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Q: An unused reference in research paper

Gopal ojhaI am in a process of camera-ready for the research paper and now paper is in process for camera-ready in publication. I have listed few more reference in reference section of paper which is not reference the text. for example: This result1 is cited from [1]. This result2 is cited from [4]...

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Q: How are Fiends, Celestials, dragons, etc. affected by the Antimagic Field spell?

VerdanHow are Fiends, Celestials, dragons, etc affected by the antimagic field spell? I assume they can walk into them. Do they lose abilities, take damage, etc?

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Q: Keeping a ball lost forever

ZanyGSuppose you can make a rectangular maze, where each cell (apart from the bottom-right) can contain an arrow in one of the four directions (up, down, left or right) of your choosing, except for those on an edge or corner, which must not point out of the maze. A ball is then placed into the top-le...

01:06
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Q: Picking the different solutions to the time independent Schrodinger eqaution

TaeNyFanThe time independent Schrodinger equation $$-\frac{\hbar^2}{2m} \frac{d^2\psi}{dx^2}+V\psi = E\psi$$ can have many different solutions of $\psi$ for a particular value of $E$. For example, if we found a complex solution $\psi(x)$ for a particular value of $E$, say $E_0$, we can write $\psi(x)=a...

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Q: How to rewrite equation of hyperbola in standard form

JamesI was wondering about this question: $$ 9 x ^ 2 -4y^2-72x=0 $$ What is the step-by-step process of writing such an equation which, in this case, has the graph of a hyperbola in standard form? Please excuse me for my messy equation. As I am relatively new to Mathematics Stack Exchange, I do no...

RPG
RPG
01:32
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Q: How does the math work for Perception checks?

MournbladePlease forgive me, it's been over 40+ years since I've played D&D and just now trying to reboot the changes. Can someone briefly explain Perception check math? Assume I'm a 5 year old or an idiot, whichever comes first in your mind. If a character has a Wisdom of 10 and the DM says "roll a Pe...

02:14
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Q: A social experiment. What is the worst that can happen?

FrostedCentralI am a postdoc and I have been applying for jobs in both industry and academia. My h-index is good enough for junior faculty (~7). My buddy (same age and career stage) is wondering why I am getting interviews but she isn't. FYI She is publishing way more than I am, although hers is in an area th...

02:42
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Q: Can the US President recognize Israel’s sovereignty over the Golan Heights for the USA or does that need an act of Congress?

Martin SchröderPresident Trump has tweeted that the USA should "fully recognize Israel’s Sovereignty over the Golan Heights" - directly contradicting United Nations Security Council Resolution 497 from 1981. Can the President effect that "on their own" or would it need some act of Congress?

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Q: Need help understanding what a natural log transformation is actually doing and why specific transformations are required for linear regression

redmondcoffeheadI’m taking an online “Intro to AI” course for which I’m doing some azure machine learning labs. This course is largely about how to apply azure ML solutions and, while there is an “essential math for ML module”, it doesn’t do any sort of deep dive into the math/statistics. But I want to understa...

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Q: PTIJ: in nusach Yodeya, where in the t'filah do we acknowledge the fourth patriarch?

Monica CellioThe first blessing in the Amidah is, of course, avot, where we acknowledge the patriarchs. What is the version of this text in nusach Yodeya? Where do we acknowledge our additional patriarch? Do we say elokei Avraham, elokei Yitzchak, elokei Yaakov, elokei Yitzchak, to preserve the order? Or ...

03:34
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Q: I'm the sea and the sun

AvigrailLet us begin at the beginning With all my mates and endless spinning I'm not so hot and not so cold I'm the sea and the sun, and quite as old When shove comes to push In your hand, I'm worth more than a bush Day in, day out, hidden talents Up and down, I keep the balance I give birth to the...

04:00
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Q: Sums of entire surjective functions

user137377Suppose $(f_n)_n$ is a countable family of entire, surjective functions, each $f_n:\mathbb{C}\to\mathbb{C}$. Can one always find complex scalars $(a_n)_n$, not all zero, such that $\sum_{n=1}^{\infty} a_n f_n$ is entire but not-surjective? In fact, I am interested in this question under the add...

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Q: Can I visit Japan without a visa?

AHMED RASALHi I am Bangladeshi lived in Italy I have a 5 years permesso di soggiorno and 10 year's residence I'd card and tessera sanitaria and codice fiscale from Italy I want to go Japan to meet my friend who live in Japan how I get visa give some information please thankfully

04:24
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Q: What does chmod -u do?

y_wcBy accident I ran chmod -u filename and it removed all of the permissions I had on filename. The man page does not reference a -u option. Experimenting I was able to conclude that it removes not all permissions, but just read and execute access, leaving write access intact. So what does this do...

