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If stars start with a finite density and light can escape from them, how can they be compacted to form a mass with infinite density which light cannot escape? The black hole will have the same mass as the original star (correct?) and therefore will act on the photons with the same force of gravity, right?
Gravity is not merely a function of mass, it also depends on how compact the matter is; you can deduce this from Newton's law of universal gravitation:
$$F = G\frac{m_1m_2}{r^2}$$
In layman terms, the more compact the body, the closer you can get to it without entering it, the smaller $r$ becomes, which makes the gravitational pull stronger.
I do not know enough to tell you about why a black hole has (or, is considered to have) infinite density, but since its mass is finite, its volume must tend towards zero for that to be true.
@Paul is correct, the gravitational pull depends on the masses and the distance between the masses in Newtonian Gravity. To understand black holes, Einstein's General Theory of relativity needs to be used, but qualitatively you get the same result.
To get a stellar black hole, the star, or part of the star, must be compressed to a small enough radius such that the escape velocity at that surface exceeds the speed of light (this is a qualitative way of stating it, in reality the time-like future light cone becomes "rotated" into a spatial direction towards the interior of the star. The radius where this occurs is the Schwarzchild radius.
Once the surface of the star has contracted to inside the Schwarzchild radius it is inevitable that the star will continue to collapse to the center. Theoretically, at that point, all the mass would be concentrated to a point at the center of the black hole which would become a singularity. Physicists don't actually believe that infinite density will occur - the belief is that General Relativity will break down near the Planck radius and a different theory will be required.
What is required to have a black hole is not the "infinite" density, just that the stars mass be inside the Schwarzchild radius.
Wrong but I know where the misconception is coming from. If you were at the Earth's orbit, the gravitational pull wouldn't change if the Sun were ten times bigger or smaller in radius. But if you were somewhere inside the Sun, it would.
Maybe think of it like this. Suppose you go to the radius of the Sun at which half the mass is inside. That would give some gravitational force. Now, imagine all of the Sun's mass were inside that radius. Then the gravitational pull would be stronger because you have more mass pulling at the same radius. In this sense, a more compact object has a stronger gravitational field, you just have to be close to the object to feel the difference.
You could go to much smaller radii. If you were just over 3km from the centre of the Sun, you wouldn't feel much gravity, because there would be very little mass inside. But if all the Sun's mass were confined to less than 3km, you'd be just above the event horizon of a black hole of one solar mass.
Black holes form basically by massive stars becoming incredibly compact, until their mass is confined inside their Schwarzschild radii. Light can still escape from where the surface used to be, but very close in, it can't.
Also, the infinite density point isn't important. This all happens as long as the mass is confined to less than its Schwarzschild radius. We can't see "inside" the black hole, so we don't know what happens to the matter inside. Fortunately, it also doesn't matter for the exterior gravitational field.


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Hi I've done an experiment in physics using a basic circuit. Can anybody explain how come the data logging equipment I was using continued to register a current when there isn't a positvie voltage in the circuit.
If you have a short circuit you may have just few millivolts, and still a significant current.
Another option - when measuring voltage you probably not connected ground properly of your voltmeter.
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I need to start doing regular backups of my databases, and I'd like them to be incremental; that is, only backing up the tables that have been changed. I use MySQL Workbench, and I've used the export function in the past, which works well enough, but I can't seem to find a way to make it incremental and not re-backup the entirety of every database every time. I've got about 90 schemas in total. Any help at all is much appreciated. Thanks!
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To be frank, if you are using a GUI tool as your backup strategy, you are doing it wrong. Backups need to be scripted, automated, and regularly tested or else you might as well not have them. If your database is very small (a few gigabytes), there is no point in doing incremental backups: backup the entire database with mysqldump and use binary logs in statement format for point in time recovery, or using a slave, shut down the slave an archive the binary files (cold backup).
If you are using InnoDB and really need incrementals, there is Xtrabackup from Percona or innodbhotbackup.
Xtrabackup is a great tool which I highly recommend. It will perform true incremental backups with minimal impact to the server.
Not having worked much in MySQL Workbench, your question prompted me to downloaded it to look around.
It looks to me that the export panel is just a GUI to issue a
That being said, MySQL can do point-in-time backups by turning on the
I have heard of a GUI tool that is used to manage backups, but YMMV on it (never used it myself). The tool is Zmanda and from the page it supposedly:
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Does the function $f(x,y) = ((x-1) \mod y)+1$ have an existing name?
f(1,5) = 1
f(2,5) = 2
f(3,5) = 3
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f(5,5) = 5
f(6,5) = 1
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Does the function $f(x,y) = ((x-1) \mod y)+1$ have an existing name?
