Five directors are listed in the puzzle below. There is an additional director who didn't make the list, the one labeled as "(Extra)". Who is that director? You can't fly but you can always try. Just make sure it's off the shore. If you can't, you'll land on water - no harm..., always works like...

Let $T\subset \mathbb{R}^n$ be a fixed simplex, $H\subset \mathbb{R}^n$ be a variable affine hyperplane. Is it true that the maximal area (i.e. the $(n-1)$-dimensional volume) of $T\cap H$ is attained when $H$ contains a facet of $T$?

Is there a site that explains the reasoning behind each individual airspace designation? I ask this because the sectional chart shows a 6 NM radius area centered at about 40°22'30.0"N 77°37'30.0"W where class E airspace begins at 700 feet. Neither the sectional chart, nor Google maps, nor Bing m...

so special relativity and the lack of a now moment is causing me a bit of grief. How meaningful is the notion of now here on Earth between each of us? does the lack of an objective now moment in anyway change how we should think about our friends and family and philosophy between the relationship...

I am trying to plot some vector fields using StreamPlot, but I am unable to get the desired plot as some options are ignored when I add them. Here is the vector field I am trying to plot: \[Alpha] = Pi/4*(x + y); Q = {{Cos[\[Alpha]], -Sin[\[Alpha]]}, {Sin[\[Alpha]], Cos[\[Alpha]]}}; And here is ...

I recently downloaded Camille Saint-Saëns' lovely Valse nonchalante—the Durand First Edition (1898)—from IMSLP. All the upper-staff reminder accidentals are placed above the staff. I don't remember seeing this style before. I don't have that many Durand scores, so I don't know whether they've mai...

How do I make this create the directory on my Mac desktop rather than the home folder alone. mkdir -p "$HOME/${digits}_${date}" Right now it goes to /Users/name/ I need it to go one more folder to the Desktop.

I came across the word tropical in a context which seemed nonsensical but, according to Merriam-Webster, the word can mean 'figurative' or 'metaphorical': tropical: ... (2) figurative (M-W sense 2: 2a: expressing one thing in terms normally denoting another with which it may be regarded as anal...

I have found it perplexing to understand that Capital punishment often struggles to craft a method of execution that is effective, reliable and procurable. In history I believe that lynching, firing squad, electrocution are generally regarded as cruel and crude. Lethal injection however seems to ...

The following diagram is given: I tried to draw it using table environment, but could not insert the skew arrows properly! Customizing this useful answer, I reached to: \documentclass[a4paper,12pt]{book} \usepackage{tikz} \usepackage{graphicx} \usetikzlibrary{positioning} \begin{document}...

Diana is going on a school trip along with her two brothers, Bruce and Clerk. The students are to be randomly assigned into 3 groups, with each group leaving at a different time. What is the probability that Diana leaves at the same time as AT LEAST one of her brothers? Let there be groups $A,B...

In QGIS, I have a layer of numerous vector lines that need to be buffered. Once they've been buffered, I'd like to have those polygons split into two, with the original line being the segment that splits them. This also needs to be done with a vector layer that has roughly 10,000 lines in it, so ...

How do the statements if p then q and p if only q compare

Is there a word that can be used to refer to cities with several tall buildings? There's an adjective, skyscraping, but that feels a little figurative- I wouldn't say Hong Kong is a skyscraping city; it seems a strange way to put it. Is there another word, a noun, that would fit better in the exa...

Being an experienced reviewer, and having received a host of rejections (and accepts as well), I know that rejection can be frustrating, even annoying, but also nice, fruitful, in some cases a good learning experience. There are many kinds of reviews (good, bad, constructive, opinionated, short, ...

Good morning/afternoon/evening, I'm working with some code I got from GitHub to generate a CSV from a List<Sobject> someQuery However, it doesn't do well with parent records (i.e. Donor__r.FirstName) I need to be able to loop through the values in a JSON object that has parent records in at as we...

