so i have this pool of potential supervisors who I am super interested in their research.  I have formulated the best introductory email - short, concise and relevant to their research- . No response! I sent back a follow-up email which had my old email in addition to my CV, still no response! I even called , but no one picks up the phone, and whoever picks up the phone is a clueless assistant who tells me to email the supervisor and ask him/her myself.   I even visited one the labs and spoke to one of the researcher's post-doc students who volunteered to edit my emails and told me it was a good one. But then again, no response.  how is that even possible ? I dont live in the university's city (Toronto) so I cant even stalk them in their offices.  any idea why is this happening ?   N.B   The time period is 2 weeks. I sent an introductory email, next week I followed up with another email.  EDIT- For those of you who tell me not to "harass" professors, it is not harassment so please use another word. It is the applicant's responsibility to secure a supervisor for Biomedical engineering program by emailing/calling potential PI . To prove my point on following up , one supervisor who works in a hospital told me that the hospital email service filtered out my email. If I hadn't called him to inquire about my original email, I wouldn't have moved on in my research knowing that his lab is indeed "full". Applicants are not expected to simply sit and wait for supervisors to "notice them" and hope for the best , I must put myself on the map. I don't see why professors don't get much heat -like I am getting in this post" from harassing sponsors for grants !
Say a prospective PhD has a high reply rate (90-95%) to first contact emails with potential superviors. He/She has a well thought out e-mail, but a particular professor (here: USA) that is in the top preferences does not reply after two to three e-mails that were sent within a time frame of three months. I also followed the instructions on the professor personal website in the section "prospective PhD students". The student has already contacted some of the advisor students and has received positive feedback about the professor.  Should the student just give up and move on? Should the student keep trying?  Aside from the obvious "I have too many incoming e-mails to answer" or "I am out in the field", what could create a no response behavior from the professor?  I have seen the simplistic answer "move on, bad advisor, doesn't have time, etc". But this seems a contradiction in this case. The PhD students like the professor and say he/she is personable and no e-mail response after a few well written emails.
I am looking for a way to get the output of a command when it is run from within a C++ program.  I have looked at using the system() function, but that will just execute a command. Here's an example of what I'm looking for:  std::string result = system("./some_command");   I need to run an arbitrary command and get its output. I've looked at , but I have not found anything that will give me what I need. Prove that there is no retraction (i.e. continuous function constant on the codomain) $r: M \rightarrow S^1 = \partial M$ where $M$ is the Möbius strip.  I've tried to find a contradiction using $r_*$ homomorphism between the fundamental groups, but they are both $\mathbb{Z}$ and nothing seems to go wrong... If $X,Y$ are equivalence relations, so is $X \times Y$ What are the complexity guarantees of the standard containers? How to find the 'sizeof' (a pointer pointing to an array)? How can I approach implementing the following in Drupal 7?  What I need to do is create a module which defines a new fieldable entity, called 'Company'. I have a list of, let's say, 20 fields that need to be filled out by each Company instance. These questions are predefined and some may contain custom validation.  At the moment, I'm at the point when I can add new fields to the Company entity. This works fine at the moment. My issue is that I need all these fields to be there as soon the module is installed, so adding them via the interface isn't an option.  I was wondering how can I approach this? I'd assume it comes down being able to do what can be done using the 'Manage Fields' UI programmatically. return eats exception I found the following behavior at least weird:  def errors():     try:         ErrorErrorError     finally:         return 10  print errors() # prints: 10 # It should raise: NameError: name 'ErrorErrorError' is not defined   The exception disappears when you use return inside a finally clause. Is that a bug? Is that documented anywhere?  But the real question (and the answer I will mark as correct) is: What is the python developers' reason to allow that odd behavior? Maven project with native dependency and copying files How can I secure an Ethernet-over-power network? I just bought myself an Ethernet-over-power adapter, and plugged it in. It seems to be working great, but now I'm concerned that my neighbours may be able to access my network.  I live in a rowhome complex; is it possible they can access my network? If so, how can I secure it? Every time i publish a new post i want to display an icon like a badge (NEW) and after a specific time it will disappear.  Lets say i publish a new post and i want to display that it is a new post. So i want to insert an icon that for example a star, in each new post in the blog list view into the metadata of the posts. Also i want to be removed after a specific time will pass. Lets say in one day or 24 hours the icon should be removed automatically.  