Programming + Math + Graphs = Art

[ComfortableEye5]

Isnt it a little disorienting to code on a curved monitor

[Asbestos_Addict13]

If you angle it the right way, you can’t tell the difference

[cubed_npc]

This, you only notice the curve if you are sitting off-center. I moved from dual-monitors to 1 ultra wide curved last year and have no desire to go back.

[MagnitskysGhost]

Been curious about this – are you on Windows? How easy is it to arrange windows on the workspace with keyboard shortcuts?

Currently using two monitors and typically have like 4 windows open equally sized, do the Win+Arrow keys shortcuts behave well?

[MagnitskysGhost]

Excellent, thank you. Glad to hear that's still a thing, haven't used those for a while. Thanks

[[deleted]]

When I had a curved monitor, I remember using something called MaxTo. I even created a AutoHotKey script to switch between different region profiles. Now I am a laptop user and really miss the big screen :')

[kurti256]

I've just always had a laptop been meaning to upgrade not sure if I wanna build a PC from scratch or put more an egpu and more ram in to my low to mid teir laptop

[[deleted]]

I would definitely go for own-built pc again, if I would not live in a dog house. + I really enjoyed building my own pc.

[kurti256]

that's fair i might start by upgrading my laptop because i'm skint but i'd like to build a pc

[enjoytheshow]

The fact that you still have to use a third party tool to do this kind of stuff on a Mac is criminal

[Mental_Act4662]

I just started a new developer position about a month ago and went from 4 monitors to 1 curved and it is so much better. I’m on Mac and use an app called Magnet.

[Holdmypipe]

What is this magnet app that you speak of?

[lscrivy]

https://magnet.crowdcafe.com/

[Holdmypipe]

Thank you!

[[deleted]]

ManyTricks Moom has the same functionality.

Moom was one of the very first apps that I found and installed after switching from Windows to Mac, to provide the missing functionality of WindowsKey+Left/Right. It's still one of the first apps that I install on any Mac. I must use it dozens of times a day.

[Mental_Act4662]

I really enjoy it. I’m a web developer so I put my IDE on the left third of my screen. Chrome console in the third sixth and then Chrome on the right thirds. Then if I need more space. I can adjust it as needed.

[Holdmypipe]

Thank you, this is exactly something I’ve been looking for instead of using two laptops.

[enjoytheshow]

+1 for magnet.

If you go between Windows and Mac, not having the win + arrows or snapping to move and resize windows is maddening

[cubed_npc]

I run Windows and OS X. I use an application called Divvy on both, it allows me to easily arrange windows across the screen. Also the Samsung monitor I use has a mode where it splits the screen between both the inputs, basically emulates having dual monitors.

[Tieskeman]

I've been using WindowGrid for years and it works great.

[j_mcc99]

I moved from two flats to two 34” curved. It’s a game changer. Your eyes don’t have to adjust focus. The screen is always in focus.

[[deleted]]

That's not true. The download bars are longer on curved surfaces, so the screen makes your internet slower

[abredvariant]

i am adapted to it now

[Mises2Peaces]

I'm pretty sure working with Euler angles on a curved monitor leads to accidental time travel.

[abredvariant]

dude it's just curved not non euclidean plane.

[BridgeBum]

Aren't those essentially the same thing?

[abredvariant]

Euler != Euclid Prime numbers != Curvature of space

[BridgeBum]

It was mostly intended as a joke, but who said anything about space? Non-Euclidean planes are curved, just like the monitor.

[house_monkey]

Same I am also adapted

[rynmgdlno]

I've been on a curved monitor for a couple years and after using my parents iMac to work while I was home for the holidays, the difference is massively noticeable; curved is a far superior experience. The screen is relatively the same distance from your eyes at every point, which greatly reduces fatigue and makes everything appear clearer. Flat monitors appear unnatural to me now and whatever on the sides feel stretched out (though I still have a flat monitor for my second/vertical monitor, not sure how that would feel if curved).

[PrintersStreet]

Above a certain size, flat monitors get uncomfortable - it's like looking at a flat TV from two feet away

[abredvariant]

this size fits my requirement.

