At the end of the story, Poirot exposed the real love triangle. "It was the eternal triangle all right! But you saw it the wrong way round. Neither of those two men cared in the least for Valentine Chantry." ... "They planned to ‘meet’ here and stage their crime." I can see that Tony Chantry di...

In R, I have a sf point layer called maps_stations_pts. I created circular buffers of radius 10 km like this: # create 10 km circular buffer maps10km <- st_buffer(st_transform(maps_stations_pts, 3857), dist = 10000) # converting to CRS 3857 for meters st_write(maps10km, "d:/tomas/ces/data/ndvi/MA...

I've come to believe that continuous refactoring is a good way to maintain the health of a system that is in continuous development. That is, a system for which new features are always in the pipeline. By 'continuous refactoring' I mean to make small updates to code surrounding the new feature be...

It is common knowledge that the abelian group $\mathbb{R}$ forms a vector space over the field $\mathbb{R}$ with scalar multiplication coming from the product in $\mathbb{R}$. My question is: is there any other scalar multiplication $\cdot: \mathbb{R} \times \mathbb{R} \to \mathbb{R}$ making $\ma...

This relay has the following max contact voltage, current and power ratings: Now focusing on the DC switching from the datasheet, the max switching current is 10A and max switching voltage is 30V. But the max power would be 10A×30V = 300W but it is given as 240W. So does that mean how we interpr...

This question is prompted by the story of Tommy Gregory Thompson who has just been released from nearly 10 years of incarceration for civil contempt (and starting 2 years for criminal contempt). He claims he suffers from a rare form of chronic fatigue syndrome that has created problems with short...

Gibson and Sterling's The Difference Engine focuses on changes due to Babbage's success in creating a mechanical programmable computer in 1824, but there are signs of earlier differences with our history*. Did the authors ever discuss where they thought the key change (if any) occurred (if have m...

I just to watch (in UK) a series I’m pretty sure it was mid 90s. It was on late at night. The basic premise from what I remember was a small crew I think on human male and an android that was a sexbot perviously. I can’t remember if he rescues her or something and they steal a space ship. It was ...

I've set up a domain for a friend (maple-tree.co.uk). He wants to be able to send and receive email at this domain, and it seems to be working, mostly, but not fully. Some mail servers (BTInternet in particular) won't send email to this domain. I think the problem is likely related to DMARC and M...

This is taking much longer to plot than I would expect: Plot[ r BesselJ[0, BesselJZero[0, 3] r]* BesselJ[0, BesselJZero[0, 2] r] , {r, 0, 1}, Filling -> 0, FillingStyle -> {Orange, Blue} ] it is about 2.5 seconds in my machine. Whereas Plot[ Cos[4 Pi r]* Cos[6 Pi r] , {r, 0, 1}, Fi...

I am trying to simulate a color code experiment using the stim framework and chromobius as a decoder (arXiv). I want to quantify the distance reduction of the protocol I study with respect to the initial distance of the code. For a surface code experiment, I would look at stim.Circuit.shortest_gr...

I have a question, i want to build and anim scenes in 3dsmax because i using him from my early years, but i heard about much shorter time for rendering in eevee (3ds got only mental ray), and good visual effects for animation. Does someone know the easiest solution to use the scenes full done fro...

How do I fix these little chips on my bathroom countertops? Would a white epoxy spray work? Ideally I’d take this entire thing out and put something new in, but that might be a little over my head with the goofy angle.

I have Linux Mint on a USB stick and I want to install it on a Lenovo Thinkpad P50. I press Enter during the startup sequence, then choose my boot device with F12 and select the USB flash drive. Linux Mint then boots until the menu. I tried "Linux Mint", but after pressing Enter, nothing else ha...

I have been using makecell package in creating tables. I have one table where I want to shade the background of the title row and the first column. I have the following MWE. The problem is that the first column where I use \cellcolor works fine, but the \rowcolor only shades the text in the conte...

In D&D 5e, when a ranger who has chosen Beasts as his favored enemy sees a beast that the DM says he doesn't know, he can't use the Favored Enemy feature benefits to investigate that beast. Could I then investigate it, or track it with Survival, or identify it with Nature?

