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Jan 5, 2020 at 11:07 history edited Szabolcs CC BY-SA 4.0
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Jan 3, 2020 at 10:28 history edited Mr.Wizard CC BY-SA 4.0
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Nov 8, 2019 at 10:28 history edited Alexey Popkov CC BY-SA 4.0
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Jul 6, 2019 at 23:11 history edited Michael E2 CC BY-SA 4.0
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Oct 28, 2018 at 6:49 history edited Alexey Popkov CC BY-SA 4.0
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Oct 27, 2018 at 8:23 history edited xzczd CC BY-SA 4.0
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Sep 23, 2018 at 14:55 history edited Johu CC BY-SA 4.0
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Sep 23, 2018 at 11:28 comment added xzczd @Johu Oops… Yes, I mean $MachinePrecision and MachinePrecision are different.
Sep 23, 2018 at 11:22 comment added Johu @xzczd Thanks! I admit I still to do not understand the fully story, but thought that even incomplete hint to the problem is better than none. I have struggled a lot getting my old code back the stability and performance. Note the typo in your comment... I guess you wanted to say: MachinePrecision and $MachinePrecision are different.
Sep 23, 2018 at 11:12 comment added xzczd @johu The description "$MachinePrecision is the new default" is incorrect. Aside from those I've added in the community wiki, notice $MachinePrecision and $MachinePrecision are different, check this post for more information.
Sep 23, 2018 at 11:06 history edited xzczd CC BY-SA 4.0
“$MachinePrecision is the new default” This description is incorrect.
Sep 22, 2018 at 19:09 history edited Johu CC BY-SA 4.0
arbitrary vs machine precision
Aug 3, 2018 at 17:10 comment added Michael E2 Thanks @Chip I have only 11.3 now and didn't notice before.
Aug 3, 2018 at 12:57 history edited Greg Hurst CC BY-SA 4.0
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Aug 2, 2018 at 3:25 comment added Greg Hurst I think LinearAlgebra`MatrixConditionNumber changed in between 11.1 and 11.2.
Aug 1, 2018 at 21:29 history edited Michael E2 CC BY-SA 4.0
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Aug 1, 2018 at 19:58 comment added Mr.Wizard @MichaelE2 Please add it. At the present time this list is a manageable size and I believe it is better to tend toward exhaustiveness. If at some point it becomes unmanageable it may be better to remove such things to a separate post.
Jun 27, 2018 at 13:12 history edited Alexey Popkov CC BY-SA 4.0
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Jun 27, 2018 at 13:07 history edited Alexey Popkov CC BY-SA 4.0
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Apr 25, 2018 at 13:12 history edited Kuba CC BY-SA 3.0
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Mar 12, 2018 at 10:44 history edited Kuba CC BY-SA 3.0
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Mar 12, 2018 at 8:52 history edited Kuba CC BY-SA 3.0
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Nov 5, 2017 at 9:57 history edited Alexey Popkov CC BY-SA 3.0
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Oct 26, 2017 at 10:22 history edited Kuba CC BY-SA 3.0
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Sep 22, 2017 at 20:18 history edited Alexey Popkov CC BY-SA 3.0
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Sep 22, 2017 at 6:13 history edited Alexey Popkov CC BY-SA 3.0
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Sep 21, 2017 at 16:02 history edited Alexey Popkov CC BY-SA 3.0
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Sep 21, 2017 at 10:21 history edited Szabolcs CC BY-SA 3.0
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Sep 21, 2017 at 10:18 comment added Alexey Popkov @Szabolcs I also faced this: copying the image from version 11.2.0 and pasting into versions 8.0.4, 9.0.1 and 10.0.1 results in transparency being flattened, but with version 10.4.1 its OK. That's why I rely only on Import for testing and also check the result with ColorSeparate.
Sep 21, 2017 at 10:10 comment added Szabolcs @AlexeyPopkov You are right. There's something weird: copy-pasting an image from 10.4+ to 10.3- loses (actually: flattens) the alpha channel. Copy-pasting an image from 10.3- to any 10.0+ version does retain the alpha channel. (This is at least what happens on OS X.)
