Good source of d and d or similar game, minituare figurines? So I am playing a new group of players and they are hoping for more of a visual aid.   Does anyone know any good places to pick up cheap figures?
Where can I find fantasy minis on the cheap? I'm looking to build a collection of fantasy miniatures, preferably pewter - but I don't want to buy them one at a time from my local hobby store... Much too expensive, and they don't often carry anything I'm interested in buying, which makes it a long term venture as well. So I'm looking for ideas on how to obtain many miniatures at once, preferably for cheap. D&amp;D Miniatures aren't a good source for me as they're collectibles, and the prices on those are also prohibitive.  By the way - they don't have to be pewter, that's just my preference. =)
Progressive Draw 2 and Draw 4 Uno When playing with progressive Draw 2 and Draw 4 and (say that there are 2 players playing) and    Player 1 goes out with a Draw 2  Player 2 puts down a Draw 2    Does player 1 have to pick up 4 cards? Magnitude of standardized coefficients (beta) in multiple linear regression Being aware of , I am curious about the question how big standardized coefficients can get. I had a discussion with my professor about that issue and she was arguing standardized coefficients (beta) in multiple linear regressions can not become greater than |1|. I have also heard that predictors with standardized coefficients greater than 1 should not be be included/appear in multiple linear regression. When I recently estimated a multiple linear regression in R using lm(), I estimated the standardized coefficients with lm.beta() function from the package 'lm.beta'. In the results I could observe a standardized coefficient greater than one. Right now I am just not sure about what is the truth.  Can standardized coefficients become greater than |1|? If yes, what does that mean and should they be excluded from the model? If yes, why?  I would be very thankful, if somebody could make this issue clear for me. In what cases should I use a comma before "or"? A general explanation of rim, tire and tube specifications I am looking for an adjective/noun for someone who is able to speak/ makes speeches very well and uses words effectively to influence/impress people. How do I use F3 to get my coordinates when my laptop makes F3 a special key? I can't get the coordinates on my computer because it keeps changing the brightness.  I have a windows 8 Samsung, and I'm playing Minecraft version 1.6.4. I installed a nightly or unstable build of a custom ROM and now my phone doesn't work I have some files that Ubuntu can't read it ( ANSI encoding ) but Windows can read it well.  When I open it in gedit or notepad++ it seems like this :     Êã ÇáÊÍæíá áÜÜ   How can I make Ubuntu read ANSI encoded files well? line 56 syntax error: unexpected end of file I have typed out the code for this mychoice.sh bash example and I keep getting the syntax error: unexpected end of file.  Am I missing something?  mychoice.sh  #!/bin/bash  E='echo -e';e='echo -en';trap ";exit" 2 ESC=$( $e "\e") TPUT(){ $e "\e[${1};${2}H";} CLEAR(){ $e "\ec";} CIVIS(){ $e "\e[25l"} DRAW(){ $e "\e%\e(0";} WRITE(){ $e "\e(B";} MARK(){ $e "\e[7m";} UNMARK(){ $e "\e[27m";} R(){ CLEAR ;stty sane;$e "\ec\e[37;44m[J";}; HEAD(){ DRAW     for each in $(seq 1 13);do     $E "   x                    x"     done     WRITE;MARK;TPUT; 1 5     $E "BASH SELECTION MENU         ";UNMARK;}     i=0; CLEAR; CIVIS;NULL=/dev/null FOOT(){ MARK;TPUT 13 5     printf "ENTER - SELECT,NEXT         ";UNMARK;} ARROW(){ read -s -n3 key 2&gt;/dev/null &gt;&amp;2      if [[$key = $ESC[A ]];then echo up;fi      if [[$key = $ESC[B ]];then echo dn;fi;} M0(){ TPUT  4 20; $e "Login info";} M1(){ TPUT  5 20; $e "Network";} M2(){ TPUT  6 20; $e "Disk";} M3(){ TPUT  7 20; $e "Routing";} M4(){ TPUT  8 20; $e "Time";} M5(){ TPUT  9 20; $e "About  ";} M6(){ TPUT 10 20; $e "Exit   ";} LM=6 MENU(){ for each in $(seq 0 $LM);do M${each};done;} POS(){ if [[ $cur == up ]];then ((i--));fi     if [[ $cur == dn ]];then ((i++));fi     if [[ $i -lt 0 ]];then i=$LM;fi     if [[ $i -gt $LM ]];then i=0;fi;} REFRESH(){ after=$((i+1)); before=$((i-!))     