2012 at 21:56
  • Closed, as the voting results have been used by now.
    – Sjoerd C. de Vries Mod
    Commented Sep 12, 2012 at 9:10

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What are the use cases for different scoping constructs?

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How to create word clouds?

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Using Mathematica's Graph functions to cheat at Boggle

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  • Edited title: "How can I use Mathematica's graph functions to cheat at Boggle?"
    – rm -rf Mod
    Commented Sep 4, 2012 at 15:12
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How to compile effectively?

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    Perhaps How to effectively compile Mathematica code?
    – Ajasja
    Commented Sep 1, 2012 at 6:58
  • I think that compile Mathematica code instead of just compile is redundant.
    – a06e
    Commented Sep 1, 2012 at 18:37
  • @becko See for example this
    – Dr. belisarius
    Commented Sep 1, 2012 at 19:16
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    I did not know about that. Thanks for pointing it out. But I still think that compile unqualified is implicitly understood as compile Mathematica code using the Compile built-in function, in the context of this site, whereas any other use of the word compile requires a qualifier, such as Java compile, as is done in that example. That is just my opinion, of course.
    – a06e
    Commented Sep 1, 2012 at 19:51
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How to peel the labels from marmalade jars using Mathematica?

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Where can I find examples of good Mathematica programming practice?

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  • This is a rich source. Not sure whether the title is optimal.
    – Sjoerd C. de Vries Mod
    Commented Aug 30, 2012 at 21:16
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    @Sjoerd Suggest a better one!
    – Dr. belisarius
    Commented Aug 30, 2012 at 21:26
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    Where can I find good Mathematica resources?
    – Sjoerd C. de Vries Mod
    Commented Aug 30, 2012 at 21:29
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How to make an inkblot?

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File-backed lists/variables for handling large data

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Artistic image vectorization

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How to create hedcut style images?

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    This is a great question, but is the term hedcut sufficiently familiar? I, for one, didn't know it.
    – Sjoerd C. de Vries Mod
    Commented Aug 30, 2012 at 21:17
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    This question doesn't have an accepted answer.
    – Simon Woods
    Commented Aug 31, 2012 at 14:21
  • @Simon You're right. But the answers are quite good!
    – Dr. belisarius
    Commented Aug 31, 2012 at 14:33
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Struct equivalent in Mathematica?

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Extract values for ViewMatrix from a Graphics3D

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How can one find undocumented options or option values in Mathematica?

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What is the fastest way to count square-free words?

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What are some useful, undocumented Mathematica functions?

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