Who is Snoke and how did he come to power? With the release of The Last Jedi and related material, do we find out the origins and Snoke's rise to power? How did another such powerful Sith lord hide from Palpatine and quickly after his demise, took his place? The Force Awakens introduces him to the cannon, but leaves his character a mystery to the viewer and now with the new movie, we don't really learn anything new about him () and      he's gone before we get a chance to learn more.   Is there any canon material released around the release of The Last Jedi that tells his story?
Is there evidence to suggest that Supreme Leader Snoke is Darth Plagueis? In Episode III,  explains to Anakin the power of the Dark Side to save people from death. He mentions  - the Sith who discovered this. Sidious then claims he died, which seems odd, given that kind of power.   Then in Episode VII (The Force Awakens) we find a Sith Lord who has appeared from no where. There seems to be two loose ends that fit nicely together.   My question is: Is there evidence to suggest that Supreme Leader Snoke is Darth Plagueis?
My Pakistani passport expires less than a month from now. I understand that some countries only let people in if their passport is valid for six months or more. Will I be able to enter Pakistan on a passport that is about to expire?  Also, travelling back to Pakistan is likely to involve transiting through some other country.  Does the six-month rule still apply to people returning to their country of citizenship? How to prevent different checksums for different typesets Could there be a body of water the size of a planet? How to visualize Reverse Triangle Inequality $||\mathbf{a}| − |\mathbf{b}|| ≤ |\mathbf{a} − \mathbf{b}|$? pp  and ,   illustrates Triangle Inequality. But without referring to Triangle Inequality at all, how to picture  Reverse Triangle Inequality for all $\mathbf{a,b} \in C^n$? I don't want proofs or rigour. Can we let users with privileges on one site have them on another? I have almost 4k reputation on Arqade. On Stack Overflow, I have to suggest edits and can't hit the close button. But I want to help with the close queue, which is at 62k at the time of this writing.  While I realize that people may be inexperienced with the system, I think I am experienced enough. If I want to edit something, I have to let it sit in the queue and get robo-reviewed. Yes, I know more about gaming than about coding. But I think I would know if this question is a duplicate of that, and if this question is off topic.  So, my request is that we should have the same privledges on every site, based on the site that we have the most reputation in. I am not asking that all the reputation be merged. Repeat String - Javascript Assume the standard situation, that is, let $X_1, \ldots , X_n$ be independent and identically distributed with $X_k ∼ P_\theta(x; \theta)$ , where $P_\theta(x; \theta) = 2x/\theta^2$  if $0\le x \le\theta$ and $0$ otherwise. It is required to estimate $\theta$. Show that the maximum likelihood estimator for $\theta$ is $\hat{\theta} = \max{[X_1, \ldots , X_n]}$ and then show that the cumulative distribution function of $\hat{\theta}$ is $F_\theta(z) = z^{2n}/\theta^{2n}$. Here's what i did so far: Maximum Likehood estimator: $L_x(θ) = \prod_{i = 1}^{n} P_θ(x_k)$ Here we have $P_θ(x_1,...,x_n;θ) = P_θ(x_1,θ).P_θ(x_2,θ)...P_θ(x_n,θ)$ Likehood = $L_{x,θ}(θ) =P_θ(x_1,θ).P_θ(x_2,θ)...P_θ(x_n,θ)= 2x_1/θ^2. 2x_2/θ^2.. 2x_n/θ^2 = [2^n.\prod_{i = 1}^{n}x_i]/θ^{2n}$ Log-likehood: $\sum_{i = 1}^{n}log(P_θ(x_1,...x_n;θ))= \sum_{i = 1}^{n}log(2x_i/θ^2)$ Is this correct so far? Im still not sure how to get to $\hat{θ} = max{[X_1, . . . , X_n]}$ As for the the cumulative distribution part to show $F_θ(z) = z^{2n}/θ^{2n}$: $F(z) = P(max({x_k})&lt;z) = P(x_1&lt;z).P(x_2&lt;z)..P(x_n&lt;z) = 2x_1/θ^2.2x_2/θ^2...2x_n/θ^n = 2^n.\prod_{i = 1}^{n}x_i/θ^2n$ Not sure if this is correct. Would really appreciate some help. Edit: From the answers below, we can deduce the the estimator is biased. What estimator would be unbiased? How can i find it? I am creating table in LaTeX and I need to get the text to perform line break automaticaly when it's too long. And if possible, I'd like to get the text alignment to the left. Is it possible to handle this situation? How to enable bullet points when using the presento beamer theme? I have the problem that when I use an itemize list and the , there are no bullet points.  Here is a minimal working example (requires the  not available on CTAN to be downloaded first):  \documentclass{beamer} \usepackage{config/presento} \begin{document} \begin{frame} \begin{itemize} \item ... \item ... \item ... \end{itemize} \end{frame} \end{document}     How to fix this problem? Jquery change image on rollover with fade This question attempts to collect the few pearls among the dozens of bad C++ books that are published every year. Unlike many other programming languages, which are often picked up on the go from tutorials found on the Internet, few are able to quickly pick up C++ without studying a well-written C++ book. It is way too big and complex for doing this. In fact, it is so big and complex, that there are very many very bad C++ books out there. And we are not talking about bad style, but things like sporting glaringly obvious factual errors and promoting abysmally bad programming styles. Please edit the accepted answer to provide quality books and an approximate skill level — preferably after discussing your addition in . (The regulars might mercilessly undo your work if they disagree with a recommendation.) Add a short blurb/description about each book that you have personally read/benefited from. Feel free to debate quality, headings, etc. Books that meet the criteria will be added to the list.  