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The 10 Most Important Things They Didn't Teach You In School
#5. Health: How to Stop Throwing Your Money Away on Snake Oil
Go to the drug aisle in your grocery store. In between the pills and the vitamins will be a huge shelf full of herbal supplements that promise to do everything from helping you lose weight to easing joint pain to making your brain work better.
And it's all bullshit. All of it.
Worse, it's bullshit that we spend $34 billion a year on, almost a third as much as we spend on prescription drugs that actually do something.
Just to be clear: Scientists have spent billions in government money carefully testing the effectiveness of this stuff. Their results? No, echinacea can't cure your cold. Gingko doesn't do anything for your brain, glucosamine and chondroitin won't fix your arthritis. Hoodia gordonii won't help you lose weight.
If it were good for you, it probably wouldn't be covered in horrible spikes.
Don't get us wrong; we completely realize that lots of the drugs we have now were once naturally occurring in plants and that it is therefore possible that out there, somewhere, is a leaf yet undiscovered by science that will cure your diabetes. But if so, these jerkoffs in the grocery aisle aren't going to be the ones who find it.
They're scam artists.
They're so sure their supplements don't do anything they don't do any actual quality control to track how much of the supplement is in each pill. They just throw a little bit in there and shrug. Aren't they worried about people accidentally overdosing? No, they're not. They know you can't overdose on a placebo.
All they're doing is "curing" ailments that either naturally go away on their own (colds, joint pain) so you wind up falsely attributing the relief to the supplement, or they're claiming to cure conditions that are hard to quantify (see supplements for "alertness" or "stress relief"). Snake oil salesmen have been getting away with that technique for thousands of generations.
Students, we're counting on you to make sure that ours is the last.
Chapters Include:
I. Pharmaceutical Companies Are Dicks, But at Least They Use Scientists;
II. Why Hippies Have Never Discovered a Single Disease Cure;
III. "Homeopathic" is Another Word for Voodoo Bullshit;
IV. Just Go See a Doctor You Big Baby.
NOTE: Weight Loss supplements will be explored in-depth in...
#4. Health: Why Losing Weight Requires Some Amount of Suffering
First of all, know that some people are naturally thin. They often skip meals just because they forgot to eat, and/or enjoy hobbies that involve burning calories as a byproduct--basketball, cycling, whatever. They'll never be fat and they'll never have to think about it. They're excused from this class.
Take a walk.
This course is for the rest of you, who will spend your life fatter than what our society considers ideal, and who will forever be uncomfortable in your own skin as a result. You'll spend many dollars on bullshit exercise equipment that promises to make working out "easy." You'll jump on diet fads, eating a bunless hamburger with a knife and fork one week, eating nothing but cabbage soup the next.
Each and every one of these will fail (the success rate for dieters over the long term is close to 0 percent) because they're all based on the utterly false premise that you can lose weight without ever feeling sore or hungry or some other negative sensation. It is not possible.
Students, imagine that in front of you is a castle. That's where you want to be. But surrounding that castle is a moat, full of piranha. The only way to get into Sexy Abs Castle is to swim across the moat and let the little fish painfully chew off hunks of fat. The real situation is exactly like that, only the swim will take years.
Sexy Abs Castle is also heavily guarded.
Your body will get really mad at you when you try to lose weight, because it thinks you're starving to death. You have to go into any weight loss plan knowing that you will suffer, and just have to man up in preparation for it. Otherwise, just live with it. Being fat isn't the end of the goddamned world.
Chapters Include:
I. Hunger is Fat Leaving the Body;
II. Eating Three Square Meals a Day Will Absolutely Make You Fat if You Sit in a Chair All Day;
III. Have You Considered Walking Instead of Driving;
IV. How to Dress in Ways That De-Emphasize Your Fatness.
NOTE: The above class is a prerequisite for...
#3. Home Economics: How to Cook Cheap Food That Won't Kill You
Most of you will gain weight in college. You'll be poor, and cheap food makes you fat, as adding salt and fat is the easiest way to make poor quality food taste good. Ramen noodles, Taco Bell burritos, six-dollar pizzas from Papa John's... all of it is dirt cheap, and all contains way more calories than you're going to burn while sleeping through classes and playing Guitar Hero.
Fortunately, there are ways around this if you're willing to put in a little time. As it turns out, spices are also cheap, as are some meats, and dried pasta, and vegetables. You just have to combine them the right way. But no matter what you come up with, it would be extremely difficult to cook something as unhealthy as a Quarter-Pounder Value Meal.
Don't be fooled by the track suit!
Chapters Include:
I. Pay Attention to Serving Sizes on the Label, They're Laughably Small;
II. Fat Free Versions of Fat Foods Are Terrible, Don't Bother;
III. Seriously, Fat Free Cheese Doesn't Melt;
IV. It's Hard to Screw Up Spaghetti;
V. Why if You Eat Fruity Pebbles for Dinner, You'll be Hungry Again 30 Minutes Later;
VI. If You Make a Pot of Chili and Freeze Bowls of It You'll Totally Have Like Two Months' Worth of Meals There.
#2. Political Science: Why Talk Radio is a Terrible Source of Information
Politics are boring, and for the 20 percent or so of you who will spend a lot of time following politics, many of you will do so via entertaining political talk shows on radio or cable.
Now, we don't have time to go into the mind-boggling list of idiotic things Glenn Beck has said, and will not laboriously debunk the rantings of the hundreds of other political talk show hosts like him. What you need to understand is that with talk radio and TV, the format itself makes accuracy utterly impossible. It's fairly simple, really. If a political talk show is going to get ratings, it has to have two things in every episode:
A. A clear, simple thesis (ie, Liberals Are Destroying America, Corporations Are Destroying America) that continues through every single segment;
B. Up to the minute commentary on current events.
"Things are happening in the world. But more importantly, look at me."
You see the problem: These two things are going to sometimes conflict.
Even if the thesis of a show is Pie is Awesome, the host is still going to wake up one day and see headlines about a pie recall because some tainted filling killed 173 people. Guess what: he still has to do a show that day about why Pie is Awesome. He will manipulate B to make it fit A, even if he has to lie. He doesn't draw a paycheck otherwise.
Likewise, if the big headline tomorrow is that Barack Obama single-handedly fought and slew Lucifer, Glenn Beck still has to do a show about how Obama is an Anti-Christian Communist out to destroy America. That's what his show is about; that's what the listeners tune in for, that's what his advertisers paid for. If he doesn't follow through, his audience will simply turn the dial until they find someone who's willing to tell them what they want to hear.
So, because a talk show has to, by necessity, sometimes skew or outright lie about current events in order to maintain the entertainment value of their show, trying to learn about current events by listening to a talk show is like learning physics by watching cartoons.
Chapters Include:I. If the Host Compares His Opponents to Communists or Nazis, He is Crazy;
II. Why Politics Cannot be Simplified;
III. If the Host Uses Derisive Nicknames for His Opponents, He Has Nothing to Teach You.
#1. Social Studies: Life is Hard and You Will Die, Get Over It
We're not foolish enough to think one semester of this course can deprogram years of Hollywood bullshit. That's why we make this a daily class, that continues from K through 12.
