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59,139 | I’ve some doubts regarding the epistyle of David Benatar's thought, the “asymmetry of pleasure and pain”. In *Better Never to Have Been: The Harm of Coming into Existence* he writes that:
>
> Both good and bad things happen only to those who exist. However,
> there is a crucial asymmetry between the good and the bad... | 2018/12/25 | [
"https://philosophy.stackexchange.com/questions/59139",
"https://philosophy.stackexchange.com",
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] | Ok it took me a few days but I think I finally got it. From what I read and listened to, Benatar is doing an extremely bad job (for me) at explaining this asymmetry properly...
I think this is because he's mixing that with the existence/non existence issue and that completely overshadows the asymmetry concept.
So I cam... | I'd say it falls through since not all pleasure is good and not all pain is bad. If pleasure was identical to good then the sentence "good is good" would be equivalent to the sentence "pleasure is good". But those sentences are not equivalent, so pleasure is not identical to good. In short, the ethical framework that u... |
59,139 | I’ve some doubts regarding the epistyle of David Benatar's thought, the “asymmetry of pleasure and pain”. In *Better Never to Have Been: The Harm of Coming into Existence* he writes that:
>
> Both good and bad things happen only to those who exist. However,
> there is a crucial asymmetry between the good and the bad... | 2018/12/25 | [
"https://philosophy.stackexchange.com/questions/59139",
"https://philosophy.stackexchange.com",
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] | I have not read Benatar's book, so I'm likely missing subtleties, but the argument as presented here seems specious. Why would the absence of pain be good for a non-existent being? Pain and pleasure are contingent on experience, and experience is contingent on 'being-ness'. If no being exists, no experience can exists ... | I feel that is incomplete when we have 4 choices the table is really more long for the eight cases.
1. X Exist and presence of pain
2. X not Exist and Presence of pain
3. X Exist and no presence of pain
4. X not Exist and no pro presence of pain
5. X Exist and presence of pleasure
6. X not Exist and Presence of pleas... |
121,331 | It seems to me, based on two previous stack exchange questions ([1](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/38175/solution-manual-and-copyright), [2](https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/87125/posting-solutions-to-textbook-problems-online)) that this is legal, but I'm wondering more if it's "okay," i.e. wh... | 2018/12/09 | [
"https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/121331",
"https://academia.stackexchange.com",
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] | While I don't think there is anything formally standing in your way of doing this, as long as you don't post the questions themselves or answers from the publisher's answer key, I don't think that it is a wise thing to do.
But I'll focus on future students rather than professors to explain why it isn't wise. For many... | I **think**, if the publisher does not have their own solutions book and some do, that you can do this.
Of course, some professors will be upset as they will have to deal with favorite questions for exams...
It may give you experience and lead you to write more or even, the publisher asking you to write / edit a solu... |
53,667 | I was experimenting with an Arduino board and an LEDstrip WS2811
it works all perfect, but I do not understand how a particular led knows when it is called or adressed. Does every led have a unique address? | 2018/06/17 | [
"https://arduino.stackexchange.com/questions/53667",
"https://arduino.stackexchange.com",
"https://arduino.stackexchange.com/users/47423/"
] | The WS2811 is the driver chip, that is embedded into the strip. In principle it is some kind of shift register, that outputs PWM values, and on the strip they are daisy-chained (data output of one is connected to data input of the next). With the Arduino you shift out a stream of bytes, when using a RGB strip 3 bytes p... | The LED units don't have any unique addresses of their own, instead they are indexed by their position in the string of LEDs. When you feed data into the first LED, you put the entire sequence of color values into the first one. It will then set its own color to the first one in the sequence, and then output all the re... |
252,933 | We are running electrical to our shed as an outbuilding. The primary issue is getting the lines back out of the house in a convenient location. My question is whether we can run this sub panel supply out through the main service entrance. We could then tir into the service with conduit and bury it appropriately.
Is th... | 2022/07/14 | [
"https://diy.stackexchange.com/questions/252933",
"https://diy.stackexchange.com",
"https://diy.stackexchange.com/users/154149/"
] | TLDR: Forget it and punch a second conduit through the wall.
------------------------------------------------------------
Trying to use this conduit would be *onerous* because of the adaptations needed to make that possible.
Note that even in a dedicated pipe, #2 aluminum is only 90A wire and #4 copper is only 85A wi... | It all depends where your service disconnect overprotection is located.
Your panel looks like a MLO if the photo went down ~4” lower I could say yes or no.
If your service disconnect is at the meter and there is a main breaker the answer is YES you can use the same pipe if large enough to allow the wire fill. |
6,337,230 | I'm looking for either confirmation/validation that what I'm doing follows the pattern and is best practice, or for somebody to verbally abuse me into submission!
If I'm doing Visibility binding on a [insert control here], I bind it to a property of type System.Windows.Visibility. I then set this value to Visible/Col... | 2011/06/13 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/6337230",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/585152/"
] | I think it's perfectly OK to use value converters for common UI scenarios (like binding the visibility to a boolean property). However, use them only for tasks that are purely UI-related: don't put any business logic in a converter, it doesn't belong there. | It's a controversial topic but I sit in the camp where I think that you shouldn't use converters. The ViewModel is considered a "Converter on steroids" so you don't need any converters.
(http://groups.google.com/group/wpf-disciples/browse\_thread/thread/3fe270cd107f184f?pli=1)
If you use converters, you'll find that ... |
6,337,230 | I'm looking for either confirmation/validation that what I'm doing follows the pattern and is best practice, or for somebody to verbally abuse me into submission!
If I'm doing Visibility binding on a [insert control here], I bind it to a property of type System.Windows.Visibility. I then set this value to Visible/Col... | 2011/06/13 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/6337230",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/585152/"
] | I think it's perfectly OK to use value converters for common UI scenarios (like binding the visibility to a boolean property). However, use them only for tasks that are purely UI-related: don't put any business logic in a converter, it doesn't belong there. | The view (XAML/WPF) and the ViewModel are responsible for different things. So if you are manipulating the data that the ViewModel serves up, it probably is best to do the conversion in the ViewModel. However if you need a conversion for purely a UI element then the view is the best place for it.
E.G. I would say tha... |
6,337,230 | I'm looking for either confirmation/validation that what I'm doing follows the pattern and is best practice, or for somebody to verbally abuse me into submission!
If I'm doing Visibility binding on a [insert control here], I bind it to a property of type System.Windows.Visibility. I then set this value to Visible/Col... | 2011/06/13 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/6337230",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/585152/"
] | I think it's perfectly OK to use value converters for common UI scenarios (like binding the visibility to a boolean property). However, use them only for tasks that are purely UI-related: don't put any business logic in a converter, it doesn't belong there. | I'm a fan of Converters, but specifically for reuse. It may be easy to do these conversions in a ViewModel, but what if you want the same conversion in many ViewModels or even 15 different applications? If you limit yourself to the ViewModel only approach then you'll violate DRY. That being said, I couldn't agree more ... |
452 | I just got a [bounty](https://cooking.stackexchange.com/questions/1936/fondue-without-gruyere-cheese/3099#3099) worth of 25 points. Community, thank you very much!
But I wonder: who can give such bounties and why?
**Edit:** Aha! These things happened:
1. Someone awarded a bounty to the fondue question.
2. I showed u... | 2010/08/02 | [
"https://cooking.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/452",
"https://cooking.meta.stackexchange.com",
"https://cooking.meta.stackexchange.com/users/1377/"
] | I think it basically works like this:
You get half the bounty of the question automatically awarded by the system if you are the most up-voted answer (that has at least a score of 2 and was posted after the bounty was assigned) when the bounty expires and the bounty offerer has not awarded the bounty manually.
There ... | Just to expand on Sam's excellent answer.
1. Any bounty that is automatically awarded is awarded by "Community". This explains the giver.
2. Any bounty that is automatically awarded is only half the original bounty amount. This explains the 25 instead of 50. (Although, the bounty offerer loses 50 either way).
3. The ... |
122,549 | I'm working in a development team where we all use laptops so we can work in multiple locations. These laptops are proving notoriously slow for development work, but at a glance they all look to have the specification for a much faster experience:
* CPU - Intel Core 2 Duo T7500
* Memory - 2GB of RAM
We all experience... | 2010/03/15 | [
"https://serverfault.com/questions/122549",
"https://serverfault.com",
"https://serverfault.com/users/30634/"
] | Yeah, try using perfmon.
Here is a good website on what counters to use.
<http://adminfoo.net/2007/04/windows-perfmon-top-ten-counters.html> | Check performance coutners for disci io (possibly have to activate them first). Seconds/Request (read, write) is a great counter - should be around 0.010. You possibly see quite a lot of it.
Demonstrate RAM and CPU are low at the same time.
2gb ram? Seriously? My development workstations had that in 2000, moving to 4... |
37,406 | I have a point layer of students, and a polygon layer of district boundaries.
How can I select those students who are not in the district boundaries, a Select By "Not-in" Location, so to speak. | 2012/10/23 | [
"https://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/37406",
"https://gis.stackexchange.com",
"https://gis.stackexchange.com/users/12196/"
] | Use Select By Location, have it select all students within the boundaries, then reverse the selection. Ta da, you have a "Not-In" selection!
To reverse the selection, use the "Switch Selection" command. This can be accessed from at least two different places in ArcMap.
Within the attribute table:
[![SwitchSelection1... | One way to do this would be to create a new field in your students featureclass, then select the features that ARE within your district boundaries and calculate the field you just created to whatever value you deem necessary... as an example the field could be named "IN\_DIST" and the points that are within the distric... |
259,390 | One of the many quirks of Reporting Services we've run across is the complete and utter lack of a CheckBox control or even something remotely similar.
We have a form that should appear automatically filled out based on information pulled from a database. We have several bit datatype fields. Printing out "True" or "Fal... | 2008/11/03 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/259390",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/7290/"
] | What I have used to display a check box (or ballot box):
1- create textbox (that will become your check box)
2- change font to Arial Unicode MS
3- in the expression window use:
ChrW(&H2611) for a filled-in checkbox
ChrW(&H2610) for an empty checkbox | I think there is a bug with SSRS and embedding font characters above 128 (some thing todo with ANSI encoding). Basically you can use 1-128 fine, the rest show up as tall rectangular blocks.
I like NY's idea of the textbox with a border and an optional X - this sounds simple and effective. |
259,390 | One of the many quirks of Reporting Services we've run across is the complete and utter lack of a CheckBox control or even something remotely similar.
