that Anakin was conceived by midi-chlorians after Shmi told him there was no father.  Senator Palpatine tells Anakin that his former master, Darth Plagueis, learned how to influence midi-chlorians to create life.  The thought just occurred to me: did Palpatine learn this skill from his master, and create Anakin himself by manipulating the midi-chlorians? He was always very interested in Anakin, and seemed to set up his plans very far in advance. So it makes sense if those assumptions are true.  After I realized this might be a possibility, in my research I found this small  discussing a very similar thing. It goes into further suppositions about this theory, but doesn't definitively answer the question.  Is this theory ever confirmed or denied in any expanded universe canon?
In Episode 1: The Phantom Menace, Anakin's mother, Shmi, said that he does not have a father, although it seemed to me that she doubted that.  Is there a canonical answer as to who Anakin's father is?  If so, who?
How can you profile a Python script? Under TeX, when I write a line too long, it prints a fat black box at the end of the line.  That is probably a feature, but I dislike it.  How to turn that OFF? Is there a command-line option or something else?   I usually use LaTeX, but I have a complicated file which happens to be plain TeX. Suppose $X$ is a real-valued random variable and let $P_X$ denote the distribution of $X$. Then $$ E(|X-c|) = \int_\mathbb{R} |x-c| dP_X(x). $$  of $X$ are defined as any number $m \in \mathbb{R}$ such that $P(X \leq m) \geq \frac{1}{2}$ and $P(X \geq m) \geq \frac{1}{2}$.  Why do the medians solve $$ \min_{c \in \mathbb{R}} E(|X-c|) \, ? $$ Would raising the review limit help with the Close Votes queue? My laptop (running Win10) repeatedly "steals" the bluetooth connection for my headphones while they're connected to my phone. The only way I've been able to prevent the headphones' connection from switching to the laptop is to play some media or make a phone call immediately after reconnecting to my phone, or to unpair the headphones from the laptop.  The headphones are Plantronics Backbeat Go 2, and the specifications from the Plantronics product page give the following information for the Bluetooth entry:      Bluetooth v2.1:   A2DP 1.2, AVRCP, HFP v1.5, HSP v1.1   Thanks in advance! Why is plain-hash-then-encrypt not a secure MAC? Asking the user for input until they give a valid response Presentation $\langle x,y,z\mid xyx^{-1}y^{-2},yzy^{-1}z^{-2},zxz^{-1}x^{-2}\rangle$ of group equal to trivial group Problem: Show that the group given by the presentation $$\langle x,y,z  \mid xyx^{-1}y^{-2}\, , \, yzy^{-1}z^{-2}\, , \, zxz^{-1}x^{-2} \rangle $$ is equivalent to the trivial group.   I have tried all sorts of manners to try to show that the relations given by the presentation above imply that $x=y=z=e$. However, I am stuck and would appreciate any hints as to how I should move forward. Hadamard Product of $e^z-1$ Assuming the formulas $$\sin(z)=\frac{e^{iz}-e^{-iz}}{2i}\quad\text{and}\quad\frac{\sin(\pi z)}{\pi z}=\prod_{n=1}^\infty\left(1-\frac{z^2}{n^2}\right),$$ I want to find the Hadamard product of $e^z-1$. I think I've done the work correctly, but I end up having an extra factor of $2\pi i$ at the end (this is from Stein and Shakarchi's book and they list the answer for this particular problem). So, my work is \begin{align} e^z-1&amp;=e^{z/2}\left(e^{z/2}-e^{-z/2}\right)\\ \\ &amp;=e^{z/2}\left(e^{i(-iz/2)}-e^{-i(-iz/2)}\right)\\ \\ &amp;=2ie^{z/2}\left(\frac{e^{i(-iz/2)}-e^{-i(-iz/2)}}{2i}\right)\\ \\ &amp;=2ie^{z/2}\sin(-iz/2)\\ \\ &amp;=2\pi i ze^{z/2}\frac{\sin(-iz/2)}{\pi z}\\ \\ &amp;=2\pi i ze^{z/2}\frac{\sin\left(\pi(\frac{-iz}{2\pi})\right)}{\pi z}\tag{*}\\ \\ &amp;=2\pi i ze^{z/2}\prod_{n=1}^\infty\left(1-\frac{\left(\frac{-iz}{2\pi}\right)^2}{n^2}\right)\\ \\ &amp;=2\pi i ze^{z/2}\prod_{n=1}^\infty\left(1+\frac{z^2}{4n^2\pi^2}\right). \end{align}  The answer according to the book is $$e^z-1=e^{z/2}z\prod_{n=1}^\infty\left(1+\frac{z^2}{4n^2\pi^2}\right).