Someone who loves learning and knowing and saying random facts??
Is there a term that means "a person who enjoys learning"? This term might be used to describe someone who:   Is a self-motivated learner. Is curious, wants to understand many things.   I understand the term "philosopher" might be a good fit, in terms of its root words, however, the general population has an inconsistent understanding of this term, so I am looking for a more precise term.
How to get attention to a post on a child meta site If I want to draw people's attention to a post on a child meta site, how can I do that? I want to get people  over at Area 51 to see what they think of the idea, because it requires opinions from the community. However, posts on the discussion zone of Area 51 rarely get activity, so it seems like I'm out of luck, unless something is changed. And from the sounds of , it seems like this is a problem on all child metas.  That post is similar, but while it talks about increasing activity in general, I am talking about how to raise participation to an individual post; the equivalent of a bounty  I can't use bounties because reputation is the same.   Could there be another way of drawing attention to individual posts? Whatsapp, Keeping the number on the new phone but without the old sim card Whatsapp, Keeping the number on the new phone but without the old sim card. Ok the situation is I love my old number and to be honest don't want to ask everybody to change my number again and again. But I do not have the old sim card, and that bums me out. If there is any way to achieve this? Why does C/C++ differentiates in case of array index out of bound #include &lt;stdio.h&gt; int main() {     int a[10];     a[3]=4;     a[11]=3;//does not give segmentation fault     a[25]=4;//does not give segmentation fault     a[20000]=3; //gives segmentation fault     return 0; }  I understand that it's trying to access memory allocated to process or thread in case of a[11] or a[25] and it's going out of stack bounds in case of a[20000]. Why doesn't compiler or linker give an error, aren't they aware of the array size? If not then how does sizeof(a) work correctly? I have noticed a couple of kinds of behavior that seem to crop up in the SO community, and it really seems to artificially boost reputation. There may not be a solution (or it may not be a problem!) but here are some thoughts.  The first is the fact that "celebrity" users, or users with lots of reputation, are treated significantly better than others. Take Joel Spolsky's most recent question:    It was closed, opened, closed, and re-opened. And the question has earned Joel - what - 1030 reputation 103 votes, and lots of reputation! Wow! I'm not saying that Joel's question is a bad one. But lets compare to other questions that one might consider to be in the same equivalence class - easily answerable, specific questions, short questions:   (5 votes)   (5 votes)  If you look at the , I can hardly find any which are specific technical questions. So that Joel's question was so upvoted could only mean that:   It was upvoted based on his celebrity People have been interpreting the questions as a sort of zen-like wakeup call, designed to get people talking and thinking about they way they vote.   I do not mean any disrespect toward Joel, and again, I think his question was a good one. This post isn't about Joel! But the boost in reputation did not (imho) mean "Joel is really good at programming, and he has earned my trust as someone knowledgeable about computers." It may be true that Joel is a proficient computer expert, but not based on the merit of that one question.  Which leads me to an example about myself. I recently gave  (130 reputation) to a question about PHP's image-creating libraries. I am very appreciative of the community's support for my answer - an answer which I believe was well-thought and that I put effort into.  At the same time I can't look someone and tell them, with a straight face, that my reputation is a great reflection of my computer-related knowledge. Billions of people on the net have created tutorials for PHP's GD image library - I just happened to be the person to post a few of them. Heck if I know why it got 13 votes! (oh, but please don't downvote it!!)  SO is built by the community - so the community absolutely gets to decide what questions are important, and how they choose to dispense reputation. But in practice, I feel like peoples' reputation would be much lower if the community were more discriminating about the way they voted.  So: am I totally off base here? Is this even something that can be corrected with a different reputation algorithm? Or am I the only one who sees this as a detriment to the SO community?  (And, to be completely clear, I do not intend for this to be an ad hominem, and I am not jealous about not having a higher reputation. But I do take reputation with a grain of salt, in part for these reasons, and I thought I'd bring it up! It is meta, after all!) Is there an editor or IDE (or a script) for substituting the TeX-Commands $ and $$ for opening and closing math regions into the corresponding LaTeX-Commands \(,\) and \[,\]? I'm sure there is a tool - and I'm searching for. I think, this will result in better readable code. A simple search and replace wont do that - but with regular expressions, that should not be problem. I simply do not want to invent the wheel a second time. After booting I ran systemd-analyze blame and here are the results:       21.596s systemd-journal-flush.service      18.658s dev-sda8.device      15.099s dev-loop33.device      15.034s dev-loop19.device      15.012s dev-loop34.device      14.989s dev-loop21.device      14.877s dev-loop15.device      14.866s dev-loop26.device      14.773s dev-loop27.device      14.684s dev-loop30.device      14.677s dev-loop32.device      14.649s dev-loop35.device      14.590s dev-loop25.device      14.267s dev-loop23.device      14.192s dev-loop24.device      14.156s dev-loop29.device      14.133s dev-loop16.device      14.065s dev-loop31.device      14.059s dev-loop28.device      13.821s dev-loop20.device      13.531s dev-loop22.device      13.495s dev-loop14.device      13.364s dev-loop18.device   What are these dev-loopxx.device (xx denotes numbers) services and why are they taking so much time? Are they related to the mounting of snaps? Can I reduce the boot time by disabling them? I'm running Ubuntu 18.04 alongside Windows 10. If I have a $2\times 2$ or $3\times 3$ matrix, how should I go about computing the eigenvalues and eigenvectors of the matrix?  