We have a form that should appear automatically filled out based on information pulled from a database. We have several bit datatype fields. Printing out "True" or "Fal... | 2008/11/03 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/259390",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/7290/"
] | I, along with others in my shop, have used images, toggling the hidden attribute based on the field value (true or false). We haven't had any problems with blurring or scaling, unless we tried to increase the scale of the image beyond 100% obviously.
Another option I've used is similar to the wingdings idea, but I jus... | What I have used to display a check box (or ballot box):
1- create textbox (that will become your check box)
2- change font to Arial Unicode MS
3- in the expression window use:
ChrW(&H2611) for a filled-in checkbox
ChrW(&H2610) for an empty checkbox |
21,361,735 | This is a pretty weird problem. Not sure if this question is acceptable.
Every time i open an HTML file by double clicking it or opening it using a browser the browser home page appears not the HTML file. I've tried using different browser but all have the same results. If i try to drag and drop the HTML file in the ... | 2014/01/26 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/21361735",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/1986756/"
] | Try restoring your browser settings.
Here are some links to help you with resetting the settings:
1. Reset settings in [chrome](https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/3296214?hl=en).
2. Reset settings in [internet explorer](http://support.microsoft.com/kb/923737).
3. Reset settings in [opera](http://en.kioskea.net/... | same problem on a particular windows 7 system with the 3 browser I installed (Chrome, IE11 FireFox)
Reseting programs default association file with control panel or trying manual "registry tricks" doesn't solve the issue.
Any of the 3 browser still opens on their default start page, ignoring .html file the user doubl... |
313,322 | This is super annoying. If I highlight one word in the long filename, the entire filename gets highlighted (usually 1 millisecond before I tap delete or type something else). I just want Windows to highlight what I'm dragging across and stop second-guessing me. Any tweak to bring back old behavior where it just highlig... | 2011/07/21 | [
"https://superuser.com/questions/313322",
"https://superuser.com",
"https://superuser.com/users/71361/"
] | On Windows 7, once you make an edit to the filename, the auto-selection feature is disabled. But if you're not quicker than Windows's auto selection feature, you'll end up replacing the selection with your input. What I do is:
1. Press F2 and have windows highlight the name part of the file.
2. Press Ctrl-x, Ctrl-v to... | If you use the mouse, you only highlight what you drag across. This sounds like a third party program. . . |
313,322 | This is super annoying. If I highlight one word in the long filename, the entire filename gets highlighted (usually 1 millisecond before I tap delete or type something else). I just want Windows to highlight what I'm dragging across and stop second-guessing me. Any tweak to bring back old behavior where it just highlig... | 2011/07/21 | [
"https://superuser.com/questions/313322",
"https://superuser.com",
"https://superuser.com/users/71361/"
] | I just ran across this issue myself on an external drive and realized refreshing is the problem as mentioned here. To stop it from happening make any edit to the filename quickly before the refresh, such as inserting a space then backspacing. Or use the cut and paste suggestion, although that will overwrite anything yo... | If you use the mouse, you only highlight what you drag across. This sounds like a third party program. . . |
313,322 | This is super annoying. If I highlight one word in the long filename, the entire filename gets highlighted (usually 1 millisecond before I tap delete or type something else). I just want Windows to highlight what I'm dragging across and stop second-guessing me. Any tweak to bring back old behavior where it just highlig... | 2011/07/21 | [
"https://superuser.com/questions/313322",
"https://superuser.com",
"https://superuser.com/users/71361/"
] | CreeDorofl and others. The issue is perfectly described by CreDorofl, when he tries to rename part of the filename, the whole name is selected in a split of a second, usually faster then you can react. This makes impossible to change any part of the file name other then the whole name.
The reason is of course the refre... | If you use the mouse, you only highlight what you drag across. This sounds like a third party program. . . |
313,322 | This is super annoying. If I highlight one word in the long filename, the entire filename gets highlighted (usually 1 millisecond before I tap delete or type something else). I just want Windows to highlight what I'm dragging across and stop second-guessing me. Any tweak to bring back old behavior where it just highlig... | 2011/07/21 | [
"https://superuser.com/questions/313322",
"https://superuser.com",
"https://superuser.com/users/71361/"
] | Well I've come across this as well using my external hard drive. Now you cannot stop the auto-refresh function, but you can be a bit faster than windows.
My example was a bit harder and tougher than what you're all facing, because I am trying to rename IMG\_0100.JPG to IMG\_10100.JPG so I have to be a lot faster. What... | If you use the mouse, you only highlight what you drag across. This sounds like a third party program. . . |
313,322 | This is super annoying. If I highlight one word in the long filename, the entire filename gets highlighted (usually 1 millisecond before I tap delete or type something else). I just want Windows to highlight what I'm dragging across and stop second-guessing me. Any tweak to bring back old behavior where it just highlig... | 2011/07/21 | [
"https://superuser.com/questions/313322",
"https://superuser.com",
"https://superuser.com/users/71361/"
] | CreeDorofl and others. The issue is perfectly described by CreDorofl, when he tries to rename part of the filename, the whole name is selected in a split of a second, usually faster then you can react. This makes impossible to change any part of the file name other then the whole name.
The reason is of course the refre... | On Windows 7, once you make an edit to the filename, the auto-selection feature is disabled. But if you're not quicker than Windows's auto selection feature, you'll end up replacing the selection with your input. What I do is:
1. Press F2 and have windows highlight the name part of the file.
2. Press Ctrl-x, Ctrl-v to... |
313,322 | This is super annoying. If I highlight one word in the long filename, the entire filename gets highlighted (usually 1 millisecond before I tap delete or type something else). I just want Windows to highlight what I'm dragging across and stop second-guessing me. Any tweak to bring back old behavior where it just highlig... | 2011/07/21 | [
"https://superuser.com/questions/313322",
"https://superuser.com",
"https://superuser.com/users/71361/"
] | On Windows 7, once you make an edit to the filename, the auto-selection feature is disabled. But if you're not quicker than Windows's auto selection feature, you'll end up replacing the selection with your input. What I do is:
1. Press F2 and have windows highlight the name part of the file.
2. Press Ctrl-x, Ctrl-v to... | Well I've come across this as well using my external hard drive. Now you cannot stop the auto-refresh function, but you can be a bit faster than windows.
My example was a bit harder and tougher than what you're all facing, because I am trying to rename IMG\_0100.JPG to IMG\_10100.JPG so I have to be a lot faster. What... |
313,322 | This is super annoying. If I highlight one word in the long filename, the entire filename gets highlighted (usually 1 millisecond before I tap delete or type something else). I just want Windows to highlight what I'm dragging across and stop second-guessing me. Any tweak to bring back old behavior where it just highlig... | 2011/07/21 | [
"https://superuser.com/questions/313322",
"https://superuser.com",
"https://superuser.com/users/71361/"
] | CreeDorofl and others. The issue is perfectly described by CreDorofl, when he tries to rename part of the filename, the whole name is selected in a split of a second, usually faster then you can react. This makes impossible to change any part of the file name other then the whole name.
The reason is of course the refre... | I just ran across this issue myself on an external drive and realized refreshing is the problem as mentioned here. To stop it from happening make any edit to the filename quickly before the refresh, such as inserting a space then backspacing. Or use the cut and paste suggestion, although that will overwrite anything yo... |
313,322 | This is super annoying. If I highlight one word in the long filename, the entire filename gets highlighted (usually 1 millisecond before I tap delete or type something else). I just want Windows to highlight what I'm dragging across and stop second-guessing me. Any tweak to bring back old behavior where it just highlig... | 2011/07/21 | [
"https://superuser.com/questions/313322",
"https://superuser.com",
"https://superuser.com/users/71361/"
] | I just ran across this issue myself on an external drive and realized refreshing is the problem as mentioned here. To stop it from happening make any edit to the filename quickly before the refresh, such as inserting a space then backspacing. Or use the cut and paste suggestion, although that will overwrite anything yo... | Well I've come across this as well using my external hard drive. Now you cannot stop the auto-refresh function, but you can be a bit faster than windows.
My example was a bit harder and tougher than what you're all facing, because I am trying to rename IMG\_0100.JPG to IMG\_10100.JPG so I have to be a lot faster. What... |
313,322 | This is super annoying. If I highlight one word in the long filename, the entire filename gets highlighted (usually 1 millisecond before I tap delete or type something else). I just want Windows to highlight what I'm dragging across and stop second-guessing me. Any tweak to bring back old behavior where it just highlig... | 2011/07/21 | [
"https://superuser.com/questions/313322",
"https://superuser.com",
"https://superuser.com/users/71361/"
] | CreeDorofl and others. The issue is perfectly described by CreDorofl, when he tries to rename part of the filename, the whole name is selected in a split of a second, usually faster then you can react. This makes impossible to change any part of the file name other then the whole name.
The reason is of course the refre... | Well I've come across this as well using my external hard drive. Now you cannot stop the auto-refresh function, but you can be a bit faster than windows.
My example was a bit harder and tougher than what you're all facing, because I am trying to rename IMG\_0100.JPG to IMG\_10100.JPG so I have to be a lot faster. What... |
4,496 | In "Looper" the future bad-guys send back people to be killed in a field by a guy with a stupid gun who then takes them into what appears to be a massively-insecure blast-furnace equipped factory of some sort.
Why couldn't they just make the people appear inside the furnace in the first place?
Was there a reason give... | 2012/10/05 | [
"https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/4496",
"https://movies.stackexchange.com",
"https://movies.stackexchange.com/users/296/"
] | I think the intention is that it's a lot easier and cleaner to have someone on the other side there to make sure the victim is taken care of, rather than just popping them to a location that they'll die at.
Think about it this way. Lets say that they did pop people into a furnace to kill them. What happens if said fur... | For the same reason Batman lived as long as he did; when no one is there to supervise the death, there's no way to be sure the death actually occurred. Yes, I guess they could have someone sitting outside the blast furnace door peeking through a window to make sure the transport took place, but why bother? Sticking the... |
5,089,792 | I am working over linux in our office for development over Ruby on Rails but in home i have Windows XP installed. It has different IDE installed for .NET and PHP development. So i don't want to get rid of those stuff also so kindly guide best IDE for Ruby on Rails Develpment over windows with MySQL as Database.. | 2011/02/23 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/5089792",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/617374/"
] | I'm also currently working on Linux and NetBeans. Netbeans also supports Windows and you can have PHP as well. But unfortunately NetBeans has discontinued their Rails support from version 7.0. So long term, it might be a problem.
Another one is RedCar (<http://redcareditor.com/>), this is also good.
