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Assume a school gym allows entrance of students in blocks:
Block 1: 08:00 AM to 09:00 AM Block 2: 09:00 AM to 10:00 AM ...etc Until 10 PM which is closure.
Assume there's a maximum of users that can be in the gym at any given moment (15). So, to get in, people have to get in line in order to get considered for the next block. If someone arrives and he's number 16, he might as well go home.
Also, a person will stay exactly 1 hour in the gym. (In the future, I'd like to relax this restrain and allow a probability function for the time a person stays).
I want to prove that by allowing the continuous entrance of users (1 out - 1 in, at any given moment), mantaining the 15 users maximum, instead of separating the entrance into 1hr blocks of time, maximizes the average number of users in the gym at any given moment, and minimizes the quantity of people lining up at any given moment.
How can I do this? I've been trying to graph Number of Users (y), against Hour of the Day (x), and make the delta x tend to 0, but it's not working so far.
Can anyone show me the way on this?

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I understand there are a lot of questions that answer this. I'm familiar with
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nginx.conf methods, but I do not have access to such traditional configuration methods on heroku.
Simone Carletti gave this answer that leverages Rails 2.x Metals, but I'm using Rails 3 and this isn't compatible. Redirect non-www requests to www urls in Rails
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I recently had a culture victory with nine cities - though it became very clear to me that it should have been easier with fewer. Is it possible to never found another city, and still be able to gain enough culture points (and enough of a defense) to get a culture victory?
I got a cultural victory with India with just my capital. I played on a archipelago map on prince where I had a small land mass all to myself until mid-late game. If I were playing on a higher difficulty I would have been worried about defense. I was falling heavily behind on research and the last 75 turns or so was me spamming next turn.
As it was I didn't win until 2032, so I squeaked it in barely.
Edit: I tried previous to this on a continents map and fell so far behind on research that with four other civs on the continent that I was bullied by England, so I restarted on the archipelago map.
Because with few exceptions, culture is capped to being produced by cities it is generally not effective (though certainly feasible) to win with only one city. The break even points (in terms of when the potential culture gained by a new city equals the increased cost of social policies) varies depending on tech level, map size, and game speed (And whether you have Cristo Redentor).
An easy way around this is to simply use one city and a strong military to puppet most of your neighbors. They puppet-ed cities will provide the city-based culture without increasing the costs of social policies.
From what I understand, 3-4 owned cities is a good number on most standard maps.(and as many cultural city-states as your coffers can keep happy)
The first column is the cost of a new policy with 1-city being set to an index value of 1. The second column is the gain of culture assuming equal production of culture per city. The third is the ratio between the two. Higher is better because you want more producers and less price. And the clean answer is: 4 is the optimal number of cities.
And then, yes yes, you can discuss a lot more on the advantages of adding one or two extra cities because it gives you strategic or monetary advantages that might come in handy. But that's a tactical call in the given situation.
I won a cultural victory as Siam on Warrior (3) difficulty with only one city, on a medium sized map. Got it done in 2020, so I had time to spare. I did have a few puppet cities in the last few years that I took away from my neighbor who was getting uppity. But that was more for the buffer zone than the production.
Assuming that the 0.3% is additive, as indicated by Damon (in response to Lasse):
To compensate, each new city must contribute an addition +30% on top of your existing cultural output, to maintain a constant policy acquisition rate. This is quite achievable in most cases!
TL;DR; Without Stonehenge, more cities means more culture.
The only exception is if you have outliers. If you have a few cities producing dramatically more culture than the average, additional cities are a drain. This is hard to achieve, though, and likely apparent only early game.
That is: Avg(Out) / Avg(Ex) ~= diff
That's comparing the (average cultural output) of your outliers vs the (average cultural output) of every other city: if the (average output) of your outliers / (average output) of your other cities is > the degree of difference (see the table)...additional cities slow down culture. Aka, If you build a monument in your capital (2+1=3) and monuments in all other cities (2 average), no problem: 3/2 > 10/3. Even with a temple in the capital (2+1+3=6) and only monuments in all other cities (2), 6/2 > 10/3. Same with 3x regular wonders and a monument in the capital (1+1+1+2+1=6) and only monuments in all other cities (2), 6/2 > 10/3.
Interestingly, if you manage to build Stonehenge in your capital (8+1=9), all other cities will be a drain, even with monuments (9/2 < 10/3)...they'll continue to be a drain until you can build temples (12/5 > 10/3). Put another way, it's impossible to produce (+30% on top of 9) +2.7 culture per expansion city in the early game. In this contrived example, optimizing your research, it would take 35 turns for Pottery->Calendar research to unlock Stonehenge; It would take another 52 turns for Writing -> Philosophy research to unlock temples, at which point additional cities CAN be a boon to your cultural output...after you spend 160 production to make a monument + temple in each.
It's an interesting single-city strategy, at least for the first 87 turns; slight Early-game boosts to policies, but at the cost of future production (your expansion cities will be at least 87 turns behind) and a locked-in research path. This might be viable on Archipelago maps, although I haven't modeled exactly what the scope of this is; it could be only a 7-turn net gain to the rate you gain policies, vs a typical expansion model.
I just won on King with a single city and no puppets on a Pangea map. I don't recommend this strategy :) The one awesome thing about this strategy is that all of the national buildings (i.e. every city must have a...) can be built instantly. But by the end of the game (1950's), I was quite behind in tech.
I just discovered the tech for artillery and was cranking out as many as I could along with defensive forts to try to deter my surprisingly friendly neighbor from invading with his hoards of modern armor. I had the only capitol left in the game besides my neighbor. However I remained at war with the 2nd in points rival whose army was manageable, so I think my neighbor went with the "the enemy of my enemy is my friend" mentality which is the only reason I was able to win.
Anyway, I definitely recommend capturing as many puppets as possible to boost science, gold, and culture... and make sure you keep your military strong enough to defend your capitol.
Won as India on Prince with surprisingly little trouble. Finished Utopia project before 1940. Endured an invasion from the Iroquois (who was only only major civ that shared my continent/island and whooped their asses.)
The most important factors I would say are:
Possible? Of course.
Easy or Optimal? I think not.
Though each city increases the social policy costs overall, each city not only increases cultural accumulation, but income, research potential, and access to luxuries.
Consider the following math: city number 2 doubles your theoretical cultural output, city 3: +50%, city 4: +33%, city 5: +25%, city 6: +20%, city 7: +17%, city 8: +14%, city 9: +12.5%, etc. For Large and Huge size maps, culture output only increases by 20% and 15% per city respectively, meaning its OK to build new cities when going for a cultural victory. Being in better position to build Christ the Redeemer is reason enough to expand.
Now, mind you that this is theory. Cities are likely to have different amounts of base culture. For example, just building Stone Henge will have one city with a lot of extra culture. However, its still good to build some extra cities, preferably sooner as oppose to later. The break even point in my mind is 5 cities for Standard and Smaller maps, 6 or 7 cities for a large map, and 8 cities for a Huge map. Try to build a wonder in every city (save your Great Engineers) to take advantage of that Freedom Civic.
I easily won with France + cultural wonders (the most important are Stonehenge and Cristo Redentor) + optimizing strategy with policies.


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#3. Grow a Mustache
The mustache has gone through an interesting evolution. After the '70s, its popularity sharply declined, resulting in the cancellation of Magnum, P.I. in 1988. Loggers and rednecks kept "the stache" alive in the '90s, but somehow the modern mustache got corrupted after being adopted as the universal symbol of pedophiles and hipsters.
This negative perception of the mustache has even started to influence workplace policy. Many employers are starting to adopt stricter policies toward facial hair in the workplace, with some banning it altogether.
We have no idea why.