05:07
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Q: What's the difference between releasing hormones and tropic hormones?

KorvexiusI've been reading my textbook and two terms have appeared that, after a bit of looking, I still can't seem to be able to distinguish. Here's what the textbook says (McGraw Hill Bio 12, 2011): After receiving signals from various sensors in the body, the hypothalamus secretes what are referr...

05:20
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Q: The probability of Bus A arriving before Bus B

IrinaSBus A arrives at a random time between 2pm and 4pm, and Bus B arrives at a random time between 3pm and 5pm. What are the odds that Bus A arrives before Bus B? My understanding is that since Bus B cannot possibly arrive between 2 and 3, we can only talk about the time between 3 and 4 pm, when the...

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Q: Moving brute-force search to FPGA

SilicomancerI am currently working on a scientific hobby project about computing the error detection capabilities of CRCs. Unfortunately the C++ code used for such computations has up to years of run time on normal x64 CPUs, even on multi core systems. Also the power consumption of such systems is a pain. I...

 
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Q: photorec photo recovery software not seeing my mounted filesystem - trying to use photorec to recover lost jpegs

Peter JirakWhat is my situation? I am working in a Dev Ops capacity for a service that manages jpeg files online. We had an unfortunate deploy and our media files (jpegs) are completely gone. I anticipate that our loss is probably simple and may be recoverable. I think somehow that the directory that conta...

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Q: 14 year old daughter buying thongs

AnnaHi I found out that my daughter has bought a bunch of thongs and thong body suits and thong bikinis. I also found a bunch of mini skirts and super short shorts. How should I punish her?

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Q: Title 53, why is it reserved?

StephanSTitle 53 is currently 1 of 54 titles that make up the United States Code, each title is marked with the topic of law it contains, but Title 53 is marked as reserved. The listing of Title goes: Title 52--Voting And Elections Title 53--[Reserved] Title 54--National Park Services And ...

07:29
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Q: Issue while creating Apex class using API

visheshI'm using REST API to create Apex Class in Salesforce org. It worked in my testing for multiple orgs, but for a customer I'm getting this error - Can not create Apex Class on an active organization. To create the apex class using API, I'm just creating a object of type ApexClass with payload h...

 
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Q: Non-abelian cohomologies

KiuLet A be a non-commutative algebra and let X be some geometric space (such as a topological space or an algebraic variety or scheme). Is there a notion of cohomology ring of X with coefficients in A? What is the correct set up to consider cohomologies with non-commutative coefficients? If a top...

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Q: Custom post type show on both Home and Date Archive

MatJonFound below snippet to pull posts from a custom post type 'pictures' into the home page and date archive page.. Added to functions.php this works for home page: function add_custom_post_type_to_query( $query ) { if ( $query->is_home() && $query->is_main_query() ) { $query->set( 'pos...

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Q: Travelling to America for the first time

AmyHi i'm travelling to Los Angeles for the first time by myself to visit friends.I would just like to know at immmigration will they get suspicious if I say that I'm staying with friends rather than a hotel to save money since it's my first time visiting America.

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Q: Is it better practice to read straight from sheet music rather than memorize it?

XilpexMy music teacher sometimes tells me too memorize a song, but sometimes also tells me to read straight from sheet music. This confuses me as I am unsure which one is better practice. Is it better practice to read straight from sheet music rather than memorize it?

09:07
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Q: A problem from Hardy's_Pure Mathematics on Real variables about Linear equations in 3 variables

Awe Kumar JhaIt may be my stupidity, yet I am unable to understand what the following problem asks (Q.1 Miscellaneous Examples, Chapter-1: Real Variables). It says: What are the conditions that $ax+by+cz=0$, (1) for all values of $x,y,z$ ; (2) for all values of $x,y,z$ subject to $\alpha x+...

09:33
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Q: What is this called? Old film camera viewer?

isabel Idon’t know what it is, but Ifound it at a thrift shop. You put the little white squares that are in the back into it, and look through the lens and you can see the pictures. I found it super facinating and I really want to know what it is called so I can look more into it! Thank you :)

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Q: Does the Location of Line-Dash-Wedge Notations Matter?

Westin JohnsonIn Line-Dash-Wedge notation, when illustrating that an atom or bond is directed towards or away from the viewer (solid triangle for coming forward, dotted lines for going back), does the location of these lines matter when doing illustrations? For example, a THC molecule. The two hydrogen ato...