A sail generates propulsive force by the difference in pressure on the concave and convex sides. This principle of fluid dynamics should be true of seawater as it is of wind. And the seas do have currents, including predictable permanent currents. This got me thinking, could a submarine deploy an...

I am inserting a piece of code to my website that includes a redirect statement. Everything works fine except the wp_redirect();. The following warning message appears. Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/xyz.com/b14_32999707/htdocs/wp-includes/clas...

I've built devices for an internet service provider company (in EU) to measure internet speed at subscribers' home. The devices are used by company technicians when fixing network speed problems reported by subscribers. For every measurement the devices store the location and the time of measurem...

I live in a housing addition (built 1965-1980) in the barren (no trees) Oklahoma panhandle. The first thing the new home owners in this area did was plant as many trees as possible. Over last several years in my neighborhood many of these house sewer lines out to the alley main line are being dug...

William Nordhaus, the designer of the DICE integrated climate and economic model, in the most recent estimate I can find, suggests a discount rate of 4.25% per year: With the current calibration, the discount rate (or, equivalently, the real return on investment) averages 4¼% per year over the p...

How do you introduce footnotes in a comic book? Let's say one of the characters play with an electrical toy inside a bathtub filled with water. How do you add the phrase "This is dangerous. Do not attempt this at home." with a star. I've never seen it done in a comic book, so I am not sure how to...

I have two lists of rules: aa = {1 -> {5, 2}, 3 -> {2, 2}, 4 -> {2, 3}, 5 -> {1, 2}, 6 -> {1, 1}, 7 -> {2, 1}, 8 -> {1, 1}}; newVnames = {1 -> "EGW", 2 -> "MA2", 3 -> "HLT", 4 -> "AGF", 5 -> "WHS", 6 -> "TSC", 7 -> "CO12", 8 -> "FIN"}; List aa has 7 elements, while newVnames has 8 (unbalanced l...

I'll be traveling on an ICE train next week and plan to work during the trip, so I'd really like to have a table to put a laptop on. However, when I go to bahn.de and try to book a place to sit, all I'm presented with is the following dialog with no option to pick a specific seat: However, I've ...

How does awk distinguish between use of BRE versus ERE ? For sed there is the -E option one can use.

Is there an algorithm explaining how to represent any gate in the matrix form? Suppose, the circuit is the following: where operator $ U = e^{iA\pi/4} = \begin{bmatrix} 0.35-0.85i & -0.35-0.15i \\ -0.35-0.15i & 0.35-0.85i \end{bmatrix} $, and the final CU operator has the following matrix repr...

I'm new to astronomy and was wondering why light can't escape from a black hole but can escape from a star with the same mass. In theory, the gravity of a star 100x the mass of the sun, and the gravity of a black hole 100x the mass of the sun are the same, so why can light escape from the star bu...

You have $9$ boxes numbered $1$ through $9$ and then you have two $6$-sided dice. Each turn you roll the two dice and deduct the sum of the dice from the boxes by removing the number itself or any combination of boxes that sum up to the sum of the dice. For example, let's say you first roll a $4$...

IRS Form 1040 instructions say that "qualified dividends" have a lower tax rate than ordinary. Yet they are included in the ordinary and added to everything else for the ordinary rates. What am I missing?

My handwriting is very bad on unruled paper. How I can learn to write straight and nice on blank paper?

I'm looking to write my own class file for a couple of reasons, but my main interest is better understanding LaTeX and how it works. I understand that I likely don't need to define my own class for whatever I want to do, but I'm interested in learning the A to Z on what a LaTeX document needs in ...

This is going to be one of those "ask a question and provide your own answer" which I believe is allowed here. Here goes, hopefully it's allowed: In a farm setting, my brother asked me what could cause him to get a shock from an outdoor hose bib at the pump house? He was prepping for freezi...

There is an advanced civilization that need to move the supermassive blackholes (SMBH) of their galaxies. I have seen some similar questions on here but the ones I have read are for moving much smaller black holes. I am not sure if you can charge a supermassive black hole enough to move it that w...

