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Q: Why do UTP pairs need different pitches?

hontou_Why do unshielded twisted pair cables need a different pitch/twist rate for every pair of wires in a cable? Most of my reading on UTP says that the pairs in a cable must have different pitch or else the benefits of UTP will be lost which is the noise cancelling. From what I understood, twisting t...

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Q: Car shakes since replaced spark plugs

Amanda LoersI have a 2011 Lincoln MKZ and I just replaced the spark plugs and now the car shakes and Im getting a obd reading P0351- Ignition Coil A primary/secondary circuit P0113- Intake Air Temp Sensor 1 Circuit High And the car shakes while driving. A friend and I replaced them then before doing a readin...

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Q: How can a .exe be modified and still keep a valid digital signature?

tree1234When a Windows .exe installer is code-signed, I thought that modifying a single byte (thus changing its SHA256 hash) would make the digital signature invalid, but surprisingly, this is not true. Indeed, as reported two days ago in Each Firefox download has a unique identifier, a few bytes differ ...

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Q: Axiomatic derivation - what does instancing an axiom practically entail?

KeizerHarmI'm stunned by the chapter in my coursebook (which is in Dutch, so please advice if I am mistranslating any of the terms) about deriving from a system of axioms and derivation rules. The exercise is to prove the following: $$p \vdash_S q \rightarrow p$$ Step one is to assume p. That makes sense t...

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Q: Is there a compression plug designed to be an alternative to star-fangled nuts on metal steering tubes

TimAre there compression plugs specifically designed for metal steerer tubes, that is: their expanded diameters take into account the thinner wall of the metal steerer tubes relative to that of a carbon steerer, so the plug doesn't need to be shimmed their expanding section's height (and thus the ...

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Q: How can an expression of a god's power be used to authenticate the legitimacy of a sect within a religion?

IncognitoThe Cult of the Holy Mother is a female-dominated sect within a larger religious organization led by a male patriarch. Although the cult is small, it retains a significant role in the imagination of the populace. The cult is made up of priestesses that enter into holy matrimony with their deity. ...

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Q: Bochner integral over convex sets lies in the convex set?

TomTheQuantLet $(\Omega,\Sigma,\mu)$ be a probability space, $E$ be a separable Banach space, $f:\Omega\rightarrow E$ be Borel-measurable and consider the Bochner-integral $$ \bar{\mu}:=\int_{\omega\in \Omega}\, f(\omega)\, \mu(d\omega). $$ If there is a convex set $C\subseteq E$, such that $f(\Omega)$ is a...

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Q: Ossowski theorem about bipartite graph without cliques

PlayGameI was reading the proof of Ossowski theorem about bipartite graphs without $(r+1-a)\times a$ cliques for $a=1,\dots,r$. I think that I got the general idea behind the proof but there is one techinical detail which is bothering me. I would be very thankful if you can explain it in a simple way to ...

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Q: Would the interest in building quantum computers decrease if a classical algorithm for factoring all integers in polynomial time is discovered?

blunovaQuoting Wikipedia: No algorithm has been published that can factor all integers in polynomial time, that is, that can factor a $b$-bit number $n$ in time $O(b^k)$ for some constant $k$. Neither the existence nor non-existence of such algorithms has been proved, but it is generally suspected that...

RPG
RPG
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Q: Sneak Attack after the first Attack

ruediIn Pathfinder 2e it is possible to make 3 attacks each round. Let us say I flank with my other party member. Can I sneak the second and third attack as well?

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Q: Generate <select>'s for an html table efficiently

JohnI have a Django project that has an HTML page with a table on it. The table can have thousands of rows in it. The problem is that, as a customer requirement, each row has 2 <select>'s with options for the user to choose from: <table> <thead> <tr> <th>Column 1</th> <th>Column 2</th>

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Q: Greedy filling unit intervals

NiRvanAI have unit intervals given such as $I = \{\{s_1, s_1 + 1\}, ..., \{s_k, s_k+1\}\}$ ($\forall s_i \in \mathbb{R}$). I am given a list of $X$ reals, such that each of the reals belongs to at least one interval. I am asked to suggest a greedy algorithm to minimize the number of intervals required t...

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Q: Existence of Time in void

Ha'PennyIn perfect void can we define time? Does time make any sense in absence of events? Is time related to event? For instance we use Cesium atom's frequencies as measure for one second but if there is nothing would time exist?If it does exist would it be measureable?

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Q: Numerically integrating the Hartree potential

Angry PhysicistI'm trying to write a 1D density functional theory code on Python to predict the electronic structure of certain ions using the local density approximation. I'm trying to construct the hamiltonian for this system: $$E \left[ n(r) \right] = -\frac 12 \frac{d^2}{dr^2} + V_H(r) + V_N(r) + V_x(r)\ta...

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Q: What would be the benefit of using a Stream Cipher which achieves encryption performance of 0.01 cpb using 1 CPU thread?

Tunnel_VisionIf such throughput could be achieved what would the benefits for a data center or IoT devices in terms of power saving. Also I was wondering if such speed was possible to be realized by a cipher, would that dramatically change cryptography in terms of encryption/decryption speed? If that is possi...

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Q: How can I cook parboiled rice in absorption method?

user366312How many cups of water (not liters) should I add to 1 cup of parboiled rice in case of the absorption method of cooking? How many minutes should I cook?