So unless you're applying for a position at NAMBLA, it seems that sporting a mustache is a sure promotion-killer, right? Bizarrely, a survey conducted by finance management company Quicken, in conjunction with the American Mustache Institute (how did we not know that existed until today?), found that men with mustaches take home 8.2 percent more money than bearded employees and 4.3 percent more than clean-shaven employees.
That's right, it's that stupid upper-lip hair that's actually important, to the point where continuing to a full beard can be career poison.
Yeah, tell that to Santa. We dare you.
Though the researchers didn't offer an explanation, it's possible that mustached men make more money for the same reason that women prefer men with facial hair. Studies have found that men with heavy or light facial hair are perceived by women as more masculine, aggressive and socially mature.
But there's a reason why mustached men aren't all millionaires. The Quicken study found that mustached men had worse personal finance habits than clean-shaven men, saving 3 percent less and spending 11 percent more. What, you think a perfectly groomed 'stache comes cheap?
"My face is worth more than your car."
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It's no secret that society isn't too fond of overweight people. And nowadays many companies are encouraging their employees to slim down by holding weight loss challenges (it helps keep health care premiums down, obviously). And just in general, isn't it the slim, handsome, athletic types who are always winning in life? That's what TV has taught us, right?
Actually, overweight men are earning significantly more than men who aren't nicknamed "E. Honda." Even more amazing is that there's a linear correlation between weight and annual salary, meaning the fattest men are bringing home the fattest paychecks.
And as the above graph shows, ladies get the short end of the stick again, as heavy women 10 pounds overweight earn about $25,000 less than women who are 70 pounds below average. What? 70 pounds below average! With the average woman weighing 165 pounds, that means the richest women weigh about 95 pounds, and are nothing more than skin and bones.
"For breakfast, I like to open the door and just take a deep smell."
This difference is again the result of Hollywood's stereotype of gender. Women on the silver screen today are far skinnier than their counterparts from 50 years ago, and this has given us the unrealistic expectation that women in real life should be that skinny. On the flip side, skinny men are typically assumed to be "sneaky," "weak," "nervous" and "sick."
So if you're working around the clock sacrificing your health to get a pay raise, you'll probably be better off not filling out your paperwork and instead coating your reports in gravy and eating them.
"Jenkins is a vegan. That granola-munching bastard doesn't stand a chance."
#1. Be Less Attractive (If You're a Woman)
By now the ladies of the Cracked community must be feeling a little jilted; getting drunk won't make you richer, eating delicious fatty foods makes you poorer, and the known status of mustached women in the workplace is inconclusive at best. But here's something only women can do to increase their odds of getting hired: get ugly.
Conventional wisdom dictates that beautiful people are more likely to succeed in the working world, and everywhere else. And that may be true for certain jobs (specifically, where guys are doing the hiring and the applicant is in a position where she is visible to customers). But it's not true on the whole.
"That's nice, can you just sort of jiggle around for me?"
At least, that was the conclusion of two Israeli researchers with borderline creepy access to thousands of female photos. These researchers sent out 5,312 paired resumes to job openings, with each pair being almost identical, except for one small detail. One resume in each pair contained a picture of either an attractive or an average-looking man or woman.
The researchers found that female applicants who didn't enclose a photo were 22 percent more likely to get the job than plain-looking female applicants and, strangely, 30 percent more likely to get the job than attractive female applicants. Being pretty made you less likely to get the job, with the exact same resume.
"It's been four hours ... wait, is this a broom closet?"
However, the researchers noticed that there was a huge disparity between the responses of women recruited directly by the company and those recruited through other means, like an employment agency. Attractive women recruited directly by the company got a response rate half that of plain Jane's and non-pictured women. Why?
"Your resume looks great. So tell me, what's it like to be a dirty, filthy whore?"
Well, the theory is that attractive women were less likely to get jobs when directly recruited because the person in human resources conducting the interview was almost always a young, single woman. That is, the type of person who not only isn't going to be hypnotized by the size of pretty eyes and big boobs, but also might, for whatever reason, take some pleasure in shooting down such an applicant. The researchers speculated that a young single woman might view a pretty girl as competition, but they have no way of knowing that. All we know is it's kind of depressing to think that actual hiring decisions are made based on a human resources person being afraid someone else will win Chad's heart.
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I know it's cheaper hence a "deal", but season 13 isn't exactly the season I'd want to watch over and over, hence buy the DVDs...
Was The Simpsons still funny in season 13? I can't keep track.
They have other seasons on sale too. But nothing from the first handful of seasons.
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Hi all. I'm looking for english books with a good coverage of distribution theory. I'm a fan of Folland's Real analysis, but it only gives elementary notions on distributions. Thanks in advance.
Grubb's recent Distributions And Operators is supposed to be quite good.
There's also the recommended reference work, Strichartz, R. (1994), A Guide to Distribution Theory and Fourier Transforms
The comprehensive treatise on the subject-although quite old now-is Gel'fand, I.M.; Shilov, G.E. (1966–1968), Generalized functions, 1–5,.
A very good,though quite advanced,source that's now available in Dover is Trèves, François (1967), Topological Vector Spaces, Distributions and Kernels That book is one of the classic texts on functional analysis and if you're an analyst or aspire to be,there's no reason not to have it now. But as I said,it's quite challenging.
That should be enough to get you started.And of course,if you read French,you really should go back and read Schwartz's original treatise.
One big book on distributions is the first volume of Hormander's The Analysis of Linear Partial Differential Operators. This may not be the easiest book to read, but it is comprehensive and a definitive reference.
Friedlander and Joshi's Introduction to the Theory of Distributions is short, elegant and efficient.
What do you need distributions for? Your request is strange, PDEs are the fundamental application, the origin, and the main source of examples for distribution theory, so no surprise all the books on distributions after a while steer to PDEs.
Thus maybe my advice is misguided since I do not understand your needs. Anyway, in my opinion the best introduction to distributions is a nice little collection of exercises written by Claude Zuily some years ago (Problems in distributions, North Holland). If you finish it you will be familiar with all the basic theory and you'll be ready to delve into the intricacies, which can be challenging (see the first volume of Hormander, which is essentially a treatise on distributions, or the fear-inducing first volume of John Horvath with its fourteen different topologies on spaces in duality :)
Why don't people mention about Rudin's book, Functional Analysis. Chapter 1-8 are pretty good for the theory of distribution. The problem is that this book is quite dry, no much motivations behind. So you might have a difficult time in the beginning. It is good to read the book Strichartz, R. (1994), A Guide to Distribution Theory and Fourier Transforms, besides.
Robert Adams' Sobolev Spaces. Maybe not the best first book, but a very good second book.
For a really gentle introduction I would recommend Kolmogorov and Fomin's Introductory Real Analysis, available as a Dover paperback. They have a nice introduction to distributions as "generalized functions" in Section 21.
Many books on PDE or functional analysis (e.g. Taylor's) will have a detailed coverage of distributions.
Just my 2c: Being a student with a limited mathematical education, I used V.S. Vladimirov's Generalized Functions in Mathematical Physics (Mir Moscow 1979) and it was not as hard as I expected it to be - Vladimirov was rigorous and pedantic, as a book in mathematics should be, but not too complicated in explaining the concepts.
Gel'fand, I. M. and Shilov, G. E.: Generalized Functions
Lieb and Loss, "Analysis" quickly starts with measure theory and after a short break with Fourier transforms, gets on to Distributions. I would imagine this is the fastest way to learn distributions.
If you want a comparatively elementary approach to distribustion theory with applications to integral equations and difference equation no books come close to Distribution Theory and Transform Analysis: An Introduction to Generalized Functions, with Applications by A H Zemanian. another plus is it is Dover paperback, so cheap. Check this out. http://www.amazon.com/Distribution-Theory-Transform-Analysis-Introduction/dp/0486654796/ref=cm_cr_pr_product_top.
