This thing ran out of the wall of my dorm hallway. It had a lot of what look like antennae, and it's very fast.    (click to enlarge)
I found this animal, which I suspect it's an insect, on the floor of a kitchen in Spain some days ago. It's about 8-10 mm long. I don't think I've ever seen it before. What is it?
I have noticed for a few months that my mouse will randomly jerk across the screen. I'm super paranoid about security. But this is just silly!  Has anyone else experienced this, and found out what causes it? It happens to me every couple of days. The cursor will jump across the screen about 1000+ pixels. I thought it was my mousepad - changed it, and that's not it.  I imagine it's just a hardware issue.  This is on a PC with a Razer Naga, wired mouse. The mouse worked for about a year before I started noticing these issues. They have persisted even after a reformat / reinstall. How to extract Time from Date/Time field within formula I've got the new Canon Pixma MG 3150 and so far, I can't seem to find a driver anywhere. I do have the CD for both Windows and Mac, but this doesn't help me, as I have Ubuntu 11.10. I'd prefer to have it running on the wifi.  I'm really new to this, so I need for you to explain this to me as basically as possible. Limit with multiple variables I need to evaluate the limit $$\lim_{n\rightarrow \infty}(n-\sqrt{n+\alpha}\sqrt{n+\beta})$$  My work: $$(n-\sqrt{n+\alpha}\sqrt{n+\beta})=n-\sqrt{n^2+\alpha n+\beta n+\alpha\beta}$$ I understand that both $\alpha$ and $\beta$ are just constants. But, now how should I factor this? I understand the calculus behind limits, but the algebra troubles me. Find $\min(\operatorname{trace}(AA^T))$ for invertible $A_{n\times n}$ For invertible $A_{n\times n}$ find $\min(\operatorname{trace}(AA^T))$  (a) $0$ (b) $1$ (c) $n$ (d) $n^2$  Clearly for $A=I$, it is $n$, and I am unable to get any lower values, but how do I prove it. Website is under maintenance - how to restrict access? How to search only unanswered questions with an open bounty ? Trigger to use HTTP callout and update record with the results I have been trying to integrate Google Shortener API into my salesforce org. I wrote a class to make the call out, but am having difficulty bringing the value back into the record. I have a custom object called "referral_advocate__c" with a field called "Short_URL__c". Anytime the field "unique_ID__c" has a value, I am wanting to send this value with a static URL to google shortener and then save the response value to "referral_advocate__c.short_URL__c" on the record. This is the class to make the call out:  public class URLshort {  final string urls = 'https://www.myurl.com'; referral_advocate__c adv = new referral_advocate__c();  @future(callout = true) public static void URLshortner() {      HttpRequest req = new HttpRequest();     HttpResponse res = new HttpResponse();     Http http = new Http();      req.setEndpoint('https://www.googleapis.com/urlshortener/v1/url?key=myapikey');     req.setMethod('POST');     req.setHeader('Content-Type','application/json');            req.setBody('{"longUrl":+urls + adv.unique_reference_number_c}');       try {         res = http.send(req);         System.debug(res.getBody());     } catch(System.CalloutException e) {         System.debug('Callout error: '+ e);         System.debug(res.toString());     }   }  }   The after insert trigger on "referral_advocate__c" I wrote is not firing correctly. How do I return the results from this class and update the field "short_URL__C" with the returned value from a trigger? I am looking for a novel that I'd love to re-read it with my wife (my 13-year old self must be proud of me I guess). Key Plot points The plot was about humanity finding an alien station on an orbit of Earth. (I'm not sure if it wasn't Moon itself). On this station there were thousands of ships ready to travel so there rose a company that paid people to get on those ships and explore the galaxy. The problem was humans didn't understand how to steer those ships so they had to rely on preset targets. Of course there was no telling where particular ship was to go and fair amount of them never returned. Chronology and other relevant information I read it as an early teenager back in early 2000s. It was Polish translation of a foreign (possibly English) story. I think (not sure) that the book wasn't new at the time. It was just one of those books you dig out in a library and take to see if it's good. I don't recall cover either and even if I did it'd be of the Polish version. Additional information could be that the narration was led along the psychoanalytics of the main protagonists where he relives his memories from inside the station and his journeys. Finder: keep sort-by per-directory $f:I=[\pi,2\pi]\to \mathbb{R}^2$ be given by $f(t)=(\cos t,\sin t)$  which of the following are necessarily correct?  $1$. $\exists t_0\in I$ such that $f'(t_0)=\frac{1}{\pi}(f(2\pi)-f(\pi))$  $2$. $\nexists t_0\in I$ such that $f'(t_0)=\frac{1}{\pi}(f(2\pi)-f(\pi))$  $3$.$\exists t_0\in I$ such that $\pi||f'(t_0)||\ge ||(f(2\pi)-f(\pi)||$  $4$. $f'(t)=(-\sin t,\cos t)\forall t$  $4$ is clearly true, $1$ is true by Mean Value Theorem as $f$  satisfies all the conditions of MVT? have no idea of $2$ and $3$, Thank you for help Book with a girl whose grandma is a phoenix, cover depicts the emerald/green-eyed blonde girl I read this book in 2016, but I remember the cover being torn up, so it couldn't have been a new book. There was a girl's face on the cover. She had lightly colored skin, and beautiful emerald green eyes. Her hair was a dirty blond. This book was first in a trilogy and the cover was illustrated.  The girl's grandmother in the story was actually a phoenix (I think this was revealed in a different book in the trilogy though). The book started out in a small village, and I can't remember exactly where in the village chapters (the chapters that took place in the village) but she sneaked her deceased mother's green dress out of a trunk she wasn't supposed to go in, and I think she wore it to some event. WIth Vimeo Plus account, how to hide/remove the "play" button in the middle of an embedded video? Are the off-world colonies really a "golden land of opportunity"? In Blade Runner, there seems to be quite a  for emigration to the off-world colonies, e.g.,      "A new life awaits you in the off-world colonies, a chance to begin   again in a golden land of opportunity and adventure."   Is there any evidence that people emigrating are actually better off than staying on Earth?  The job descriptions of the replicants Deckard is tasked with "retiring" don't seem consistent with the colonies being wonderful places. If the colonies offered a good life, would they have to do so much advertising? Why could the pictures and paintings in Hogwarts talk and the photos of Harry's parents couldn't? Why was Dumbledore worried by the cut in Harry's arm? How can I list all the printable ASCII characters in the terminal? Let $A$ and $B$ be two real $n\times n$ matrices such that $AB-BA=A$ Prove that $A$ is not invertible and that $A$ is nilpotent.  My attempt is the following. It holds that $AB=(B+I)A$ If $A$ were invertible, $B=A^{-1}(B+I)A$. Taking trace on both sides yields $tr(B)=tr(B)+n$, hence $n=0$, which is a contradiction. I can't prove that $A$ is nilpotent though. set fontsize for TikZ figure Citing papers, that are cited within a paper? I am reading a paper which discussing the change in a specific idea in a field of science over time. I would like to basically summarize the points in the paper but in a smaller fashion by taking some quotes and explaining how they relate to my situation.   For instance, in the paper I am reading the author said "in 2002, Stanley and Miikkulainen [SM02b] argued that the topology of a neural network also affects their functionality" where the tag [SM02b] is a reference to a entry in the author's bibliography.   Is it sufficient to only cite the author of the paper, or do I need to cite both the author of the paper and the author of the paper the author cited in the paper?