This may have an answer somewhere else, I have not found any. I apologize if it is a duplicate. The TeXBook recommends to add \/ after italicized words in order to adjust the spacing with roman text that comes afterwards. E.g. {\it italicized\/} is cool looks better than just {\it italicized} is ...

Background I'm validating a model and as part of the process I've been calculating SHAP values for different validation datasets. I've calculated SHAP values for every sample in each dataset taken their absolute values, summed, and normalised them. This allows me to see their aggregate contributi...

BH What do the main poskim and commentators explain “And don’t let the evil inclination assure your that the grave will be a place of refuge for you” mean in Pirkei Avot 4:22

The BBC released over 800 episodes of Doctor Who on iPlayer in November 2023. The Curse of Fenric, the third serial of the 26th season, has three versions: The original release A 1991 video edition with 6 minutes of extra footage A 2003 DVD version with 12 minutes of extra footage Which version...

Low strength spellcasters could use a strong, loyal companion to carry any loot and excess equipment. They can fairly easily get a loyal companion in a familiar, but most familiars aren't exactly weightlifters themselves. How can I best optimize a familiar to haul and caddy items for me? I'm espe...

I recently installed a GFCI outlet in an aluminum sunroom in the interior wall of the sunroom. It worked fine in the summer but now in the winter months when it gets real cold at night the GFCI trips. The walls are just over two inch thick, and the insulation used is some cheap styrofoam condense...

I've noticed a full stop (period) after "UTC" on the Enthusiast badge page. In my understanding, the presence or absence of the period after the abbreviation doesn't seem to affect the meaning. Are there any style guides that recommend using a period in abbreviations? I'm curious to know the conv...

In page 46, sententiae antíquae, sententia numerus sextus Sub príncipe dúró temporibusque malís audés esse bonus My guess is that this means Under bad times and strict chief you hear being good. But I am very dubious abut the esse bonus part of the sentence.

Carbon has two stable isotopes, C-12 and C-13. Since they both have the same electronic structure they can both make up the same molecules, but presumably they may perform different functions in biochemistry due to different mass. Q: Have various stable isotopes of the same atom ever been put to ...

The pattern comes from a culture test online (in French). Some questions are actually about mathematics/logic. I absolutely do not understand this one, though, given the others questions it should be something extremely trivial Question: Complete the pattern: 21VN, 32TX, 43QS, 54?? a. FE b. DE c....

Do these 3 sentences properly use the idiom "paint someone into a corner"? Or can it only be used as "paint oneself into a corner" (i.e., it wouldn't be possible to paint someone else into a corner)? They were painted into a corner. They were painted into a corner by the situation. Their col...

There was a ceiling fan which I removed. I usually would take a picture of the wiring before removal but the design of the fan made that difficult and only after I got the fan down did I see this mess. I will never rush this stuff again. After removal of the ceiling fan I realized that some of th...

So I've stumbled upon the following phrase: Er ist so müde, dass er nur langsam Deutsch sprechen kann. My question is why is langsam used without an ending? I'm aware that language names in German have two forms, and here, it's the neuter zero-article one. But my grammar books have no mention o...

I am trying to publish a ROS message in Python but I do not know the message type. I tried using AnyMsg and it did not work. If this is possible would someone be able to provide a Python code snippet?

I read the following when going over the Arrival Card form for Singapore: Text: If you are eligible for entry into Singapore, you will receive an electronic visit pass (in lieu of inked endorsement stamps on the passport) sent to you via this email address. Please therefore ensure that you prov...

I'm looking for a way to replicate this "well enumerated equation": In particular, I want to be able to enumerate (i), (ii), ... the equations easily. I know I can somehow replicate this using (align + aligned)'s environments but it's hard to align everything correctlye (like this). For now, I m...

(Related to this question for the case without glissando) Consider following example of an arpeggiando on the four open strings of the cello (but the question also holds for violin or viola). Is it now possible to add fingers on the neck and realize an upwards glissando on all four notes at the...

Is it permissible to unfold an easily foldable folding chair or table on Shabbat? Since this is easily re folded, would it still be considered under the melacha of “Boneh” or something else? If permitted, how long can one have it set for? In this case, no screws or tightening are involved, only f...

