I am looking for one word to describe making a mistake that ordinarily should have been well within your ability to perform properly.  For example, if someone is considered especially gifted in perceptual organization, yet they fail to notice how to open an extremely simple lock, what type of mistake is that?  The connotation I'm looking for is something like a gross blunder, or an uncharacteristically stupid mistake.  The one word can be any type of word, i.e. noun, adjective, verb, etc. For example:   "You have made a (noun)." "You just (verb)ed." "That was very (adjective)."   Words like "gaffe", "blunder", "mistake", to me at least, don't indicate the extreme uncharacteristicness of the stupidity involved.
What is a nicer, less immature saying?  I love using 'A Freudian slip', but that is only applicable in certain situations.
Why is the harmonic oscillator so important? I've been wondering what makes the  such an important model. What I came up with:   It is a (relatively) simple system, making it a perfect example for physics students to learn principles of classical and quantum mechanics. The harmonic oscillator potential can be used as a model to approximate many physical phenomena quite well.   The first point is sort of meaningless though, I think the real reason is my second point. I'm looking for some materials to read about the different applications of the HO in different areas of physics. Dynamic Server Name in SQL Statements (from clause) the numer of partial function between two sets in combinatoric way How can I implement object oriented programming in Mathematica? Change the display scaling on the fly I'm looking for a keyboard shortcut or a CLI instruction to change the display scale on the fly. Seems there's nothing in compiz-config manager to handle this? 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At first I though it was: at the moment a king/lord dies, to find who holds the title next, you do a depth-first search down the family tree starting with the oldest sibling (ignoring anyone who isn't true-born or has given up their claim ie as Night's Watch or Kingsguard etc.).  Then, for Dornish law you take the first living person and for Westerosi law the first living male person found in this way (so succession can pass through a woman in both cases, but only Dornish law actually allows them to claim the title). If there are no valid living heirs, then you work backwards along the paternal line until you find an ancestor who has living heirs and start from them.  But there were various references to if Sansa's brothers were all dead, then her child would claim Winterfell.  It seems to me that that's only true if somebody else doesn't get it first.  In other words, if Sansa's brothers are killed before she has a child (even if she's already married), doesn't that mean Winterfell would pass to the nearest cousin along her father's line (whomever that may be)?  And then because that cousin has already held Winterfell, when they die the next in the line of succession starts from them so Sansa's children's family would not have claim to Winterfell again unless that cousin has no valid heirs.  What am I missing here? Is there some exception?  Are there no valid cousins? Desoldering/soldering 1/4" chip with eight pins Seems like a bug:  The user:   Edits a question Then, he decide to close it. Clicks on the Close button. The popup doesn't appear. Refreshes the page. Click on the close button. The popup appears.   After editing in the link appears a hash: #. But I don't think that this is the problem because if I add the hash without editing the close popup appears.  It's minor, but I think that is good to be reported and solved.  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Also add $a$ at the end of the Markov Chain ($C$).  2) Repeat the steps bellow a number of times.  3) Evaluate current likelihood (${\cal L_0}$) given $a_0$ and $D$.  4) Propose a new $a$ ($a_1$) by sampling from a normal distribution with $\mu=a_0$ and $\sigma=stepsize$. 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