In Alien Romulus (2024), Andy, standing with a piece of cornbread on a tray, is speaking to Rain: Andy: Did you hear about the claustrophobic astronaut? He needed space. Rain: I'm begging you, you got to stop. Andy: I just spent my full share on a belt that won't fit. Huge waist. Rain: See that ...

I am having a strange issue on Ubuntu 22.04, and can't find any helpful information on it. I have a 16GB USB flash drive. I want to use it with OPL on my Playstation 2 and this requires the partition table to be MBR. The Disks app in Ubuntu tells me that it is currently GPT. According to various ...

My question is the same as this, but I do not have access to the original data. I have two estimates of a particular odds ratio $\mathrm{OR} = \exp(\beta_i)$ with confidence intervals from logistic regression on two different samples (and possibly different models). I can derive the standard erro...

We ran into an issue with pycoQC this week that we spent a stupid amount of time resolving. Someone reported a related issue on the pycoQC GitHub that wasn't fixed because the software is no longer supported. We figured out the problem, but since the repository is archived, I can't post our issue...

My first time gate asking a question. I was taught once by a Bible teacher that the word for “rib” in Gen 2:22 meant something curved. She understood that to be something curved was taken from Adam’s side to make the woman, meaning Adam’s DNA. Since it says male and female He created him, and it...

At the end of chapter 28, "The Exposure of Stephanie", in Theodore Dreiser's novel The Titan, there is the following passage: “D— her!” he exclaimed. “D— the little beast, anyhow! The ——! The ——!” He used terms so hard, so vile, so sad, all because he knew for once what it was to love and lose—t...

I am studying the behavior of solutions to the differential equation $$y'(t) = y^{2-\beta} \ln(y(t))$$ where $\beta \in (1,2)$ and $0 < y(t) < 1$. I am particularly interested in proving whether the solution touches the $ t$-axis, i.e., whether there exists a finite $t^*$ such that $y(t^*) = 0$. ...

Plot/Setting Details: I remember very little about the actual plot of this book other than some very peculiar world-building details. The protagonist, who is an American preteen/younger teenage boy (matching the target reader demographic of the book) somehow becomes embroiled in a global conspira...

I want to clarify that I do not need a scientific solution, just a theoretical, (hopefully) science-based explanation. I will accept any idea as long as it can be explained. In my world, the "Fae" travel by some means (without super advanced technology, so mostly by natural processes) into Earth ...

I want to make a command for writing modern looking inline code snippets that are formatted very similarly to codesnippets which StackExchange provides. For that I turned to an obvious choice of tcolorbox package. When the box is made too large to fit in the line then the line spacing with the pr...

I am trying to get some bearing on spectroscopy basic concepts using self-study. In the absorption spectrum, if I shine light on a particular liquid of a single type of molecule it absorbs a specific frequency in the visible range. Now where I am struggling is once an electron absorbs a photon of...

My colleague ports a C++ program with ranges on macOS, and observes an unexpected compilation error. After maximum simplification, the example program looks like this: #include <optional> #include <algorithm> int main() { std::optional<int> ops[4]; //... return (int)std::ranges::coun...

I submitted a pre-print on arXiv 5 weeks ago. I found some typos and some paragraphs that need enhancement, and I would like to add new insights in the contribution section without changing the first submission date. Is this possible on arXiv? I see on my account several buttons: replace, withdra...

Is there an easier way to access Kurier's upright calligraphic letters than entering their unicode value? \documentclass[11pt,a4paper]{scrartcl} \usepackage[math]{kurier} \usepackage{fontspec} \setmainfont{Kurier} \begin{document} The font Kurier (or its sister Iwona) has calligraphic lett...

Could someone help me understand what does "predecessor-but-eight" mean in the sentence below taken from an Economist article? Is it some sort of a construction or a formal/old-fashioned expression? If it means the eighth predecessor before someone, then it still doesn't make much sense since Tha...

I'm trying to build something in Mathematica where I can save data in an encrypted format, and reopen it later in the same tool. I'm new to using encryption features in Mathematica, and I'm having a hard time understanding how it works. Export won't work for me, because for my use case I need the...