NB: I am making this question to provide a unified answer to questions about eigenvalues of small matrices so that all of the specific examples that come up can be marked as duplicates of this post. See . How to use the SSD for caching in Windows without Intel Smart Response? My motherboard is Asus P8B75-M. It doesn't have Intel Smart Response. But recently I bought a SSD. Since I mostly use linux I have Linux installed in it. But can I use it to speed up Windows also? How? I don't have Smart Response... (I run Windows 8.1). The SSD is only 64GB. Formation of supermassive black holes Scientists have found very bright source of light which they call  and the are found to be . So these black holes are so massive that they cannot be formed by a supernova. So how are these formed? I just wrote a question before this one and had trouble uploading a screenshot. The drop your image dialog throws no warning or error, but after uploading it won't show.  I also noticed that other questions won't load their images. Could this be some issue with imgur or similar?  Example:     When opening the image in a separate tab, Chrome gives a "too many redirects" error:    This might be linked to When can we interchange “who/which" and "that”? So far I thought the words who and that are usually interchangeable:   There is the man who saw me.  There is the man that saw me.    Both sentences seem fine, who can be replaced with that. But in the following examples:   This is the man to whom I spoke.  This is the man to that I spoke.    The #2 sounds odd, which is why I don’t think it might be correct. The same observation for the words which and that, while   This is the ball which we used today.  This is the ball that we used today.    Seem to be in order and which can be replaced with that. But in the following examples the #2 sounds odd again.   This is the ball with which I scored.  This is the ball with that I scored.    I wonder if there’s any rule regarding the interchangeability of the above mentioned words. I have a PHP script that can encode a PNG image to a Base64 string.  I'd like to do the same thing using JavaScript. I know how to open files, but I'm not sure how to do the encoding. I'm not used to working with binary data. How can latex and pdflatex be both symbolic links to same executable (pdftex) and not behave the same? When I run  $ latex my_doc.tex   and   $ pdflatex my_doc.tex   it works, and when I run  $ pdftex my_doc.tex   it doesn't work.  The thing is I noticed that both LaTeX and pdflatex commands are symbolic links to the same pdftex executable. That is,  $ which latex pdflatex pdftex   yields  /usr/bin/latex /usr/bin/pdflatex /usr/bin/pdftex   and   $ ls -l /usr/bin/latex /usr/bin/pdflatex /usr/bin/pdftex   yields  /usr/bin/latex -&gt; pdftex /usr/bin/pdflatex -&gt; pdftex /usr/bin/pdftex   So how is it possible that commands being symbolic links to a same executable do not behave in the same way ?  Thanks.  I have Ubuntu 12.10 with TeXLive-full 2012.20120611-4 installed. How to add the name of the supervisor in a @thesis field? In the biblatex doc, it says ( Version 1.7, p.11):     thesis      A thesis written for an educational institution to satisfy the   requirements for a degree. Use the type field to specify the type of   thesis.      Required fields: author, title, type, institution, year/date      Optional fields: subtitle, titleaddon, language, note, location,   month, isbn, chapter, pages, pagetotal, addendum, pubstate, doi,   eprint, eprintclass, eprinttype, url, urldate   I would like to know if there is any "canonical" way to add the name of the supervisor(s) in a field of the .bib file (no .bbl manipulation please, I want my bibliography to be usable "as it" in several documents).  The expect result could be something like  :     Meand Myself. “A brilliant result, explained”. PhD thesis**, under the   joint supervision of Pr. Toto and Pr. Tata**. Université Paris 24,   Nov. 2013.   The "under the (joint) supervision" could be a string that would be declined in four ways:   under the supervision of  under the joint supervision of and the abridged forms Is it possible to simulate key press events programmatically? Is it possible to simulate key press events programmatically in JavaScript? How to contact Canonical? So I am doing a College research project for my Computer Information Systems department and it is about alternative Linux server distribution for small businesses. From my findings I would really like for this research to actually take off into a Distribution project (Using Ubuntu as a base OS).   However I would like to rename the distribution as "Bizbuntu" or something related to that ("Biz" being shorthand for business) however I don't know if I can name the distribution without consent from Canonical.   So my question is do I have to contact Canonical about this, if so, does anyone know a mailing list or email that I can contact them about this? HTML element does not fade in using jquery Is there any way of making a Minecraft server lower than the current version? So me and my friends manged to make a server in Minecraft for us to play on and we would like to add mods. But the mods we want to add are a few versions lower than the updated version. Is there any way of making a server with a lower version of Minecraft that people can still play on? How to calculate a confidence interval for estimating a proportion when the population is very small? I plan to execute a little study on whether dentists tend to grant privately insured patients (PRIV) a sooner appointment compared with publicly insured patients (PUB). I want to restrict this study to the dentists of a single town in Germany.  In this town there are about 500 dental practices and I am willing to call maximum 100 practices (twice, once as a PUB and once as PRIV). (A sample without replacement of size up to 100)  So the result of this examination would be a list of up to 100 practices with an associated value of 1 - if the appointment for the PRIV was more than two days sooner - and a 0 - if not. The proportion of 1s is what I want to estimate.  Now the sources I have been reading always assumed a much larger population with a finite population correction close to 1. This is why I doubt that blindly using a conservative or approximate confidence interval would lead to a statistically meaningful result.   So my first question is, of course, whether it is reasonable at all trying to estimate the proportion using a confidence interval in this case? And if yes, then what statistical technology/method (leading to a CI) would be a good choice for this use case?   One idea that comes to mind is using a sample size of 25 f.x., in that case the FPC would be 0.95 - "close enough" to 1. But it seems stupid trying to improve the quality of an estimation by reducing the information used for the estimation. How does the twitter bot work?