Quantum mechanics and gender of unborn baby
Is my baby's gender an example of Schrodinger's cat?
I am reading Boyd &amp; Vandenberghe's Convex Optimization. The authors use curved greater than or equal to (\succcurlyeq)  $$f(x^*) \succcurlyeq \alpha$$  and curved less than or equal to (\preccurlyeq)  $$f(x^*) \preccurlyeq \alpha$$  Can someone explain what they mean? Is it possible to search for punctuation/special characters? I tried to find a related question here, but was unsuccessful.  Someone on SO asked ... I tried searching SO and was presented with the search options page. Even Google fails at this search.  So my question is, is there some way to search for an exact word (in quotes) that won't cause it to fail? Why is the sample distribution the Exponential distribution Gamma distributed? If $f(0)=0$ then prove that $|f(z)+f(-z)| \leq 2|z|^2$ Let , $\Delta = B(0,1)$.  If $f:\Delta \rightarrow \Delta$ is holomorphic, and $f(0)=0$, prove that $|f(z)+f(-z)| \leq 2|z|^2$.  My attempt so far:  $\displaystyle f(z) = \sum_{n=0}^{+\infty} a_n z^n = \sum_{n=0}^{+\infty} a_{2n} z^{2n} + \sum_{n=0}^{+\infty} a_{2n+1} z^{2n+1}$  $\displaystyle f(-z) = \sum_{n=0}^{+\infty} a_n (-z)^n = \sum_{n=0}^{+\infty} a_{2n} z^{2n} - \sum_{n=0}^{+\infty} a_{2n+1} z^{2n+1}$  Then, $\displaystyle f(z)+f(-z) = 2  \sum_{n=0}^{+\infty} a_{2n} (z^2)^n =: 2 g(z^2)$  If $g(\Delta) \subset \Delta$, as $g(0) = 0$, I can invoke Schwarz Lemma and I win. However, I don't know how to prove this. Could anyone help me? Thanks! How to pass anonymous types as parameters? How do I find out what fonts are used in a document/picture? Is it possible to identify the font used in a specific document/picture?  Answers to this question should identify:   Possible methods to do this (perhaps one answer per method) and adequately describe how to use it (as opposed to merely stating it); Ways of finding the identified fonts, if possible (free or not); and Any prerequisites associated with the method used, if required (for example, "In order to use method X, your document has to be in format Y").   This question is meant as an FAQ, based on an . Its aim is to facilitate the community with the general procedures involved in font identification. Similar cases are solved on a per-usage basis on 's  tag. Is it Safe to Delete Files From /var/tmp? How to diagnose a search engine ranking drop? How to restrict a user from accessing a particular application? I want to restrict an application being opened under ordinary privileges. Only root shall run the application, so that contents wont be seen by others and they wont change anything. Outlook, POP and PST handling Essentially I have a client who is on hosted exchange and have decided to use POP3 to download the mail (I don't know why they don't use .OST's but anyway), they rebuilt the machine and backed up their .PST file. Now their Outlook was configured to keep mail downloaded on the server for 14days.  Essentially their current PST is fairly complex, many folders and sub folders and so on. So what is the best way to handle it really - create a new Outlook profile on the rebuilt machine and download the mail via POP into a new .PST then just recreate the folders in the new pst and drag and drop the mail via attaching the backed up .pst, recreating the folders etc?  But is their an easier way to do this, maybe pointing the new account to use the original PST, but then that would download all the mail again from the server to that .PST file.  Any ideas on the best way to handle POP3 account rebuilds from scratch when you have a backed up PST? Understanding of the theorem that all norms are equivalent in finite dimensional vector spaces The following is a well-known result in functional analysis:     If the vector space $X$ is finite dimensional, all norms are equivalent.     Here is the standard proof in one textbook. First, pick a norm for $X$, say  $$\|x\|_1=\sum_{i=1}^n|\alpha_i|$$ where $x=\sum_{i=1}^n\alpha_ix_i$, and $(x_i)_{i=1}^n$ is a basis for $X$. Then show that every norm for $X$ is equivalent to $\|\cdot\|_1$, i.e.,  $$c\|x\|\leq\|x\|_1\leq C\|x\|.$$ For the first inequality, one can easily get $c$ by triangle inequality for the norm. For the second inequality, instead of constructing $C$, the  is applied to construct a contradiction.   The strategies for proving these two inequalities are so different. Here is my question,      Can one prove this theorem without Bolzano-Weierstrass theorem?   UPDATE:     Is the converse of the theorem true? In other words, if all norms for a vector space $X$ are equivalent, then can one conclude that $X$ is of finite dimension? Trying to install CPAN Why do my shortcut icons get broken on Windows 7? I have a strange problem. My icons seem to disappear randomly on my Windows 7. They were there a while back, now they ain't.  It happens often and quite randomly. Anyone know a fix? Highlight a word with jQuery Determining a matrix from its characteristic polynomial Missing files (basic sty files) when TEXINPUTS is set Below is my files tree:  .../Doc/Tex/book.tex .../Doc/Tex/images/im.jpg .../Doc/TexBase/myTemplate.sty .../Doc/TexBase/baseImages/logo.jpg   On Windows it was enough to set TEXINPUTS evironment variable with some paths and then I was able to compile with:  pdflatex Tex/book.tex   my document book.tex which uses package myTemplate.sty And now im trying to do teh same on Ubuntu 18.04. When i move all things to one folder (book.tex and myTemplate.sty and folder with images) then compilation is succesfull. But i would like to keep my foder structure as it is more clearly. So i tried to export TEXINPUTS:  export TEXTINPUTS=.:./TexBase/   but my compilation fail because of unfound many sty-files wchich are part of texlive-latex-extra that i already installed. When i UNSET this variable - it compiles ok. So my question is: Am i correctly set TEXINPUTS variable? Maybe i should add some other paths? What is the path to those "latex basic STY files"? Blender is saving as a blend1 file, not blend I teach Blender to classes of game design students in the University of California and a student came to me yesterday with a problem I haven't seen before. She's created a very simple file, but when it's saved Blender puts a .blend1 extension on it every time, not the normal .blend. This means that after it's saved twice there are two .blend1 files in the directory, and no .blend file. I have no idea why this is happening. What has she done? Anyone seen this before?  thanks - Chris Stone-Weierstrass theorem with $p(1/x)$ Etiquette on sending a thank you e-mail to respondents who gave me helpful information Structure of a C++ Object in Memory Vs a Struct If I have a class as follows     class Example_Class     {        private:          int x;           int y;         public:           Example_Class()           {               x = 8;              y = 9;          }        ~Example_Class()         { }     };   And a struct as follows  struct {    int x;    int y; } example_struct;   Is the structure in memory of the  example_struct simmilar to that in Example_Class  for example if I do the following  struct example_struct foo_struct; Example_Class foo_class = Example_Class();  memcpy(&amp;foo_struct, &amp;foo_class, sizeof(foo_struct));   will foo_struct.x = 8 and foo_struct.y = 9 (ie: the same values as the x,y values in the foo_class) ?  The reason I ask is I have a C++ library (don't want to change it) that is sharing an object with C code and I want to use a struct to represent the object coming from the C++ library. I'm only interested in the attributes of the object.  I know the ideal situation would be to have Example_class wrap arround a common structure between the C and C++ code but it is not going to be easy to change the C++ library in use.