Here is my comment policy, and technical help if you want to include equations in your comments:<\/p>\n
1) You are welcome to leave comments on old posts\u2014pretend they were all written yesterday!<\/p>\n
If you attempt to leave a comment and for some reason it does not appear, perhaps it has gotten stuck in the spam filter.\u00a0 Please send me an email letting me know and I will rectify the situation.<\/p>\n
2) Please make some attempt to put your comment on a topically suitable top-level article, e.g. the one which you are responding to.\u00a0 (If you can’t find a good place, go ahead and put it somewhere random\u2014I don’t mind the occasional off-topic comment, but it’s awkward if it could<\/em> have been on-topic had you put it in the correct place.)<\/p>\n 3) You can include LaTeX<\/a> formulae in your comments by putting \\\\(\\)( on the left and \\\\(\\)) on the right.\u00a0 For example, \\\\(\\)(E = mc^2\\\\(\\)) becomes \\(E = mc^2\\).\u00a0 If you want to break it out into its own line, you can instead place a double dollar sign $\\(\\)$ on both the left and right of the expression, like e.g. 4) Don’t use the symbols < or > in your comment (unless you use just one), as WordPress may intepret them as an html tag and mutilate your comment<\/a>!\u00a0 You can make these symbols by inserting \\lt or \\gt inside of the latex delimiters, for < or > respectively.\u00a0 Alternatively you can use the html escape codes \\(\\&\\)lt; or \\(\\&\\)gt; even outside of the double dollar signs.<\/p>\n 5) At this time there is no way to edit your own comments to fix typos or incorrect equations.\u00a0 However, if you write a second comment pointing out the mistake, I usually\u00a0fix your original comment and delete the correction, so that it looks like you got it right from the beginning.<\/p>\n 6) This is a Christian website, which exists for the purpose of glorifying God.\u00a0 Commenters with other beliefs are welcome to comment on the site for purposes of friendly discussion, but I ask that you refrain from gratuitious blasphemy (i.e. derogatory insults and jokes directed at God which aren’t necessary in order to respectfully state your position).<\/p>\n
\n$\\(\\)$\\frac{e^{-X^2 \/ 2}}{\\sqrt{2\\pi}}$\\(\\)$ becomes $$\\frac{e^{-X^2 \/ 2}}{\\sqrt{2\\pi}}.$$ (These are a bit different from the earlier rules before the blog update in 2026; I think I fixed all of the old posts and comments, but please let me know if you spot any broken equations!)<\/p>\n