I have been looking for a book about a group of teens with superhuman abilities. It is centred on a boy that has yellow eyes that can see into the future for a few seconds. I can't remember anything else about the book.
I read a YA novel in the early 2000s that I think takes place on Earth some time in the future. The human race has been enslaved by some other race, possibly aliens. If I remember correctly, humans were kept as slaves for some purpose and then exterminated at age 16, and I think some girls were kept to breed.  I remember scenes of a band of teenagers walking around sewers fighting these aliens who bled a blue "ichor." The only thing I distinctly remember about the book was that it was the first place I saw the word "ichor."  This is a pretty sorry description; but does anyone have a clue what this book was?
How can I recover from a "AMD-Action:downloadProduct:SP" during installation of macOS? Just wiped my hard drive on my MacBook Pro from 2013. Went to install a new copy of MacOS Sierra. I get the following error:  AMD-Action:downloadProduct:SP   I looked online and tried change the date using the Utility Terminal and the following command:  date mmddHHMMyy   Then did   csrutil enable csrutil clear   Then I tried clearing the NVRAM using command + option + P + R on startup.  Still no luck. Still getting the same error message. Apple support told me to go to a "computer repair store".  Any advice? I've used recursion quite a lot on my many years of programming to solve simple problems, but I'm fully aware that sometimes you need iteration due to memory/speed problems.  So, sometime in the very far past I went to try and find if there existed any "pattern" or text-book way of transforming a common recursion approach to iteration and found nothing. Or at least nothing that I can remember it would help.   Are there general rules? Is there a "pattern"? Hamiltonian Monte Carlo for dummies Could you provide a step-by-step for dummies explanation of how Hamiltonian Monte Carlo work?  PS: I've already read the answers here, , and here, , and here,  and they do not address it in a step-by-step way. How do I "replay" the "Caveats" section from a homebrew recipe What is this sand covered insect? I have found in a wooden house, in the mountains of central Spain this very curious insect:    I was wondering if that was its skin or whether it's decomposition or sand or saw-dust.  That particular region of Spain does have stink-bugs ... but this one doesn't look like anything I've seen before.  A google image search returns mostly arachnids ... but it seems to have only 6 legs. Difficulty in creating macro '\newcommand' for the beginning and end of frames in Beamer Include chapters in List of Figures with titletoc? Definition of the Infinite Cartesian Product How to derive addition of velocities without the Lorentz transformation? Lorentz contraction and time dilatation can be deduced without Lorentz transformation. Can you deduce also the theorem of    $$w~=~\dfrac{u+v}{1+uv/c^2}$$   without Lorentz transformation? Using just the constancy of light speed. Travel in schengen countries without carrying passport for non EU citizen I have a 64-bit (amd64 a.k.a. x86_64) Debian or Ubuntu installation. I need to run 32-bit (i386/i686) programs occasionally, or to compile programs for a 32-bit system. How can I do this with a minimum of fuss?  Bonus: what if I want to run or test with an older or newer release of the distribution? Roman numerals used for ordinals MacBook Pro 2018 Random Restart > Previous shutdown cause: -20 A Putnam Integral $\int_2^4 \frac{\sqrt{\ln(9-x)}\,dx}{\sqrt{\ln(9-x)} + \sqrt{\ln(x+3)}}.$ This is a Putnam Problem that I have been trying to solve (on and off) for two years, but I have failed. I am in Calculus BC. This problem comes from the book "Calculus Eighth Edition by Larson, Hostetler, and Edwards". This problem is at the end of the first section of the chapter 8 exercises. Here's the problem:  Evaluate $$\int_2^4 \frac{\sqrt{\ln(9-x)}\,dx}{\sqrt{\ln(9-x)} + \sqrt{\ln(x+3)}}.$$  Please. Any help is very much appreciated. So are solutions. Thank you!  Edit: I like the solution given, but I was interested to see if there is any other way of doing the problem? I'm excited to see the results. Show $\lim \limits_{n \to \infty} \frac{a_{n+1}}{a_n} = \|f\|_{\infty}$ for $f \in L^{\infty}$ I have a question that I need help with getting started (possibly I would be back for more help).     I have a measure space $(X,A,\mu)$ that is finite, and $f \in L^{\infty}(\mu)$. Also, defined is $a_n = \int_X\,|f|^n\,d\mu$. I need to show that the limit is: $$\lim_{n\to\infty}\,\frac{a_{n+1}}{a_n} = \|f\|_{\infty} .$$   I am stuck on getting started, anybody have any suggestions?  