{"id":3025,"date":"2012-11-17T14:25:30","date_gmt":"2012-11-17T22:25:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wkiri.com\/today\/?p=3025"},"modified":"2012-11-17T14:25:30","modified_gmt":"2012-11-17T22:25:30","slug":"look-up-latex-symbols-by-drawing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wkiri.com\/today\/?p=3025","title":{"rendered":"Look up LaTeX symbols by drawing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is the coolest LaTeX doodad I&#8217;ve found in ages.  <a href=\"http:\/\/detexify.kirelabs.org\/classify.html\">Detexify<\/a> is a brilliant combination of useful UI and machine learning.  When you can&#8217;t remember what the latex command is to render a particular symbol, you simply DRAW it and Detexify gives you a ranked list of matches.  You can then give it feedback about which one was what you wanted, which it uses to re-train its model and improve for the future.<\/p>\n<p>I found this tool while trying to hunt down the LaTeX command for &sect;, which I&#8217;d never used.  Here&#8217;s what I drew:<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wkiri.com\/today\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Screen-Shot-2012-11-17-at-2.19.35-PM.png\"><img decoding=\"async\"  width=400 src=\"https:\/\/www.wkiri.com\/today\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Screen-Shot-2012-11-17-at-2.19.35-PM.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"Screen Shot 2012-11-17 at 2.19.35 PM\"  \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Notice it has the correct command at the top of the list!<\/p>\n<p>I love discovering new ways that machine learning can be used to make daily life easier.  Well, in this case for those who use LaTeX on a daily basis.  That&#8217;s everyone, right?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the coolest LaTeX doodad I&#8217;ve found in ages. Detexify is a brilliant combination of useful UI and machine learning. When you can&#8217;t remember what the latex command is to render a particular symbol, you simply DRAW it and Detexify gives you a ranked list of matches. You can then give it feedback about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[23,27],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wkiri.com\/today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3025"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wkiri.com\/today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wkiri.com\/today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wkiri.com\/today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wkiri.com\/today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3025"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.wkiri.com\/today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3025\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3032,"href":"https:\/\/www.wkiri.com\/today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3025\/revisions\/3032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wkiri.com\/today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wkiri.com\/today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wkiri.com\/today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}