Cross-validation: Which classifier to use in the end?
How to choose a predictive model after k-fold cross-validation?
A composition of a periodic function that is somehow not periodic. Why is LaTeX3 taking so long to come out? I feel as though I have been hearing about the LaTeX3 project for a very long time.   Why is it taking so long for it to come into fruition? Are there major technical difficulties, or is it purely a lack of developers that is causing a bottleneck? Motley fool says you can make $15,978 more per year with Social Security. Is this for real? The Motley fool has an ad campaign that says you can make $15,978 more per year on Social Security by doing 17 minutes of work using a legal loophole.  I don't want to link to their ad (although, you can find it by searching ).  What are they talking about here?  Is there any truth to this?  If someone could explain it to me without me having to watch the entire ad video or subscribe to their newsletter, I'd appreciate it. Ignore citations in captions in list of figures when numbering When using the \cite command in figure captions and the ieeetr bibliography style, then  BibTeX numbers the citations as appearing earlier than they do in reality (i.e. the first citation in the document ends up being [42]).  Is there any way to get BibTeX to ignore the \listoffigures section when numbering? PDF of product of variables Could anyone please indicate a general strategy (if there is any) to get the PDF (or CDF) of the  product of two random variables, each having known distributions and limits?   My particular need is the following: Let $w :=u \cdot v$. The PDF of $u$ is $$\frac{1}{\pi u}\frac{1}{\sqrt{u^2-0.25}},$$ for $z&gt;0.5$ and the PDF of $v$ is $$\exp\left(-\frac{v}{v_0}\right),$$ for $v_1&lt;v&lt;v_2$. What's the PDF of $w$? A friend wants to use my account for a wire transfer. Is this a scam or is it legitimate? I have a friend since July online and Exxon owe him for a balance on a 2014 contract off the shores of Liverpool. He is presently in the Gulf of Mexico completing a contract that last for one year. During that year he cannot get off the boat there fore he cannot receive the money.  Exxon has notified him that his check has been deposited in Samba Bank in London. If he doesn’t receive his money within two weeks it goes back to Exxon and he said that there I not telling nohow long before he will receive the money again. He said that with him being off shore that he needs me to be his beneficiary to receive the money for him. He wants me to keep the money in my account and when he gets off the boat in 6 weeks he is relocating to where I live.  I am to buy a house before he gets here and then he wants us to start a business together. He talked with me for quite a while before he told me how much he makes. He knows I do not have any money to mention. I have stock in a formal shop but not any money.  He said if this money had not come in when it did he would have had to postpone his plan until he gets paid what Shell Oil owes him for this contract that he will finish October 15th. He said he had given enough of his life to the gas and oil industry and is not going to sign another contract.  What do you think about the safety of this? Excel destroying special character when saved as CSV Mathematica Sec and Csc Is Borden's true identity real, or another ruse? Towards the end of , it's revealed that Borden accomplishes his Transported Man trick by using his twin brother, Fallon, as a double. It then becomes clear that he has been doing this in his personal life as well as on stage - each brother leads 'half a life', sometimes appearing as Borden and sometimes as Fallon. This is how he completes the illusion: one Borden goes into the first door, the other Borden emerges from the second door a moment later. Angier doesn't know how Borden does the trick, and doesn't believe Borden uses a double despite being told as much by Cutter. He follows what he believes to be a clue in Borden's notebook and travels to Colorado to meet Nikola Tesla, who Angier believes can build a machine that can help him perform the trick. Angier believes that Tesla built a similar machine for Borden. However, the final pages of the notebook reveal that Tesla was merely a red herring, designed to get Angier out of Borden's way for a long time. Tesla, it turns out, had never built such a machine before. At this point, Tesla agrees to build Angier's machine anyway. Instead of building a machine that transports matter, he builds one that duplicates it. Angier uses this machine in his act, but in order to avoid having to deal with multiple clones (the &quot;prestige materials&quot;), one of them must die as part of the act. This all makes sense, so far, but I find it hard to believe that Borden's use of the word 'Tesla' as the key to his cipher is random. It's too coincidental that he sends Angier on a wild goose chase, but Angier returns with a working machine. A film that is otherwise so tightly plotted shouldn't rely on coincidence to move the narrative forward, so there must be something else going on. Is it possible that Borden cloned himself using Tesla's machine? What does “a couple” mean to you, and what does “a few” mean to you? So, i want to make a timer that will turn on/off a circuit. I want to turn on the connected device at 08:00 and stop it at 20:00, so the interval is 12 hours. Correct me if i'm wrong but i can't use IC 555(or another IC), i'll need some huge resistors/capacitors. Is there another way to build that other than using a microcontroller? SOQL result ordering in the absence of an Order By clause In the absence of an  in a SOQL query, what order will Salesforce return results in?  