thanks much How to increase battery life on Ubuntu 20.04 and what power saving software should I install, if any? I recently installed Ubuntu 20.04 LTS on my Lenovo Ideapad Flex 5 and realized that battery life in Ubuntu is not as good as Windows. The battery drains faster in Ubuntu. I have seen the questions in Ask Ubuntu about this, but I haven't found anything that regards Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. I've done some research and found out that the battery drain is because most vendors optimize their drivers for Windows and with Linux, you have to hope that the kernel drivers do the job (which they usually do). After that, I researched how to increase my battery life and almost all sources I found recommended installing tlp or powertop or something similar to these. But I have a few questions.  Does tlp, powertop, and similar software actually affect battery life?  If the answer to 1 is yes (in a positive way), what would you recommend I install (such as whether I should  install tlp or powertop by itself or in a combination)?  Are there any other ways to increase battery life in Ubuntu 20.04?   Note: I am a beginner to Linux and Linux distros and do not want to mess with anything advanced that may negatively affect the system. I may not be able to immediately know how to tweak any of the aforementioned software, so please suggest any tweaks if they are needed to get results. And if it helps to know, here are my system specs: OS: Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS x86_64 Host: 81X2 IdeaPad Flex 5 14ARE05 Kernel: 5.7.17-050717-generic CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 4700U with Radeon Graphics (8) @ 2.000GHz GPU: AMD ATI 04:00.0 Renoir (These were given by neofetch) P.S: If you need anything else, just ask. Thanks in advance! I recently ran across elliptic curve crypto-systems:    (Brown University)  (Wikipedia)  (IEEE)  (RSA.com)   It seemed to me to be great alternative to RSA as the de-facto cryptosystems to be used in banking and financial systems and in the public key infrastructure for certificates, but is not used! If someone can explain why this is not done, it would be very helpful. A comparison between traditional RSA and an elliptic curve cryptology would be helpful.  To begin with:  Advantage of RSA:   Well established.   Advantages of elliptic curve:   Shorter keys are as strong as long key for RSA (see the IEEE paper) Low on CPU consumption. Low on memory usage. In a couple weeks, I will have a long layover in Cairo on a trip from Mumbai to Toronto. I get to Cairo on Sunday at noon and leave for Toronto on Monday at about 1 AM.  I am travelling on EgyptAir business class. While browsing for people who have experiences with a similar itinerary, some people seemed to have said they they were put up ina  hotel by the airline. However, I did not see anything about this when I booked my ticket.   allows me to enter my status (i.e. citizenship etc.) which results in a .  It doesn't appear like I need a transit visa- however it specifies that:     Leaving the airport is permitted for passengers with transit time   between 6 and 12 hours   My transit time 13.5 hours.  Now for my questions:   Is it an issue that my transit time is longer than 12 hours? Can I still leave the airport? What are my options with regards to airport hotels, etc.? Any other recommendations about how I could best utilize my time while in Cairo? Restore open applications, documents, and window state When working on a project, I generally have a couple of Explorer windows open to relevant folders and a couple of applications (e.g. Eclipse and a form development tool) open to specific project-related documents.  There's a lot of value in that context, and I'd like to find a way to save a set of open apps under a project name, then restore that state at a later date.    Thus far all of the utilities I've found are virtual desktop products that don't save/restore state.  I'm specifically looking for something that will run the applications I had running, open the documents I had open, and position the windows as they were.  I'm amazed that such a seemingly simple concept as "Save my workspace state" doesn't seem to be available.  I'm on Windows 7.  Any suggestions? How to move a visible file to a hidden folder? I've only been using Ubuntu for two weeks and have been able to find answers to any problem I had, however this one defies my searches.  I want to move a visible programme file (wallch) to a hidden directory ./config/autostart.  I have been able to enter this directory and the subject file is not there and I want to have this program start at bootup.  Can anyone assist?  Thanking you