I'd like to point out a recent (Birkhäuser Cornerstones) textbook on Distribution Theory by Duistermaat and Kolk.
(I have followed this course, which was quite fun.)
For a more advanced exposition, Knapp's Advanced Real Analysis is great.
Very complete and advanced (and dry) is Hörmander's The Analysis of Linear Partial Differential Operators I: Distribution Theory and Fourier Analysis, which has already been mentioned.
I agree with Johannes's comment, but despite this, one book that might fit your criteria is Theory of distributions by M.A. Al-Gwaiz. I haven't looked at it for some months, but it made the following standard texts more accessible:
A book that I haven't looked at thoroughly, but you might find interesting, is Guide to Distribution theory and Fourier transforms by Robert S. Strichartz. I once took a class with the author, whose verbal explanatory style is complete and who is also a clear writer.
Two very readable, wide ranging and well motivated accounts are "Generalised Functions and Partial Differential Equations" by Georgi E. Shilov, published by Gordon and Breach 1968, and "Advanced Mathematical Analysis" by Richard Beals, published by Springer 1973 (International student edition). Both are unfortunately out of print and I keep hoping Dover will pick them up so I can recommend them. A recent advanced textbook is "Distributions and Operators" by Gerd Grubb, published by Springer 2009 Vol 252 GTM.
I would say Fourier analysis, by Javier Duoandikoetxea, AMS.
I liked Functional Analysis by Kosaku Yosida. It is book on functional analysis but oriented to get the applications of it to differential equations.
There's the book by Ian Richard and Heekyung Youn. It describes itself as a "non-technical introduction", which apparently means you don't need to know measure theory, topology, or functional analysis. Nonetheless you do need to think more like a mathematician than a physicist or the like in order to appreciate their approach.


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If you're at a hotel and there is a buffet meal, and you can take as much as you want, is there any problem taking a few extra rolls or any of the food back to your room for later?
I assume if I'm not hungry or able to eat now then there would be no problem taking for later as I'm taking the same amount they are offering. But if I'm eating now,
A. Do we think the hotel cares how much I take or if I take some for later?
B. Assuming the answer is no, if I ask a waiter and he says fine, is that enough? Or do I have to ask the management or somebody in a more authoritative position?
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If you're at a hotel and there is a buffet meal, and you can take as much as you want, is there any problem taking a few extra rolls or any of the food back to your room for later?
The waiter is a representative of the hotel. If he says you are allowed to take food out of the dining room, then go ahead.
However, most buffets (both in hotels and restaurants) have strict rules against removing food from the dining room.
Remember; the hotel paid for every piece of food that is there. They make a general estimation of how much food to purchase. If everyone that came took out several meals' worth of food to save for later, the hotel would lose money.
If someone has already paid for their meal, like in the case of a shabbos / yom tov hotel package, and that person is sick and in their hotel room, the staff will most certainly arrange a very generous portioned care package for that person, and likely deliver it to the room as well.
As always, "dina d'malchusa dina". Follow the rules. Always assume that it is forbidden to take food out of a buffet dining room, without permission.
I think you must ask the manager (based on what I heard from HaRav Musafi Shelita). I heard from him that you aren't even allowed to use a phone printer computer or fax machine at a work place without permission. This is a Kal WaHomer. Because here the hotel is losing money if someone takes too much- they calculate what they order.
Part one of your question seems to me that it should be case by case, depending on what the hotel intended. You would have to find that out in a reliable way.
Part two - I asked a dayan in Lakewood about if I can rely on the "psak" of the sales reps if I ask about return policies, namely if someone buys a camera, uses it for their big simcha, then uploads the pictures and returns it, and the sales rep says they are OK with people buying it with that intent, can I do so, and he said the sales rep is not in a position to give such allowances since they own no authority in the company. The same should apply to the waiter.


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The AreoVac works great and I can tell from both the floor being cleaning and I have to unload the bin more often than the original bin. The AreoVac appears to improve the alignment of the airflow to allow it to perform better and the bin isn't divided into two bins like the original.
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Definite improvement with pet hair
By Morgan
from Shelburne, VT
About Me Busy household, Pet Owner, Renter
We've got a Roomba 560 that we've replaced nearly every part on over the years, but never considered upgrading the dust bin. We've got two cats and a Siberian Husky (so an insane amount of shedding at least two times per year, on top of the regular) so the pet hair clogs everything, even on relatively clean looking floors.After a lot of research, it seemed this would be a helpful upgrade as it's mostly the difference between the pet specific models. The suction fan is placed more inline with the path of debris so you get more suction, the bin is no longer divided into two compartments, and there are no longer teeth to guide debris into the bin. The latter (the teeth/guides) on the standard bin used to get pet hair caught on it, limiting debris from making it into the bin.I'm definitely seeing improvements after upgrading to the Aerovac bin: it's easier to empty because it's no longer two compartments, more hair is in the bin and a little less gets stuck in the brushes compartment. If you have pets, it does do a better job with hair. That said, I won't review the cleaning head module here.
A Must Have Upgrade
By Lee
from Federal Way, WA
Just recieved the new bin yesterday, now granted I had just run my little 560 cat terrorizer just a day before. AMAZED at how much more it picked up. Either my cats shed a truck load inbetween or this thing does exactly what it's made to do, which is pick up more stuff. Also a much quieter motor in the fan.
Absolutely necessary upgrade
By Bill
from Japan
Like many reviews, I had Pet Series and didn't use it because it would just clog and leave dust bunnies everywhere. We only have two cats and were pretty disappointed with our Roomba.With the Aerovac however - ALL IS WELL. Cleans great, no dust bunnies! We actually use our Roomba now.
I can't believe the difference!
By Bonni
from Stow, OH
I was amazed at how much more this bin picked up and I had to keep emptying it before the battery ran down. Excellent improvement to my 2 yr. old Roomba 530 pet series.
You won't be disappointed....
By Grant P
from Baton Rouge, LA
About Me Busy Engineer, Homeowner, Pet Owner
I originally bought the 560 Pet Roomba because I live alone in a 1600 sq ft house and have 3 dogs. I installed a doggie door and I was having to sweep every other day. This got old and I researched roomba. Bought one April of 10 and haven't swept my house since. Added this bin today and it picked up a full bin load in about 30 minutes. I had been using the factory vacuum bin and it runs every afternoon at 3 pm. My floor was always clean and spotless. I put this bad boy in today and within 30 minutes this bin was full. It picked up stuff that you couldn't even see or feel on the floor.It would be nice if Roomba offered this as an upgraded discounted option at initial buy. Worth every penny and then some!!


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5 Amazing Magical Powers Created by Simple Science
For the most part, the old alchemists and magicians were fooling their audiences with plain ol' science. If you knew nothing of chemistry, the sight of water turning instantly into oil would seem like witchcraft.
But even for us jaded modern types with our fancy "education" and "skepticism," science can do things that not only seem like magic, but make magic tricks look like a bunch of ridiculous bullshit.
#5. You Can Make Objects Look Possessed Using Vibrations
Via YouTube
As awesome as the concept of telekinesis is, it's remarkably hard to do, and if you pull it off, the government will almost certainly hunt you down and/or force you to join a team of crime fighters. Pretty much every "He's moving things with his miiiiind" trick is easily explainable as either sleight of hand or some neat physics cheat code.
But where magicians fail, science delivers -- here's a handful of sand, moving by itself and forming patterns like it's practicing the halftime show for the Super Bowl:
Via YouTube
Later in the video someone spills beer on the sand and it starts drawing dicks.
