I'm thinking of something where somebody (with no malicious intention) offers a very plausible and scientific-sounding explanation (not a theory but something presented as a series of facts) such that nobody would even question it because it makes total sense. It is accepted as truth. However, if one actually did an experiment to test the explanation it is easily falsified, showing the explanation to be incorrect and that other factors must be responsible for the observed phenomenon.  Is there a word to describe such an explanation?
In Greek, λογικοφανής is a word that describes a person who spits out seemingly logical statements. It often has a negative connotation as it is targeted towards people who tend to fool the public with supposedly beautifully-constructed thoughts that sound convincing in our ears but are not necessarily accurate. The first word that comes to mind is deceptive, but it is not quite what I look for. Any thoughts?
What is the best way to animate the camera path? I'm modeling a car driving along a road(speeds up, slows down, and stops at traffic lights to wait till the lights turn green, etc.) What is the best way to animate the camera path for the following scenario?   The camera starts moving from point A, and it takes 500 frames to get to point B. During this 500 frames, the camera first gradually speeds up, then moves at a constant speed, and finally slows down to a complete stop at point B. The next 50 frames, the camera will stay at point B. From frame 551, it takes another 500 frames to get to point C from point B. The camera experiences the same motion as described in #1 (speeds up, constant speed, slows down, then stop.) Again, the camera will stay at point C for another 50 frames.  Point C to D is a curve path ( added using Shift + A -> add path). I want the camera to move along the path from frame 1101 to frame 1200. The camera should have the same motion as before(speeds up, constant speed, slows down, then stop.)   What is the best way to animate the camera path in this case? Is there any Python scripts available and can be applied to case like this? Thank you all in advance for your replies. How to prevent "Write Failed: broken pipe" on SSH connection? What can I do to configure SSH on both client and servers to prevent Write Failed: broken pipe errors? It often occurs if you sleep your client computer and resume later. Are users notified when their questions are reopened? Do users get notified when their question is reopened? I know there are no notifications , and that makes sense because 1) you assume the user is paying attention to their open, unanswered question, and they'll probably notice it's been put on hold and 2) it follows with the SE policy of (in general) not sending notifications for negative events.  However a reopening is a good thing, and once a question is closed it becomes less likely that the OP will be coming back to check on it often (so they might not notice the reopening otherwise). If there are not reopen notifications, why not? Or can we add them? How do I change text on the submission button in the node form? How to change the background color only for the current page? How can I revert a config file back to the originally installed version after I have edited it? There are 100 ropes in a bag. In each step, two rope ends are picked at random, tied together and put back into a bag. The process is repeated until there are no free ends. What is the expected number of loops at the end of the process? I had one batch class in which i am passing some data required for creating object record.But when i call that batch class from parent class variables are initialized but start method are not called as there is no record to query i also tried with iterable object but not able to do that.My code is as below  global class testBatchClass implements Database.Batchable&lt;SObject&gt;,Database.Stateful{     public List&lt;sObject&gt; sObjectList;     public string objectName;     public String dataList;      public testBatchClass(String objectName,String inputdata){          String listType = 'List&lt;'+objectName+'&gt;';         system.debug('list type value