How to say "to prepare a place for sleeping"? I mean "to put a sheet, blanket and pillow on the surface where someone will sleep (usually it's a bed)". For example: The host of a house says to his friend who wants to stay overnight at his house: (1) I "prepared a place to sleep" for you on the fl...

I'm reading Dolgachev's book 'Lectures on invariant theory'. In Chapter 7, the linearization of a group action is discussed. Let $G$ be a linear algebraic group acting on a quasi-projective variety $X$ over an algebraically closed field $k$ via $\sigma: G\times X\rightarrow X$. He then defines th...

$$\int \frac{e^{2x}-2}{e^{2x}+7}\,\Bbb dx$$ I was trying: $$\int \frac{e^{2x}}{e^{2x}+7}\,\Bbb dx -2\int \frac{1}{e^{2x}+7}\,\Bbb dx$$ $$= \frac{1}{2}\ln|e^{2x}+7| -2\int \frac{1}{(e^x)^2+(\sqrt{7})^2}\,\Bbb dx$$ $$= \frac{1}{2}\ln|e^{2x}+7|+ \frac{-2}{\sqrt{7}} \arctan\left(\frac{e^x}{\sqrt{7}}\...

How to draw the three red lines shown in the TikZ picture below: Line 1: Start from the inner circle's circumference at 0 degrees, extending tangentially to the north, and reach the middle circle. Position the number '20' along the midway point of this line. Line 2: Initiate from the middle ci...

Some time ago, I watched the fantastic series 'Shtisel' on Netflix. I can't remember everything clearly, and unfortunately, the series is no longer available on Netflix. However, there's one scene that I particularly liked. It was recommended to Giti Weiss (I believe by a rabbi) to ask for nails ...

I've seen a lot of posts here and elsewhere about how difficult it is to get a research career. These are quite discouraging to me. Is it really so impossible? I am a master's student now (in linguistics). What I would like to do is to get a PhD in linguistics, doing fieldwork on an underdocument...

Amid the recent rise in pro-Palestinian protests in the United States, most recently one interrupting the Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree Lightning, I've begun to wonder - why has there been such a dramatic uptick in pro-Palestinian protests in the United States? It is true that Israel recently...

I have trained my deep learning model. I also saved the validation loss to a file and plotted on a graph I have $2$ questions for this: Does the validation loss look normal? Is there any issue with the validation loss ? How can I determine which epoch is the best epoch so I can choose ? If you...

While opening a Health Savings Account with Fidelity, I was asked whether I wanted to add money to my account by either linking a bank account or directly depositing my paycheck. My understanding was that HSAs are tax-free, but deposits made into a bank account have already had payroll taxes dedu...

I have tried searching for this book online for the past 5+ years, but keep coming up empty. I also remember a male character's name was Kael so I used Google's Bard AI last night and it actually gave me an excerpt from the book that, but then gave me the wrong book title and author!! Here's the ...

I have the following equation to generate a contour plot for it: ContourPlot[{(6 x^2 (-0.00001 + (z)^2))/(6 y^2) == 0.2}, {x, -1, 1}, {y, 0.1, 20}] It has three variables. The range of the two variables is given above but the variable z has range of {10, 100}. My question is how to introduce the...

I am trying to simplify $$\tan^{-1}\left(e^{ix}\right), x\in\mathbb{R}$$ $$=\\tan^{-1}\left(\cos x+i\sin x\right)$$ Using $$\tan^{-1}\left(a+b\right)=\frac12\tan^{-1}\left(\frac{2a}{1-a^2+b^2}\right)+\frac12\tan^{-1}\left(\frac{2b}{1+a^2-b^2}\right)$$ Gives $$\frac12\tan^{-1}\left(\frac{2\cos x}{...

Very vague I know - I remember watching this movie without really knowing what it was, and enjoyed it, but can I find it again? No. There were alien / creatures involved, the first ones we meet are sand-dwelling / burrowing... Later in the film something happens to allow the creatures to cross ba...

Followup to this question. So, I'm running a Starfinder game, and we are 50 sessions into this campaign. The campaign involves the fate of a small but strategically important settlement, which several factions are vying for control of. My group are from several different factions, but have tempor...