Clearly if ordering is important then Order By should be specified, but I recently encountered a question about what the order would be if it was undefined.  My initial thoughts were Salesforce would return them in whatever order suited them. Much like .  For simple queries this would typically line up with the creation date descending and the Id ascending. For more complex queries it would depend on the joins being performed. Does blocking an attack with the Shield spell still trigger Armor of Agathys? I am contemplating a Oath of Conquest Paladin / Sorcerer multiclass character, with a 1 level dip in hexblade warlock. This character will have access to the Armor of Agathys and Shield spells, which potentially allows for a pretty nice combo. The Shield spell states (PHB 275):  Casting Time: 1 reaction, which you take when you are hit by an attack or targeted by the magic missile spell... Until the start of your next turn, you have a +5 bonus to AC, including against the triggering attack,  It looks like you are indeed hit by an attack, but since you have a bonus to AC, you can potentially force that attack to miss instead. Armor of Agathys states (PHB 215),  If a creature hits you with a melee attack while you have these hit points, the creature takes 5 cold damage.  If I cast Shield and cause an attack that &quot;hit&quot; me to miss, does Armor of Agathys still deal damage? I am leaning toward yes, though this combo seems a little too strong--Shield is already a strong spell, and this character will eventually have 9 1st level spell slots and a 7th level spell slot. Not only can they freely block attacks with Shield, but they can also deal up to 35 (5d10) damage to the attacker without an attack roll or saving throw. While a Warlock would have to spend both of their spell slots to do this once, my character would be able to do this 4 times with spell slots to spare. Some notes:    ask about reducing the damage from a confirmed hit to zero. This question is asking about what happens when the Shield spell causes the attack to miss entirely. A number of online resources, such as the Roll20 5th edition compendium, seem to be missing the correct casting time for the Shield spell. Answerers should make sure they're looking at the correct version from the PHB. Reputation misaligned in new topbar In the sites dropdown, the reputation scores are misaligned:    This seems to happen only on Firefox (56.0), both on macOS (10.13) and Windows (7, 10) (thanks @Tom and @MonicaCellio). I've tested a couple of other browsers which do not have this problem. I've already cleared my cache. Scamming a scammer? I have seen many questions like:      My question is: what happens if you receive this money (without doing anything or giving your bank account number) but do not do anything scammer wants?  I especially want to know about what happens with the money you got and possible legal consequences.    Is it considered yours because scammer transfered it to you? Do you have to return it? If yes, to whom and in what form? And finally, how is it that scammers are just sending money to random people? Aren't they scared that someone will simply not return it? I understand that this may be stolen money, but it surely took some effort (cash/time) to "acquire" it, so why are they just sending it away? How does HOTP keep in sync? Why Inox Steel doesn't interact with magnets? My dad has a HUGE magnet on his workshop.  I love magnets, and when I saw it, I asked him what it was for.  His reply was: "I don't know why, but inox steel bolts don't get attracted to it, so I use it to identify them."  Thus I got curious, why a magnet don't attract  bolts? Steel, even if a inox variation is still mostly iron, no? Do I need a flight ticket or a flight reservation for my UK visit visa application Am compiling documents for my visa application and I read that I need to present go and return flight tickets to prove that I will return at the end of my visit. Then a while ago I got to know that I can just get a flight reservation with out buying the flight tickets because the visa application can be refused and you have already bought the tickets.  So l request to know which of the two , having a flight ticket or flight reservation is more compelling to the visa officer and more convenient me because I would buy a flight ticket and my application is refused What are the automorphisms acting on $Q\sqrt[3]{2}$ that fixes Q? How to initialize all members of an array to the same value?