I need to solve the system: $x+y=8$ $y=x+\sqrt{x+\sqrt{x+\sqrt{x+\sqrt{\dots+\sqrt{y}}}}}$ (There are $2024$ square roots) My idea to iterate the expression of $y$ inside the square root infinitely many times: $8-x=x+\sqrt{x+\sqrt{x+\sqrt{x+\sqrt{\dots+\sqrt{\sqrt{x+\sqrt{x+\sqrt{x+\sqrt{\dot...

I'm trying to find the title of an old sci-fi paperback book I read in the 80's. A man finds a door on top of a dirt mound in his back yard. There is a stairway going down, and at the bottom, a doorway he can't see through. When he steps through the door, it takes him to another world, landing...

Suppose I have a topological group $G$ and a $G$-space $X$. I would like to define the homotopy quotient $X_G$. I have heard of two ways I might be able to do this: Define $X_G$ by the Borel construction $X_G = (X \times EG) / G$, Define $X_G$ by taking the homotopy coequalizer of $G \times X \r...

Consider the following high school problem: For some arbitrary constants $c_1,c_2$, find all $p$ such that \begin{align} c_2\sin{p}+c_1\cos{p}-c_1&=0\\ c_1 p\sin{p}-c_2p\cos{p}+c_2p &=0 \end{align} A student in class did the following: Clearly $p=0$ is a solution. Now assume $p\ne 0$. Multiply...

I have an object that I need to shorten, specifically the tail of a dragon, and I want to make the back third a little shorter. I found a method that seems like it should work, but it isn't functioning as expected. I placed a Lattice object around the section I want to modify and applied the Latt...

Years ago I heard or read something to the effect that when God in His sovereignty wants to cause something to happen, though he could do that thing directly (and often does), he instead causes his people to pray for that thing to be done, then answers their prayer. The context may have been Holy...

I recently received an invitation to resubmit my paper. During the resubmission process, the editor assigned an additional reviewer, whose comments were largely incorrect, particularly regarding statistical aspects. Two previous reviewers agree that it is suitable for publication. Based on these ...

Did it come with any business software or a word processor for those (few) 25,000 users?

I came across a page on the German Wiktionary that gives information on the term "Nachflucht". The following is the definition of the term in German and English. Rechtswissenschaft: das Verlassen des eigenen Landes oder der eigenen Heimat, das nachträglich aufgrund neu eingetretener Umstände wie...

On the one hand, 100,000 years is a pretty damn long time, I mean just look at how drastically writing systems have evolved over the past 5,000 years of their existence. On the other hand, since information is stored digitally, there isn't exactly that much impetus for it to change. I could see r...

だって、「プリンセス・インペリア」は私の愛の王国なんだもの。マスターである私が愛せない子はいらないの、どんな子であろうともね。 The context is that this is said by the person who owns this Princess Imperia establishment and talks about the listener, an employee, potentially being terminated for not fitting into the “love” philosophy of it. The way I see it,...

...With formatting higher than notepad. Like at least, it supported bold and italics. Did it come with the PC or is it a separate product? I think I dimly remember a free mini word processor that came with the PC.

Why can some encryption schemes implement CPA but not CCA? When I read the paper, the security model only told me what security model the scheme used and how the security model worked, but did not tell me why the scheme could complete CPA but not CCA. Can you give me an example of why some encryp...

What is this font? I want to know how to get this font family, which package I need to add.

Is it acceptable to divide the bass section into two groups of contrabasses for just a few measures of the piece? If so, what notation should I use to indicate this split?

I wanted to use The New Computer Modern FontFamily with lualatex. The problem I have to use breqn package also. I was using \usepackage{mlmodern} before but this requires \usepackage[T1]{fontenc} which is one is not supposed to use with lualatex, so I am looking for font similar to mlmodern which...

I have 3 variables that are indicators of SES (income, education, and employment). The first two are ordinal (12 levels and 3 levels, respectively). Employment is dichotomized. Is there a way to combine these into a single variable to capture participant SES? I am doing this in R, for reference o...

OpenAI seems to be avoiding branding their reasoning models as "GPTs. See, for example, this page from their API docs, which has one column for "GPT models" and another for "Reasoning models." Are the reasoning models not generative pretrained transformers, or is this simple a branding decision b...