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Q: In Windows, what's the purpose of the crossed checkbox

Jonas KohlI was looking at the images found in aero.msstyles when I found that the checkbox has a (supposedly unused) variant of the checkbox with a cross instead of a checkmark. I quickly confirmed that this had been the case since Windows 7 (or Vista). Here is an example of what I'm talking about: Now, ...

ELL
ELL
03:02
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Q: What is the meaning of the present tense used in the beginning of Kafka .. by Murakami?

NadirspamI'm confused about the present tense used in the beginning of Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami. From what I understand the simple present in English can be used for things like "the sun rises everyday" but in the novel I couldn't figure out how to interpret it. I went to the french translati...

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Q: Is ESP32's GPIO25 Pin adc1 or adc2?

mehmetI am trying to design a PCB with ESP32 and a Lora module I want to use serial1 for Lora RX/TX communications. I saw a board which is using GPI35 to Lora RX and GPIO25 to Lora TX. But in same time generally I am appearing that note also: Note: ADC2 pins cannot be used when Wi-Fi is used. So, if y...

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Q: What is this patch worn by the American astronauts?

AnixxIn this image the American astronauts wear some patches on their chest but what is it? If it is the expedition's emblem, why it is so different from Russian ones?

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Q: Capture DNS traffic to and from a network namespace using tshark

EarthIsHomeHow can I capture traffic specifically from a network interface inside a network namespace using tshark? In my case, the network interface tun0 is moved into the network namespace called vpn. Normally running tshark -f "port 53" clutters the output because it includes DNS queries from the main in...

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Q: Old cartoon/animated series? - desert, cupola, monsters

MarcellosDon't remember much, but the action definitely took place in a desert where a group of survivors(?) were living under a cupola, which protected them from monsters living under the sand. Also, I think one guy got there by time machine but I'm not sure. Anyone know the title?

TeX
TeX
03:51
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Q: Aligning annotations using hfill

Lauren SPlease excuse my beginner question, I am pretty inexperienced with LaTeX. My question is quite similar to this. I have lines of maths followed by annotations commenting on the maths on the same line. For example, \begin{align*} v_2(x_3'y_2') &= v_2(x_3') + v_2(y_2') \hfill{} \text{(by (ii') of va...

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Q: When can one omit the indefinite article?

shalvahNew to German here (via Duolingo, DW and other sources), and I'm confused about when indefinite articles in singular objects can/should be omitted. For instance, on Duolingo, "I have a bicycle" was introduced as "Ich habe Fahrrad", but in the sentence, Meine Tante hat ein Fahrrad, aber sie fährt ...

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Q: NIntegrate does not converge for this integrand but Simpson's Rule does

kotoznaI am trying to numerically integrate a function that flips sign at a certain location. In the vicinity of this location the function is approximately asymmetric so there are large negative and positive contributions to the integral which presumably cancel. NIntegrate won't converge, but I have w...

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Q: How to make edges "tuck behind" each other in TiKz?

pyridoxal_trigeminusIn this directed graph, I would like to make the downward 'b' edges "tuck behind" the upward 'b' edges. Something similar to, make a vertex where the 'b' edges intersect, and fill it white, but put it behind the upward 'b' edge. The appearance would essentially be a small break in the downward 'b...

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Q: Are submatrices of an arbitrary complex unitary matrix diagonalizable?

LearnerALConsider a complex unitary matrix $U \in \mathbb{C}^{N\times N}$ and pick two diagonal and two off-diagonal elements from its $m$th and $n$th rows to construct a $2 \times 2$ submatrix: \begin{equation} M= \begin{bmatrix} U_{mm} & U_{mn}\\ U_{nm} & U_{nn} \end{bmatrix} = \begin{bmatrix} U_{mm} & ...

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Q: Confused about norm and ideal not being principal

diiiiiklllllllOn P273 Dummit and foote it proved that $Z[\sqrt{-5}]$ is not a quadratic integer ring using field norm as in the following graph. But in this proof, it only proved that with this norm, $Z[\sqrt{-5}]$ is not a quadratic integer ring, and norm is somehow seemingly arbitrary defined and not unique....

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Q: Display object custom value in the object panel

WebsterekI'm trying to create some tool for blender that requires to store and show some boolean value for each object. I have create simple Panel in Object context with one bool property sadly it's not stored between objects but globally. My code looks like this: import bpy from bpy.props import (B...

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Q: How can I fit the eye texture in the photo to the UV Sphere?

vsuPlayerI'm trying this process, but when I pin the eye texture to the front, the tissue goes inside as if there was a black hole in the middle of the sphere. Actually, I don't know anything about UV Editing. Right now I'm just going to use it to shape the eye tissue into a sphere. I don't know exactly w...

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Q: Why is the video game footage "re-created" (badly) in the AVGN movie?

HomerIn Angry Video Game Nerd: The Movie, there are some segments where old NES video game footage is shown. However, unlike in the episodes in the YouTube video series, they for some reason have not used actual footage of Top Gun, for example. Instead, they have had some VFX artist painstakingly "rec...

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Q: How to engrave these rest symbols in Lilypond?

Nicole NaumannThe original instrument in the note below is violin, I'm engraving this piece for another instrument using Lilypond V2.20. How to make the rest symbols look like this in the first line below? And, what does that measure in the middle of 3, 6 mean? It has curved ends. Any help will be highly appre...

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Q: Thread Matrices, like image channels

AdamThe code With[{matA=Partition[Alphabet[],5],matB=Partition[Range@25,5]}, (* matA and matB are 5x5 matrices*) MapThread[List,{matA,matB},2] ] is fairly straightforward. The MapThread part does 'interleaving' if matA and matB are thought of as image channels. How do you do this with plain Thread?

