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What are the most common ways that users find out about new data sets?As an addendum, even though it may not sound like the most obvious source, NICAR (National Institute for Computer-Assisted Reporting) maintains a very active listserv of data journalists corresponding with one another and sharing new data as it's released in real-time nearly. If something's happening in current events, a data journalist somewhere is looking for and sharing data on the topic. You can sign up for the ListServ on NICAR's website.
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How to create both list of abbreviations and list of nomenclature using nomencl package?This also works (I couldn't get the above script working for a symbol list with units AND glossary..). Important is the order of lines here!BasicFile.tex:nomenclature.tex:glossary.texI don't use Perl so I type these lines directly in the command prompt after changes in any file (notice: if you didn't change anything concerning the glossary or the symbol list it is be okay to just pdflatex only once!):.
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Is the opening of this story intriguing, dark and smooth? closedI find it interesting and intriguing, I want to know more. However, what stroke me the most is the absence of important details.To answer the question, is it dark? Not really. There is nothing scary about walking at night and entering an empty strip club (I do it all the time, lol). We need to know why we should find it dark, try to add more details about the atmosphere
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Is there a word that means to turn into a habit? closedhabitualizeNot yet in dictionaries, but why wait? It shows up in exactly this meaning on Google's NGram--to make a habit of.But! OED to the rescue. A derivative of habitual.habitualize v. (trans.) to render habitual.a1774 A. Tucker Light of Nature Pursued (1777) III. iv. 44 With the sole expectation of rivetting and habitualizing the three virtues thereby in our hearts.Also regularize might be considered. But habitualize is on target.
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Sum of two velocities is smaller than the speed of lightWith only basic analysis, you can do it by fixing one of the two variables.You can prove that, for a fixed $u'
How do I get a special character on a netbook without a number pad?
If you have a Windows operating system such as Vista or 7 -- I'm not sure about XP then you can use the Character Map. I actually discovered it by accident. Before then I thought my future laptop that I plan to purchase would require a numeric keypad, but now I guess I won't be needing it, thanks to the Character Map I have Windows Vista, but plan to upgrade to Windows 7
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Removing vertical lines from the table headerAs the edited question show now that the problem is highlight the row with boxes and not delete completely vertical rules, this made my anterior answer obsolete. Since percusse solution is perfect, just for fun this is a light variation that allow more flexibility, as you can box only selected rows (or cells or groups of cells changing hline by cline) as well as highlight also rows or cells with colors
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Planet with large areas of shadowWhile this doesn't meet any of your stated parameters (specifically the permanent requirement) and I have zero background in this field, I figured I'd post anyway :)Uranus has a massive axial tilt that gives its poles 42 years of darkness followed by 42 years of sunlight. Someone else may want to comment if speed of rotation can affects the time, what a moon system might do, etc.Source:
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Introductory material on psychophysics with a focus on visual stimuliTo help get you started on the topic of visual stimuli in psychophysics:This webpage, "Psychophysics of Vision" goes right back to basics and explains the background knowledge associated with psychophysics of visual stimuli. They also seem to suggest some simple experiments to try.There is also "Software for visual psychophysics", with an extensive explanation (and further links) as you read the page.
Hopefully, these are a good start for you
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What cheap modern items can I use to bribe medieval people? closedPotentially Glass Mirrors, you can obtain glass mirrors relatively cheap these days along with a good reflection.Back in Medieval times Mirrors would not of been too plentiful with only the rich having access to them and certainly not being as big or giving the crisp images as they do these days.Glass was around in some form or another, and polished metal mirrors have been around since the Bronze Age.
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A point of light moving between the stars duplicateIt's almost definitely not alien, if that's what you're asking.A satellite in low Earth orbit (around 200 km altitude) would have needed to move about 60m in the time you noticed it for the movement to have been visible. So, given that satellites at this altitude generally travel at around 7km/s or 7000 metres per second, it is not inconceivable that it could have been a man-made satellite correcting its orbit.
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eInk eBook reader for reading scientific PDF papers (as of 2018)As a general comment on the eInk reader vs. the Ipad/Surface/
As an eReader cannot do Internet, Facebook, News etc., if you only have that the temptation to just quickly check whatever is greatly reduced. I find I read much more concentrated with an eReader than an Internet surfing device. I think there is even some research on this focusing mental cost.So for me the eReader was a Godsent.