And here are some drops of water calmly ignoring all laws of physics and walking on the surface of a pool:
Roberto Zenit, National Autonomous University of Mexico
All the more reason to never pee in the pool.
Science's much more awesome version of this trick is done with vibrations. That masterful sand dance is just a day at the office for cymatics researchers, who study visible vibrations and how frequencies relate to geometric patterns. The higher the frequency, the more complex these sound-shapes get.
Via Cymatics
Five down and dead center: dicks, courtesy of Science.
It's the same thing with the water trick: Putting speakers under a water container makes the fluid vibrate and causes small droplets to bounce on the surface indefinitely. Boom up the bass, and they'll happily cluster and bob along until the vibrations end. Then the party's over, and the drops become boring, normal water again. Scientists call these wandering droplets "walkers" and use them to study the dual relationship of particles and waves.
However, you're not going to be dazzled by mere water and sand. You want science to really impress you. So let's see what the vibration trick looks like with some non-Newtonian oobleck fluid:
Deegan, Merkt, & Swinney, University of Texas at Austin
It's like a T-1000 had a wet dream.
Apparently, all it takes to create an angry, sentient blob monster is cornstarch, water, and dubstep.
#4. Instantly Shrink Coins With Magnetism
This is what appears to be a totally unremarkable picture of two coins:
Via Stoneridge Engineering
Man, Tiny George has a jawline.
Yep, that's clearly just a normal quarter, next to a strangely misprinted dime that may or may not have been carved into existence by a man who has started a counterfeiting business to finance his vision-impairing meth addiction. But despite the fact that the coin on the left is basically Arnold Schwarzenegger to the right one's Danny DeVito, these quarters are actually twins. (Man, someone should make a movie out of that concept.)
But while the Incredible Shrinking Penny is an entry-level magic trick that's probably as old as pennies themselves, with the aid of some hardcore electromagnets, science has found a way to shrink-ray coins to a fraction of their size for real. Oh, and the whole shrinkage takes less than a second:
Hackerbot Labs
This wonderful madness is the end result of a process called electromagnetic forming. It's a wire coil rig that can shrink -- or rather condense -- metal objects in the blink of an eye using powerful magnetic fields. The currents involved are massive, and the fields are arranged so that they repel each other, leaving the coin trapped in the push and pull of powerful electromagnetic forces. With enough power, the coin starts re-forming inward, becoming smaller and denser:
Via Stoneridge Engineering
We're not sure the tiny versions retain their value, but they do sting like crazy when thrown off a bridge.
Unfortunately, as the effect is based on magnetic fields, you can only do this to metal objects. This leaves Ant-Man style shrinking powers a potential possibility only for Wolverine and cyborgs. Still, it's probably for the better, seeing as this is what happens when the process is applied to objects that aren't as sturdy as coins:
#3. Bismuth Will Make You Look Like an Alchemist
Alchemist-hp, viaWikipedia
Since Uri Geller made bending spoons popular in the 1970s, magicians have often claimed that they can shape metal with their will, despite the fact that the trick has been thoroughly debunked. (Spoiler: He pre-bends it manually.)
Still, that doesn't mean you can't do ridiculously impressive tricks with metal. You just need to pick the right metal -- namely, bismuth. Treat it well and it responds by turning into this:
Alchemist-hp, Richard Bartz, via Wikipedia
Joseph's sex toy of many colors.
The object above may look like it broke off a carnival float in Rio de Janeiro, but it's actually just an ordinary bismuth crystal, and it's so easy to make, it's a small wonder Geller hasn't claimed the trick for himself. Here's a guy cooking up a batch of these crystals, just melting the stuff on his stove top and cooling it down while moving the mass around every once in a while.
When bismuth is heated past its melting point and cooled back to a temperature where it starts to solidify, its atoms lock into unique, geometrical structures, resulting in a phenomenon known as "bitchin' shapes." You can see them forming here:
Bill Gilmour
Beautiful complexity often begins by looking like crap boiling on a hot car hood.
Those crystals take shape in a matter of minutes -- the metal just spontaneously starts forming elaborate stair patterns and oxidizing into awesome colors, because it's bismuth and it damn well can. The end results of this phenomenon are amazing constructs like this:
And this:
Via Amazing Rust
You just know David Bowie is hiding in there somewhere.
Although it's possible for bismuth to form its crystals naturally, it hardly ever does that because the metal rarely encounters its melting point in nature. And that's the most wonderful thing about bismuth, really -- it has basically just been lying around for us to find, figure out, and sell as jewelry on Etsy.


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Latest World Record for Youngest CEO set by Sindhuja Rajaraman
World's Youngest CEO - Suhas Gopinath - Globals Inc.
Latest World Record for Youngest CEO set by Sindhuja Rajaraman
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- Topper said...
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- Wednesday, January 11, 2006 3:03:00 AM
- Allwin Jeba said...
- Monday, May 14, 2007 6:26:00 PM
- Aran said...
Thats wrong the yongest person to own a company is Aran Spencer CEO of Go Adhost.
- Saturday, March 22, 2008 3:19:00 AM
- Aran said...
Dear Webmaster,
The page http://www.hinduonnet.com/thehindu/mp/2004/11/11/stories/2004111101280100.htm is wrong the youngest CEO in the world is Aran Spencer-Higgins CEO of Go Adhost www.goadhost.com. Started the company at 11 and now 12.
- Saturday, March 29, 2008 4:06:00 PM
- shivraj said...
such a strage ,cant belive dis....
- Tuesday, September 23, 2008 5:43:00 AM
- shyam said...
I like to do business with this guy,very strange and excited.
- Thursday, April 23, 2009 9:46:00 PM
- Rahul said...
where can I get the joining form ??
I would like the company
- Tuesday, June 16, 2009 11:00:00 PM
- akshay said...
I want to be like this boy
- Friday, June 19, 2009 10:49:00 PM
- rahul said...
it is intersting.how can i join this company.i am 19 years oid.
- Saturday, June 20, 2009 1:57:00 AM
- Rashmi said...
Amazingly great to know about such Indian talents. His achievements are tremendous in front of his age.
- Saturday, June 20, 2009 10:58:00 AM
- jaysri said...
hi frnd you r so cool & simply grt gentleman me doing mba frm sastra tanjore my best wishes 2 u 4 ur flourishing colorful business all the very best
- Sunday, July 05, 2009 8:30:00 PM
- Sachin said...
Its being a fantastic opportunity for such a talented person to become a idol in corporate world if our government helps him to go for his motto.
- Saturday, August 08, 2009 8:28:00 AM
- yogesh said...
o yes,,,i am very exited after know about suhas gopinath.and now he is my loving business icon
- Tuesday, September 22, 2009 1:13:00 AM
- Poonam said...
Congratulations for the achivements you have made till now and best of luck for the future.
- Tuesday, October 27, 2009 12:14:00 AM
- Poonam said...
Poonam // Congratulations For the achivements till now and Best of luck for the future.
- Tuesday, October 27, 2009 12:24:00 AM
- priya said...
i am very big fan of suhas gopinath.i'v attended one seminar in lucknow that time i saw and listen him.
- Tuesday, October 27, 2009 3:21:00 AM
- maxdeeps said...
Its quite impressive. But quoting such cheap prices for projects is not good. That may make an impression, like... work done in india is so cheap. That may affect other freelancers... what do you think??
- Tuesday, November 10, 2009 5:25:00 AM
- cho chweet said...
juz a great boy to achieve whatever he is wishing for
- Thursday, November 26, 2009 11:45:00 AM
- pavan said...
I got a chance to meet him this is one of the greatest moments in my life...