09:46
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Q: Creating nested elements dynamically

MuyieI have this array of strings var arr = ["ul", "li", "strong", "em", "u"]. How can I make these into DOM Elements one inside another from left to right, first element as the root element. Without using ID because of some reason. And maybe by using loop for it to be flexible to any number of elem...

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Q: When can things happen in Etherscan, such as the picture below?

Ru Hi I don't know why balance of the address is 0. when can this situation?

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Q: Layover and immigration

ShrutiHi we will be traveling from Mexico city to Dubai with a layover of 5 hours at JFK , we have a valid US visa , and we want to meet our friends from NY at the Airport . Do we have to clear the immigration process and take the baggage and again go through the same for our connecting flight for Duba...

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11:03
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Q: How to write values with uncertainty and units with brackets: (339+-14) m/s

Lorenzo B.This code \documentclass[a4paper]{article} \usepackage[separate-uncertainty=true,multi-part-units=single,list-units=repeat]{siunitx} \begin{document} \[\SI{339\pm14}{\meter\per\second}\] \end{document} outputs But I want \[v_s= (339 \pm 14)\, \si{\meter\per\second}\]

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Q: Using ClipPlanes with AnatomyData

David G. StorkSuppose I render a simple eyeball: AnatomyPlot3D[Entity["AnatomicalStructure", "RightEyeball"]] but want to cut it in half using ClipPlanes, for instance to eliminate the left half of the eyeball. By what principled method do I know how to specify the plane? I tried the obvious ClipPlanes -

11:23
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Q: New brakes for 90s road bike

jareksI am riding 90s road bike with Shimano 105 dual-pivot brakes and brake levers, and 2x7 downtube shifters. Since braking becomes less and less reliable I want to replace both brakes and levers with something new. There's a plenty of good opinions on 105 br-r7000 but I am having hard time to find ...

11:39
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Q: Normal extension and effect of field automorphisms

Beginner Definition 1. An extension $E$ of a field $k$ is called normal extension if (i) $E$ is algebaric extension of $k$. (ii) Every irreducible polynomial over $k$, which has a root in $E$, has all its roots (considered in $\overline{k}$) lie in $E$. Definition: If $E$ is an exten...

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Q: sed '/^$/d' and grep -Ev '^$' failed to remove blank lines

AliceI have such a file with multiple blank lines in vscode $ tail -n 20 draft3.py hi = len(a) if lo < 0: raise ValueError('low must be non-negative') if lo == hi: return None mid = (lo + hi) // 2 if x == a[mid]: ...

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Q: Is it improper etiquette to ask your opponent what his/her rating is before the game?

ThomasSuppose you're playing in a tournament. For the purpose of filling up your scoresheet, is it improper etiquette to ask your opponent what his/her rating is before the game?

12:08
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Q: Infinite dials to reset ever?

JonMark PerryI have an infinite number of dials with red needles that rotate $n\in\mathbb{Z}$ times every second. They all start pointing North. Will they simultaneously all point North ever again?

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Q: Is preaching recommended or mandatory to a temple priest?

hanugmEvery temple in India has at least one priest. The act of preaching scriptures a recommended act or mandatory act for him?

12:34
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Q: how to stretch or compress a spiral cylinder?

AlishI have a cylinder-like spiral object as .STL file(figure). What we want finally is to animate Compressing and Stretching of this cylinder(figure). how to do so?

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Q: Does a log transform always bring a distribution closer to normal?

Akaike's ChildrenI have a highly left skewed data set with a large range of values (from 1 ~ 10^6) (can't share the actual data for work related reasons). When I plot the log of the data instead, the distribution looks a lot more like a normal distribution. Have I stumbled on a meaningful insight in the data ...

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Q: limit of geometric series sum when r = 1

ThorI'm currently learning the prove of sum of geometric series on Khan Academy. I understand the behaviour of the function when |r| > 1, when |r| < 1, when r = 0 and when r = -1, but I am a bit confused by its behaviour when r = 1. The narrator said that when r = 1, the limit function is undef...

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Q: Melting point of aspirin, contradicting sources

Loke GustafssonQuerying wolfram alpha for the melting point of aspirin (link) returns $\pu{140 °C}$. The Wikipedia page for Aspirin lists $\pu{136 °C}$ instead, citing this book. How am I supposed to know which figure to cite? And in general, what should I do when I encounter contradicting chemical data?

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ELL
13:13
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Q: not using 's for he/she/it

oscar tabarezIn Cambridge advanced learner's Dictionary there is an example for "get by": We can get by with four computers at the moment, but we'll need a couple more when the new staff arrive. shouldn't this be "arrives"?