$$Have I made a simple mistake in calculation, or are the two somehow compatible with each other?  Update: Thomas Andrews has pointed out a mistake in my infinite product formula. I've corrected that mistake.  $(*)$ The error occurs from this line to the next. Instead of multiplying and dividing by $z$, I should have multiplied and divided by $\frac{-iz}{2\pi}$. That would cause the appropriate cancellation. Do I need to enable the publishing features to change a Team Site's master page? When building a SharePoint 2010 site, we have a root Publishing site that has been branded up using a custom Master Page.  We'd now like to add some Team Sites below the publishing site, and have our branding and other look and feel changes applied there too, and for that we need to change the "System Master" setting of the Team Site.  The "Master page" options in the site settings are only available if I've enabled the Publishing features in the team site, but I'd rather not do this if I can avoid it.  Ideally, this should be enabled as soon as a new team site is created, without the site owner having to change the site settings. shortcut key to detach a tab in firefox (move tab to new window) In FF, I can move a tab to a new window by either dragging the tab out of the browser, or right clicking the "move to New window" option from the context menu. is there a shortcut key to move the current tab to a new window without dragging or using the context menu, or a way to set one up?  Often, I like to look at 2 tabs side by side, so I drag one out, then hit WINDOWS KEY+→ to put the detached tab on the right, then ALT+TAB to tab back to the main window, then WINDOWS KEY+← to put the main window on the left. It would be great if I could do the whole process on the keyboard.  I checked  documentation and did not find any shortcut key for detaching a tab: How to connect to Salesforce REST API without OAuth? How does Jitterbit do it? Uniform convergence with two sequences of functions For, $n\ge 1$ let, $g_n(x)=\sin^2(x+1/n)$ , $x\in [0,\infty)$ and $f_n(x)=\int_0^xg_n(t)\,dt.$  Then, which is(/are) correct ?  (A) $\{f_n(x)\} $ converges pointwise to a function $f$ on $[0,\infty)$ but does not converge uniformly on $[0,\infty)$.  (B) $\{f_n(x)\} $ does not converge pointwise to any function on $[0,\infty)$.  (C) $\{f_n(x)\} $ converges uniformly on $[0,1]$.  (D)  $\{f_n(x)\} $ converges uniformly on $[0,\infty)$.  I found that, $$f_n(x)=\frac{1}{2}\left[x-\frac{1}{2}\sin(x+1/n)+\frac{1}{2}\sin(1/n)\right].$$  So, $f(x)=\lim_{n}f_n(x)=\frac{x}{2}-\frac{1}{4}\sin x$.  Now, $|f_n(x)-f(x)|\le 3/4$. So, by M-test, $f_n(x)$ is not uniformly convergent, but point-wise convergent. So option (A) is correct..Am I right?? Are "pushforward" and "pullback by zero section" of diffrentials isomorphic in elliptic curves? Let S be a scheme, $p:E\rightarrow S$ be an elliptic curve with zero section $e:S\rightarrow E$. My question is: Are $p_*(\Omega_{E/S}^1)$ and $e^*(\Omega_{E/S}^1)$ isomorphic? I think it's right because I saw both definitions in different notes and they seem to represent the same thing. Thank you! Whenever I open my files, my hidden files show up. I can hide them but when I open up my files again, they're showing again. How do I make the hidden files invisible permanently? Recall the definition of the Weyl Chambers: A Weyl Chamber is a region of $V \setminus \bigcup_{\alpha \in \Phi} H_{\alpha}$, where $V$ is underlying Euclidean space, and $H_\alpha$ the hyperplane that is perpendicular to $\alpha$ the elements of  $\Phi$ in $V$.   