Many of you will get very depressed in your 20s, and some of you will stay that way the rest of your lives. Over the years your garage band will break up, you career dream will fall through, a girl will break your heart, you'll be unhappy with your body, you'll lose your parents, your favorite pet will die, you will endure at least one very terrible injury that requires hospitalization and breaks new boundaries for what kind of pain you thought was possible.
And your childhood memories will be exploited to buy vast amounts of cocaine. Deal with it.
The reason why this will lead to depression, where it may not have done so for an equivalent person 200 years ago, is because you were raised on illogical stories where things always work out for the main character for utterly arbitrary reasons. Han Solo can shoot straight, but none of the bad guys can--even though they train more. John McClane beats the terrorists because he has toughness and perseverance--something the bad guys lack, even though they should be equally desperate. If a guy and a girl are right for each other, they always wind up together, careers and geography and personal hang-ups be damned.
Here's the problem: these fantasies were created by adults, as a means of escape from the real world. You, however, have been watching them since you were five--for most of us these were our first impressions of how the adult world works, even if on a subconscious level. You had no context to realize they were bullshit. It sounds frivolous, but that doesn't change the fact that some of you reading this will not survive the long process of learning how different the real world is.
If it helps, try to remember that you're still one of the one percent of humanity that was born in a time and place where there is such a thing as anesthesia.
Chapters Include:
I. You Can Die at Any Moment, Get Over It;
II. Required Reading: The Road, by Cormac McCarthy;
III. Roleplay Exercise: Various Scenes from The Road, by Cormac McCarthy;
IV. Yes, It Takes 10,000 Hours to Get Really Good at Something, But At Least You're Not Scavenging Through a Post-Apocalyptic Wasteland.
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Does there exist any theorem which permits, under suitable hypotheses, to represent a particular complete orthomodular lattice as the projection lattice of a Type III von Neumann factor?
A characterization of projectioon ortholattices of von Neumann algebras
You obtain an answer since "factorial" and "type III" are expressed
As expected by professor Handelman, a big role in such a
A much better (from the quantum logic point of view) characterization of
[Digression. In particoular, this gives a characteriazion of Hilbertian
I know no attempts to concretize the details of a last, third step in
Concerning the other remark of professor Handelman:
The possibility of characterization of complex AW$^*$-algebras with no
Dye proved his theorem in 1955 (on jstor.org it is number 1969620) for
Really, the theorem (but not Dye's own proof) also holds for real AW$^*$
first note that it is sufficient to recontruct the $*$-ring
Then $M$,
Finally: the above pairs
Note that $A$ contains only some of
[Since the ortholattice $L$
I seem to recall that work of Wright and others contains constructions of type III AW* factors that are not W*. The lattice of projections of the former is also a complete orthomodular lattice, and these probably (?) characterize the AW* algebras (i.e., if $A$ and $B$ are AW*-factors, and their projection lattices are isomorphic, then presumably $A$ and $B$ would be isomorphic; I don't know whether this is true, but it looks plausible). So if there were a condition for representation in W*-factors, it would have to include some additional constraint referring to normal states, which would not be very natural.
Perhaps this is not the most concise analogy, but consider what happens in the commutative case. Commutative AW* algebras are $C(X)$ where $X$ is extremally disconnected, but commutative W* algebras are $C(X)$ where $X$ is hyperstonean, a rather artificial** concept, because it requires a separating family of normal states.
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After WWI, the treaty of Versailles became the rallying cry for more extreme political forces in Germany, as it's terms were blamed for the countries hardships, and as an insult to the country itself. Are the terms of treaties imposed upon Germany after their defeat in WWII felt to be as insulting as the ones that were imposed with Versailles to the German people of the second half of the 20th century?
Did Germany have treaties imposed upon it after WWII that mirrored the weight of the Treaty of Versailles?
Short answer: No
Long answer: No. There were no treaties imposed on Germany in the way that the Treaty of Versailles was thrust upon Germany after WWI. As Drux mentioned in his answer Germany was divided among the quadripartite nations (United States, Russia, Great Britain, France) each governed a portion of Germany.
The Potsdam Conference was where the fate of Germany was largely decided in the most analogous manner to the Treaty of Versailles. The US, UK, and France, did not want to impose harsh war reparations against Germany, but the USSR was very keen on the idea. So in an effort to preserve the agreement reparations were allowed to be exacted by choice of the occupying nation in their zone of influence. However, German industrial capabilities were demilitarized, and war criminals were rounded up, which was similar to Versailles.
If it were not for the Marshall Plan then perhaps Germany would have taken a similar path to the one it followed after WWI. The strong commitment to rebuild western Europe economically averted any sort of worldwide depression that was borne in part out of the WWI reparations payments Germany was required to pay. At least if you believe what John Maynard Keynes wrote in The Economic Consequences of the Peace.
Interestingly, there was a treaty that concluded the post-WWII period for Germany: Treaty on the Final Settlement with Respect to Germany. The treaty united East and West Germany, transferred sovereignty over German lands to the newly reunified nation, and other logistical matters related to Soviet withdrawal from East Germany. A curious inclusion in the treaty is Article 2 which declared that the new German nation would never engage in aggressive war, and would only use its troops in relation to United Nations authorized military actions.
Contrary to what other answerers wrote, the actual situation was much stricter to Germany than after WWI.
The basic fact is that post-WWII German government had no continuity with the pre-defeat one. Actually German state was completely demolished, and after a while, two new states were re-instituted.
The founders of the new states were the occupying powers who gave German people only partial sovereignty over the territory. They installed the political systems they wished, putting the new governments under strict control and installing reliable people at the key positions. All hostile political forces were either prohibited or marginalized. The new army forces were re-created anew following the US and the USSR's model. The new states were forced into the pro-US and pro-Soviet military alliances, their militaries became dependent on the equipment and spare parts, produced in the host powers.
In addition the occupying countries kept their armed forces stationed in Germany for many tens of years (and the US still keeps its military in Germany).
There was just no possibility that Germany could spin out of control after WWII.
The following quote is in support of the answer No, i.e. the terms of treaties imposed upon Germany after their defeat in WWII were not felt to be as insulting as the ones that were imposed with Versailles?
The containing document The Road Ahead: Lessons in Nation Building from Japan, Germany, and Afghanistan for Postwar Iraq by Ray Salvatore Jennings is also quoted by the Wikipedia article on the Aftermath of World War II (footnotes #22, #23). Both articles also make clear that any final answer would depend on when and where the observation of the "German people" is made (e.g. prior to 1947 and Morgenthau Plan, or post 1948 and Berlin Blockade and Marshall Plan, or in East Germany prior to Reunification).


