There's a specific word I'm looking for and I even remember it being from Philip Roth's novel 'American Pastoral'. I just can't think of what the actual word is, but its meaning is to focus on the specifics of something to the detriment of the whole.
I am looking for a word that would describe being obsessed with the details of a larger entity such that the "looker" neglects to see the whole or (perhaps more importantly) the purpose of the whole.  Basically, "not seeing the big picture".  What can [more] succinctly describe this?  Edit: I just found this post: . I think I want the exact opposite.
Change post permalink to external URL from custom field Using Georeference information stored in tfwx (from ArcGIS) in QGIS? I have georeferenced some images (ArcGIS -> Update Georeferencing) which creates a *.tfwx file with the new parameters for georeferencing.   I renamed it to *.tfw but QGIS is not able to read the georeferencing information.   Does anybody has any useful tips how to fix this? dd aplied to dev USB before connect corrupt /dev/sdX and dont work I have a USB where I'm coping an ISO of 5 Mb aprox with a small OS with its own grub. If I connect the device and check it sudo fdisk -l I get:  ... Device     Boot Start   End Sectors  Size Id Type /dev/sdb1  *        1  9551    9551  4.7M cd unknown   If I copy with dd the ISO sudo dd if=my_os.iso of=/dev/sdb   14852+0 records in 14852+0 records out 7604224 bytes (7.6 MB) copied, 0.538487 s, 14.1 MB/s   It works perfectly. An boot from BIOS in other PC.  The problem is, sometime I forget to connect the USB after update the BIOS, so I do ff WITHOUT the USB connected,  the output is:  14852+0 records in 14852+0 records out 7604224 bytes (7.6 MB) copied, 0.00987684 s, 770 MB/s   Now, the /dev/sdb register is corrupted, the copy speed (770 MB/s) have no sense, and cannot user again dd until reboot.  I have tried to repair it with ddrescue and it doesn't work  sudo ddrescue /dev/zero /dev/sdb conv=noerror,sync   My question is, what is happening exactly and if is possible, how to repair /dev/sdb to avoid reboot and dd start working again?  Thanks. Let $a\ge 2$ be an integer. Show that for positive integers $m,n$, we have $a^n - 1$ divides $a^m - 1$ if and only if $n$ divides $m$.   I am having trouble showing this. I've seen a similar problem on here but it only shows one direction for the proof. I would like to see both directions.  This is what I have so far: Let $m = nq + r$, then $a^m - 1 = a^{nq + r}- 1 = a^{nq}a^r - 1 = a^{nq}a^r - a^r + a^r - 1 = a^r(a^{nq} - 1) + a^r - 1$. Since $0\le r\lt n$, $r = 0$ then $a^m - 1$ = $a^{nq} - 1$ so $a^m$ = $a^{nq}$ . Thus $m = nq$ hence $n\mid m$. How do you create grass? How to get text in between two sections? I want to get text in between START &amp; STOP. Remaining text should be deleted, like some_text_1 and some_text_2.  some_text_1 some_text_1 . . . START --- Values that I want to get ... STOP some_text_2 some_text_2   From my findings, sed does similar job, but only oposite, like: sed '/START/,/STOP/d' file which would give me everything else then content in between START &amp; STOP.  Any idea? What is the proper name for a "river plot" visualisation In a famous plot, Charles Minard visualised the losses of the French Army in the Russian campaign of Napoleon:    (another nice example is  xkcd plot)  Is there a canonical name for this type of visualisation? I'm actually looking for an R package to create such plots, but I don't even know how to look for it.  EDIT:  As I could not find a good package in R do do this type of plots, I have created my own, called "riverplot" -- you can download it . Here is a simplified version of the above diagram:    And an example of what other diagrams can be created with the package: Floating sidebar clash with footer in team page Here is a screenshot from  page, with the floating sidebar: (all good so far)        After I scroll down to footer it just combines both:        Can it please be fixed? How to subtract days from a plain Date? This is kind of a weird request. For some reason whoever owns safeandbuy.com has pointed their domain at my IP address. The reason it's a problem is that I'm having all kinds of crawlers that are trying to crawl my site with that domain name.   Is there anything I can do about this? Card game probability 3 players I don’t know how to handle this 3 players case, may anyone give a hand? Thanks!     When playing card game, there are 3 players playing 32 cards, each   receive 10 cards, 2 remind on the table. Overall are 4 aces and 4   kings in the game. How likely is P (E | D)? D = "The table remains 2   aces" E = "I (at least) get one king".   I guess I should have steps as follows.   P(E) = P(1King)+P(2K)+P(3K)+P(4K) P(D) = (4/32) * (4/32) = 1/256 P (E | D) = P(E) + P(D)   Equations may be used:  Counting combinations      The number of combinations of n objects taken r at a time is     nCr = n(n - 1)(n - 2) . . . (n - r + 1)/r! = n! / r!(n - r)!                 Number of favorable outcomes P(I) =     Total number of possible outcome How to capture workload from production to replay on test? I want to perform performance testing on my test server.  How can I capture workload from production and replay on my test server?   Basically I'm looking for detailed steps so that I can replay the workload from production to my test environment. Where does the damage of relocated dashes land? The end location of a dash or jump can be changed by an ability that pushes () or pulls () you. So for example I try to  on the adc, but a Blitzcrank pulls me, preventing me from landing on my chosen spot.  Will I deal my AoE damage around the adc, where I tried to land, or around the Blitzcrank, where I ended up landing? Travelling as unmarried couple in Dubai As a non-native speaker, I cannot grasp any difference between the expressions "here we go" and "there we go": both expressions seem to underline an event that is going to happen immediately.  Is there any subtle usage detail that I am missing? I'm relatively new to Ubuntu 16.04, and everything has been going fine until my OS threw this error today.   Below is the source code from /etc/apt/sources.list for line 54:  deb http://archive.canonical.com/ partner   I have tried appending ubuntu after the / and before partner, but this does not seem to work.   Any ideas what else to try? I can't run sudo apt-get update until this is fixed. https:// search results appearing on Google for purely http:// site Why does increasing the number of features reduce performance? I'm trying to gain an intuition as to why increasing the number of features could reduce performance.  I'm currently using an LDA classifier which performs better bivariately among certain features but worse when looking at more features.  My classification accuracy is performed using a stratified 10-fold xval.    Is there a simple case of when a classifier would work better univariately than bivaraiately to gain a somewhat physical or spatial intuition of what is happening in these higher dimensions? Shine a light into a superconductor A type-I superconductor can expel almost all magnetic flux (below some critical value $H_c$) from its interior when superconducting. Light as we know is an electromagnetic wave. So what would happen if we shine a light deep into a type-I superconductor? Suppose the magnetic field of the light is significantly lower than $H_c$.  And what about type-II superconductors? Capacitor Voltage Rating How to find the voltage rating of a capacitor after knowing the capacitance value.  Example, For a power supply, If the input voltage is 60V and output is 5V. The input capacitor(C1) value is 100uf and output capacitor value is 1000uf.  What is the voltage rating for both the capacitors and how to find them.