I am trying to recreate the \tdplottransformrotmain{}{}{} command in luacode. The command should input a point and a ZYZ rotation matrix, and output the point's image after it undergoes that rotation. I don't know how rotation matrices work, so I used AI to get the code (I also wrote a lot myself...

I'm working on an exploratory essay that uses the Skellam Distribution and I found that it involves the Bessel function (specifically of the first order). I tried looking up information about the origins of the Bessel function and particularly about the Bessel function of the first order, but I d...

So I am writing a processing script with inputs: multiple raster layers a text file the output is vector file (multipolygon) I initialize a vector file called mergedLayer mergedLayer = QgsVectorLayer('MultiPolygon','temp','memory') print(mergedLayer) gives <QgsVectorLayer: 'temp' (memory)> t...

More specifically, I'd like to have environments closed/ended automatically by a paragraph break, i.e. like this: \whatever Paragraph formatted by the rules of 'whatever' command/environment. Paragraph with no special formatting.

Question Set $a_{1}= 2,a_{2}= \sqrt3$, define $a_{n+1}$ for $n \geq 2$ $$a_{n} = a_{n+1}(3- (a_{n+1})^2)$$ With $0 \leq a_{n} \leq 1$ Find: $\lim_{ n \to \infty } 3^na_{n}$ My approach I think we can solve it by making a telescoping series. I tried to use trigonometric substitution. $a_{n}= \ tan...

In the United Kingdom, it could be that a lawyer with no technical background is appointed Economic Secretary. In economics, there are some problems for which even the best experts disagree deeply (sometimes in equal proportions) on the solution to implement. The Economic Secretary will have stro...

I'm writing a document that uses ACM's acmart document class. I have no way of changing the class itself or its font definitions. I have some words that contain a mixture of numbers and (uppercase) letters, and they come out in SpONgeBoB CaSE: \documentclass[acmsmall]{acmart} \begin{document} Xil...

what is the exact difference between a signature algorithm and a signature scheme? and what are the examples for them? it there any specific place to find difference between these cryptographic terms and exact explanations for them? im reading documents and i face new names and they are explained...

There is a question regarding the sentence: "娘が病気になって、会社を休んだ" that who took a day off. The given answer is "the speaker." In other words, the sentence implies: "娘が病気になって、（私は/が）会社を休んだ". The reason is that when the subject is omitted, it usually refers to the speaker. However, I remember that when ...

I submitted my husband’s and my Schengen visa application, but after a few weeks, I noticed that I had booked a single bed for only one person in our accommodation. Unfortunately, the VFS agent didn’t notice it either. Do you think this will affect our visa application?

Consider the case shown on the left in the given image. Let us assume that the walls are adiabatic. Now I suddenly remove $M_2$. Since there is a net acceleration on $M_1$, it moves upwards and the gas expands. As the gas expands, its pressure decreases and hence, the acceleration on $M_1$. Hence...

I've created some functions to calculate summation, maximum, minimum, average and standard deviation value of selected cells from DataGridView in C#. The experimental implementation calculateSum method implementation private decimal calculateSum(DataGridViewSelectedCellCollection input) { d...

I would like to define a new operator which involves two different inputs. For reference, I am attaching an example here. Suppose I wanted to write the Jacobi symbol (number theoretic function) here and for this, I want some new operator where I can put n and q which will produce this symbol. I ...

I just did the usual sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade. During that process I was asked to create a password, because some drivers wanted to enroll some EFI stuff. I just want to run my Linux without a hastle, so ok I'll do it. On boot it first did some firmware upgrade with EFI in the ...

In my RCT comparing two nutritional interventions, the first lasts for 4 weeks and the second lasts for 8 weeks. By definition, there are 2 time points for measurement the efficacy of the 2 interventions (measured quantitatively): 1. At the end of interventions and at 6 months post interventions ...

I'm writing a script in JS to interact with the Uniswap v4 StateView contract, which has two functions with the same name to fetch the position info: function getPositionInfo(PoolId poolId, address owner, int24 tickLower, int24 tickUpper, bytes32 salt) external view returns (uint128 l...

