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Q: Different results from MP2 calculations on same geometry in ORCA

Hemanth HaridasI am trying to do a segmented potential energy scan around a dihedral for a molecule. I have optimized the geometry to a minima, and the scan runs from [-180, 180] in steps of two points at a time. This is the input file that I used to calculate the energies at $\phi = 170$ and $\phi = 160$. The ...

 
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Q: Incompatible data types between flow collection variable and invocable apex method's list parameter

joacoiudicaI'm having an issue with a flow and an apex invocable action I want to add. this is my apex class: public without sharing class EnsayosRedPropiaConVentasCRMAction { @InvocableMethod(label = 'Validar Red Propia si tienen ventas CRM' description = 'Devuelve las listas de productores con licencias ...

 
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Q: The best interpretable regression model currently

KarenI'm seeking recommendations for explainable regression models for tabular data. I'm looking for approaches that offer a balance between complexity and interpretability – something more sophisticated than simple linear regression or decision trees. While I'm aware of popular options like SHAP, LIM...

 
12:34 AM
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Q: Are all coherent inferences deductive, inductive or abductive?

user66697Are all coherent inferences deductive, inductive or abductive? If I justify a belief (to some degree) to myself, and it is not the best explanation, I am not deducing it from any premise, and it is not an induction from something occurring to it occurring again, then is my justification a sham? W...

 
12:56 AM
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Q: Executing method with time limit restrictions

FlameHorizonI've created a method which allows to run tasks where results might not be fully computed but still are considered valid. ExecuteFor method can be used if you have limited amount of time in which you would like to calculate something, and even if calculation is not completed, you would want still...

 
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Q: What is the reason for the difference between Eloi and Eli?

Jason_ Mark 15:34, And at the ninth hour Jesus cried out with a loud voice, saying, “Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani?” which is translated, “My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me?” Matthew 27:46, And about the ninth hour Jesus cried out with a loud voice, saying, “Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani?” that is, ...

 
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Q: Alternative methods for heat management(short and medium term)

BubblesI am aware of methods such as heatsinks, radiators, and thermoelectric generators, but I was wondering if there are any alternative methods to dissipate heat on a military vessel in combat. Preferably without dumping raw mass into deep space for no other purpose than heat management, although if ...

 
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Q: Short story about Soviet centralized networked computing model

sattler360I remember an alternate story from a while ago where the Soviet Union promoted a centralized networked computing model that proved more effective than the decentralized Western version. As I recall it was written from a somewhat triumphalist POV that presumed the West was structurally incapable o...

 
ELL
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Q: Why is "the same" always with "the", but "identical" without it?

matj1As far as I know, “same” and “identical” have identical meaning. Why is one used with “the” and one without “the”? I can argue that “same” should always have “the”: When thing 2 is the same as thing 1, they are actually just one thing. So only one thing is the same as thing 1, i. e. thing 1. So “...

 
1:42 AM
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Q: Academic misconduct effect on potential acceptance

First LastSo ive received an academic misconduct (yes my fault) which will result in an F in the course and a term suspension. However, they take a very long time to issue a punishment and so oftentimes you’ll pass the class with your original grade but later on they’ll make you fail it. The issue is ive a...

 
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Q: In the RL02 disk system, why does the “read” command take CHS coordinates, when there is also a separate “seek” command?

Folkert van HeusdenWhy is it that the RL02 disk system of the PDP11 has a seek command yet the read command also knows where to read from as the cylinder/head/sector are given via the 'DAR' register? http://www.bitsavers.org/www.computer.museum.uq.edu.au/pdf/EK-RL012-UG-005%20RL01-RL02%20User%20Guide.pdf page 4-13

 
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Q: Number relations in a number table

KazemI found this puzzle in a school study group. Choices are 9, 10,11, 12, 13. $$ \begin{array}{|c|c|c|c|} \hline 22& 22 & 23 & 24 \\ \hline 22 & 32& 41& 52\\ \hline 23 & 41 & 50 & 61\\ \hline x & 17 & 26& 37 \\ \hline \end{array} $$ I have tried so many operations on these numbers with many various ...

 
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Q: Logical Definition of Isomorphism

KarajiI'm trying to define isomorphism in a logical way. Is the following statement true for Isomorphism's definition? Let $\langle S,⋆\rangle$ and $\langle S',⋆'\rangle$ be Algebraic Structures. These two structures are isomorphic if and only if: $$\left( \exists \phi : S \rightarrow S' \right) \left...

 
2:07 AM
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Q: What materials and building techniques would a Late Medieval-Renaissance city use next to an ocean?

ElizaOnyxI'm designing a coastal city (called Bruxport), and I'm wondering what types of materials and techniques would be used to help combat erosion, water damage, and salt build-up from damaging buildings? I was thinking of the inhabitants using sandstone bricks and mortar, with painted/plastered exte...