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Q: How to create ADT in Haskell?

AndrewIn Scala I can describe such ADT: sealed trait Foo case class A(a: Int) extends Foo case class B(b: String) extends Foo case class C(a: A, b: B) extends Foo How can I do the same in Haskell? data Foo = A Int | B String | C A B It doesn't work, because A and B are not types. Should I use GHC...

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Q: Is it possible to pass parameters to js controller in lwc

Lance ShiI am trying to implement a drag and drop functionality in lwc and I am getting the below code: <template for:each={leftTask} for:item="task"> <div class="draggable" draggable="true" key={task.taskId} ondragstart={handleDragStart(task.taskId)}>{task.name}</div> </template> However, it seem...

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Q: Travelling outside the UK without a passport

Boris JohnsonI've read all of the relevant questions on here regarding travelling outside the UK without a passport. As I understand, I, as a British Citizen after naturalisation, can travel to and stay in any EU country without a passport - as long as I have a Biometric Residence Permit. Is that correct? ...

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Q: Does collectivism actually exist?

mavaviljDoes collectivism actually exist? Wikipedia defines: Collectivism is a cultural value that is characterized by emphasis on cohesiveness among individuals and prioritization of the group over self. If (at least from western Cartesian viewpoint) the subject is the fundamental cognitive b...

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Q: Count the occurrence of each unique word in the file

andreiy05I've been doing a task for an interview that I will have soon. The requirement is to code the following problem in C#. Write a program (and prove that it works) that: Given a text file, count the occurrence of each unique word in the file. For example; a file containing the string “Go do th...

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Q: Added a new user on Ubuntu, set password not working?

Ari VictorI created a new user: $ sudo useradd -m Ari -p pass123 But when I went to login it said the password was incorrect, I know it's correct because I saved the command line log as a text file. Other than that, at the same time I also created a group: $ sudo groupadd testgroup1 and added the ne...

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Q: Is there any references on the tensor product of presentable (1-)categories?

Simon HenryIs there any references on the tensor product of (locally) presentable categories ? All I know about this is Lurie's book that deals with the $\infty$-categorical version, and a few references that deals with special cases (Grothendeick categories, toposes etc...) Is there any references that d...

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Q: Rising and falling intonation

Mido MidoI have been told that rising and falling intonation can change the meaning of a sentence. For me as a non-native speaker of English this may sometimes cause misunderstanding. In the following construction, can be there any differences in meaning in terms of using rising or falling intonation? ...

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Q: Does a 'pending' US visa application constitute a denial?

ACJ UKI recently applied for a US visa and had the interview, where I was told the application wasn't approved pending a medical examination. I have since found out that I could have travelled on an ESTA after all, so tried to withdraw the visa application. However, I have now had an email back from ...

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Q: Is static routing used in large networks?

StickI'm a beginner in networking stuff and just wondered if Static Routing has any use in large networks ? How about small ones ? In which cases we prefer to use static over dynamic routing ? I searched for this one and the most reason i saw people mentioned was resource usage problem with dynamic r...

Law
Law
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Q: Can I sign legal documents with a smiley face?

EvorlorThe signature on my driver's license is a unique and identifiable smiley face :-) I use this signature to sign all legally binding documents. A lot of the time, people reject it, and request an "actual signature". I then show them that it is the same signature as my driver's license, and they...

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Q: A lot of mysterious executable files inside /Users/Shared

Jonathan FilbertRecently I've noticed that a lot of mysterious .tar.gz and executable files have spawned inside my Shared folder, and by a lot I mean 466 total. /Users/Shared $ ls | wc -l 466 I'm the only user on my Macbook Pro and out of the 466, I only recognized 6 of them being folders with an install...

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Q: What is going wrong in this circuit which supposedly should step down AC to arduino friendly voltage?

Vibhore JainSo I'm using this circuit but when adapter output is disconnected and only midpoint terminal of the transformer is connected the Arduino input pin reads some mV. mid point reads perfect 2.5V. What am I doing wrong?

DIY
DIY
15:09
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Q: When is it necessary to paint a wooden fascia (barge) board?

gatorbackContext: a Florida roof and gutter is to be replaced, however the fascia wood was rotten and replaced. The plan is to be covered by aluminum fascia and has a drip edge. When does it make sense to paint the wood boards? Does it make sense to paint if Aluminum fascia is to be nailed to the board...

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RPG
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Q: What was this official D&D 3.5e Lovecraft-flavored rulebook?

Drunken_GuyI faintly remember of a D&D 3.5 book, but I can not really remember its title. The book had a lovecraftian flavor, it was official and it was about old gods and monsters, that existed in the background, and the DM could create whole campaigns about them. It usually proposed events to happen in t...