There seems to have been an applescript compatible command "open image sequence" in previous versions, but that seems no longer supported? This gives me some error related to the incorrect syntax around image sequence: #!/bin/sh osascript -e 'tell application "QuickTime Player"' \ -e 'activate' ...

In Tabular is there any option that specifies that all Items are fully visible? When I create the following Tabular using Tabular[{...data...},{...keys...}], I have to manually expand the columns.

I have a Gaussian distribution function Plot3D[Exp[-(1.5)(x^2 + y^2)],{x,-2,2}, {y,-2,2}, PlotRange -> {0,1}] Along with this surface, I would like to plot a set of discrete points: [{0,0,4/9},{-1,0,1/9},{1,0,1/9},{0,1,1/9},{0,-1,1/9},{-1,1,1/36},{-1,-1,1/36}, {1,1,1/36},{1,-1,1/36}] How to dis...

Problem. Let $R$ denote a unital ring. Let $P \in R^{n \times n}$ be a permutation matrix. Show that $P^{-1} = P^T$. Attempt. Let $$P=[p_{ij}] \quad with \quad (i,j) \in \{1,\dots,n\}^2$$ $$P^T = [\bar{p}_{ij}] \quad where \quad \bar{p}_{ij}=p_{ji}$$ Because $P$ is a permutation matrix, there is...

I'm trying to calculate the expected number of 'pieces' a sphere will be cut into after n cuts. I've solved part of the problem, but I need to work out the probabilities that planes that 'cut' a sphere intersect each other inside the sphere. Ideally, the solution should be extended to calculate t...

Adressing issues with a previous question, I would like to get an answer on how powerful the following item I designed is: Gulthias Tree Longbow uncommon - major - requires attunement martial weapon, ranged weapon, 2lb, 1d6 piercing + 1d4 necrotic, ammunition (150/600 ft.) heavy, two-handed This...

A result apparently going back to Kronecker tells us for every real number $\eta$ and every irrational number $\xi$ there are infinitely many pairs $(p,n)$ of integers with $n>0$ such that $$ n \xi-p-\eta=O(1/n).$$ Does anyone know a modern textbook containing a proof of this? A rather difficu...

I have two different Arca-Swiss-style quick-release plates, and they both have screws on either end of the bottom of the plate, which don't appear to connect anything together -- they just go into blind holes in the plates. What are these for? Do they just prevent the plate from sliding out of ...

Solve on Penpa+ Across 1/10. Deep-sea divers hide behind home of Kraken that's swallowed ancient city on edge of shore (11,3,7) 9. A lot of fun after learning about party in region bordering Finland (9,6) 10. (See 1 across) 12. Biodegradeable material for man in Westminster? (4) 14. For instance...

Why re' in the T Model is beta times re' in pi model?

So essentially I have the whole rig done except this part shown in the picture. I want to make it so that the yellow part can do this what I have shown in the picture but I don't really know how to do that, would greatly appreciate some feedback! So I want to pull the yellow part BUT the bottom i...

In quantum mechanics, the principle of non locality seems to suggest that a measurement of one entangled particle can instantly affect the other. Various “no signalling” theorems have been proposed that demonstrate that you cannot use this to signal information from one end to another. However, t...

Related, but not dupe (Asking about the n-th k-smooth number whereas I'm only asking if a certain number is 5-smooth.)Source: Partially inspired by Leetcode's 5-smooth Number problem, but partially inpsired by my newfound interest in Befunge-93. Problem statement An "ugly number" (also commonly ...

Quantum computing is Turing complete which means there should be a quantum equivalent for any classical program. From my understanding, it is possible to express any quantum program using a quantum circuit and any quantum circuit can be expressed as a single unitary operation (often a matrix). Th...

I powered up a vehicle tracker on a 12V 5A dry battery (hidden in dashboard). It is just two wires, Vcc and GND. If the battery is disconnected, the tracker won't sense 12V input and will be operational on its internal 3.7V LiPo battery and will generate an alarm. That is how trackers are install...

Can three equal-size circles fit perfectly in a pentagram, in the manner suggested by the image? (The image suggests that the red circle is inscribed in the top triangle; the green circle is tangent to the bottom two sides of the pentagon; and the yellow circle is tangent to, and vertically alig...