I am currently reading the quantum mechanics text by Ballentine and, over and over, arguments are made (e.g. Chapter 4.6 on constraining the wavevectors of free particles to be real) which rely on rigged Hilbert space as the "correct" context for a quantum theory. Is this generally accepted as tr...

Terry Pratchett wrote in Thud!: Coffee was only a way of stealing time that should by rights belong to your slightly older self. I am struggling to understand the meaning of it. Is it pro/contra coffee, nothing of that sort?

I thought of this when reading the Meta case regarding negative testing. Say a state has a law regarding data-retention of log files for banks. A manager instructs an employee to wipe drive of logs. The employee is knowledgeable enough to know that this log, it is for data-retention, but they do ...

I have created a program in python that calculates forces between bodies (i.e earth, moon and a hypothetical moon) and make them move according to the changes in velocity and forces. This is the code for the program: from math import sin,cos,sqrt,atan2,pi import pygame pygame.init() class Planet...

5 years ago I had a termite company use Termidor and than Borate in our attic. With a new inspection they have found a few swarmers, but no evidence of additional damage. Would adding screens to the vents be a good idea? They also recommend to re-apply the Borate. Would that be a waste? Thank ...

I am taking a course in dynamic mechanics. It includes a lot of vectors. A Vector by definition has a direction and a magnitude, I don't get it on why we have to find a unit of it to find the direction of a vector. Could you also please give an example in which where it would be useful? Most of m...

I need to replace the rear Shimano XT 7100 derailleur what broke in two at the base. It is attached by the single screw only but there is a metal pin fitted over the tip of the gear shifting cable. This pin is too thick to pass through the tiny hole in the derailleur where the cable runs through....

Lets say I'm rafting in a river that marks the boundary between state A and B. While in said river I perform an action legal in state A but not in state B. I want to know if I broke the law. How do I know which state's laws apply? Is it based on whether I am closer to one state's side of the r...

According to British historian Andrew Roberts, Napoléon Bonaparte wrote a letter to his wife Joséphine, in which he wrote "to her, ‘don’t wash for three days’" to spice up their reunion. This seems to be a common story also found in many other sources such as blogs and this popular science book o...

If someone has the magical ability to make a vacuum(no or minimal matter/atmospheric pressure) on earth around someone would that person in the vacuum then sh*t their pants? If so would it have to be a perfect vacuum? A small bit of background. This would be like a spell or magical ability someon...

I am struggling to understand the meaning of the power rating of a resistor (e.g. 2 Ω, 40 W). How may this power rating impact the discharge performance of a battery whose terminals are connected to the resistor?

In general, I have makefiles setup anytime I'm working on C projects. To save and compile these projects, I've bound the ' key to do this: map ' :wa<CR>:!make<CR> However, I sometimes open up test files that don't have a makefile, and want to compile those quickly as well: map ' :wa<CR>:!gcc % -o %

So electromagnetic radiation is created by the varying/accelerating of a system of charges and currents. Suppose that the time dependence of the charges and currents are $\rho(x,t)$ and $J(x,t)$. Then the subsequent radiation will have the same time dependence. In Jackson it is stated that we can...

I've recently learned a lot about the history of formal logic, from Frege and Pierce in the late 19th century, to Russell, Hilbert, and Quine (et al)'s development of 1st-order logic, to advances with modal/non-classical logics (by Kripke, Hintikka, and Boolos), in the 70s, 80s, and 90s. However,...

I have a very large equation that is collapsed in a very small notation. Something like f := a + b + c where a = a_1 + a_2 + a_n and a_1 = a_11 * ... and that goes on and on in a very large and not so simple equation/notation. The equations are really not important in my question. I would like t...

Using a double integral, how do I find the area enclosed by the curves $y=x^2/2$ and $x=y^2/2?$? I got as far as $\int_{0}^{2} \int_{y^2/2}^{\sqrt{2y}} dx dy$, but I can't get any further, since I don't understand what do I integrate in that case. is it 1 or y? or even x? Or did I do everything w...