How can i do this? When you review papers submitted for publication, is there an “optimal” length for reviews? In my experience as an author and referee, I have seen a large range of review lengths (for reference, a paper in my field is typically between 3 and 8 printed pages):   Zero length: for some of the papers I have authored, the reviewer just clicked the “accept as is” or “reject” checkmark on the review sheet, without adding any comment (at least, not any comment visible to me). It's not so common, but it has happened. Short length: a lot of time, I received reviews who consisted of a single paragraph. Medium: one full page, maybe two pages.   Although I have never received any such long reviews, I have myself written on a few occasions reviews that exceed two pages, including once or twice a four or five-page review.  These were cases where the paper was good, but could be (in my view) much improved and some of the aspects/consequences had escaped the authors' consideration.  I am wondering how useful reviews of various length are to editors. I often consider that “unmotivated” reviews are useless, as they do not give any real insight about the paper to the editor. For example, if the editor gets two conflicting non motivated reviews, how is she to decide?  On the other hand, although I write some from time to time, I have never received long reviews, so… is this something frowned upon? "Open With" dialog ignores my selection I know the minimum number of reference letters required at many U.S. PhD programs in the STEM fields is three -- and that it is also not uncommon for someone to submit a fourth letter.  What about a fifth letter?  Would a fifth letter of recommendation be perceived as "too many"? How to collapse unused parameters in moderncv? I am writing my CV using the moderncv package. I already have adjusted the CV to meet my needs. Therefore I amplified the maximum number of parameters possible in the \cventry command. However, now I have some ugly spacing in case I do NOT use all parameters (see second \cventry in the MWE for illustration):  Any suggestions to make the spacing collapse in case not all parameters are occupied? As you can see from the MWE I already have adjusted for \ifthenelse command. I use texlive 2014.  \documentclass[11pt,a4paper,sans]{moderncv} \moderncvstyle{banking} \moderncvcolor{blue} \usepackage[scale=0.7]{geometry} \name{John}{Doe} \title{Resume title} \address{street and number}{postcode city}{country} \phone[mobile]{+1~(234)~567~890}  \renewcommand*{\cventry}[9][.4em]{%  \begin{tabular*}{\textwidth}{l@{\extracolsep{\fill}}r}%  \ifthenelse{\equal{\bfseries #4}{}}{}{{\bfseries #4}} &amp; \ifthenelse{\equal{\bfseries #5}{}}{}{{\bfseries #5}} \\%   \ifthenelse{\equal{\itshape #3}{}}{}{{\itshape #3\ifthenelse{\equal{#6}{}}{}{, #6}}} &amp; \ifthenelse{\equal{\itshape #2}{}}{}{{\itshape #2}}\\%  \ifthenelse{\equal{#7}{}}{}{{#7}} &amp; \ifthenelse{\equal{#8}{}}{}{\\ {#8} &amp; \\}% \end{tabular*}%  }  \begin{document} \makecvtitle \section{Education} \cventry{Grade}{Degree}{Institution}{year--year}{M.Sc.}{Majors}{Majors}{} \cventry{}{Degree}{Institution}{City}{}{}{}{} \cventry{year--year}{Degree}{Institution}{City}{Grade}{Majors}{Majors}{} \end{document} If I take the $k \in \mathbb{N}$ power of 10 and mod it by a large prime, I notice that the remainders repeat at some point.  For instance $10^k mod~7$ seems to repeat every $8$th value of $k$.  Given $k$ (the power of ten), and a large prime number $p$, how can I compute the size of the cycle?  I tried writing a python script that computes the first instance of a repeat. However, I don't know if this works since a single instance of a repeat may not necessarily mean a full cycle. This inequality $a+b^2+c^3+d^4\ge \frac{1}{a}+\frac{1}{b^2}+\frac{1}{c^3}+\frac{1}{d^4}$ let $0&lt;a\le b\le c\le d$, and such $abcd=1$,show that   $$a+b^2+c^3+d^4\ge \dfrac{1}{a}+\dfrac{1}{b^2}+\dfrac{1}{c^3}+\dfrac{1}{d^4}$$   it seems harder than "This edit would have to be a suggested edit" / edit button grayed out A couple of times recently when I attempted to edit a post while reviewing it from the "First Posts" queue, I received the following message when I tried to submit the form:  This edit would have to be a suggested edit. (x)   This is a rather cryptic message, considering that edits made from a review are suggested edits, subject to the same peer review process. There was no indication of how the edit would have to be submitted differently, much less why. I searched both help and meta for more information about this message, but came up empty.  The first time it happened, after I cancelled out I saw that someone else had just edited the post, so I thought maybe that's why I couldn't submit an edit from the review (and wondered why, if that's the case, the error message didn't just say that instead of telling me something that doesn't make any sense - that the edit I'm trying to suggest can't be submitted because it would have to be a suggested edit). However, the second time I received this message (last night, for this question: ), there was no other edit. So, I clicked the No action needed button and tried to edit the post outside the review process, only to discover that the edit link was grayed out.   