What's the meaning of using Bootstrap? Why should resampling from sample set have any difference?
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What happens to the Matrix if Neo takes the blue pill? If Neo defies his fate and refuses to be removed from the Matrix (by taking the blue pill) what happens next?   Would another "The One" get selected by The Architect or The Oracle and is there anything to suggest that the current instance of The Matrix actually could have multiple "The One"'s (perhaps one of the 'potentials') in the event that the Chosen One manages to get himself killed or simply refuses to play ball? What is the JavaScript version of sleep()? Where can I find the location of folders for installed programs? How could towns restrain a magic user? The modern concept of crime and punishment is very reliant on the ability to disarm and restrain and control an individual (think handcuffs, the dividers in police cars, and jails).  How can that be replicated in a world where even a wizard's apprentice has a much power as an armed man with a handgun?  I've seen stories where magical restraints are present, but you can't write that into every thorp and hamlet, even in Eberron.    How can you restrain a magic user in a fantasy setting?   Either answers that conform to modern concepts of crime and punishment or answers about restraining a magic-user in a psuedo-medieval setting are acceptable. Is there any "superlogarithm" or something to solve an equation like this:  $$x^x = 10?$$ Transpose/Unzip Function (inverse of zip)? Forcefully update to new windows A friend of mine misplaced his passport while staying in Jeju island. Normally I would advise him to just travel to Seoul, get an emergency passport from his embassy and fly back home without issues, but I know that Jeju island has a special immigration regime.   Are there any immigration checks on the way from Jeju island to Seoul? If not, can one travel that route without a passport? Difference of the \dots* Getting polygon boundaries of City in JSON from Google Maps API? How to make an embedded question from "What time is it?" If the original question is "What time is it?" and I want to communicate it to another person, are these Embedded Questions OK?        I don't know what time is it.       or        I didn't know what time was it. (if communicated later) Footnote in tabular environment Please add documentation about the redaction tool to the moderator help Finding a closed form for a recurrence relation $a_n=3a_{n-1}+4a_{n-2}$ Consider the sequence defined by $$ \begin{cases} a_0=1\\ a_1=2\\ a_n=3a_{n-1}+4a_{n-2} &amp; \text{if }n\ge 2 \end{cases} .$$ Find a closed form for $a_n$.    I tried listing out examples, but I don't see any common pattern between them.  All solutions are greatly appreciated. I've done some research, and found this on Wikipedia. \begin{matrix}a\uparrow b=a^{b}=&amp;\underbrace {a\times a\times \dots \times a} \\&amp;b{\mbox{ copies of }}a\end{matrix} \begin{matrix}a\uparrow \uparrow b&amp;={\ ^{b}a}=&amp;\underbrace {a^{a^{{}^{.\,^{.\,^{.\,^{a}}}}}}} &amp;=&amp;\underbrace {a\uparrow (a\uparrow (\dots \uparrow a))} \\&amp;&amp;b{\mbox{ copies of }}a&amp;&amp;b{\mbox{ copies of }}a\end{matrix} I'm still a bit confused on this topic. I've done a lot of research, but I can't seem to understand this. Could somebody explain this in an understandable way? From what I can gather, for example 2↑↑3 would be 2^2^2 = 16? Then 2↑↑↑3 would be 2^2^2^2 = 256? Am I correct, or have I mis-interpreted this? How do you remove a file whose filename begins with a dash (hyphen or minus) -?  I'm ssh'd into a remote OSX server and I have this file in my directory:  tohru:~ $ ls -l total 8 -rw-r--r--    1 me  staff  1352 Aug 18 14:33 --help ...   How in the world can I delete --help from a CLI?  This issue is something that I come across in different forms on occasion, these files are easy to create, but hard to get rid of.  I have tried using backslash  rm \-\-help   I have tried quotes  rm "--help"   How do I prevent the minus (dash or hyphen) character to be interpreted as an option? Moment generating function of the natural sufficient statistics of Gamma distribution I have $X_1,X_2 ... X_n$ Gamma-distributed r.v with density:    First of all I showed, that Gamma distribution belongs to exponential family and can be represented in form     I found, that for Gamma distribution $B(\theta) = log(\theta)$ where $\theta$ is $\alpha/\beta$  Then we know, that moment generating function of the random variable $T(X)$ is given by $$M(t)=\exp\{B(\theta+t)-B(\theta)\}$$  Natural sufficient statistics for Gamma distribution is:    But I didn't understand what should I do next? Because Natural sufficient statistics is two dimensional it confuses me:  $M(T) = exp[log(\theta + T) - log(\theta)]$  and $T = [s,t]^\intercal$ Allow Documentation in other Stack Exchange communities I'm a Salesforce developer and would love Documentation to be available in other Stack Exchange communities. The reason is  a lot of Salesforce developers get help, especially newer ones like myself. The developer forums and documentation on  is mediocre. It would be nice to allow users to create their own and give pack on Prove $A\cup (A\cap B) = A$ Prove that some topology is not metrizable