In math, as opposed to in computer science, when you apply "mod y" you land in the integers modulo y, denoted Z/yZ, not back in the integers. This means that mod 7, the symbols 1 and 8 denote the same thing, i.e. the equivalence class {...,-13,-6,1,8,15,...}.
A more computer-y way to say this is that for mathematicians, "integer mod 7" is a different kind of data class than "integer."
All this is just a long way of saying that this is probably the wrong place to ask your question.
If I were defining this function in a math paper I'd say something like "Let f(x,y) denote the unique number in {1,2,...,y} which is congruent to x modulo y" or "By the division algorithm there exists a unique number in {1,2,...,y} which is congruent to x modulo y, we denote this number f(x,y)."
Well, it's the quotient map from $\mathbb{Z}$ into $\mathbb{Z}/5\mathbb{Z}$, with the slightly unconventional relabelling of 0 as 5. Nothing much more interesting than that.
You could conceivably describe this as the "least positive residue" modulo y (as opposed to the "least non-negative residue" modulo y).
I think that my yesterday silly question implicitly gives a name to your function -- the feng shui function. To be more specific, for applying some knowledge from the feng shui system, one needs to start with his house number, say $n$, compute its sum of decimal digits, then do this again with the resulted number, and so on. The final result is a decimal digit in the range $\lbrace 1,2,\dots,9\rbrace$, namely $f(n,9)$, as you may check. If one does a similar computation in base $b$, the result is always $f(n,b-1)$. Isn't this a good reason for the name?!


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If you want to support xbox controllers, it is always wise to use the native images that the controller uses. Can one obtain those from Microsoft without being a registered, aka paying developer?
You can get official Microsoft logos here: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/news/ImageGallery/logos/logoguidelines.aspx (You have to agree to their terms in order to get to the logo part).
Here you might get some publicly available assets: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/news/imagegallery/products/default.aspx (Well, there isn't a top-down shot of X-Box controller, but maybe you can get away with Limited Edition one)
So, to directly answer your question - no, there are not publicly available official images to be used for keymapping hints.
Last, but not least, you can always try to look up contacts of the company, and send them an email. You're not asking for a free X-Box, Kinect, TV and sofa - it's only an image.
I, personally, am not a developer of X-Box games or anything related to X-Box, but maybe you get some illustrations with the developer kit?
There is an unofficial but extremely complete set of controller button images for several platforms here:
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7 Classic Video Games That Are Older Than You Think
#3. The First First-Person Shooter Existed before PCs
The 1992 release of Wolfenstein 3D is widely hailed as the invention of the first-person-shooter genre. It was a game about running through mazes while eating chicken drumsticks and shooting Robot Hitler.
"And that's it for video games. Well done, everyone."
It's basically perfect, in short.
And it's only natural that the game that invented one of the most popular genres ever would be so famous and celebrated. But it's not, because we haven't told you what it is yet.
But ...
Say hello to Maze War.
Maze War does not return your greeting. Maze War simply stares.
Maze War was invented in 1973, and so predates not only first-person shooters, but personal computers. The game was originally written on Imlac PDS-1 computers at NASA, since the recent cancellation of the Apollo program had apparently left them with a lot of time on their hands. Originally, the game was just one person wandering around, trying to solve a maze, but that was strangely lacking in bloodshed, so they added another player and had the two fight. Voila! A genre is born!
About two decades before all of the Xbox Live assholes.
Of course, that was hardly Maze War's only contribution: Other innovations included a minimap, a level editor, cheats and network multiplayer. Basically, all the staples of the most popular FPS games in history. If you're not convinced yet, take a look at this video, which shows actual game play of Maze War back when computers worked by placing plastic pizzas in toaster ovens.
Flinging this against the wall in anger takes down your house.
#2. The First Pong Was Played with Missiles
In Pong, you play as the noble paddle, tasked with preventing the evil ball from bouncing past you and presumably destroying the world.
But ...
Sperm tennis!
A game featuring the exact same mechanisms (returning a ricocheting ball back to an opponent) was developed in 1958 at the Brookhaven National Laboratory by William Higinbotham.
Higinbotham's thinking about higgin' that botham, gurl.
This precursor, known as Tennis for Two (or TfT for short), had a number of notable features that might have made this a better game than Pong had it actually gone to market. Instead of viewing the game from a bird's-eye perspective like Pong, TfT instead used a sideways perspective, which was a bit more accurate than Pong's "bouncing off the walls" mechanic (that's technically air hockey, guys.)
