I'm currently finishing up my last year of study as an undergraduate mathematics major at a top 2 public school.  I've been interested in getting a phD in mathematics for some time now, but my GPA and work in some classes in my 1st and 2nd years leaves a lot to be desired.   Let's just say I got pretty bad grades in important classes.  Since then, I've worked my but off and currently have around a 3.3 GPA.  Luckily, I was accepted into a Statistics/Computer Science related Masters program.  In this program, I will have the opportunity to take electives and plan to take some higher level math classes.    My question is, will doing very well in my masters program next year override my poor performance as an undergrad? Also, should I be really trying to get a research position this summer?
Suppose you do bad in undergraduate school in say computer science. But you do very well in a masters program in computer science. If you want to apply to a PhD program in computer science, will the masters degree grades offset the undergraduate degree grades?
How to generate Bernoulli random variables with common correlation $\rho$? 30" monitor has black border around desktop I have been using a 24" monitor with my macbook pro early 2011 connected via a mini display port to DVI adaptor.  I recently received an HP Z30i 30" monitor.  When I connect to it with an mini display port to display port adaptor, although it displays at the monitors native 2560x1600 resolution, the mac is scaling the desktop display down so as to leave a 1cm or so black border around the desktop.  The mac reports using a resolution of 2560x1600 and the display reports this also.   This makes the display blurry as single pixels become sub pixels.   The display looks like the same effect as having "under scan" turned on when using an HDMI cable at 1080p.  I thought that maybe there was a hardware or display problem, but when I boot off a previous system partition from a different hard-drive using the same OS (10.8.5) release, the monitor set up works perfectly.  This proves the OS release, display and the hardware, so I'm thinking that there must be a preferences problem with my current setup.  Perhaps the under scan setting is somehow being applied to this display when it's not using HDMI?  I've tried deleting /Library/Preferences/com.apple.windowserver.plist, ~/Library/Preferences/ByHost/com.apple.windowserver.HostNumber.plist and rebooting but no results.   The scaling is applied before the login screen and logging in as a different user has the same problem.  Any ideas?  It's driving me nuts, I've got this nice 30" screen and I can't use it! How to get access to USB-storage from an application installed as Snap? Why do electron and proton have the same but opposite electric charge? What is the explanation between equality of proton and electron charges (up to a sign)? This is connected to the gauge invariance and renormalization of charge is connected to the renormalization of photon field, but is this explanation enough? Do we have some experimental evidence that quarks have 2/3 and -1/3 charges? By the way I think about bare charge of electron and proton. And I am also wondering if this can be explained by Standard Model. Built-in unit strings recognized by Quantity? Unable to log out of chat. I attempted to log out with the following actions:    This accomplished absolutely nothing since I remained logged in after clicking "log out" on the confirmation page. I then tried logging out of Stack Exchange from one of the network sites and repeated the steps above. The results were the same. I remained logged in no matter which combination of steps I performed.  In fact, the only way I could log out at all was to clear all of the cookies that were set. How do I use sudo to redirect output to a location I don't have permission to write to? I remember reading ages ago that it's a good idea to choose either www.example.com or domainexamplecom as your main URL and then set the other one as a 301 redirect to point to your domain? The reason provided was:  Some people may link to www.example.com Other links may point to example.com  In order to not lose 'SEO link juice', the individual recommended setting up a 301 redirect from one to the other. Has this changed? Is it true? I would have guessed that Google (and other search engines) would be smart enough to whack some code in their algorithm to understand that in most cases www.example.com = example.com? What inspired Tauriel's story arc? I know Tauriel is a Jackson created character, but I wondered if anywhere in the legendarium there was fodder for the story arc between her and Kili.  I do not have access to all my books for the time being and recall stories of love between men and elves in the Silmarillion and Appendices but don't remember any such stories between elves and dwarves and wondered if there was any basis of inspiration for this aspect of their relationship within Tolkien's works.   This movie, of course, departs even further from the original than those made before it, but as a story unto itself, I can still appreciate the ride, so if there is no Tolkien basis, what inspired Jackson, Boyens, and Walsh to create this particular arc?  Is there interview info or anything? Ability to update profile from the Stack Exchange Android App It would be nice to update the profile page from within the app.  