Also Aptana RadR... | Have you tried [Aptana](http://aptana.org/)? |
5,089,792 | I am working over linux in our office for development over Ruby on Rails but in home i have Windows XP installed. It has different IDE installed for .NET and PHP development. So i don't want to get rid of those stuff also so kindly guide best IDE for Ruby on Rails Develpment over windows with MySQL as Database.. | 2011/02/23 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/5089792",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/617374/"
] | I suggest RubyMine. Good Rails 3 support and provides a nice integration with your project elements and Rails tools. | Have you tried [Aptana](http://aptana.org/)? |
5,089,792 | I am working over linux in our office for development over Ruby on Rails but in home i have Windows XP installed. It has different IDE installed for .NET and PHP development. So i don't want to get rid of those stuff also so kindly guide best IDE for Ruby on Rails Develpment over windows with MySQL as Database.. | 2011/02/23 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/5089792",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/617374/"
] | I'm also currently working on Linux and NetBeans. Netbeans also supports Windows and you can have PHP as well. But unfortunately NetBeans has discontinued their Rails support from version 7.0. So long term, it might be a problem.
Another one is RedCar (<http://redcareditor.com/>), this is also good.
Also Aptana RadR... | I would propose that you use NetBeans with Ruby support. It is great and easy to use. I am using it.
I tried using Aptana, I just couldn't get it working. |
5,089,792 | I am working over linux in our office for development over Ruby on Rails but in home i have Windows XP installed. It has different IDE installed for .NET and PHP development. So i don't want to get rid of those stuff also so kindly guide best IDE for Ruby on Rails Develpment over windows with MySQL as Database.. | 2011/02/23 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/5089792",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/617374/"
] | I'm also currently working on Linux and NetBeans. Netbeans also supports Windows and you can have PHP as well. But unfortunately NetBeans has discontinued their Rails support from version 7.0. So long term, it might be a problem.
Another one is RedCar (<http://redcareditor.com/>), this is also good.
Also Aptana RadR... | I am using netbeans for ubuntu as well as for windows. you can [download it here](http://netbeans.org/downloads/). |
5,089,792 | I am working over linux in our office for development over Ruby on Rails but in home i have Windows XP installed. It has different IDE installed for .NET and PHP development. So i don't want to get rid of those stuff also so kindly guide best IDE for Ruby on Rails Develpment over windows with MySQL as Database.. | 2011/02/23 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/5089792",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/617374/"
] | I suggest RubyMine. Good Rails 3 support and provides a nice integration with your project elements and Rails tools. | I would propose that you use NetBeans with Ruby support. It is great and easy to use. I am using it.
I tried using Aptana, I just couldn't get it working. |
5,089,792 | I am working over linux in our office for development over Ruby on Rails but in home i have Windows XP installed. It has different IDE installed for .NET and PHP development. So i don't want to get rid of those stuff also so kindly guide best IDE for Ruby on Rails Develpment over windows with MySQL as Database.. | 2011/02/23 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/5089792",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/617374/"
] | I suggest RubyMine. Good Rails 3 support and provides a nice integration with your project elements and Rails tools. | I am using netbeans for ubuntu as well as for windows. you can [download it here](http://netbeans.org/downloads/). |
6,071 | I want a web site to search for a patent classification by entering the classification code .
For example , if I enter G02 then I have to get optics , G02C5/14 -> Side members like that.. Is any site available like that . (it may be either US classification codes or International classification codes )
I found some s... | 2014/02/15 | [
"https://patents.stackexchange.com/questions/6071",
"https://patents.stackexchange.com",
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] | Not sure if this is what you are looking for, but the USPTO provides a classification structure that you can navigate through here ==> <http://www.uspto.gov/web/patents/classification/selectnumwithtitle.htm> | You could do a google search which would look like:
>
> [g02c 5/14 site:www.uspto.gov/web/patents/classification](https://www.google.lt/search?q=g02c%205%2F14%20site%3Awww.uspto.gov%2Fweb%2Fpatents%2Fclassification&oq=g02c%205%2F14%20site%3Awww.uspto.gov%2Fweb%2Fpatents%2Fclassification&aqs=chrome..69i57.685j0j4&sou... |
4,876 | I recently sat a statistical/machine learning exam where, I believe, the instructions and questions were clearly flawed (to the point of being logically incoherent). The problems with the instructions and questions are such that the flaws are not heavily/fundamentally mathematical/statistical in nature (although, they ... | 2021/02/25 | [
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] | >
> and ask whether [the test questions] are problematic or whether I am misunderstanding something on my end?
>
>
>
A question requesting as assessment of your exam will indeed be off-topic, as answers will only apply to the exam in question.
>
> the instructions and questions were clearly flawed (to the point ... | Thanks for asking! I would move to close such a question as "too specific to individual circumstances". Asking that question would not benefit others in a similar situation, as they wouldn't ever find themselves in that specific a similar situation.
Putting aside appropriateness for this forum, though, I would also su... |
41,564 | There is a sphere of infinite space and there is sphere of infinite consciousness.
It is easy to comprehend what is infinite space is but it is not clear what is meant by infinite consciousness?
Does it mean infinite history of experience?
Or does it mean infinite presence of sentient beings with consciousness? | 2020/09/15 | [
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"https://buddhism.stackexchange.com",
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] | Good householder,
infinitive means that it has no border, no end, not even a perception of such. And like Upasaka Vorapol (Bonn) tried to transmit. Coming from a merely outwardly infinitive perception of space, the object, one turns at this stage toward the "subject", the consciousness, that of what knows, be aware of... | What about all the perfected ones, the fully awakened Buddhas who lived in the past? Have you comprehended their minds to know thatKiṃ te, sāriputta, ye te ahesuṃ atītamaddhānaṃ arahanto sammāsambuddhā, sabbe te bhagavanto cetasā ceto paricca viditā:those Buddhas had such ethics, or such qualities, or such wisdom, or s... |
41,564 | There is a sphere of infinite space and there is sphere of infinite consciousness.
It is easy to comprehend what is infinite space is but it is not clear what is meant by infinite consciousness?
Does it mean infinite history of experience?
Or does it mean infinite presence of sentient beings with consciousness? | 2020/09/15 | [
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"https://buddhism.stackexchange.com",
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] | To measure is to assess. Consciousness exists to assess, to make choices. One assesses to gain more. Gaining more, consciousness grows. The measure of consciousness is what we gain.
>
> [DN15:15.2](https://suttacentral.net/dn15/en/sujato#dn15:15.2): Suppose there were totally and utterly no assessing for anyone anywh... | These two infinite spheres that you ask about are the same.
They are the same because they are imaginative attempts to conceive of something about reality: one which you say you can comprehend, and the other you ask about so that you can comprehend it.
They are the same because ultimately, they speak of reality, whic... |
41,564 | There is a sphere of infinite space and there is sphere of infinite consciousness.
It is easy to comprehend what is infinite space is but it is not clear what is meant by infinite consciousness?
Does it mean infinite history of experience?
Or does it mean infinite presence of sentient beings with consciousness? | 2020/09/15 | [
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] | As i understand it, It is like perception of infinite space but without the space. There is then only the conception & perception of a boundless pleasantness.
There is the concept of infinity in play, consciousness is delineated due to the pleasantness of it's [boundless] perception. | What about all the perfected ones, the fully awakened Buddhas who lived in the past? Have you comprehended their minds to know thatKiṃ te, sāriputta, ye te ahesuṃ atītamaddhānaṃ arahanto sammāsambuddhā, sabbe te bhagavanto cetasā ceto paricca viditā:those Buddhas had such ethics, or such qualities, or such wisdom, or s... |
41,564 | There is a sphere of infinite space and there is sphere of infinite consciousness.
It is easy to comprehend what is infinite space is but it is not clear what is meant by infinite consciousness?
Does it mean infinite history of experience?
Or does it mean infinite presence of sentient beings with consciousness? | 2020/09/15 | [
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"https://buddhism.stackexchange.com",
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] | Everything depending on their causes. If you want to know anything you need to know their causes and effects, ***so you should comprehend both spheres' dependent origination to understand them both.***
What are you talking about is the object of consciousness. Consciousness in 30 spheres are knowing the object.
When ... | Good householder,
infinitive means that it has no border, no end, not even a perception of such. And like Upasaka Vorapol (Bonn) tried to transmit. Coming from a merely outwardly infinitive perception of space, the object, one turns at this stage toward the "subject", the consciousness, that of what knows, be aware of... |
41,564 | There is a sphere of infinite space and there is sphere of infinite consciousness.
It is easy to comprehend what is infinite space is but it is not clear what is meant by infinite consciousness?
Does it mean infinite history of experience?
Or does it mean infinite presence of sentient beings with consciousness? | 2020/09/15 | [
"https://buddhism.stackexchange.com/questions/41564",
"https://buddhism.stackexchange.com",
"https://buddhism.stackexchange.com/users/17553/"
] | To measure is to assess. Consciousness exists to assess, to make choices. One assesses to gain more. Gaining more, consciousness grows. The measure of consciousness is what we gain.
>
> [DN15:15.2](https://suttacentral.net/dn15/en/sujato#dn15:15.2): Suppose there were totally and utterly no assessing for anyone anywh... | Consciousness cannot be measured. Because all is measured by itself, but measured things cant measured the instrument of measurement i.e. consciousness.
Consciousness is a pool of whole, we are part of that. When individual consciousness ceases altogether, with cessation of I, it finds itself a part of universal consc... |
41,564 | There is a sphere of infinite space and there is sphere of infinite consciousness.
It is easy to comprehend what is infinite space is but it is not clear what is meant by infinite consciousness?
Does it mean infinite history of experience?
Or does it mean infinite presence of sentient beings with consciousness? | 2020/09/15 | [
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] | Please keep in mind my answer comes from my personal experience alone, and not from a study of Buddhist texts. Also, I want to establish terminology because conversations like this can get very confusing if we aren’t extremely clear about what we are talking about.
When I say consciousness, I am talking about a specif... | These two infinite spheres that you ask about are the same.
They are the same because they are imaginative attempts to conceive of something about reality: one which you say you can comprehend, and the other you ask about so that you can comprehend it.
They are the same because ultimately, they speak of reality, whic... |
41,564 | There is a sphere of infinite space and there is sphere of infinite consciousness.
It is easy to comprehend what is infinite space is but it is not clear what is meant by infinite consciousness?
Does it mean infinite history of experience?
Or does it mean infinite presence of sentient beings with consciousness? | 2020/09/15 | [
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"https://buddhism.stackexchange.com",
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] | As i understand it, It is like perception of infinite space but without the space. There is then only the conception & perception of a boundless pleasantness.