Sep 21, 2017 at 9:59 comment added Mr.Wizard @AlexeyPopkov hm... sorry for sticking my foot in this. I was just trying to be helpful; I didn't realize it was contested. (I get True in 10.1.0 under Windows x64, for what it's worth.)
Sep 21, 2017 at 9:54 comment added Alexey Popkov @Szabolcs I have version 10.0.1 installed on my machine (Win7 x64) and with it img = Import["https://i.sstatic.net/UsJTa.png"]; ImageData[Blur[img, 5]] == ImageData[img] returns True. That's why I'm sure that the change was introduced in 10.0. Do you get other result with version 10.0?
Sep 21, 2017 at 9:41 history edited Mr.Wizard CC BY-SA 3.0
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Sep 21, 2017 at 9:31 history edited Szabolcs CC BY-SA 3.0
this change took place between 10.3 and 10.4
Sep 21, 2017 at 8:04 history edited Alexey Popkov CC BY-SA 3.0
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Sep 21, 2017 at 0:50 history edited Alexey Popkov CC BY-SA 3.0
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May 25, 2017 at 0:12 comment added Mr.Wizard @Kuba I was following the order of the existing official documentation, but I don't have a strong opinion about it either way. I suppose your order puts the information most people will be most interested in at the top. The formatting looks good. Thanks.
May 24, 2017 at 21:59 comment added Kuba @Mr.Wizard was adding one example and ended up reversing the order :), I think it is more user friendly. Also, I've changed layout a little, let me know what do you think, but I can read when headers have the same indentation as items inside.
May 24, 2017 at 21:57 history edited Kuba CC BY-SA 3.0
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Apr 13, 2017 at 12:55 history edited CommunityBot
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Aug 23, 2016 at 0:03 history edited Mr.Wizard CC BY-SA 3.0
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Jul 9, 2015 at 18:26 history edited Mr.Wizard CC BY-SA 3.0
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Jul 9, 2015 at 18:09 comment added J. M.'s missing motivation Yes, it's now good. :)
Jul 9, 2015 at 18:09 history edited J. M.'s missing motivation CC BY-SA 3.0
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Jul 9, 2015 at 18:07 comment added Mr.Wizard @Guess Please let me know if that is sufficiently clear and concise.
Jul 9, 2015 at 18:06 history edited Mr.Wizard CC BY-SA 3.0
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Jul 9, 2015 at 17:57 comment added J. M.'s missing motivation Ah, that's cool then. You can add a prelude, of course.
Jul 9, 2015 at 17:54 comment added Mr.Wizard @Guess Ah, I think I understand the confusion. The bulleted points are not meant as (general) suggestions but specific backward-compatibility patches. The items in this answer are not to be seen as backslides or bugs; they are simply changes that may result in old code (or methods) not working as anticipated, and quick fixes when known. Maybe something about this should be included in a Prelude section?
Jul 9, 2015 at 17:51 comment added J. M.'s missing motivation Well, the suggestion of using DeleteDuplicates[] looks like throwing away useful information to me here, you see.
Jul 9, 2015 at 17:49 comment added Mr.Wizard @Guess Is there something in this post that seems to indicate otherwise?
Jul 9, 2015 at 17:47 comment added J. M.'s missing motivation "returns the same solution several times to indicate its multiplicity" - I'd argue that this is actually an improvement.
Jul 9, 2015 at 17:15 history edited Mr.Wizard CC BY-SA 3.0
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May 20, 2015 at 16:05 comment added David G. Stork Countries in CountryData[] in Mathematica 10.1 are represented as an Entity while in versions 9.0 (and presumably earlier) they are not.
May 12, 2015 at 8:42 history edited Mr.Wizard CC BY-SA 3.0
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Apr 12, 2015 at 21:37 history edited Mr.Wizard CC BY-SA 3.0
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Mar 19, 2015 at 16:46 history edited Albert Retey CC BY-SA 3.0
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Feb 12, 2015 at 10:50 vote accept Mr.Wizard
Feb 12, 2015 at 10:42 history edited Mr.Wizard CC BY-SA 3.0
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Jan 14, 2015 at 10:34 comment added Mr.Wizard @Oleksandr Thanks. I wasn't the one who added that item to this list so I hesitate to remove it entirely, but I think it needs to be amended with this information.
