According to the 2020 PhilPapers survey, 59.2% of philosophers are compatibilists when it comes to the free will/determinism debate. Despite its popularity among professional philosophers, what are the strongest criticisms/arguments against compatibilism levelled by incompatibilists? Please elabo...

I want to use the For syntax to turn the programme around for N generations. However, I am not quite sure how to use For syntax. For example, the following list is available. This is the first generation, given an initial value of 10. initialvalue = 10; n = 10; a = PoissonDistribution[initialval...

I have a technical question about thermal management with mid-power LED diodes like Samsung LM301H. Do you use thermal vias on the PC board anymore? Either under the LED diode footprint or even around the footprint? I was reading about this on a ten year old application note from Cree called "Op...

Octane has a boiling point of 120°C. Water has a boiling point of 100°C. The definition of boiling point is, "the temperature which the liquid substance's saturated vapor pressure equals the atmospheric pressure". Volatile substances have higher saturated vapor pressure at a given temperature, th...

I was expecting these two sed commands to be equivalent, but mozilla/DST_Root_CA_X3.crt is only removed in the second case, why? I'm using sed 4.4 with Debian stretch if that matters (stretch-arm64)ubuntu@ip-10-1-2-224:~$ sudo sed '#^mozilla/DST_Root_CA_X3.crt$#d' test-certificates.conf mozilla/V...

Definition 1. A binary operation $\cdot:X\times X\to X$, $\cdot:(xy)\mapsto xy$, on a set $X$ will be called a line operation if $$xx=x,\quad xy=yx,\quad (xy)x=y$$ for every $x,y\in X$. Remark 1. Every set $X$ endowed with a line operation is a commutative quasigroup: for every elements $a,b\in X...

I’ve been trying to get rid of a ticking noise. I think my next steps are: a) check the chain ring for damage, and/or b) Check the chain for damage, and/or b) look for frame cracks I don’t have experience doing any of those. My main ask with this post is for pointers, links, tips, to accelerate m...

Jeener's Flower is a minimal surface attributed to the french engraver Patrice Jeener whom we can see here: The DNA of his flower can be written as rep = ReplaceAll[z :> x + I y]; a = rep @ Re[(z + z^5/2) * I]; b = rep @ Re[z - z^5/2]; c = rep @ Re[z^4]; and viewed with ParametricPlot3D[{a, b...

Triangle $ ABC $, has $ \angle ACB = 60^{\circ} $. The point $ E $ lies on $ AB $ such that $ CE $ bisects $ \angle ACB $. The point $ D $ lies on $ BC $ such that $ AD \perp BC $. The point $ F $ lies on $ AC $ such that lines $ AD $, $ CE $ and $ BF $ are concurrent at a point $ O $. Lines $ EF...

Can you polymorph to a creature that is wearing armor? In game GM polymorphed an NPC to an armored sabretooth tiger (plate armor). Is that legal?. The NPC would turn into a regular sabretooth with no half plate right?

I see similar questions here and here but they do not answer my question. The backstory is a little complicated but short version is I have a function $f(\cdots)$ that effectively returns 2 dissimilar results, a scalar $x$ and a vector $\mathbf{y}$. I do not mean there are multiple possible solu...

I'm writing a historical fiction. For context, it's about Robert Oppenheimer and how he swapped lives with a modern-day kindergarten teacher. Here's a little piece of dialogue between him and his bestie Ernest Lawrence: Lawrence tossed the apple into the sparkling lake. "Come on, Oppie, you know...

In lines 137-138 of chapter XIII of Lingua latina per se illustrata. Familia Romana one can read: Iam necesse est tē dormire. I don't understand why the accusative pronoun tē is used in the above sentence, since I've always seen the construction necesse est used with dative. One can find an exa...

PC display adapters in text mode usually show a blinking cursor on the screen, often in the shape of a bar appearing under the character. Additionally, text may be made to blink by setting an appropriate character attribute bit within video memory. What are the rates at which each blinks on a t...

I am finding space combat probably one of the more difficult things in Starfield. In particular, I am on the mission Legacy's End where I've since stopped trying and focused on leveling up some of my ship building skills and other space combat related skills, but what I think I need most is som...

