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Maximum Likelihood Estimate with different parameters The overly simplified explanation I'm giving myself right now is  causes the opposite of what gravity does, that's why the universe is expanding. Now where gravity is a force, why dark energy is "energy"? Why it's not called "Dark Force" instead? I think I must be missing something here. Is there a vendor for animal parts? I'm looking to upgrade all my pouches, but some animals are hard to find, or the part needed drops rarely.  Is there a merchant somewhere that sells them outright? I have shards to spare. I'm new to the world of Apple, I bought a new Macbook Pro, mid-2020, Intel i7, 16GB RAM. I'm a developer, I run apps like VS Code, Sublime Text, Slack, Chrome (Multiple Windows), I play videos/songs in the background. I have been keeping a track of the energy consumption on my Mac, and it only runs for 4 hours. I have reset my SMC after I upgraded to Big Sur. Is 4 hours normal? or should I go to the service center? Update on 3 Feb 2021: I submitted my Mac to the Apple service center they said they conducted a few tests and the conclusion was that the battery is fine (I don't know what type of test they did). So I guess I'll be using it on AC Update on 12 Feb 2021: Took it to the service center, they didn't find any issues so I started using Safari for work and my battery has improved by 1 hour on Average. Could cancer be in itself a evolutionary process? Could cancer be in itself a evolutionary process? Maybe in some way could it be a process of variation? Or would this idea be completely without support, if so, why?   I don't mean that each case would lead to evolution, but that within an entire group of organisms, it could lead to case of of individuals developing ways to resist what caused the cancer, maybe in cases of individuals beating the cancer or in cases of successive generations of off spring from individuals with cancer?   Could it be possible that in rare cases it could lead to the development of new organs or specialized cells? Pick an urn and pick two balls from the urn There are 5 urns, the nth urn contains n − 1 red balls and 5 − n green balls (in total 4 ineach urn). We pick an urn at random and take 2 balls out of it without replacement.  (a) What is the probability the second ball is green?  (b) What is the probability the second ball is green given the ﬁrst is green?  (c) What is the probability we picked either the ﬁrst urn or second urn given both balls are green?  for (a), I did:   P(2nd ball is green) = 5*[{P(i th urn picked) * P(first ball drawn red/ ith urn picked) P(2nd ball drwan green/first ball red)}+ {P(i th urn picked) * P(first ball drawn green/ ith urn picked) P(2nd ball drwan green/first ball green)}]  = 5*[[{1/5 * (n-1)/4 * (5-n)/3 } + {1/5 * (5-n)/4 * (4-n)/3}] = 5* [{(n-1)(5-n)/60} + {(5-n)(4-n)/ 60}]  =[(n-1)(5-n) + (5-n)(4-n)]/12 = (5-n)(n-1+4-n)/12 = (5-n)*3/12 = (5-n)/4  And for b): 5*{P(i th urn picked) * P(first ball drawn green/ ith urn picked) P(2nd ball drwan green/first ball green)} = 5*{1/5 * (5-n)/4 * (4-n)/3} =(4-n)(5-n)/12  c), P(1st urn or 2nd urn/ both are green) = [ [P(1st or 2nd]* (4-n)(5-n)/6 ] / [{P(1st or 2nd]* (4-n)(5-n)/6} + {{P(3rd or 4th]* (4-n)(5-n)/6}] = {(4-n)(5-n)/15} /  2*{(4-n)(5-n)/15} = 1/2  But I am really uncertain about my solutions. If anyone has different solution or easier way to get the answer please let me know! Thanks a lot! Any complete group (that is, with trivial center and outer automorphism group) is isomorphic to its automorphism group. The inverse is not true, as the dihedral group of order 8 is isomorphic to its automorphism group but isn't complete.  Problem 15.29 in the Kourovka Notebook asks to find another exemple of a p-group, but I was wondering, is any other exemple known? Is there any other finite (or even infinite) group (not necessarily a p-group) which is isomorphic to its automorphism group but isn't complete? Why does the multi-paragraph quotation rule exist? I am an Indian student in France on a 6 month visa for an Internship. Currently I don't have my passport with me as I have applied for UK visa and am not hoping to receive it back in next 10 days. I was wondering if I can travel to Germany without my passport in hand.   The documents I can carry are a photocopy of my passport's identity page, Residence proof here, proof of Internship in France,Indian national identity card, receipt from UK embassy stating my visa application.   Please note that I do NOT have a photocopy of French visa page. Exposing database IDs - security risk? Testing stored procedure scalability I have an email application that will be called upon to deliver to the UI the number of new messages for a given user on each page load. I have a few variations of things I am testing on the DB level but all are abstracted by the stored proc call.  I'm trying to slam the DB to see what the breaking point (# of requests per second) would be.   