I need to mine a lot, and I mean A LOT of diamonds. What is the most efficient way to do so?
When I'm not exploring fresh caves or lands in minecraft, I'm busy trying to find deposits of diamond, gold and iron deep in the earth. So far I've just been digging around just above bedrock on a whim to look for these rare minerals but I've started thinking that I should be taking a more controlled, efficient approach to mining.  What is the optimal mining strategy that yields the most rare minerals while minimizing blocks removed and time spent digging and traveling?  Edit: The existing answers are great for mining, but no one has addressed travel time to and from the mine which is usually ~60 blocks downward and incredibly tedious. Solutions?
Lower case "k" in Cocoa I know this is a common convention, but what does the "k" in variable names signify? (i.e. kMaxImageViewSize)  I looked in the Apple documentation on Variable names and found no mention of it.  Thanks for answering K-Means clustering for mixed numeric and categorical data My data set contains a number of numeric attributes and one categorical. Say, NumericAttr1, NumericAttr2, ..., NumericAttrN, CategoricalAttr, where CategoricalAttr takes one of three possible values: CategoricalAttrValue1, CategoricalAttrValue2 or CategoricalAttrValue3. I'm using default . It works with numeric data only. So my question: is it correct to split the categorical attribute CategoricalAttr into three numeric (binary) variables, like IsCategoricalAttrValue1, IsCategoricalAttrValue2, IsCategoricalAttrValue3 ? jQuery If DIV Doesn't Have Class "x" On the iPod Touch/iPhone, since it is tied to your iTunes account, I am quite sure you can have your bought apps on multiple devices you own (can't test though, iPod Touch was stolen).  However, now I have the Motorola Droid, and am waiting for a tablet, and am considering getting a Nook and rooting it to run my own apps.  Question is, if you buy an app on the marketplace, how is the security done:   Is it tied to your Gmail account so you can share it between devices you own? Is it tied to the device? (Don't break/replace your phone!) As long as it's installed, you're OK? (If you uninstall, or wipe your device, it's gone).   I assume 3 is highly unlikely, though a possibility, so leaving it here as a potential answer to my question. when is f@g not the same as f[g]? I always see commands like this  apt-get -y install    What is the -y tag for and what is the difference between apt-get install with and without the -y tag? Immutability of Strings in Java How to read a text file into GNU R with a multiple-byte separator? Repair disk from single user mode (fsck fails) I got to read Volume I of Feynmann's lectures. It said that at absolute zero, molecular motion doesn't cease at all, because if that happens, we will be able to make precise determination of position and momentum of the atom. We do know that Heisenberg uncertainty principle holds for microscopic particles in motion. But what then is wrong to consider that all molecular motion ceases at absolute zero? In other words, does the uncertainty principle not hold when there is no motion?  Need some help! Spacing changes when using unicode-math range feature. Why? You can use the range feature of unicode-math to set the math font for a specific unicode slots or the macro accessing the glyph. I tried this with the sum sign &amp; Latin Modern, see my example:  \documentclass{scrartcl}  \usepackage{amsmath} \usepackage{unicode-math} % use unicode in math &amp; setup math fonts \setmathfont{Asana Math} %\setmathfont[range=\sum]{Latin Modern Math} % substitute Sum sign  \begin{document}  Notice the different sum sign $\sum$, as intended.   Notice also, the difference in spacing, not intended: \begin{equation}     \begin{bmatrix}         0           &amp; \frac{1}{2}   &amp; \frac{2}{3} \\         \frac{3}{4} &amp; 0             &amp; \frac{4}{5} \\         \frac{5}{6} &amp; \frac{6}{7}   &amp; 0     \end{bmatrix}     \begin{pmatrix}         A \\         B \\         C     \end{pmatrix} \end{equation} \end{document}   However, not only the sum sign, but also the spacing in the matrices changes. With Latin Modern commented out (as in the example):  With Latin Modern active (remove % before relevant line):  Why is that? BTW, I'm using Lualatex from TeXLive 2012. Detect edits to add [SOLVED] or [RESOLVED] to the title and direct the user to add an answer Users often ask questions that they answer for themselves. Good for them. And good for us.  