A later update to the programming also let the player choose the gravitational conditions, ranging from "Moon" (a low-gravity environment that gave the ball a higher curve in the air) to "Jupiter" (a high-gravity environment that dragged the ball's momentum downward).
Pong's one setting: A rainy Tuesday in the 1970s.
The TfT console itself was jury-rigged from an oscilloscope to provide the graphics and a ballistic missile computer to track the trajectory of the ball.
Although this arrow appears to be pointing at the flux capacitor.
That's right: The very first video game was about playing tennis with nuclear missiles. If any property is screaming out for a modern-day remake, we're casting our votes for TfT 2012: Warhead Smackers.
#1. You Could Play Duck Hunt in the 1930s
Duck Hunt is the quintessential light-gun game. It warrants that prestigious honor by being the only one we can remember ever playing. Unsurprisingly, Duck Hunt wasn't too well-received by the critics upon its release in 1984, but the lens of nostalgia colors everything. Today, IGN considers it the 77th Best NES Game of All Time, in spite of its completely broken controls: For some reason, it never registers when you shoot that goddamn dog, no matter how close you get to the screen or how hard you pull the trigger.
Seriously. We stuck the end of a Hoover in the cartridge and everything.
But ...
One casual yank and you could hold up the arcade.
This is the Ray-O-Lite Rifle. It was a pretty wooden cabinet that consisted of a conveyor belt moving ducks across a painted background while you attempted to tag them with your light rifle.
The mechanism was surprisingly similar to the Nintendo version we all know and kind of tolerate: When you squeezed the trigger of the rifle, a small beam of light fired out from the end of the barrel, and if it hit the light-sensitive vacuums embedded beneath each duck, the bird would fall down and you'd get a point.
It being the '30s, points were redeemable for either poverty or fascism.
The manufacturer, Seeburg, created a raft of other games using this mechanic, including the rather self-explanatory Shoot the Bear, a game called Chicken Sam, where you shot well-dressed poultry thieves and, as a given, a 1942-issued game where you plugged Hitler.
We love to kill you, Hitler.
So wait, are we saying that the concept of shooting ducks existed before Duck Hunt? Of course it did, it was called "duck hunting." What's surprising about that? Where's the factor that made these light-gun games so damningly similar to their later iterations? Well, how about this dog-shaped accessory that came bundled with Shoot the Bear? Look closely now, and remember what we told you about the game mechanics: You fire into the vacuum bubble to register a kill.
Do you see one of those on this thing?
Son of a bitch.
This immortal bastarding dog has been haunting humanity for the last 100 years.
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This page describes in detail the datasets used for the NBML Course.
- MNIST Handwritten Digits
- Classify handwritten digits using this dataset, a very popular one with lots of training examples.
- Heart Disease
- Predict whether a person will have heart disease based on a subset of 76 factors.
- Census Income
- Try to predict whether a person has an income greater than or less than 50k
- Boiling point in the Alps
- The boiling point of water at different barometric pressures.
- Shocking Rats
- How does shocking a rat affect it's ability to complete a maze?
- Ice Cream Sales
- Predict the quantity of ice cream consumed based on some other variables.
- Smoking and Respiratory Function
- How does smoking affect lung capacity?
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- Gun-related Deaths in Australia
- "Deaths from gun-related homicides and suicides and non-gun-related homicides and suicides. Australia: 1915-2004.
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BENWOOD - City Council refused Tuesday to reduce the performance bond Lee Chaklos must obtain before beginning to demolish the Bellaire Bridge.
Council denied Chaklos' request to lower the $500,000 performance bond the city is requiring before it will grant Chaklos a permit for work to proceed. The city also is demanding that Chaklos provide proof of liability insurance.
Chaklos and Paul Head, a New York engineering consultant, proposed during council's Tuesday meeting that members lower the bond amount to $250,000. They said Chaklos cannot find an insurer to grant the bond due to the "controversy" surrounding the bridge.
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Bellaire Bridge co-owner Lee Chaklos addresses Benwood City Council on Tuesday about the future of demolition work on the Bellaire Bridge.
Chaklos faces a $1,000 daily fine in federal court if he fails to start demolition of the bridge by June 20.
Head suggested council allow some preliminary work to begin on the bridge to make the project more appealing to insurers. He said this could increase the chances of Chaklos securing the performance bond.
"A performance bond of that amount is very hard to get, especially with the project under court order," Head said after the meeting. "It is putting a stumbling block in the way of getting anything done. Once the job is started, we can get the performance bond."