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I'm struggling with a seemingly simple problem in 2D motion. Basically, the question is, given accelerations in $x$ and $y$ ($a_x$ and $a_y$) as well as the angular velocity ($\omega$), how can we find the trajectory of the motion? Also, how can we report the motion like a computer mouse, i.e. in the reference frame of the sensor?
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In this hypothetical situation, you can transform the unit vectors in the global reference frame $\hat{x}$ and $\hat{y}$ using the same rotation matrix, to the unit vectors in the transformed coordinate system:
$$ \hat{x}' = R \hat{x}\\ \hat{y}' = R \hat{y} $$
This is what you did implicitly by transforming $x\hat{x}+y\hat{y}$
In the same way, you can do the back transformation
$$ \hat{x}=R^{-1}\hat{x}'\\ \hat{y}=R^{-1}\hat{y}'$$
Which can be used for the back-transformation of the dislpacement in the local frame to displacement in the global frame.
A practical issue will be that errors in you integrated angle $\alpha$ will accumulate, making the mouse annoying to use.


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The 6 Most Ill-Conceived Video Game Accessories Ever
Every time a new console comes out, there's a flood of accessories made to help people get the most out of their gaming session. Customized colors, shapes, decals for the style conscious, game genies for those who like to play a game on God Mode and comfort grips for the endurance gamer. Then there are accessories made by companies that are clearly run by mad scientists.
#6. The Wii Car Adapter
The idea:
You can play the Wii in your car.
The Reality:
You can crash your car while playing the Wii in your car.
We don't think that manufacturers actually decided to build these specific power adapters and LCD screens for the Wii, but rather decided to throw a Wii tag on stuff they had lying around in the warehouse. No thought was given to the horrible, horrible consequences.
Don't get us wrong, setting up a small screen hooked up to a PlayStation 3 or an Xbox 360 in your SUV or minivan can be a great way to pass the time on a long trip. If you're the kid you won't get bored and start whining, and if you're the parent who won't have thoughts about late-age adoption or vasectomies.
But then we have the Wii, a machine based entirely on the concept of flailing your arms around while you play. Only now it's confined to the cozy backseat where you're three inches away from the passenger beside you (instead of the recommended three feet for some Wii games) and within arm's reach of the driver's head.
Yes, to play the Wii in your car is to laugh in the face of death. In a couple of years, we won't see teenagers drag racing, they'll be pairing up and playing cross-car matches of Wii tennis.
#5. The Sega Activator (For The Sega Genesis)
The idea:
Finally you'll be able to feel like you're part of the game. When you punch, your guy punches, when you kick, your guy kicks and when you do a jump kick you'd finally be a little closer to becoming an international super-ninja.
The Reality:
Released in 1993 when Sega had an incredible 65 percent market share in the video game industry, the Activator seemed like a gift from the video game gods, sent decades ahead of its time. No more clunky A, B, Up, B, for finishing moves in Mortal Kombat. Just reach on down to the ground and whip your arm back up to remove your opponent's spine.
Well, no. Instead of button mashing you had to move your arms into one of the eight quadrants that made up the activator.
So to do Sub-Zero's fatality instead of pressing Forward, Down, Forward, A, you just had to throw a punch exactly in front of you, then one exactly behind you, another in front, and then one more punch behind you on either side.
Kano's finishing move combo? Turn, pivot, slide, jazz hands.
Even if you did move your arm at the right time and in the right area you had to deal with your ceiling screwing everything up. Yes, if you didn't have a low, flat ceiling without ceiling fan and no ceiling lights/chandelier, then you couldn't use the Activator because all the magical infrared beams would get distorted.
The instructional video also warns against using it with mirrored ceilings. Hell, Sega, that eliminates every room in our house! We suppose you've got something against leather curtains and satin leopard-skin sheets, too?
#4. AlphaGrip AG-5 PC Gaming and Text Entry Controller
The idea:
This monstrous controller will increase your efficiency in all your computing duties, from writing email to doing up financial spreadsheets while also allowing you to become the master of every video game ever made.
The Reality:
The AlphaGrip's idea of making things easier is by simplifying the keyboard and mouse that PC gamers are so used to, and cramming it all into one controller. While the average PC game controller has 12 to 15 buttons, the AlphaGrip makes things easier by having only 42. So it's like simplifying Shakespeare by translating it into Klingon.
Wait, there's more
The 42-key design was to allow all 10 fingers to be in use at the same time. Apparently the makers felt that your pinky finger was getting left out of all the fun. The makers also couldn't think of 42 functions for the buttons so 6 of the buttons are SHIFT keys.
There is a capital-shift, punctuation-shift and number-shift on both the left and right sides of the controller (don't worry, they didn't forget caps lock). The creators obviously know that when you've just died on screen you can never find that shift key fast enough to type out OMG H@XoRz!!!!
If you count the shift-key combos, you can do 700 different functions, none of which will help you get a girlfriend.


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Thanks everyone for your patience!
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Hello Zappos Family and loyal Zappos customers,
You deserve an update on where we are with the WMS project and how things are
going today. The project officially went live last Monday, and despite
everyone's best efforts we have faced some challenges since then.
Those challenges come in two forms:
1) Going through the backlog of customer orders that were built while we had the previous system offline and were transitioning to the new system. Over the cutover weekend, we were accepting orders from Thursday through Monday but not able to process them until Sunday night. During this time, we
were doing the work necessary to change from the previous system to the new one. That timeline meant that we needed to start quickly shipping orders with the new system. Shipping began slower than we expected as we ran into some unanticipated mechanical, systems, process and training issues.
2) Fixing pieces of functionality and processes that are not working as we expected them to. As with any system transition, we are finding errors that need to be corrected, enhancements that need to be made and process changes required to maximize volume through the FC.
The backlog challenge has been greater than fixing pieces of functionality.
Our KY team has been working incredibly hard (including extremely long hours
with little or no sleep, herculean recruiting efforts to staff up, making
drastic headcount realignment decisions and creatively working past every
obstacle in their way) to make progress here, and we turned a corner over the
weekend and Monday. We will have over 500 temporary workers in the building
this week to help us. We are now at an outbound run rate where we are
churning through the backlog. If we continue this progress, the customer
order backlog will be down to a manageable level by this weekend and cleared
within days after that.
Our tech teams are focused daily on making the changes necessary to make the
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We know that some customers have been inconvenienced as part of this
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in flight) in Zappos history. Thank you for your part in making it happen!
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The foundry FontFont, uses "OT" to denote standard fonts and "Pro" for those with extended character sets - see the "buying options" page for Meta:
Other foundries also use the "Pro" label. Fontfont's "OT" label (standing for OpenType) was more significant when TrueType and Postscript fonts were also commonly available.
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Sorry, no pic tonight. I used up all my battery power this holiday weekend and did not have time to recharge after the drive home and before I finished dinner. Ahhh . . there is nothing like a long drive home and then having to come up with a meal with a next to empty fridge. The first dish was BBQ meatballs. I took 2 packs of Yves frozen meatballs and simmered them on the stovetop in BBQ sauce (your choice) thinned down with a little water. Next was herb roasted potatoes: chunks of yukon gold potatoes tossed in olive oil, sea salt, basil, parsley, and marjoram. Roast in a 400 degree oven for 30-35 mins, or until golden brown. Add in a few sides of veggies and you have dinner. Actually, the meal was a huge hit with the kids, and Son#1 had thirds.
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BBQ Meatballs and Herb Roasted Potatoes
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Just wanted to say that I love your blog and check it almost every day! It is so inspiring and gives me great ideas! Being vegan doesn't have to be hard, especially not with great ideas from bloggers like you, Thanks!
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no worries about no photographs tonight - your dinner still SOUNDS wonderful!!
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6 Insane Things Science Can Predict About You at Infancy
We like to think that, for the most part, who we are is based on life experience, hard knocks and good old-fashioned attitude. Sure, genetics plays a part, but ultimately it's your own choices that matter -- you're not "destined" to be anything.
But science, as it usually does, has some surprising and kind of scary things to tell us. Apparently, no matter what kind of life you lead, scientists can still figure out who you'll be at 30 based on who you were as a toddler. Studies show ...
#6. If a 4-Year-Old Is Patient, He or She Will Be a Successful Adult
In the 1960s, a Stanford psychologist basically tortured 653 4- to 6-year-old kids by putting candy in front of them and telling them not to eat it. In the process, he may have unlocked the entire secret to a successful life.
The experiment went like this: The children were placed in front of a plate of treats like marshmallows and Oreos and told that they had a choice -- they could either choose one treat right away, or get two treats later. All they had to do to double their treats was sit alone with the candy for 15 minutes while the researcher left the room. It was testing their ability to delay gratification.
"Candy now always beats candy later."
Naturally, most of the kids at least attempted to wait, but when left alone, they began sweating and seizing like heroin addicts. Most of them cracked and went on a sugar-devouring rampage. Only about 30 percent were able to hang in there for the whole 15 minutes. And those kids wound up being more successful in life.
They found this out with a follow-up study on those same kids, and learned that the impatient children were more likely to be stressed, found it harder to maintain friendships and had lower SAT scores. The SAT scores of the kids who delayed gratification for the full 15 minutes were, on average, 210 points higher, and their parents described them as "significantly more competent." Though at this stage, it could still theoretically be chalked up to the brain-destroying power of marshmallow overconsumption.
"I'm about to get ten kinds of stupid all up in this mofo."
Then, in their 30s, the patient kids were living Leave It to Beaver-like lives of happiness and success, and the impatient kids were more likely to be fat, unhappy drug addicts. So the researchers decided to scan their subjects' brains to see what was going on up there. Apparently, the patient subjects had a lot of prefrontal cortex activity, meaning they had greater control over social behavior and planning. The scans of the impatient kids showed more activity in the ventral striatum, the portion of the brain commonly linked with addiction.
So, if you want to predict the futures of the 4- to 6-year-old children in your life, tell them to not eat a marshmallow for 15 minutes. If they don't eat it, continue pumping cash into their college funds. If they do, just go ahead and buy that speedboat you've always wanted.
Use it to flee the greedy crotchspawn you unleashed upon the world.
#5. Babies Fed on Demand Are More Likely to Be Smart
So, now that you're familiar with the above test, you might think that this means good parents will teach their kids to wait for their food, damn it! If they're not born with the ability to delay gratification, then you'll delay it for them! That'll teach the little bastards!
Nope. While conventional wisdom says that giving kids what they want, whenever they want, is the best way to create terrible humans, research says otherwise -- at least when we're talking about infants. Babies who are fed on their own terms (i.e., "whenever they start crying") have IQs up to five points higher at age 8 than babies who are fed according to a set schedule. They also do better on their SATs -- the effect lasts right through their teens.
The exact moment destiny determines who is and who isn't a crack whore.
And this was a huge study, too -- 10,419 children all together. The Institute for Social and Economic Research found that "schedule-fed babies performed around 17 percent of a standard deviation below demand-fed babies in standardized tests at all ages, and four points lower in IQ tests at age 8 years."
And yes, before you ask, this proved still to be true after the study had corrected for socially disadvantaged kids and mothers who couldn't afford to feed their kids until they started trying to eat the bars of their cribs. In fact, poor kids scored the same advantage as rich kids who were just as demanding.
"Look, I can use this to order some food, or I can just start eating the money itself. I'm a baby, I don't give a fuck."
Author and psychologist Penelope Leach says it has to do with the development of the baby brain, which is in the early stages of learning how to communicate with other humans. At that age, the "Crying for food equals I get food" lesson and bonding with mom are more important than the "Life is a cruel bitch that laughs at my desires" lesson that will inevitably be taught later.
#4. A Baby Who Snores Is More Likely to Be a Problem Child
Aw, your baby's snoring! So adorable! Now keep that in mind so you can pinpoint the origins of the insatiable thirst for chaos he'll later develop.
Yes, a baby who snores is 20 to 100 percent more likely to become a hyperactive tyrant. Researchers conducted a sleep habit study that followed 11,000 children from birth to age 7. The parents enrolled in the study filled out questionnaires about their child's sleep habits and breathing difficulties at six different points in the seven-year span. A second component to the study involved screening the children for emotional and behavioral problems at ages 4 and 7. The researchers then slammed the two halves of the study together until science fell out.
Then those thieving little bastards nabbed it, and nobody has seen it since.
They discovered that babies who snored displayed more behavior problems at ages 4 and 7, including aggressive, combative conduct and depression. By 7, a snoring baby was 1.5 times more likely to be a hyperactive, defiant monster child.
Dr. Karen Bonuck, the study's lead author, hypothesizes that snoring causes the baby to deliver more carbon dioxide to his or her brain than oxygen. Since the child is still forming neural connections, this could cross some of the wires in the emotional regulation and social conduct centers of the brain. Or maybe what you're misinterpreting as "snoring" is just the sound of the devils who have possessed your child growling in the night. It could go either way.
"The voices say that you've been a bad mommy. You must be ... 'corrected.'"