- Friday, January 15, 2010 6:42:00 AM
- Give me sme sunshine said...
gud 1
i like this.... he have gud spritto do any thing.
do i get job?
- Wednesday, February 03, 2010 10:02:00 PM
- SIR GOMS said...
interesting, i wud like to work wid u. i m persuing B.E.
- Monday, February 08, 2010 1:29:00 AM
- maha said...
i want suhas gopinath's mail id....
- Tuesday, February 09, 2010 4:55:00 AM
- SHRUTHI said...
I came to know adout suhas a long years back in 2006 I have accepted him as a icon in my life.
- Saturday, April 03, 2010 1:00:00 AM
- firstname.lastname@example.com said...
am amazed what young minds can do.would wish to get in touch
- Monday, May 31, 2010 10:32:00 AM
- tokesh said...
Good Luck Man
- Saturday, July 17, 2010 12:16:00 PM
- srk2389 said...
i attended his speech in chennai.. awesome person...
very much impressive and full of spirit...
i would be happy if i get a chance to work wit him..
am pursuing ma B.E in PSG coll of technology
- Monday, July 26, 2010 2:36:00 AM
- manevaibhav087 said...
Respected Sir,
i am the student of Matrix School Mgt. Studies. today only i know about such a great personality like You.i really inspired by your success in a very small period.
thanking you..........
BY Vaibhav Mane
Email Id:email@example.com
- Wednesday, September 01, 2010 3:53:00 AM
I am doing M.E.,control and instrumentation.very impressive to know about YOU. can i get your mail ID.
- Saturday, November 13, 2010 1:48:00 AM
- pinku said...
Great work suhas.....let me know if ur company need me..am doin mtech n computer ntwks.
- Tuesday, November 16, 2010 10:32:00 PM
Really shady!
Somebody posted a job to hack this page and remove a comment which says Aran Spencer-Higgins is World Youngest CEO: http://bit.ly/bIjVJV
Who could be interested in it? Suhas Gopinath?
- Friday, November 19, 2010 8:52:00 AM
wow u r really amazing.cn i know about d qualifications required to join in ur organisation......
- Friday, November 26, 2010 10:44:00 PM
- fru said...
Hello sir your really wonder sir,i don't listen your classes,but i heared lot of information about you.today your conducting seminar on my college,but i was not attended your class,because i am a final year.i felt very bad,because after telling my juniors to me, about you and you programme.i feel its my bad luck.really i can't believe it, one of the famous CEO coming to my college.i feel so bad sir atlesat i can't see your face and your and your way of talking.anyway it is a good opportunity to my juniors.is there any opportunity to join final years.
- Tuesday, January 25, 2011 5:22:00 AM
- logesh said...
hello suhas am logesh from paavai college.really u r very nice..now am a big fan of u.....and ur life story is very nice.....u r a great.no other persons like as u....!but in future i have interest 2 join and make a work with u....really 1 day am going 2 meet sir...!
- Tuesday, February 01, 2011 10:40:00 AM
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Evelyn Langlieb Greer
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Miami businesswoman and civic activist Evelyn Langlieb Greer '73 is a relentless advocate working to empower local communities
Growing up as the daughter of Auschwitz survivors, Miami real estate entrepreneur Evelyn Langlieb Greer '73 acutely grasped the dangers of disenfranchisement. "The injustice my parents suffered during the war deeply influenced my perception of the importance of not living at the will and whim of others," says Greer, president of Greer Properties, which has developed and operated commercial real estate for the past 30 years.
It was this understanding, the East Bronx native says, that sparked her interest in civic activism and ultimately helped inspire her to pursue a side career in the tempestuous world of Florida politics.
After holding elected office for 12 years, Greer is now working behind the scenes on an issue that has been a driving passion in her life for decades: improving public schools.
Together with local business leaders and lawyers, she has organized a private-sector coalition pushing for increased funding of South Florida schools, which Greer says are often shortchanged by legislators from outside districts.
"We are formulating ways to change laws in Tallahassee to give local governments more resources," Greer says of her latest civic initiative. "We want to fight fire with fire. We want to use lobbying and personal political connections in the public interest—pro bono rather than pro malo."
Greer, who has served on the boards of numerous companies and philanthropic organizations, has a track record that bodes well for her efforts aimed at improving local schools. After moving to Miami with her husband, Bruce Greer '73, she founded Greer Properties in 1976. The young attorney purchased her first shopping mall with legal fees she had earned while working on behalf of plaintiffs in a large class action lawsuit brought against a multilevel marketing company. Greer then proceeded to establish herself as a player in Miami's real estate market and used her expertise in the field to help inspire an incorporation drive by Miami-area communities seeking greater influence on zoning issues.
She led the campaign to incorporate the Village of Pinecrest, and a wave of nearby communities followed suit. Pinecrest residents rewarded Greer in 1996 by electing her as the town's first mayor.
"[The incorporation push] was a reflection of the maturity of the citizenry in wanting to exercise more control over the political process that was affecting development in their communities," she says.
After being elected to the Miami-Dade County School Board in 2004, Greer successfully advocated for the construction of seven new schools to relieve rampant classroom overcrowding in the South Miami-Dade area. She considers it one of the greatest achievements of her political career.
"This was the most diverse district represented on the entire school board, and it had long been neglected," she says.
Having left the board in 2008, Greer says she has no plans to seek public office again. Amid an increasingly vituperative political dialogue at both the national and local levels, promoting positive change from outside the system appears to be a more viable strategy, she says.
Greer, however, is wary of rigidity when it comes to the future. After all, before immersing herself in zoning issues, she never envisioned a future in politics. "You have to be open to things that come along that aren't necessarily in your five-year plan," she says. "I would have never had these opportunities if I hadn't taken advantage of a specific moment in time."


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Podles and Woronowicz' construct the quantum Lorentz group, by which they mean $SL_q(2,\mathbb{C})$, as a quantum double of the compact quantum group $SU_q(2)$. More precisely, it is a bicrossed product of $K=SU_q(2)$ and its discrete quantum dual $\hat{K}$. So it seems that $SL_q(2,\mathbb{C})$ is not connected as a quantum topological space.
Main Question: Why is the $q$-deformation of the connected group $SL(2,\mathbb{C})$ not connected?
Here are some more precise questions:
Given that $\hat{K}$ is supposed to be a $q$-analogue of the $AN$-component in the $KAN$-decomposition, is there any reasonable sense in which the discrete quantum dual of $SU_q(2)$ tends to the classical $AN$ group in the $q\to1$ limit?
Are there alternative $q$-deformations of $SL(2,\mathbb{C})$ which remain connected?
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In the first half of the nineteenth century, American settlers pushed westward into the Great Plains, lured to the prairies by the agricultural promise of their dark, rich soils.
Within a century, America's tallgrass prairies—which once stretched across more than 150 million acres, from Minnesota south to Texas and from Illinois west to Nebraska—had all but vanished under settlers' plows. The demise of the tallgrass prairie also meant the demise of dozens of species of grasses that could grow to the height of a man, hundreds of species of flowers and herds of roaming bison.
The prairie's destruction also doomed a less-obvious form of life: the teeming collection of microbes that helped create the fertile prairie soil. For the first time, a research team led by the University of Colorado Boulder has gotten a glimpse of what the community of tiny bugs that lived under the tall grasses might have looked like.
"These soils played a huge role in American history because they were so fertile and so incredibly productive," said Noah Fierer, a fellow at the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences. "They don't exist anymore except in really small parcels. This is our first glimpse into what might have existed across the whole range."
Fierer and his colleagues examined 31 soil samples taken from the last remnants of tallgrass prairies—which mostly exist only in old cemeteries and nature preserves—to determine what kinds of microbes live there.