There is the concept of infinity in play, consciousness is delineated due to the pleasantness of it's [boundless] perception. | Good householder,
infinitive means that it has no border, no end, not even a perception of such. And like Upasaka Vorapol (Bonn) tried to transmit. Coming from a merely outwardly infinitive perception of space, the object, one turns at this stage toward the "subject", the consciousness, that of what knows, be aware of... |
41,564 | There is a sphere of infinite space and there is sphere of infinite consciousness.
It is easy to comprehend what is infinite space is but it is not clear what is meant by infinite consciousness?
Does it mean infinite history of experience?
Or does it mean infinite presence of sentient beings with consciousness? | 2020/09/15 | [
"https://buddhism.stackexchange.com/questions/41564",
"https://buddhism.stackexchange.com",
"https://buddhism.stackexchange.com/users/17553/"
] | Consciousness cannot be measured. Because all is measured by itself, but measured things cant measured the instrument of measurement i.e. consciousness.
Consciousness is a pool of whole, we are part of that. When individual consciousness ceases altogether, with cessation of I, it finds itself a part of universal consc... | What about all the perfected ones, the fully awakened Buddhas who lived in the past? Have you comprehended their minds to know thatKiṃ te, sāriputta, ye te ahesuṃ atītamaddhānaṃ arahanto sammāsambuddhā, sabbe te bhagavanto cetasā ceto paricca viditā:those Buddhas had such ethics, or such qualities, or such wisdom, or s... |
41,564 | There is a sphere of infinite space and there is sphere of infinite consciousness.
It is easy to comprehend what is infinite space is but it is not clear what is meant by infinite consciousness?
Does it mean infinite history of experience?
Or does it mean infinite presence of sentient beings with consciousness? | 2020/09/15 | [
"https://buddhism.stackexchange.com/questions/41564",
"https://buddhism.stackexchange.com",
"https://buddhism.stackexchange.com/users/17553/"
] | Everything depending on their causes. If you want to know anything you need to know their causes and effects, ***so you should comprehend both spheres' dependent origination to understand them both.***
What are you talking about is the object of consciousness. Consciousness in 30 spheres are knowing the object.
When ... | What about all the perfected ones, the fully awakened Buddhas who lived in the past? Have you comprehended their minds to know thatKiṃ te, sāriputta, ye te ahesuṃ atītamaddhānaṃ arahanto sammāsambuddhā, sabbe te bhagavanto cetasā ceto paricca viditā:those Buddhas had such ethics, or such qualities, or such wisdom, or s... |
221,147 | A client has contacted me asking to develop a set of templates for use with Salesforce Marketing Cloud. After many hours of searching, I'm left scratching my head.
Though I've never heard of Salesforce, I've written many HTML email templates over the years, and have been able to easily incorporate specific code for CR... | 2018/06/11 | [
"https://salesforce.stackexchange.com/questions/221147",
"https://salesforce.stackexchange.com",
"https://salesforce.stackexchange.com/users/57460/"
] | Since you are new to Salesforce Marketing Cloud, you should definitely start using Content Builder, especially since the Classic editor is getting close to it's end of life.
[This page](https://help.salesforce.com/articleView?id=mc_ceb_content_builder.htm&type=5) lists a number of links, with valuable information on h... | Have a look at [this page](https://pages.exacttarget.com/mobile-inbox) for some best practices around email and template for Salesforce Marketing Cloud. |
171,701 | I've been trying so long at this problem to no avail. I drew my free body diagram, but I'm unsure which formula to use.
Could someone help me out? | 2015/03/22 | [
"https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/171701",
"https://physics.stackexchange.com",
"https://physics.stackexchange.com/users/75170/"
] | You seem to be misunderstanding the depth of the prediction we've made of the past in saying that the Big Bang happened. You do make a very valid point that chaotic systems even with as few elements as the solar system are practically impossible to past-predict (I'm going to start using the word "postdict"1 because it ... | The problem is analogous to the physics of gases. Do we need to describe the chaotic motion of every molecule before we can determine overall properties? No. |
171,701 | I've been trying so long at this problem to no avail. I drew my free body diagram, but I'm unsure which formula to use.
Could someone help me out? | 2015/03/22 | [
"https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/171701",
"https://physics.stackexchange.com",
"https://physics.stackexchange.com/users/75170/"
] | The problem is analogous to the physics of gases. Do we need to describe the chaotic motion of every molecule before we can determine overall properties? No. | The problem with this question is in the premise that where dynamical chaos is applicable nothing is predictable or can be extrapolated to the past. This is a wrong premise.
Take this [demonstration](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aAJkLh76QnM) of a chaotic system. Note that it is computer simulation and of course it ... |
171,701 | I've been trying so long at this problem to no avail. I drew my free body diagram, but I'm unsure which formula to use.
Could someone help me out? | 2015/03/22 | [
"https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/171701",
"https://physics.stackexchange.com",
"https://physics.stackexchange.com/users/75170/"
] | You seem to be misunderstanding the depth of the prediction we've made of the past in saying that the Big Bang happened. You do make a very valid point that chaotic systems even with as few elements as the solar system are practically impossible to past-predict (I'm going to start using the word "postdict"1 because it ... | I'm not sure if that touches your question, but the universe is thought to be non-chaotic in the long term behaviour because of some anisotropy in the initial conditions (at least this is the general opinion). I watched a cool [vid](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tmNXKqeUtJM) about that a couple of days ago.
The poin... |
171,701 | I've been trying so long at this problem to no avail. I drew my free body diagram, but I'm unsure which formula to use.
Could someone help me out? | 2015/03/22 | [
"https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/171701",
"https://physics.stackexchange.com",
"https://physics.stackexchange.com/users/75170/"
] | I'm not sure if that touches your question, but the universe is thought to be non-chaotic in the long term behaviour because of some anisotropy in the initial conditions (at least this is the general opinion). I watched a cool [vid](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tmNXKqeUtJM) about that a couple of days ago.
The poin... | The problem with this question is in the premise that where dynamical chaos is applicable nothing is predictable or can be extrapolated to the past. This is a wrong premise.
Take this [demonstration](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aAJkLh76QnM) of a chaotic system. Note that it is computer simulation and of course it ... |
171,701 | I've been trying so long at this problem to no avail. I drew my free body diagram, but I'm unsure which formula to use.
Could someone help me out? | 2015/03/22 | [
"https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/171701",
"https://physics.stackexchange.com",
"https://physics.stackexchange.com/users/75170/"
] | You seem to be misunderstanding the depth of the prediction we've made of the past in saying that the Big Bang happened. You do make a very valid point that chaotic systems even with as few elements as the solar system are practically impossible to past-predict (I'm going to start using the word "postdict"1 because it ... | The problem with this question is in the premise that where dynamical chaos is applicable nothing is predictable or can be extrapolated to the past. This is a wrong premise.
Take this [demonstration](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aAJkLh76QnM) of a chaotic system. Note that it is computer simulation and of course it ... |
61,964 | I've made the sentence:
>
> The airport was built all but with the techonology I mentioned
> earlier.
>
>
>
I'm trying to learn how to use the ***all but*** idiom in the sentences. I'm nt sure about the sentence, it seems a little wierd to me. | 2015/07/16 | [
"https://ell.stackexchange.com/questions/61964",
"https://ell.stackexchange.com",
"https://ell.stackexchange.com/users/8234/"
] | I think why your construction sounds weird is the placement of the word "with".
It seems like it should be:
>
> The airport was built **with** all but the technology I mentioned earlier.
>
>
>
"All but" is modifying "the technology I mentioned earlier". Here, it's short for "all (technology) but the technology I... | *All but X* is often used in colorful language to express that something has done everything possible to almost, but not quite, cross a limit or threshold that should not be crossed. Most the examples that I can think of mean this figuratively.
>
> I don't let her cook anymore; she all but burnt the house down the la... |
61,964 | I've made the sentence:
>
> The airport was built all but with the techonology I mentioned
> earlier.
>
>
>
I'm trying to learn how to use the ***all but*** idiom in the sentences. I'm nt sure about the sentence, it seems a little wierd to me. | 2015/07/16 | [
"https://ell.stackexchange.com/questions/61964",
"https://ell.stackexchange.com",
"https://ell.stackexchange.com/users/8234/"
] | I think why your construction sounds weird is the placement of the word "with".
It seems like it should be:
>
> The airport was built **with** all but the technology I mentioned earlier.
>
>
>
"All but" is modifying "the technology I mentioned earlier". Here, it's short for "all (technology) but the technology I... | The "all but" idiom describes something that is as close as possible to being [adjective] as it possibly can without actually being [adjective].
For example: "I was all but unconscious after that boxing match." A boxer might say this after he had a very close match where he was probably delirious or coming very close... |
580,647 | Note: I am a bit of a novice when it comes to statistics and data analysis.
Reading the chapter on regression to the mean in Kahneman's *Thinking Fast and Slow*, I came across the following passage:
>
> The very idea of regression to the mean is
> alien and difficult to communicate and comprehend. Galton had a hard ... | 2022/07/01 | [
"https://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/580647",
"https://stats.stackexchange.com",
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] | I think your intuitive understanding is correct. As for why it poses a conceptual problem for so many, I can only offer a guess.
Most statistical procedures are designed around means: comparing means of groups, evaluating how the mean of one variable changes across gradients in other variables, etc.
But we are occasi... | Your explanation is accurate, though I think there is an essential detail it doesn't address. Namely that in the typical confusing situation, the recent outcome **does** give you information about the new outcome. And regression to the mean is still present.
Think about parent's height vs children's height or a sports... |
580,647 | Note: I am a bit of a novice when it comes to statistics and data analysis.
Reading the chapter on regression to the mean in Kahneman's *Thinking Fast and Slow*, I came across the following passage:
>
> The very idea of regression to the mean is
> alien and difficult to communicate and comprehend. Galton had a hard ... | 2022/07/01 | [
"https://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/580647",
"https://stats.stackexchange.com",
"https://stats.stackexchange.com/users/362080/"
] | I think your intuitive understanding is correct. As for why it poses a conceptual problem for so many, I can only offer a guess.
Most statistical procedures are designed around means: comparing means of groups, evaluating how the mean of one variable changes across gradients in other variables, etc.
But we are occasi... | I think part of the problem is the phrase "regression to the mean". It encourages people to believe the gambler's fallacy. Suppose you flip a coin 10 times and get heads every time. It is an unlikely event, 1/1024 but quite possible. People think regression to the mean means that heads are less likely going forward. In... |
580,647 | Note: I am a bit of a novice when it comes to statistics and data analysis.