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Q: Why electric field inside a cavity of a non conducting not zero

user72730Now consider a charged non conducting sphere of uniform charge density , and it as hole of some radius at the centre, now suppose I apply gauss law as there is no charge inside the cavity: so no charge is enclosed by Gaussian sphere so electric flux is zero hence electric field is zero But ...

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Q: Evaluating expression with Integer part and Fraction part of a nested radical

SuperMage1 Let $$A= \sqrt{93+28\sqrt{11}}$$ if $B$ is the integer part of $A$ and $C$ is the fraction part of $C$, what is the value of $$B+C^2$$ I tried manipulating it by setting $$ A=B+C$$ but I can't transform it into the expression, do I need approximate the integer part of A in order to ...

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Q: What will be next at the bottom row and why?

Alper91 There is a stack made of 6 squares. As you can see there are yellow squares between red ones. The question is what will be the next row like? And why?

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Q: Tough determinant identity

kronerThe following stumps me: Let $ A,B $ be square $ n $ matrices over a field $ K $ such that $B$ is nilpotent and commutes with $ A $ ($ AB=BA $). We are asked to show $ \det(A+B)=\det(A) $ I have no idea how to approach this I thought perhaps raise both sides to a power but nothing works. Th...

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Q: Why a symmetric relation is defined: ∀x∀y( xRy⟹yRx) and not ∀x∀y (xRy⟺yRx)?

Rodrigo SangoWhy a symmetric relation is defined: ∀x∀y (xRy⟹yRx) and not ∀x∀y (xRy⟺yRx)? (I´ve have only found a couple of sources that defines it with a biconditional) For example, according to Wolfram: A relation $R$ on a set $S$ is symmetric provided that for every $x$ and $y$ in $S$ we have $xRy \iff...

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Q: How to advoid Unknown field: MyJSON.number

ThomasI am having trouble with deserialising a jsonstring. In my debug I get the error System.JSONException: Unknown field: MyJSON.number. As number is a reserved field in salesforce I replace it with numberRep. I dont get why I get this error. webservice @HttpPost global static void createOpp...

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Q: Freedom of speech and where it applies

OwenThere seems to be multiple definitions of freedom of speech out there, and I hear a lot about how companies like Google and Twitter are exempt from this as they are private entities and freedom of speech only applies to the government. This seems to contradict the following definitions: Article ...

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Q: How to implement a feedback to keep the DC gain at zero for this conceptual passive filter?

user16307Regarding an example passive LC ladder filter, when I sweep the source resistance Rs, the filter characteristics changes as follows as expected: On the other hand, if I sweep the load resistance Rload, it seems the characteristics does not change but the DC gain changes as follows: For ease...

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Q: What does routing a IP address mean?

TimFrom https://stackoverflow.com/a/40189197/156458 Blocking 0.0.0.0 makes no sense. In IPv4 it is never routed. What does "routing" a IP address mean? Why is it the reason that blocking 0.0.0.0 does not make sense? Thanks.

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Q: copy and scale one figure (wheel)

latexfortii want continues in previous post: custom colour wheel This Minimal Code: \documentclass{article} \usepackage[a5paper,landscape,left=1.0cm,right=0.3cm,top=0.5cm,bottom=0.5cm]{geometry} \usepackage{xcolor} \usepackage{tikz} \usetikzlibrary{decorations.text,shadings} \renewcommand*\familydefault...

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Q: What sets agile testing apart from classic testing?

MornonWhat changes for testers when they are testing in agile environments? We know that the whole development team is responsible for the quality of the product. If only the testers test, there can be no question of shared responsibility. Of course, the testers in the team still need it. They bring w...

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Q: Is (0,1] a closed or open set?

QwertfordIs A=(0,1] a closed or open set? I think it's an open set because it is not a subset of its interior points. Mainly, $1\in A$ but $1\not\in A^\circ$. If A is closed, then the complement is open. However, the complement $A^c$ is not open because it is not a subset of its interior points. Mainly,...

17:45
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Q: How does someone end a game and win with less points and when their opponent still has tiles

user229069How does a game end when your opponent has more tiles to play and is the high scorer? The game ended with the low score a winner?

17:56
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Q: Aragorn's "guise" in the Orthanc Stone

Page 332In ROTK, Chapter 2 of Book Five, "The Passing of the Grey Company," Aragorn tells Gimli and Legolas that he has looked into the Orthanc stone and had a chat with Sauron. He says that Sauron "saw me, but in other guise than you see me here." What was this "guise"? And why would Aragorn appear i...