I need to control a 5V load from a 3.3V microprocessor I/O pin, but the load needs to be on if the pin is not initialized as an output or if the microprocessor is powered down. The pin cannot tolerate 5V applied externally. I think this circuit will do it, where one of the N-channel MOSFETs serve...

I have this MWE: \documentclass[a4paper,12pt]{article} \usepackage{amsmath,amssymb} \begin{document} Dato l'insieme non vuoto $A$ allora $(A^{c})^{c}$ è uguale a: \end{document} with this output where we see that the exponents are at different heights, How do I get exponents smaller and smalle...

I want to draw three circles of varying radii and varying centres that overlap. However, I would like parts of the outlines of the circles to not be visible (imagine bubbles next to each other.) Furthermore, I would like arrowheads on the outlines of the circles (not necessarily in the same posit...

In the gospels, John the Baptist's ministry of baptism was "for the remission of sin." But in Josephus, it's for the purification of the body after moral repentance already occurred. Antiquities 18.5.2 116-119 He was a good man and had urged the Jews to exert themselves to virtue, both as to jus...

I have been looking around the internet for a solution, but nothing seems to work for me. I have got this model that I am going to 3d print, but at the scale that I am printing the edges are too coarse. I have tried playing around with modifiers but nothing seems to be working. The outer edges ne...

According to the FCC (emphasis mine): WEA alerts only cover critical emergency situations. Consumers can receive four types of alerts: "National Alerts" issued by the President of the United States or the Administrator of FEMA; "Imminent Threat" alerts involving imminent threats to safety or li...

This book would be from the 1980s or earlier. I believe the main character was a woman. They are on another planet covered mostly or fully in water. Not entirely sure of the plot. Whales and dolphins could "talk" with people and helped them on this planet. Dolphins were more child-like and the k...

I've recently created another account on GitHub to host stuff that I didn't want to associate with my main account. I've used an email address under my domain name and verified it and everything went well. I was able to create repositories, push code, set up an SSH key, edit my profile and so on....

I’m not sure if it's better to ask this here or on worldbuilding.se Which countries except Russia/China/US can launch their own crew into space and return them unharmed (if for some reason this really becomes necessary to do and has to happen quickly) and how long would it take? Assuming that Mer...

Previously, I kept the Bitcoin Core daemon running 24x7, however recently I've become less interested in keeping it running all the time, and would like instead to run it for as much time as it takes to ensure the blockchain is no more than a few hours behind. I'm using a Powershell script to con...

I have a Titan water heater that is 54 amps is connected to a #10 wire to a 50 amp breaker, will there be any problem

The story I'm looking for takes place several years after the police/FBI have developed technology allowing them to create a non-fatal but debilitating disease that is specific to a particular person - when DNA is found at a crime scene, the disease is created and spread (usually in just the city...

Reading over some older bits I've collected over the years, it appears that some early BASICs used a truncate for their INT function, but this was standardized on floor. Any ideas why? Poking about I find many descriptions of the differences between floor/trunc/ceil, but no description that indic...

I'm trying to plot a function that is in turn defined in terms of a lot of other functions, which each have a lot of variables. Here's a stylized example of the kind of thing I'm trying to do: f1 = a Exp[b] c / Tanh[c - d] f2 = f1 / (1 + f1) f3 = Log[Tan[f2]] / (f2 f1) f4 = f3 BesselJ[0, f2] / f1...

A desk has eight drawers. There is a probability of 1/2 that someone placed a letter in one of the desk's eight drawers and a probability of 1/2 that this person didn't place a letter in any of the desk's eight drawers. You open the first 7 drawers and find that they are all empty. What is the p...

Objective Given a nonnegative integer, calculate its NDos-size as defined below, and output it. NDos' numeral system The concept of NDos-size comes from the numeral system I made. It represents every nonnegative integer by a nested list, as follows: With the binary expansion of given nonnegative...

https://thehill.com/homenews/house/4237209-mchenry-orders-pelosi-to-leave-capitol-office-in-first-acts-as-speaker/ says: A small number of senior representatives have “hideaway offices” inside the Capitol Building. https://www.al.com/news/2023/10/patrick-mchenry-acting-speaker-orders-nancy-pelo...