Reading the chapter on regression to the mean in Kahneman's *Thinking Fast and Slow*, I came across the following passage:
>
> The very idea of regression to the mean is
> alien and difficult to communicate and comprehend. Galton had a hard ... | 2022/07/01 | [
"https://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/580647",
"https://stats.stackexchange.com",
"https://stats.stackexchange.com/users/362080/"
] | Your explanation is accurate, though I think there is an essential detail it doesn't address. Namely that in the typical confusing situation, the recent outcome **does** give you information about the new outcome. And regression to the mean is still present.
Think about parent's height vs children's height or a sports... | I think part of the problem is the phrase "regression to the mean". It encourages people to believe the gambler's fallacy. Suppose you flip a coin 10 times and get heads every time. It is an unlikely event, 1/1024 but quite possible. People think regression to the mean means that heads are less likely going forward. In... |
1,233 | I am looking for examples of stealth addresses. Not only theoretically what they are, but real examples. What do they look like in the blockchain? | 2016/08/20 | [
"https://monero.stackexchange.com/questions/1233",
"https://monero.stackexchange.com",
"https://monero.stackexchange.com/users/345/"
] | Here's one example: 47c99dab149170154cf1cdfb7e6a5993e1683e9d952aa0502b7b9f27f4129735
This is the public key for the first output in tx <http://moneroblocks.info/tx/e706b52d74f74da37f0c016b976ede566fabf106c344a0fe1fb18cdb3751b0f6>, the last tx made as of now.
I won't give the private key to it, both because I don't kn... | Every single transaction uses stealth addresses. There's no way to opt-out of it. So you can just use any block explorer and view a Monero transaction, and you will see that the outputs don't go to the 95-character long Monero addresses (that start with a 4) but go to some random 64-character 'address'. |
152,794 | Was passing through airport security (Canada) with my 3 month old when I was told we were selected for a "random" search. They swabbed both of our hands. When I objected to her hands being swabbed they just put on a new swab pad. Is this commonplace for babies? What if any chemicals are in the pads? She has her hands i... | 2020/01/25 | [
"https://travel.stackexchange.com/questions/152794",
"https://travel.stackexchange.com",
"https://travel.stackexchange.com/users/107683/"
] | Here is a quote from a [page](https://www.tsatrace.com/Itemiser%C2%AE-DX-Swabs_c_13.html) about the actual swabs:
>
> Itemiser swabs are made of Teflon coated fiberglass that are designed to handle the high heats required to collect samples from the traps. Sample traps hold up well to water, heat and use but must be ... | The cotton swabs used in those kinds of procedures are usually sterile and the same suppliers as you would find in a hospital or doctor's office.
In a country like Canada, I would expect that those swabs are completely harmless to any individual, no matter newborn or adult.
The swabs are usually used to test for illeg... |
19,292 | It is for years that I ask myself as a frequent flyer why there is no Airport using a system, like built-in electrical resistances on Runways to avoid Delays/Cancellations and even closing Airfields during winter? The costs of such a system would be for sure less than closing an Airfield for one day. | 2015/08/25 | [
"https://aviation.stackexchange.com/questions/19292",
"https://aviation.stackexchange.com",
"https://aviation.stackexchange.com/users/9947/"
] | Removing snow from runways is not the biggest problem. Snow can be ploughed from the runways pretty quickly. The problems occur:
* When it is snowing, especially in snow storms with strong winds and poor visibility. The wind and visibility are bigger problem than the snow laying on the runway and when the snow fall ra... | I don't know how to calculate it, but I am sure that heating a runway will use a lot of electricity. Imagine yourself on that runway with a 2Kw electric fire in snowy conditions. You would still be freezing, and the fire would have no effect on the runway surface. Even if you could do this, the heating might create fog... |
19,292 | It is for years that I ask myself as a frequent flyer why there is no Airport using a system, like built-in electrical resistances on Runways to avoid Delays/Cancellations and even closing Airfields during winter? The costs of such a system would be for sure less than closing an Airfield for one day. | 2015/08/25 | [
"https://aviation.stackexchange.com/questions/19292",
"https://aviation.stackexchange.com",
"https://aviation.stackexchange.com/users/9947/"
] | Removing snow from runways is not the biggest problem. Snow can be ploughed from the runways pretty quickly. The problems occur:
* When it is snowing, especially in snow storms with strong winds and poor visibility. The wind and visibility are bigger problem than the snow laying on the runway and when the snow fall ra... | It seems to have been done on runways, taxiways and parking stands, though not by using electric resistors, as you suggest. See the following articles from the interwebz:
* [Interseasonal Heat Transfer](http://www.icax.co.uk/Solar_Runways.html) implemented by the company ICAX in Toddington.
* [Heated runway concept tr... |
6,554,103 | How would you write tests for testing a solution to some rather complex algorithm like *[the N Queens problem](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eight_queens_puzzle)*? What I mean is what should be the right approach for testing an algorithm that
1. has many solutions (you don't know / don't care how many of them exist),
2... | 2011/07/01 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/6554103",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/94484/"
] | In testing complex algorithms, you rely on 'data' which needs to be verified. Assume that you already have a solutions (data) in some form the problem. You just take the data and let your algorithm run through and see if the answers match. Take the example of solving an n-puzzle using algorithm, it is non-deterministic... | If you know what kind of an algorithm you will need, then one option is to implement some parts of that algorithm using TDD. So that when those parts have been implemented, building the full algorithm will be trivial.
Here is one example of a problem ([diagram of nine places](https://github.com/orfjackal/misc-tools/bl... |
6,554,103 | How would you write tests for testing a solution to some rather complex algorithm like *[the N Queens problem](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eight_queens_puzzle)*? What I mean is what should be the right approach for testing an algorithm that
1. has many solutions (you don't know / don't care how many of them exist),
2... | 2011/07/01 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/6554103",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/94484/"
] | In testing complex algorithms, you rely on 'data' which needs to be verified. Assume that you already have a solutions (data) in some form the problem. You just take the data and let your algorithm run through and see if the answers match. Take the example of solving an n-puzzle using algorithm, it is non-deterministic... | The unit test should verify the output of the algorithm for a wide variety of inputs and because this task is also complex it has to be written by a different person (and hope that if there is a bug in the code he doesn't do the same mistake) |
6,554,103 | How would you write tests for testing a solution to some rather complex algorithm like *[the N Queens problem](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eight_queens_puzzle)*? What I mean is what should be the right approach for testing an algorithm that
1. has many solutions (you don't know / don't care how many of them exist),
2... | 2011/07/01 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/6554103",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/94484/"
] | In your example I think you are saying you want to unit test an algorithm that verifies a proposed solution.
You'd want to cover the following cases:
* Happy path tests to verify that the algorithm accepts a variety of correct solutions
* Happy path tests to verify that the algorithm rejects a variety of incorrect so... | You can only test for the behaviour you know you can expect.
Do you know that a solution exists for some test data? E.g. you might figure out by hand that it is definitely possible to put six queens on an 8x8 board, or you might read in a book that there exists at least one solution to putting eight queens on the 8x8 ... |
6,554,103 | How would you write tests for testing a solution to some rather complex algorithm like *[the N Queens problem](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eight_queens_puzzle)*? What I mean is what should be the right approach for testing an algorithm that
1. has many solutions (you don't know / don't care how many of them exist),
2... | 2011/07/01 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/6554103",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/94484/"
] | If you know what kind of an algorithm you will need, then one option is to implement some parts of that algorithm using TDD. So that when those parts have been implemented, building the full algorithm will be trivial.
Here is one example of a problem ([diagram of nine places](https://github.com/orfjackal/misc-tools/bl... | You can only test for the behaviour you know you can expect.
Do you know that a solution exists for some test data? E.g. you might figure out by hand that it is definitely possible to put six queens on an 8x8 board, or you might read in a book that there exists at least one solution to putting eight queens on the 8x8 ... |
6,554,103 | How would you write tests for testing a solution to some rather complex algorithm like *[the N Queens problem](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eight_queens_puzzle)*? What I mean is what should be the right approach for testing an algorithm that
1. has many solutions (you don't know / don't care how many of them exist),
2... | 2011/07/01 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/6554103",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/94484/"
] | If you know what kind of an algorithm you will need, then one option is to implement some parts of that algorithm using TDD. So that when those parts have been implemented, building the full algorithm will be trivial.
Here is one example of a problem ([diagram of nine places](https://github.com/orfjackal/misc-tools/bl... | There are a lot of problems where creating a solution is much more difficult than checking that any solution is correct.
In the case of something like your N-queens problem, then you merely need to check that their is only one queen on each row and diagonal of the board and that there are N queens on the board in the ... |
6,554,103 | How would you write tests for testing a solution to some rather complex algorithm like *[the N Queens problem](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eight_queens_puzzle)*? What I mean is what should be the right approach for testing an algorithm that
1. has many solutions (you don't know / don't care how many of them exist),
2... | 2011/07/01 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/6554103",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/94484/"
] | I think this is a very good question and there is no silver bullet. I will just tell you about my experience.
I wrote an algorithm to find the nearest set of points between two cylinders in 3D space. This is a very complex problem and the input space is huge.
In order to test my code, at first I just generated some c... | The unit test should verify the output of the algorithm for a wide variety of inputs and because this task is also complex it has to be written by a different person (and hope that if there is a bug in the code he doesn't do the same mistake) |
6,554,103 | How would you write tests for testing a solution to some rather complex algorithm like *[the N Queens problem](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eight_queens_puzzle)*? What I mean is what should be the right approach for testing an algorithm that
1. has many solutions (you don't know / don't care how many of them exist),
2... | 2011/07/01 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/6554103",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/94484/"
] | I think this is a very good question and there is no silver bullet. I will just tell you about my experience.
I wrote an algorithm to find the nearest set of points between two cylinders in 3D space. This is a very complex problem and the input space is huge.
In order to test my code, at first I just generated some c... | Algorithms are actually the easiest things to unit test since you have no external dependencies. The best approach is use test-driven-development: figure out what the next tiny requirement you want the algorithm to accomplish, create a test for it, and then write the code to satisfy that test (and no more code than nec... |
6,554,103 | How would you write tests for testing a solution to some rather complex algorithm like *[the N Queens problem](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eight_queens_puzzle)*? What I mean is what should be the right approach for testing an algorithm that
1. has many solutions (you don't know / don't care how many of them exist),
2... | 2011/07/01 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/6554103",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/94484/"
] | Algorithms are actually the easiest things to unit test since you have no external dependencies. The best approach is use test-driven-development: figure out what the next tiny requirement you want the algorithm to accomplish, create a test for it, and then write the code to satisfy that test (and no more code than nec... | The unit test should verify the output of the algorithm for a wide variety of inputs and because this task is also complex it has to be written by a different person (and hope that if there is a bug in the code he doesn't do the same mistake) |
6,554,103 | How would you write tests for testing a solution to some rather complex algorithm like *[the N Queens problem](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eight_queens_puzzle)*? What I mean is what should be the right approach for testing an algorithm that
1. has many solutions (you don't know / don't care how many of them exist),
2... | 2011/07/01 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/6554103",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/94484/"
] | In your example I think you are saying you want to unit test an algorithm that verifies a proposed solution.
