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According to  , gold badge holders can now unilaterally close questions as duplicates. I hold seven gold badges for tags on SO, which means I can, on my own, close questions as duplicates for those tagged questions.  Simply put: DO NOT WANT.  However, I do not see any ability in SO (the only SE site I spend much time in) to opt out of any privileges, let alone this one.  Is there a spot that I'm just not seeing that allows me to turn off this new privilege? Splitting a PDF document in two without purchasing a PDF editing tool Acrobat Reader allow us to easily save a copy of the PDF document. How can I save only from page 5 to 10 without purchasing a PDF editing tool? My dad has an old Sears KS-2 + 50mm f/1.7, which from a bit of research seems to use a Pentax K-mount.  I've looked around a bit and found a , which says it supports af-confirmation, and costs ~$30 US.  Has anyone tried using an adapter ring like this, and if so, would you recommend doing so?  I am perfectly happy with shooting manual, but I'm curious about the quality of older lenses.  I'm assuming that if I use older primes the optical quality will be fine, and it looks like the build quality of the older lenses is much better that similarly priced new lenses. Where exactly does energy quantisation come in for light? Planck quantised the energy of light in order to solve the black body radiation problem. However, I am confused as to exactly what he quantised. On one hand, I have seen that he quantised the energy of oscillators in the black body (source below).     However, the second version of the story I've heard is that it is simply that light energy is given off in discrete chunks (where every photon itself can have any value of energy it likes depending on frequency and is not quantised).   To me, the first idea doesn't make sense because $E=hf$ and as $f$ can be any real number that means the energy of each photon can be any real number. I would believe the second version, however I don't understand how this version of quantisation leads to reducing the number of high frequency waves emitted and thus solving the UV catastrophe. Could you please explain exactly how releasing energy in chunks (of arbitrary size themselves) means less will be released in the higher frequencies? Alert on edit after a downvote Use induction to prove a product of sums of squares is a sum of squares Possibility of recovering files from a dd zero-filled hard disk I have "zero filled" (complete wiped) an external hard disk using dd, and from what I have heard: people said you should at least "zero fill" 3 times to be sure that the data are really wiped and no one can recover anything.  So I decided to scan the disk once again after I've zero filled the disk. I was expecting the disk to still have some random binary left. It turned out that it has only a few sequential bytes in the very beginning. This is probably the file structure type and other headers stuff. Other than that, it's all zeros and nothing else.  So if we have to recover any file from a zero filled disk, ...how? From what I've heard, even you zero fill the disk, you should still have some data left. ...or could dd really completely annihilate all data? Creating System-Wide Keyboard Shortcut To Launch Applications I recently switched from Ubuntu, and I was feeling very comfortable with using Ctrl + Alt + T to launch terminal. Can I assign Shift + Cmd + T to do the same thing in Yosemite? Specifically, I want a new terminal window to be opened. Trim string in JavaScript? Linear Discriminant Analysis for $p=1$ I'm studying 'Introduction to Statistical Learning' by James, Witten, Hastie, Tibshirani.   In page 139, of their book, they began by introducing Bayes' Theorem $p_k(X)=P(Y=k|X=x) = \dfrac{\pi_kf_k(x)}{\sum_{l=1}^k \pi_l f_l(x)}$. $\pi$ is not mathematical constant, but denotes the prior probability. Nothing is strange in this equation.   The book claims that it wants to obtain an estimate for $f_k(x)$ that it can plug into the equation given above. To estimate $f_k(x)$, it assumes that is normal. In the one dimensional setting, $f_k(x)=\dfrac{1}{\sqrt{2\pi}\sigma}\exp(-\dfrac{1}{2\sigma^2}(x-\mu_k)^2)$, where $\mu_k$ and $\sigma^2_k$ are the mean and variance for the $k$th class. It is assumed that $\sigma^2_1 = \sigma^2_2 = \cdots = \sigma^2_K$. (I began to get confused from the last statement.)   