 
2:30 AM
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Q: Seventies or Eighties EasternMysticism or Martial Arts SF Duology

BrunoI used to own the first book of what I think was a duology. I'm pretty sure I bought it, in England, in the late seventies, possibly early eighties, and it was recent at that time, so not a reprint of an old book. I think the title of each book was a single word, or name, possibly Japanese. Most ...

 
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Q: Why is it called Camelot wheel? Why Camelot?

Franck DernoncourtI read on https://dj.studio/blog/camelot-wheel: The Camelot Wheel is a modern system to help DJs navigate the musical keys of their music. It's based on the circle of fifths, with the only difference being the use of additional labels instead of using the original key names. This aims to make it...

 
DSP
3:15 AM
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Q: Impulse response of a causal LTI system without using Laplace transform

LorenzoI have this differential equation that models a causal LTI system: $$ \ddot{v}(t) - \dot{v}(t) - 2v(t) = \ddot{u}(t) + 2\dot{u}(t) + u(t) $$ I was asked to find the impulse response both by using Laplace transform and by solving the ODE. The first method is quite simple: set initial conditions to...

 
CS
1
Q: How do I tell if a shunt resistor is routed using the Kelvin method?

JoeyBI am struggling to get my head around Kelvin PCB routing for shunt resistors. First how do I tell if a shunt resistor on a PCB is routed using the Kelvin method? Below are three images: THE TWO RED RECTANGLES ARE COPPER POURS THE TWO THIN TRACES ARE GOING TO THE SENSOR IC PLEASE SEE QUESTIONS A...

 
3:38 AM
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Q: Perturbation of zeros of an entire function of exponential type

J. SwailSuppose that $(z_n) \subset \mathbb C$ is a sequence (repetitions allowed) such that $$ F(z) = \prod_n \left ( 1-\frac{z}{z_n} \right ) $$ defines an entire function of exponential type, that is, $|F(z)| \leq ae^{b|z|}$ for $a,b > 0$. Further, let $(p_n) \subseteq \mathbb C$ be a bounded sequence...

 
4:01 AM
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Q: On intersection of finite index fully invariant subgroup

ShriLet $G$ be a group. A subgroup $H$ of $G$ is said to be fully invariant if for every endomorphism $\phi $ of $G$, we have $\phi(H) \subseteq H$. For a finitely generated residually finite group $G$, let $N$ be the intersection of all finite index fully invariant subgroup of $G$. It seems in all t...

 
1
Q: Which consulate should I contact when my country doesn't have one in the destination country?

KubaI'm a Polish citizen travelling to Timor-Leste. There's no Polish diplomatic mission there. There's an embassy of Portugal in Dili, and I understand that according to EU rules they're supposed to help any EU citizen in case of an emergency. However on the website of the Embassy of the Republic of...

 
4:23 AM
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Q: What motives would Democrats have to vote either in favor or against vacating Mike Johnson's speakership if a motion to vacate were voted on?

NzallMarjorie Taylor Greene is currently floating the idea of issuing a motion to vacate the Speakership of Mike Johnson in the House of Representatives in US Congress. This would be the second such motion in roughly 6 months, after former Speaker Kevin McCarthy was ousted last year. I only have a pas...

 
2
Q: how to check status of DNS resolution service and/or restart in macOS?

DanielBackground Connected to WiFi on Macbook Air, Early 2014, running Big Sur 11.7.10, logged in as a Standard (limited) User. Symptoms Browsing Internet works fine on Google Chrome. nslookup google.com works fine from Terminal. Browsing Internet does NOT work from Safari. ping google.com does NOT wo...

 
4:46 AM
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Q: A Difficult Colombian Sudoku?

Bernardo Recamán SantosThis Colombian Sudoku is by Xavier Castillo. Usual Sudoku rules apply. Additionally, digits on each of the two diagonal must all be different. The dots outside the board above indicate how many cells in the corresponding column or row of that board contain precisely the same digit as is to be fou...

 
ELL
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Q: Should I use hyphens or quotation marks to modify a noun?

XonelaShould I use hyphens or quotation marks to modify a noun? For example, a what-did-I-do-last-night hangover or a "what did I do last night" hangover Which one is/are correct? Is there any difference between them?

 
5:07 AM
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Q: Is there a good term for a 'paper trail' that actually consists of e-mail communication?

Ben BolkerI've seen "digital paper trail" and "electronic paper trail", but I'm wondering if there is a better (more elegant, widely used?) term for a record of electronic communication that would have been called a "paper trail" in the olden days ...

