In Schrodinger experiment, the cat is both alive and dead until an observer opens the box to observe the radioactive decay - but why isn't the cat itself an observer?
What's wrong in taking the cat as an observer in Schrodinger's experiment? Plz kindly elaborate! And if possible also describe about possible logics if the question bears the answer No.
Change Detection using Raster Calculator I'm currently analyzing the change detection for urban expansion over a decade starting from 2006-2016. How can I use raster calculator in order to know the changes? For example, from agriculture to urban area and etc. I already classified the images into 4 classes, urban area,vegetation,water bodies and barren land. Check if file is already open How to connect a GUI button to function? What is the best format to capture addresses for a universal user-base? What is the best and most usable format to capture address information from a universal user base? I was thinking to have the system detect the country by IP address and have that selected by default, and then state/province droplist would be populated accordingly. But the issue is some countries have states and provinces and some do not. Some have postal codes and some do not. Is there a universal standard to capture complete address info to ensure efficiency for most users?  FYI: I did research on here and while there are some questions that are close, none are about this exact same question (unless I missed something) How to automatically add &raquo; (») to  elements using CSS? Have iOS apps. Can I use them on my Mac Mini? I bought many iOS Apps on various iPads and iPod touchs. This Wednesday I will have my first Mac, a Mac Mini, so my question is: Will I be able to download these Apps without any charge, if they are available on Mac Store?  I ask this because I have been watching some videos and have seen GarageBand on the Mac but I don't know if it's the same App. I know that the App Store and Mac Store are different, but, like some Apps on AppStore have a plus symbol on their icons corners saying these Apps can be run on iPad, iPod touch and iPhone I wonder whether there will be some Apps for both iOS and the Mac.  Also, I don't know if GarageBand was released on Mac before iOS devices. Verify proof that sequence converges I'm having trouble understanding the simple voltage regulator that can be built using a zener diode (from section 2.04 in the Art of Electronics).  I know that it would be better to use amplifiers, et cetera, but I'm just trying to understand how this circuit works.      I don't really understand how the circuit works, but I am guessing that when a load is applied to the output, it drains current from the source (Vin) and thus causes the voltage to drop?  How does the zener diode help to maintain the voltage and thus make this circuit act as a regulator? Prove that the additive group $ℚ$ is not isomorphic with the multiplicative group $ℚ^*$. Prove that $ℚ^*_{&gt;0}$ is not isomorphic with $ℚ$. SQL group by day, show orders for each day I have an SQL 2005 table, let's call it Orders, in the format:  OrderID, OrderDate,  OrderAmount 1,       25/11/2008, 10 2,       25/11/2008, 2 3,       30/1002008, 5   Then I need to produce a report table showing the ordered amount on each day in the last 7 days:  Day,        OrderCount, OrderAmount 25/11/2008, 2,          12 26/11/2008, 0,          0  27/11/2008, 0,          0  28/11/2008, 0,          0 29/11/2008, 0,          0 30/11/2008, 1,          5   The SQL query that would normally produce this:  select count(*), sum(OrderAmount)     from Orders     where OrderDate&gt;getdate()-7     group by datepart(day,OrderDate)   Has a problem in that it will skip the days where there are no orders:  Day,        OrderCount, OrderAmount 25/11/2008, 2,          12 30/11/2008, 1,          5   Normally I would fix this using a tally table and outer join against rows there, but I'm really looking for a simpler or more efficient solution for this. It seems like such a common requirement for a report query that some elegant solution should be available for this already.   So: 1. Can this result be obtain from a simple query without using tally tables?  and 2. If no, can we create this tally table (reliably) on the fly (I can create a tally table using CTE but recursion stack limits me to 100 rows)? Inheriting from a UserControl in WPF I am fairly new to WPF and I am having a problem with inheriting from a user control.  I created a User Control and now I need to inherit from that control and add some more functionality.  Has anyone does this sort of thing before?  Any help would be greatly appreciated.  Thank you I have some programs running on start-up like . UAC prompts every time the Windows starts. How can I set a program to make sure that no intervening prompt would appear during start-up? How do I update the GUI from another thread? Let's say you have a few expressions like the following:  $$\begin{array}((x+17)^2 \\ x^2 + 34x + 289 \end{array} \\ 288 + \frac{x^2}{2} + \frac{x^2}{2} + 34x + 1 \\ [...] $$  You get the idea: there's an infinite number of ways of representing the same expression. The challenge is that my application is validating answers to math problems, input by math students practicing a certain concept. I'd like to make sure that whenever they submit an answer, the checker is completely insensitive to the issues of ordering, simplification, formatting etc. which would be plain frustrating. I'd also ideally like to support more than one variable such as x, y, z in the same expression.  What's a reliable way to check that two expressions are the same? The most brute force way I can think of would be to just plug a number into each variable of each expression and see what the result is.  I have a hunch however that there might be ways of getting false positives this way. That, and I might be either missing something really obvious about this, or there might be a better way of doing the comparison.  Would love to hear what you think. Why no file-name in Inode information? I know that symlinks have a separated inode from the original file and that they only point for the inode containing the data. My question is, where is the hardlink name stored if there's no field in the inode structure refering to "name". I know that this could be a a relatively easy question, but as all hardlinks have the same inode number i assume that no inode is created when creating a hard link. Having just  from any of the queues, it was reviewing close votes; however, this audit was flawed in that I didn't even cast a close vote.  Often I press the Close button to preview greater detail and sentiment of the closure, spawning the Why should this question be closed dialog box:    Especially for duplicates, where functionality is solely dependent on spawning this dialog.  From Closing > Duplicate, I can search or view selected duplicates:    Although, I realize general closure reasons are summarized on the page:    This question had 6-upvotes, but seemed very localized referencing subjective query is "taking too long" and even had a sqlfiddle link.  Maybe overly broad regarding performance tuning, the OP was posting like a forum with two answer posts to his own question  and  with one of those answers asking follow-up questions.    Wanting to gauge community response, current closure totals struck my curiosity.  So, I pressed the Close button and boom - oh, the humanity!  I failed, and didn't even cast a close vote.    Votes are not cast until a reason for closure is selected and Vote to Close is pressed.  Taking any review very seriously on this site, it only seems fair that my review quality is tested through actionable steps instead of clicking for more detailed information, leveraging the functional design of the close vote user interface.  Sure, it's complex to seed fake vote totals, and then there's controversy of mindless voting in the majority or people who simply cherry pick 4-vote questions.  Still though, it seems unfair I should hesitate to review further information of vote totals and duplicates before skipping due to the implementation of this audit. How do you correctly use a meat thermometer? Is there a clear set of conditions under which lasso, ridge, or elastic net solution paths are monotone? The question  demonstrates solution paths for the lasso estimator that are not monotonic. That is, some of the cofficients grow in absolute value before they shrink.  I've applied these models to several different kinds of data sets and never seen this behavior "in the wild," and until today had assumed that they were always monotonic.  Is there a clear set of conditions under which the solution paths are guaranteed to be monotone? Does it affect the interpretation of the results if the paths change direction? How can I get a history of running processes Prove that all 2x2 orthogonal matrices can be expressed as Rotation or Reflection