You'd want to cover the following cases:
* Happy path tests to verify that the algorithm accepts a variety of correct solutions
* Happy path tests to verify that the algorithm rejects a variety of incorrect so... | Algorithms are actually the easiest things to unit test since you have no external dependencies. The best approach is use test-driven-development: figure out what the next tiny requirement you want the algorithm to accomplish, create a test for it, and then write the code to satisfy that test (and no more code than nec... |
6,554,103 | How would you write tests for testing a solution to some rather complex algorithm like *[the N Queens problem](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eight_queens_puzzle)*? What I mean is what should be the right approach for testing an algorithm that
1. has many solutions (you don't know / don't care how many of them exist),
2... | 2011/07/01 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/6554103",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/94484/"
] | In your example I think you are saying you want to unit test an algorithm that verifies a proposed solution.
You'd want to cover the following cases:
* Happy path tests to verify that the algorithm accepts a variety of correct solutions
* Happy path tests to verify that the algorithm rejects a variety of incorrect so... | The unit test should verify the output of the algorithm for a wide variety of inputs and because this task is also complex it has to be written by a different person (and hope that if there is a bug in the code he doesn't do the same mistake) |
35,304 | When representing a wing airfoil, often the low pressure is on the top side and the lift is positive:
[](https://i.stack.imgur.com/HyZRk.png)
In this case *upper* and *lower* sides are enough to understand the role of the surfaces, But this is meanin... | 2017/02/07 | [
"https://aviation.stackexchange.com/questions/35304",
"https://aviation.stackexchange.com",
"https://aviation.stackexchange.com/users/3201/"
] | You can call the two opposite sides *suction side* (for face on the convex side of the camber curve) and *pressure side* (for face on the concave side of the camber curve).
This has been used in a number of cases- for example in NASA Report CR-1767 [Section Data for Thin, Highly Cambered Airfoils in Incompressible Flo... | In a very formal environment (like an engineering lecture), the upper side of a wing may also be referred as extrados and the lower part as intrados. This terminology comes from architecture. Archs in architecture have an intrados (inner concave part) being extrados the oposite side. Latin laguages, like french or span... |
9,569,808 | We are currently looking at the possibility of a jquery mobile app for company employees. But, we don't have a ton of experience and would like suggestions on how to do security?
Background:
* Salesmen with Android phones or Iphones
* most of the time on foreign wireless or 3g/4g, sometimes on intranet/internal wire... | 2012/03/05 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/9569808",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/21184/"
] | Run the company portal on HTTPS - assuming you are just building a regular site. If you are planning on wrapping it in a e.g. a PhoneGap layer, be sure to communicate securely. | Make the backend API stateless (no sessions) and provide the full authentication credentials in the AJAX headers. You'll want to transmit username, password, and device ID over SSL on each call that way you can authenticate the device in addition to the user.
You can manage the equivalent of a session timeout on the ... |
402 | There are already certain basic APIs for [census tracts](http://www.broadbandmap.gov/developer), [school districts](http://www.ed.gov/developers), [energy costs](http://www.eia.gov/beta/api/qb.cfm?category=0), a [range of geo data](http://data.usgs.gov/), [zip codes](https://www.usps.com/business/web-tools-apis/list-of... | 2013/05/16 | [
"https://opendata.stackexchange.com/questions/402",
"https://opendata.stackexchange.com",
"https://opendata.stackexchange.com/users/175/"
] | Allow people to annotate / correct the descriptions of data sets being served.
I know, it'd be really, really messy as you'd have to have someone moderate it, so that there's some review process before accepting new content, but I took a look yesterday at beta for the geodata portal for data.gov, and as best I can tel... | I would like to see a single, simple API for finding one's polling place based on one's home address (presumably for national elections only, not for local elections). Ideally it would also have associated metadata such as the polling site's hours of operation, parking information, a list of languages that the ballot i... |
402 | There are already certain basic APIs for [census tracts](http://www.broadbandmap.gov/developer), [school districts](http://www.ed.gov/developers), [energy costs](http://www.eia.gov/beta/api/qb.cfm?category=0), a [range of geo data](http://data.usgs.gov/), [zip codes](https://www.usps.com/business/web-tools-apis/list-of... | 2013/05/16 | [
"https://opendata.stackexchange.com/questions/402",
"https://opendata.stackexchange.com",
"https://opendata.stackexchange.com/users/175/"
] | Allow people to annotate / correct the descriptions of data sets being served.
I know, it'd be really, really messy as you'd have to have someone moderate it, so that there's some review process before accepting new content, but I took a look yesterday at beta for the geodata portal for data.gov, and as best I can tel... | Since you work for GSA I'll limit my thoughts to what I think is GSA data. In general a flat file (.csv or .txt) is much more useful than an API, but when an agency isn't willing to make bulk data available an API is better than nothing. That said, I think a good guiding principal would be, if you were trying to replic... |
402 | There are already certain basic APIs for [census tracts](http://www.broadbandmap.gov/developer), [school districts](http://www.ed.gov/developers), [energy costs](http://www.eia.gov/beta/api/qb.cfm?category=0), a [range of geo data](http://data.usgs.gov/), [zip codes](https://www.usps.com/business/web-tools-apis/list-of... | 2013/05/16 | [
"https://opendata.stackexchange.com/questions/402",
"https://opendata.stackexchange.com",
"https://opendata.stackexchange.com/users/175/"
] | What I suspect would be really useful would be a single API that could be used with all the federal district and circuit courts. As it is now, I'm told, the courts are a wild hodgepodge of individualism. | I would like to see a single, simple API for finding one's polling place based on one's home address (presumably for national elections only, not for local elections). Ideally it would also have associated metadata such as the polling site's hours of operation, parking information, a list of languages that the ballot i... |
402 | There are already certain basic APIs for [census tracts](http://www.broadbandmap.gov/developer), [school districts](http://www.ed.gov/developers), [energy costs](http://www.eia.gov/beta/api/qb.cfm?category=0), a [range of geo data](http://data.usgs.gov/), [zip codes](https://www.usps.com/business/web-tools-apis/list-of... | 2013/05/16 | [
"https://opendata.stackexchange.com/questions/402",
"https://opendata.stackexchange.com",
"https://opendata.stackexchange.com/users/175/"
] | What I suspect would be really useful would be a single API that could be used with all the federal district and circuit courts. As it is now, I'm told, the courts are a wild hodgepodge of individualism. | Since you work for GSA I'll limit my thoughts to what I think is GSA data. In general a flat file (.csv or .txt) is much more useful than an API, but when an agency isn't willing to make bulk data available an API is better than nothing. That said, I think a good guiding principal would be, if you were trying to replic... |
402 | There are already certain basic APIs for [census tracts](http://www.broadbandmap.gov/developer), [school districts](http://www.ed.gov/developers), [energy costs](http://www.eia.gov/beta/api/qb.cfm?category=0), a [range of geo data](http://data.usgs.gov/), [zip codes](https://www.usps.com/business/web-tools-apis/list-of... | 2013/05/16 | [
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"https://opendata.stackexchange.com",
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] | Having an API or database that contains the list of official URLs for local municipalities would be very useful. I posted a question about it "[Is there a list, database or API that contains the URLs for United States city and town websites?](https://opendata.stackexchange.com/questions/422/is-there-a-list-database-or-... | I would like to see a single, simple API for finding one's polling place based on one's home address (presumably for national elections only, not for local elections). Ideally it would also have associated metadata such as the polling site's hours of operation, parking information, a list of languages that the ballot i... |
402 | There are already certain basic APIs for [census tracts](http://www.broadbandmap.gov/developer), [school districts](http://www.ed.gov/developers), [energy costs](http://www.eia.gov/beta/api/qb.cfm?category=0), a [range of geo data](http://data.usgs.gov/), [zip codes](https://www.usps.com/business/web-tools-apis/list-of... | 2013/05/16 | [
"https://opendata.stackexchange.com/questions/402",
"https://opendata.stackexchange.com",
"https://opendata.stackexchange.com/users/175/"
] | Having an API or database that contains the list of official URLs for local municipalities would be very useful. I posted a question about it "[Is there a list, database or API that contains the URLs for United States city and town websites?](https://opendata.stackexchange.com/questions/422/is-there-a-list-database-or-... | Since you work for GSA I'll limit my thoughts to what I think is GSA data. In general a flat file (.csv or .txt) is much more useful than an API, but when an agency isn't willing to make bulk data available an API is better than nothing. That said, I think a good guiding principal would be, if you were trying to replic... |
402 | There are already certain basic APIs for [census tracts](http://www.broadbandmap.gov/developer), [school districts](http://www.ed.gov/developers), [energy costs](http://www.eia.gov/beta/api/qb.cfm?category=0), a [range of geo data](http://data.usgs.gov/), [zip codes](https://www.usps.com/business/web-tools-apis/list-of... | 2013/05/16 | [
"https://opendata.stackexchange.com/questions/402",
"https://opendata.stackexchange.com",
"https://opendata.stackexchange.com/users/175/"
] | I would like to see a single, simple API for finding one's polling place based on one's home address (presumably for national elections only, not for local elections). Ideally it would also have associated metadata such as the polling site's hours of operation, parking information, a list of languages that the ballot i... | Since you work for GSA I'll limit my thoughts to what I think is GSA data. In general a flat file (.csv or .txt) is much more useful than an API, but when an agency isn't willing to make bulk data available an API is better than nothing. That said, I think a good guiding principal would be, if you were trying to replic... |
402 | There are already certain basic APIs for [census tracts](http://www.broadbandmap.gov/developer), [school districts](http://www.ed.gov/developers), [energy costs](http://www.eia.gov/beta/api/qb.cfm?category=0), a [range of geo data](http://data.usgs.gov/), [zip codes](https://www.usps.com/business/web-tools-apis/list-of... | 2013/05/16 | [
"https://opendata.stackexchange.com/questions/402",
"https://opendata.stackexchange.com",
"https://opendata.stackexchange.com/users/175/"
] | Getting the USPS to open up basic information about ZIP codes, either through an open API or even better as a bulk download, would be a big help to a lot of us dealing with geo problems.