Plugging $f_k$ into $p_x$, you have this quite messy equation (1) :   $$p_x(k)=\dfrac{\pi_k \frac{1}{\sqrt{2\pi}\sigma}\exp(-\frac{1}{2\sigma^2}(x-\mu_k)^2)}{\sum_{l=1}^K \pi_l \frac{1}{\sqrt{2\pi}\sigma}\exp(-\frac{1}{2\sigma^2}(x-\mu_l)^2)}. $$  Again, no surprises here since it is just substitution.     The Bayes' Classifier involves assigning an observation to the class for which equation (1) is the largest. Taking the log of Equation (1) and rearranging terms, it is not hard to show that this is equivalent to assigning the observation to the class for which the following is the largest:  $$\delta_k(x)=x \cdot \dfrac{\mu_k}{\sigma^2} - \dfrac{\mu_k^2}{2\sigma^2} + \log(\pi_k) $$  Question: I do not understand where this came from, and what it means. I tried doing the log of equation and it doesn't become this. Are we taking the derivative somewhere here, since this is the largest observation? Is Canon 60D still a decent camera? I have a Canon 60D, bought it back in 2013. Use it quite a while, but in past two-three years, I lost interest in photography. I will be going on a long trip this summer and would like to take a decent camera with me. Is Canon 60D still a decent one or I will be missing on features and upgrades comparing to the latest versions?  In terms of lenses I own Tamron 24-70 2.8 And Canon 100 2.8 Macro. Why do Tcler suggest to brace your `expr`essions? Suppose $ \alpha, \beta&gt;0 $. Compute:   $$ \int_{0}^{\infty}\frac{\cos (\alpha x)-\cos (\beta x)}{x}dx $$   Here is what I do: $$\begin{align} \int_{0}^{\infty}\frac{\cos (\alpha x)-\cos (\beta x)}{x}dx &amp;= \int_{0}^{\infty}dx\int_{\alpha}^{\beta}\sin (yx)dy\\ &amp;=\int_{\alpha}^{\beta}dy\int_{0}^{\infty}\sin(yx)dx\\ &amp; \\ &amp;   \qquad\text{let $ yx=u $}\\ &amp; \\ &amp;=\int_{\alpha}^{\beta}\frac{1}{y}dy\int_0^{\infty}\sin u du\\ &amp;=\int_{\alpha}^{\beta}\frac{1}{y}dy\left( -\cos u|_{\infty}+\cos u|_0 \right)\\ &amp;=\log\frac{\beta}{\alpha}(-\cos(\infty)+1)\\ &amp;=\log\frac{\beta}{\alpha}-\cos(\infty)\log\frac{\beta}{\alpha} \end{align}$$  But $ \cos(\infty) $ does not exist right? Does it mean the integral actually diverse?  Edit: The question comes from   Who can point out my mistake in the above deduction? What's a word for lack of confidence? Use of each and every File issues after importing Drupal site I recently tried to move my Drupal site to a new server using this page: . But now the style doesn't seem be loaded and more importantly I get this error on every page in the site (even on the frontpage):  Warning: file_put_contents(temporary://filef76T9k): failed to open stream: &quot;DrupalTemporaryStreamWrapper::stream_open&quot; call failed in file_unmanaged_save_data() (line 1900 of /Library/Server/Web/Data/Sites/Default/drupal/includes/file.inc). The file could not be created.  Any ideas what this could be about? Detect the Internet connection is offline? How to detect the Internet connection is offline in JavaScript? "None is" or "none are" I was asked if the following sentences will create problems and what are the assumptions I have to make:  (d) There are grammarians in the room but none of them is an American. (e) There are grammarians in the room but none of them are Americans.  What is the problem in both sentences? They clearly have two main clauses which are connected by the coordinated conjunction 'but'. I know that grammar-wise, the 'is/are' don't really matter since both can be used with 'none', but would the tense in the first main clause 'are' affect the use of 'none'? What are the criteria used to represent Stack Exchange sites on the sites page? (Grid view) I noticed that  has been changed, and by default sites are shown by balloons.  What is not clear to me is why some sites are shown with a bigger balloon than other sites. For example, WordPress Answers has less questions, answers and users than Programmers, but its balloon is bigger. What are the criteria used to show the sites on that page? If $a, b, c$ be distinct reals such that $$a + \frac1b = b + \frac1c = c + \frac1a$$ how do I find the value of $abc$?  The answer says $1$, but I am not sure how to derive it.