"It was very hard to find sites that we knew had never been tilled," Fierer said. "As soon as you till a soil, it's totally different. Most gardeners are familiar with that."
The results of the study, which are published in the journal Science, show that a poorly understood phylum of bacteria, Verrucomicrobia, dominated the microbial communities in the soil, though the microbial makeup of each particular soil sample was unique.
Fierer and his colleagues are already hard at work trying to grow Verrucomicrobia in the lab to better understand what it does and the conditions it favors. But even without a full understanding of the microbes, the research could bolster tallgrass prairie restoration efforts in the future.
"Here's a group that's really critical in the functioning of these soils. So if you're trying to have effective prairie restoration, it may be useful to try and restore the below-ground diversity as well," Fierer said.


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The trees have a random growth pattern to them and the oaks (and I think birch?) are able to grow really tall some times. Is there any way to ensure this growth or to encourage it at the least?
You can surround the Sapling with 1 or 2-block high cobblestone (or any hard stone block really), leaving the top open for the tree to grow, or make 5-block high pillar as shown in the video below.
The Minecraft Wiki explains this briefly:
What happens when the game decides that a Sapling should try to grow into a tree, is it first selects a height of tree, and then checks to see whether it will fit into that space. The tree will not grow if it cannot.
Placing the cobblestone around the sapling, you're effectively stopping 4-5 block high trees from growing.
This will mean that the tree takes longer to grow, or cost more Bonemeal (as each time it attempts to grow the tree, it has more chance to fail).
Here's a video, showing a slightly different process. In this one the user is making 5-block high pillars next to the sapling.
Well all you have to do is get any sapling you want,then get some bone meal and right click the bone meal pointing at the sapling, than you can get a tree.[Dark wood sapling is the most tallest tree FYI!
Also, you could place a block of dirt with a sapling on it next to your sapling, and bone meal it. If you look up lionmaker survival madness episode 333, he uses this trick.


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I'm pretty sure that the following (if true) is a standard result in linear algebra but unfortunately I could not find it anywhere and even worse I'm too dumb to prove it: Let $k$ be a field, let $V$ be a finite-dimensional $k$-vector space and let $S \subseteq \mathrm{End}_k(V)$ be a subset of pairwise commuting (i.e. $\lbrack S, S \rbrack = 0$) endomorphisms. Then the following holds:
If all $f \in S$ are diagonalizable, then there exist maps $\chi_i:S \rightarrow k$, $i=1,\ldots,r$, such that $V = \bigoplus_{i=1}^r E_{\chi_i}(S)$, where $E_\chi(S) := \lbrace v \in V \mid fv = \chi(f)v \ \forall \ f \in S \rbrace$.
The maps $\chi_i$ in 1 are unique.
1 is equivalent to the existence of a basis $\mathcal{B}$ of $V$ such that for each $f \in S$ the matrix $M_{\mathcal{B}}(f)$ of $f$ with respect to $\mathcal{B}$ is diagonal. (I believe that this might not be true)
If all $f \in S$ are trigonalizable, then there exists a basis $\mathcal{B}$ of $V$ such that for each $f \in S$ the matrix $M_{\mathcal{B}}(f)$ of $f$ with respect to $\mathcal{B}$ is upper triangular and for each diagonalizable $f \in S$ the matrix $M_{\mathcal{B}}(f)$ is diagonal.
I know that a set of commuting diagonalizable endomorphisms can be simultaneously diagonalized in the sense of 3 but I don't know how to prove 1 (my problem is the "glueing" of the $\chi$-maps when I try to prove this by induction on $\mathrm{dim}V$). Also, I know that the first part of 4, the simultaneous trigonalization, holds but I don't know how to show that there exists a basis which then also diagonalizes all diagonalizable endomorphisms. This should follow from 1, I think.
Perhaps, because all this is probably standard stuff, I should mention that this is not a homework problem :)
One additional question: Suppose that $k$ is algebraically closed and that $G$ is an affine commutative algebraic group over $k$ which coincides with its semisimple part, embedded as a closed subgroup in some $GL(V)$. Are the maps $\chi_i:G \rightarrow \mathbb{G}_{m}$ morphisms of algebraic groups?


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I have a problem with my house such that with all my windows and doors closed the house smells and the air feels stale. I'm thinking of purchasing a high efficiency HVAC to vent the stale air out and blow fresh air in. Would a HVAC accomplish what I'm asking? Or is the only way to vent stale air out is to open the windows?
HVAC systems don't exchange air with the outside unless you specifically add an air exchanger. In older houses, this wasn't necessary because they leaked enough that you always got new fresh air coming in somewhere. With newer houses and recently fully renovated ones, the houses can indeed be sealed up so air tight that an air exchanger is necessary.
Based on your response, what it sounds like you have is an old house, recently renovated to be made air tight, with existing duct work and a furnace.
Based on that, you don't need a new HVAC system, you need an add on air-exchanger, such as this:
Ducting will need to be added to the outside to allow this machine to suck in outside air and blow out inside air. This kind of device is, IMO, best installed connected to air return of your existing furnace so that fresh air can be injected, heated, and distributed thru the house.
HVAC may make a difference, especially if you buy an air filtration system with it, but I wouldn't buy one on that basis. You buy an HVAC if your house is too warm or too cold, not if the air is stale. For that I'd do a good cleaning, shampoo carpets, fix any damp problems, and buy a couple of portable HEPA air filters. Probably more effective, and certainly much less expensive than buying an HVAC!


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My friends say that they are notified when I like a post on Facebook. I don't want this. What is the privacy option that can help me?
The privacy of your like is dependent on the privacy of your friend's post. if they only share the post with you, then you liking it will only appear in your friend's activity feed/newsfeed.
If they share it with a group of friends it will appear only in that group of friends' activity feed/newsfeed.
If they share it publicly. It will end up in all your friend's activity feed/news feed
There is an option for this, but unfortunately you cannot set it; it must be set by your friends who do not want to see your comments and likes. If you comment on or like a post that they can view, then your comment or like may appear in their News Feed unless they turn those off. To do that they can hover their pointer over your name or go to your profile/timeline, then move to the Subscribed button, and uncheck "Comments and Likes".
Of course, they will still see your comments and likes on posts that they would see anyway in their News Feed, just not a separate story about them.
There could be no privacy setting that could help you - when we "like" something, we are actively making a public statement about something. If we don't want people to know we like something, we don't publish it on the web (i.e. don't touch that "like" button).
Otherwise mark4o has the best answer: if your friends don't want to receive news about your "likes" then have to follow his instructions.
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I read that in dimension $\geq 4$ there are Gorenstein abelian quotient singularities that have no crepant resolutions. What is the simplest example? I immagine that there should be toric examples. Is it the case that the cone does not admit a suitable subdivision in simplicial cones, corresponding to a crepant resolution? In your answers, please consider that I am only an amateur algebraic geometer, but I know some toric geometry.
[EDIT: added proof that $\mathbb Q$-factoriality implies that the exceptional set of any resolution is a divisor.]
Definition A variety is called $\mathbb Q$-factorial if every Weil divisor on it is $\mathbb Q$-Cartier, i.e., some multiple of it is a Cartier divisor.