I was drilling a 1 3/8 hole through the bottom plate of a 2x4 wall in order to run a 1 inch conduit from that wall into the crawlspace for a media cabinet. I realized after a certain depth when the drill was still eating that something must be wrong, so I stopped, remeasured, and went back under ...

The following is written on the Wikipedia entry of Taxicab Geometry: The [taxicab] geometry has been used in regression analysis since the 18th century, and is often referred to as LASSO. Unfortunately, no references are given on this point. I would appreciate if someone could explain this conn...

I partnered with my former professor to establish a social research-based organization. We had a plan to pursue a federal grant. In pursuit of the grant, we brought some volunteer RAs on board to help us with some of the work. The research focus was suggested by my co-PI and I looped in one of ou...

In IEC 61000-6-8:2020 3.1.10, an optical fiber port is defined as port at which an optical fiber is connected to an equipment. In Table 6 – Requirements for conducted emissions, other wires ports, it defines four kinds of test ports: Wired network ports (3.1.18) Optical fibre ports (3.1.10) with...

What is the precise definition of a dust solution in general relativity? If the Einstein tensor of a metric has only the first diagonal term non-zero, it that sufficient for that solution to be called a dust solution?

According to ZDNet, it is an open question whether a transformer LLM like ChatGPT can facilitate the determination of a solution to the P-NP Problem. (See Can generative AI solve computer science's greatest unsolved problem? (ZDNet)) This would seem to be an attempt to mine statistical patterns o...

I'm asking as someone who's planning to apply for a Master in Germany after an academic hiatus of 8 years for personal reasons. So, what I want to know is if I would find it very difficult/impossible to get accepted as a Phd candidate in Germany upon the completion of my Master. My subject is En...

Let's say Damping Sphere is in play and so is Baldur's Gate (with 2+ other Gates). Is Plaza of Harmony still able to tap for all colors of mana? The idea is that, if there are 2+ other Gates, then Baldur's Gate's second ability will generate more than one mana, so Damping Sphere kicks in and make...

I'm part of the database team at my company, and I'm currently facing a dilemma regarding query optimization and performance. Whenever some of my colleagues come across a slow query, their default solution is to create an index to speed it up. This has resulted in some tables having more than 70 ...

In Section 3 of Page 3, the notes that one of the conditions for weak stationarity is that $\gamma_{X}(h)=Cov(X_t, X_{t+h})$, essentially that the covariance of $X_s$ and $X_t$ depend only on $t-s$ and not $t$ or $s$. If I understood this correctly, this implies that it's possible to have a seque...

a. He used to smoke with me. Can't (a) have two meanings? He used to smoke together with me. He and I smoked together. He used to smoke when with me. (I didn't smoke) Many thanks.

A linguistics paper titled "Tense and Modals" by Tim Stowell shows these examples and explains them as follows: (9) a. Carl can’t move his arm. (ability at the utterance time) b. Carl couldn’t move his arm. (ability at a past time) c. Max can’t go out after dark. (permission at the utterance ti...

I'm trying to figure out how to outfit a ship to jump to Charybdis III, and my current ship is a hair too underpowered to reach the planet. While I'm trying to improve my astrodynamics score, which should get me jumping far enough to reach it - I feel like knowing what's the 'longest' I need to j...

When my Beast Barbarian reaches level 5, with one hand empty and the other holding a dagger, after making two claw attacks plus an extra attack, can I then use a bonus action to attack with the dagger using Two-Weapon Fighting? Would the Dual Wielder feat be effective for the dagger attack in suc...

I am trying to find out how many poles I will need in a switch to switch the circuit from A to B: I was able to do it with 4 switches. Is there a simpler solution?

A 网友 drew my attention to a quote which I find recorded in different variations online, e.g. on Baike Baidu as 所爱隔山海，山海亦可平. It's attributed there to a collection of works called 山木诗词全集. My question is: What is the correct quote, where in Chinese literature does it appear originally and who has sa...

