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Author replaces AI-slop Detexify with LaTeX symbol list

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The author has updated their mathematics learning advice to recommend "The Comprehensive LaTeX Symbol List" as a replacement for Detexify. This change was prompted by Detexify's perceived decline into "AI slop." The author expresses a desire for a free and open-source alternative to Detexify's image recognition capabilities for finding mathematical symbols. AI

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Author replaces AI-slop Detexify with LaTeX symbol list

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  1. Mastodon — sigmoid.social TIER_1 English(EN) · [email protected] ·

    Since Detexify is now # AI slop, I have updated my one-pager of advice for learning mathematics to recommend The Comprehensive LaTeX Symbol List ( https:// tug.

    Since Detexify is now # AI slop, I have updated my one-pager of advice for learning mathematics to recommend The Comprehensive LaTeX Symbol List ( https:// tug.ctan.org/info/symbols/comp rehensive/symbols-a4.pdf ) for finding symbols. This is kind of a bad solution, since Detexif…

    LINKS tug.ctan.org/…/symbols-a4.pdf aten.cool/one_pager.html detexify.kirelabs.org

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