I am writing an urban fantasy story set in the late 90s/early 00s revolving around the societies of magical immortal beings that secretly live amongst the human race. Despite their magical genetics being completely passed down even to children they have with humans, these immortals have consisten...
I have a Canon 5D Mark II and I'd like to see if its hot-shoe works before buying a flash.
For a bit of context: several years ago I put a primitive flash from my old times doing film photography on this camera and tried to take a picture. Flash didn't fire, I tried again, didn't fire I gave up. ...
I remember the second Doctor (Troughton) was often warbling away on his flute and the third Doctor (Pertwee) was a master of Venusian Aikido.
So do all the subsequent Doctors also have those abilities?
I realise they have different personalities but their long-learned knowledge is passed on, so a...
There are common configurations where, for example, a logical HIGH input (a voltage source) is connected to the input of some logic circuit through a resistor. Typically this logic circuit is represented as a diagram, without referring to a particular implementation of the logic gates.
I've never...
I know hobbits must have had pigs and chickens, because Bilbo Baggins served ham, bacon, eggs, and cold chicken to the dwarves when he first met them in An Unexpected Party.
But hobbits are little people, the great majority of which can't ride horses, but only ponies. Did they raise anything like...
First, the negative view:
Crunch talks due on deep-sea mining controversy - BBC News
Scientists fear a possible "goldrush" for precious metals beneath the oceans could have devastating consequences for marine life.
But supporters argue that these minerals are needed if the world is to meet the d...
While using Op-amp as a subtractor circuit the input applied to inverting and noninverting terminals are generally referenced to the DC ground of the circuit as shown in the picture below.
Pic credit: Electronics Tutorials
I want to ask if I've to measure the 220V(rms),50Hz ac voltage using a vo...
I am working on analyzing product photography data on the website and would like to gather feedback on my approach. The goal is to calculate various image metrics to assess the quality of product photos. I have written the following code to calculate these metrics and classify the image quality:
...
Like most of us, I hope to one day have a book published by a major publishing house. My current work-in-progress, Borradh, is far larger than anticipated. At the moment, it's about 129,000 words, with nearly one-third finished. I aim to complete it in around fifty or sixty chapters.
Not making t...
After the contractors installed the heat pump near my house, they pulled the drip line (that is connected to the condensate pump near the furnace) right next to the outdoor unit, which results in:
Dripping water on the sidewalk all the time.
Mossy growth near the outdoor unit.
Water leaking towa...
I followed this tutorial on how to "lego-fy" model in Blender. It works out and now I want to apply the Geometry Nodes modifier. I figured that I need to use the Realize Instances node to make that possible, but when I apply it, the material is gone and I don't know how to make it both modifier a...
Let $G$ be a group and $\pi$ be a finite-dimensional (not necessarily unitary) representation of $G$ on a complex Hilbert space $H$. We shall say that $\pi$ is completely reducible if there exists a decomposition of $H$ into orthogonal irreducible sub-representations of $\pi$.
Question 1. Suppos...
We all know and fear Tucker's Kobolds, a bunch of ragtag CR:1/4 things that hit the party only on a lucky roll but use clever tactics that make a bunch of 10 of them far outstrip their weight class. Like, so the story goes, a gang of 10-20 of them made a party of about a dozen level 10 characters...
I am self-teaching and have hit a barrier learning about power sets and Cantor's Theorem (pages 34-35 Understanding Analysis, Abbott, 2nd ed).
The theorem is presented as:
Theorem 1.6.2 (Cantor’s Theorem). Given any set $A$, there does not exist a function $f : A \rightarrow P(A)$ that is onto.
...
I'm currently working on a data set where the goal is to predict the number of rented bikes in Seoul, given information about the weather at the time.
The data set can be downloaded here: https://archive.ics.uci.edu/dataset/560/seoul+bike+sharing+demand
One of the possible predictors is the varia...
There must be a way to change the init.vim / .vimrc so I can quit Vim without saving first (:wq) nor force quitting (:q!). But I only want that behaviour when the Buffer has no name.
Why? Because a lot of times I use Vim just temporary for example:
As a calculator
Clipboard Text Editor
Get the U...
Bearing in mind that ignorance is in opposition to knowledge and the starting point for all the suffering, it seems still unbelievable that there were people contemporary to the Buddha that contradicted and refused his teaching. Considering that he was the culmination of human intellect and the e...
In a tutorial, one of the hardest jobs is coaxing students into actually speaking. Recently a random memory has started coming into my mind when I'm supervising them. A robot is being interviewed, and is asked a question, and its response is described more or less in these words:
The robot nodde...
In my document, I would like to use something that looks like the picture in my list of references
Any ideas on how to implement this?
Thank you!
This is my template
\documentclass[12pt,a4paper,openany]{report}
\usepackage{pifont} %bouni
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{am...
\documentclass[a4paper,oneside,12pt]{book}
\usepackage[left=3cm,right=2cm,top=2cm,bottom=2cm]{geometry}
\begin{document}
\edef\var{1}
\if \var= 1
{var equal one}
\else
{var not equal one}
\fi
\end{document}
I try to define new variable \var with value 1. Then I try to ma...
Is there a way I can change enumerate to create a list as follows?
1.01
1.02
1.03
1.04
1.05
1.06
1.07
1.08
1.09
1.10
1.11
...