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Q: Deal with back slash in Window's path

hmhuangI am trying to achieve the same goal as this thread: How can my LaTeX files detect if they're being compiled on Overleaf?. However, the \homepath kept throwing the error as follows: Undefined control sequence. C:\Users\USER How can I resolve this issue on Windows? I believe some modifications ne...

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Q: Where to find the book 'Hoshen ha-Mishpat shel ha-Kohen ha-Gadol' by Rabbi Yudel Rosenberg?

Jess Does anyone know where (online preferably) I can access Rabbi Rosenberg's book 'Hoshen ha-Mishpat shel ha-Kohen ha-Gadol'? (The one about the Maharal and the Choshen Ha-Mishpat) Thanks!

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Q: Novel with galaxy divided up among Earth nations, enemy aliens controlled by parasites, and teleporting hero

AndrewIn the early 1980s I skimmed a book in the high school library (possibly in the B-section, because I used to think it was a Biggle or Brunner). It had the following elements (I hope these are all from the same book): The first or second chapter talks about how once interstellar travel was disco...

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Q: cp seems to not allow --backup=numbered

jeremy_rutmanI am trying a cp option that runs fine on ubuntu: cp --backup=numbered src dest Is there some way to get this to work on macos12?

Law
Law
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Q: Right to your own photo at the opticians

StackcansAt the opticians, such as Boots, they use photographic technology to capture an image of your eye. Given that the image in reality is my property as it's my eye they're taking a photo of - can I request access to the photo but also not permit any distribution of it, i.e. can I ask them to send me...

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Q: Why do I have so many verticies hidden under one point?

makerbakerSo I am trying to create this eye and noticed that whenever I try to move the vertex inwards it has like 4 more vertices underneath. You can see I tried to use the grab tool and it took 4 tries just to get to the final vertex Note I used snap to faces mode for this But even when I use wireframe ...

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Q: Why does "a fait l'object d'un signalement" mean "was made the object of a report", instead of "made the object of a report"?

silphOn this webpage, there is a written description of Episode Four of a TV show called "Au coeur de la DPJ" : Un père impliqué dans un conflit de séparation apprend que son garçon de 3 ans a fait l’objet d’un signalement pour abus physique. DeepL translates this to: A father involved in a separat...

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Q: Sum of Two functions with IVP

GobI am looking for a different example from one below of two functions that satisfy intermediate value property (IVP) but their sum not. Here is my work the Let $f(x)=g(x)=\sin (\frac{1}{x})$ for $x\neq 0$ and $f(0)=0$, $g(0)=1$. Then, both of $f$ and $g$ are Darboux functions but $f-g$ is n...

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Q: apt-key deprecation warning when updating system

matigoRecently I've noticed some issues when running apt where the system will warn me of a keyring deprecation: Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done Reading state information... Done 8 packages can be upgraded. Run 'apt list --upgradable' to see them. W: https://packages.micr...

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Q: How to show current directory in Dired with symlinks resolved

spepoI have ~/bin -> ~/some/long/path/bin. When I open ~/bin in Dired, it tells me at the top that it is looking at /Users/username/bin, i.e. it expands '~' in the current directory printed on the first line. Is there a way for Dired to expand the symlinks in the current directory too, and show the u...

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Q: How to correct underdispersion in logistic regression

CaseyI created a logistic regression model with four continuous variables and a binary outcome. I divided the residual deviance by the residual degrees of freedom, which equaled 0.63. From my understanding, underdispersion is supposed to be rare, and it essentially results in coefficients that are too...

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Q: What is the correct name for the 4-space of special relativity

goedeliteI refer to the 4-space commonly used to describe event-points $(x_0,...,x_3)$. A massive particle traces out a time-like path in such a space, since it cannot travel with a speed greater than or equal to c. It the correct name for the space a Riemann space, a Lorentz space, a hyperbolic 4-spa...

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Q: Why is the accusative of животное not животного?

BlaszardIn the following sentence: Ты прячешь животное. Why is животное, not животного? In Russian, an animal is considered an animate object, and живоное is conjugated much like an adjective (животный). But according to Wikitionary, the accusative of животное is also животное. Source: https://en.wikti...

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Q: SNES Super Picross - Mario SP-I

Sam YCurrently stuck on Super Picross and looking for a hint for the next logical deduction on Mario stage SP-I.

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Q: Trouble reading a variable inductor (tunable RF coil) datasheet

Pavle HribarI have a trouble reading this datasheet for the Coilcraft 7mm Tunable RF Coils – 146, 150 Series. I see there are two main types of such inductor: with shield can and without it. I'm going to buy one without it. This picture is what bothers me. On the upper right picture you see those small circ...

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Q: In proof writing, is 'Write' an equivalent for 'Let' or 'Suppose'?

czmuaIn my textbook, for the statement "If A = [a b c d], then...", the proof for it starts with 'Write A = [a b c d]...', is it something similar to 'Let A = [a b c d]...' or 'Suppose A = [a b c d]...'? I apologize if my question is not clear, I'm trying my best at understanding English. Please help ...

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Q: For any finite partitions of the plane and a finite set A, does there exist a set in the partition that has a similar copy of A?

voideternalThe original statement of the problem is the following: For any subset of $\mathbb{R}^2$, let $A \sim B$ if and only if $A$ can be scaled, translated and rotated into $B$. For any finite partition of $\mathbb{R}^2$, that is $P_i \subset \mathbb{R}^2, \cup_{i = 1}^{N} P_i = \mathbb{R}^2, \forall i...