is'+listType);         List&lt;SObject&gt; castRecords = (List&lt;SObject&gt;)Type.forName(listType).newInstance();         this.sObjectList = castRecords;         this.objectName = objectName;         this.dataList = inputdata;      }     global Iterable&lt;SObject&gt; start(Database.BatchableContext batchableContext) {         return new sObjectList{};     }     global void execute(Database.BatchableContext batchableContext, List&lt;sobject&gt; scope){          List&lt;OpportunityRenewal__mdt&gt; mdtList = new List&lt;OpportunityRenewal__mdt&gt;([Select id,Api_Name_of_Fields__c,Sobject_Name__c from TestFileUploadCustomSetting1__mdt where Sobject_Name__c=:objectName]);         List&lt;String&gt; fieldName = new List&lt;String&gt;();         for(OpportunityRenewal__mdt md : mdtList){             if(md.Sobject_Name__c == objectName){                 fieldName = md.Api_Name_of_Fields__c.Split(',');                 break;             }         }         List&lt;String&gt; dataRowsSplit= dataList.split(',');         dataRowsSplit.remove(0);         for(String eachRow: dataRowsSplit){             List&lt;String&gt; splitString = eachRow.Split(',');             sObject sobj = Schema.getGlobalDescribe().get(objectName).newSObject();             for(Integer i=0; i &lt;= splitString.Size(); i++){                 sobj.put(fieldName[i],splitString[i]);             }             scope.add(sobj);         }         if(scope != Null &amp;&amp; scope.Size() &gt; 0){             upsert scope;         }     }      global void finish(Database.BatchableContext batchableContext) {} }   Thanks Adding HTML entities using CSS content I want to be able to calculate the confidence interval from the estimated coefficient and respective standard errors.  I have a linear regression model which can be summarized (in R):  summary(fit1)  Call: lm(formula = bwt ~ height + weight + parity, data = data)  Residuals:     Min      1Q  Median      3Q     Max  -66.913 -10.624   0.991  10.979  55.621   Coefficients:             Estimate Std. Error t value Pr(&gt;|t|)     (Intercept) 31.19217   13.56879   2.299   0.0217 *   height       1.24964    0.23083   5.414 7.48e-08 *** weight       0.06781    0.02823   2.402   0.0164 *   parity1     -1.83309    1.19838  -1.530   0.1264     --- Signif. codes:  0 ‘***’ 0.001 ‘**’ 0.01 ‘*’ 0.05 ‘.’ 0.1 ‘ ’ 1  Residual standard error: 17.9 on 1170 degrees of freedom Multiple R-squared:  0.04898,   Adjusted R-squared:  0.04654  F-statistic: 20.08 on 3 and 1170 DF,  p-value: 1.071e-12   With this model I can calculate the respective confidence intervals:  &gt; confint(fit1)                   2.5 %     97.5 % (Intercept)  4.57029503 57.8140351 height       0.79676227  1.7025207 weight       0.01243198  0.1231932 parity1     -4.18429933  0.5181151   I would expect the intervals of the predictor height to be given by  $$ 1.24964 \pm (1.96*0.23083) = [0.7972132,1.702067] $$  where 1.24964 is the estimated value for the coefficient and 0.23083 is the standard error for this coefficient. The numbers are close but not quite the same.  What am I doing wrong? What is $\mathbb{E}[W(s)\mathrm{e}^{W(S)}]$ where W(S) is a standard Brownian Motion? I know that since it is a Brownian motion that $W(s)\sim{N(0,s)}$. One approach I tried, was to see that $W(s)-W(0)\sim N(0,1)$ and to let $X = W(s)$ and then solve $\mathbb{E}[X\mathrm{e}^X]$ but I end up with some awful integral. I was wondering whether there was an easier way? Or perhaps a simple way to solve this integral: $\int_{-\infty}^{\infty} \frac{1}{\sqrt{2{\pi}s}}x\mathbb{e}^{x}\mathbb{e}^{-\frac{x^2}{2s}}$ What is the sweet spot for experience gain? Is it more effective to fight the highest level enemies I can find, or am I penalized for being out of my depth? Are certain areas of the game better/best for experience gain/leveling? Are bosses better than areas with infinite minions? Would I get exp faster in a higher-level co-op game? What are the most time-effective techniques for rushing/boosting a character (either solo or co-op)? I'm looking to generate a set of 5 random variables and enforce a dependence structure between them and onto a dependent variable $Y$.  