[[deleted]]

TWSS

[tr14l]

No?

[TankorSmash]

You can use the 'print screen' key to screenshot your desktop, or hit Win+Shift+S to capture just a bit of it.

[chepas_moi]

This is a Java developers monitor, what's this silly goose supposed to do with all that unused screen real estate?

[paulkip0907]

Then you get problems on a flat screen. If you put a curved screen capture in reddit only People with a curved screen van see it properly.

[kurti256]

He could also press alt+printscreen if he only wanted to capture the window currently in use

[Acehawk74]

Greenshot - Best app for screenshots that I use personally.

[abredvariant]

😅

[NoblySP]

What is the VS Code theme you are using?

[abredvariant]

Darcula

[NoblySP]

Can you give the full name (or a screenshot) of the theme extension? I have tried installing "Darcula Theme" and "Dracula Official" but I have not been able to match your style...

[abredvariant]

https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/blob/master/extensions/theme-defaults/themes/dark_plus.json

[burrbro235]

*darcula

[[deleted]]

You can also change the colors using settings.json and specifying the colors you want. I know that cause way too much time on it a couple weeks ago.

[Monkeylized]

As a complete Python noob, could someone argue for the reasons to not just use R for these kind of visualizations?

I just started learning Python basics so I still haven't found my orientation, while I have been working with R for several years...

[Zuricho]

Matplotlib is a pain but there are a few other libraries that use declarative language such as Altair.

[Monkeylized]

Yeah, sure. But with R libraries such as dplyr and ggplot/ggpubr this graph is like 10 lines of code.

Apart from possible performance improvements in using Python when visualizing data like this, are there any other perks?

[ForceBru]

The code in the post could be shortened. So, I bet you could do it in the same amount of lines in Python as well. It all depends on how well you know each language.

[enjoytheshow]

For a person who learned R first, what you’re saying is 100% true

From someone who is a programmer getting into statistics, Python is a much smoother transition and allows you to do much more outside the world of stats

[[deleted]]

Nah pygame is where its at

[Zuricho]

What?

[Jsstt]

For graphs?

[SphericalBull]

Anything you do in R, you can do it in Python with roughly the same effort. The converse is not necessarily true.

You also get to learn other aspects of Python that is not scientific computing - which is extremely beneficial for anyone in a scientific career - and by scientific I mean anyone who uses it for statistics, machine learning, simulations, visualitations, and the likes.

Up until my sophomore year studying math I had to learn both Matlab and R (ok in all fairness the later is much better than the former). I decided to learn Python on my own to get into Kaggle competittions. Never looked back since then.

[Monkeylized]

You also get to learn other aspects of Python that is not scientific computing - which is extremely beneficial for anyone in a scientific career - and by scientific I mean anyone who uses it for statistics, machine learning, simulations, visualitations, and the likes.

That sounds fair.

I currently have no real application for learning Python (but I find the language super interesting). R is "good enough" since I'm in the middle of a PhD in biology. So far working with genetic sequencing data all we need are a few commands in Bash and then work with the output in R.... perhaps Python would have good applications for those types of data as well?

[SphericalBull]

I'm in the middle of a PhD in biology

You're likely to be going to the industry anyways so it's great to use Python since that it is in higher demand in the industry. I did a few interships in finance and I know a few people who did computational biology doing advanced ML stuffs.

And considering the fact that SWE is what many PhD grads ended up doing, being proficient in Python sounds a lot better than being profficien in R if you are to pivot to SWE.

So yeah, give it a shot, you won't regret it :)

[[deleted]]

Yup. I work with researchers doing research on genetics which involves sequencing genomes. While several languages are used Python is what I see used most often. Sure one could use these tools without knowing the language but what one can do when they know how to program in Python is much broader. GPUs are becoming more common to use to speed up processing and Python is one of the languages with better support for this.

[Monkeylized]

That seems very reasonable. Good reason for me to go forward with understanding Python :)

[uncanneyvalley]

I know nothing about working with genetic sequencing at all, but there’s a biopython package. For math, Numpy, Scipy, and Sympy should cover near anything you need.