 
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Q: Isomorphism theorem misunderstanding

nezam jazayeriOne of the isomorphism theorems states $(HN) \ / \ N \cong H \ / \ (H\cap N)$. I am confused about the first part $(HN) \ / \ N$, and whether it is equivalent to $H \ / \ N$. Every element in $HN$ is $hn$ for some $h \in H, n \in N$. So then every coset in $(HN) \ / \ N$ can be expressed as $\{hn...

 
RPG
5:34 AM
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Q: What is "Vancian" magic in D&D?

user10063In discussions of D&D, especially discussing older editions, the term Vancian sometimes comes up: "Vancian" spellcasting, "Vancian" magic system. But this word doesn't actually seem to exist in any Dungeons & Dragons rulebooks, in any edition, old or new. The word is apparently just common knowle...

 
5:55 AM
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Q: Would this method of lightning superpowers work?

Coolcats112In my previous question I mentioned a character with the ability to control electricity. I had an idea of them using Lorentz forces as a main method of offense but we found that this was extremely inefficient. So I am resorting to the traditional method of electrokinetic characters and their offe...

 
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Q: Book series about a soldier or ex-soldier that is brought back to life using magic

HabsI've read the first book in a series sometime ago where some kind of soldier I believe dies but some government agency brings him back to life using some djinn?/magic powers. All that I remember: he escapes the facility he was in he has to duct tape parts of his body together he re-unites with h...

 
6:17 AM
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Q: Is there a way to use tee with the whole script from INSIDE the script?

Carlos GonzálezI'm making a script to update the system (Ubuntu 22.04), updating all packages in apt, flatpak and snap with one order (like sudo ./update.sh) and, in case something goes wrong, I want to save the output in a file. I have two ways to do this. One is to redirect the standard output of every order ...

 
CS
7:04 AM
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Q: What's the best way to "sip" some power out of a high voltage dc system?

Matthew NeberI am designing a product for utility scale solar panel systems that operates at a maximum of 1500 V DC per circuit. For convenience, I'd like to power some electronics by tapping into the 1500 V DC. If I can get down to ~15 V DC that would be most desirable. The load requirement is about 1 A. Ide...

 
7:27 AM
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Q: What is the arc-length parameterization of an ellipse?

AnalysizingI know the typical parameterization of an ellipse is (a cos(t), b sin(t)). However, this is not an arc-length parameterization and I can't make the usual techniques for getting an arc-length parameterization to work since there is square root in the integrand that doesn't simplify if a is not equ...

 
8:11 AM
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Q: Why two um in this sentence

khurram ShahzadI used a translator to translate this sentence but I am confused on why we have two um in the dependent clause. I understand um__zu is acting as a conjunction but why additional um? i.e. um1 mich um2 sie zum kümmern English original: The doctor has recommended her bed rest and I have to stay w...

 
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Q: What is canonical spectral theorem?

BrettMy teacher given me the definition of the canonical spectrum theorem which is given below: Let a matrix the $A \in M_{n\times n}(\mathbb{R})$, and set of eigen values,$\sigma(A)$={$\lambda_1$,$\lambda_2$........,$\lambda_k$}. $A$ is diagonalisable $\Leftrightarrow A = \sum{\lambda_ip_i}$ such tha...

 
8:56 AM
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Q: Switching advisors after they got a grant

Anonymous AcademicI am a third-year PhD student, and I have lost interest in my research area; after finishing up a recent project, I have had trouble for several months coming up with a new project in my advisor's research area that I am excited about working on. They have suggested that if I am no longer excited...

 
9:43 AM
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Q: Understanding Syntactic Congruence & Order

Jason BerryReading through Jean-Eric Pin's "Mathematical Foundations of Automata Theory". Love this book. However, I am confused by the following section, and am hoping for some clarity and more examples if possible. I need this for my research. Syntactic order definition I am not sure exactly how it is use...

 
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Q: Book about a robotic probe comes to Earth and asks to be destroyed

JayI am looking for a science fiction book that I read multiple decades ago. I cannot recall the exact title or author, and I was hoping for some assistance, without wasting much of your time. The story is that a robotic probe has come to earth and has asked to be destroyed. It sows a path of destru...

 
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Q: Is OPT a "passport or national identity card" for ESTA purposes?

Diego SánchezFilling in the ESTA application, I was asked this question: "Have you ever been issued a passport or national identity card for travel by any other country?" If I was approved for OPT once, is the answer yes or no?

 
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Q: Terminology clarification about sample moments

user1420303According to MathWorld (link): "The sample raw moments are unbiased estimators of the population raw moments". While in Wikipedia (link) it is said: ...the $k$-th raw moment of a population can be estimated using the $k$-th raw sample moment $$\frac{1}{n}\sum_{i = 1}^{n} X^k_i$$ applied to a sam...

 
10:08 AM
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Q: A book about a kid who has a magic baseball glove

Naftali BederI'm looking for a story that matches this description: A kid had a magic glove that could catch anything. He traded it away so that he could make a tunnel under his baseball field, to prevent a road from being built through the field. There was a magical creature who gave the kid the power to as...