The general statement you might want is that
Proof $\mathbb Q$-factoriality implies that the exceptional set of any resolution is a divisor, and being terminal implies that all the discrepancies are positive. $\square$
Addendum Here is a proof that $\mathbb Q$-factoriality implies that the exceptional set of any resolution is a divisor:
Proof Let $y\in E$ and suppose that $\mathrm{codim}_YE\geq 2$ in a neighborhood of $y$. Let $C\subseteq E$ be an arbitrary proper curve such that $f(C)$ is a point and $y\in C$ and let $H\subseteq Y$ be an effective divisor such that $y\in H$, but $C\not\subseteq H$. This implies that $H\cdot C>0$. Consider the Weil(!) divisor $f_*H$ on $X$ (the push-forward is meant as a cycle). As $X$ is $\mathbb Q$-factorial, some multiple of $f_*H$ will be Cartier, so replacing $H$ with that multiple we may assume that actually $f_*H$ is Cartier. Then it makes sense to pull it back (as a Cartier divisor). So we get a (Cartier) divisor $f^*f_*H$ which agrees with $H$ on $Y\setminus E$. In particular, if $\mathrm{codim}_YE\geq 2$ in a neighborhood $U$ of $y$, then $H|_U=(f^*f_*H)|_U$. Now by construction $y\in C\cap U\neq\emptyset$, so along $C$, $f^*f_*H=H+F$ where $F$ is an effective (exceptional) divisor that does not contain $C$. Finally, this leads to a contradiction, because we get that $$ 0=f^*f_*H\cdot C \geq H\cdot C>0$$ since $f(C)$ is a point.
The simplest example is $\mathbb{C}^4/\pm1$ where $-1$ acts diagonally. I'm sure there is an elementary proof that this does not have a crepant resolution, maybe via toric geometry. Someone else on MO might know a reference. The proof I know uses a result of Yasuda which says that if $X$ is a Gorenstein orbifold and $Y\to X$ is a crepant resolution, then $H^*_{orb}(X) = H^*(Y)$ as graded vector spaces. In the case at hand, this would imply that the exceptional fiber of a crepant resolution $Y\to \mathbb{C}^4/\pm1$ would have cohomology in degree 0 and in degree 4 only, which is impossible for a projective variety.
There is a nice explicit description, in this paper of Morrison and Stevens, of four dimensional cyclic quotient singularities that are Gorenstein and terminal (cf. this MO question---terminal implies the non-existence of crepant resolutions).


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Could anyone give a clear and concise explanation for when you use graphs vs when to use trees for data structures?
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Trees are Graphs.
They are specifically directed, acyclic graphs where all child nodes only have one parent. If you need more than one parent then you use a DAG. If you need cycles or the graph needs to be undirected you'd use some kind of graph implementation. Note that the time and space complexity increases dramatically once you move into full graphs.
You can use graphs and trees for both modeling a problem and solving a problem, but sometimes you can convert a graph to a tree by clipping connections to make the problem easier to solve.
Since you ask for simple examples I will give an example for modeling. If you were to model roads you would use a graph since roads can form a circuit, and thus you need a graph. If you were to model a river and its branches, you would use a tree since rivers don't flow in circles. Once could argue that you need a directed acyclic graph for rivers because they have islands, but this is just a simple example.


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Newtown massacre: What do we do now?
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As the nation continues to share the suffering of the Newtown, Conn., victims and their families, the debate on how to prevent recurrences of similar tragedies expands.
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As usual, much of the mainstream broadcast media fan the flames of another tragedy to gain viewers, ratings and revenue. And, as usual, not having actual facts hasn't prevented them from sharing imagined ones. This tragedy again shows many TV reporters spending excessive time expressing their personal opinions instead of reporting the facts as known. And, once again, our elected leaders pander to their loyalists instead of uniting in taking the best actions for our nation.
As expected, the gun control debate has reignited. Those favoring controls plead for limiting firearm ownership by private citizens as the only way to prevent recurrences. On the opposite side, some in the pro-gun crowd support the notion of all teachers and staff in schools being allowed to carry firearms in order to deter attacks and even possibly to fight back and reduce carnage.
This important debate, which should be held, must include a broader perspective than just controlling gun ownership if we hope to prevent this slaughter of the innocent from happening again.
We visited our grandchildren during Thanksgiving. My 10-year-old grandson was playing a game on his Xbox that involved killing as many zombies as possible. He asked me if real zombies existed. I asked why he wanted to know. Now, following Newtown, the answer he gave is chilling: "I would like to kill some real ones."
Much of the blame for gun violence must be aimed at parents of children and society at large. Our movies too often depict mindless violence, and too many parents allow their children to see these shows because, as adults, they know it's not real. Too many children and the mentally ill may not see it the same way.
We need to rate movies containing violence the same way we do for pornography. We must find ways of preventing our impressionable children from taking pleasure in killing other humans as the objective of video games so often used to keep them occupied.
We must provide armed security for our citizens in any venue (including schools) where we gather in sufficient numbers that could possibly attract a mass murderer. Surely using some of our military funding in this manner would make more sense than playing the role of the world's police force.
We must find better ways to identify and treat the mentally ill and make certain they have absolutely no access to firearms. We must find ways to reduce firearms sales by anyone not licensed to sell them. Nearly half of all weapons are sold by private individuals who bypass the background checks required by licensed firearm sellers in most states.
I have had a concealed carry firearm permit for many years in order to protect my family. Here the permitting process is quite thorough. Applicants first take a gun safety course from a licensed provider. This involves viewing a video on gun laws and safety, then passing a written test, and proving the ability to hit a stationary target.
Next is a trip to the county Sheriff's Office to be vetted. Fingerprints are sent to the FBI to verify no criminal record. Then the Sheriff's Office staff sends letters to the applicant's personal physician and the county mental health department to verify no record of treatment for mental illnesses.
If every gun purchaser had to go through a similar vigorous background check, we would drastically reduce gun possession by the wrong people. Why not consider using the concealed carry permit process for anyone who wants to purchase firearms and ammunition? Why wouldn't law-abiding citizens support a gun ownership permitting system, just as we have for driving?
Government officials at all levels need to massively expand gun buyback programs in order to remove some of the millions of unneeded weapons from circulation.
What about so-called assault weapons? I don't own this type of weapon and honestly can't figure out a reason for anyone else to, but I'll wait to hear others' opinions on that issue. Frankly, many modern semi-automatic handguns can hold up to 18 rounds of powerful ammunition. The two handguns the Newtown killer had were more than sufficient to have accomplished his fiendish aims even if he didn't have access to the rifle.
I do not believe we will or ever should completely ban private citizens from owning firearms. Too many really bad people out there do have guns, and they have repeatedly proven they can and will use them against honest citizens. My wife tells me I would never get to one of my guns in time if needed. I always answer that I certainly could not if I did not own one.
Gun control supporters should remember that Connecticut has some of the most restrictive gun control laws in the nation. What good did they do? Gun control laws will never stop crazy or evil maniacs!
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What is the complete list of valid Front End Tokens? Preferably, by version number.
Have any new tokens been introduced since this question was first posted?
What is the complete list of valid Front End Tokens? Preferably, by version number.
Have any new tokens been introduced since this question was first posted?
I got a request to post here the undocumented tokens I already posted in an old answer on SO.
For completion, I merged my list (which is also in the link provided by @Chris) with @Rojo's list. Later, the list was merged with Vladimir's list below and two more tokens were included, so as to have here a repository of all known FE tokens.
Please feel free to update this answer as new tokens are found.
Quoting John Fultz when he gave the list in Jan 2009:
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Let's call the list that was here before I made my edit
I am not sure how these items work and they seem to be different from other tokens. Probably reading the quote by John Fultz is a good first step towards understanding them.
This method only returns a few of them, hopefully including some undocumented ones. It's not intended to be a complete answer.
If it's about stuff that
There is a list posted in 2009 from John Fultz on the MathGroup here.
No version information. Rojo's list has some new ones.
Here is a combined list from belisarius' old answer of undocumented tokens given by John Fultz in Jan 2009, and tokens obtained from Mathematica system files. 80 of these were not listed in earlier answers. The list is obtained using Rojo's idea, but upgraded and corrected.