I'd like to prove the linearity of integration over one real variable ($x$). Integrate[f[x] + b g[x], x] == Integrate[f[x],x] + b Integrate[g[x],x] which I was hoping would return True, but doesn't. I've tried all manner of assumptions (e.g., $b \in \mathbb{R}_{\geq 0}$), without success. Is th...

It's the story of a girl that got killed by her father because of her step sister, and a treasure related to a phoenix. She get reincarnated in the same world in the body of a girl with missing parents, then she went looking for her parents and her brother and she tamed the 4 mythical beasts. I a...

I know that we need to go through the bed in procedure when installing a new disk, but what about when changing only the pads? Technically, the surface of the disk has already been prepared with the original bed in procedure, but I was wondering if there would be reasons to repeat it. Maybe that ...

There have been many times where I have seen people pull out their Peyos right before Shemona Esrei. Anyone I have asked said there is a source, but I can not locate it. (Supposedly there is a Yesod Vshoresh HaAvodah that mentions it).

I have $N$ stones. Then the stones are arranged in ascending order of weights. If I remove three stones that are heaviest, then the total weight of the stones decreases by $35$%. Now if I remove the three lightest stones, the total weight of the stones further decreases by a factor of $\frac{5}{1...

Consider a constrained least squares problem of minimizing $(y-X\beta)^T(y-X\beta)$ subject to a constraint or penalty on the number of non-zero coefficients $\beta_i$. This seems related to LASSO or Ridge regression but is different from either of these. It seems also related to AIC/BIC type cri...

ClearAll@f; f[x_] := 2 Sin[x] - x - Log[x + 1] Manipulate[Refresh[functions = Table[D[f[x], {x, n}], {n, 0, nMax, 1}]; orders = Table[D[f[x], {x, n}] // Inactivate // TraditionalForm // ToString, {n, 0, nMax, 1}]; labels = MapThread[#1 <> " = " <> ToString[#2, TraditionalFo...

"If you die, your duplicate remains in existence, and is for all intents you, but with two negative levels. (Once the duration expires, one of the negative levels immediately converts to one lost level; the other negative level can be removed by standard means.)" So if I Manifest Fission Wait un...

Consider the Intrada con Trezza in D minor by J.H. Schmelzer. The score has two movements: Intrada followed by Treza. I wondered whether a Trez(z)a is some kind of musical form (like Menuet etc.).

Let’s consider a finite group $G$ and a subgroup $H \subsetneq G$. I have to show that: $$ \bigcup_{g\in G} gHg^{-1} \neq G $$ In the solutions to the exercise this is done via explicit counting of elements. I had another idea but am stuck: We can consider the action of $G$ on the set of its subg...

I would like an algorithm that generates a random state, sampled according to some probability distribution which is not uniform in Hilbert space. Assume though that I have at my disposal a uniform (i.e. Haar) random state generator. How do I do that? For concreteness consider the case of a sing...

I'm calculation the % difference in completion rate (before vs after) of Product A (0.3%), Product B (16.7%) and the combination of Product A and B (17.0%). I'm unable to explain why the combination of Product A and B doesn't have a % difference between the one of Product A and B. (Attached the i...

I am organizing a volunteer academic conference as a part of a larger conference at a top university (let's call it X). Organizers are required to invite speakers to talk about their research in a certain field and then send their agendas to the organizers of the parent conference at X for review...

I understand that rotating momentum around a fixed axis can help with the center of balance. But is it enough? In my case, a space tug has to burn its engine for 1 min, accelerate a 100-ton piece of asteroid, and then disconnect from it. There will be no chance for trajectory corrections during o...

Eric Brown writes in How Marketing Created the Most Important Meal of the Day: In 1944, a marketing campaign for Grape Nuts would be unleashed called “Eat a Good Breakfast — Do a Better Job”. During radio ads, it would be mentioned, “Nutrition experts say breakfast is the most important meal of ...