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Q: My son is now three years old and he started showing a great amount of interest in reading just before his third birthday. I am really at a standstill. I have tried to show him the sounds of the letters and to help him understand how to pronounce them, but it just doesn't feel right. Do you have any suggestions on how to teach a child to read?
A: The best thing to do for young children who want to "read" is to read, read, read to them. As you read together, let him sit close or in your lap. Use your finger to underline the words you are saying. Read books that have repeat words and rhymes, and let your son "read" the parts that repeat. Get him books on tape to listen to while he reads, and let him "read" his favorite story to you. These ideas allow his natural language to take over without the pressure of "teaching" reading.
You can also play word games, like recognizing store and street signs as you drive by them. Get a set of magnetic letters and write messages on the fridge. Sing the alphabet song as you put the letters in order. Write his name with the letters or a food word, like "cookie." He could even write "yes" or "no." Try labeling things around the house with word cards: "chair," "table," "sofa." You can add words like "red," "big," "little," or, "my" as his sight vocabulary grows. The point is have fun, keep it light, and follow his lead. If he tires of the game, stop. Good luck. -- Mary Ruth Coleman, Ph.D.
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I want to understand the linux kernel code, and I have been going through it but I am not able to get the full feel of what is happening(I am concentrating on network part of the linux kernel), so can anyone of you suggest good practices of reading C (or any other lang) code in general and specific to network part of the linux kernel. Thanks in advance
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If you need to learn C by reading first, then the Linux kernel isn't where you'd start: it's a rather atypical, low-level program (though I've found it to be quite well-structured).
Rather, look at the source code for some BSD utility program, e.g. those in OpenBSD. Read its manpage for a semi-formal, high-level specification of the program.
Grab a copy of Spinellis' Code Reading and/or Kernighan and Pike's Practice of Programming.
Finally, read a good book on Unix or Linux kernel internals and start reading the kernel. (I've found Maurice J. Bach's Design of the Unix Operating System (ca. 1986) to still be a good start, even for Linux.)
What I have been amazed to see when I tried to do the same thing (that you want to do) is to find so few relevant comments (if any) in such a complex code.
The documentation should be the code, right, but the comments feature exist in the C programming language for a reason.
If they have been removed, that's probably also for a reason: to keep you away from it.
I sincerely doubt that all kernel developers have to work on this cleaned-up code-base and my view of it is that (at least) the author of any given kernel "feature" (like epoll, for the sake of the discussion) keeps a private version of the code WITH all those missing comments.
Why do I belive this?
One prominent kernel developer, trying to convince me to release the source code of the G-WAN server as open-source, advised me to "make it as difficult as possible to read".
He added that this tactic worked marvellously for him during decades on all his "open-source" projects.
Keeping your grip on any critical part of a widely used "open-source" project obviously creates opportunities when your revenues exclusively come from consulting.
So, back to your question, the most useful thing that you can do to understand this code is to study it step by step and ADD the missing comments.
Then, progressively, it will start to make sense (and you will find why the comments have been removed).
What sometimes helps me is debugging through the code. The visualization of actual data and the actual paths tend to make it more understandable for me. As pointed out by other members linux kernel code is a very bad starting point for understanding c.


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12 Jul 2012 3:07 AM #11
Are you using select fields in your app? which is actually rendered in a action sheet rather than popup.
just want to know how IOS select fields in ipad are displayed, popup or action sheet?
12 Jul 2012 3:13 AM #12
it targeted universal device, including iphone & ipad.
i tried on my iphone version 4.3.3 and of course it's ok since the popover elements only required for ipad device.
i'm not sure how to put your datetimepicker in popover element, but I'll try to look for it. It will be very great if your very useful datetimepicker can handle this and put the picker in popover only in ipad device, since that is the behavior of sencha built-in picker.
12 Jul 2012 3:38 AM #13
thanks for quick reply!
yes, i'm using selectfield, datepickerfield and your datetimepickerfield.
all of them will use the entire width of the screen on iphone device, but only selectfield will be displayed as popup on ipad device. Both sencha datepickerfield and your datetimepickerfield still use the entire width of the screen on ipad.
This is example of popover element in ipad:
You can explore more in this link.
10 Sep 2012 6:29 AM #14
I have used datetimepickerfield in form panel
After tapping on the cancel button , getting foloowing error:
Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read property 'dom' of null
Next time when picker is opened, Slot values become 1st january 1980.
Can anyone give me the fix for this?
3 Oct 2012 9:39 AM #15
How to use DateTimePicker in Architect 2Hi, thanks for this great component extension! I'm trying to use this in my app, but am having trouble figuring out how to use it via Sencha Architect 2...
I looked at the form.js and picker.js examples that were on github as well as in the downloaded .zip file and saw where it's added via ST2 code, but when I try to add this code within Architect 2, the .js file is read-only...
Is there a way to load this custom component extension into Architect 2 so I can drag it onto my container /formpanel?
Thanks so much! Any help or guidance is appreciated..
13 Dec 2012 7:37 AM #16
Bug in 2.1.0
Not sure if anyone else ran into this bug, but I recently updated to Sencha Touch 2.1.0. When I ran some tests on the code base, I noticed that when I configured the Ext.ux.picker.DateTime extention to use the time slots configuration (01:01 AM/PM) the value selected in the picker never returned back to the form field.
{ xtype: 'datetimepickerfield', label: 'Payment Time', name: 'offline_payment_time', format : 'h:i A', picker: { minuteInterval : 1, ampm : true, slotOrder: ['hour','minute','ampm'] } }
If the "useDom" parameter is not defaulted to "true", it won't set the proper return value when the getValue() method is called in the process. So I added this bit of code (highlighted in blue font) to the method and it works fine now.
I'm not sure if this is a bug in the framework, or in the way the Ext.ux.picker.DateTime extension and how it configures the slot objects, but I thought I'd bring it to everyone's attention.
getValue: function(useDom) { useDom=useDom||true; var store = this.getStore(), record, value; if (!store) { return; } if (!this.rendered || !useDom) { return this._value; } //if the value is ever false, that means we do not want to return anything if (this._value === false) { return null; } record = store.getAt(this.selectedIndex); value = record ? record.get(this.getValueField()) : null; // this._value = value; return value; }No longer a Newbie
20 Jun 2013 5:32 AM #17
Is anybody using this on Sencha 2.2.1? If you press cancel, the next time it loads up the datetimepicker all the slots are empty.
23 Aug 2013 8:28 AM #18
I had the same behavior. Setting destroyPickerOnHide to true will solve the problem :
/** * @cfg {Boolean} destroyPickerOnHide * Whether or not to destroy the picker widget on hide. This save memory if it's not used frequently, * but increase delay time on the next show due to re-instantiation. Defaults to false * @accessor */ destroyPickerOnHide: true,
23 Aug 2013 8:40 AM #19
I have another problem with ST2.2.1 :
In Chrome, the slots don't appear in the picker, in IE10 the picker doesn't appear at all and it's working well with FF... :
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25 Aug 2013 4:41 PM #20
I know this isn't a great solution, but it seems to be working okay for me with Sencha 2.3 beta 1 for Chrome and IE 10. There must be some issue with 2.2.1, either that or I fixed the above problem in some other way. I'll take a look and see what I changed.