The code finally gives more than two hundred tokens. Combined with the old list gives 360 in total:
To make a token use the function
This is not a proper answer. Rather, it provides some tools to handle the lists of tokens in other answers.
I used the code below to merge the lists by belisarius (
You can set
After executing the code, there is a string on the clipboard that is will be a nicely formatted code block on this site.
Text to list (perhaps a bit silly)
Vladimir provides a list in a code block. In order to turn this into a proper
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The 6 Most Insane Sex Lives in the Animal Kingdom
#3. Zombie Salmon
We were sure it'd be impossible to find a more horrifying mating ritual than the bees, but we think we've got it. You can thank the salmon. You've probably heard tale of how the salmon swim upstream to mate, but that's not painting the true, terrifying picture.
Let's say you and a bunch of friends make a journey to your childhood hometown for an orgy (look, you need to accept that the animal kingdom just has looser rules here). But the trip is dangerous--you'll have to trek across a wilderness filled with enemies, and the air at the destination will kill you if you breathe too much of it. So it's actually kind of like the fellowship in Lord of the Rings traveling to Mordor, only instead of saving Middle Earth, you're looking to grab lots o' strange titty.
By the time you make it to the destination, the trip has been so hard on you and your companions that everyone is wounded or literally rotting on their feet. You've been reduced to a whole bunch of horny zombies.
Oh, Google, you so crazy!
This mass of horny zombies congregates in a disgusting, debauched tangle of genitals and rotting flesh. And as soon as everyone is done sexing it up, the entire undead swinger's convention just drops dead.
Why in the hell do salmon go through this? Well, they're born in fresh water, but migrate to the sea as they mature. However, at some point in their adult life, a primal desire drives them to swim back to the freshwater they were born in to mate and lay their eggs. Even more amazing, the drive is synchronized in every generation, so everybody you grew up with as a salmon just starts leaving around the same time.
Something similar happens every May in small town Oklahoma.
In order to survive the journey and deal with the change from salt to freshwater, a lot of hormonal changes take place. Unfortunately, these changes practically destroy their bodies, turning them into zombie fish. What with all the swimming through treacherous, brackish water, surrounded by predators like bear, all while your own body starts shutting down...it's a wonder any of them even make it at all.
And once it's done, they all just die, like some kind of underwater Jonestown. The next generation will benefit by the increase in nutrients in the stream caused by a whole lot of parents-turned-fertilizer, ensuring that the next generation can live on and...die horribly as well?
"It's a life."
Could it possibly get any worse? Oh yeah, it can: sex for salmon is external and without anything we humans would regard as pleasure, which is why you should never even want to date a mermaid.
If only the other part was a girl.
#2. Sex-changing Triggerfish
To get a picture of the weird-ass dating scene for the triggerfish, we need you to think back to the time when you were an inmate in that all-women's prison. If you've never done time in one because you're not a woman, there have been multiple movies about the subject on Cinemax that you can refer to.
But you really shouldn't.
In that setting, like a regular prison, there's one woman who's bigger, stronger and meaner than everyone else. She is the baddest dude in a prison where there are no dudes.
Then, one morning she wakes up, goes to the ladies room (as if there's any other) to freshen up. Suddenly, her reflection is different; she is changed. She now has a five o' clock shadow and a David Hasselhoff-esque physique. What we're trying to say is that, by being the manliest of the women, her coin purse has magically become a burrito.
Or kielbasa.
In triggerfish, there are no born males. Instead, females live in a large social group with a pretty simple hierarchy. Then, eventually, the toughest and most masculine female in a group transforms into a male. All the females in "her" vicinity become her harem.
If she dies, the second-toughest female transforms. The process is called "protogyny," which is basically Latin for "Transforming Cooter."
'Sup, fellas?
The advantages of protogyny is that instead of a bunch of males competing for dominance while the females invest in eggs, the most viable females will produce sperm and impregnate the other females. While all the other females invest energy developing embryos, the toughest female can use all her energy defending the group; because she doesn't develop embryos anymore, she makes sperm (a lot easier than being pregnant).
The triggerfish isn't the only protogynous creature, but it's the most insane, because the whole thing seems to be based on attitude. By having "balls" the fish gets actual balls.
Just one more way fish are better than rednecks.
#1. Extremely Flexible Chinese Fruit Bat
If you polled most men as to what job would make a woman great in bed, chances are "gymnast" and "yoga teacher" would make it at the top. Statistically it's very unlikely anyone reading this has ever actually dated a world-class gymnast, but, you know, there is such a thing as imagination. It just seems like there are lots of, uh, possibilities.
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Which brings us to the Chinese Fruit Bat. The female can do something that, as far as we know--and perhaps someone will link a video in the comments that proves us wrong--no human has ever done. Not even in porn. Because while "fruit bat" doesn't sound all that exotic, their mating habits are like something out of some kind of porno Cirque du Soleil.
First of all, the fruit bat is one of the only creatures other than humans that engages in oral sex, so it's already kind of unique. But what happens is the bats have actual intercourse--upside down, mind you--and during the act the female can bend her head down and give the guy oral pleasure... while he is still having sex with her. He doesn't stop the action. She can do both. Simultaneously.
Honestly, what would you even call that? Fifth base? A half n' half at once?
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like the worst player to ever be considered in an mvp race ever. career batting average is like .270, strikes out 90 percent of the time, hits .100 something with runners in scoring position, needs to find another hobby besides throwing his back out swinging a piece of wood.
wow that andruw jones guy just hit the ball a mile, i wonder if him going from hitting 30homeruns to hitting 51 homeruns has anything to do with steiroids. . . .
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Legendary outfielder for the atlanta braves. Yeah he won gold gloves and all that but what makes him a legend is his appearance in court during The Gold Club (atlanta strip club) scandal. Jones went to a party hosted by owner of the club, during said party Jones fucked two strippers in front of several people. Here's what happened when asked about it in court.
Prosecutor: What were the women doing?
Jones: Lesbian action
Prosecutor: What did you do?
Jones: Both of 'em. (With a look on his face that said 'What the fuck you think I did?')
Prosecutor: What were the women doing?
Jones: Lesbian action
Prosecutor: What did you do?
Jones: Both of 'em. (With a look on his face that said 'What the fuck you think I did?')
Now we know why Andruw Jones is always smiling, it's all that lesbian action.
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A once premier center fielder for the Atlanta Braves, who has won many gold gloves and hit many home runs, but NOW SUCKS ASS FOR THE DODGERS even though he is one of their highest paid players.
"Hey! Now Andruw Jones is hitting even worse than Derek Lowe and Brad Penny!"
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I wounder if my Nexus One has support for EGNOS? to get better GPS accuracy. If I check the GPS Accuracy value, it's sometimes 2 or 3m which is pretty good.
I'm going to say no.
If I'm wrong about the chip, then it should just be a matter of software to enable it. I haven't seen anything like that in the Android source, but that doesn't mean it isn't hiding there or in some third party bolt-on.
What the Nexus DOES use to improve both response time and accurace is A-GPS (Assisted GPS). This basically just means it us using the presence of other location clues (cellular towers, wifi networks, etc) to help triangulate a better/faster position.
You can see this in action with the Google Maps application. If you have GPS enabled and WiFi disabled and open the maps application, it will prompt you to turn on WiFi, even if you're not connected to a network. It uses a location database of wifi hotspots to help get a fix on your position, similar to Skyhook
There is actually an EGNOS test application available from the commission. It can be found at: http://www.gsa.europa.eu/go/news/egnos-gets-an-invite-to-your-smartphone. It's not available through the market, but it does work on the HTC desire (so likely on nexus as well)