(I know that similar questions have been asked before, but I would like to ask very specific questions about this specific image that I do not understand). Let's say that we have a wheel of a car that is initially stationary. In order for the wheel to spin, we need to apply a torque to the wheel...

I want to switch between 2 video sources (cameras) to a common video receiver. Is general purpose optocoupler suitable for that? Here is the schematics: In more details, the video switch is controlled by a 3.3v MCU. It will select input video source before turning on the video receiver, so there...

I am trying to understand what is meant by the following wording on page 297 of John Lee's Introduction to Smooth Manifolds, the 2nd Edition: "The key to constructing a potential function in Theorem 11.49 is that we can reach every point $x \in M$ by a definite path from $c$ to $x$, chosen to var...

John 1:33-39 You sent emissaries to John, and he testified to the truth...You search the scriptures, because you think you have eternal life through them; even they testify on my behalf. Looking further at John 1, we find that those were sent to John the Baptist were priests, Levites and Pharis...

I am developing a game engine in C++ (for an idea of what kind of design I'm going for, think of ROBLOX, if you're familiar with that) and I need help with a problem I have. So basically, the objects in a scene are called "Instances", and they can have a parent and any number of children. The pro...

Okay, a finite integral domain is a finite ring $D$ such that for every $a, b \in D, ab = 0$ iff $a = 0$ or $b = 0$. We want that $D$ is a field, meaning it has a unit element ($1$), every element is invertible and it is abelian. First, I prove that every element is invertible: Assume $|D| = n$ ...

Despite the US being the EU’s largest trade and investment partner, there is no dedicated free trade agreement between the EU and the US. The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) negotiations were launched in 2013, but ended without conclusion at the end of 2016. They were forma...

In the years leading up to 2023, I've been pretty good about my employment. In the last year, however, I have burned through three jobs in relatively quick succession. Job 1. Factory work. Was fired because I was too vocal about protected status issue. I even put in a "formal" paper complaint. I...

I want to create a magma slime, which has a magical vulnerability to being cooled down and turns to rock easily (like when hit by a water or an ice spell). This rock can then be shattered to gather valuables. Is it possible that quickly cooled magma/lava would form any valuable materials like gem...

Background The 2023 Israel–Hamas war is referred to in the Western media as "the Israel-Hamas war". All Western commentators I've seen, including military experts, journalists, and political leaders in both the US and the Israel, seem to take great care to single out Hamas as Israel's adversary i...

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I was motivated for this question while seeking for a new sorting algorithm. Suppose a continuous function $f : [a, b] \to \mathbb{R}$ is given. I wanted to define the sorted version $g$ of $f$, which shall satisfy the following properties: $g$ monotone increases $g(a)$ is the global minimum of ...

Trying to understand the set up (both physically & from a charge-for-usage perspective) of the water meter in my condo building. The set up is illustrated in the below photo. As far as I can tell, this appears to be a single usage meter, with lines after the meter going to each unit. How would c...

I have a MULTILINESTRING in my CSV file, and I want to generate a copy of it offset to the right by a few meters. I've run Single Sided Buffer, and Offset Lines, and neither of them seem to generate the correct geometry. Do I need to convert this string to some other geometry or file type, or som...

I want to define a command \C4 which produces C4 (both in bold and normal fonts). I wrote something like \begin{document} \DeclareTextFontCommand{\textscn}{\upshape\bfseries} \newcommand{\C4}{\textscn{C4}} \end{document} This code gives an error. I wonder how can I avoid this error ?!. Thanks ...

Using awk, to this table I want to add a column where first row is "INFO" and rest of the rows are all "1". $ gunzip -c foo.gz | head SNPID CHR BP Allele1 Allele2 Freq1 Effect StdErr P.value TotalN rs1000033 1 226580387 t g 0.8266 -0.0574 0.0348 0.09867 17310 rs1000050 1 16...

\documentclass{beamer} \begin{document} \begin{frame}[t] % {\gdef\x{Hello}}% % \x \end{frame} \end{document} This code does not compile. xelatex 2023 gives error Undefined control sequence. \end{frame} But if I remove the percent signs, the code compiles. I thought comments are non-essential...