In Yakuza 6, a guy called Nagumo speaks with a dialect. Just an example of one line from him is "今度こそ白黒つけちゃるけえの" which, in regular japanese, I'm assuming is "今度こそ白黒つけてやるからな" Anyways, he keeps using "けえ" at the end of sentences (I'm assuming it's a dialect version of "から"). What region is this dia...

In Yakuza 6, former idol Haruka is looking at an online article about how, as a surrogate daughter of a yakuza, she was spotted in an orphanage in Okinawa. One of the comments on the article says "だれか凸お願いします♪". I'm wondering what 凸 is supposed to mean here? I have a feeling it's some kind of inte...

I'm trying to design a peripheral circuit which will attach to a BBC Master (1980s home computer) via one or more of its external ports (specifically the RGB, Analogue, and User ports). Each port carries a 5V supply I could use to power my peripheral. My dilemma is that a schematic of the Master'...

I ran into an error while trying to autobalance a transaction body: module Foo.Offchain where import Plutus.V1.Ledger.Scripts (MintingPolicy) import Plutus.V1.Ledger.Address (Address) import Hydra.Cardano.API import Hydra.Prelude import Test.Hydra.Prelude import Cardano.Api.UTxO qualified as UTx...

I am not understanding the geometry of the actual definition of Topological genus of a surface. In Wikipedia I have found the following definition: The genus of a connected, orientable surface is an integer representing the maximum number of cuttings along non-intersecting closed simple curves w...

In linear regression, we postulate a model for estimating $E(Y|X)= \beta_0 + \beta_1 x$ We also propose $Y= \beta_0 + \beta_1 x + \mu$ where μ is an error team with expectation equal to zero. We also assume $X$ are fixed, i.e. not random. If we replace the first equation into the second, it will ...

I'm studying micro from the Mas-Colell, and I'm trying to understand the proof 2 of proposition 3.G.1. It is about proving that the derivative of the expenditure function w.r.t. the price of a commodity $l$, with $l=1,2,...,L$, yields the hicksian demand function. My reasoning is: $\nabla_p e(p,u...

The story - a typical Analog problem-solving story - involves a humanoid alien race that has developed an advanced technology without benefit of electricity. The opening scene: an engineer working inside a rocket accidently throws a lever that begins the launch sequence, which, without electricit...

Section 5.1 of FIPS 186-4 states that An RSA key pair used for digital signatures shall only be used for one digital signature scheme (e.g., ANS X9.31, RSASSA-PKCS1 v1.5 or RSASSA-PSS) and RSA digital signature key pair shall not be used for other purposes (e.g., key establishment) What probl...

I've discovered that an open source project I was counting on, was nearly dead by seeing its issues: 80 blockers, 100 criticals, 800+ majors, and a decreasing number of contributions over years. Another project, I had trouble using it. It has 2,600 issues (it doesn't prioritize them) opened. Does...

My question is originally the same as use jobname to "pass parameters"? But that particular question doesn't seem to have a complete answer. (I'm sure that in the minds of experts who deeply know the issue, it is solved.) Looking at a few other related threads, How can I check if the filename of ...

So I want to control my 12V (up to 10A) load through a 3.3V logic level MOSFET. I have purchased the P90NF03L MOSFET but I don't trust my datasheet reading skills so could someone please confirm that this is indeed 3.3V logic level MOSFET?

I am using a Ubuntu 20.04 VM in a Windows 10 machine using two network adapters, NAT and Bridged. However, in the "Network Connections of the Windows 10 machine I see "Ethernet4" which is a "VirtualBox Host-Only Ethernet" adapter. I also can ping this address. But why is this adapter available a...

I now know AWD towing should be done with a flatbed type truck. But say you have a sling type truck and towed an AWD with the rear wheels on the grounds. This could maybe cause damage to the front end but the front wheels are free to rotate. If the driver went slow and a short distance would thi...