 
 
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12:00 PM
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Q: What was that glowing green thing that soldiers threw in the corridor of the White House in the final battle scene of “Civil War?”

Giacomo1968In Alex Garland’s film, Civil War (2024), during the final battle scene at one point a soldier throws a glowing green thing in the corridor of the White House. This wasn’t a grenade or a flash-bang, but it was just like a green glow stick that did nothing but glow. What was that glowing green thi...

 
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Q: Godot: Spawn an object in 3D

AndyD273I've been looking for a tutorial and am hoping that someone can point me in the right direction. I'm working on a FPS game in Godot, and I want to be able to drop a flare on the ground at the players position. I created a scene with a "flare", which right now is basically just a sphere mesh insta...

 
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Q: Looking for a SF story with Checkpoint Charlie and a male scientist disguised as a woman

BingoI recall reading in English a short story about the extraction of a German (or Russian) scientist defector from the Iron Curtain in a fiction published in a magazine somewhere in the early 1970s (it was probably Asimov's or F & SF). The narrative took place during the Cold War. A woman assisted a...

 
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Q: ID an old aircraft

kegaroThis cribbage board is a mystery I am trying to solve. It has an aircraft flanked by linked flags - they look like the Union Jack and the former Canadian Flag - and a maple leaf. It suggests that it's a commemoration of a 30's/40's aviation link between those countries. I have asked the ques...

 
12:44 PM
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Q: I am new to Blender, I want to create this certain shape of a shampoo bottle, any help is appreciated!

SealeoI wanted to create this extrude on this cylinder that I have modelled to look like the bottle from this shampoo. I am having problems with achieving this shape on the bottle, any help is appreciated! The blue arrow is the extruded kind of look I want to apply on the model replica of the exact sha...

 
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Q: You won't believe what John's hostesses discovered

JafeThis is a three-dimensional crossword. The seven grids below depict the layers of a 7x7x7 cube. "Across" and "down" clues work like in normal crosswords, and "away" clues go through the layers, using circled cells only. Solve on Penpa+ Across 1. John's hostesses discovered he's frequently almost...

 
CS
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Q: Something fishy with canonical momentum fixed at boundary in classical action

ChamThere's something fishy that I don't get clearly with the action principle of classical mechanics, and the endpoints that need to be fixed (boundary conditions). Please, take note that I'm not interested in answers with the hamiltonian, which isn't the point here. I want to stay within the Lagr...

 
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Q: Why was Bhisma unable to glorify Lord Shiva as he previously glorified Sri Hari Vishnu without hesitation?

ParameśvaraIn Mahabharata, Anushasana Parva we see that when Yudhisthira asked Bhishma to say about Lord Shiva , Bhisma expressed his inability to do so but when Yudhisthira asked to glorify Vishnu ji then Bhisma didn't hesitateto glorify Shri Hari Vishnu. Bhisma said he can't glorify Lord Shiva only Krishn...

 
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Q: How do you stay stable when landing/ Taking off on an F-35 during a VTOL landing/Takeoff?

Jordan StephanI saw a video of a F-35 landing vertically using its fans and was curious as to how they do that without a tail rotor? Why don't they spin out like a helicopter does when it loses its tail?

 
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Q: Linear Algebra Done Right 4th edition Chapter 7B Exercise 24 on diagonalizability and conjugate transpose

TimThis is a problem from Linear Algebra Done Right 4th edition Chapter 7B (This is an open access book available from Professor Sheldor Axler's website). I am self-studying and need some help. The problem goes like this: T is a operator on a finite-dimensional vector space over F (field). (1) Suppo...

 
1:31 PM
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Q: How can I find volume of polyhedron so that Abs[x] + Abs[y] + Abs[z] <= 6$ && Abs[x] + Abs[y] + Abs[z - 2] <= 6?

minhthien_2016I am trying find volume of the polyhedron so that $|x| + |y| + |z| \leqslant 6$ and $|x| + |y| + |z-2| \leqslant 6$. RegionPlot3D[{Abs[x] + Abs[y] + Abs[z] <= 6 && Abs[x] + Abs[y] + Abs[z - 2] <= 6}, {x, -8, 8}, {y, -10, 10}, {z, -6, 6}, Boxed -> False, Axes -> False] I change $z$ R...

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Q: Flattening nested data generated in a table

KZ-SpectraThe data in the following is structured like this $\{\cdot,\{\cdot,\cdot\}\}$, but I need it like this $\{\cdot,\cdot,\cdot\}$. How do I do this? termTwo[k_,α_,θ_,A_] := Sum[((1+A^2)Cos[m θ](Sin[(m k)/2])^2)/m^(1+α), {m, 1, 200}] termOne[k_,θ_,α_,A_]:= Sum[((1+A^2)Cos[m θ](Sin[(m k)/2])^2-A^2 Cos...