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Q: Basic combinatorial probability problem

GuidoA box has 24 balls, 4 red and 20 white. One person takes 10 balls and the second the remaining 14. What is the probability that one of the two people picked up the four red ones? I don't understand wy is this correct. $$\frac{{20 \choose 6}+{20 \choose 10}}{24 \choose 10} $$

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Q: How can I block email signup overlays or javascript popups in Safari?

arisIs there a Safari extension or something that will block the Javascript modal popups that are now ubiquitous (soliciting mailing list signups)? Failing that, are there extensions that will simply block sites that utilize these modal popups? I'm ok with any of these options: Block the modal pop...

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Q: The screen of my macbook suddenly broken down how can I do to recover

Josh c.It suddenly turned to have two light bars on the top of the screen how can I fix it and get the files back. I needed to use the Macbook for 3 years for school and I can't afford a new one

18:38
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Q: How create a shell/bash script for some Linux command?

Yogesh SaroyaI want to create a shell script that will count files ( 1 hr older files ) and if files are more then 1000 then delete all. For read and delete I am using those command at putty for count : ls /tmp/ | grep 'ci_session*' | wc -l for Delete files: cd /tmp/ find . -name "ci_session*" -exec ...

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Q: How can Trident be so inexpensive? Will it orbit Triton or just do a (slow) flyby?

uhohThe recent NY Times article Neptune’s Moon Triton Is Destination of Proposed NASA Mission says (in part): HOUSTON — Is it time to go back to Neptune? Scientists representing NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory proposed a spacecraft and mission on Tuesday at the Lunar and Planetary Science C...

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Q: What percentage of fillings performed today are done with mercury amalgam?

fredsbendThere's a lot of talk on the internet that mercury amalgam fillings are toxic and should not be done. In the 20 years since my first cavity I've only received metals-free composite fillings. My current dentist informs me that composite fillings are qualitatively better, while disregarding the hea...

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Q: If infinitesimal transformations commute why dont the generators of the Lorentz group commute?

KALLE THE BAWSMANIf infinitesimal transformations commute as proved eg here, why are the commutators for the generators of the Lorentz group nonzero?

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Q: Fantasy book from my childhood: female protagonist, Blood Ore or Blood Metal for taking attributes

Wil MThe series I remember is about a young female lead. She is in a world where human trafficking is common. The rich and powerful are able to take another person's attributes through the use of a Blood Ore or Blood Metal. The female protagonist doesn't join the practice, but rather eats the brain...

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Q: Find the Primitive Roots Mod 31

Bryden CMy approach: There exist $\phi(31-1) = \phi(30) = 8$ primitive roots. If $x^6 \not\equiv 1$,$x^{10} \not\equiv 1$, and $x^{15} \not\equiv 1$, then $x$ is a primitive root modulo $31$. $x = 1, 2$ fails this but $x = 3$ passes this, thus $3$ is a primitive root. I then know that $\{3^0, 3^1, 3^...

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Q: Pre-modern battle - command it, or fight in it?

GalastelIf I were to describe Waterloo from Napoleon's point of view, it would be very different from that same battle from the point of view of a soldier, or even a cavalry lieutenant in the front ranks. Napoleon's fate is decided on that battlefield as much as the lieutenant's. Napoleon has a better un...

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Q: Dealing with a rejection from a journal

optimal controlI am a post-doc in economics. I know that rejections are quite usual but I feel very sad (I think more than necessary) because of rejections. For a paper on which I worked for 3-4 years got two rejections since from last year. I have already two accepted papers but I am overwhelmed with a rejec...

19:15
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Q: Sklearn 'Seed' Not Working Properly In a Section of Code

Windstorm1981I have written an ensemble using Scikit Learn VotingClassifier. I have set a seed in the cross validation section. However, it does not appear to 'hold'. Meaning, If I re-run the code block I get different results. (I can only assume each run of the code block is dividing the dataset into fol...

RPG
RPG
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Q: If a character has darkvision, can they see through an area of nonmagical darkness filled with lightly obscuring gas?

BandaroI'm running a premade campaign which states that all the rooms are filled with a gas that makes the whole area lightly obscured (disadvantage on Perception checks). A character with darkvision without light, treats areas of mundane darkness as dim light. Dim light counts as lightly obscured as w...

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Q: Loading commands from file

Lukáš AltmanIs it possible to write commands to text file and then loaded it into terminal as file? If yes, how is the command for loading the file? Thank you. For instance file_commands: awk -f program.awk d01.active > out1 awk -f program.awk d02.active > out2 It is because of a problem with running an ...