In pdfpages package, there are noautoscale and fitpaper options and so on. I understand what the fitpaper means. But what does noautocale mean? What does the noautoscale scale to? I have done a test, in which noautoscale=true and noautoscale=false have a little difference, but I can't tell which ...

The International Celestial Reference System (ICRS) defines coordinate axes that are closely aligned with those of the J2000 (aka EME2000) reference frame. The International Celestial Reference Frame (ICRF) and later versions of it (ICRF1, etc.) are realizations of the ICRS. For brevity, we'll s...

I have thousands of UTXOs that were created for experimental purposes back in 2016. These were created programmatically using P2PKH transactions, each generating hundreds of 10K-ish sat outputs. Since these are now worth a few thousands $, I'd like to consolidate these outputs (and retrieve them ...

It is well-known that for a product space $\Pi_{\alpha \in A} X_{\alpha}$, a sequence of points $\{\mathbf{x}_n\}$ converges if and only if for each $\alpha \in A$, $\{\pi_{\alpha}(\mathbf{x}_n)\}$ converges in $X_{\alpha}$. The traditional proof relies heavily on arguments of neighborhoods, and ...

I’m in Alexandria. Google shows the exchange rate of EUR to EGP at 1 to 33. I get the same rate when I use my credit card. But when I exchange euros at different places in the streets, in the shops I get much more favourable trades (1 to 40, even 1 to 49). I read that EGP isn’t pegged to USD anym...

Ok, so I am new to biking and don't know squat, as you will soon see. I bought a brand new E-bike, an Ancheer 500W. I borrowed an air pump, but had no pressure gauge when I first aired up the tires... they felt firm when I pressed them, but when I sat on the bike, I could see the tires going down...

In my organization we have specific needs with the search for activities. In the activity search results we want to show the results of the "With" column first the First Name and then the Last Name and currently we have it the other way around. It is possible to modify the order of how the name i...

The subsequent statements are extracted from the article titled 'Generating r-regular graphs' (https://doi.org/10.1016/S0166-218X(02)00593-0). A well-known classical theorem of Steinitz and Rademacher [22] states that the class $\mathcal{G}$ of 3-connected 3-regular planar simple graphs can be g...

I receive input files that are outside my control that contain a leading single quote in some columns, such as 'foo|'012|that's nice|bar I want to remove all leading single quotes from each field, to get expected output: foo|012|that's nice|bar With awk, I assumed gsub regex metacharacters like...

It is a well-known fact that you can colour a two-dimensional map with four colours in such a way that two countries with a common border always have different colours. There have already been enough challenges on this topic. However, the prerequisite for this is that there must be no enclaves, i...

I made an svg diagram from a stim circuit: import stim circuit = stim.Circuit(""" H 0 CX 0 1 M 0 1 """) diagram = circuit.diagram("timeline-svg") display(diagram) I tried to write the diagram to a file, but I got an error: with open('diagram.svg', 'w') as f: f.write(diagram) ...

I remember watching an animated TV show mid 2000’s where there was this teenage kid who could turn into a dragon. He kept his human form but gained abilities of a dragon. I very roughly remember this one episode where a whole bunch of dragons attacked the high school he was going to.

if i search for nodes in geometry nodes, i don't get some nodes as i want, at least not as others do. e.g. in this tutorial of Cartesian Caramel he gets: if i put "eq" in the search field, i will get: Hint: i am working on a Mac Is there any settings i can change so that i also get the "right" ...

This support article indicates that I have a limit of 250k @future methods per day. However, I can't find the corresponding Limit class function to monitor this limit. I've tried: System.debug(Limits.getFutureCalls()); System.debug(Limits.getLimitFutureCalls()); Both of these seem to deal with a...

In Exercise 22.7 of TeXbook, a special table is created using \halign with templates: \def\welshverb#1={{\bf#1} = } \halign{\welshverb#\hfil\tabskip=1em plus 1em& \welshverb#\hfil&\welshverb#\hfil\tabskip=0pt\cr rydw i=I am& ydw i=am I& roeddwn i=I was\cr rwyt ti=thou art& wyt ti=art thou& ...