I remember in MS-DOS 6.22 that Defrag had a GUI that showed its progress and how it was moving files. It wasn't there in Windows XP and I can only assume that it wasn't in Windows 95, 98, 2000 either (I'm not sure though). Even now in Windows 11, we are still presented with a version that shows a...

I am currently fitting a new shower valve. The supply to the bathroom is 22mm for both hot and cold branching with 15mm to washbasin, toilet and existing shower valve (H&C). The new valve is dual head, rainfall and conventional both 15mm. The new valve inputs are 3/4". Should I run 22mm as far as...

This is a question about UV unwrapping. Simple version. I want to unwrap the base color image and the image I use as a "height map" (for shading) on the same surface as two different sizes. What I did: I made this cube (a wall) and I added a texture to use as a height map. The first image sh...

Suppose I have a confusion matrix, or alternatively any one or more of accuracy, sensitivity, specificity, recall, F1 score or friends for a binary classification problem. How can I calculate the Brier or log score of my classifications from this information?

I am using a simple SSJS code from here. I have updated the Fire Entry API end point as below. /*=== SFMC REST API === */ var payload = { "ContactKey": Account_ID, "EventDefinitionKey":eventkey, "EstablishContactKey": true, ...

My question is about the following (from Maxime de Bellefroid, Ch. 5 The Greeks): From my understanding $\Delta_2$ is the sensitive of the option (on the first instrument with underlying $S_1$) with respect to the price of the second instrument $S_2$, I guess this value can only be estimated an...

In my textbook a statement is given that goes like "for large C , V is small for a given Q". I am not getting it if charge on a capacitor is increasing wouldn't it increase potential between them. why does it even depend on C?. can someone explain it intuitively.

I have a huge matrix defined using constantarray function and it allocates so much memory preventing the calculation. Therefore, I would like to change the constant array matrix into sparse matrix which stores only nonzero elements enables reducing the memory size. Here is just a simple example. ...

I am using an IRL540N MOSFET to drive a 12 V pump (about 6 A) and a 12 V solenoid valve (about 1 A max). It's smoking after just two uses. I need to know two things. Is it still alright? It's still working and I have switched off power. When do I know it's best to replace it? How do I prevent t...

I have a grid that I have created and a path that is there. I want to calculate the number of points each grid has or I want to calculate the number of points each slab or rectangle has.

Complete Arcane p.72 In the context of a feat or a prestige class requirement, a caster'level prerequisite (such as “caster level 5th”) measures the character’s ability to channel a minimum amount of magical power. For feats or prestige classes requiring a minimum caster level, creatures that us...

The text of Rope Trick (PHB pg. 273) quotes Those in the extradimensional space can see out of it as if a 3-foot-by- 5- foot window were centered on the rope. and ...creatures that can see the window can’t see through it. Like a one-way-mirror. The description makes no mention of sounds thou...

I used the following code to generate a plot for a function with four different parameters. Plot[ Evaluate@Table[(100*(1 - (x - 1)^(-1/r))/((x - 1)^(1 - 1/r) + 1)), {r, 0.2, 0.8, 0.2}], {x, 2, 6}, AxesLabel -> {"X", "y (Ooptimal choice)"}, PlotTheme -> "Detailed"] The results are as follow...

I have changed MPL-2.0-based code for my needs under the proprietary project and already published these changes as PR in github. But this PR is not in upstream yet (under review, not sure will be merged at all). Could I still use this code or should I wait when PR will be merged and only after t...

I have a large SSD drive connected to my iMac as my main working drive, and macOS is still on the internal drive. Can remove the ability to accidentally eject it from Finder somehow? I would just like to make ejecting the drive something a bit harder, so there's no change an errant mouse-click c...

Craft as a Downtime activity specifies that you need specific skill feats for different types of items: You need the Alchemical Crafting skill feat to create alchemical items, the Magical Crafting skill feat to create magic items, and the Snare Crafting feat to create snares. Gadgets do not fit...