Perhaps not many people update their profiles more frequently, but when required to do so, I would prefer to do it from the app instead of the mobile browser. How to fix infinite bash loop (bashrc + bash_profile) when ssh-ing into an ec2 server? I mistakenly have source .bash_profile in the bashrc file and vice versa. Now when I tried to ssh into the machine (ec2), it will stuck at loading bash and get connection closed in a second. Is there a way I could fix it? Could I mount the disk to another ec2 instance to fix the bash files?  Update 1: I tried the following: %  ssh -i &quot;my-pem.pem&quot; -t ubuntu@&lt;server_address&gt;.amazonaws.com &quot;/bin/bash --noprofile --norc&quot; Connection to &lt;server_address&gt;.amazonaws.com closed.  Nothing else showed up. Do you have any idea on what was going wrong? For sanity check, if I do ssh -i &quot;my-pem.pem&quot;ubuntu@&lt;server_address&gt;.amazonaws.com, the message will be ...  28 packages can be updated. 0 of these updates are security updates. To see these additional updates run: apt list --upgradable  New release '20.04.2 LTS' available. Run 'do-release-upgrade' to upgrade to it.   Last login: Mon Feb 22 23:17:41 2021 from ip Connection to &lt;server_address&gt;.amazonaws.com closed.  Solution Just ssh onto the machine and immediately do Ctrlc and fix the bash files. I went into Live CD and activated Terminal.  Then, I typed gksu nautilus to gain temporary access to my root directory. Once the Manager window opened, I clicked on File System and navigated to the /etc/default/grub directory. I then double clicked on the Grub file to make changes to the TIMEOUT and TIMEOUT_QUIET.  I saved the file after I made the changes. Then I went back to the terminal mode and typed:  gksu update-grub   The error message I got was:     Can not find a device for / (is /dev mounted?)   I'm not sure what to do at this point. How can I run update-grub to update the changes? Thanks in advance for your help. Please be very detailed and specific with your response as I am totally new to this environment. Grepping through .gz log files Does there exist a magical shell piping which would allow easily to grep through bunch of .gz log files without needing to extract them somewhere?  .gz files are Apache logs, result of log rotation. I'd like to quickly check how often certain URIs are accessed in the past. Let $a,b,c,d,p$, and $q$ be natural numbers such that $ad-bc = 1$ and $\frac{a}{b} &gt; \frac{p}{q} &gt; \frac{c}{d}$.  How prove that  $q \geq b+d$? How to emulate titletoc with tocloft I was using titletoc until I realized that it has some incompatibilities with hyperref. The thing is, that titletoc can do the same thing in a easier way, less one.  \titlecontents*{subsection}[5.4em] {\small} {\thecontentslabel~ } {} {} [.~\textbullet\ ] [.]   this part does the subsection as a paragraph (with section number and without page number). I have realized that the problem is the pseudo-code used by tocloft for the entries in the TOC  {\cftXfont {\cftXpresnum SNUM\cftXaftersnum\hfil} \cftXaftersnumb TITLE}% {\cftXleader}{\cftXpagefont PAGE}\cftXafterpnum\par   I mean, the last command \par make impossible to leave two subsection entries in the same textline. Any idea? Another interesting solution is with etoolbox, some examples with that package are awesome, but it's not on my hands.  This is a MWE:  \documentclass{book}  \usepackage{titletoc} \titlecontents*{subsection}[5.4em]{\small} {\thecontentslabel~ }{}{}[.~\textbullet\ ][.]  \begin{document}  \tableofcontents  \chapter{Test Chapter 1} \section{Test Section 1.1} \subsection{First Test Subsection} \subsection{Second Test Subsection} \subsection{Third Test Subsection} \subsection{Fourth Test Subsection} \section{Test Section 1.2} \subsection{First Test Subsection} \subsection{Second Test Subsection}  \chapter{Test Chapter 2} \section{Test Section 2.1} \subsection{First Test Subsection} \subsection{Second Test Subsection} \subsection{Third Test Subsection} \subsection{Fourth Test Subsection} \section{Test Section 2.2} \subsection{First Test Subsection} \subsection{Second Test Subsection}  \end{document} ArcGIS Python Tool - Importing Custom Script Into ToolValidator Class Example of $\deg(fg)<\deg(f)+\deg(g)$ Attributing contributions to academic work that occur in Stack Exchange For which $n≥2$ does there exist $\sigma\in A_n$ with $|\sigma| &gt; n$? I have a proof that I'd like to be verified. My proof that there exists $\sigma\in A_n$ with $|\sigma| &gt; n$ if and only if $n\geq 8$: For $n&lt;8$, one can manually verify for each $n$ that there is no $\sigma\in A_n$ with order greater than $n$. Suppose $n\geq 8$. Case 1: $n$ is even and $3\not\mid n$. Then the permutation $(1,2,3)(4,\dots,n)$ is even and has order $\operatorname{lcm}(3,n-3)=3n-9\geq n+16-9\geq n + 7$. Case 2: $n$ is even and $3\mid n$. Then $n\geq 12$, so $n-2\geq 8$ is even and is not divisible by 3. Applying Case 1, we see that $(1,2,3)(4,\dots,n-2)\in A_n$ has order at least $n+5$. Case 3: $n$ is odd. Then apply one of the previous two cases with $n-1$ to get an even permutation with order at least $n+4$. $\blacksquare$ Is my proof correct? It doesn't seem very elegant. Is there some slicker proof? Quantum teleportation - the alternative to destroying atoms Can't you just disassemble, not destroy our atoms and transport them to another teleporter via networking or telecoms?  This is my thinking of how to keep the same person, not an exact copy of him/her, alive when teleporting.  Please answer to tell me if it's possible or not.