I'm making a FDW (Foreign Data Wrapper) in PostgreSQL for myself using C. It seems to be working rudimentary, but I have one problem. When I pass it a query like the following via psql: select * from FOREIGN_TABLE_A where COL1=1 and COL2=1; ...then the FDW ignores the second search predicate (CO...

I have a test.iso file not bootable, it is just an image with some files and folders. I write my usb stick with this test.iso file by using ''dd' command. dd if=/root/test/test.iso of=/dev/sdd bs=4096 Finally I have my desired files onto my usb Stick but I want to add manually other two files bu...

First off, I would like to clarify that I'm not asking about the verb "do", but rather, the specific word "did", and a more figurative use of the word. In English, the word "did" is sometimes used to emphasize a verb/action, such as in: "He did write that book." or, in a more general example: "Sh...

I believe it is prudent to use pressure-treated plywood when mounting a residential electrical panel against a concrete basement wall. I am in the Northwest USA where concrete basement walls often have quite a bit of moisture. But I never understood what kind of fastener to use. Usually the plywo...

I am using Arch and bash and Openbox window manager. Everything is up to date. Openbox is configured with a file called rc.xml Within rc.xml I typically call bash -c 'command1; command2; etc' to connect necessary useful command sequences to hotkeys. I have a hotkey definition within rc.xml as fol...

I work in a medium-sized company in Germany, which is part of a fairly large corporation. In my department there are two teams in one office space. We all get along very well, but recently the mood is tilting a bit. A new colleague in the other team is not doing his job at the expense of the othe...

How can I create a table in Latex so that the cells in the last row are not aligned with the cells in the previous row? The table should look like this:

I am having an AC leakage current problem with my measurement setup that I typically use for lock-in measurements. I employ a 100 M\$\Omega\$ resistor as a voltage-current converter, and in series, a 50 k\$\Omega\$ resistor serves as a dummy load (only for testing purposes), as illustrated in th...

The question is pretty much in the title, I was definitely not expecting to see a Luftwaffe branded plane, so I'm curious to know what I'm looking at! At the time of posting the plane is sitting at Tirana's international airport

This is part 18 of A Trivial Pursuit, a 25-part puzzle hunt. Each part is solvable on its own, with the exception of the meta-puzzle at the end. Sometimes one connect-wall puzzle just isn't enough... so I hereby present PSE's first (and probably last) connecting wall of connecting walls! Below a...

you often find applications that divide RNN according to their input and output data into the categories: One-To-One One-To-Many Many-To-One Many-To-Many as you can see e.g. (here https://stackoverflow.com/questions/42334335/how-to-structure-an-lstm-neural-network-for-classification). Let's say...

Given $$f(x)=a_0+a_1\cos x+a_2\cos2x+\cdots+a_n\cos nx$$ where $a_0,a_1,a_2,\cdots,a_n$ are non-zero reals such that $a_n>|a_0|+|a_1|+\cdots+|a_n-1|$ then how many roots of $f(x)=0$ are there in $0\le{x}\le{2\pi}$? I have tried to check the conditions for lower power equations. For $a_0+a_1\cos x...

I have a characterbody3d that acts as a spaceship that I have temporarily given movement using the keyboard and then I have a characterbody3d that acts as a player that I have placed inside the ship, but outside the ship node. When the ship moves, the player should stay still because it is floati...

In Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (2022), Doctor Strange meets Reed Richards of the Fantastic Four on Earth-838: Doctor Strange: "Fantastic Four." Didn't you guys chart in the '60s? Doctor Strange is asking if the Fantastic Four had any popular songs or albums that were ranked on t...

I want draw this pic with TikZ: I write this code: \documentclass{standalone} \usepackage{tikz} \usetikzlibrary{calc} \usetikzlibrary{arrows.meta} \pagestyle{empty} \begin{document} \begin{tikzpicture}[line cap=round] % First, define nodes \node[circle, inner sep=0pt, label={[inner sep=0pt...

MWE: \documentclass{standalone} \usepackage{pgfplots} \begin{document} \begin{tikzpicture} \begin{axis}[ ybar, title={Test}, symbolic x coords={SmallCaps, MoreSmallCaps}, xtick=data, ] \addplot+[ybar] plot coordinates {(SmallCaps,0.5)(MoreSmallCaps,0.25)}; \addplot+[ybar] plot co...