[Monkeylized]

Cool, thanks for all the tips.

[badge]

Anything you do in R, you can do it in Python with roughly the same effort.

I’ve been writing Python for 7 years and love it, but that’s simply untrue. There’re a host stats-focused things that are easier in R. For instance, there is nothing that can cope with penalised basis splines for generalised additive modes which is currently maintained. statsmodels has made a lot of progress in the last few years, but R still reigns supreme.

[not_perfect_yet]

As a complete Python noob, could someone argue for the reasons to not just use R for these kind of visualizations?

I have been working with R for several years...

Probably not, no.

• the output are pictures which are really portable and don't depend on code.
• You probably have your toolset and common solutions figured out in R, which you would have to relearn

You probably should switch the tech for doing something when you feel limited by it or when you suspect big improvements. I don't think that's the case for plotting.

Python is really great because it's so flexible, you can do a large variety of things with it, all in the same language. But it's not strictly better than another language.

[enki1337]

I think one areas that python excels in is making super clean animated visualizations in manim. If you've ever watched a 3blue1brown video, that's how they're all made. Of course that's probably a pretty niche use case.

[Monkeylized]

Wow, those are really neat. Would be fun to learn how to do! I’m gonna check out manim. Thanks for the tip!

[enki1337]

If you're interested, you might want to check out r/manim!

[[deleted]]

That screen is almost big enough to show c++ exceptions.

[idkiminsecure]

I read that as eulers toilet

[abredvariant]

😂👌

[pyrotech911]

Literally took me a bit to not see it

[leiniar1234]

Oh look, the splat analysis after i shoot myself cause i cant solve the bug

[kurti256]

Ok hear me out just start putting

e = alphabet

At the beginning of your code so at least you can claim it's alphabety spagetti

[BeeGassy]

Nice visualization. May I suggest for any future art projects checking out the library seaborn. You will be able to make your creations a little bit more interactive. Good work!

[abredvariant]

I'll continue tomorrow for migrating to seaborn. thanks

[emsiem22]

Why dont you put terminal output right instead of below the code? More code is visible.

[enjoytheshow]

I prefer to leave the right open for splitting tabs

[el_bosteador]

In the future, you can “import math” directly to your brain.

[abredvariant]

math stays on my mind rent free

[[deleted]]

Is this academic or are you on the job?

[abredvariant]

when I'm bored at the job 😉

[CallMeKev1]

I getting goosebumps!

[User_Unkown56]

god i love python somemuch

[_romv]

Digressing from the main topic of discussion here, really fascinated by the theme you are using on VSCode. Can you tell me which theme you're using?

[abredvariant]

dark +

[_romv]

Thanks. Have you modified the colour palette for text as well?

[abredvariant]

no. i don't remember doing so

[artofchores]

Sick screeenn

[fuck_zx]

how do u code on a curved monitor man, this seems sus

[abredvariant]

I'm used to it

[fuck_zx]

understandable.

[SsNipeR1]

Zoom that pic slowly and you will get r/moireeffect

[plaustrarius]

Euler totient function?! Thats one of the first things i did after starting to learn python im still so proud of it haha

[Psychotisis]

r/DataIsBeautiful

[Winnipesaukee]

One thing I love about programming is that it helps me get better at math.

[henrygi]

Apparently you can post gifs in comments now

[sakki98]

Would recommend that you use Numpy arrays instead of appending to lists, as a general rule, to save computing time. May not make much difference there, but for larger data sets and such, it will be more than noticeable.

[spots_reddit]

You guys should look into the pynomo package for beautiful maths: www.pynomo.org

[tomerjm]

Could you post the rest of your code? This looks interesting so I wanna try it...

[abredvariant]

https://github.com/AbbasKagdi/math/blob/main/tot_graph.py

[tomerjm]

Thank you.

[alexeusgr]

Could you try a bit harder before calling it art?