 
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Q: Do I need permissions to list companies using my library?

Tobias HermannI'm maintaining an open-source library, which uses the MIT license. From contributions on GitHub and other discussions, I know of a few companies that use (or at least used) my library. The MIT license includes The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies...

 
1:54 PM
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Q: Sci-fi short story taking place on a swampy planet (could be Venus) on which the natives are like water ducks or geese

KiltiNasyonI remember reading a short story in a science fiction magazine (probably published between 1937 and 1965) in which an Earth conglomerate had hired a galactic consultant and sent him to a distant planet (I think it was Venus) to exploit the native resources of that world. It turned out that this p...

 
TeX
2:16 PM
3
Q: How to use the penpos/penstroke inside a parametrized macro?

sigsegvI am trying to create parameterized macro to draw a shape with penpos and penstroke macros in MetaPost (Metafont?) with plain.mp base but I am getting a error. Running the code below, def curve_st(expr p) = begingroup save z; pair z[]; z0 = p; z1 = p + (2,-2); z2 = z1 + (0, 5...

 
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Q: Can you have a planet as bright as Venus orbiting at 1.0 AU with no significant atmosphere?

Sam MoonI'm basically trying to have a hot volcanic planet with lots of visible lava within a short distance of my pov planet, so that it would be large in the sky; orbiting at 0.9-1.1 AU. I want it to be visible with the naked eye. Is there any way you could get such a planet to look like this?

 
2:41 PM
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Q: Expected value of number of specific cards in starting hands in a card game

ENMI don't understand what I found when calculating the expected value of a card game. A deck contains 40 cards. 8 of them are red cards and 32 of them are blue cards. At the start of the game, 5 cards are drawn to be the starting hand. The question is to find the expected value of drawing red cards...

 
3:01 PM
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Q: Success of Aggressive Rebuttal Strategy

mto_19I have observed that in rebuttals (conference and journals) the author-side is usually very polite, positive, and submissive. Some phrases I commonly read are "Thank you for the detailed improvement suggestions. We will incorporate them into our work." "We are happy to read that our work was wel...

 
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Q: What did "The Emperor of the Atlantic greets the Emperor of the Pacific" mean (Germany pre-WW1)?

user103496From the 1907 Eyre Crowe memorandum ("Perceptions of German Foreign Policy in England"): No one who has a knowledge of German political thought, and who enjoys the confidence of German friends speaking their minds openly and freely, can deny that these are the ideas which are proclaimed on the h...

 
1
Q: Why do some transactions wildly overpay fees?

Casey RodarmorIt's very common to see transactions that pay extremely high fee rates, easily 10, 100, or more times the any reasonable high-priority fee rate. Who makes these transactions, and why do they overbid to get into blocks?

 
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Q: Is real-time processing a synonym for streaming?

bridgemncI watched two YouTube videos where in: 1st one - there are concepts of batch processing and stream ingestion and in the 2nd one - there is a comparison between batch and real time processing. Is it fair to say that when we refer to streaming and real time processing then we are actually talking a...

 
3:24 PM
3
Q: Combine animations

Green BeetleI have a simple animation with two moving parts. How can I speed up and slow down the two parts together? I want the counters to start slowly, speed up, and slow down at the end.

 
DIY
3:48 PM
1
Q: Do very low-pitch roofs put too much outward stress on the walls?

MoykI’m building a 18.2 feet (555cm) by 15 feet (460cm) shed, and due to local regulations it can’t be higher than 8.2 feet (250cm). Because I have a 20-inch (50cm) thick foundation structure above ground, and because I want at least a 6 feet (184cm) high doorframe, I’m way above 8.2 feet. To reduce ...

 
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Q: Does it mean that Robert is correcting Isador Rabi when he says ‘Canyons of New Mexico’?

Avalon SinclairAfter his lecture, Heisenberg meets Rabi and Oppenheimer. Robert reveals his intent to return to America to address the lack of serious attention towards quantum mechanics, which is his primary reason for returning: Isador Rabi: He's pining for the canyons of Manhattan. ROBERT: Canyons of New Me...

 
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Q: For every sequence of nonempty open sets there is a disjoint sequence of nonempty open sets "below" it

erzI am looking for any information about the following property for a compact Hausdorff space $K$: For any sequence $\left(U_{n}\right)$ of nonempty open sets (not necessarily distinct) there is a disjoint sequence $\left(V_{n}\right)$ of nonempty open sets such that $V_{n}\subset U_{n}$, for every...

 
4:10 PM
1
Q: How to automatically copy settings from viewport shading to workbench render Engine? Thank you

XanaHow to automatically copy settings from viewport shading to workbench render Engine? Thank you.