if [[ $before -lt 0 ]];then before=$LM;fi     if [[ $after -gt 0 ]];then after=0;fi     if [[ $j -lt $i ]];then UNMARK;M$before;else UNMARK;M$after;fi     if [[ $after -eq 0 ]] || [$before -eq $LM ];then          UNMARK; M$before; M$after;fi;j=$i;UNMARK;M$before;M$after;} INIT(){ R;HEAD;FOOT;MENU;} SC(){ REFRESH;MARK;$S;$b;cur='ARROW';} ES(){ MARK;$e "ENTER = main menu ";$b;read;INIT;};INIT while [[ "$0" != " " ]]; do case $i in     0) S=M2;SC;if [[ $cur == "" ]];then R;$e "\nS(w     )\n";ES;fi;;     1) S=M2;SC;if [[ $cur == "" ]];then R;$e "\nS(ifconfig  )\n";ES;fi;;     2) S=M2;SC;if [[ $cur == "" ]];then R;$e "\nS(df -h )\n";ES;fi;;     3) S=M2;SC;if [[ $cur == "" ]];then R;$e "\nS(route -n  )\n";ES;fi;;     4) S=M2;SC;if [[ $cur == "" ]];then R;$e "\nS(date  )\n";ES;fi;;     5) S=M2;SC;if [[ $cur == "" ]];then R;$e "\nS($e by oTo )\n";ES;fi;;     6) S=M2;SC;if [[ $cur == "" ]];then R;exit 0;fi;;  esac;POS;done; Turn off display in Windows on command If $f: \Bbb{R}\rightarrow\Bbb{R}$ is continuous at $0$ and $f(x)=f(2x)$ for each $x\in\Bbb{R}$ then $f$ is constant. How do I prove that if $f: \Bbb{R}\rightarrow\Bbb{R}$  is continuous at $0$ and $$f(x)=f(2x)$$ for each $x\in\Bbb{R}$, then $f$ is constant? How do I disable DVD auto eject in Windows 7? I just discovered an incredibly annoying "feature" of Windows 7 tonight.  If you click on your optical drive in Explorer, and there is no disc in the drive, Windows 7 is kind enough to open the tray for you.  I'm finding it hard to contain my rage over this idiotic design decision.  WTF?  According to , this behavior was apparently introduced in Vista.  The author posted a workaround, but I don't want a workaround.  I want it to stop doing this.  Like he, I have a case with a door that covers the drive bays.  If it's closed, and I accidentally click on that optical drive, it knocks on that door 10 or 12 times before giving up.  Can this behavior be turned off in Windows 7? When installing or booting from USB flash drive screen goes blank When I was installing Ubuntu 11.10 64-bit on my new PC from a flash drive since the only computers I have do not have disk drives, I ran into a problem.  After the ASUS logo when switching on the PC, and pressing F8 to select the USB flash drive, there was the options thing as normal that allows me to select to either boot form the flash drive or install on the HDD, when I do either of these, there is a bunch of text on a black background, as I would expect, but after a few seconds the screen goes blank and the monitor says No signal.  I have previously installed Ubuntu with a flash drive to fix issues caused my Windows and ran into no problems.  Is it a problem with the pen drive I am using? Or maybe a problem with the system? I tried it in my USB 3.0 ports at the back and the USB 2.0 ones as well.  My Specs are:   &nbsp;&nbsp;AMD Phenom II x4 965BE &nbsp;&nbsp;ASUS AMD Radeon HD 6670 &nbsp;&nbsp;ASUS M5-L75 USB3 (typing this from memory, it's an AM3+ ASUS board with USB3.0 in the AMD700 chipet or something) &nbsp;&nbsp;Corsair XMS3 DDR3 4GB(2x2GB) 1333MHz RAM    I ran the memtest program on the flash drive as well, and it came out clean. I've shown the existence of unique square roots of all positive rational numbers, so now I want to prove that the square root is monotone:   $0&lt;a&lt;b$ if and only if $\sqrt{a} &lt; \sqrt{b}$ Guaranteed lifetime of temporary in C++? Does C++ provide a guarantee for the lifetime of a temporary variable that is created within a function call but not used as a parameter?  