Books that have reviews by the Association of C and C++ Users (ACCU) have links to the review. *Note: FAQs and other resources can be found in the  and under . No sound in Ubuntu 13.04, only Dummy output device listed My sounds suddenly stopped playing on Ubuntu 13.04 64bit. I can only see Dummy output device in the Sound Settings and no sound is played during testing.  I can get the sound temporarily working by killing one of the strange processes, but I have to repeat the same after reboot  jan@jan-HP-Desktop:~$ ps -ef|grep pulseaudio 112       1405     1  0 09:38 ?        00:00:00 /usr/bin/pulseaudio --start --log-target=syslog 112       2132  1405  0 09:38 ?        00:00:00 /usr/lib/pulseaudio/pulse/gconf-helper jan       2575     1  0 09:39 ?        00:00:00 /usr/bin/pulseaudio --start --log-target=syslog jan       2597  2575  0 09:39 ?        00:00:00 /usr/lib/pulseaudio/pulse/gconf-helper jan       3160  2975  0 09:40 pts/2    00:00:00 grep --color=auto pulseaudio  jan@jan-HP-Desktop:~$ sudo kill 1405   Is there a permanent solution for this problem? How to fix apt: Signature by key uses weak digest algorithm (SHA1)? I started setting up by adding repositories and then went to run a sudo apt-get update again before I started installing other software, and I get the Signature key lines and it stops. So it essentially won't let me update any packages now.  d@EliteBook:~/Downloads$ sudo apt-get update Ign:1 http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb stable InRelease Hit:2 http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb stable Release                      Hit:4 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security InRelease               Get:5 http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial InRelease [247 kB] Hit:6 http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates InRelease Hit:7 http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-backports InRelease Fetched 247 kB in 0s (256 kB/s)                    Reading package lists... Done W: http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/dists/stable/Release.gpg: Signature by  key 4CCA1EAF950CEE4AB83976DCA040830F7FAC5991 uses weak digest algorithm (SHA1) d@EliteBook:~/Downloads$   I've never seen this before whenever I setup and start installing things in Ubuntu. Is there something else I can do? Determine destination location of apt-get install ? List of ways to tell if degree sequence is impossible for a simple graph I'm trying to make a list of ways to tell if a given degree sequence is impossible. For example $3,1,1$  is not possible because there are only 3 vertices in total so one can't have degree 3.  The list so far   vertices has degree equal to or larger than number of vertices sum of degrees is odd for n vertices if one has degree n-1 and another has degree 0 for n vertices the sum of the degrees cannot be greater than $n(n-1)$ because this would be have more edges than a complete graph In Volo's Guide to Monsters, there is a race in the bestiary called Grungs. Were these created for 5e specifically?  I'm pretty sure they were created for 5e, as they have no deities listed which is always a bit suspicious, but I'm just making sure. Find all integral solutions of $ x^4 + y^4 + z^4 -w^4 = 1995 $ it normally shows in the bottom corner as a sort of 'pie' that fills up as the picture is downloaded, similar to the 'app downloading' pie when viewing a downloading app on the home page/s  prior to this the picture resolution is terrible Can I cast a spell in the middle of jumping with a Jump spell? I have not completely read the rules for 5e, and my group has played a decent amount of 4e. We recently started 5e.  So my question is, as a Wizard, can I cast the Jump spell on myself one turn, then the next turn jump high into the air and cast Thunderwave straight down? I'm a little unsure of how the actions work in 5e. The point is to hopefully knock a handful of enemies prone to make quick work of them with my group. (We have a house rule from 4e where a successful attack on a prone character is an automatic critical.) Is there a way to load every label data and every SObject description data using only Javascript without any Apex Server-side code?  How do I import * from @salesforce/schema or @salesforce/label?  I am looking for a way to get all labels or all SObject describe information details to retrieve in LWC at once.  I can see that such syntax is provided by ES6 and is used widely by Salesforce itself, however, it is not possible to use the following syntax in LWC:   import * as schema from '@salesforce/schema'   import * as label from '@salesforce/label'   or this syntax  import {label, schema} from '@salesforce';   since both versions generate error     LWC1512: Missing resource value for @salesforce"   or      LWC1512: Missing resource value for @salesforce/label   Is there a way to load every label data and every SObject description data using only Javascript without any Apex Server-side code?  By the way, if we look as Salesforce Playground we could notice that   the same syntax is used to import everything from lwc  import * as Engine from 'lwc';   however, if we try to insert such line into any of Lightning Web Component, we would receive the following error     LWC1001: Invalid import. Namespace imports are not allowed on "lwc",   instead use named imports "import { LightningElement } from 'lwc'"   or   LWC1517: Invalid LWC import