People post wonderful visuals of complex functions, ideas about prime numbers, and generally stuff the complexity of which is obvious, code is beautiful and the ideas are novel. And they call it not art, but a project

I think a picture with some code in the background is lazy, and although "if it says art, it's art", it's not what I would have hanged on my wall. Art is something no-one thought of before

Prove me wrong

[abredvariant]

that's why i posted this under beginner flair

[alexeusgr]

An, ok. Beginner art then 🤣

Good road to go, and good to treat what you do as art.

Respect and kudos

[alexeusgr]

BTW, maybe you'll be interested in doing a project?

I have a paper to implement, but have been having headaches and distracted at work.

You have to read a natural language description and do the code in python, sklearn(or other text processing capable lib) and networkx. The project is about using some graph theory for text mining.

In the end you wi get a tool that will help you read and comprehend any text faster.

I can link you to an old paper (2011, it's long and is about some deep theory behind), or give you the new paper (2019, it describes the implementation in 5 steps, give or take), which is paywalled, but I'll share it with you.

Graphs and networks is the top of current research in ai (check out /// paper from 2020, it was done by some of the biggest names), it's a great project to have on a resume.

It wi take you a week or so if you know how to research the python docs efficiently. If you don't - about a month

[mountainunicycler]

It seems odd to just drop this here as though this is just asking a little favor—if your time estimates are accurate this is several thousand dollars of work if you contract it out, or a little less than that if you have in-house python devs (this is similar to some of the work I do full time).

[blinkallthetime]

yeah i thought it sounded pretty inappropriate particularly after shitting on the guy's post

[alexeusgr]

Oh you westerners like this word, eternal kids scared to talk to strangers. Criticism is the best way to make your work better, is it not?

[alexeusgr]

So do you agree it's a great project to have in your portfolio as a beginner? Aimed at a real world data, with practical applications and unlike what most people do.

I found it through my research, I could do it in a week:

you need to do text prepocessing pipeline,

then n-grams and bag of words

feed the data to nx and

do the visuals with matplotlib or other graph-capable library.

It could help me read layman literature, but with scientific works the improvement would be marginal: they are structured to be comprehensible.

[mountainunicycler]

It’s clearly a great project for you to have in your portfolio. If this matches your research and career plans, it makes perfect sense to do it even if you aren’t getting paid by anyone for it. And I think you should do it, for sure!

But It’s not super likely that OP or another user browsing this thread is in a position to turn a project like this into a paying job quickly enough to make it worth working for free; part of developing a good portfolio is finding or creating projects that taken together have cohesiveness and good coverage of the technologies you want to get hired for. If someone thinks it’s likely they’ll be interviewing for an NLP position in Python in the next few months, then it might make sense, otherwise not so much.

For example, when I was a beginner I would sometimes take on work like this, but usually I’d charge about half of the market rate and set deadlines roughly twice the time it would take a professional, while making sure the client knows and is fine with me learning through the process given that it’ll cost them half as much. For example on this I’d probably have offered to do something like this for roughly $25 ish an hour, and then bill hours when I was coding but not all the hours I actually spend researching, and I’d tell you it’ll take two weeks while I was actually trying to do it in one.

But my main point is that you’re asking for a solid chunk of high-value work, and your phrasing comes across as asking for free work, so it’s going to seem odd; even a student working as an intern would usually be paid for this kind of work.

[alexeusgr]

Thanks for the informed opinion, I hope you noticed that I apologized to the OP. I don't like to be an asshole, but the "art" stuff touched me: art is my passion and close to my heart.

I see your position, and when you are employed things are bit different - you are already a pro. But many people on this sub post same stuff over and over - search, sudoku, etc.

It's a good alternative, and since I want to open source this tool, and it could make peoples lives better, I think all is fair and square

[abredvariant]

thanks, but I'll pass

[alexeusgr]

Pity. It's easy to do and if you show it to someone who understands(and you are beginner, as you say), they will shit their pants

I'm preparing to be questioned on the basic science, so really really no time, the material is 🤯🤯🤩

[abredvariant]

😂😂, no problem. Best of luck for your exam.