Council members met the proposal with visible frustration. Benwood Police Chief Frank Longwell told Chaklos and Head the "clock is ticking" on the project.
"I can barely sit in this seat without jumping out of it," Longwell said. "We have done everything we have said we are going to do. He's done nothing he's said he was going to do."
By a unanimous vote, council decided to keep the required performance bond at $500,000 following more than an hour of discussion between Chaklos and council members.
After the meeting, Benwood Mayor Edward M. Kuca Jr. said council members are concerned about the logistics of Chaklos' plan to begin demolition. During the meeting, Chaklos had presented a plan to begin work on the Ohio side of the bridge by removing two toll booths and several I-beams, as well as grinding up asphalt along the length of the bridge.
Kuca said the city would have to close Eighth Street and the entrance to the Industrial Park in order to allow equipment to be transported across the bridge to the Bellaire side to perform work. He said vibrations from the equipment could cause debris to fall onto the city below, posing a safety hazard.
Benwood officials initially wanted bridge owners Chaklos, of Delta Demolition, and his wife, Krystal Chaklos of KDC Investments, to post a $5 million liability bond as a condition for obtaining the permit to demolish the span. Since that time, the city has reduced the requirement to a $500,000 cash bond to ensure completion of the bridge's demolition.
Council also agreed to the name of a third party - Weirton lawyer Dan Guida - being placed alongside the city's on the $500,000 escrow account. This move came after the Chakloses expressed concern about the city not returning the bond money after the project was complete.


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We used to go for these deals before the restrictions. We never get enough cheese at our local Hut without ordering "extra."
@omnichad: And certain specialty pizzas don't count as "ANY" pizza as well.
Why is this a deal? I thought it was the regular gig for The Hut lately.
This has been going on non-stop for about 3 years. Why is this a "deal" today??
I could care less about the deal. It just makes me smile seeing the old school logo. Long family vacations could be made a little better if I saw this logo on the "next exit" sign.
@djp519: I believe some Huts remove the sign out front at times and then put it out again. Then people driving by think it's a new "deal". Our local Hut does that now and again, even though the $10 carryout has been going on constantly for the past 4 years, and maybe longer.
You would have to pay ME $10 to eat a Pizza Hut pizza!
Good deal but not a fan of Pizza Hut pizza, their pan pizza is way too greasy and their sauce is very sweet.
@djp519: It may have been going on nonstop at your local Pizza Hut, but not at mine. I know because I recently tried to order online and the price came up normal instead of $10. I for one appreciate whenever someone posts that this deal is back.
@nightwolf67: This post is specifically listed as a carryout deal. The deal has come and gone for delivery, but it has been constantly available for carryout. (assuming that since you say online you want delivery, although I may be wrong there)
@zapp brannigan: I guess it's bad to have an opinon here.
@zapp brannigan: It's not bad to have an opinion but when people post stuff like what you did above it is annoying. If you don't like the pizza, don't eat it.
@hackman2007: What did I do? I said it was a good deal but not my cup of tea, my wife loves their food but I dont. I even up voted the deal because it's a good deal.
@zapp brannigan: I was just answering your statement about the "I guess its not ok to have an opinion here".
People downvote those type of comments. I did not however.
@djp519: I'm in Florida and the $10 pizza for carry out has been going on for a few weeks at least. We're now picking up our own pies. We get to see it before we pay for it and it doesn't go for a car ride getting soggy while the driver is making other deliveries. The quality of the pizza seems so much better since we've begun doing this as well.
FWIW, this deal does not run constantly where I live (PA). They usually either limit the number of toppings or the type of pizza for that price (so, last time I ordered one of these, stuffed crust was not an option).
Edit: Well those little... they apparently do NOT mean any pizza. I just tried to order stuffed crust and they wanted to add $2 extra for it!
@lavikinga: I always pick up my own as well. Delivery drivers seem to get confused trying to find my building inside my complex, plus, this way I know it's hot and fresh, and made correctly, and has not been sitting inside one of those keep-warm bags for half an hour.
And yes, this deal unfortunately never includes stuffed crust.
I know someone has already said this, but this isn't a daily deal. Pizza hut has been running this for quite some time
I got the deal in an email from pizza hut this morning.
been this price for over a year around sacramento.
Grrrr... Gotta down-vote this one. NOT valid at my local Pizza Hut!
@djp519: They don't deliver to my house, so I always start my order by selecting Carry Out. I am 100% positive they did not have this deal in my area a few weeks ago.