Exodus 31:17 (ESV) reads: It is a sign between me and the children of Israel for ever: for in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, and on the seventh day he rested, and was refreshed. I understand the rested means cessation of work, but when it says "rested, and was refreshed", it sounds li...

I was reading about the discovery of Neptune when I realised that Caroline Herschel was still alive at the time. Neptune was discovered in September 1846. Caroline died in January 1848, more than a year later. Do we have evidence as to whether she knew about Neptune’s discovery? If she did, then ...

Let me preface this post by saying that I am missing a few events from my trace, but I have since added them for the next time this occurs. Lately we have been seeing weird spurts of HADR_SYNC_COMMIT wait types in our environment (~40k tran/s). Today's "incident" occurred at 4:58am: Before cont...

Suppose $\Pi=(Gen,Sign,Vrfy)$ is a secure signature scheme, is the following signature scheme $\Pi'$ secure? $Gen'$: The same as $Gen$, output public-private key pair $pk,sk$ on input $1^n$ $Sign'$: On input a private key $sk$ and message $m\in\{0,1\}^n$, choose uniform $r\gets \{0,1\}^n$. Outpu...

I have been checking in detail the specifications of RINEX navigation files version 3.05, and something in the definition of the header of these navigation files caught my attention. One of the lines that the header can contain is labeled as "TIME SYSTEM CORR". The last field of this line is an i...

Right now, I am developing a weapon of mass destruction dubbed 'The World Laser'. Basically, the antagonist is trying to destroy the world completely by cutting it in half in a singular motion using a laser which is focussed out of a very small point, I'm talking a nanometer wide concentrated las...

How to generate random velocities in the geometry coordinates of a surface (POSCAR file) using the Boltzmann distribution law with Atomic Simulation Environment (ASE) or other codes for Molecular Dynamics (MD) calculations?

Here is the datasheet of Honeywell ABP2 Pressure Sensors series. In Figure 7 on page 11, you can see a lot of options. Here are the absolute ones: I don't understand why they have to provide different output units. They are all linear and it's easy to convert from one to another. If the output i...

Suppose you have a tournament consisting of 100 players in which each player plays each other player exactly once. In any given match, the chance of either playing winning is equally likely, and there are no ties. Winning a match gives $1$ point, and losing a match gives no points. After all matc...

So a human digestive system is generally acidic, especially at the stomach part, when it goes down to even 1.5 pH. Similar things must be happening in other mammals and to an extent, probably in all animals. Is there however some hard evolutionary, biological, chemical or any other block stopping...

I have a need to increase the number of polygons in this mesh, maintaining mesh curvature: I tried increasing the number of polygons with the Subdivide tool in edit mode, with this result: The problem is that the points added with the subdivision, do not maintain the same curvature of the mesh,...

1. Man Ray Man Ray (1890 - 1976) was an American artist who spent most of his career in Paris. He was a significant contributor to the Dada and Surrealist movements. Man Ray produced major works in a variety of media, including photography, but considered himself a painter above all. Man Ray in ...

I have been thinking of making a homebrewed campaign where, as part of a bigger plot, the party needs to learn Deep Speech and a secret that a particular Intellect Devourer learnt from consuming the brain of a king from long ago. Can True Polymorph be used twice -once on the Intellect Devourer an...

The Gemara in Shabbos 21b famously writes "Mai Chanukah"- what is Chanukah? The Gemara elaborates: When the Greeks entered the Sanctuary they defiled all the oils that were in the Sanctuary While it is a true matter that they could've used impure oil for lighting the menorah, they insisted in u...

Trying to follow these indications: https://github.com/kubernetes/kubeadm/blob/main/docs/ha-considerations.md#haproxy-configuration and these indications: HAProxy use urls in server config? I'm trying to correctly and properly define haproxy.cfg, but I'm getting errors This is the content of /run...

Using Metropolis algorithm, Curie temperature was calculated for square lattices with different sizes 4x4, 8x8, 16x16 and 32x32. Here Curie temperature was estimated as temperature of maximum of heat capacity.It appeared Curie temperature is decreasing with increasing a lattices size. But why? I ...