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They seem like an odd pair, but James Franco and Lindsay Lohan apparently had a relationship that most people were probably not aware of.
In an interview with MTV, the always-busy actor reveals that he and Lohan had a rapport back in the day, and he even theorizes about why she can't seem to stay out of trouble. While its unclear whether or not Franco and Lohan ever had anything romantic going on, he does say that they'd maintained a creative partnership as recently as last year.
On his connection to Lohan: "I've done a few projects about actors that have died young — James Dean, River Phoenix and Brad Renfro. Lindsay and I had reconnected at that time. I had been writing some poems about the Chateau Marmont and one or two of the poems involved Lindsay. I said to (photographer) Terry (Richardson), 'I have this text, and it would be great to have some images to go with it. We should do a project where you use the images you shot of me at the Chateau and images you shot of Lindsay at the Chateau and put them together with this text.'"
On bailing on the photoshoot: "That night before the Oscars (which he hosted) we did a final run through of the show and I was just so depressed because I knew it was not good. So I told Terry, look I can't do the shoot tonight, I'm tired, and I just can't do the shoot with Lindsay. But she was already there at the Chateau! So he shot her, but I wasn't actually there."
On deciding to collaborate with her: "I've known Lindsay for a while. It was at a moment where it seemed like she was doing OK. We'd have conversations on the phone, and she seemed like she was doing OK."
On why Lohan keeps getting in trouble: "I haven't talked to her in a long time because it seemed like she was getting into some more trouble. I've tried to help her. I think one of the reasons it's so hard is when she gets in trouble, she gets all this attention and I'm sure she gets book offers. Like she goes to jail, and instead of feeling like I really hit a low place, she'll get a crazy offer for her jail memoir."


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I have been unable to find any authoritative (i.e. Blizzard) resources that describe how loot drop works. Where are people getting their information?
No, all information is based on Diablo 2 knowledge(where we had access to game files) and quotes here and there from Blizzard employees(blue posts, Interviews, tweets etc.) confirming it works the same way in Diablo 3.
An example of this is when Jay Wilson was asked about Tresure Classes and diminishing return on Magic find:
Because of this answer we know that Diablo 3 still uses the Tresure Class system that was used in Diablo 2.
I don't think you will ever find an authoritative source from Blizzard who actually gives a detailed description of how their loot formula works. That sort of information is too sensitive, and if they were to give out the formula, players would find a way to exploit it to their advantage. Not to mention, there are clearly tweaks to it that depend on several scenarios (monster type, first boss kill, etc.)
So what you are seeing on this site, forums, etc. are just general observations. Random loot is random, that is the nature of this game and many like it. So take what is said with a grain of salt.
In one word : random. As a lot of people said on the Blizzard forum "this is why Auction house (AH) will be a huge part of the game."
I can't tell you the base chances of dropping blue/rare/legendary items but as you may already know you can use gems and/or items to give you extra percentage of chances to find blue/rare items.


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A special kind of high-altitude athleticism is needed to work in Colorado's most extreme environments. For CU-Boulder scientists like ecology & evolutionary biology (EBIO) graduate student Courtney Naff, it's an inspiring place to push the boundaries of body and mind. This is an extended version of the story first broadcast on the Pac-12 Network.


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Let's say you need to design a purchase order form that is more complex than "usual" and has multiple elements affecting the final price:
- Choose between several tracks (e.g. Basic, Standard, Premium, etc.)
- Different license types in each package (e.g. Limited, Full, Admin, etc.)
- Commit to several licensing periods
How would you rather do it?
Step-by-Step wizard? or see and be able to change all the variables in one place?
The first is easier to use, but the second allows the user to quickly compare and see how each change is reflected on the bottom line.
If you have any good examples of such forms, I'd love to see them.


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M2 is designed to support up to 300mm F2.8 lenses.
Field tests show it indeed works well.
Dennis Biela tested M2 with Sony 300mm f2.8 G MKII on A99 with battery wrip.
And he loves it.
So M2 will support any lens up to 300mm F2.8, 400mm F4.Originally Posted by Dennis Biela
500mm or 600mm can be supported by using dual vertical arm and longer lower rail.


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Subject: Re: [OMPI users] Unable to find the following executable
From: Ralph Castain (rhc_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-11-18 10:35:24
You can qsub a simple "ls" on that path - that will tell you if the path is
valid on all machines in that allocation.
What typically happens is that home directories aren't remotely mounted, or
are mounted on a different location.
On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 8:31 AM, Tushar Andriyas <thugnomics28_at_[hidden]>wrote:
> no its not in the same directory as SWMF. I guess the path is the same
> since all the machines in a cluster are configured d same way. How do I know
> if this is not the case?
> On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 8:25 AM, Ralph Castain <rhc_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>> Is you "hello world" test program in the same directory as SWMF? Is it
>> possible that the path you are specifying is not available on all of the
>> remote machines? That's the most common problem we see.
>> On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 7:59 AM, Tushar Andriyas <thugnomics28_at_[hidden]>wrote:
>>> Hi there,
>>> Thanks for the expedite reply. The thing is that although the mpirun is
>>> setup correctly (since a simple hello world works), when I run the main
>>> SWMF.exe executable, the cluster machines somehow fail to find the
>>> executable (SWMF.exe).
>>> So, I have attached the sample error file from one of the runs
>>> (SWMF.e143438) and also the MAKEFILES so that you could better gauge the
>>> problem. The makefiles have Linux as the OS and pgf90 as compiler with
>>> mpif90 as the linker. I am using openmpi-1.2.7-pgi. Job is submitted using a
>>> batch file (job.bats) and the scheduler is Torque (version I am not sure but
>>> I can see three on the machines viz 2.0.0, 2.2.1, 2.5.2).
>>> I have also attached an error file from one of the clusters (WASATCH viz
>>> SWMF.e143439) and UINTA (SWMF.e143440) with the *whole path of the exe
>>> as Srirangam mentioned as follows (in the batch file)*.
>>> mpirun --prefix /opt/libraries/openmpi/openmpi-1.2.7-pgi
>>> /home/A00945081/SWMF_v2.3/run/SWMF.exe > runlog_`date +%y%m%d%H%M`
>>> I have tried both mpirun and mpiexec but nothing seems to work.
>>> Tushar
>>> On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 8:12 PM, Addepalli, Srirangam V <
>>> srirangam.v.addepalli_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>>>> Hello Tushar,
>>>> Have you tried supplying the full path of the executable just to check ?
>>>> Rangam
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>>>> Of Tushar Andriyas [thugnomics28_at_[hidden]]
>>>> Sent: Wednesday, November 17, 2010 8:49 PM
>>>> To: users_at_[hidden]
>>>> Subject: [OMPI users] Unable to find the following executable
>>>> Hi there,
>>>> I am new to using mpi commands and was stuck in problem with running a
>>>> code. When I submit my job through a batch file, the job exits with the
>>>> message that the executable could not be found on the machines. I have tried
>>>> a lot of options such as PBS -V and so on on but the problem persists. If
>>>> someone is interested, I can send the full info on the cluster, the compiler
>>>> and openmpi settings and other stuff. BTW the launcher is torque (which you
>>>> might have guessed). The code does not have a forum so I am in a deep mire.
>>>> Thanks,
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My very strong-willed 2 yr 10 mo. old son is curious about everything in his environment, which crops up as a problem now and then if something delicate, expensive, or dangerous comes into it. Eye glasses, cell phones, computer electronics, tools...
He'll take the item and start examining it; sometimes this . Invariably an adult will cry out, "Put that down!" or similar, but rather than obey his instinct is to hide the object behind his back and/or run away. Then, if chased, he throws the item (discarding the evidence of his misdeed?)
I'd like to hear if other parents have had this problem, how they dealt with it effectively?
[Update] So what I've taken to doing these past couple days when he takes something is, "Oh! , do you know what that is called?" This gives him pause. "What?" Then I tell him the name as I move closer to him. "Do you want to know where that goes?" I put my hand on his shoulder or back (just in case). "Yeah!" Then with my other hand I point to a specific spot on a table or desk. "That goes right here." Then when he puts it down I give him a "Good job!" or "Thank you!" and either pick him up or give him a hug. This has been working well so far.
As per some of the suggested answers, when new things come into the house I'm also going to try to proactively give them to him to look while I can supervise him, on the theory that once his curiosity is satisfied the danger will lessen.