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text: Yo guys, Dawn here with another cartoony and easy lesson on one of the most popular Avengers characters today. Besides Loki, the relationship between the two is so popular that every fangirl is dying to know more about what happens at the end of Avengers. In this fresh tut, I will prepare simple to draw steps on 'how to draw Thor from Avengers', step by step. I had fun working on this one, especially having a fun experience from the Loki style. Make sure you have inspiration as you start this one, and that you have all the tools needed at your disposal. Anyways, I've gotta get going, enjoy and let me know what you think!


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In Blood Bowl, legendary edition, what is the difference between starting a story mode vs starting a campaign?
In that game, the two are quite different beasts.
In campaign, you build a team and start your way through guiding that team towards winning better and better trounamets. Main point of the campaign is to develop the team gradually. This can be quite a lenghty endevor, since there are quite a few tournaments to get through, each tournamet takes several matches and there's a very real risk of not being able to advance to better tournaments if you don't do well enough. You'll also be able to see your team and its player grow and learn as they gather experience, get injured and sometimes even die.
In story mode, you play as a coach that has a very bad habbit of getting kidnapped to a new team over and over again. You'll rarely spend more than a match or two with a team (sometimes even less as you may be given just one half-time) and your goals vary significantly. In stead of aiming for just the victory, you'll be given goals like performing certain amount of passes or fouls in a match, getting certain amoung of touchdowns and such. Some of these task can be quite difficult to pull. You'll also get some humorous backstory in form of sports news between matches and after failures, where the news detail just how you met your demise at the hands of disappointed players/fans/managment.
The campaign is a management game, in which you create your own team and lead it trying to reach the top of the league.


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I have come across the following result regarding equitable division of a resource, which is a simple and immediate consequence of linear programming complementarity (in the infinite-dimensional case). I strongly suspect that it is a special case of some other well-known principle, perhaps in a related field such as economics or even geography, but as of yet I have not found any helpful leads. Can anyone suggest any results from which the statement below is a consequence? Any other leads will also be appreciated.
Let $R$ denote a contiguous resource (such as a piece of land) that is to be divided into $n$ pieces $R_1,\dots,R_n$ among $n$ agents (so agent $i$ gets piece $R_i$). Suppose that each agent has a continuous "utility density" function $u_i(x)>0$ defined on $R$ and that $R$ also has a continuous "population density" $f(x)>0$ defined on it. The total "utility" that agent $i$ receives is then $\iint_{R_i} f(x)u_i(x) dx$. One might consider the problem of choosing $R_1,\dots,R_n$ as "equitably" as possible, say by maximizing the minimum utility of the agents:
$\text{maximize}_{R_1,\dots,R_n}\lbrace\min_i \iint_{R_i} f(x)u_i(x) dx\rbrace$ subject to
$\bigcup_i R_i = R$ and $R_i \cap R_j = \emptyset \text{ for all }i\neq j$
It is easy to verify that, at the optimal solution $R_1^*,\dots,R_n^*$, all of the agents' utilities are equal.
Now, define $q_i^* := \iint_{R_i^*} f(x) dx$ (the population of the $i$th optimal piece), and consider the problem of choosing regions to maximize the total utilities of the agents, but under a logarithmic utility function, and imposing constraints on the populations in each piece:
$\text{maximize}_{R_1,\dots,R_n}\lbrace\sum_i \iint_{R_i} f(x)\log(u_i(x)) dx\rbrace$ subject to
$\iint_{R_i} f(x) dx = q_i^*$
$\bigcup_i R_i = R$ and $R_i \cap R_j = \emptyset \text{ for all }i\neq j$
It is not hard to show that the solution to this problem is the same as the solution to the original problem. I have uploaded a MATLAB script that demonstrates this principle using cvx at
if anyone is interested.


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Can someone tell what font was used to write "november"? I really like the look of it but cannot tell the font ...
Can someone tell what font was used to write "november"? I really like the look of it but cannot tell the font ...
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This is Futura.
Here's a screenshot of the same text in Futura on my computer: http://i.stack.imgur.com/ZETTG.png
Some of the clues that indicate it's the same font:
Using identifont.com this looks like Futura. Possibly Futura, Futura (BT) or Futura (URW).
Here's a direct link to the font search I performed: http://www.identifont.com/identify?16+november+1IU+N2Q+97+23+9M+31+F2U+F+9D+7UX+NQE+PAF+G39+9J+9Z+L+M
The Identify Result section on the left shows the other two Futura options lower on the list.