The [ZIP code API](https://www.usps.com/business/web-tools-apis/list-of-apis.htm) you link to is a great example of how not to do it.... | I would like to see a single, simple API for finding one's polling place based on one's home address (presumably for national elections only, not for local elections). Ideally it would also have associated metadata such as the polling site's hours of operation, parking information, a list of languages that the ballot i... |
402 | There are already certain basic APIs for [census tracts](http://www.broadbandmap.gov/developer), [school districts](http://www.ed.gov/developers), [energy costs](http://www.eia.gov/beta/api/qb.cfm?category=0), a [range of geo data](http://data.usgs.gov/), [zip codes](https://www.usps.com/business/web-tools-apis/list-of... | 2013/05/16 | [
"https://opendata.stackexchange.com/questions/402",
"https://opendata.stackexchange.com",
"https://opendata.stackexchange.com/users/175/"
] | Getting the USPS to open up basic information about ZIP codes, either through an open API or even better as a bulk download, would be a big help to a lot of us dealing with geo problems.
The [ZIP code API](https://www.usps.com/business/web-tools-apis/list-of-apis.htm) you link to is a great example of how not to do it.... | Since you work for GSA I'll limit my thoughts to what I think is GSA data. In general a flat file (.csv or .txt) is much more useful than an API, but when an agency isn't willing to make bulk data available an API is better than nothing. That said, I think a good guiding principal would be, if you were trying to replic... |
1,115,263 | This is my system:
Asus N552VW (my bios mode is **Legacy**):
128GB SSD: my windows 10 is installed on it
2 TB HDD (partitioned to two 1000 GB): 250 GB shrinked for Ubuntu
My question is: looking at the picture below, which device should I use for **boot loader** installation ? Ubuntu installation
[Ubuntu installati... | 2019/02/03 | [
"https://askubuntu.com/questions/1115263",
"https://askubuntu.com",
"https://askubuntu.com/users/920835/"
] | I'm afraid that the generic Ubuntu Core images requires a monitor and keyboard to enable SSH access (see the [directions](https://www.ubuntu.com/download/iot/raspberry-pi-2-3)). Ubuntu Core's philosophy is "secure by default", which means there IS no default password. You must create an Ubuntu SSO account and upload yo... | you can install unbuntu desktop headless on pi 4 using TTL to USB device, so on your laptop and pi will be connected using the TTL device, no monitor or keyboard needed:
<https://limesdr.ru/en/2020/10/17/rpi4-headless-ubuntu/> |
531,927 | What should I say to wish someone a happy Easter ??
1- Happy Easter to you and your beloved ones.
2 - Happy Easter for you and your beloved ones. | 2020/04/24 | [
"https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/531927",
"https://english.stackexchange.com",
"https://english.stackexchange.com/users/380613/"
] | Strictly speaking this person would be a *Typist*, a long lost profession. In today's nomenclature they may be called either a *manualist*, for using their hands rather than their wrist. Though a more specific term for their use of fingers might be a *Digitalist*.
Since they are not typing words so much as hot-keying ... | I know not an exact match but perhaps you could say “command-line user” as opposed to “GUI user”.
I know that the OP is asking about hot keys etc, but the people who use them are same people who are drawn to CLI and terminal instead of GUI and WIMP.
From [BBC computer science](https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/guides/zr... |
7,762,167 | TL;DR: is there any kind of classifier more sophisticated than a yes-no classifier?
I'll say up front that I don't have a specific project I'm working on, and this is more of a technique question I've been wondering about.
I've worked on a few machine learning applications for one reason or another. All of these proj... | 2011/10/14 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/7762167",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/798198/"
] | There are two broad schools of classification:
1) **Discriminative** - Here we try to learn a decision boundary from the training examples. Then based on which part of space the test example lies in, as determined by the decision boundary, we assign it a class. The state-of-the-art algorithm is the [SVM](http://en.wik... | The idea behind your example is that each question gives information about more than one classification. If you can establish some kind of conditional probabilities for these questions and their results, then you can also establish a confidence level for each class. |
7,762,167 | TL;DR: is there any kind of classifier more sophisticated than a yes-no classifier?
I'll say up front that I don't have a specific project I'm working on, and this is more of a technique question I've been wondering about.
I've worked on a few machine learning applications for one reason or another. All of these proj... | 2011/10/14 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/7762167",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/798198/"
] | The idea behind your example is that each question gives information about more than one classification. If you can establish some kind of conditional probabilities for these questions and their results, then you can also establish a confidence level for each class. | You can also simply use a feed-forward neural net classifier with c output nodes, one output node for each class.
It is likely that the c-class neural network will need more hidden nodes in the intermediate layer than a set of 2-class neural net classifiers. Subsequently, feature selection indicates which input featu... |
7,762,167 | TL;DR: is there any kind of classifier more sophisticated than a yes-no classifier?
I'll say up front that I don't have a specific project I'm working on, and this is more of a technique question I've been wondering about.
I've worked on a few machine learning applications for one reason or another. All of these proj... | 2011/10/14 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/7762167",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/798198/"
] | There are two broad schools of classification:
1) **Discriminative** - Here we try to learn a decision boundary from the training examples. Then based on which part of space the test example lies in, as determined by the decision boundary, we assign it a class. The state-of-the-art algorithm is the [SVM](http://en.wik... | It almost sounds like you are talking specifically about decision trees in your question. Decision trees are one of the most common types of classifiers; they are capable of handling multiple categories, descrete and continuous data, as well as missing values. The base decision tree algorithm is called [ID3](http://en.... |
7,762,167 | TL;DR: is there any kind of classifier more sophisticated than a yes-no classifier?
I'll say up front that I don't have a specific project I'm working on, and this is more of a technique question I've been wondering about.
I've worked on a few machine learning applications for one reason or another. All of these proj... | 2011/10/14 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/7762167",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/798198/"
] | It almost sounds like you are talking specifically about decision trees in your question. Decision trees are one of the most common types of classifiers; they are capable of handling multiple categories, descrete and continuous data, as well as missing values. The base decision tree algorithm is called [ID3](http://en.... | You can also simply use a feed-forward neural net classifier with c output nodes, one output node for each class.
It is likely that the c-class neural network will need more hidden nodes in the intermediate layer than a set of 2-class neural net classifiers. Subsequently, feature selection indicates which input featu... |
7,762,167 | TL;DR: is there any kind of classifier more sophisticated than a yes-no classifier?
I'll say up front that I don't have a specific project I'm working on, and this is more of a technique question I've been wondering about.
I've worked on a few machine learning applications for one reason or another. All of these proj... | 2011/10/14 | [
"https://Stackoverflow.com/questions/7762167",
"https://Stackoverflow.com",
"https://Stackoverflow.com/users/798198/"
] | There are two broad schools of classification:
1) **Discriminative** - Here we try to learn a decision boundary from the training examples. Then based on which part of space the test example lies in, as determined by the decision boundary, we assign it a class. The state-of-the-art algorithm is the [SVM](http://en.wik... | You can also simply use a feed-forward neural net classifier with c output nodes, one output node for each class.
It is likely that the c-class neural network will need more hidden nodes in the intermediate layer than a set of 2-class neural net classifiers. Subsequently, feature selection indicates which input featu... |
298,992 | There is a trophy/achievement that requires you too create *all* items that can be made using either Chem Fluid or Strong Chem Fluid:
>
> **1st Place at the Science Fair**
>
>
> Create all items that contain Chem Fluid and Strong Chem Fluid
>
>
>
What is the full list of items that can be created to unlock this... | 2017/01/26 | [
"https://gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/298992",
"https://gaming.stackexchange.com",
"https://gaming.stackexchange.com/users/12813/"
] | According to this [guide](http://gameranx.com/features/id/90098/article/resident-evil-7-biohazard-all-chem-fluids-drugs-crafting-item-locations/), there are a total of eight recipes:
>
> There are 8 recipes in RE7 — 4 Chem Fluid combos, and 4 Strong Chem
> Fluid combos.
>
>
> **Chem Fluid Recipes**
>
>
> * Chem F... | All chemical fluid recipes appear in the menu, however, there are recipes that do not appear in the combine menu, such as 10 handgun ammo and 1 gunpowder, yielding 5 enhanced handgun ammo. |
3,053 | On the CiviCRM profiles you have the ability to set it update matching contact. I don't see this functionality with the Drupal webform CiviCRM Integration module. Is it there and I'm simply missing it? When I log in and fill out the form it simply creates a duplicate contact if that contact already exists. I would like... | 2015/06/05 | [
"https://civicrm.stackexchange.com/questions/3053",
"https://civicrm.stackexchange.com",
"https://civicrm.stackexchange.com/users/252/"
] | When you add the contact in the CiviCRM tab of the Webform, making sure you check the "Existing Contact" box:
From the help:
>
> Gives many options for how this contact can be autofilled or selected.
> From the Webform tab you can edit this field to configur... | By default the Webform-CiviCRM module uses the default "Unsupervised" rule from CiviCRM to determine if an unknown contact is already in your database. If this is not happening for you, check your rule's criteria.
And as of v4.11 you can now [specify the matching rule per contact](https://www.drupal.org/node/1378900).... |
96,564 | Special relativity and the lack of a now moment is causing me a bit of grief.
How meaningful is the notion of now here on Earth between each of us? Does the lack of an objective now moment in any way change how we should think about our friends and family and philosophy between the relationships we form?
My friends' ... | 2023/01/31 | [
"https://philosophy.stackexchange.com/questions/96564",
"https://philosophy.stackexchange.com",
"https://philosophy.stackexchange.com/users/64526/"
] | Special relativity has no bearing whatsoever on your day to day activities. If you are moving relative to someone else, then yes in theory you will be time dilated in their frame of reference and they will be time dilated in yours, but the effects at everyday speeds are so utterly minuscule compared with the typical re... | The moment of a conscious thought is a personal now, which you could line up with a time, say 3pm. If your friend is orbiting Earth in a satellite their clock might tick slower, but it can be adjusted to synchronise with your clock. Using the synchronised time you can raise a glass at the same moment — sharing the 'now... |
96,564 | Special relativity and the lack of a now moment is causing me a bit of grief.
How meaningful is the notion of now here on Earth between each of us? Does the lack of an objective now moment in any way change how we should think about our friends and family and philosophy between the relationships we form?
My friends' ... | 2023/01/31 | [
"https://philosophy.stackexchange.com/questions/96564",
"https://philosophy.stackexchange.com",
"https://philosophy.stackexchange.com/users/64526/"
] | Special relativity has no bearing whatsoever on your day to day activities. If you are moving relative to someone else, then yes in theory you will be time dilated in their frame of reference and they will be time dilated in yours, but the effects at everyday speeds are so utterly minuscule compared with the typical re... | All of our perceptions (whether you consider special relativity or not) are about the past. There is always some time between an event and our becoming aware of it, and this is mostly dominated by the bio-electrical processes in our sensory nerves and brain, not by relativistic effects, you can safely ignore them in th... |
96,564 | Special relativity and the lack of a now moment is causing me a bit of grief.
