I started exploring for sources for a paper I am working on on Academia.edu, downloaded a few papers, and got an annoying stream of (from my perspective) unsolicited related papers in my inbox. I tried to unsubscribe. I looked at another paper, and found a fresh stream of new papers in my inbox, and unsubscribed with the most forceful option available, and in this or a previous attempt stated I had not opted in to a stream of emails and further emails on the topic would be reported as spam. I was told I had been unsubscribed from all emails. I looked at another article and the spam continued again. I can easily enough set up a Gmail filter to block such emails, but as a matter of principle, is there a way to tell Academia.edu &quot;I am downloading this paper because I just want to download this paper. I am not opting in to an open-ended stream of papers connected to the one I read.&quot;?
I received a mail today from Academia.edu (a site I wasn't previously aware of), asking me to confirm that I co-authored a paper with a colleague.  Having looked into it a little it sounds like it might be a useful site - the idea of a "social network for scientists" is one I've seen the need for in the past. However, partly due to bad experiences with the seemingly similar ResearchGate, I'm also skeptical.* Without signing up for an academia.edu account the site doesn't offer much information, so I would like the following information:   What specific features does academia.edu offer to its users? Is it genuinely useful for any of the following purposes (each of which seems genuinely needed)   as a platform for networking with academics for discovering relevant research as an effective system for post-publication peer review for organising references among a small team of people working on a project  Will it send out mails to my colleagues without my express and explicit permission? (I.e. are the mails I received today the result of a deliberate action by my colleague, who is aware that I will be emailed and wishes me to join the site; or are they essentially spam from a social networking site aggressively trying to expand its user base?) It's clear from its  that it's a private, venture-capital funded company. What is its business model?   In short, is this a site that has some genuine utility for academics, or should I just ignore it?  *I've never signed up for ResearchGate but I regularly receive spam from it purporting to be from my colleagues, who aren't aware that it's being sent on their behalf. I would be mortified if my senior colleagues received such mails claiming to be from me, so I won't touch it with a barge pole.
When I have equations, as in  \begin{equation} ... \end{equation}   Can I arbitrarily assign the numbers to the equations? Instead of the usual order (1), (2), (3), ..., I'd like something like (1), (2.1), (2.2), (2.3), (3.1), (3.2), (4), ... How to use grep output as a path for cd? What is difference between: "I have been married with (was married with, married) her for three years." What is the difference between the three sentences below?   I have been married with her for three years. I was married with her for three years. I married her for three years. Scientists have found very bright source of light which they call  and the are found to be . So these black holes are so massive that they cannot be formed by a supernova. So how are these formed? I can join the server and sometimes the map would load for the server but i would just fall through the map and it would dissconect me and say timed out, any solutions? Where to find my Favorites in Google Chrome? Would a Cup of Tea Be Hotter If you Add the Milk Before or After Boiling Water? This is a bit of dispute between work colleagues. An answer would be greatly appreciated.  My argument is as follows:  If you add X amount of milk at a temperature of M to a mug at room temperature R before adding X amount of water at temp W, the result would be a cooler cup of tea than if you'd added the hot water first. This would be due to the milk reducing the overall temperature of the mug in the time that has been in it resulting in the addition of boiling water having less of an effect and resulting in a slightly cooler cup of tea/coffee.   Conversely, if you add the hot water first, due to the mug being heated, the effect of adding the cool milk will be less and therefore the end result will be a hotter cup of tea.  My Colleagues arguement is simply that it would not make a difference but without any form of justification.   If anyone can give real scientific light to this issue it would be greatly appreciated :) Proof that there are infinitely many prime numbers starting with a given digit string To prove the following fact: given any sequence of digits in any base, eg 314159265358979323 base 10, there are infinitely many primes that start with these digits,eg when expressed in decimal they start with 314159265358979323. I think using a prime number theorem will be helpful . But I am still not getting a point of how to start the proof. Privilege progress indicator interferes with (old) Stack Exchange dropdown I know I'm late with this; this could be the last bug report about the old topbar. But the text on the privilege progress indicator (on your profile page) appears above the dropdown menu coming from the Stack Exchange button, as can be seen in the picture below.     