I am building a small app about the human face.  I have an artist that is sketching pencil based illustrations for me. Mostly in black and white (pencil black/grey) with a hint of colour here and there.  What is the best way to digitally capture the sketches/illustrations?  A high resolution scanner I am guessing.  Any suggestions as to the surface he/she should be sketching on?  Apologies for the simple question. Thanks in advance.
I want to color sketches in Photoshop, but when I prepared the sketch (using Levels, Hue, and other modifications) to turn it into workable line art, some details were missing. I think it depends on how you draw your sketch.  What are important steps for drawing a sketch (with pen or pencil) that is to be colored in Photoshop? A step-by-step instruction would be appreciated.  For instance, here it is the sketch    This is after my preparations in Photoshop
Expected value of subset of variables in Bayesian setting Assume we have $N$ random variables $X_1, \ldots, X_N$ with known (posterior) distributions that are easy to sample from. For simplicity, assume that I am interested in the expected value of the ten largest of these random variables. There will be some uncertainty surrounding this expected value as there is uncertainty with respect to the rank of a given $X_i$ in case the distributions of $X_1, \ldots, X_N$ overlap. I want to use simulation based methods. My approach is to simulate $M$ samples from the distributions of $X_1, \ldots, X_N$, where in each iteration, I construct a binary indicator of length $N$ indicating whether random variable $i$ is within the set of the ten largest samples or not. Averaging over these $M$ draws gives me the probability that random variable $i$ is member of the top ten group. Denote this probability as $\pi_i$. Define a binary random variable that indicates membership in the top ten group as $S_i$. $S_i$ follows a Bernoulli distribution s.t. $S_i \sim Ber(\pi_i)$. In a second step, I draw $L$ samples from the distribution of $S_i$ and from the distributions of $X_1, \ldots, X_N$. Given a draw of $S_i$, I can select the top ten out of the samples of $X_1, \ldots, X_N$ in each iteration and average the respective samples within the top ten group. I save this average, so the result after $L$ iterations will be the distribution of the average outcome within the top ten group, taking into account all relevant sources of uncertainty. My questions are: Is this simulation approach valid in general? From a Bayesian perspective, is this simulation valid or do I need to treat additional quantities (e.g. $S_i$ or $\pi_i$) as random variables that need a prior? How to remove Apple System Apps How can I delete Apple OS X application such as Photos, iPhoto, and others that I never use? 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Render just part of a final image from Cycles? Arch on WSL: libQt5Core.so.5 not found, despite being installed I was hit by some hardcore power-tripping forum mods on the Arch Linux forum, so here I am.  I'm trying to run GUI apps on WSL, such as dolphin or kate. However, none of them can find libQt5Core.so.5, despite it being installed in /usr/lib as you'd expect. Here's a terminal transcript:  /u/lib » DISPLAY=:0.0 dolphin dolphin: error while loading shared libraries: libQt5Core.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory /u/lib » pwd /usr/lib /u/lib » ls -la | grep Qt5Core -rw-r--r-- 1 root root     1143 Aug  7 06:05 libQt5Core.prl lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root       20 Aug  7 06:05 libQt5Core.so -&gt; libQt5Core.so.5.11.1* lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root       20 Aug  7 06:05 libQt5Core.so.5 -&gt; libQt5Core.so.5.11.1* lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root       20 Aug  7 06:05 libQt5Core.so.5.11 -&gt; libQt5Core.so.5.11.1* -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  5234312 Aug  7 06:05 libQt5Core.so.5.11.1* /u/lib » ldd `which dolphin`         linux-vdso.so.1 (0x00007fffdb426000) ...         libQt5Core.so.5 =&gt; not found /u/lib » pacman -Qk qt5-base qt5-base: 3546 total files, 0 missing files   Note that other GUI apps work fine - anything compiled against GTK, including Firefox, work perfectly. I just have to set the $DISPLAY variable. 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Example:    While it lasts (there seems to be no long term way to host a pdf), you can .  Edit: Simple was perhaps a bit of a misnomer - the pdfs are cropped and monochromatic, but to intricate to redraw on my own. The above example is a character from a font (which I can recolor), but it gives a good example of what shapes I am talking about. I tried to open the door. I tried opening the door   We can use both infinitive and gerund with verb "try" as used in above sentences. Does it change the meaning of the  sentence if use gerund or infinitive?.(here i don't know if the meaning of sentences is changed.)     The same confusion arise in these two sentences.  1.I stopped seeing him. 2. I stopped to see him.(But in case of these two sentence i know the meaning is changed but don't know exactly what the change is). Detecting Color of iPhone/iPad/iPod touch? Why is it so hard to do this in Java? 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Why is there at least one element $a\in S$ such that $|O(a)|=1$, or in other words, $G_a=G$?  I tried to ask this question yesterday but did not word it right, so the one who helped me claim that this part is clearly true and I really do not understand why, and I couldn't get a straight answer for the past day.   Any of you are welcome to vote to delete this question (after some discussion with me about the problem I hope), but I just really want to know why it is "clearly true, because I still couldn't reason it right. I understand the whole concept of Rencontres numbers but I can't understand how to prove this equation  $$D_{n,0}=\left[\frac{n!}{e}\right]$$  where $[\cdot]$ denotes the rounding function (i.e., $[x]$ is the integer nearest to $x$). This equation that I wrote comes from solving the following recursion, but I don't understand how exactly the author calculated this recursion.  $$\begin {align*}  D_{n+2,0} &amp; =(n+1)(D_{n+1,0}+D_{n,0}) \\ D_{0,0} &amp; = 1 \\ D_{1,0} &amp; = 0  \end {align*} $$