Why do I get the same output with Poisson GLM vs quasi-Poisson GLM?
Identical coefficients estimated in Poisson vs Quasi-Poisson model
I cannot submit my answer to    I am aware that my reputation is low. Also, spam posting is discouraged.  My answer includes a compilation of Android graphing libraries, with links, so fellow hackers do not have to Google each and every one of them.  I believe this answer is superior to the current answers, because it is updated to 03/2012 and covers more than 90% of all Android charting libraries.  How can I post the answer, or how can I increase my reputation without being able to post quality answers? The old school websites included just a bunch of links to other places, I am an old man!  Alternative solution would be to blog it, and just post a link to my blog, which is not optimal. A tool to measure signal strength of wireless I want to know if there exists any command line option or GUI tool (Ubuntu 11.10) so that I can measure the strength of wireless signal at a given location. I have a house where the wireless is not easily accessible at all corners I want to know at which corners or rooms the signal is weak. Turn a string into a valid filename? I have a string that I want to use as a filename, so I want to remove all characters that wouldn't be allowed in filenames, using Python.  I'd rather be strict than otherwise, so let's say I want to retain only letters, digits, and a small set of other characters like "_-.() ". What's the most elegant solution?  The filename needs to be valid on multiple operating systems (Windows, Linux and Mac OS) - it's an MP3 file in my library with the song title as the filename, and is shared and backed up between 3 machines. I did a bit of math at school and it seems like an easy one - what am I missing?  $$n\times m = \underbrace{n+n+\cdots +n}_{m\text{ times}}$$  $$\quad n\times 0 = \underbrace{0 + 0 + \cdots+ 0}_{n\text{ times}} = 0$$  (i.e add $0$ to $0$ as many times as you like, result is $0$)  So I thought an infinite number of $0$'s cannot be anything but $0$? But someone claims different but couldn't offer a reasonable explanation why. Google results seemed a bit iffy on the subject - hopefully this question will change that. Everyone I speak to says that a 50mm lens is the best and beats them all as an all-rounder. I was wondering whether to get myself a decent, fast 50mm as well. However I'm still not 100% sure whether I really need such a lens.  I use a Pentax K10D and mainly shoot people (kids, portraits, some street shots). The lens I love and use most is the DA 70mm f/2.4 Limited. I often also use a DA 40mm f/2.8 Limited. They are great little lenses that produce very high quality images but they could be a bit faster.  Is is worth spending 400 quid on a Sigma 50mm f/1.4 in my situation? It seems like a good compromise between the 40mm and 70mm and much faster (in fact, 2 f-stops faster than the DA 70mm f/2.8!). On the other hand would the lens be sufficiently different from my current lenses? Having 'Appendix A' instead of 'A Appendix' I would like to have my appendices labelled 'Appendix A', 'Appendix B', etc. However, when I use appendices in LaTeX (specifically llncs document class, downloadable at ), I instead get ''A Appendix', 'B Appendix' and so on. Is there any way to change that? More specifically, this is my minimal working example: \documentclass[envcountsame]{llncs}  \begin{document} \appendix \section{Appendix: Foo Bar} %I want this to appear as 'Appendix A: Foo Bar' \end{document} How to enable/disable a specific graphic card? In older versions of Windows and even in Windows 10 previews you could enable the built-in guest account in control panel     Control Panel\User Accounts\User Accounts\Manage Accounts     In Windows 10, the Guest entry is missing.  Using Computer Management or net user you can still enable the guest account, but even then it doesn't show up on the logon screen.  In the Local Security Policy secpol.msc:     Local Policies - User Rights Assignment - Deny log on locally   we can see guest listed, this wasn't the case in older versions of Windows.  After removing guest from that policy, it is listed on the logon screen and we can using it to log on.  However, the whole Explorer shell is crashing and restarting constantly. The desktop is blinking and you can't click anything.  So the guest account is totally broken.   There is a  about this showing that some code was quickly added to the control panel to not show the guest account. So Microsoft does know about the problem.  While I don't really expect anybody to know what they've done to break this, at least this explains why the guest account is currently not listed. Why do the Jedi say "May the Force be with you"? Random images appearing in my home directory... Where are they coming from? Here's an odd problem I've had for a while. Every so often, I find that I have several jpeg images sitting in my home directory that I didn't put there. I'm fairly sure this isn't a security breach but rather, there's something writing these files in there that I've forgotten about.  