Symptom  The correct procedure seems to be:   Write new answer to own question  Wait two days Accept own answer   The incorrect, but fairly popular, procedure seems to be:   Edit the question to include the solution Put "[SOLVED] or [RESOLVED]" in the title   Proposed solution  Users should be warned when using the word "solved", delimited in any way, in a question title. This could be "[SOLVED]", "(solved)", or even "Solved - ". I imagine this:   The user tries to submit an edit that adds "solved" such that the word "solved is delimited. The user is brought to a warning page. If the only edit to the question was appending new lines (such as adding an "edit:" paragraph), that edit is copied into a text box The page mentioned in 1 is shown as follows:     $StackSite marks questions as answered when you accept an answer. You can accept an answer by clicking the green check mark next to that answer. There's no need to put "SOLVED" or "RESOLVED" in the title!      Are you answering your own question?      Create a proper answer to your question:         Move your edit to a new answer.   Write your answer.   If nobody writes a more correct or thorough answer after two days, come back and accept your answer.         By doing this, you remove your question from the Unanswered Questions list. You also allow other $StackSite users to vote your answer up. Thanks for helping out!      TEXT BOX WITH EDITS GOES HERE, FOLLOWED BY "POST YOUR ANSWER" BUTTON      Not answering your own question?      Sorry for slowing you down.      OVERVIEW OF EDIT, FOLLOWED BY "SAVE EDITS" BUTTON    Discussion  This would likely reduce the number of [RE]SOLVED questions that appear. However, it's unclear whether this should be a community moderation issue or a feature request issue. The increased engineering work required in building in the interstitial page is probably quite nontrivial, whereas this type of question makes up well under .  Note: Google also provides a . Prove the summation:  $$\sum_{i=1}^n i! \cdot i = (n+1)! - 1$$ using induction.   base case:  $n=1$: \begin{align*} \sum_{i=1}^1 i! \cdot i &amp;= (1+1)! - 1 \\ 1 &amp;= 2 - 1 \\ 1 &amp;= 1 \end{align*}   This is a question from my test review packet, currently have the base case completed and I am a bit lost on where to go from there. Any help/hints are appreciated. How to type special/accented letters in LaTeX? How to type these special letters from European languages in latex? ä, é, and L'? Being an aspiring Apple developer, I want to get the opinions of the community if it is better to learn C first before moving into Objective-C and ultimately the Cocoa Framework?  My gut says learn C, which will give me a good foundation. Ackermann Function primitive recursive I am reading the wikipedia page on ackermann's function,   And I am having trouble understanding WHY ackermann's function is an example of a function which is not primitive recursive.  I understand that the ackermann function terminates, and thus is a total function. So why is it not primitive recursive? The only information that i can find on the wikipedia page is      [Ackermann's function] grows faster than any primitive recursive function and is therefore   not primitive recursive   Which isn't a good example of why it is not primitive recursive.  Could anyone explain to me how exactly ackermann's function is NOT primitive recursive please? Python List vs. Array - when to use? Multiple (diamond) inheritance compiles without "virtual", but doesn't with Are there tips and tricks to overcome a fear of flying? Are there tips and tricks for people with fear of flying that can makes them have a more pleasant experience when flying? I know drugs can do magic, and . I'm ideally after official advice and recommendations, but other tips and tricks would be nice as well. Relation between rank and number of distinct eigenvalues of a matrix Let $T : V\to V$ be a linear transformation such that $\dim\operatorname{Range}(T)=k\leq n$, where $n=\dim V$. Show that $T$ can have at most $k+1$ distinct eigenvalues.   I can realize that the rank  will correspond to the number of non-zero eigenvalues (counted up to multiplicity) and the nullity will correspond to the 0 eigenvalue (counted up to multiplicity), but I cannot design an analytical proof of this.  Thanks for any help .