Jan 14, 2015 at 10:34 comment added Oleksandr R. Version 8 and 9 differ; version 5.2 also differs from version 7. I don't have version 6 installed any more so I can't check that, but I wouldn't be surprised if it differs as well. The 32- and 64-bit kernels give the same value as each other in versions 7 and 8, but not in version 9. The magnitudes of the hashes in the 32- and 64-bit kernels of version 9 are also rather different (basically, the 64-bit version gives a 62-bit hash, but the 32-bit one gives 31 bits).
Jan 14, 2015 at 10:21 comment added Mr.Wizard @Oleksandr Interesting. Do you know if all pre-version-8 Hash values were the same? At this point it's clear we shouldn't rely on a constant (default) hash value, but it may have seemed like a reasonable expectation at some time in the past.
Jan 14, 2015 at 10:06 comment added Oleksandr R. Versions 7 and 8 give the same hash value, but in general, the other versions don't. I couldn't see any big differences in the overall magnitude or distribution of the values between 9 and 10, so I would say the algorithm is probably the same, but some internal detail has changed that leads to slightly different results. In general I think the constancy of hash values between versions is something we shouldn't rely on. The only important thing is that there should be no collisions.
Jan 14, 2015 at 2:57 comment added Mr.Wizard @Oleksandr Simply: the (default) hash value returned for a given expression in v10 does not match the (default) hash value from earlier versions.
Jan 14, 2015 at 1:56 comment added Oleksandr R. Could you elaborate on what is the difference with Hash in version 10? The documentation doesn't seem to show any important differences, but since I'm using Windows 2003 I don't have version 10 on this computer to verify it.
Jan 14, 2015 at 1:46 history edited Mr.Wizard CC BY-SA 3.0
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Dec 12, 2014 at 20:19 history edited Mr.Wizard CC BY-SA 3.0
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Dec 12, 2014 at 19:49 history edited Greg Hurst CC BY-SA 3.0
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Dec 12, 2014 at 16:10 history edited Mr.Wizard CC BY-SA 3.0
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Sep 24, 2014 at 9:23 history edited shrx CC BY-SA 3.0
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Sep 24, 2014 at 7:37 history edited Mr.Wizard CC BY-SA 3.0
remove InterpolatingFunction import problem as it was a bug that has now been fixed
Sep 20, 2014 at 13:29 comment added Mr.Wizard @RunnyKine To begin with you should post that here: (57608) Probably that item can be removed from this list as this post is not intended to catalog corrected bugs.
Sep 20, 2014 at 12:55 history edited Mr.Wizard CC BY-SA 3.0
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Sep 20, 2014 at 12:50 comment added RunnyKine Is it worth mentioning that the InterpolationFunction compatibility issue has been fixed in v10.0.1 ?
Sep 20, 2014 at 12:47 history edited Mr.Wizard CC BY-SA 3.0
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Sep 18, 2014 at 13:35 history edited Markus Roellig CC BY-SA 3.0
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Aug 21, 2014 at 21:19 history edited C. E. CC BY-SA 3.0
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Aug 20, 2014 at 0:52 comment added Daniel W @Szabolcs The original report was filed online, I did not keep a copy. Below is a copy of the reply from support: Thanks for contacting Wolfram Technical Support. Regarding the issue you reported, it seems this is an intentional design change. We have internal discussions on this and the argument from the developer is that "Setting $Context to $System on subkernels is necessary to make sure (new) system symbols arrive in the correct context on subkernels, because despite the MathLinkPrintFullSymbolName settings, system symbols do not have their context attached".
Aug 19, 2014 at 0:36 history edited Mr.Wizard CC BY-SA 3.0
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Aug 16, 2014 at 16:32 comment added Szabolcs @DanielW Do you have a link to a discussion about this?
Aug 16, 2014 at 16:29 history edited Szabolcs CC BY-SA 3.0
Image is not atomic in v8.