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Creating the Star Trek warp effect in After EffectsI took a look at Red Giant's StarGlow, as suggested by stib and it does look good. However, after some consideration, I decided to avoid buying another plugin and went for the quick and dirty solution - I reused the effect from a video I found online and since it was on black background, I had no trouble compositing it into my scene without problems, simply using the Add blending mode
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Light leds on this board one at a timeThis is your circuit.I think you can take it from here by looking at the diagram, but please note that e.g. 1 0 0 0 0 will light up 3 and 1, so be careful.To show more than one, turn on multiple LEDs in rapid succession. It will give the effect that more than one are on. This is known as multiplexing.Update:After Googling around, I understood it better. I also wrote this code
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How do you make an image emission without washing out the image?Use a light path node to control the visibility of your material.Add a Mix Shader to your material so you can independently control the visibility and influence of your material.On the top socket connect the material that describes how the emission should be, on the bottom socket connect a shader that will control its direct visible appearance. In the factor socket connect a Light Path node's Is Camera output
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Dell Inspiron 1501 will not turn onBased on what you did, it sounds like the motherboard is probably shot. If you can get another power supply, you can try that, but I would not have much hope.As you alluded to, a new one, even refurbished, is probably a better way to go, but you have to look at the specifics as to cost for a replacement board, versus the possibly better specs of the newer computer.
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AppleWatch 3 Series shows 4 lines of stripes across the displayIf you see this under bright bulb light under the Apple Watch screen then I think its normal. I have had this on two replacements, as show in drawing.
The drawing shows four lines from top of screen down and its also present on the edge of the watch screen. The lines are vertical but have horizontal ticks running down these lines. Hope that helps people. Hope its not a fault.
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Form with scores and question weightsDitto on the progress bar with no values. At the bottom of the screen, just have a plain empty bar that gets filled certain percentages as they fill in answers. If they can not click the "Next" button until they have met this minimum number of points, then possibly disable the button until the progress bar is filled, as that would be a good indicator of the purpose of the bar
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instruments you can make at homeThe Washtub Bass (instructions here) is a personal favorite:
(source: satisfied-mind.com) So easy a kid can do it :-)
The string vibrations are visible, so it makes for a nice teaching tool. You can also have folks experiment with putting some pillows inside the washtub or trying it on different surfaces (e.g. concrete, tile, wood, carpet, grass) etc. to notice the change in the sound and hypothesize about why.
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INSERT/UPDATE stored proc deadlocking itselfI believe the following links will help out here. The first link will likely illustrate how to solve your problem. The second link will help explain what is occurring and why you are having issues. The last link is some additional research that may help you further understand what is happening.Working 'upsert' examples.A breakout of locking, blocking, and concurrency when using update and insert.Stack on concurrency update/insert
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Manually build WP_QueryIf you are using Relevanssi, it is messing with the native search (don't know exactly at which point), thus, the standard query doesn't work.I have tested a solution, according to what I read in the plugin's page, and it seems to do the trick. Just run the relevanssi function to append the results to the query, in this way:Note that the parameter is the query object you created before:.
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Will a prism widen a monochromatic beam?Provided the prism is of high quality (broadly speaking its faces need to be optically flat, and its material free of defects), then there should be no broadening. What the prism does is disperse different colours in different directions. Since the source is monochromatic there will be no dispersion. However if the source isn't monochromatic (within a small tolerance) then there will be some dispersion, but it's likely to be minimal
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Why can an AC circuit breaker not be used in DC circuits?Direct current is more difficult to interrupt because it is continuous. Alternating current alternates polarity so it crosses zero on its own which helps to extinguish the arc produced across the breaker contacts when they open. The contacts doesn't get this help if it's DC so the contacts have to be hardier.
Interrupting DC with an AC relay/breaker could cause the contacts to weld shut or become degrade the conductivity
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Why are airport firetrucks painted yellow green?Humans evolved in sunlight, which produces mostly yellow-green light frequencies. Therefore, we are most sensitive to the yellowish green part of the visible light spectrum. This is why safety vests are yellow-green. Airport firetrucks and new firetrucks are slowly starting to be painted yellow-green instead of the traditional red. There has been research which shows that firetrucks of this color are less accident prone than red ones.
Hope this was helpful (:
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Site Rename Poll, Round Two!I wonder somehow, if the titles suggested aren't too descriptive and insufficiently evocative. Considering the cool sites like Arqade and Cross-Validated and Seasoned Advice. It should show not tell, like any good musical title. In that light, I offer for your consideration:or, with more aliteration and synecdoche,As Shevliaskovic rightly observes, Theory & Practice could refer to anything, hence requiring the Music to distinguish it, but then, just, meh, you know?
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cutting 'used memory' from top commandTotal RAM Usage:This command will return your RAM total usage as GB:This will return your RAM total usage as Bytes (just remove the -h):This will report the percentage of memory in useThis will report the percentage of memory that's freeMAC Address:If you want to output ONLY the mac address of a specific device, you can do this (replace "wlp2s0" with the name of your network interface):
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If two subsequences converge to different values, prove directly the sequence itself divergesLet $epsilondfrac|b-a|3,$ and note that $epsilon>0$.Now, show that for all $N,$ there exist $m,nge N$ such that $|x_n-x_m|geepsilon$. Thus, the sequence is not Cauchy, and so not convergent. Hint: If $|x_n_i-a|leepsilon$ and $|x_m_i-b|leepsilon,$ what can we say about $|x_n_i-x_m_i|$ in light of the fact that $|b-a|3epsilon$?