 
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Q: How to find the legs of a right triangle if its hypotenuse is numerically equal to its area?

AlexanderI have an amazing ancient problem collection book by Chistyakov. I have managed to solve 165 problems of 248 (as of now, i. e. of time of current question posting); the remaining ones are really hard. If you permit, I would like to ask help for problem #100. One must find the legs (= catheti) of ...

 
4:55 PM
1
Q: Create concentric scaled rings with individual noise translation to each instance

Meestar PI am attempting to create the following outcome using a generated Curve Circle in geo nodes. What I want to do: Duplicate the Curve Circle a few times. Then scale them down concentrically Be able to adjust the Curve Circle instances to be equally spaced to randomly spaced Then be able to give e...

 
TeX
2
Q: How to make the right ends of equations in a split environment to align vertically?

AnalystI have an align environment inside of which I use a split environment to split the second long equation: I would like to ask how to push + h and + k to the right such that their right ends are the same as that of f+g. In this particular case, g, h and k are aligned vertically. Thank you so much ...

 
2
Q: Paradox of Brier skill score of perfectly calibrated output?

FirebugGiven outcomes, $y \in \{0,1\}$ and outputs $o = f(x) \in \mathbb R, o \in [0,1]$, I'm interested in the case where the model $f$ perfectly models the variable $Y$. Since $Y$ is Bernoulli, this means $$ P(Y=1\mid X=x)=f(x)\\ P(Y=0\mid X=x)=1-f(x) $$ Thus $$ E\left[Y\mid X=x\right]=f(x) $$ And \be...

 
5:40 PM
1
Q: Avoiding throw because we are never sure they will be caught

sayanelI'm a junior in my company, and one of the rule coding rule they have is: "a constructor object must never fail" (i.e. never throw). So what if I give them a invalid parameter? Then, the object should be constructed anyway and there should be another way to check if the object is valid, like an i...

 
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Q: Blob.valueOf() creates corrupted .zip for application/octet-stream HttpResponse

Mariia IllarionovaI am trying to put application/octet-stream HttpResponse body to a .zip file (ContentVersion). I am doing it like this: insert new ContentVersion( Title = title, PathOnClient = title + '.zip', ContentLocation = 'S', VersionData = Blob.valueOf(res.getBody()) ); The file is crea...

 
6:26 PM
4
Q: Simple Java Command-line Checkers Game

ViceroyFaustI was working on a checker's game for a college project. After I did a sprint to finish it, I want to improve the movement logic. Right now, it is housed within the Game.java class. I feel like the methods I've created are too large and convoluted and there must be a way to simplify this logic. A...

 
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Q: What is a good material to use in a blood vessel model?

Bilal Bahadır AkbulutI'm trying to create a training model for neurosurgery that utilizes 3D printed bones and associated vessels. I intend to use a pump to run artifical blood through these vessels. So they need to be elastic and should be possibly damaged/cut by the wrong cutting maneuvers or drill touches. Ideally...

 
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Q: A Venndredi Special!

AlteringIntegralAnother Venn based puzzle from me. The three overlapping ellipses form seven curved regions. Your task is to place exactly one tile per region, so that the four tiles in any one ellipse can solve the corresponding clue!

 
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Q: Classical computation required in Shor's algorithm: are they heavy?

HelloManA quantum computer also requires to perform classical computations. I would like to know if to implement Shor's algorithm, there is a heavy classical computation cost (i.e. that would require a supercomputer). I exclude the computation costs required by quantum error-correction, and the classical...

 
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Q: Is every ring a homomorphic image of some ideal or subring of a free algebra?

user760Since every group is the homomorphic image of a free group, and every module is the homomorphic image of a free module, do we have an analogous result for the rings? To take into account of nonunital rings, I wonder if we can always start from an ideal, or at least a subring, of a free algebra, a...

 
DIY
6:50 PM
1
Q: Can porcelain tile be stored in an attic which will exceed 100 degrees?

JamesI need to store spare tile in my Florida attic. Is there a temperature issue when storing ceramic or porcelain tile?

 
7:12 PM
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Q: How to politely say that I am not doing extra work after back to the office policies?

Nepene NepOur workplace decided that to support the economy we needed to be back in the office and reduce time working from home. They did so. They are very firm on this policy and very touchy about any criticism of it. After that, they said that due to hard financial times we would need to do more work to...

 
CS
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Q: Deflection of current in a metal plate conductor

DanielIf I have a metal plate (square in shape) and an electric current moves from one side to the other. I understand that most of the current will take the path of least resistance but all paths will be taken. However, is it possible to use magnets to control the direction of the current by deflectin...