How meaningful is the notion of now here on Earth between each of us? Does the lack of an objective now moment in any way change how we should think about our friends and family and philosophy between the relationships we form?
My friends' ... | 2023/01/31 | [
"https://philosophy.stackexchange.com/questions/96564",
"https://philosophy.stackexchange.com",
"https://philosophy.stackexchange.com/users/64526/"
] | Special relativity has no bearing whatsoever on your day to day activities. If you are moving relative to someone else, then yes in theory you will be time dilated in their frame of reference and they will be time dilated in yours, but the effects at everyday speeds are so utterly minuscule compared with the typical re... | Even in a nonrelativistic sense, temporal asynchrony is observable. Compare the Sentinelese tribe (Andaman Islands, Indian Ocean) who're, for all purposes and intents, in the stone age and New York, USA, perhaps Silicon valley is more apropos, at the leading edge of 21st century technological innovation.
Same goes for... |
96,564 | Special relativity and the lack of a now moment is causing me a bit of grief.
How meaningful is the notion of now here on Earth between each of us? Does the lack of an objective now moment in any way change how we should think about our friends and family and philosophy between the relationships we form?
My friends' ... | 2023/01/31 | [
"https://philosophy.stackexchange.com/questions/96564",
"https://philosophy.stackexchange.com",
"https://philosophy.stackexchange.com/users/64526/"
] | The moment of a conscious thought is a personal now, which you could line up with a time, say 3pm. If your friend is orbiting Earth in a satellite their clock might tick slower, but it can be adjusted to synchronise with your clock. Using the synchronised time you can raise a glass at the same moment — sharing the 'now... | All of our perceptions (whether you consider special relativity or not) are about the past. There is always some time between an event and our becoming aware of it, and this is mostly dominated by the bio-electrical processes in our sensory nerves and brain, not by relativistic effects, you can safely ignore them in th... |
96,564 | Special relativity and the lack of a now moment is causing me a bit of grief.
How meaningful is the notion of now here on Earth between each of us? Does the lack of an objective now moment in any way change how we should think about our friends and family and philosophy between the relationships we form?
My friends' ... | 2023/01/31 | [
"https://philosophy.stackexchange.com/questions/96564",
"https://philosophy.stackexchange.com",
"https://philosophy.stackexchange.com/users/64526/"
] | The moment of a conscious thought is a personal now, which you could line up with a time, say 3pm. If your friend is orbiting Earth in a satellite their clock might tick slower, but it can be adjusted to synchronise with your clock. Using the synchronised time you can raise a glass at the same moment — sharing the 'now... | Even in a nonrelativistic sense, temporal asynchrony is observable. Compare the Sentinelese tribe (Andaman Islands, Indian Ocean) who're, for all purposes and intents, in the stone age and New York, USA, perhaps Silicon valley is more apropos, at the leading edge of 21st century technological innovation.
Same goes for... |
96,564 | Special relativity and the lack of a now moment is causing me a bit of grief.
How meaningful is the notion of now here on Earth between each of us? Does the lack of an objective now moment in any way change how we should think about our friends and family and philosophy between the relationships we form?
My friends' ... | 2023/01/31 | [
"https://philosophy.stackexchange.com/questions/96564",
"https://philosophy.stackexchange.com",
"https://philosophy.stackexchange.com/users/64526/"
] | All of our perceptions (whether you consider special relativity or not) are about the past. There is always some time between an event and our becoming aware of it, and this is mostly dominated by the bio-electrical processes in our sensory nerves and brain, not by relativistic effects, you can safely ignore them in th... | Even in a nonrelativistic sense, temporal asynchrony is observable. Compare the Sentinelese tribe (Andaman Islands, Indian Ocean) who're, for all purposes and intents, in the stone age and New York, USA, perhaps Silicon valley is more apropos, at the leading edge of 21st century technological innovation.
Same goes for... |
10,999 | I tried to cast epoxy resin on a pine cone, and used 1kg total (resin + hardener). I used around 3 drops of dye but the object is too dark now (and not see-through). Is there a way to somehow make it more transparent after it has hardened?
[](https://... | 2022/04/01 | [
"https://crafts.stackexchange.com/questions/10999",
"https://crafts.stackexchange.com",
"https://crafts.stackexchange.com/users/12755/"
] | **Diagnostics**
From the pictures, it looks like the problem is transparency rather than darkness from too much dye. In fact, the tinting is barely visible, so ignore my comment about trying to fade the dye color.
From the sides, it looks a bit translucent rather than transparent. That could be from the dye causing c... | This cast was probably too high for this specific resin and **due to the exothermic reaction the resin heated up so much that it boiled**. That's why there are gigantic air bubbles in it and the surface looks so distorted. You can see a [demonstration of epoxy boiling in this video](https://youtu.be/M2UbPeOOri8).
Resi... |
89,879 | In the new *Mad Max: Fury Road*, a major starting event is that Max is being used as
>
> a "blood bag" for one of the War Boys.
>
>
>
It seems to be implied later on that
>
> the war boy has some sort of terminal illness (indicated by the two strange lumps on his collar bone and a mention of night fevers).
>... | 2015/05/15 | [
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/89879",
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com",
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/44357/"
] | Its alluded to in the opening monologue that
>
> pretty much everyone has some form of cancerous disease. Hence transfusions, Larry and Barry the tumours, etc.
>
>
> | Nuclear bombs, radioactive warfare, they are all referenced to as "half lives" - they are or were obviously exposed to radiation. |
89,879 | In the new *Mad Max: Fury Road*, a major starting event is that Max is being used as
>
> a "blood bag" for one of the War Boys.
>
>
>
It seems to be implied later on that
>
> the war boy has some sort of terminal illness (indicated by the two strange lumps on his collar bone and a mention of night fevers).
>... | 2015/05/15 | [
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/89879",
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com",
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/44357/"
] | Its alluded to in the opening monologue that
>
> pretty much everyone has some form of cancerous disease. Hence transfusions, Larry and Barry the tumours, etc.
>
>
> | The War Boys are all sick one way or another and have shortened lifespans, so they need blood transfusions to live longer and hopefully live long enough to become drivers. They probably have lymphedema, anemia, maybe leukemia, since that is also treated by blood transfusion.
It might also be to get adrenaline,
>
> ... |
89,879 | In the new *Mad Max: Fury Road*, a major starting event is that Max is being used as
>
> a "blood bag" for one of the War Boys.
>
>
>
It seems to be implied later on that
>
> the war boy has some sort of terminal illness (indicated by the two strange lumps on his collar bone and a mention of night fevers).
>... | 2015/05/15 | [
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/89879",
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com",
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/44357/"
] | In this post-apocalyptic world, probably brought on by nuclear war, pretty much everyone has been exposed to lots of radiation and it seems many of the War Boys have cancer. Nux is having night sweats and enlarged lymph nodes in his neck, so I'm guessing he has some lymphoma, a type of cancer that involves lymph nodes.... | Its alluded to in the opening monologue that
>
> pretty much everyone has some form of cancerous disease. Hence transfusions, Larry and Barry the tumours, etc.
>
>
> |
89,879 | In the new *Mad Max: Fury Road*, a major starting event is that Max is being used as
>
> a "blood bag" for one of the War Boys.
>
>
>
It seems to be implied later on that
>
> the war boy has some sort of terminal illness (indicated by the two strange lumps on his collar bone and a mention of night fevers).
>... | 2015/05/15 | [
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/89879",
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com",
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/44357/"
] | I presumed that many of the War Boys have a lymphoma due to radiation or inherited mutations. It was details like this that elevate the movie. Furthermore the "oil" barron who had terrible lymphedema with his bulging feet made the movie all the more "realistic" and disturbing. | Nuclear bombs, radioactive warfare, they are all referenced to as "half lives" - they are or were obviously exposed to radiation. |
89,879 | In the new *Mad Max: Fury Road*, a major starting event is that Max is being used as
>
> a "blood bag" for one of the War Boys.
>
>
>
It seems to be implied later on that
>
> the war boy has some sort of terminal illness (indicated by the two strange lumps on his collar bone and a mention of night fevers).
>... | 2015/05/15 | [
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/89879",
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com",
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/44357/"
] | In this post-apocalyptic world, probably brought on by nuclear war, pretty much everyone has been exposed to lots of radiation and it seems many of the War Boys have cancer. Nux is having night sweats and enlarged lymph nodes in his neck, so I'm guessing he has some lymphoma, a type of cancer that involves lymph nodes.... | Nuclear bombs, radioactive warfare, they are all referenced to as "half lives" - they are or were obviously exposed to radiation. |
89,879 | In the new *Mad Max: Fury Road*, a major starting event is that Max is being used as
>
> a "blood bag" for one of the War Boys.
>
>
>
It seems to be implied later on that
>
> the war boy has some sort of terminal illness (indicated by the two strange lumps on his collar bone and a mention of night fevers).
>... | 2015/05/15 | [
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/89879",
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com",
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/44357/"
] | I presumed that many of the War Boys have a lymphoma due to radiation or inherited mutations. It was details like this that elevate the movie. Furthermore the "oil" barron who had terrible lymphedema with his bulging feet made the movie all the more "realistic" and disturbing. | The War Boys are all sick one way or another and have shortened lifespans, so they need blood transfusions to live longer and hopefully live long enough to become drivers. They probably have lymphedema, anemia, maybe leukemia, since that is also treated by blood transfusion.
It might also be to get adrenaline,
>
> ... |
89,879 | In the new *Mad Max: Fury Road*, a major starting event is that Max is being used as
>
> a "blood bag" for one of the War Boys.
>
>
>
It seems to be implied later on that
>
> the war boy has some sort of terminal illness (indicated by the two strange lumps on his collar bone and a mention of night fevers).
>... | 2015/05/15 | [
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/89879",
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com",
"https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/44357/"
] | In this post-apocalyptic world, probably brought on by nuclear war, pretty much everyone has been exposed to lots of radiation and it seems many of the War Boys have cancer. Nux is having night sweats and enlarged lymph nodes in his neck, so I'm guessing he has some lymphoma, a type of cancer that involves lymph nodes.... | I presumed that many of the War Boys have a lymphoma due to radiation or inherited mutations. It was details like this that elevate the movie. Furthermore the "oil" barron who had terrible lymphedema with his bulging feet made the movie all the more "realistic" and disturbing. |
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