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Find the MLE of the unknown parameter $\theta$ when $X_1,X_2,...,X_n$ is a sample from the distribution whose density function is: $$f_X(x) = \frac12e^{-|x-\theta|}, -\infty&lt;x&lt;\infty$$ What I did so far: $$\text{maximize }(\frac12)^ne^{-|x_1-\theta|-|x_2-\theta|-...-|x_n-\theta|} \\ \text{thus we want to minimize }|x_1-\theta|+|x_2-\theta|+...+|x_n-\theta|$$ Since $|x_i-\theta|$ is positive for all $i$, we want to solve for $\theta$ so: $$|x_1-\theta|+|x_2-\theta|+...+|x_n-\theta|=0$$ What do I do from here? How do you run Ubuntu Server with a GUI? I have a Redstone Power loop that connects to a Command Block that is set to kill all entities except for myself (/kill @e[type=!Player]), because I'm building a creative map, but don't want slimes all over the place. Problem is if I want to place an Item Frame than the Command Block kills it.  So, is there anyway to exclude items from getting deleted, or make it so it will only target mobs? In the simple linear regression model, $\hat{\beta}$ is the sum of independent normally distributed random variables.  Is it false because in linear regression there is $\beta$ and not $\hat{\beta}$? There is a badge named Electorate which is going to be awarded on "Voted on 600 questions and 25% or more of total votes are on questions". Can somebody explain this to me?  Voted on 600 Question and 25% are on Question? is this  means   Voted on 600 Posts and 25% are on Question  Can't SO place some easy text or Definitions for average users? What do the different colors mean in ls? I just created a plane and added a wave modifier to it, to simply make it look like something fluid. Now, I have an Object that I want to place on the surface of this fluid plane. But how do I do that?  I thought of adding a driver to my Objects location, but I have no clue how to get the location of a certain vertex in runtime. Is the distribution of an Ito diffusion at time t absolutely continuous wrt Lebesgue measure? Referencing without captions appearing but keeping numbering What does "cpu MHz" field mean in the /proc/cpuinfo of a hyper-threading cpu? The CPU is a i7-3770@3.40GHz. It has 4 cores and each core has 2 threads. Here is the dmidecode output:  # dmidecode -t 4 # dmidecode 2.9 SMBIOS 2.7 present.  Handle 0x0042, DMI type 4, 42 bytes Processor Information     Socket Designation: SOCKET 0     Type: Central Processor     Family: &lt;OUT OF SPEC&gt;     Manufacturer: Intel(R) Corporation     ID: A9 06 03 00 FF FB EB BF     Version: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-3770 CPU @ 3.40GHz     Voltage: 1.1 V     External Clock: 100 MHz     Max Speed: 3800 MHz     Current Speed: 3400 MHz     Status: Populated, Enabled     Upgrade: &lt;OUT OF SPEC&gt;     L1 Cache Handle: 0x003F     L2 Cache Handle: 0x003E     L3 Cache Handle: 0x0040     Serial Number: Not Specified     Asset Tag: Fill By OEM     Part Number: Fill By OEM     Core Count: 4     Core Enabled: 4     Thread Count: 8     Characteristics:         64-bit capable   It will be 8 logic core in a system, like what shows in /proc/cpuinfo. But can any one tell why the cpu MHz of a core is 1600MHz? I guess there is 2 threads in a core, so a hw thread freq may be about the half of the core's? How this number is calculated?  processor   : 7 vendor_id   : GenuineIntel cpu family  : 6 model       : 58 model name  : Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-3770 CPU @ 3.40GHz stepping    : 9 cpu MHz     : 1600.000 cache size  : 8192 KB physical id : 0 siblings    : 8 core id     : 3 cpu cores   : 4 apicid      : 7 initial apicid  : 7 fpu     : yes fpu_exception   : yes cpuid level : 13 wp      : yes flags       : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe syscall nx rdtscp lm constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts rep_good xtopology nonstop_tsc aperfmperf pni pclmulqdq dtes64 monitor ds_cpl vmx smx est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr pdcm sse4_1 sse4_2 x2apic popcnt aes xsave avx lahf_lm ida arat tpr_shadow vnmi flexpriority ept vpid bogomips    : 7013.49 clflush size    : 64 cache_alignment : 64 address sizes   : 36 bits physical, 48 bits virtual power management:   Also, here is the output of lshw and lscpu command. There are also 1600MHz mentioned.   