Changing the z-index property of .s-progress-bar._badge .-info, .s-progress-bar._privilege .-info from 2 to 1 solves the problem.    The new menu seems to have a high enough z-index so that this is no longer a problem anymore: Finding what's using all the space in *nix Which sequence of commands will tell me which files are the largest starting from a particular directory, including all sub directories? I want to know where all the space went.  Preferably just with regular unix'y commands.  If possible, try to keep it compatible with Sun OS 5.10 (perhaps in addition to regular Linux answers, not as a replacement, to keep it as general as possible.) Broken image link on the new Stack Exchange blog Before I jump on to the problem, let me first congratulate  and his team for the newly re-designed Stack Exchange blog. I like it very much, great job! While searching on Google, I stumbled upon  blog post of Jeff Atwood and found few broken images. There are currently four images are broken on this post, Here is one of them:    Upon doing an inspect element on one of the broken image (same goes for all other broken images on the post), I found out that it is currently pointing to: https://blog.stackoverflow.com/wp-content/uploads/stackexchange-genuine-example11.png The newly re-designed Stack Exchange blog is now moved to a new location:  and the old blog URL i.e.  has the correct mapping of URL redirection (also called URL forwarding) and works perfectly. But, the problem lies in the latter part i.e. /wp-content/uploads/ directory structure does not exist anymore at the new blog location. I read the Jon Chan's  post (nice writeup! btw) where he talks about his custom Python script. Here is the relevant excerpt taken from that post:  I wrote a Python script to go through all the imported posts, looked for references to WordPress hosted content, download all the static assets into images/wordpress in the repo, and changed all the links to relative paths on Jekyll. Worked surprisingly well.  In other words, all of the old /wp-content/uploads/ static assets is now resides under the /images/wordpress/ directory at the new blog location. So, Jon's find and replace script should have worked (which it did for the most of the part) as intended to be but apparently it did not catch few of them. At least on  blog post and few other like ,  or . We could possibly have more but these are the ones I have found so far. I believe it's a minor bug somewhere in the script and could be fixed with few lines of code tweaking. Also, the static content link mapping problem would not have occurred at all if the directory name was unchanged as the URL redirection (as stated above) would have taken care of it. But, there must a reason for this change. Upon investigating further, I found out that the issue with broken images does not end here. They will still appear as broken even if Jon's script replaces the path to the correct one. Because the images have not been uploaded (or copied) to the blog's new /images/wordpress/ directory at all. They are missing! For example, try clicking on the following link: ## I replaced old dir. path /wp-content/uploads/ to the new /images/wordpress/  So, in a nutshell, in order to fix this broken images link problem, we need to make sure that not only they are pointing to new path i.e. /images/wordpress/ but also do exists (i.e. uploaded) at the blog's new location. Please fix this at your earliest. What is a tensor? I have a pretty good knowledge of physics, but couldn't deeply understand what a  is and why it is so fundamental. Greatest comeback in 2nd leg match Is it safe to delete from C:\Windows\Installer? Computing $\int_{0}^{\pi}\ln\left(1-2a\cos x+a^2\right) \, dx$ Why should the "H" option not be used in floats? Multi-OS Portable TeX system I have to refactor a large C# application, and I found a lot of functions that are never used. How can I check for unused code, so I can remove all the unused functions? Let us say we have the following Makefile  include config.mk  # Generate summary table. results.txt : $(ZIPF_SRC) isles.dat abyss.dat last.dat     $(ZIPF_EXE) *.dat &gt; $@  # Count words. .PHONY : dats dats : isles.dat abyss.dat last.dat  %.dat : books/%.txt $(COUNT_SRC)     $(COUNT_EXE) $&lt; $*.dat  .PHONY : clean clean :     rm -f *.dat     rm -f results.txt   where all the variables are defined in config.mk  LANGUAGE=python COUNT_SRC=countwords.py COUNT_EXE=$(LANGUAGE) $(COUNT_SRC) ZIPF_SRC=testzipf.py ZIPF_EXE=$(LANGUAGE) $(ZIPF_SRC)   Is there any tool available that can expand all the include lines within the makefile so as to produce a bigMakefile? If such a tool does not currently exist, can a python/perl/awk/bash script be cooked up to achieve this goal? Efficient list intersection algorithm Given two lists (not necessarily sorted), what is the most efficient non-recursive algorithm to find the intersection of those lists?