I would like to introduce an ideal 5th-order Bessel filter to my simulation. My initial thought is to use a voltage-dependent voltage source and Laplace transform. I copied the Bessel filter coefficients from Wikipedia. Bessel LPF filter coefficients. s+1 s^2+3s+3 s^3+6s^2+15s+15 s^4+10s^3+45s^2+...

On the weekend I visited an airfield (it IS inside an ATZ) that has a PPR section on their site. I've previously called ahead on the radio for PPR. Anyway I called them on frequency 10 miles out and they asked if I had PPR. I said no. The response: "Then we can't accept you unless you have a flig...

I have a question regarding using the Conditional Branch algorithm in the Graphical Model Builder. I am building a rather complicated model with many branches but not every branch needs to be used every time. So I want to use the Conditional Branch algorithm to check the "art" column of the attri...

In one of my program run on Wolfram Cloud I run the command: Sum[(-1)^(Floor[k/2])/(k+1),{k,0,Infinity}] and got the response Sum: Sum does not converge This is very strange because the sum obviously converges to $\frac\pi4+\frac{\log2}2$. I have checked that the terms are correct running: ...

You want to slay a dragon with 3 heads. There is 0.7 chance of destroying a head and 0.3 chance of missing. If you miss, a new head will grow. X is a random variable for the number of rounds until you slay all 3 heads. Find E[X]. I get the following pmf that $P(X = n) = ? 0.7^{k} 0.3^{k-3}$ where...

I mean a form of book in which the page of one page from a conventional book is printed across two pages, so the text appears to be parallel to the spine. Accordingly, the numbering of pages occurs on the basis that two pages opened vertically are one page. I can't even imagine how this can be do...

For a large sample of size 1296, we are looking at independent and identically distributed random variables defined by the piecewise probability density function $f(x) = \frac{1}{3} (I_{(0,1)}(x) + I_{(3,5)}(x))$ (a) I am trying to find the cumulative distribution function (CDF) of $ Y = |X_1 - 2...

I am trying to predict ambulance demand for the next hour, for a city area in the USA, based on previous demand, weather, large people gatherings and similar spatio-temporal factors. I have noticed some points where the features are 'usual' - eg sunny peaceful sunday afternoon, but there is unusu...

There's no default option to share to AirDrop like on Safari Browser.

I installed linux dual boot with windows, now I can't play any videos from another mounted partition. I should also mention that only videos have this problem and I can open pictures, documents, music, ... with no problem. Also the problem is not video codecs, If I copy and paste video in linux p...

I am looking for a room with Eiffel tower view. I can't seem to find any relevant filter (which I understand is too specific, but on the other hand too iconic to ignore). Any ideas how to approach this? I thought about filtering rooms' descriptions by the phrase "Eiffel tower view" or so, but suc...

This is part 45 of the puzzle series Around the World in Many Days. Each part is solvable on its own. Dear Puzzling, This is a Slitherlink puzzle. Draw a single continuous loop along grid lines that does not cross itself. Numbers indicate how many sides of the numbered cell are used for the loop...

If I fill a bag of holding with smoke, could I remove all of the smoke by reaching in, or would I have to turn the bag inside out to release the smoke? I feel like removing the smoke by hand wouldn't work because the smoke particles aren't connected, so whatever I could "grab" is all I'd be able ...

How do we differentiate the the truncus coeliacus from the superior mesenteric artery when looked at from an MRI in the axial plane? For example, the images that I attached, how can I differentiate 8 from 51? I cannot see a difference. (Source of images: Imaging atlas of human anatomy, Weir & Abr...

I am currently conducting a systematic review and have finalised my initial extraction. I need to send a list of citations to my co-reviewers so that they can screen the relevant citations. Does anyone here have any suggestions of the best ways to export citations so that others can conveniently ...

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As far a my knowledge of philosophy there is two schools of thought dualism that the human mind is separate from the physical body, and the other school of thought is physicalism that the mind is physical as is the body. The argument against physicalism From the SEP is as follows "The main argume...

I have the schematic for a wind turbine charge controller from here. What is the purpose of the two interconnected NOR gates in the middle of the schematic?