Here's an example class:  class StringBuffer { public:     StringBuffer(std::string &amp; str) : m_str(str)     {         m_buffer.push_back(0);     }     ~StringBuffer()     {         m_str = &amp;m_buffer[0];     }     char * Size(int maxlength)     {         m_buffer.resize(maxlength + 1, 0);         return &amp;m_buffer[0];     } private:     std::string &amp; m_str;     std::vector&lt;char&gt; m_buffer; };   And here's how you would use it:  // this is from a crusty old API that can't be changed void GetString(char * str, int maxlength);  std::string mystring; GetString(StringBuffer(mystring).Size(MAXLEN), MAXLEN);   When will the destructor for the temporary StringBuffer object get called?  Is it:   Before the call to GetString? After GetString returns? Compiler dependent?   I know that C++ guarantees that a local temporary variable will be valid as long as there's a reference to it - does this apply to parent objects when there's a reference to a member variable?  Thanks. What is the meaning of p values and t values in statistical tests? Vote too old to be changed, unless post is edited Anyone seen this one yet? Vote too old to be changed, unless post is edited My vote was only a few hours old. Then I realized the answer was wrong. Updated my question and went to remove the vote. Even after updating question I still have the issue. Small issue, but frustrating.  See also: Show that the operator norm is submultiplicative We had in our lecture on numerical analysis the following: Let $\mathrm{Lin}(X,Y)$ be the set of all linear maps $X\rightarrow Y$. Let $A\in\mathrm{Lin}(\mathbb R^l,\mathbb R^n)$ and $B\in\mathrm{Lin}(\mathbb R^n,\mathbb R^m)$ and $\|C\|_{op}:=\max_{\|x\|\leq1}\|C(x)\|$. Then our lecturer followed $\|A\circ B\|_{op}\leq\|A\|_{op}\cdot\|B\|_{op}$. So he didn't prove it and so I've tried it by my own. My attempt: $$\begin{aligned} \|A\circ B\|_{\mathrm{op}} &amp;= \max_{\|x\| &lt; 1}\|(A \circ B)(x)\| \\ &amp; \leq \max_{\|x\| &lt; 1} \|A\|_{\mathrm{op}} \|B(x)\| \\ &amp;= \|A\|_{\mathrm{op}} \max_{\|x\|\leq1}\|B(x)\|\\ &amp;= \|A\|_{\mathrm{op}}\|B\|_{\mathrm{op}} \end{aligned}$$ But this seems too easy. I am really interested in a nice proof so anybody could help? Thanks a lot! Where do I ask where to ask? If I have a specific question I want to ask about, but I don't know which Stack Exchange site would be on topic for asking that question, where can I ask where to ask that question?  Is there any generic place where we can ask for advice? Is it here?  This is not about a specific question but in general.  For example: "Where should I ask for advice about fishing?", or if I need to know where I should ask "What would be the best fishing rod to fish for salmon?" (regardless of how good/bad these examples are) Is there an optimal loss function for dealing with imbalanced classes? I'm aware that there are many ways of dealing with datasets where there is a strong class imbalance in the target variable: downsampling the more prevalent and less important class, over-weighting the valuable minority class, etc. Are there any loss functions that are ideally suited for these types of problems? I've heard of AUC, but AUC sounds like a means of evaluating a model once its training is complete (correct me if I'm wrong). Log loss and squared loss penalize a model's over confidence, but overconfidence and class imbalance seem unrelated. Is that true?