 
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Q: Error with Cauchy Integral Formula

adisnjoI have been told to calculate $$ \int_0^{2\pi}\frac{1}{2+2\text{sin}(\theta)} d\theta $$ I set $z = e^{i \theta}$ so parameterising by the unit circle and ended up with $$ \int_C \frac{1}{(z+i)^2} dz $$ My issue is that $-i$ is not in the interior of the unit circle so I can't apply the cauchy in...

 
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Q: Is this Python/Pygame that draws a maze well structured?

José GomesI'm not very confident about this piece of code I created, it basically takes a file like this: ## # ## ## # #B # # # ## ## ## A###### Then proceeds to draw a maze in the window. The class Maze has 3 variables: columns, rows and maze_layout (a matrix each location is a character) exampl...

 
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Q: Number subappendices using lowercase small caps in memoir

Fredrik PI want sections in subappendices to be numbered using lowercase small caps in memoir. That is, I want all references to these sections to use lowercase small caps. From the top of my head, this includes: The section heading \section{An appendix\label{an_appendix}} References to the section \ref{...

 
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Q: Analog to PWM for Analog input on Retro game controller?

John BattelleOn the NES and SNES a common feature on 3rd party controllers was "Slow-motion". It worked by repeatedly pressing and releasing the start button. Because many games simply froze gameplay when paused, this effectively caused the game to run at half speed. I had the thought that it would probably b...

 
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Q: What is the significance of the bovine sacrificial animal being referred to as ' heifer ' in the OT?

Kadalikatt Joseph SibichanOld Testament refers to cow, especially that meant as a sacrificial offering as ' heifer'. A heifer is a cow in the making in that it has not borne a calf. Did God want his people to spare cows with calves from getting sacrificed? Elsewhere we see the instruction that a kid be not boiled in its ...

 
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Q: Science fiction story with a made up religion called Sa'tong

RobinI read this book between ten and fifteen years ago, probably more towards fifteen years ago. The book was older. I have no real idea on how old but if I would have to guess I would say it was written in the late 70s up to the 90s somewhere. I got it from my local library (in Europe). It was a poc...

 
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Q: Is there an option to install R packages without documentation for more efficient storing?

Alberto Agudo DominguezI am installing packages based on a Docker file in a machine with very small storage capacities. My question is whether there is any way to install a more lightweight version of R packages that avoids non-critical bits of the package for deployed code such as the documentation. Is there a way to ...

 
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Q: Is there an API for chess-results.com

MariusTL;DR: Does the website chess-results.com have an API? Long version: I'm working on something that needs some information about tournaments and games that reside on chess-results.com. I could use a proper API (readonly is enough) so I would not scrape different pages and parse & process HTML. Mos...

 
8:20 PM
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Q: How to hide or disable the cmd console when starting an executable

WoJI wrote an executable that displays a window on the screen and gets some use input. It is bound to ⊞ Win+N: #n:: Run "C:\Perso\dev-perso\dly\dly.exe" My problem: this also opens a cmd (or PS) console which sometimes covers the actual program: Is there a way to start an executable without the as...

 
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Q: Admissible values for non diagonal elements of correlation matrix

XY0Preparing for possible job market interview questions I was reading some questions on the site. Regarding this question with its solution interview questions Question Let $\mathbf{C}$ be a $n\times n$ covariance matrix such that all diagonal elements are equal to 1, and the non-diagonal ones to ...

 
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Q: How should I format a surprise scene change such that it reads coherently but is still a surprise?

Ayula OneOneIn the current WIP chapter of my most popular web serial, there is a scene at the beginning that is presented as happening "now" (that is, having regular story focus) only to be suddenly interrupted by an objection from a character outside the scene, revealing immediately that the actual focus is...

 
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Q: In "I don’t want my users knowing that I’m handing them an interface.", why is the severity "I don’t want" instead of "Users don't need to know"?

wcminipgasker2023According to Should interface names begin with an "I" prefix?, I know I should not add prefix "i" to interface because of some reasons. However, I'm not raising new reasons to support or oppose the prefix "i" on interface. Instead what I don't understand is, why would the post use the tone "I don...

 
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Q: Optimizing Perfect Hash Table Implementation in C for Improved Performance

AndrewStrizhI wrote code that implements perfect hash table, according to its description in the book "Introduction to Algorithms by Thomas H Cormen", but the code does not pass time tests in contest. I would really appreciate any help in making this code run faster (code must be in clear C). Regarding the m...

 
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Q: Finding minimum without using derivative

matholympicmanFind the minimum of $y=f(x)=\dfrac{x^3}{x-6}$ for $x>6$ I can solve the question using derivatives but I have no any idea how to do it without them. Using derivatives, we find $x=9$ and $y_{min}=243$.

 
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Q: Is there no liberal arts "school" that is also a research "school"?

Aidan W. MurphyNote: Using "school" as an alternative word, because "college" and "university" have different implications for degree level awarded, at least in the US. Edit: apparently I made the last part up — that’s my mistake. Everywhere I see people talking about / posting about the differences, the tone o...