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- Let your kids stay up later than usual on a clear summer evening.
- When it's really dark, go outside and look at the stars.
- If you live in a city, the city lights may make it hard to see the starlight, so drive to the country if you can.
- Bring a blanket, lie on your backs, and look at the constellations.
- If you like, bring an astronomy book, a flashlight, and a snack as well.
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Between the fall of the Western Roman Empire and the Reformation, were there any Christian groups outside the Roman Catholic Church? Who were they?
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Taking your defined period for the Middle Ages—starting at the fall of the Western Roman Empire in 476 CE and ending with the 95 Theses in 1517 (which began the Protestant Reformation)—a number of minor Christian groups that were considered heretical, and thus outside the communion of the Catholic Church, popped up.
Given the definition of Catholicism, anyone who does not accept the entire Dogmata of the Church would not be in communion with it. It would therefore be impossible to enumerate every single person or minor group in a 1,000 year time span who may or may not have been in communion with the Church during that time period. However, it should be noted that the Church, from time to time, did address these heresies in the form of Synods, Ecumenical Councils, Papal Bulls, Encyclicals, and so forth.
Among the points of contention in the Middle Ages were the following:
Those aside, there were two major events, or schisms:
It's important to note that, like the Protestant Reformation that would come a few hundred years later, in both cases, all sides laid claim to Catholicity and considered themselves Catholic due to the First Council of Constantinople, which established there is only one Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church.


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Say I only have the mean vector and the covariance matrix of some multivaraite distribution X, where all single-variable marinals are normal (note: this is not generally a multinormal distribution). Is there some maximum distance, measured perhaps by some (multivariate) divergence like KL or JS Divergence, between X and Y, where Y is the multinormal defined by the mean vector and covraince matrix?
Say I now only have a mean vector and the covariance matrix of a multivariate Bernoulli distribution. Is there a simple way to express the joint distribution probabilities of some multivariate Bernoulli that has such a mean vector and covariance matrix?
Regarding the second part of the question: say ${\bf x} = \{x_1, x_2 ... x_d\}$ is a $d-$dimensional Bernoulli variable. The joint probability function, in general, takes $2^d$ values, though the condition $\sum p({\bf x})=1$ leaves us with $2^d-1$ degrees of freedom. To represent it in some compact and handy way, the following representation is possible (I devised it some years ago for some problem I had at hands; it surely is well known).
I assume that our Bernoulli takes values in $\{-1,1\}$ instead of the more usual $\{0, 1\}$. Then, any joint probability of a set of Bernoullis can be written as (example for $\{ x_1,x_2,x_3 \}$) :
$$P(x_1,x_2,x_3)=\frac{1}{2^3}\left( a_{123} x_1 x_2 x_3 + a_{12} x_1 x_2 + a_{23} x_2 x_3 + a_{13} x_1 x_3 + a_{1} x_1 + a_{2} x_2 + a_{3} x_3 + a_{\emptyset} \right)$$
where $a_{i...k}=E[x_i ... x_k]$ (for example $a_{12}=E[x_1 x_2]$, etc) and $a_{\emptyset}=1$.
The convenience of this representation is twofold: first, the coefficients do not change if we add or suppress (marginalize) components: if we have the above formula and want to compute $P(x_1,x_2)$ or $P(x_1,x_2,x_3,x_4)$, we only must add or suppress terms, (and change the normalization factor). Second, independent components (recall that independent is the same as uncorrelated here) are easily spotted: for example, if $x_2$ is independent from $x_1$, then we'll have: $a_{12}=a_{1} a_2$. Further, $cov(x_1,x_2)=a_{12} - a_1 a_2$
The inconvenience of this representation is that, the condition $|a_{i...k}|\le1$ is necessary but not sufficient to be sure that it corresponds to a valid probability function. To check it, we must recover the values of the probability function. But the relation between this ${\bf p} =(p_{\emptyset},p_1,p_2 ... p_{12} ... p_{123})$ and the coefficients ${\bf a} =(a_{\emptyset},a_1,a_2 ... a_{12} ... a_{123})$ is straightforward: ${\bf a} = {\bf M p} $ with $m_{i,j}=\pm 1$ (the sign depends on the parity of common elements in the sets corresponding to that matrix row and column), and ${\bf M^{-1}}= {\bf M}^t / 2^d$ (I leave some details out, I doubt they will be missed).
So, if we are given the first and second moments of ${\bf x}$, we automatically have the first and second order coefficients. The rest of the coefficients are arbitrary, except for the restriction that they must lead to a valid probability function ($0 \le p_{i..k} \le 1$).
Regarding the first question, the idea is interesting, but I doubt there is some "maximum" distance. A mere suggestion: given that we are restricting to a variable with fixed first and second moments, to compute its deviation from the corresponding multivatiate gaussian I'd try with the entropy (substracted for the entropy for the corresponding gaussian, which should be bigger).
Added: To get explicitly ${\bf M}$: Note that in my notation for the joint probability function ${\bf p} =(p_{\emptyset},p_1,p_2 ... p_{12} ... p_{123})$ the subindexes denote the components that take positive value; hence, for example $p_{1}=P(x_1=1,x_2=-1,x_3=-1)$, $p_{23}=P(x_1=-1,x_2=1,x_3=1)$, etc.
Say we want to compute $a_{12}$.
$$a_{12}=E(x_1 x_2) = p_{123} (1)(1) + p_{12} (1)(1) + + p_{23} (-1)(1) + \cdots + p_1 (1)(-1) + p_{\emptyset}(-1)(-1)$$
$$a_i = \sum_j (-1)^{\#(S_i \setminus S_j)} p_j$$
where the indexes $i,j$ run over the $2^n$ subsets, and $\#(S_i \setminus S_j)$ is the cardinality of the difference set operation. That term, then, gives the elements of the matrix ${\bf M}$
Update: The matrix ${\bf M}$ is a type of Hadamard matrix, specifically (if I'm not mistaken) a Walsh matrix.


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I have a copy of signlab 7.1 with the dongle.. I run a small sign shop.. I work from home a lot too but don't like transporting my dongle from home to work everyday b.c I know I am going to eventually loose it is there anyway to use the software without the dongle one of the computers?
Use software with not dongle.. Yes I have dongle..
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So what is the point?
I want to be able to design stuff at home in the sign software when not at the shop and don't want to lose the dongle or if I am at home I can design it and email to shop and have someone cut it.. I can't do that right now.. I have to drive to the shop to give them the dongle so they can cut it.. It will be way more cost effective if I can use both computers at the same time..
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I am interested in a proof of the following.
$$ \int_1^{\infty} \dfrac{\{t\} (\{t\} - 1)}{t^2} dt = \log \left(\dfrac{2 \pi}{e^2}\right)$$ where $\{t\}$ is the fractional part of $t$.
I obtained a circuitous proof for the above integral. I'm curious about other ways to prove the above identity. So I thought I will post here and look at others suggestion and answers.
I am particularly interested in different ways to go about proving the above.
I'll hold off from posting my proof for sometime to see what all different proofs I get for this.