I'm left with this old door frame (door has been removed) that is not flush with the existing wall. The way I see it, I have two options: Plaster over the timber and bring it out a few mm so that it's flush with the existing wall (I know it's not possible to plaster over timber, and any plasterb...

On a monitor in The Departed (2006), Sullivan identifies everyone present with Irish Mob boss Frank near the building that they have under AV surveillance nearby. Frank checks his phone and sees a message from Sullivan that reads "No phones." Sullivan: Time is 10:46. Frank and his gang enters t...

“Everything that matters in life flows through tubes.” - Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, The Waste Books Model of a Boy surface at the Mathematical Research Institute of Oberwolfach, Germany 1. Preceding questions This is (hopefully) the last of three questions concerning display options of Paramet...

In the kitchen I have two 16A wall sockets, each has a power strip plugged into it ("max 3000 W" label). At present, the washing machine and the oven are connected together to one power strip, while the fridge and the microwave are connected to the other. I was wondering: being the washing machin...

Alice and Bob are playing a game. Each time, two numbers are generated uniformly in the interval $[0,1] $, Alice can see the two numbers and choose one to tell Bob. And Bob needs to determine whether it's the larger one. Bob wins if he is correct, otherwise, Alice wins. Alice and Bob's strategies...

I have a webdav server containing thousands of files: └── Sync ├── 20180719_120823.jpg ├── 20180719_120933.jpg ├── 20190719_120955.jpg ├── 20190719_121023.jpg ├── 20190719_121032.jpg ├── 20190720_121037.jpg ├── 20190721_120823.mp4 ├── 20190822_220013.jpg ...

One knows that the Alexandrov topology on a preordered set is the finest topology that induces the same [specialization] preorder on the set. Given this, one finds a one-to-one correspondence between the Alexandrov topologies on a set and the pre-orders on that set. On the other hand, every pre-o...

I am doing some practice problems and I need to find a constant $a$ such that $$ f(x) = \begin{cases} \hfill x\left(1+2x\sin\left(\frac{1}{x}\right)\right) \hfill & \text{ $x \neq 0$} \\ \hfill a \hfill & \text{ $x = 0$} \\ \end{cases} $$ is differentiable everywhere. To appr...

I have published a paper in a then new journal about 2 years ago. As my paper is one of their most cited so far, they have since invited me to publish another article (fully open access, waiving the APCs) last year. I took the offer and published another paper there (the BA thesis results of a st...

In order to gather the utxos for an address importdescriptors will rescan the blockchain. Is there another way to get all the utxos for an address / descriptor without having to rescan the block chain?

This works great: bpy.types.Object.color_asd = bpy.props.FloatVectorProperty( subtype='COLOR', ) This errors: UID_short = "asd" bpy.types.Object[f"color_{UID_short}"] = bpy.props.FloatVectorProperty( subtype='COLOR', ) Error: TypeError: 'b...

Azerbaijan has extended its Special Quarantine Regime until January 2. I have been led to believe that the land border restrictions of the Special Quarantine Regime prevent any travel to Azerbaijan from neighboring countries via land borders. Is this true? Is it possible to enter Azerbaijan via l...

I've been struggling to find a clear definition of what exactly an inciting incident is. According to Masterclass, an inciting incident is: The inciting incident of a story is the event that sets the main character or characters on the journey that will occupy them throughout the narrative. Typi...

Assuming that a speck of glass dust has adhered to your finger and after a few days, you notice occasional discomfort when gliding your finger over surfaces (but non if you let the finger alone). It has improved somewhat but still persists lightly after approximately 10 days. If we assume that a ...

I am new to self-learning robotics and while browsing I found quanser hexapod that has 6 degrees of freedom (https://www.quanser.com/products/hexapod/). I used the Grubler's formula in Lynch & Park to verify it, but I am not getting 6. The number of links that I used is 8 (6 legs + two platforms)...

I recently learned about both of them meaning "I intend/plan to..." but I don't know the difference between the two. Can someone explain?

Can anyone tell me who the manufacturer is of these capacitors? We are in search of the datasheet to get equivalent, or the same capacitors.