I can get its Algebraic Equation by this code: Entity["Surface", "ClebschDiagonalCubic"][EntityProperty["Surface", "AlgebraicEquation"]] Then get its graphics: ContourPlot3D[81 (x^3 + y^3 + z^3) - 9 (x^2 + y^2 + z^2) - 189 (x^2 y + x^2 z + x y^2 + x z^2 + y^2 z + y z^2) + 54 x y z - 9 (x...

Choose a date that's a Monday, e.g. 1st Jan 2024. Then keep adding 1 year until you have seven dates in a row that are the days of the week in order (Monday to Sunday). Does such a date combination exist?

I am using /etc/aliases to direct group emails to multiple accounts, for example: postmaster: john abuse: john www: paul team: john, paul, ringo, george One of the lines is getting quite long due to the number of users it forwards to. Is it possible to wrap the line? I am using Exim as the MTA.

If I have a macro \Name that expands to a macro name, I can use that with \csname or the various tools from etoolbox. Can I do the opposite, i.e., get the name of a macro? My use case is the following: I want to write a command \Mtx that produces a smallmatrix (from mathtools). An optional argume...

I want to add classes to elements based on a source array or object. For example, it can be: classesArr = ["class1", "class2", "class3"]; or classesObj = {class1: "class1", class2: "class2", class3: "class3"}; the way I currently do it is: // for arrays element = document.getElementById("myelement

I have the following list of points L = { {-0.980187,-1.07694}, {-0.980187,1.07694}, {-0.788396,-1.81236},{-0.788396,1.81236}, {-0.437793,-1.07694},{-0.437793,1.07694}, {-0.157935,-1.81236},{-0.157935,1.81236}, {0.157935,-1.81236},{0.157935,1.81236}, {0.437793,-1.07694},{0...

I understand that "comprise" can be used when it refers to the totality of something: Our class comprises a total of 100 students. However, I would like to know if "comprise" can also be used when it refers to a portion of something: Our class of 100 students comprises 5 French students and...

If your anchored-to-a-gateway-at-one-end-but-other-end-free-floating wormhole technology has the handwaved ability to match orientation and velocity to the surface of a distant planet, it also has the ability to not match the orientation and velocity of the surface of a distant planet, and if you...

I'm giving some authoring advice to a newer writer. She has a curious convention where she uses an em dash at the end of a sentence in the narrative when she wants to indicate an abrupt change of subject (call this "case 1"). Her writing is private, hence the following is an example I've contrive...

Output the numbers 1-16 (or any other set of 16 distinct items). Then, repeatedly, output a random value chosen uniformly from the last 16 items outputted. After the same item is printed 16 times in a row, halt. If a number appears multiple times in the last 16 values, it should have proportional...

In the third law of thermodynamics, entropy goes to zero or to a constant value at vanishing absolute temperature. The change of entropy also goes to zero. The third law is valid in the thermodynamic limit, which means, it is valid in the case that the system is infinitely large. In contrast, in ...

Apologies for the basic question, but I've been reading about cross-validation methods/metrics and I would like to confirm if my understanding is correct: Some can only be used for regression models (e.g., Root Mean Squared Error, Mean Absolute Error, R2 Error, etc.); Some can only be used for c...

most smart contracts that rely on "randomness", will require said entropy to be in a number format. A practical way to extract entropy from a arbitrary payload is by using a hashing function. This means that it's intuitive have the entropy in bytes format inside a Tezos smart contract. There are no

I have a three bedroom house with a long hallway. If you were to walk down the hallway, the first room is on the left. Next is the bathroom on the right, and finally the last two bedrooms across from each other. On the right hand side is the master bedroom with en-suite bathroom. Every once i...

Add a straight line to this visual and turn it into a sport.

Can to knit be used in this passive structure? The meaning I want this sentence to have is Someone knit a sweater to for me. I was knit a sweater. I know that to give can be used in this passive structure, for example: ▪︎ I was given a toy.