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I have Minecraft 1.4.5 installed on OS X. I can connect to other servers, and I can play Single-player, but I cannot run many commands in Single-player mode.
I would like to run the commands
/sethome and
/home. What is the installation I need to accomplish that?
On bukkit.org, I see instructions to set up Craftbukkit.
On minecraftwiki.net, I see how to set up a server and instructions for installing mods.
On khhq.net, I see instructions for setting up Essentials, which mentions MC "server".
I think Essentials will give me the
/sethome command. In order to have Essentials, I think I need Craftbukkit as a prerequisite.
Do I need to set up a Minecraft "server" in order to install Craftbukkit?


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A special benefit to honor Shane Farris, who succumbed to injuries during an oilfield explosion last summer, is being planned for Saturday, April 27 at the Carmi Elks Lodge.
The "Shane Farris Memorial Jam Session" will feature several musical acts, including First Cause, Hillbilly Funk, Alcoholics Unanimous, and acoustic performances by L.D. Wolf, Gene West and Sheri Stevens. Sam Hamblin will also serve as the evening's live DJ.
Admission to the event is $5 with all proceeds going to the Shane Farris Welding Scholarship.
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January 10, 2013
STEUBENVILLE — The FBI is investigating cyber attacks against Steubenville Police Chief Bill McCafferty and Jefferson County Sheriff Fred Abdalla....
New Steubenville motto:
"The rape was just an excuse ... She had to make up something"
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There was at least one girl at the party; Mackenzie S. girlfriend of Mark Cole. She's the one who persuaded her "friend" to come to the party. She set her friend up.
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A coach at Steubenville said:
"The rape was just an excuse, I think," said the 27-year-old Hubbard, who is No. 2 on the Big Red's career rushing list.
"What else are you going to tell your parents when you come home drunk like that and after a night like that?" said Hubbard, who is one of the team's 19 coaches. "She had to make up something. Now people are trying to blow up our football program because of it."
This is all you need to know about this town. These football players and coaches are sick human beings.
And I'm a huge football fan. Just not of teams that think being raped is "just an excuse" to stay out late.
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Who's houses were they at and why no adult arrest. The coach should lose his job for threatening the reporter. if this is the moral fabric the parents must be great. of big red
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@colkrause - as a female, I've been considering this question myself, and I'm not sure which is scarier---the victim being dragged to parties that were all male attendees---or that there were females present and non of them have the moral fiber or the immediate rise of compunction to change the course of events. I also find it odd that there is no evidence of what students were actually in attendence at all of these parties since its extremely difficult for any teenage not to make use of all the different social medias (instagram seems to be the favorite these days among teens) and cells phones being extensions of every teenagers hands --how is it that is been so difficult in nailing down the factual account of a time line?
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Thank you for picking up on the sarcasm. I've been reading your comments in this thread and others, and you are spot on. With my comment here, I was exposing our societal absurdity wherein a woman going out to get drunk, which we have presumably all done at some point, has to factor in rape. Oh hey, you may get raped, but only if you're female and drunk. And by the way, it's your fault.
I'm a guy, but seriously, this is some bs. I hope you can see my intention.
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Donning you are an ignorant **** who has no business using sarcasm to undermine the severity of this sick situation. Why don't you do everyone a favor and keep your big mouth shut. Thank you kindly.
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Haven't you heard the message? Women don't have opinions or make decisions about things. They just go out -- at their peril -- and hope to not get raped. It's really a credit to all the men out there that more women aren't getting raped, what with all their alcohol drinking and skirts and legs and suchnot. How silly of them to assume they could go into public, PUBLIC, WITHOUT EVEN A BURKA ON, and return home unraped.
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It appears to me that there are many "crackpots" in the area.
On both sides of the issue.
Why single out one?
Here's an observation: Why has no one mentioned any girls in this investigation? Or were the parties for guys only?
Why didn't some other young lady speak out at the time?
Just asking? Seems likely that girls were at the parties also, and if they weren't seems pretty weird.
Anyone know?
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8 Nov 2008 6:52 AM #1
[CLOSED] GXT 1.1.2: DateField does not fire Change Event
I am finding that DateField objects do not seem to fire change events when they are updated. I am trying to use change listeners to keep field values in sync with model values in a uniform way, but DateFields don't seem to want to cooperate.
Here is a simple example.
FormPanel fp = new FormPanel();
final DateField df = new DateField();
df.addListener(Events.Change, new Listener() {
public void handleEvent(FieldEvent p_event)
MessageBox.alert("Date Field Changed", df.getValue(), null);
The change event never fires when I render this guy. In addition, I have tried firing the change event myself from the setValue() method, but that seems to wreak havoc with the widget a bit. Not sure why, but I am looking at the internals now.
10 Nov 2008 8:53 AM #2
Please post complete test code when submitting a bug as it make it much easier to replicate the issue.
For example:
public void onModuleLoad() { FormPanel fp = new FormPanel(); DateField df = new DateField(); df.addListener(Events.Change, new Listener<FieldEvent>() { public void handleEvent(FieldEvent p_event) { Window.alert("change: " + p_event.value); } }); fp.add(df); RootPanel.get().add(fp); }
12 Nov 2008 5:33 AM #3
Code Examples will do...
Darrell -
No problem on the code examples. Thanks a ton for getting those fixes in. This one and the resize issue fixed me right up. Much appreciated.
10 Mar 2010 5:56 PM #4
but what about if you want the event to fire on change (that is once user has clicked a date on the datepicker) and you DO NOT want to have to wait for blur to occur ????
22 Apr 2010 6:20 AM #5
There is a solution :
DateField startDate = new DateField(); startDate.getDatePicker().addListener(Events.Select, new Listener<DatePickerEvent>() { public void handleEvent(DatePickerEvent be) { // TODO Auto-generated method stub //On Select event :) } });
23 Aug 2011 3:38 AM #6
Is it possible to auto-blur the DateField when the picker fires a selected event?
Is it possible to auto-blur the DateField when the picker fires a selected event?
I can only find a way to focus another field, but it would be best if the field could be de-focused automatically.
This would allow the change event to fire, and also stop users accidentally typing in the field once they have selected a date.