 
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Q: Is it possible for a humanoid to learn English within a few days, just from observing conversations?

wwwA humanoid woman from another planet accidentally stumbles through a portal to 2024 Earth. I want her to be able to learn English in just a few days from overhearing my characters speak. Is there any way a humanoid species could evolve to pick up a language this quickly?

 
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Q: Not Once, Not Twice

PDTFIND THE WORD HIDDEN IN THE IMAGE BELOW. GOOD LUCK!

 
9:54 PM
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Q: A problem on finding the limit of the sum

Abhisek Mukherjee$$u_{n} = \frac{1}{1\cdot n} + \frac{1}{2\cdot(n-1)} + \frac{1}{3\cdot(n-2)} + \dots + \frac{1}{n\cdot1}.$$ Show that, $\lim_{n\rightarrow\infty} u_n = 0$. The only approach I can see is either finding $nu_{n}$ or $(n+1)u_{n}$ and seeing that: $$(n+1) \ u_{n+1} = (1+\frac{1}{n}) + (\frac{1}{2} + ...

 
 
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Q: Confused by formatting requirements of a journal

MmdLyonI intend to submit my first research paper to European Sport Management Quarterly but I'm really confused about the instructions. Manuscripts should be compiled in the following order: title page; abstract; keywords; main text; acknowledgements; references; appendices (as appropriate); table(s) ...

 
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Q: Cannot connect to ESXi after removing uplink from vSwitch

MarkIn a lab environment I removed the one and only uplink from vSwitch (I wanted to add the nic to another vSwitch - but I lost connectivity). Now I can't connect to ESXi. I don't have vCenter. Is there a way to add the network interface back to vSwitch and restore connectivity? I can't SSH to ESXI ...

 
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Q: Maybe others want to split the cost to improve FormBuilder's "Existing Contact" functionality?

Daniel StrumI have just submitted an issue for the core team to develop the "Existing Contact" functionality to behave more like it does in Webform where, if a contact is not found, an "Add New" option is selectable. My org will pay for this development but we are wondering if other's might want to chip in a...

 
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Q: Insert text if pictures in a certain folder exists

mario1000my code is the following \documentclass[ngerman,german,14pt,twoside,openany]{scrbook} %Bei Hochformat [oneside] zusätzlich eintragen und linker Rand 3cm, 2 Spalten und 6cm Bildhöhe \usepackage[left=2.5cm,right=2.5cm,top=2cm,bottom=2.5cm]{geometry} %\usepackage[cam,width=216truemm,height=303truemm...

 
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Q: How can a subset of reals not exist?

MaximLet's take a Vitali set in a model of ZFC, then map its elements to the corresponding reals in the Solovay model and consider them as a set. We get a Vitali set in the Solovay model while it shouldn't exist there. Where is the flaw in that argument? Would that collection of reals simply not const...

 
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Q: Are there any situations where orthogonality is not optimal?

Chris MData reduction is often used to avoid overfitting and to enhance explainability. Popular data reduction techniques, such as SVD or PCA map/project high-dimensional data to a lower-dimensional representational space, where the dimensions are mutually orthogonal. Autoencoders (generally) also const...

 
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Q: When SOA graph isn't on the spec sheet?

eromlignodSometimes the spec sheet for a MOSFET or a BJT has a Safe Operating Area graph and sometimes it doesn't. When it doesn't, is it safe to assume that the transistor can handle the maximum current at the maximum voltage with continuous DC (depending on heat sink requirements, of course), or do I nee...

 
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Q: What function does 得 have in the phrase 水枪射向正着火的床上被得?

user6065What function does 得 have in the phrase 水枪射向正着火的床上被得? see https://www.163.com/dy/article/J024MOFQ0543A3A8.html

 
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Q: Does PCA for yield curve has any tangible value?

SaneI am aware of an abundant literature on Principal Component Analysis (PCA) application for yield curves. All of these papers to me look merely a statistics-oriented results. Most of the papers argue that by "decoding" yield curve by applying PCA, we are able to explain yield curve movements. And ...

 
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Q: Why do valence electrons not push each other away?

Koen de JongDear physics Stack Exchange, I asked my physics teacher why two electrons come in pairs and not push each other away as you would expect from negative charges. He said that according to the Pauli exclusion principle, there are a limited amount of states that can be occupied in certain energy leve...

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Q: Confusion related to emf in a loop

tensorman666To calculate the current in a closed loop of resistance R subject to a changing magnetic field which generates an emf $ \epsilon= - \frac {d(\phi)} {dt} $, we use the relation ohm's law in the form. $\epsilon=I*R$ My question is how do we use ohm's law here? Isn't ohm's law only valid in the form...

 

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