I've been using enumitem as follows, but it's not the right approach:
\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\usepackage{enumitem}
\begin{document}
\pagestyle{empty}
\begin{...
In the 3-way handshake, the initial sequence number of both endpoints of the TCP connection is synchronized.
Here is an example:
Endpoint A randomly generates an initial sequence number: 123.
Endpoint B randomly generates an initial sequence number: 678.
The endpoints agree that A will send the...
w.r.t. LLM applications using the RAG (retriever-augmented-generation) architecture, people have started taken it for granted that it will be powered by a vector database. e.g., see this:
The most important piece of the preprocessing pipeline, from a systems standpoint, is the vector database.
...
Consider following float loop, compiled using -O3 -mavx2 -mfma
for (auto i = 0; i < a.size(); ++i) {
a[i] = (b[i] > c[i]) ? (b[i] * c[i]) : 0;
}
Clang done perfect job at vectorizing it. It uses 256-bit ymm registers and understands the difference between vblendps/vandps for the best perform...
販売会社が商品等を販売する際、その代金を分割による後払いで受け取ることをいいます。
Does いいます mean "is called" or does it mean "is" in the same way that です would?
I was working on a cruise ship, had travelled on a C1 D visa, I faced a back injury while working on the ship. My contract was shortened and I was sent back to India. The Passport has a PAROLED stamp with a pen written comment "to depart foreign", will I be able to travel back.
I have a table with three columns: user_id, customer_id, and order_id.
In my queries, I frequently filter the data using conditions like,
... WHERE user_id = 23434 AND customer_id = 234234 AND order_id IN [23334, 23423, 23452];
I want to optimize the query performance by creating a composite i...
I want to pass class object parameter to the Run method of the scheduling agent in the Sitecore.
Can I pass object parameter to the method and how?
How can I configure param in the config file?
Class:
public class ImportProduct
{
public void Run()
{
//Scheduling Agent calling
...
I have tightvnc server on my new ubuntu-22.04 machine and can use vnc.
VNC xstartup is configured to use Xfce4.
How can I disable the automatic screen lock of the Xfce4 window?
I tried setting 'Display Power Management' to 'off' in Applications->Settings->Power Manager menu, but it doesn't work.
Suppose I have a 2048 bit prime number p. Now for the group $Z_p$, could someone please tell me an efficient algorithm to check whether a randomly chosen number is a generator for the group or not
If one doesn't have a chair available can one recite tachanun standing since he cant do nefillas apayim anyway sitting without a sefer torah as a yachid at home ?
Genesis 1:3
And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light.
καὶ εἶπεν ὁ θεός γενηθήτω φῶς καὶ ἐγένετο φῶς
Modern Koine readers will have the advantage of accent marks to tell the difference between φῶς (light) and φώς (man, mortal). Yet on the pages of a manuscript, thou...
When reading some article recently, I noticed that Zelenskyy is wearing a thin black bracelet around his left wrist:
Looking at other pictures of him, past and present, I didn't notice that bracelet, or any other accessory.
Is there any meaning to this item? Political, or other?
I've found this sentence in an Italian book for Latin learners (emphasis mine):
Mathematici Graeci saepe lunam astraque intuiti sunt
You can read the whole text here.
If "astra" refers to "lunam", which is in singular, I don't understand why it's in plural. Shouldn't it be "astrum"? Or am I mis...
Deepl renders it as Fahrradrad.
Beolingus tells me it's Fahrradlaufrad.
Leo seems to recognize neither of these as a word.
Gmail in Chrome wants to correct it to Fahrrad Rad.
German Wikipedia has an entry for Fahrrad-Rad, a kinetic artwork of Duchamp.
Who's right? (Or is it none of the above?)
I tried to implement 16-Bit Karasutba Multiplier in Verilog HDL. It gives me right answers for small numbers, but it's incorrect for large numbers.
Can someone point out what's wrong?
Here's the design:
module karatsuba_2x2(
input [1:0] a,
input [1:0] b,
output [3:0] out
);
wire ...
The vertices of a triangle are given as $A(1, 0, 0), B(3, 1, 0), C(5, 2, 1) $. Find the center and the radius of the circumcircle of this triangle.
My Attempt:
The normal to the plane of the triangle is
$ N = (B - A) \times (C - A) \\ = ( (3, 1, 0) - (1, 0, 0) ) \times ( (5, 2, 1) - (1, 0, 0) )...
Page 8 of the unofficial latex2e manual says
One way to do that is to put \pdfpagewidth=\paperwidth and \pdfpageheight=\paperheight in your document’s preamble.
However, I get
! Undefined control sequence.
l.8 \pdfpagewidth
=\paperwidth
?
! LaTeX Error: Missing \begin{document}...
I am trying to identify this diode (D4) from a vintage synth PSU board.
The colours are green green blue. The other diode under R12 is the same.
Does anyone know what it is or an equivalent, so I can replace it?
My son and I are planning to go to the UK this summer for a holiday. I have a Dutch passport; however he only has a Lebanese travel document.
Do I need to apply for a visa for him or can he just come with me without one?
The code makes following assumptions:
std::string_view is not null-terminated
there are no exponents, all floating point inputs are in the way 123.123
limiting digits before and after decimal point
<ctype.h> free. No locale. Uses own isspace() and isdigits()
#include <cstdint>
#include <st...