I want to show that:   The Weyl chambers are open, convex and connected.   My attempts:   A single hyperplane $H_\alpha$ separates the space $V$ into two half-spaces: positive half-space $H_\alpha^+=\{x \in V \mid (\alpha,x)&gt;0\}$ and negative half-space $H_\alpha^-=\{x \in V \mid (\alpha,x)&lt;0\}$. It is clear that $V \setminus H_\alpha = H_\alpha^+\cup H^-_\alpha.$ As the result, the Weyl chambers can be regarded as components of  $$V \setminus \bigcup_{\alpha \in \Phi} H_{\alpha}= \bigcap_{\alpha \in \Phi} \left( V \setminus H_{\alpha} \right)= \bigcap_{\alpha \in \Phi} \left( H_\alpha^+\cup H_\alpha^- \right).$$ By the discussion above, a Weyl chamber is simply a $\textbf{intersection}$ of finite half-spaces. It is the case since one may write $$\left( H_\alpha^+\cup H_\alpha^- \right) \cap \left( H_\beta^+\cup H_\beta^- \right) =\left( H_\alpha^+\cap H_\beta^+ \right)  \cup\left( H_\alpha^+\cap H_\beta^- \right)  \cup \left( H_\alpha^-\cap H_\beta^+ \right)  \cup\left( H_\alpha^-\cap H_\beta^- \right).$$ Therefore openness and convexity of the Weyl chambers are straightforward since half-spaces are open and convex, so are their intersections. Moreover, we would replace $V$ by $\Bbb R^{\dim V}$ since they are isomorphic. Now we can prove that the Weyl chamber is connected by showing that every convex set in $\Bbb R^{\dim V}$ is connected. And I'm sure that proof of this statement existed. So am I done? I forgot my password of a TrueCrypt file I used a few years ago.  How would I go about 'cracking' it? I'm not sure if there is a way to attack it or if it can only be done by brute-force. I used it on a Mac. I still have the Mac I used it on, but of course turned that off many times since I used it.   I have a passphrase that I thought would relate to this file. Maybe I used some variant of it. But might be something completely different. I have some other words that I might have used, but would need give it another thought how I could have used those.  Is there an automated way to test variations on what I think the passphrase was to regain access to the volume? Is there any other way I might regain access? I know what you're thinking: "of course it has, for example, it can be used to tell you how many times you can go around a circle". But that isn't really true, now is it? You'd be dead or the world would go under long before an infinite amount of loops had been reached.  Are there any practical applications for the concept of infinity? Is it a useful concept in maths at all?  I know that Donald E. Knuth has argued that for all practical purposes, a very, very large number has the same effect as infinity, in his book "Things a Computer Scientist Rarely Talks About" (can't remember the exact quote, nor find it online, unfortunately).  Examples are appreciated. The additive group $\mathbb{G}_a$ over an infinite field $k$ is not a topological group An algebraic group is not necessarily a topological group, since for an algebraic group, the product map $G \times G \to G$ is continuous when $G \times G$ is given the Zariski topology, which is finer than the product topology.   So does this tell you that the additive group $\mathbb{G}_a$ over an infinite field $k$ is not a topological group? The underlying variety of $\mathbb{G}_a \times \mathbb{G}_a$ is $\mathbb{A}_k^1 \times_k \mathbb{A}_k^1 = \mathbb{A}_k^2$, whose Zariski topology is the cofinite topology, where every open set is also open in the product topology (since $\mathbb{A}_k^1$ also has the Zariski topology). How do I create a Java string from the contents of a file?