DIY
DIY
08:55
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Q: How to join two electrical boxes through a wall?

ehbowenI'm replacing a 1960s vintage sub-panel for my laundry and air-conditioner. I'm also looking to install a disconnect at the A/C compressor. The new sub-panel is inside the wall of the laundry room, and the disconnect is being mounted opposite it on the outside wall with knockouts aligned (3/4"). ...

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Q: What is the Turkish village shown in this video?

user366312 People Living in the Village - Village Documentary I can guess that this is a village in Turkey. But, I want to know the exact location. Can anyone tell me where this place is?

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Q: Mutation of Finalizer state

Rajendra Singh NagarBelow is the statement from documentation: The Finalizer framework uses the state of the Finalizer object, if one is attached, at the end of Queueable execution. Mutation of the Finalizer state, after it’s attached, is therefore supported. It may be a naïve question, but what does it mean? Can ...

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TeX
09:19
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Q: Small title for equation on the left and right margins

GallagherI would like to display a small title for each equation on the left and right margins of a document like this How to do it please?

09:48
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Q: Triangle-geometry problem

Shooting StarsHere is the question: $\cos(A-B) = \frac{7}{8}$, $\cos(C) = ?$ By the Law of Cosines, I get: $AB^2 = 41-40\cos(C)$ I also tried to expand $\cos(A-B)$ by the compound angle formula, getting: $\cos(A)\cos(B) + \sin(A)\sin(B)$ Which by the Law of Sines becomes: $\cos(A)\cos(B) + \frac{5}{4} \sin...

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Q: Has a mole stored over a thousand earthworms in its underground larder?

Vivek ShendeOn the wikipedia article for moles, I found some remarkable assertions: Because their saliva contains a toxin that can paralyze earthworms, moles are able to store their still-living prey for later consumption. They construct special underground "larders" for just this purpose; researchers have...

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Q: "Odoratus est" in Genesis 8:21

quqGenesis 8:21 says "Odōrātusque est Dominus odōrem suāvitātis". What is "odoratus est"? It looks like the perfect passive participle of "odoro", but that doesn't make sense either semantically or with "odorem". Is there a deponent "odor" that means "to smell"? Thanks in advance :)

 
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Q: How to judge the "strength" of a licence?

boojumA quote from the FOSSA blog, How to Apply a License to Your Open Source Software Project: In a nutshell, if your dependencies are distributed under open source licenses different than the one you are using for your own library, the resulting obligations on your users, from a legal perspective, a...

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Q: How to make these triangles into quads

blender breathI have these triangles I need to make into quads, I'm confused how to achieve this.

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Q: Relationship between Dirichlet's Approximation Theorem and Convergents

Mike BattagliaFor any real number $r$, the convergents to the continued fraction expansion of $r$ satisfy Dirichlet's approximation inequality of $|r - \frac{p}{q}| < \frac{1}{q^2}$. Does this go the other way? That is, if given some rational number $p/q$, we have that $|r - \frac{p}{q}| < \frac{1}{q^2}$, does...

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Q: why do my vertices looks so big?

gary yang How to make my vertices to their original size

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Q: Can you derive specs of audio filter if you have a recording of the filter output?

Michael WeaserSo the question is, if you have a recording of some sort of audio signal going through a bandpass filter and you know what type of waveform was put into the input of the filter, can you derive the frequency range of the filter and what type of filter ( Butterworth, Chebyshev , etc. ), without ori...

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Q: Difference between potential outcome and outcome conditioned on treatment

BBrooklynI'm reading up on Rubin causal inference and haven't been able to find a clear distinction between a potential outcome and the outcome conditioned on treatment, although this distinction is supposed to be crucial. Writing subject $i$'s response, $Y_i$, in terms of potential outcomes and treatment...

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Q: How can one efficiently find primary sources of propaganda in order to research it?

stevecGlobal affairs analyst, Susan Glasser, encourages studying Putin's ~17 March 2022 speech in its entirety: It's really gone in the other direction. Rather than oligarchs having a say over Vladimir Putin, he seems to have put more and more power onto himself personally. (Putin's) speech was absolu...

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Q: why do we need a sequence of random variable, isn't one function sufficient?

LJNGIn sampling, we have so many situations involving a sequence of random variables, what I am confusing is why do we need a sequence of random variables to describe the process? It feels like each function is only used once. Suppose $$X_i:\Omega\to\mathbb{R}\quad,i\in\mathbb{N}$$ $X_1,X_2,X_3...$ ...

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Q: is non digital necessarily analog?

freesoftwareisthewayIf, simply, digital is defined as anything we can count (with digits, or say, up to ten digits per etymological analysis), I'd assume that anything that we can't --- is analog, but if so, why "analog" and not just "non-digital"?

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Q: Did the Biblical Apostles and Prophets really get it wrong about the return of Christ?

BereanIt’s nice to meet you all. This question does not reflect my belief at all but I would like to know your thoughts because it almost made me question the authority of Scripture. Recently, the owner of a ministry called isawthelightministries admitted that his recent prophecy prediction about the g...

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Q: Proof that multihead works better than single head in transformer

HingAccording to this post, the purpose of the multihead is to have 'gradient splitting' across heads, which is achieved by random initialization of weight matrices for Q, K and V in each head. But how can we prove this can solve the problems in using single head? Specifically, how can the splitting ...