I understand how to generate correlated random variables for multivariate normal, but not when mixing different types.  Below is a little more than I need, but I'm hoping someone can give me a general way of solving this problem...   $X_1$ and $X_2$ need to be highly correlated Bernoulli variables.  $X_3$ needs to take one of 5 categorical values, call them "A"..."E".  $X_4$ needs to be normal, and negatively correlated with $X_1$, $X_2$.  $X_5$ needs to approximate test scores from $0$ to $100$ with a high skew, so gamma probably.  $X_5$ needs to be positively correlated with $X_1$, $X_2$, $X_4$.   Each of these variables must impact a "success/occurrence" Bernoulli distributed variable $Y$.  How would I begin?  I would like to enforce correlation both between the values of $X$, and also between each $X$ and $Y$.  (The categorical correlations seem particularly confusing to me.) Impossibility of constructing a continuum-size linearly independent set in $\Bbb R$ This is a response to the following exchange at    [Bill constructs a $\aleph_0$ linearly independent set in $\Bbb R$]  Can you extend the idea of this proof to get the right dimension? Currently, you only have a countably infinite independent set, but the dimension is size continuum. –   I believe the answer to this question is no, for the following reason. Suppose we have a spanning set for $\Bbb R$ over $\Bbb Q$, of cardinality $\frak n$. Then by definition we have the cardinality equation ${\frak c}\le^*[{\frak n}]^{&lt;\omega}\cdot \aleph_0$ (where $[{\frak n}]^{&lt;\omega}$ is the cardinality of finite subsets, and $\frak m\le^*n$ means there is a surjection from $\frak n$ to $\frak m$). If $\frak n$ is finite, then we get ${\frak c}\le^*\aleph_0$ which is false, so $\frak n$ is infinite (but not necessarily Dedekind-infinite). If we assume the axiom of choice, then the equation reduces to $\frak c\le n$, hence every Hamel basis is size continuum. But without AC I don't know any way to simplify the original equation to get anything stronger than &quot;$\frak n$ is infinite&quot;. This is at best heuristic evidence for the original question, since it is considering a different problem (spanning sets instead of linearly independent sets). How could one show that there are no ZF-constructible $\Bbb Q$-linearly independent subsets of $\Bbb R$ of cardinality continuum? I have an image that is Base64 encoded. What is the best way to decode that in Java? Hopefully using only the libraries included with Sun Java 6. Is $7$ the only prime followed by a cube? How can I detect if my apple device supports Bluetooth Low Energy How to set programmatically multiple arguments for views contextual filters How to set programmatically multiple arguments for views contextual filters?  I can do it with one argument, it works great, but not with multiple arguments.  I want to select all nodes created by a list of people, but views only takes first in array into consideration:  $array = array(3250,32); $view = views_get_view('myview'); $view-&gt;set_display("myblock"); $view-&gt;set_arguments($array); $view-&gt;pre_execute(); $view-&gt;execute(); $content = $view-&gt;render();    Am I doing something wrong? Switching between windows with scroll wheel on Ubuntu Dock I would like to switch between windows using the scroll wheel of the mouse over each app icon in Ubuntu dock, as we could do in Unity, but apparently this doesn't work in Ubuntu 17.10. Is there a way to enable it?   Related: I have a script that reads a text stream and generates a file of sed commands that is later run with sed -f. The generated sed commands are like:  s/cid:image002\.gif@01CC3D46\.926E77E0/https:\/\/mysite.com\/files\/1922/g s/cid:image003\.gif@01CC3D46\.926E77E0/https:\/\/mysite.com\/files\/1923/g s/cid:image004\.jpg@01CC3D46\.926E77E0/https:\/\/mysite.com\/files\/1924/g   Assume the script which generates the sed commands is something like:  while read cid fileid do     cidpat="$(echo $cid | sed -e s/\\./\\\\./g)"     echo 's/'"$cidpat"'/https:\/\/mysite.com\/files\/'"$fileid"'/g' &gt;&gt; sedscr done   How can I improve the script to ensure all regex metacharacters in the cid string are escaped and interpolated properly?