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If I'm preparing a dish for myself and someone on a low-sodium diet, I will withhold adding salt while cooking. Instead, I'll season my plate after serving. However, I can't seem to get the same flavor from adding salt after-the-fact as I do when I'm salting while preparing the dish.
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How do you normally pronounce name of the mathematical function "ln(x)"?
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If $X,Y,Z$ are independent standard normal random variables, compute $P(3X+2Y<6Z-7)$.
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Based on a random sample of 20 values from a normal distribution with mean $\mu$ and variance $\sigma^{2}$, it was calculated that $\bar{X}=8$ and $s=4$. Provide a $95\%$ confidence interval for the population mean.
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$p + p' = m$
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By a "homotopy commutative diagram," I mean a functor $F: \mathcal{I} \to \mathrm{Ho}(\mathrm{Top})$ to the homotopy category of spaces. By a "strictification," I mean a lifting of such a functor to the category $\mathrm{Top}$ of topological spaces. I am curious about simple instances where su... |
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A not inconsiderable divergence from the original theory, but it certainly keeps things simple implementation-wise :)
Lerdahl, part 2
This is a sequel to this post on Lerdahl’s GTTM.
Okay…apologies for the delay…I was busy, but also was uncretain whether I understood the material myself, that stopped... |
Noda Time: An Advanced Date/Time Library for .NET
by Jonathan Allen on Aug 26, 2011 |
To put it bluntly, the date/time libraries in .NET are flawed. From the beginning there were no concepts of time zones or really any sort of universal time. As a result most libraries were designed to accept a DateTime class and lef... |
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Subclassing QWidget
Many custom widgets are simply a combination of existing widgets, whether they are built-in Qt widgets or other custom widgets such as HexSpinBox. Custom widgets that are built by composi... |
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