lshw info:  #lshw -class processor   *-cpu                           description: CPU        product: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-3770 CPU @ 3.40GHz        vendor: Intel Corp.        physical id: 42        bus info: cpu@0        version: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-3770 CPU @ 3.40GHz        slot: SOCKET 0        size: 1600MHz        capacity: 3800MHz        width: 64 bits        clock: 100MHz        capabilities: fpu fpu_exception wp vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe syscall nx rdtscp x86-64 constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts rep_good xtopology nonstop_tsc aperfmperf pni pclmulqdq dtes64 monitor ds_cpl vmx smx est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr pdcm sse4_1 sse4_2 x2apic popcnt aes xsave avx lahf_lm ida arat tpr_shadow vnmi flexpriority ept vpid cpufreq   lscpu info:  #lscpu Architecture:          x86_64 CPU op-mode(s):        32-bit, 64-bit CPU(s):                8 Thread(s) per core:    2 Core(s) per socket:    4 CPU socket(s):         1 NUMA node(s):          1 Vendor ID:             GenuineIntel CPU family:            6 Model:                 58 Stepping:              9 CPU MHz:               1600.000 Virtualization:        VT-x L1d cache:             32K L1i cache:             32K L2 cache:              256K L3 cache:              8192K Extend x axis on graph? I'd like to extend my x axis a little longer. Is it possible to do that?  \centering     \begin{tikzpicture}[scale=1.5]      \begin{axis}[         xlabel=Reynolds Number,ylabel=Coefficient Discharge]     \addplot [color=blue,mark=*] coordinates {         (6485.41491,0.408143397)         (7927.942858,0.407370795)         (8663.115504,0.38550864)         (9219.462371,0.366953133)         (9537.374867,0.346531912)         (10491.11235,0.330115983)         (11087.19828,0.312041115)         (12219.76155,0.313951177)     };         \addlegendentry{1/4}     \addplot [color=red,mark=triangle] coordinates {         (6556.945221,   0.412644978)         (7868.334265,   0.404307857)         (8663.115504,   0.38550864)         (9187.671122,   0.365687778)         (9120.114717,   0.331371141)         (10443.42548,   0.328615455)         (11683.28421,   0.328817519)         (12875.45607,   0.330797337)     };         \addlegendentry{1/2 Lift}     \addplot [color=black,mark=*] coordinates {         (6843.066467,   0.430651305)         (8297.516134,   0.426361012)         (9203.566747,   0.40955872)         (8615.42863,    0.342911376)         (9298.940495,   0.337868614)         (10824.92047,   0.340619673)         (11683.28421,   0.328817519)         (12899.29951,   0.331409925)     };         \addlegendentry{3/4 Lift}     \addplot [color=yellow,mark=*] coordinates {         (6854.988186,   0.431401568)         (8398.850742,   0.431568008)         (9267.149246,   0.412388141)         (8567.741755,   0.341013343)         (9346.62737 ,   0.339601273)         (10753.39016,   0.338368882)         (11897.87515,   0.334857025)         (13030.43841,   0.334779157)     };         \addlegendentry{Full Lift}     \end{axis}% \end{tikzpicture}% A very basic question concerning the $R^2$ of OLS regressions   run OLS regression y ~ x1, we have an $R^2$, say 0.3 run OLS regression y ~ x2, we have another $R^2$, say 0.4 now we run a regression y ~ x1 + x2, what value can this regression's R squared be?   I think it's clear the $R^2$ for the multiple regression should be no less than 0.4, but is it possible for it to be more than 0.7? Listings: text highlighting based on prefix How can I apply different styles to keywords depending on their prefix?  Here is some sample code:  (-2,0,0) (2,1,1) op-registerbox !box1 ;box1 /Blue op-setproperties   I'd like to typeset   words starting with ! and ; in color red, words starting with / in color green, words starting with cp- in bold.   