In a nutshell, I have a table such as this userId, newMsgCount with a clustered index on userId. SQL should be able to server hundreds or thousands of these responses per second. I think the laggard is my .NET app.  How can I make this a good test to achieve the test results based on SQL performance?  Is there a tool for this that i can give it a stored proc name and param for it to pund my  DB?  I want to see if the DB can return a min. of 250 responses per second. utf8 and ISO 8859-1 encoding references trouble I have to use one particular template ( am obliged to use it for my thesis) it uses \bibliographystyle{plain} Ihave both english and frensh text on it (for abstract and résumé) there is no problem for characters like ( é, ç...) but some of references does not appear they are replaced by [?] knowing that foe encoding \RequirePackage[latin1]{inputenc} how to fix this problem please!   \documentclass{article}   \RequirePackage[latin1]{inputenc}   \RequirePackage{fancyhdr}     blabla \cite{nayak2015comprehensive, byun2002applications, shah2004sequential, fletcher2009support, cornuejols2011apprentissage, byun2002applications}   @article{nayak2015comprehensive,    title={A comprehensive survey on support vector machine in data mining     tasks: applications \&amp; challenges},    author={Nayak, Janmenjoy and Naik, Bighnaraj and Behera, HS},    journal={International Journal of Database Theory and Application},    volume={8},    number={1},    pages={169--186},    year={2015}    }      @inproceedings{shah2004sequential,     title={Sequential k-nearest neighbor pattern recognition for usable      speech classification},     author={Shah, Jashmin K and Smolenski, Brett Y and Yantorno, Robert E      and Iyer, Ananth N},     booktitle={Signal Processing Conference, 2004 12th European},     pages={741--744},     year={2004},     organization={IEEE}     }      @misc{fletcher2009support,      title  = {Support vector machines explained},     author = {Fletcher, Tristan},     journal= {University College London, London},     year   = {2009},     howpublished = "\url{http://sutikno.blog.undip.ac.id/files/2011/11/SVM-     Explained.pdf}",     note   = {Accessed: 2017-04-30}     }      @inbook{cornuejols2011apprentissage,      title={Apprentissage artificiel: concepts et algorithmes},      author={Cornu{\'e}jols, Antoine and Miclet, Laurent},      year={2011},      pages={279--309},      publisher={Editions Eyrolles}       }      @incollection{byun2002applications,      title={Applications of support vector machines for pattern recognition:       A survey},      author={Byun, Hyeran and Lee, Seong-Whan},      booktitle={Pattern recognition with support vector machines},       pages={213--236},      year={2002},      publisher={Springer}      }    \end{document}  knowing that my references work well on other template but this one no how to fix this problm please! here is the error I got   Edited here is the link to the template  in fact I have created a littele example ( since I could not publish my thesis ...) the error has disappeared but my references still [?] How do I find the index of an element in a list in Racket? How to let `dpkg -i` install dependencies for me? Say, I have foo-1.2.3.deb which depends on perl and python, however, running command:  dpkg -i ./foo-1.2.3.deb   won't install these dependencies. So I must apt-get install perl python by hand.  How to make dpkg -i install these dependencies for me automatically? What is the difference between \big[ (or equivalently \big() and \bigl[? Is it always necessary to mention l (left) and r (right)? Is it possible to use the animals that are summoned using Conjure Animals as mounts?  As an example: Summoning Giant Eagles to carry a group up the mountain or over a wall. Since  from other SE sites and is not thought to point out a lack of quality or helpfulness, but only to express agreement or disagreement, I'm wondering why downvoted answers here on meta are shown semi-transparent.  Shouldn't they be non-transparent then (like upvoted answers)?  Or am I missing something? How to replace subscript symbols Cardinality of set of real continuous functions I believe that the set of all $\mathbb{R\to R}$ continuous functions is $\mathfrak c$, the . However, I read in the book &quot;Metric spaces&quot; by Ó Searcóid that set of all $[0, 1]\to\mathbb{R}$ continuous functions is greater than $\mathfrak c$:  &quot;It is demonstrated in many textbooks that $\mathbb{Q}$ is countable, that $\mathbb{R}$ is uncountable, that every non-degenerate interval is uncountable, that the collection of continuous functions deﬁned on  $[0,1]$ is of a greater cardinality than $\mathbb{R}$, and that there are sets of greater and greater cardinality.&quot;  I understand that (via composition with the continuous function $\tan$ or $\arctan$) these sets of continuous functions have the same cardinality. Therefore, which claim is correct, and how do I prove this? Parallel.ForEach Slower than ForEach