I've been searching Horizons settings to find lunar librations but can't find. How can I get the libration data? So I have tested this Horizons Web Application and selected Moon as the target. Whether I select Vector Table or Osculating Orbital elements or Observer Table as Ehpemeris Type there's...

I have a rectangular rug in my living room composed of coloured patches (shown below). For convenience I have labelled each distinct colour from 1 to 6. Let's suppose that it was created by starting with a blank rug and colouring one rectangular (can be square) patch at a time. Locations can be r...

Let $\Sigma$ be a closed oriented topological surface of genus $g\geq 2$, and let $\mathfrak{X}_n$ denote the $\mathrm{SL}_n$-character variety of $\pi_1(\Sigma)$, i.e. $$ \mathfrak{X}_n= \mathrm{Hom}(\pi_1(\Sigma), \mathrm{SL}_n)//\mathrm{SL}_n. $$ So each point $p\in \mathfrak{X}_n$ corresponds...

Let $\mathcal{O}(P)$ be a finite, completely distributive lattice of all lower sets ordered by set inclusion. Moreover, let $K =\; \mathrel{\{} h(x) \mathrel{|} x \in \mathcal{O}(P) \mathrel{\}}$ be another poset ordered by set inclusion with $h:\mathcal{O}(P)\rightarrow K$ being a surjective fun...

I would like to know what the most successful arguments have been against necessitarianism, as I struggle to imagine how necessitarianism could be false. I think about how any particular event transpired - say - my decision to walk left out of my building instead of right, and all I see is that t...

Is it possible to expand the tokens in a string as though they were typed at that point in the source file? I'm trying to do something like this: \begin{vmatrix} \@for\tmpone:=a,b,c\do{% \def\thisrow{}% \@for\tmptwo:=d,e,f\do{% \expandafter\xdef\expandafter\thisrow{\thisrow & \string\foo{...

I disassembled a broken kitchen scale and I found this LCD module: https://imgur.com/a/8Uc3AHR The module has only 2 wires (A(node) and K(athode) printed on the board). I was wondering what kind of module is, I would like to reuse it in another project. Thank you in advance.

Something always bothered me about that episode. The Bozeman didn't hit the Enterprise anywhere near the warp core, it hit in one of the nacelles. How did that collision cause a warp core breach?

In my childhood I was gifted a hardcover sci-fi short story anthology that featured an excerpt from the novelization of Star Wars by George Lucas/Alan Dean Foster. As I recall, it was from their time on the Death Star, and it was illustrated with sketches that were either drawn a) by someone who'...

Suppose $X=\{x_1, x_2, \ldots, x_n\}$ is a finite set of $n$ elements. I learned that there are $n^{n^2}$ binary operations $*:X\times X \to X$ and $n^{n(n+1)/2}$ of them are commutative. I was wondering how many of them are associative. I came across this post; there's a very complicated formula...

I am working on a joint which look like this. I would like to join the parts in a spherical fashion with the faces that I indicated with green marks. This type of problem keeps coming up and I don't know how to deal with it while keeping a decent topology. Is there a fit-for-all kind of solution ...

I came across a rather basic state-preperation description that I didn't fully understand. So far, I thought I got the basics of density matrices, but now I am confused. I hope you can help me finding out if I just misinterpret what's written or if there is indeed a problem in what I thought is t...

When I was in elementary school (late 1960s - early 1970s), I read a volume of dragon stories from my school's library. I recall little about the physical book: I remember it as a hardcover with a paper and cellophane dust jacket; there was little color on the jacket, perhaps some green. The book...

Back in the 80s I read a paperback I got from a used bookstore, about a protagonist who was cut in half (I think through an accident) at the beginning of the book, but survived and ended up commanding a ship that was partially made of a whale, or at least had a whale's brain. Unfortunately this ...

Given I use the following table : CREATE TABLE operations ( asset_id varchar(255) NOT NULL, event_id varchar(255) NULL, updated_at timestamptz NOT NULL DEFAULT CURRENT_TIMESTAMP ); and the following Index : CREATE INDEX idx ON operations ( event_id); When I run the following query W...