So far, this is what I've got:  \lstdefinelanguage{XX} { basicstyle=\small\sffamily\fontseries{c}, emphstyle=\underbar, keywordsprefix=[2]{/}, alsoletter={/}, keywordstyle=\textbf, keywordstyle=[2]\color{green}, morekeywords={op,registerbox, ...}, morestring=[b][\color{green}]", columns=flexible, escapechar=\%, numbersep=6pt, numberstyle=\scriptsize }   I'm aware that only one keywordsprefix can be defined at the moment: specifying more than one class of prefix (keywordsprefix=[2]{/}) is currently not supported. I'd like to avoid having to list all the words that match my description into morekeywords. Is that possible? How? Is there an issue tracker for already reported Mathematica bugs? How to correct for small p-value due to very large sample size Why square the difference instead of taking the absolute value in standard deviation? In the definition of standard deviation, why do we have to square the difference from the mean to get the mean (E) and take the square root back at the end? Can't we just simply take the absolute value of the difference instead and get the expected value (mean) of those, and wouldn't that also show the variation of the data? The number is going to be different from square method (the absolute-value method will be smaller), but it should still show the spread of data. Anybody know why we take this square approach as a standard?  The definition of standard deviation:  $\sigma = \sqrt{E\left[\left(X - \mu\right)^2\right]}.$   Can't we just take the absolute value instead and still be a good measurement?  $\sigma = E\left[|X - \mu|\right]$ Equivalent of "former" and "latter" for more than 2 items Former and latter are valid only when there are two choices.  If I have a list of more than two items, is there an elegant way to say the first one or the last one? A significant amount of zombies were detected in your city Can anyone please help and tell me if this sentence is correct?  &quot;A significant amount of zombies were detected in your city.&quot;  In my opinion it should be &quot;A significant amount of zombies was detected in your city.&quot; because &quot;amount&quot; should be in agreement with &quot;was&quot; even though amount usually refers to something plural. Are both (was and were) acceptable in this case? Edit1: Yes, &quot;number&quot; would be the correct one in this case. So allow me to ask one more thing.  &quot;A significant amount of purchases were detected...&quot;  Does the use of &quot;number&quot; apply in this case also? As purchase is not exactly a thing/person. And if no, is it correct to say &quot;A significant amount of purchases were detected...&quot;? Edit2: So, please tell me what is the correct phrasing?  &quot;A significant amount of purchases were detected...&quot; &quot;A significant amount of purchases was detected...&quot;  Or, since purchases are countable, is the use of &quot;number&quot; instead of &quot;amount&quot; correct here, as in:  &quot;A significant number of purchases were detected...&quot; &quot;A significant number of purchases was detected...&quot;  Or would amount be correct since a purchase involves money and it refers to the amount of money? Would greatly appreciate an answer, and if possible a detailed explanation. I am writing an article in English, with some pages in Russian.  \documentclass[12pt]{article}  \usepackage[T1,T2A]{fontenc}  \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}  \usepackage[russian,english]{babel}  \usepackage{newtxmath} \usepackage{newtxtext} \begin{document}  hello \textbf{hello}  \selectlanguage{russian} привет \textbf{привет}  \end{document}   Output:  hello hello привет привет  I am using \selectlanguage{} to switch between languages when needed.  However, I noticed that when I try to use \textbf{} when in Russian language mode, it does not work because of newtxtext, which I am using for math formulas.  Does anyone know how to solve this problem?  Thank you. I need a way of encoding the geometry line symbol. $\overline{AB}$ gives me the line segment symbol and $\overrightarrow{AB}$ gives me the ray symbol, I need a way to get a bar over the letters that has arrows on both ends. $\overrightleftarrow{AB}$ does not work.   Thanks!