Here's what I'm looking at today:  oli@bert:~$ ls -l *.jpg -rw------- 1 oli oli  8061 2010-11-19 18:30 An-alien-from-Mars-Attack-002.jpg -rw------- 1 oli oli 24362 2010-11-19 18:30 An-alien-from-Mars-Attack-006.jpg -rw------- 1 oli oli  8147 2010-11-05 18:08 Avatar-Film---2009-002.jpg -rw------- 1 oli oli 35602 2010-11-05 18:08 Avatar-Film---2009-006.jpg -rw------- 1 oli oli  6058 2010-12-03 18:42 Britney-Spears-victim-of--002.jpg -rw------- 1 oli oli 28330 2010-12-03 18:42 Britney-Spears-victim-of--006.jpg -rw------- 1 oli oli  8135 2010-11-12 19:19 charlie-brooker-twitter-p-002.jpg -rw------- 1 oli oli 22115 2010-11-12 19:19 charlie-brooker-twitter-p-006.jpg -rw------- 1 oli oli  8059 2010-10-29 18:47 Leonardo-DiCaprio-002.jpg -rw------- 1 oli oli 29988 2010-10-29 18:47 Leonardo-DiCaprio-006.jpg -rw------- 1 oli oli  8064 2010-10-22 16:41 Spot-the-difference-.-.-.-002.jpg -rw------- 1 oli oli 29188 2010-10-22 16:41 Spot-the-difference-.-.-.-006.jpg   They all seem like they're TV or film related... But I honestly don't have a clue what could be writing them. They don't bother me enough to go on a full-scale witch hunt but if anybody knows of something that writes images in the home directory like this, please let me know. Proving that $AB-BA=cI$ for nontrivial $c \in \mathbb{C}$ I have a homework question I can`t solve:  Let $X$ be a normed linear space, $A,B \in B(X)$. Show that there exists no nontrivial $c \in \mathbb{C} $ such that $AB-BA=cI$.  Thanks alot already guys! I seem to have a professor who gives impossible homework problems.  The hint he gave: $A^{n}B-BA^{n}=ncA^{n-1}$, $n \in \mathbb{N}$ Will a bullet dropped and a bullet fired from a gun horizontally REALLY hit the ground at the same time when air drag is taken into account? vertically align top line of item contents with item number I would like to show that  $$\forall n\in\mathbb{N}^*, \quad \sqrt{\frac{n}{n+1}}\notin  \mathbb{Q}$$  I'm interested in more ways of proofing this.  My method :  suppose that $\sqrt{\frac{n}{n+1}}\in  \mathbb{Q}$ then there exist $(p,q)\in\mathbb{Z}\times \mathbb{N}^*$ such that $\sqrt{\frac{n}{n+1}}=\frac{p}{q}$ thus   $$\dfrac{n}{n+1}=\dfrac{p^2}{q^2} \implies nq^2=(n+1)p^2 \implies n(q^2-p^2)=p^2$$ since $p\neq q\implies p^2\neq q^2$ then  $$n=\dfrac{p^2}{(q^2-p^2)}$$  since $n\in \mathbb{N}^*$ then $n\in  \mathbb{Q}$   I'm stuck here and I would like to see different ways to prove $\sqrt{\frac{n}{n+1}}\notin  \mathbb{Q}$ I was getting the usual 4-8mbps in 12.04 when copying files via usb sticks. However after upgrading to 12.10, I only get 200-300kbps when I try to perform the same operation.   I have tried different usb sticks (which work flawlessly on Windows 7) and still experience the same issue. I experienced the same issue sometime ago on 11.10 but everything was normal when I upgraded to 12.04 so it might be a kernel issue.  Here's the output of dmseg |tail:      mysterio@mysterio-HP-Pavilion-dv6700-Notebook-PC:~$ dmesg |tail   [  871.023093] sdb: sdb1  [  871.026909] sd 5:0:0:0: [sdb] No Caching mode page present  [  871.026920] sd 5:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through  [  871.026927] sd 5:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI removable disk  [ 1036.226206] ISO 9660 Extensions: Microsoft Joliet Level 3  [ 1036.233561] ISO 9660 Extensions: RRIP_1991A  [ 1086.342973] ISO 9660 Extensions: Microsoft Joliet Level 3  [ 1086.343010] ISO 9660 Extensions: RRIP_1991A  [ 1173.971357] ISO 9660 Extensions: Microsoft Joliet Level 3  [ 1173.971441] ISO 9660 Extensions: RRIP_1991A   I have updated my system with the latest updates. What could be wrong? Eigen Values Proof a.) Let A and B be $n$ x $n$ matrices. Prove that the matrix products   $AB$  and $BA$ have the same eigenvalues.      b.) Prove that every eigenvalue of a matrix A is also an eigenvalue of   its transpose $A^T$. Also, prove that if v is an eigenvector of A with   eigenvalue $\lambda$ and w is an eigenvector of $A^T$ with a different   eigenvalue $\mu \ne \lambda$, then v and w are orthogonal vectors with   respect to the dot product.   For a, I know that if their eigenvalues are the same then their eigenvectors must relate too.    For the first part of b, is it similar to proving that the $det(A) =det (A^T)$? And, I do not know how to do the second part. I am new to Stack Exchange. I know there is a lot of discussion sites for Stack Exchange. I would like to know about there were any Stack Exchange site available for discussing and solving personal psychological problems. This question is asked in various forms here but the question boils down to:  I know shrinking a database is risky. In this case, I've removed so much data and I'll never use it again.   How can I shrink my database? What files do I shrink?  What should my considerations be while doing this?  Should I do anything after? What if it is a large database? Can I shrink it in smaller increments? How do you name your ViewModel classes? How to implement dual-classing in a non-levelled RPG game? I'm working on an alternate ruleset for a tabletop pen-and-paper RPG (like D&amp;D). Recently I've been toying the idea of abolishing a level system. However, I don't want to remove the ability for a player to multi-class. Are there any games which don't have a levelling system, yet allow multi-classing? How do they do it successfully?