How can I change the extent of a map in print layout to be a custom-sized region. I would like to be able to drag the handles of of the bounding box to resize them so that they touch the purple box. Currently dragging the handles makes the map rescale to be smaller but the doesn't "crop" the box....

So, we have a captured planet/moon orbiting a gas giant in the habitable zone. It is akin to prehistoric Mars, its geological activity having been maintained by constant tidal flexing from the gas giant. It is half the mass of earth, but knowing that the volume of a planet affects its surface gra...

Can one comfortably say in English "a lowly profitable company"? My research indicates that there are almost no instances of this usage. My guess is that, maybe, it is awkward to combine "lowly" with "profitable", because the concepts are antagonistic. Native speakers: Does the expression seem pe...

$$\sum_{r=0}^n \left[\frac{r+1}{r+2} (^n C_r) (x^r)\right] $$ Can someone help me evaluate this summation? I could solve till a certain extent but was then stuck. Would really help! so i started by differentiating $x(x+1)^n$ and got the coefficient of $(r+1)$. then I integrated the function I got...

I've noticed that sometimes the map isn't displaying any icons, and it makes using the map much harder: In the above screenshot, we can see a map of the bridge, and we should at least see icons for the save station, elevators, bench, and shop, but they are not displayed. Why is that, and how can...

I've got classes called "Base" and "Derived". struct Base { Base() = default; virtual ~Base() = default; Base(const Base&) = delete; Base& operator=(const Base&) = delete; virtual void DoStuff() = 0; }; The "Base" class needs virtual destructor and it's understandable. Also ...

I have a list of points $$L = \{\{x_1,y_1\}, \{x_2,y_2\}, \{x_3,y_3\},\cdots\{x_n,y_n\}\}$$ and I want to create a list $$L1 = \{f(x_1,y_1), f(x_2,y_2), \cdots, f(x_n,y_n)\},$$ where $f$ is some function. Let us take the example $f(x,y) = x^i y^j.$ Is there a simple direct method? In my example, ...

I have created a few design systems in Figma for different companies. Some are simple, and some are complex. But till now I can't understand the concept of design tokens. Every article or video I watch just says jargons like 'It helps to store design decisions for our brand...'. Figma does have s...

I'm writing about Queen songs and have encountered some interesting differences of opinion in respect of the time signature of Killer Queen. I have always heard the song in 4/4, as defined by the five clicks at the start of the song and - to my ears - the strong sense of the beat being four crotc...

I've been the DM in a campaign based in the Eberron world and the party is made primarily out of squishy level 4 characters (wizard, druid, and a bard.) During one of the combat encounters we had an issue where one of the enemies had resistance to magic which ended up making it so I had to rethin...

I am trying to build a tool in out of geometry, the idea being, it targets a camera, then affects the contained geometry based on camera info. Position, rotation, etc. isn't proving to hard to get, but I would like to get information like Field of View. Is that possible?

I've been watching a TV show called Two and a Half Men and there's a part where Allan says to Charlie Why what'd you do? and Charlie replies I did Rose. I've researched this and found that the word "did" here means "have sex" so basically what he meant is: I had sex with Rose But my doubt i...

Imagine I want to fill the 80 bytes of OP_RETURN data with zeroes, so that the resulting data is 640 bits set to 0, or 160 hex digits set to 0. The data is 640 bits but the information encoded is much smaller, and can be represented with less data. Is the P2P network optimized to relay the OP_RET...

The Oscars have stated that they want to increase diversity, so when I heard that the protagonist of The Whale movie was an Oscar nominee, I thought that this was great! However, I saw on TV that the actor is a normal-weighing person, apparently disguising himself for the needs of the movie as an...

I've recently come across a new menu command for smart objects - "Convert to Layers", I don't really understand its purpose as all it seems to do is reverting a smart object back to a raster layer. What is it meant to be used for where there already is the "Rasterize Layer"command?