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Q: How to indicate a cut out for a product window

KeemieI just started learning package design. I have finished my artwork and want to send the final file to the customer. The design has a product window. How should I indicate this layer in Illustrator? How do I tell the printer they have to cut this shape out?

Law
Law
20:05
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Q: Is the U.S. Code copyrighted by the Government?

StephanSThe age of the internet has brought all of human knowledge to our figure tips, this is only possible because of companies finding profitable reasons for storing all of this information for distribution. The company Amazon (their publisher section) is one of the largest companies in the business ...

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Q: Closed-form expression for certain product

clathratus$\mathrm G$ is Catalan's constant. I recently found the product $$ \alpha=\prod_{n=1}^{\infty}\frac{E_n(\frac12)E_n(\frac7{12})E_n(\frac1{20})E_n(\frac{13}{20})}{E_n(\frac14)E_n(\frac1{12})E_n(\frac3{20})E_n(\frac{11}{20})}=\\ \exp\left[\frac{47\mathrm G}{30\pi}+\frac34\right]\sqrt{\frac{33}{91...

TeX
TeX
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Q: Symbol used to indicate indivisibility

A gal named DesireIn the following definition, I am denoting the condition that $a$ is not an integral multiple of $b$. Why is there such a big space between $b$ and the vertical bar with a slash through it? \documentclass{amsart} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document} \noindent The integers $q$ and $r$ are call...

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Q: 250 Floor Tower

Magic Octopus UrnThere's a tower in a far off land, one that you can only climb by unlocking the secret password to all the floors. Each floor has an inscription on the walls, indicating a number. As you approach a bird screeches at you: I sit upon this enigmatic wall. At the top is the first floor of th...

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Q: Is it safe to use olive oil to clean the ear wax?

AlexanIt is safe to use olive oil to clean the ear wax as advised here? This site said it's good: Although there are questions about the effectiveness of any specific ear drops, olive oil -- as long as it's the same or cooler than body temperature -- is not a harmful treatment. Start by placin...

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Q: 2.8 Why are collections grayed out? How can I open them?

user3352567I've bought Cup models from Internet. When opening .blend file I get Blender's Interface changed. To avoid this I've unchecked "Load UI" on opening the file. But now I cannot see the objects of the project (I can see and render them when opening the file and leaving "Load UI" checked). "Col...

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Q: Problem with TransformedDistribution

user120911I am trying to use Mathematica to obtain the probability distribution of $\frac{1}{2}(A + B)$ where $A$ and $B$ are independent random variables each distributed according to the uniform distribution, with lower and upper bounds of $L$ and $H$ respectively. I suspect the distribution is triangul...

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Q: Is it possible to have a strip of cold climate in the middle of a planet?

DaveWould it be possible to have a region on a planet that is not near its poles that has below freezing temperatures most of the year, while having more temperate regions both above and below it? If so how? Would the sun have to do a weird? Would the planet need to be an odd shape? Is it just imposs...

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Q: What was the exact wording from Ivanhoe of this advice on how to free yourself from slavery?

oliver All you need to free yourself from slavery is a couple of pints of beer I read Ivanhoe for the first time translated into Spanish, and am having a heck of time finding the material in any English editions for reference.

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Q: lightning-datatable row number error

PatMcClellan__cI have a lightning web component, using lighting-datatable with row-numbers visible. This works well up to 99 records... then I get this: [![enter image description here][1]][1] My component code: <lightning-datatable key-field="id" data={responses} ...

CS
CS
20:57
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Q: L1 and Ln cache: when are they written?

WadI have been following the "High Performance Computer Architecture" course from Georgia Tech (also on YouTube), and unless I've missed something, I cannot see where the following has been explained: If I have a multilevel cache, L1/L2/L3/Ln: 1) what decides what level of this hierarchy a block f...

ELL
ELL
21:07
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Q: Which one is correct as adjective “protruding” or “protruded”?

language learnerI saw a phrase saying “protruding eye”. Shouldn’t it be “protruded” ? I couldn’t understand why -ing is used instead of -ed and how the -ing form is used as an adjective here.

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Q: C++ debug of nlohmann json using GDB

LoneWandererI'm working on a project using nlohmann's json C++ implementation. How can one easily explore nlohmann's JSON keys/vals in GDB ? I tried to use this STL gdb wrapping since it provides helpers to explore STL structures that lohmann's JSON lib is using. But I don't find it convenient. Here is a ...