DIY
DIY
13:59
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Q: In what scenario is it to code to use an 8 cubic inch electrical box?

susie derkinsI am in need of a shallow electrical box. Googling led me to this one, which is 8 cubic inches. Assuming I am using 14 gauge wire, under what scenarios is this even useful, given box fill requirements? Assuming that I understand box fill calculations correctly, 8 cubic inches would allow for a ...

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Q: Why did Modesty throw away her leaflets?

Abigail H.Modest is given some leaflets to hand out, but instead throws them high into the air. Why?

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Q: Why would you use a log transformation over polynomial regression?

JoeBlackSciWhen performing linear regression, why might you choose to transform one of your predictor variables over using polynomial regression? Essentially what are the advantages (if any) of performing a transformation over using polynomial regression? As an example I'm using the Auto dataset provided by...

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Q: Why did the game shout DELETE IMMEDIATELY at me?

StevoisiakSometime around Day 20 of Needy Streamer Overload, the screen went dark and displayed "DELETE IMMEDIATELY" on the screen multiple times. I then got screaming texts from Ame before the game reset itself. Why did the game start shouting "DELETE IMMEDIATELY"?

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TeX
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Q: Is it possible to customize an "int" symbol with three index notation?

uuthi jlike this I need an extra index notation for the integral symbol . I know the /displaylimits could modify the position of index notation, but I wonder how to add three index notation to an integral symbol?

RPG
RPG
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Q: Does The Amazing Lightspeed Grapple Relay work, RAW?

yesennesInspired by this question I thought up a different exploit and I hope someone can find a RAW flaw in it. N Medium humanoids have gathered on an arbitrarily long field, standing in a line with each creature 10 feet away from each of its neighbors. An incapacitated medium creature is at one end, ad...

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Q: insert comment in the beginning of specified line in file

Jack JonesThis is a pretty newbie question but what I am trying to do should be easy :( I am developing a script to automatically install a development environment but I need to comment out loadmodule in the Apache configuration file on my Linux machine. LoadModule mpm_event_module modules/mod_mpm_event.so...

AI
AI
14:36
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Q: How might AI analyze abusive discussion using natural language grammar?

Jesse SteeleOpening thoughts This does not only apply to SE comments, but the idea in general. This is not a Question for Linguistics.SE; those Questions might come later, after AI analysis. Example Linguistics Quesions: What grammar categories might AI use to research for an analysis of abusive vs helpful ...

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Q: What is the Biblical basis for the idea that non-Christians do not have access to the power of the Holy Spirit?

One God the FatherThe question "How does the power of the Holy Spirit manifest in Christians, as opposed to non-Christians who don't have access to this power?" states "To the best of my knowledge and understanding, access to the power of the Holy Spirit is an essential and distinctive attribute and privilege of ...

16:08
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Q: Are the two definitions of Lebesgue measurable set equivalent?

Kishalay SarkarI am a graduate student of Mathematics.In our measure theory course I encountered the definition of Lebesgue measurable set which is as follows: $(1)$ A set $A\subset \mathbb R$ is Lebesgue measurable if $\exists$a closed set $ B\subset A$ such that $|A-B|=0$. I want to know whether the following...

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Q: Can you use SHAKE256_XOF with XOR to make a stream cipher?

BrandonSHAKE256_XOF is an extendable output function based on SHA3-512. SHAKE256_XOF can be used to create an infinite length bit string with 256-bits of security. For example: from Crypto.Hash.SHAKE256 import SHAKE256_XOF shake = SHAKE256_XOF() shake.update(b'key' + b'nonce') for _ in range(10): ...

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Q: Crenellated or Castellated

Chan Tai ManI read an article today. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-60767454 It used the word "crenellated". I thought I knew the word "castellated", but I'm getting more confused. The best explanation I can muster with Google search, with minimal effort I must admit, is the follows. https://wikidif...

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Q: Is there a time limit to publish PhD research?

Mari153In 2019, I graduated with a PhD. (I am no academic so that was a massive achievement for me). I had started writing an article on the research however, due to personal circumstances, this was delayed. And then along came Covid. The discipline I did my PhD in was challenging under Covid as it was ...

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Q: inotifywait ignoring new folders in watch directory

JRCI am trying to use inotifywait to watch a folder (/shares/Photos) and when it detects a jpg added to the folder I need to resize it into a sub directory ($small_dir). Under the photos director there will be many subfolders for the jpgs. The tree looks like this shares -Photos -Folder 1 ...

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Q: Is there a function to generate “subsets” allowing duplicates?

Y.D.X. I allow them to be chosen more than once (e.g. allow {1,1}). (A subset means every element is chosen once or less) Also I neglect the order (e.g. {1,2} is the same as {2,1}). (In other word, I need either {1,2} or {2,1}, not both.) Let's say the set s = {a, b}. (whose Length is $n$) Subsets...

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Q: Is it necessary to create every character using mirror modifier with limited amount of faces?

makerbakerSo for every tutorial I see about created a character that is human like, it always starts with people creating a cube/sphere then cutting it in half and mirroring the other side. I'm confused when to use a normal cylinder or other solid object because blender already has those pre-made so what w...

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Q: Are there "strongpeople" in Russia who push Putin to war?