I see several explanations of possible causes for graying out the edit link here: . However, there was no tooltip when I hovered over the disabled link, and the edit queue was in the single digits.  A few minutes later, I noticed that the edit link was no longer grayed out, so I edited the post and my edit was accepted.   My best hypothesis based on my experience with the error so far and the explanations I've read here at meta is that someone submitted a suggested edit while I was reviewing the post, which (a) caused me to get the cryptic error message and (b) caused the edit link to be grayed out when I accessed the post the normal way. Then a few minutes later, the suggested edit was rejected, opening up the question for new edit suggestions.  Rather than speculating about it and trying to determine the answer scientifically, it would be helpful if someone could give me the answer (as Seinfeld fans might put it, "Why don't you just tell me why I can't edit the post?"). It would be even more helpful if the error message itself provided the explanation, or if the message were defined somewhere in the help pages. But, at the very least, hopefully there will soon be an answer on meta to enlighten people who scratch their chins over this in the future. :) There are many documentaries, forums, blogs and more dedicated to . I have been frantically searching for an answer to my question however none of my sources have clarity to the matter of hand. I would really love a clear explanation to: What exactly is Dark Matter? Please help me to have a clear understanding. I'm using python\pyodbc and would like to access the second result set of a stored procedure. As near as I can tell, pyodbc does not support multiple result sets. Additionally, I can't modify the stored procedure. Are there any options to access the second result set using SQL or some other work-around? Perhaps create a second stored procedure that only returns the second result set of the first? I have been studying the pronunciation of Greek-derived words in English, and I've found an odd anomaly. There are (at least) two possible pronunciation patterns for plural word-forms that end in -&#8288;mata (which correspond to singular word-forms that end in -&#8288;ma).   Antepenult stress (expected)  It appears that it is always possible to place the stress on the antepenult (third-to-last) syllable, such as:    /ˈlɛmə/, /ˈlɛmətə/  /ˈskiːmə/, /ˈskiːmətə/  /ˌtɛrəˈtoʊmə/, /ˌtɛrəˈtoʊmətə/~/ˌtɛrəˈtɒmətə/  /ˈstɪɡmə/, /ˈstɪɡmətə/   This is what would be expected from  (I believe most or all of these words came through Latin before entering English), since the penultimate "a" in the original Greek words is short.  Maybe Latin vowel quality and stress rules are not very relevant; certainly, few English speakers know about them nowadays. And even with antepenult stress, some of these pronunciations do not seem to follow all of the traditional rules for pronouncing Latin-derived terms in English. I was reminded by some comments in this  that  in antepenult stressed syllables, we would expect tense ("long") vowels to be shortened due to  (TSL), yielding pronunciations like /ˌtɛrəˈtɒmətə/ (which I just noticed is in fact listed in the Oxford English dictionary) and ?/ˈskɛmətə/ (which is not). (Compare to genus~genera /dʒiːnəs/~/dʒɛnərə/, and perhaps opus~opera /oʊpəs/~/ɒpərə/). However, there are other Latinate plural forms that typically don't have trisyllabic laxing (matrices, also I think helices), or where both the lax- and tense-voweled pronunciations coexist (codices, apices), so I guess the apparent lack of it in schemata should not be surprising. (There are even some exceptions to TSL in singular nouns like obesity.)  Penult stress (unexpected)  The other pronunciation seems to exist only for a couple of words, in which the penultimate "a" is commonly stressed and broadened: stigma ~ stigmáta  (listed by both the Merriam-Webster dictionary and the ), and also sometimes schéma ~ schemáta /skiːˈmɑːtə/ (listed only by the ). (Neither the Merriam-Webster dictionary nor the Oxford Learner's Dictionaries list *"lemmáta").  I'm wondering why this pronunciation exists. It's an irregular plural either way, and putting the stress on the penultimate syllable creates a stress change between the singular and the plural forms.  (It's true that all of these words are rare, and some people might pronounce some of their plurals differently. The pronunciations I give here are simply the ones listed in dictionaries.)  The plural form "stigmata" is probably most common in religious or theological contexts (where it refers to the wounds of Christ), so at first I wondered if the penultimate stress was supposed to be closer to the original Greek pronunciation, but according to , the stress is on the antepenult in Greek as well.  So, what's up with this? Did the stress perhaps change in Latin over time, is this a tradition of Greek accentuation that I'm not familiar with, is this a simple matter of ignorance of the original position of the stress that has now become entrenched with time and usage, or is this somehow explainable by established English stress patterns? (For example, do English speakers have some natural preference for a penultimate stress on polysyllabic words?)  If nobody knows of a reason, I suppose I can just put it down to people encountering the word mainly in text, not knowing which syllable to stress, and choosing the penult because it sounds better to them.  (I asked this question a while back on , but nobody knew of any reason.)