My wife and I are applying to US universities for master's and PhD programmes. We both have a electrical engg. degree and are applying to the same department. However we would like to get into the same university. Is it possible to mention this in the application? Do universities take this into consideration when making admission decisions?
My significant other and I finish our master degrees at the same time and thus we are applying for PhD programmes at the same time. One major factor of accepting a potential offer would be if we could study at the same university, so I feel that mentioning a two-body problem would be advantageous for both, us and the admission committee. But where do I mention this? Is a line in the statement of purpose suitable here?     If you admit me, please also consider admitting my significant other Jane Roe.   Some additional information: We both do research in computer science. While I do research in natural language processing my partner does research in computer vision.
As the title suggests, I'd like to prove that the sum $$ \sum_{n=2}^\infty (\ln n)^{- \ln n} $$ is finite.  The root and ratio test both fail here, but  suggests that there is a comparison that can be used to show convergence.  The only thought I have is that it may help to write the terms as $e^{-\ln(n)\ln(\ln(n))}$, but this has not led me to any particular insight.  Any ideas are appreciated. “I do not know where … is” vs. “I do not know where is …” Can I run Android apps on Ubuntu? Is it possible to run Android apps on Ubuntu? And I don't mean inside an emulator, but natively, as you would with any other application installed using the Ubuntu Software Center. Definition of the Pauli group and the Clifford group There seem to be two definitions of the Pauli group. In Nielsen and Chuang, the Pauli group on 1 qubit is defined as \begin{align*} \mathcal{P}_1 = \{\pm I, \pm iI, \pm X, \pm iX, \pm Y, \pm iY, \pm Z, \pm iZ\} = \langle X, Y, Z\rangle. \end{align*} But in other references, such as ,  \begin{align*} \mathcal{P}_1 = \{\pm I, \pm X, \pm iY, \pm Z\} = \langle X, Z\rangle. \end{align*} The second definition makes more sense in the stabilizer formalism, since we usually only consider the action of Pauli strings of $X$ and $Z$. What bothers me is that by the second definition, the phase gate $S$, which is an element of the Clifford group, results in \begin{align*} SXS^\dagger = Y \notin \mathcal{P}_1. \end{align*} I know that the prefactor $\pm i$ somehow doesn't matter, but can someone justify it from a more mathematical/group-theoretical perspective? Find subexpression to minimize leafcount after replacment with temporary variable How is The Wall bypassed? Is the below a valid circuit implementation and are there any things to watch out for? It's a simplification of the larger circuit but the crux of it is that I need to sink current into two GPIO input pins. The pins are signified by the 1 and 0.  Also, would a diode on the pins be advisable?    Edit: Here's the non-simplified circuit. The question relates to the 3.3v part of it. In essence, the timer and decade counter sequentially pulse current, 'activating' the transistors one at a time. The keypad is a simple matrix keypad. What I'm wondering if I can do is to put a GPIO pin on the line between the keypad and ground. The intended effect is that, when a button on the keypad is pressed, 2 pins will change state - this signifies the row and column.  Note that some of the resistance and capacitance values are notional at the moment. Mod shows up with OP background when viewing deleted comments Getting text from last marker to EOF in POSIX.2 I have a text with marker lines like:  aaa --- bbb --- ccc   I need to get a text from the last marker (not inclusive) to EOF. In this case it will be  ccc   Is there an elegant way within POSIX.2? Right now I use two runs: first with nl and grep for the last occurrence with respective line number. Then I extract the line number and use sed to extract the chunk in question.  The text segments may be quite large, so I'm afraid to use some text-adding method like we add the text to a buffer, if we encounter the marker we empty the buffer, so that at EOF we have our last chunk in the buffer. Indicating a name change after publication My wife has publications under both her maiden name and her married name. How should she indicate that this is the case on her CV, if she wants to mention publications from both time periods? How do hashes really ensure uniqueness? This might seem an impractical and unnecessary conversation, but I feel it's something I need to clarify. Especially, as I just got my first developer job in a blockchain startup.  So hashes are said to generate the same thing for any information it sees, and it's only a one-way interaction.   As far as I understand, hashes are just long alphanumeric strings. If one computes hashes across all documents, keys, information, files, etc, over and over again- it's simply a matter of time until the same combination comes up again for different information (applying it across all possible contexts)? This might be an impractical test given size and possibility, yes, but is it this that makes hashes powerful, that it's practically impossible to recreate a hash that for any foreseeable endeavor it's fine, or is there some element that I'm missing that reduces even that extremely low probability to zero? Is there any design constraint that prevents a very powerful computer to back-calculate the original data from a hash? Or is it simply that the design is so complex that it's simply a futile exercise to dream of such a large computer required for this task? What's stopping a hacker or malicious middle man to hack open the software program or library that creates this "hash" and then use that library to create hashes of his/her own or mislabel some target company's hash with his/her own pointing to their version of the file? Especially since many applications, languages, and developers use hashing independently. Whichever is most weakly secured, we can use that to take on the rest?   