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Is there a classification of involutions in $\text{GL}_n(\mathbb{Z})$?
Here's some more details about what I mean. Consider $f \in \text{GL}_n(\mathbb{Z})$ such that $f^2=1$. Regard $f$ as an automorphism of $\mathbb{Z}^n$. Extend $f$ to an automorphism $g$ of $\mathbb{Q}^n$. Then we can write $\mathbb{Q}^n = E_1 \oplus E_{-1}$, where $g$ acts as the identity on $E_1$ and as $-1$ on $E_{-1}$. Restricting this decomposition to $\mathbb{Z}^n$, we obtain a finite-index subgroup $A$ of $\mathbb{Z}^n$ and a decomposition $A = F_1 \oplus F_{-1}$ such that $f$ acts as the identity on $F_1$ and as $-1$ on $F_{-1}$.
However, we definitely cannot assume that $A = \mathbb{Z}^n$. For instance, the matrix whose first row is $(0 1)$ and whose second row is $(1 0)$ (by the way, I can't figure out how to get my matrices to display correctly) is an involution in $\text{GL}_n(\mathbb{Z})$ that can be diagonalized over $\mathbb{Q}$ but not over $\mathbb{Z}$.
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Crate Motor Assembly - Outfitting Your CrateWritten by on January 7, 2012 Putting together the complete crate racing package
One of the common misconceptions for crate racing is all you have to do is go out and buy a crate motor, bolt it up, and you're ready to go racing on the cheap. Unfortunately, unless you get lucky enough to have all the right parts and pieces that bolt right up, there's a bit more to it than that.
These days, crate racing has become a very competitive business. Even if you're racing a box-stock crate motor, there's a lot you can do to separate yourself from the pack. Because of its limited horsepower, and the fact that everybody is racing the same engine, crate racing has become a game of momentum. The racers that are winning the most are doing a better job of maintaining speed as they roll through the corners so that the exit speed is also increased. That's a traction and chassis setup issue. On the engine side of things, the winners are constantly finding ways to limit the unnecessary friction and horsepower losses on the power-limited crate engines.
Because of the unique qualities of the most popular crate racing engines—the Chevrolet 602 and 604 engines are easily the leaders of the pack in the crate racing world—smart racers and component manufacturers have developed hardware specifically to work with the crates. Lightweight, low-drag components help eliminate friction so more of the horsepower generated makes it to the rear wheels. For example, Jones Racing Products has produced a front-drive kit specifically for the 604 crate engine. And because they know where this engine redlines, Jones was able to size the water pump pulley perfectly so that the pump spins at the optimum speed to provide good coolant flow through the engine and radiator without spinning the pump too fast which just burns horsepower.
On the other end of the engine, Quarter Master has recently made available a bellhousing/starter/ flywheel kit that's designed with the same high quality as the kits specified for the Super Late Models but this kit utilizes a small flywheel combined with a high-torque reverse mount starter to minimize rotating weight. This reduction in weight can help the engine spin up faster and accelerate out of the turns just a bit more quickly than the competition.
That's the purpose of this two-part series. Giving yourself the best chance when going crate racing means taking a good, hard look at the entire drivetrain—not simply dropping in your new crate motor and going racing. Recently, we looked at installing a low drag rearend in a Dirt Late Model (in the Aug. and Sept. '11 issues of Circle Track), this time around we'll spend a couple of issues looking at components closer to the engine.
Up first is Quarter Master's Clutchless Bellhousing Kit, which is a perfect first for Dirt Late Model crate racers. Next month, we'll outfit the rest of our new Chevy 604 crate with a front-drive kit from Jones Racing Products, prime the pumps with a trick fuel pump and regulator setup from CV Products, and wire everything up with a complete ignition system from MSD.
Besides a straight-up bellhousing and clutch install, we've included a few tricks that should make your life in the pits a little easier if—heaven forbid—you have to pull your engine for some reason. We're working with a Dirt Late Model, but much of what we're discussing here will work with any crate class (especially if you're racing a Bert/Brinn-style transmission). So check out the first of our two-part installment series on outfitting your crate motor and be sure to check back in next month.
This way, when the engine is removed the bellhousing and transmission are still securely mounted to the car and there is no need to try to balance on a jackstand
Even if you are racing a box-stock crate motor, there's a lot you can do to separate yourself from the pack.
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Here's our Quarter Master kit right out of the box. This kit is a direct bolt-on for Chevrolet crates and utilizes many of the same components trusted by top-flight Unlimited Late Model teams, including the magnesium machined bellhousing and the high-torque reverse mount starter. Even all the fasteners we needed are included! This kit uses a small flywheel for minimal rotating weight and omits the clutch so it must be used with Bert/Brinn-style transmissions.Here's the trick we mentioned that can make your life in the pits a whole lot easier. It isn't required, but you may want to consider adding it to your own install. Almost all bellhousing kits fasten to the engine block with a set of bolts that extend from the bellhousing, through the midplate and into the block. But that means whenever you pull the engine the bellhousing and transmission are no longer supported. Here, crew chief Neil Wilson has already drilled an extra four holes in the midplate and is using a center-punch to mark the bellhousing. Short bolts through the standard mounting holes are used to hold the midplate securely to the bellhousing for proper alignment.After the centers have been marked, driver Chris Hargett drills through the bellhousing with a #7 bit and then taps the holes with a 1/4-20 tap.Here's a close-up of the finished hole. A large drill bit is used to countersink the hole on the midplate side.Now by using a 1/4-20 socket head screw you can securely attach the bellhousing (and transmission) to the midplate without creating any interference between the block and the midplate. This way, when the engine is removed the bellhousing and transmission are still securely mounted to the car and there is no need to try to balance them on a jackstand.The magnesium bellhousing is incredibly light but also quite strong. Notice those beefy ribs at the 10 and 2 o'clock positions. The rib near the starter mount (foreground) is especially important to resist cracking from the force of the high-torque starter (a weakness of many lesser bellhousings). Also note how the bellhousing is completely machined along the faces where the transmission and starter mount. Quarter Master says its bellhousings should have a total runout less than an incredible 0.006-inch. Here, the oil pump mount is being bolted up. The 604 crate uses an internal pump, so this mount isn't strictly necessary, but the mount also helps provide support for the bellhousing structure and weighs little since it is fabricated from aluminum, so we're installing it.Next comes the installation of Quarter Master's reverse roation starter which mounts with a heavy-duty plate between the bellhousing and starter. This starter will work with both 12- and 16-volt electrical systems.If you're using a remote solenoid to send power to the starter, you will need to install the included jumper. To get the jumper screw started, first open up the hole in the spade terminal with a 1/8-inch bit. Then it should thread through easily.
Here's a look from the other side. From this angle you can see how closely the starter is tucked in to the centerline of the crankshaft in order to work with the extremely lightweight 91-tooth aluminum flywheel.The bellhousing/midplate assembly is ready to be mounted to the chassis and can be used to secure both the engine and the transmission.Here are the components from the kit that mount directly to the engine. They include (from left) the drive hub, a 91-tooth aluminum flywheel, a balance weight, and fasteners.Here's one of the things Quarter Master makes easy when racing crates. Like all old Chevy 350s, the 604 is externally balanced. General Motors uses a balance weight on the damper to take care of the front of the motor, but adding the proper balance to the back normally requires using a heavy stock flywheel. Quarter Master solves this problem by including this balance plate that will sandwich between the flywheel and drive hub. The holes in the plate are clocked along with the crank mounting holes so that they will only work one way. There's no worry of misaligning the balance plate and tearing up your new crate engine.With the balance plate in place, the hub and flywheel can be bolted up. Normally, the flywheel bolts are torque to 70 ft-lb. We simply held onto the damper on the front of the engine to keep the crank from turning while Wilson put the final torque to the bolts. Trying to torque flywheel bolts while the engine is turning over is a good way to ensure you don't have the correct torque value.We made a mistake early on when we mounted the balance plate between the crankshaft and flywheel, as you can see here. This moved the flywheel too far back and wouldn't allow the reverse mount starter to disengage. Moving the balance plate so that it's between the flywheel and drive hub put things back where the engineers designed them to be and fixed the problem.


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Let $S^\omega$ denote either $\omega^\omega$ or $2^\omega$.
Let's call a function $f: S^\omega \rightarrow$ {0,1} 'nice' if there exists a function $g_f: S^{\lt \omega} \rightarrow 2$ such that for every $x \in S^\omega$: $\lim_{k \rightarrow \infty} g_f( (x_0,...,x_k) ) = f(x)$.
(One could think of this as a calculation of $f(x)$ that 'changes its mind' at most finitely often.)
(Note that this does not imply that $f$ is continuous. Rather, the nice functions correspond to $\Delta_2^0$ sets.)
If $\alpha$ is an ordinal, we call $f$ '$\alpha$-nice' if there exists a function $h_f: S^{\lt \omega} \rightarrow \alpha \times\lbrace 0,1\rbrace$ such that, using the notation $(\alpha(k), n(k)) = h_f( (x_0,..., x_k) )$, we have:
$\lim_{k \rightarrow \infty} n(k) = f(x)$ for all $x \in S^\omega$
$\alpha(k+1) \leq \alpha(k)$ for all $k \in \omega$
whenever $n(k+1) \neq n(k)$, we have $\alpha(k+1) \lt \alpha(k)$
We'll say that $f$ 'has rank' $\alpha$ if $\alpha$ is the minimal ordinal such that $f$ is $\alpha$-nice (if there exists any such $\alpha$).
Is every nice function an $\alpha$-nice function for some $\alpha$?
Assuming ZFC but not CH, what is the maximum (or l.u.b.) rank that a nice function can have?


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