Aug 16, 2014 at 11:11 history edited C. E. CC BY-SA 3.0
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Aug 12, 2014 at 21:12 history edited eldo CC BY-SA 3.0
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Aug 12, 2014 at 21:08 comment added Simon Woods @eldo, I think the Inset thing is a bug rather than a deliberate change, so it doesn't belong in this list in my opinion.
Aug 12, 2014 at 21:00 history edited eldo CC BY-SA 3.0
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Aug 11, 2014 at 9:03 history edited Sjoerd C. de Vries CC BY-SA 3.0
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Aug 11, 2014 at 8:53 history edited Sjoerd C. de Vries CC BY-SA 3.0
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Aug 10, 2014 at 17:25 history edited Mr.Wizard CC BY-SA 3.0
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Aug 10, 2014 at 17:24 comment added Mr.Wizard @Daniel The edit looks good. Thanks!
Aug 10, 2014 at 15:24 history edited Daniel W CC BY-SA 3.0
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Aug 10, 2014 at 14:34 comment added Daniel W @Mr.Wizard Thanks for letting me know. I was not aware of circumstances where I could edit someone else's post. Also, it seemed presumptuous for me to edit your post. Should I just copy/paste the comment into the post as it is?
Aug 9, 2014 at 19:59 comment added Mr.Wizard @Daniel This is a Community Wiki answer and it should only take 100 "reputation" to edit it. Did you try? And thanks for reporting this change.
Aug 9, 2014 at 19:40 comment added Daniel W I can't edit Mr. Wizard's answer, so he is welcome to add this to his list at his discretion. In version 9, expressions evaluated in parallel default to the Global context. In version 10, expressions evaluated in parallel default to System. This causes shadowing when using ParallelNeeds on packages which are supposed to define global symbols, and leaks symbols into the System context. This has been confirmed by Wolfram support as a design decision, not a bug.
Aug 9, 2014 at 18:05 comment added Mr.Wizard @eldo Thanks; added.
Aug 9, 2014 at 18:05 history edited Mr.Wizard CC BY-SA 3.0
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Aug 8, 2014 at 0:00 comment added eldo @ Mr. Wizard - You might consider rcollyer's excellent answer to this question: mathematica.stackexchange.com/questions/56829/…
Aug 6, 2014 at 18:24 comment added rm -rf @Mr.Wizard I think we have (at least in the past) consistently been applying CW to anything that calls for a growing and collaborative "list of x" regardless of whether that list is presented as one post or many. It is a more recent phenomenon that such questions are not CW, but that seems more an oversight... I don't have a particular opinion on the format — I'm sure there are other equally useful formats that others might come up with. Your choice shouldn't prevent them from using theirs. I added my entry to yours in your format because I didn't think it warranted a new post.
Aug 6, 2014 at 17:46 comment added Mr.Wizard @rm-rf Regarding your changing this post to CW, I suppose that is appropriate if this is to be the sole answer, but I actually did not intend that, though I failed to state my intentions in the Question. I chose an Issue: Solution: format unlike the existing documentation, which is simply a bulleted list of changes with no comment on impact or work-arounds. I thought others might have a different idea for how this information should be presented. Do you feel that the format I chose is sufficiently universal to be the sole answer?
Aug 6, 2014 at 16:58 comment added rm -rf Yup, I almost always write a space for implicit Times. Probably started doing that because I used to (and still do) write in code cells or with non-interactive editors such as vim/IDEA.
Aug 6, 2014 at 16:27 comment added Mr.Wizard @rm-rf The interactive editor would previously auto-space such things just as it still does when you type 3x. (I don't mean that it enters a literal space but rather shows the expression with spacing.) Do you always type a space between such things? I have not as it seemed like wasted effort.
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Aug 6, 2014 at 16:18 comment added rm -rf Writing #x and #"string" in versions < 10 to mean # x and # "string" respectively is bad form anyway (a habit propagated by the Church of the Tersists, no doubt ;)). Such code deserves to be broken :P
Aug 6, 2014 at 9:29 comment added magma Klingon character support has been removed: that's because Klingons do not respect the Galactic Copyright Treaty
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