Any resources are also appreciated. I am pretty much sure that for native speakers the issue I am going to bring up might look as an uncalled question as they can easily figure out which form of a verbal part of speech should be used, be it a gerund, an infinitive, or a bare infinitive. However, it can be pretty much misleading for a foreigner because the same construction works differently with different words and I don’t see a logical explanation. For example:  The purpose of this article is to analyze the issue…  My hobby is reading. One may assume, and many foreigners really come to this conclusion, that it’s OK to switch the “gerund” and “infinitive” as the meaning will stay the same, that is:  The purpose of this article is analyzing the issue… (same as 1 above)  My hobby is to read. (same as 2 above)   However, as I was told, this assumption is erroneous. Another example: His task was watching after them. (not good) His task was to watch after them. Is there any principle which governs the choice of the right form in such cases? I know that this sounds like Strange Days, which I haven't seen, but from the Wikipedia description I don't think that's it.  I saw this back in the early-to-mid-90's on TV, pretty sure it was a premium channel. It follows a research group who develops a way to record experiences. Not thoughts, but at least the sights, sounds, smells, touch, etc. They record it onto this reel-to-reel tape, it looked striated and golden in color. The protagonist is the head of the research team.  I don't remember a great deal of the plot, but there were conspiracies surrounding the invention. The lab clown decides to give it a whirl by putting the bike-helmet-sized apparatus on his head and going out to have a little fun, in the classic wine, women, and song fashion. Once he returns, an older member of the team finds the tape and finds a section where the clown is having sex. Later on, the protagonist, who is the lead researcher, finds the older member shut up in his house seemingly for days and nearly comatose. The older researcher had the playback device over his head and is non-responsive. Worried, the protagonist removes the helmet and puts it on himself, only to find that the older researcher had snipped a few seconds of tape and had them running on a non-stop loop; the moment of orgasm for the clownish researcher. The older researcher eventually comes to and awkwardly apologizes.  I think there were also experiments in recording the sensorum of a lab monkey, and that played into the plot. I remember the plot seemed fairly thin and dull for what seemed to be a pretty neat idea. I don't desperately feel the need to watch the movie, but I'm mildly curious if my impressions would differ 20 years later now. Dependency is not satisfiable: libtiff4 when trying to install Lightworks on Ubuntu 14.04 I was trying to install Lightworks 11.5.1 (amd64) on Ubuntu 14.04(amd64) but there's a notice: Dependency is not satisfiable: libtiff4. Is there anyway to solve this dependency issue?  Thanks in advance. Master database is corrupt, instance won't start - what are my options? Help! My master database is corrupt, I can't even bring the SQL instance online! What are my options to get my server back up?   I do have a backup of master, but the  asks me to start the instance in single-user mode, which I can't do!  (Note: I'm leaving this question unspecified as to SQL version, so as to be a more widely-applicable reference. There are some similar questions on DBA.SE, but none that involve the server unable to start.) Browsing  I came across this:  The conjugacy class of an element $g\in A_{n}$:  splits if the cycle decomposition of $g\in A_{n}$ comprises cycles of distinct odd length. Note that the fixed points are here treated as cycles of length $1$, so it cannot have more than one fixed point; and does not split if the cycle decomposition of $g$ contains an even cycle or contains two cycles of the same length.   Anybody with a proof? @ variables in Ruby on Rails Hiding some slides in student handouts in Beamer I am preparing lecture slides for a class. I would like to hide some of the slides from the students. As an example, I would like to be able to compile students.pdf which has only student slides 1 and 2 (i.e., "teacher slide" is hidden); but teacher.pdf which has all three slides.  \documentclass{beamer}  \begin{document}  \begin{frame}{Student slide 1} blah blah blah \end{frame}  \begin{frame}{Teacher slide} secret stuff not to be shared with students \end{frame}  \begin{frame}{Student slide 2} blah blah blah \end{frame}  \end{document}   How would I do this in beamer? In a regular document, e.g., article, I would use the comment environment.  I feel that the approach in  is overkill for my needs. I'm trying to decide on a higher-end digital SLR, and I'm down to choosing between an APS-C model and a full-frame model.  I understand that the sensors are of different sizes, and as such have an effect on the perceived magnification of the lens, with the smaller APS-C sensor having an effective focal length greater than what it otherwise would be with a full frame sensor. But why does this matter?     What things should drive my choice between one or the other?   In which situations is one better than the other, and why? Can I travel within the Schengen area if I currently don't have a valid visa or residency permit?