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Q: dpdt switch to spst switch

Vincent PipitoneI am trying to build a raspberry pi gameboy emulator with a custom board inside of a gameboy adv sp shell. I decided to use an open-source board made by some guy on the internet and I will be modifying a few things on the board such as the power switch to an OEM power switch for authenticity. My...

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Q: Did Swami Prabhupada reject Advaita?

hanugmDid Swami Prabhupada reject Advaita with a direct statement anywhere?

CS
CS
21:35
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Q: How did Rebekah know that Esau was planning to kill his brother in Genesis 27:42?

collen ndhlovuEven after learning of his brother's deceit Esau cries out to his father for blessings as well never mentioning any reprisals. We are only told that he planned murder in his heart and there is no record of him telling anyone. Genesis 27 [41]So Esau bore a grudge against Jacob because of the...

TeX
TeX
21:49
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Q: How do I color the graph in \datavisualization?

ÖzgürMWE; \documentclass[tikz,border=10pt]{standalone} \usepackage{tikz} \usetikzlibrary{datavisualization} \usetikzlibrary{arrows,calc} \usetikzlibrary{shapes,positioning} \usetikzlibrary{decorations.markings} \usetikzlibrary{datavisualization.formats.functions} \def\mytypesetter#1{ \pgfmathparse{#1...

Law
Law
21:59
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Q: Can Legal Documents Be Siged In Non-Standard Pen Colors?

Sarah SzaboI have a question as to whether or not legal documents signed in non standard pen colors (Anything other than blue or black) are valid. I carry a purple pen around that use for everyday writing tasks, and when I was going to sign a document, someone told me that writing in purple is not valid on...

AI
AI
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Q: What are the purposes of autoencoders?

nbroAutoencoders are neural networks that learn a compressed representation of the input in order to later reconstruct it, so they can be used for dimensionality reduction. They are composed of an encoder and a decoder (which can be separate neural networks). Dimensionality reduction can be useful in...

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Q: Registration and login script

Maria LauraThis is a registration and login script I have made in Python 3. It uses a MySQL database. In the future I might use it with my Blackjack game and add a row called money, but for now I would like to hear your opinion about this script since I have little to no experience in SQL. import cymysql f...

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Q: The Staircase of Paint

Brandon_J I am a staircase, covered in paint. Each step taken gives knowledge, new and quaint. I used to be more of a ramp type shape, But progress was slow, like rewinding a tape. My new inside is famously difficult to place, At least if you look only at my face. I contain...

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Q: Where did Edmond Malone place the Tempest in the chronology of Shakespeare's plays?

Christophe StrobbeIn an excellent answer to one of my previous questions, verbose writes: Since The Tempest is the first play printed in the First Folio, it was often assumed to be an early play. Scholars such as Edmond Malone and Edward Capell began tackling the chronology of Shakespeare's plays in the late 1...

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Q: Reverse int within the 32-bit signed integer range: [−2^31, 2^31 − 1]

gregProblem Reverse digits of a 32-bit signed integer. When the reversed integer overflows return 0. Feedback Looking for any ways I can optimize this with modern c++ features overall. I hope my use of const correctness, exception handling, and assertions is implemented well here, please let me kn...

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Q: Start making guitar arrangements

Maria GuthierI play classical guitar and usually, I like to play music from movies, video-games or popular songs. However, there are very few classical guitar arrangements for this type of guitar, while there are lots for fingerstyle guitar. I like them a lot, but I also love classical guitar and I would like...

ELL
ELL
23:20
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Q: "Spoil" vs "Ruin"

KyleMy question is, Can you spoil a moment? for example, let's say I bring home a gift for my girlfriend and she's very excited to know what's in the box, after I open up the box and show her what it is she responds to me I didn't like it. Can we say that she spoiled the moment? or should I say that...

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Q: is this legal and f i dont come up with extra money is the deal off

user83725I am purchasing a house apparently the seller owes more on it than what he listed it for. his realtor is now asking me if i can come up with 4000 dollars to be able to close. is this legal? If I don't come up with this money (that is technically not my responsibility) will the deal really fall th...

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Q: How to follow the Halacha?

Rh HaokipMost of the people (if not all) follow the psak halacha of a specific Gadol HaDor. But many times, there are halachot which are not presented by a certain Galdol haDor but by another Chacham. As for an instant, Halachipedia.org does not follow the rulings of one specific rabbi but collects all o...

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Q: Why did the Mercure fail?

SeanThe Dassault Mercure was a French regional jet that first flew in 1971 and received its type certificate in February 1974; it resembled an enlarged, shorter-range 737-200, and was designed to serve higher-capacity short-haul routes. The Mercure was an abysmal failure, with only eleven aircraft e...


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