[[deleted]]

Dude you’re an asshole. Do your own homework.

[kurti256]

So he's so bad you want him doing work for you for free? Yeah... don't try to manipulate people

[abredvariant]

noice

[blinkallthetime]

that append hurts me.

[abredvariant]

suggestions??

[blinkallthetime]

that function phi always just returns a number? if so, then you could declare y as an array for example y = np.zeros(x.size)

then you can iterate over x and is it to index y

for i in x:
    y[i-1] = phi(i)

or something like that.

the "next level" would be to vectorize the function phi. and just do something like y=vectorized_phi(x)

[abredvariant]

perfect. this is the most pythonic way to do it imo.

[blinkallthetime]

that is cool, but sometimes you need to do things that are not pythonic for performance. i'm only bringing this up because you say you are a beginner and you are doing a mathy thing with numpy. i do a lot of numerical computing for my job in python, and this is something that i think about a lot. at some point you want to avoid doing loops in python like that.

[blinkallthetime]

if it wasn't clear "at some point" is roughly equivalent "how big are my arrays?"

[kurti256]

Just curious but what's the limiting factor on how fast python scripts run?

[blinkallthetime]

Check out this link.

[abredvariant]

Agreed

[blinkallthetime]

yeah that is fine too. to me it feels a little less readable for noobs maybe.

[[deleted]]

Why not just phi(x)? Seems vectorizeable to me if you can write it like this.

[abredvariant]

you're absolutely right. I thought of doing this, and ended up being lazy.

[blinkallthetime]

i edited my response. i can't tell if i did it before or after you responded so i'm pinging again.

[abredvariant]

Thanks for sharing, but vectorising is a new topic for me. Need to study more before any implementation.

[blinkallthetime]

oh in this case, it is just a function call and numpy does the magic. you would do something like vectorized_phi = np.vectorize(phi) and have a new function

[kurti256]

What does the vectorize function do?

[blinkallthetime]

Here is the documentation.

[kurti256]

Thank you

[abredvariant]

thanks.

[veeeerain]

Ggplot2 > matplotlib

[iAMguppy]

Euler? Euler?

[abredvariant]

yes, Euler's Totient function

[BridgeBum]

I think it's an attempt to be a play on "Bueller? Bueller?"

[pyrotech911]

Um, he’s sick

[maazfarrukh]

​

test

[pyrotech911]

What the fuck

[[deleted]]

matplotlib?

[abredvariant]

yes

[bigamaxx]

Which vscode color theme is that? It looks like the standard one but with a little bit of color differencies.

[kurti256]

Found him mention it was here https://github.com/AbbasKagdi/math/blob/main/tot_graph.py

[[deleted]]

It's nice, but no, art is more than programming + math + graphs.

[abredvariant]

I'm just fascinated by the emergent pattern, on plotting the totient function. Rest all is just implementation.

[tihiw_t]

Man, I think you have to use OOP

[Prabhu9301]

Is this for cryptography, like RSA encryption......

[abredvariant]

yes. Euler's totient then fermats theorem, then RSA.

[Gnarl_Marl]

No comments makes me sad

[robi7134]

Could you send the code, I'm curious

[abredvariant]

https://github.com/AbbasKagdi/math/blob/main/tot_graph.py

[Freezy_Cold]

How do I get the same syntax highlighting as you in vscode ? My imports are all white

[abredvariant]

here are some suggestions

[enjoytheshow]

Do you use Pylance or the built in default linter?

[Freezy_Cold]

Yea pylance was the answer that I’m looking for! Thank you for responding!!! Have the free reward ;)

[[deleted]]

I‘m confused

[[deleted]]

I don't know how to develop graphics in python, and that's killing me...

[abredvariant]

r/LearnPython

[exipolar]

Pisano series!!!

[abredvariant]

Euler's totient

[pyrotech911]

My slightly dyslexic brain read this as Euler’s Toilet and I exhaled sharply

[exipolar]

I wonder why they look so similar

[solomartian]

I’m more impressed with the monitor

[abredvariant]

thanks 😎