Erel Segal-HaleviPutin is considered a strong president. Probably, many Duma members who voted for war-related laws did so because Putin wanted them to. But even strong people may be influenced by others. Are there "strongmen" (or strongwomen) in Russia, such as: politicians, oligarchs, military officers, etc., w...

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Q: Add exit confirmation dialog in brave browser

Dev ParzivalOften I Accidently close brave browser and even though I have selected continue were you left off On Startup still I am struggling to find how to enable exit confirmation setting . Is there is a way through which I can enable or add exit confirmation functionality on brave.

17:25
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Q: Programming Challenge - Capturing Bracket Levels

T145I don't have a formal description for this problem, but here are the parameters: Given a string S check that each opening bracket has a matching closing bracket. Any nesting violations are invalid. Assume multiple nested sets of similar brackets are invalid. Because the nesting level matters an...

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Q: Substitute function back into solution

Nitaa aI have a expression G[x] := (1-x^2)(1+A*x)(1-a*x) where $(a,A) \in \mathbb{R} $. Now this heavily simplifies some other expression. But these expression are no longer in terms of $G[x]$ and I want them to be. Essentially I was hoping I can just run the following code ClearAll[G] expre =...

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Q: How to get the all the lists of preimages of a surjective map is the image is given?

babyblueFirstly, I want to construct a map with the preimage {{5}, {4, 3}, {4, 2}, {3, 2, 1}, {2, 2, 1}, {2, 1}} and the image {1, 1, 2, 2, 3, 4} correspondingly. So as you can see it's a surjective map. Then, I hope to have a function that if we input {1,2,3}, I will get all possible combinations of the...

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Q: Optimize sql - reduce subqueries

reileyI've 2 tables emp and expenditure. Emp: ID, NAME Expenditure: ID, EMP_ID, AMOUNT Each emp has a limit of 100 that he/she can spend. We want to check which emp has expenditure > 100. Output attributes needed: Emp name, exp id, amount My query: SELECT E.NAME, EXP.ID, EXP.AMOUNT FROM EMP...

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Q: Double Decay Again

Ichthys KingRemove my first, and you have mixed oil Remove my second, and you'll be close to finding the prime Remove my third, and you'll speak of yourself Remove my fourth, and there's nothing left Remove my fourth, and you will laugh Remove my third, and you will see Remove my second, and you lose Remove...

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Q: The naming convention of folders in `/sys/bus/usb/devices/`

smwikipediaI am trying to understand the relation between the Linux folder names in /sys/bus/usb/devices/ and the output of lsusb -t. On my machine, the lsusb shows this: In the /sys/bus/usb/devices/, there are: What's the naming convention of these folders? The only 10 I can find in lsusb is for the port...

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Q: What are the real motives of people helping to each other?

Andrey RadkevichI'm wondering sometimes why people want to help someone. What are the real motives of it? The Karpman drama triangle says that 3 types of people exist and one of these types is rescuer and as I understand real motives of this type isn't really help to someone, but feed your own ego. Is all that h...

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Q: Does this prayer "Lord we thank you for your gift of hope" that a British Reform synagogue does on Shabbat morning, exist in Orthodox Siddurim?

barlopWhat is this prayer "Lord we thank you for your gift of hope, our strength" that a Reform synagogue does first thing on a Shabbat morning? (As in, where is this prayer from. I wonder if I've heard the Hebrew in an Orthodox service, but I can't see what the Hebrew of it is as there's no Hebrew in ...

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Q: A riddle: "With a heart of ice, / The height of a tree..."

Hexagonal ImpossibilitiesAn above-average hard riddle (no rhymes, though): With a heart of ice, The height of a tree. Not to be cryptic, Easily found when changing. The C to a D. What am I? What is the answer?

18:47
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Q: High temp castable refractory cement ok for molten silver?

Sean Gallagher-LegouffIve got a tub of Imperial brand Castable Refractory Cement and I'm wondering if it's able to withstand molten silver? Perhaps in casting jewelry or as a crusible. The online product details are as follows; "Repairs bricks and linings. Fast setting and non-asbestos. Can be cast into custom shapes ...

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Q: MAX30100 and ESP8266 NodeMCU Serial Errors

Roschlynn DsouzaThis is my final year project and for some reason, the max30100 sensor defaults to static values once the HTTP post request has been performed. #include <ESP8266WiFi.h> #include <ESP8266HTTPClient.h> #include <WiFiClient.h> #include <Wire.h> #include "MAX30100_PulseOximeter.h" #include <SimpleTim...

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TeX
19:02
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Q: Use resizebox with math mode; Missing } inserted

HeikoI have some problem with my table: I want to resize it to \textwidth using \resizebox. The error-message says: "! Missing } inserted." This is a reproducable minimal example: \begin{table*}[h!] \caption{Testtable} \centering \label{} \begin{tabular}{@{}lcccc|cccc} \resizebox{\columnwidt...

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Q: In a cyberpunk world where corporate upper class citizens can work virtually through implants, why would they build corporate mega-skyscrapers?

Philip BookerIn my story, the upper class have augmented reality chips in their brains. What would be the point of physically going to work? Why would a corporation have incredible cyberpunk-style mega-skyscrapers if their corporate workers could push papers and hold meetings virtually?

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Q: Relay delay LTSpice

JoeyBI want to delay the time a relay turns off. I have made a simulation on LTSpice that simulates "how long" it takes for the relay to turn off. The relay is simulated using R2. I simulated the resistor R1 to vary from 100 ohms to 600 ohms in steps of 100. So for an R1 of 600 ohms, we expect the cap...

