Oh man, I don't even know where to put this... or how to begin. As a joke, I'm trying to get the ascii art of the guy flipping a table in a question on an exam. I've tried verbatim but it won't display the characters.  I know it might be a long shot, but does anyone have an idea how to get this little guy  (╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻   to display? I know I should provide a MWE, but... yeah, I don't even have that.  Thanks!
I'm completing a problem set, one problem for which I literally have no idea what to do on. The graders would prefer to have a physical copy of the problem so I thought it best to include the ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ emoji as my answer, instead of something like "Dunno" or "No idea."  Option #1 is to include an image.  Beyond that I actually don't understand how this emoji works. The middle character is Japanese kana "tsu" and proves problematic - TeX wants it in math mode then renders "?" when it is.
Find objects between two dates MongoDB I accidentally opened Orca Screen Reader from the Dash when I was trying to open Screenshot. Now everything I type or click on is spoken out loud.  How do I make it stop?  For reference, here is a screenshot of Orca Screen Reader running: Is there a way to send a file using POST from a Python script? Assuming file2 already exists, the command   &gt; file1 &lt; file2 cat   appears to be copying the content of file2 to file1.  But I cannot understand this structure.  I understand that "Nothing" is being directed to file1 (creating or erasing its content). Then the content of file2 is being directed to file1.  Why is cat after file2? How does it know to cat file2 if the operands are not in the correct order? Why is super.super.method(); not allowed in Java? I read  and thought that would easily be solved (not that it isn't solvable without) if one could write:   @Override public String toString() {     return super.super.toString(); }   I'm not sure if it is useful in many cases, but I wonder why it isn't and if something like this exists in other languages.  What do you guys think?  EDIT: To clarify: yes I know, that's impossible in Java and I don't really miss it. This is nothing I expected to work and was surprised getting a compiler error. I just had the idea and like to discuss it. This is a bit of a more unusual bug to report:    The screenshot above is unedited - the black box is rendered by the Stack Exchange application.  Phone:  running Android 4.0.4 (ICS) $ is not a function in drupal 7 theme "Access is denied" JavaScript error when trying to access the document object of a programmatically-created  (IE-only) I was using my MacBook Pro (with 16GB of RAM) as usual and out of blue I've this popup that:  Your system has run out of application memory. To avoid problems with your computer, quit any applications you are not using.   I've obviously closed few which I could, but it didn't help. After checking on memory, it seems kernel task ate 7GB and 22.36GB swap memory was used of total 23GB (which obviously was the case). However I've still 20GB of space free on my SDD.  Activity Monitor didn't help much whilst my OS X was heading to the destruction.    My top stats before my kernel freeze: Processes: 344 total, 2 running, 5 stuck, 337 sleeping, 2580 threads                                                                                                                         19:23:56 Load Avg: 1.56, 1.62, 2.09  CPU usage: 3.51% user, 8.47% sys, 88.1% idle   SharedLibs: 46M resident, 0B data, 6572K linkedit. MemRegions: 757970 total, 2139M resident, 56M private, 907M shared. PhysMem: 9410M used (6198M wired), 556M unused. VM: 1155G vsize, 1311M framework vsize, 112872658(320) swapins, 122668389(0) swapouts. Networks: packets: 299419263/363G in, 142126838/14G out. Disks: 58970173/1079G read, 20012389/1120G written.  At the end my OS X frozen and I had to do hard reset, repair my SDD in recovery mode and fixing afterwards (recovering lost work, fixing application conflicts, checking my lost+found folder, Chrome/Terminal tabs gone, headache, etc.). My question is, how do I check on high memory usage of kernel task or how to properly deal with that kind of situation? I've tried to take Sample with Activity Monitor, but it's greyed out.  My MacBook Pro details: 2.3GHz Intel Core i7 (late 2013) with 16GB RAM. OS X: 10.9.5 An example of a regular function over an open set >Prove that $\frac d {dx} x^n=nx^{n-1}$ for all $n \in \mathbb R$. Prove that $\frac d {dx} x^n=nx^{n-1}$ for all $n \in \mathbb R$.   I saw some proof of $\frac d {dx} x^n=nx^{n-1}$ using binomial theorem, which is only available for $n \in\mathbb N$. Do anyone have the proof of $\frac d {dx} x^n=nx^{n-1}$ for all real $n$? Thank you. How can I integrate $$\ln \left( x+\sqrt{1+x^2} \right) $$   The problem is from IA Maron Calculus, Problem 4.3.17. The problem is under the heading 'Integration by parts'. I have tried it, but it just leads to 2 unsolvable integrals How come Mortarboard is bronze and Enthusiast is silver? :   Silver  Enthusiast    Visited the site each day for 30 consecutive days   56.9k awarded Bronze  Mortarboard   Earned at least 200 reputation in a single day      15.4k awarded    It would seem that earning Enthusiast requires almost no effort while Mortarboard is highly non-trivial. This appears to be reflected in the award count (almost 4:1 in favor of enthusiasts).  So, why is the first one silver and the second one bronze?  (A similar question can be asked about Epic vs Fanatic and probably many other). Accidentally ejected External drive while downloading file, now having problems reading I'm hoping someone can help! I recently downloaded a torrent directly onto an external hard drive, (using a 2009 MacBook Pro and 1TB Seagate Expansion portable Drive) somehow during the download the drive was accidentally ejected, since this incident when I plug the drive back in it’s having problems reading.  The drive works fine for about 10 minutes, I can read/copy/paste and access files but then starts to wreak havoc; apps hangs, it hangs the Finder, etc.  I’ve tried repairing it in Disk Utility, which reads and repairs this disk but problems inevitably continue as described above.  I’ve deleted the Torrent file also. All my files on this external drive so re-formatting is not an option until I can retrieve them. I imagine a point-like particle can only experience the local properties of spacetime. But locally there is no curvature and no gravity, as it is often stated that     Locally, as expressed in the equivalence principle, spacetime is Minkowskian, and the laws of physics exhibit local Lorentz invariance. ()   But if this is the case how does a point-like particle know, which direction it should follow in a gravitational field?   Can this be a seen as a hint that point-like particles cannot be used as underlying concept for a field theory like general relativity? Is the Schrödinger equation derived or postulated? I'm an undergraduate mathematics student trying to understand some quantum mechanics, but I'm having a hard time understanding what is the status of the Schrödinger equation.  In some places I've read that it's just a postulate. At least, that's how I interpret e.g. the following quote:     Where did we get that (equation) from? Nowhere. It is not possible to derive it from anything you know. It came out of the mind of Schrödinger.    -- Richard Feynman   (from the Wikipedia entry on the Schrödinger equation)  However, some places seem to derive the Schrödinger equation: just search for "derivation of Schrödinger equation" in google.  This motivates the question in the title: Is the Schrödinger equation derived or postulated? If it is derived, then just how is it derived, and from what principles? If it is postulated, then it surely came out of somewhere. Something like "in these special cases it can be derived, and then we postulate it works in general". Or maybe not?  Thanks in advance, and please bear with my physical ignorance. Subtracting (erasing) polygons from polygon using ArcGIS for Desktop? I have two polygon layers, one is green that represents all non-public right-of-way land. I have another polygon that is just a circle with a specified radius.  I would like my output to be a polygon layer that represents all the white space (the gaps) in the private land polygon layer that is also within the black circle.    How does one do this (In ArcGIS 10.2)? Understanding MCMC and the Metropolis-Hastings algorithm Over the past few days I have been trying to understand how Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) works. In particular I have been trying to understand and implement the Metropolis-Hastings algorithm. So far I think I have an overall understanding of the algorithm but there are a couple of things that are not clear to me yet. I want to use MCMC to fit some models to data. Because of this I will describe my understanding of Metropolis-Hastings algorithm for fitting a straight line $f(x)=ax$ to some observed data $D$:  1) Make an initial guess for $a$. Set this $a$ as our current $a$ ($a_0$). Also add $a$ at the end of the Markov Chain ($C$).  2) Repeat the steps bellow a number of times.  3) Evaluate current likelihood (${\cal L_0}$) given $a_0$ and $D$.  4) Propose a new $a$ ($a_1$) by sampling from a normal distribution with $\mu=a_0$ and $\sigma=stepsize$. For now, $stepsize$ is constant.  5) Evaluate new likelihood (${\cal L_1}$) given $a_1$ and $D$.  6) If ${\cal L_1}$ is bigger than ${\cal L_0}$, accept $a_1$ as the new $a_0$, append it at the end of $C$ and go to step 2.  7) If ${\cal L_1}$ is smaller than ${\cal L_0}$ generate a number ($U$) in range [0,1] from a uniform distribution  8) If $U$ is smaller than the difference between the two likelihoods (${\cal L_1}$ - ${\cal L_0}$), accept $a_1$ as the new $a_0$, append it at the end of $C$ and go to step 2.  9) If $U$ is bigger than the difference between the two likelihoods (${\cal L_1}$ - ${\cal L_0}$), append the $a_0$ at the end of $C$, keep using the same $a_0$, go to step 2.  10) End of Repeat.  11) Remove some elements from the start of $C$ (burn-in phase).  12) Now take the average of the values in $C$. This average is the estimated $a$.  Now I have some questions regarding the above steps:   How do I construct the likelihood function for $f(x)=ax$ but also for any arbitrary function? Is this a correct implementation of Metropolis-Hastings algorithm? How the selection of the random number generation method at Step 7 can change the results? How is this algorithm going to change if I have multiple model parameters? For example, if I had the model $f(x)=ax+b$.   Notes/Credits: The main structure of the algorithm described above is based on the code from an MPIA Python Workshop. Java conditional compilation: how to prevent code chunks from being compiled? Grant Select on all Tables Owned By Specific User