19:32
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Q: What are those flight level values on an airway?

slow_learnerI have downloaded from this link the chart of available airways over the Canary Islands. There, in some of the airways, it says FL660 FL145 As far as I know, these two numbers are the maximum and minimum values of the flight level which can be used while traversing said airway. However, I haven...

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Q: Restore deleted contents of a text file

ali tavakoliDue to this bug, the content of one of my source files was deleted. I searched a lot and found that I can read the raw data on the storage device with the dd command, and I can find the address of blocks that hold my file's data through the hdparm command, but the contents of my file were deleted...

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Q: Are there any Christian groups or denominations that believe that non-Christians have access to the power of the Holy Spirit?

Spirit Realm InvestigatorIn response to my question How does the power of the Holy Spirit manifest in Christians, as opposed to non-Christians who don't have access to this power?, a user commented: Perhaps this question should be scoped to Christians who believe "access to the power of the Holy Spirit is an essential a...

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Q: Review as others would?

J Fabian MeierIf you disagree with most of the research community about some methodological questions, how should you act as a reviewer of a paper? Should you review as most reviewers would? Or should you follow what you think is scientifically correct? As an example: I believe that is necessary for the experi...

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Q: Where can I buy French Canadian keypad replacements for my MacBook Pro?

bolinoI have a 2019 touchbar Macbook Pro. I want to replace the keypads with French Canadian ones. Where can I buy French Canadian keypad replacements? EDIT: Need to find an online way of buying them. I've been researching and asking at many sites with no success until now.

20:21
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Q: Displaying character input with interactive declaration

VeakI have the following code for reading two characters, using the interactive declaration. When I run the interactive function the input character is not being shown after the description string. (interactive "cOpening delimiter character: \n cClosing delimiter character: \nr")

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Q: How to Rig a Character's Spine if the Face is Part of the Body?

makerbakerSo I am watching a course on rigging and most characters are human like with a normal spine and face is separated with their neck. However, my character has it's face on the body. Here's an example Is it necessary to include multiple bones for the spine or should I just use one giant bone? Becau...

GIS
GIS
20:38
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Q: Cloud Shadow Removal for Sentinel-2

LearnerI am trying to classify my study area with a RandomForest classifier, using Sentinel-2 Surface Reflectance images. This classification gave me an accuracy of about 87%. I calculated the misclassified points and below are its results. Mangrove Misclassified Points FeatureCollection (303 elements, ...

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Q: Searching for an "intuitive" explanation about how gravitational waves can be detected by a laser interferometer like LIGO

CsourcesSince LIGO's first detection of gravitational waves, I have been searching for an intuitive way -as long as intuition can be useful in relativity, which often it isn't- to understand how the detector works. More specifically, a way to understand how gravitational waves can be detected even when t...

CS
CS
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Q: How to attach ground on a breadboard from a schematic?

rabecaI'm trying to build a circuit on a breadboard based on a given schematic, but I'm not sure how to "ground" components on it like how it is shown at node B: What I have done so far: What connections do I make and where do I have to make them so as to have a "ground" on the breadboard just like t...

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Q: How can a matriarchal religion support a patriarchal structure?

IncognitoThe Cult of the Holy Mother is a female-dominated religious organization that retains a large role in the shaping of society and affairs of the nation. The cult traces its origins to a virgin woman chosen by the creator deity to produce the Messiah, a god-emperor who was destined to save mankind ...

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Q: Can I visit to Denmark/Faroe islands with a German blue card (for tourism 3-4 weeks)

Yashwanth Chowdary KataCan I visit to Denmark/Faroe islands with a German blue card. I'm planning a trip to Faroe Islands and Denmark for 3-4 weeks and would like to know if need a separate visa for the same. I hold a German blue valid till 2026. Any info on this would be helpful. Thanks in advance

21:26
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Q: Why do expressions with physical units not get simplified?

LionCerealsI am trying to calculate precise values for certain expressions, see the image below. The output testZPF of the function $\Delta$Fn should be a single output. I am trying to understand why Mathematica does not provide me with a single number in fully simplified units (here the dimension of the r...

TeX
TeX
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Q: Different color in citation with Hyperref

Alejandro DCI want to highlight some citations by putting them in blue, while the others are in black. I managed to do so by defining this command: \newcommand\mycite[1]{\hypersetup{citecolor=blue}\cite{#1}\hypersetup{citecolor=black} It works as intended, but if I have more than one cite, one of which shou...

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Q: How to make a vertical organizational chart with Tikz?

BastienI'm trying to create a vertical organizational chart with Tikz and the trees library. However, the lines connecting the different elements between them are not displayed as I would like. Indeed, I want to obtain a "vertical" diagram, so I use below = ... of ... to position the elements one below ...

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Q: Is this mention of "people from another world" a reference to something in Pratchett's "Thud!"?

MithicalIn Terry Pratchett's Thud!, when Vimes and company are heading to Koom Valley with the assistance of the Unseen University, there's this passage with exploding vegetables: 'Don't try!' Vimes said quickly. 'And I swear I saw a cow explode back there! Keep us away from towns and people, will you?'...

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Q: Coherence theorem in braided monoidal categories

GRJIn MacLane's Categories for the working mathematician, the author shows that the evaluation at 1 gives an equivalence of categories $\mathrm{hom}_{\mathrm{BMC}}(B,M)\simeq M_0$ where $B$ is the braid category, $M$ is a braided monoidal category and $M_0$ is the underlying (ordinary) category to $...

21:46
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Q: Is there a way to prevent Xcode from modifying the inode number of my source file?

Sun Xiao ChuanI've made a hardlink of my source file. But when I edit the source file and ⌘s it, the inode number of it changed and the hardlink was broken. How to protect my hardlinks from being broken?

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Q: In Excel, how do I access cells using fully-qualified numeric coordinates (worksheet, column, row)?

einpoklumI have the indices of a cell in an Excel workbook: Worksheet, column, row (and yes, I know that Excel likes 1-based indices.) Given those, what formua should I write to obtain the value of that cell?

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Q: What do '4eCe' and '2eCe' mean in Lalo's Symphonie Espagnole?

VehrnestoMay I know what does '4eCe' & '2eCe' mean in this context? *I got this sheet music from imslp.

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Q: Is there a easy way of plotting a part of a circle

janhardoI see the Descarta2D package to easily draw some figures. Unfortunately, the package is not to be found and runs on MMA 2021? I do want some complex contour calculations and need some diagrams

GIS
GIS
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Q: Drawing line of given length in QGIS 3.22

AbstractionHow am I supposed to add a feature of a given length and/or at a given distance from another point? In QGIS 3.4 I've used the Measure tool to mark the length then switched to "Add Feature". But in 3.22 switching to another tool removes Measure trace and I don't see a setting to switch back to the...

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Q: What is the motivation behind the definition of Lebesgue measurable set?

Kishalay SarkarWe study the definition of Lebesgue measurable set to be the following: Let $A\subset \mathbb R$ be called Lebesgue measurable if $\exists$ a Borel set $B\subset A$ such that $|A-B|=0$,where $|.|$ denotes the Lebesgue outer measure of a set. Then we have theorems like: $A\subset \mathbb R$ is Leb...

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Q: Short story (or opening chapter of a novel) where a fat man's body is used as a makeshift spaceship

Wally WeaksauceSci-fi short story (or maybe opening chapter of a novel?) which was read in the late '90s, but could have been written long before that. The plot involved a ship crewed by four men, two of whom being typical tough guys in charge, who abuse the other two, including regularly raping them. The prota...

ELL
ELL
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Q: I have studied at university an achievement?

anoukI am a middle aged woman who went to university where I studied French. This was 30 years ago . If someone asks me: "what have you studied?" can I answer: "I have studied French at university"(without mentioning when), because this is an achievement and/or life experience or is past simple a bett...

22:51
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Q: Is my fictional climate zones world map credible?

LendellzI translated my question/text with a translator because English is not my native language. I hope there are no mistakes. Can you to help me to define realistic climate zones and weather of my fictional world map? I struggle with climate zones and weather of my world map. Unfortunately, I don't kn...

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Q: Is a return air ticket absolutely necessary for Schengen business trip?

curious_catI have a 2 year Schengen business visa from Germany. This week i am leaving for the EU on a 3 week trip of meetings in Germany, France, Switzerland and Netherlands. Unfortunately my last week of meetings are still getting planned so I have not yet booked the return flight out of EU since it could...

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Q: What is the asymptotic behavior of factorial

Hosein RahnamaThe question of the asymptotic behavior of $n!$ when $n\to\infty$ usually arises in calculation of time complexity for algorithms and relates to calculation of the following limit. $$\lim_{n\to+\infty}\frac{\ln(n!)}{n\ln(n)}$$ At the first sight, I figured out that it is an $\frac{\infty}{\infty}...

CS
CS
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Q: What does "in him" mean in John 3:15?

C. StroudJohn 3:14-15 "And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of Man be lifted up, that whoever believes in him may have eternal life." ESV. My emphasis. Here, looking to the serpent as an external object is contrasted with a different sort of faith. When we are in him, w...

TeX
TeX
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Q: Same caption for two side-by-side figures

AnnaI want to place two different figures side by side, but I want the same caption under the figures and not two different ones. I'm using this code: \begin{figure}[H] \centering \begin{minipage}{.5\textwidth} \centering \includegraphics[width=.6\linewidth]{sinexeia} ...

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Q: How do I write Hebrew letters in a text object?

blender28Is there a way to write Hebrew letters in a text object? I can't write Hebrew directly. I also tried to copy and paste letters with "Ctrl + v" but to no avail. Is there any way to do that?

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Q: Palindrome from the first 20 numbers

Dmitry KamenetskyCan you concatenate the numbers from 1 to 20 in some order, such that the resulting 31-digit number is a palindrome?

23:43
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Q: Find the power of the matrix.

Na ManLet $A = \left( {\begin{array}{*{20}{c}} 0&1&1\\ 1&0&1\\ 1&1&0 \end{array}} \right)$. I want to find $A^k,$ where $k \in N$. So far I calculated $A^2, A^3, A^4,...$ but I can not see the general formula for $A^k$. Here are $A^2, A^3, A^4, A^5$. Not sure if this leads to anything but I found the ...

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Q: How can we determine easily that the following transition matrix is irreducible?

FShrikeLet $n\in\Bbb N$ be arbitrary, and define the matrix $A=(a_{ij})_{i,j=0}^n$ via: $$a_{ij}=\begin{cases}0&|i-j|\neq1\\\frac{i}{n}&j=i-1\\\frac{n-i}{n}&j=i+1\end{cases}$$ Which represents the transition matrix of the Markov shift system where $n$ balls numbered $1\to n$ are distributed across two u...


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