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Contacting prospective advisors before graduate school applications - courtesy or annoyance? Last year, rather late during the MSc application cycle (after one round of funding was allocated - tardiness due to an abrupt change in my life situation), I emailed two professors from two schools that I most wanted to go to. I had perused their webpages and decided these professors had the specific research interests closest to my own.  My reason for contacting them before finishing my applications for their respective schools was that the applications included a large section for specific research questions that I wanted to investigate. So, I emailed these professors asking a bit about their work, because their webpages of course featured surface-level stuff.  One professor was very receptive and invited me to Skype with her so she could better explain herself and I could ask her questions. With her support, I was able to write an application that met her standards quite quickly.  The other professor told me - paraphrasing, of course - that he was too far into the process of choosing a new student for his research group to spend time helping me finish the application.  Let me be clear that the latter professor didn't say any harsh words and I have nothing bad to say about him. That said, the purpose of my question is to decide whether it's better for me as a prospective MSc student to email professors ahead of time like this. Was the latter's rejection likely due to my tardiness rather my emailing him? The more receptive professor made the point that she always wanted to have prospective MSc students write their own research proposals and get her approval before submitting the application. Is this common? If so, then I guess reaching out beforehand is a good thing to do, but earlier in the application cycle?  Thank you. deleting windows system folder Why do we need a Stack Overflow in Portuguese? I have noticed there is a Stack Overflow in language differs from English which is global and mostly used by programmers.  I think there is no need for a site in other languages. Otherwise we will end up with 127 StackOverflow sites. I am afraid that we will lose the amount of people sharing data. i have a table like this  +--------+------------+-----------+ | id     | volume     | price     | +--------+------------+-----------+ |      1 | 1.0000     |  14250.00 | |      2 | 0.2500     |  14251.10 | |      3 | 0.2500     |  14250.00 | |      4 | 0.0050     |  14200.00 | |      5 | 0.5000     |  14255.01 | +--------+------------+-----------+   Simply if volume 1.7500, how to select like bellow by ordering(highest price)  +--------+------------+-----------+ | id     | volume     | price     | +--------+------------+-----------+ |      5 | 0.5000     |  14255.01 | |      2 | 0.2500     |  14251.10 | |      1 | 1.0000     |  14250.00 | +--------+------------+-----------+   And if volume 1.5000 it also select the least amounts of records needed to calculate to the input volume  +--------+------------+-----------+ | id     | volume     | price     | +--------+------------+-----------+ |      5 | 0.5000     |  14255.01 | |      1 | 1.0000     |  14250.00 | +--------+------------+-----------+   some guys say i cant do this with sql Moderators accepting answers on user's behalf after a certain time period whether they are complete metric space I am new to blender (yes, laugh at the obligatory doughnut) and I when I set up the camera (I use NUM 0 to access the camera and move it into position with &quot;Lock camera to view&quot;) in the viewport it shows as the first attached image, but when I render it the image is further back as shown in the second image. Is this normal behavior or am I missing something? Resolve the error "An illegal choice has been detected..." Problem with Non English(Farsi, ...) subtitle We have a job that is set to run Monday thru Friday. Up until two weeks ago, it ran fine 5 days a week. For the last two weeks it has failed on Monday. I am unable to locate where to find the point of failure.   ### Example Scripts 0 2 * * 1-5 /admin/scripts/example.exp 1&gt;/dev/null 2&gt;&amp;1   We run AIX 7.1.  I've looked in the /var/log/ and there is no cron file there. Looking for advice to add to this so we can troubleshoot.   I found that the log is located in /var/adm/log. Further we are getting this error repeatedly ever since this date/time. How do I clear this max limit?  c queue max run limit reached Fri Nov 25 21:52:00 2016 ! rescheduling a cron job Fri Nov 25 21:52:00 2016 How to install Oracle 18c (Enterprise Edition) on Ubuntu 18.04? This question is unanswered since Oracle 18c has been released. Except Ubuntu Linux platform, most of the other Linux platform supports Oracle 18c installation. I, myself, tested this on CentOS 7 and oracle 18c got installed without any glitch!  It is unfortunate that Oracle Corporation has not documented the installation procedure particularly for Ubuntu Linux platform, nevertheless one good thing is that the image file db_home.zip is a generic one, installable across all Linux platforms.    So how can I install Oracle 18c (Enterprise Edition) on Ubuntu 18.04? Show that $\mathbb{Q}(\sqrt{2})$ is the smallest subfield of $\mathbb{C}$ that contains $\sqrt{2}$ This was an assertion made in our textbook but I have no idea how to show that either statement is true.  Also would like to show that that $\mathbb{Q}(\sqrt{2})$ is strictly larger than $\mathbb{Q}$, which was the second part of the assertion. Is the inverse of a linear transformation linear as well? A question from the field of Linear Algebra. If I have a linear transformation $T$ that is one-to-one and onto, would that mean that the $T^{-1}$ will also be linear? If so, is there any general proof for it?  Thanks Limit involving the exponential of an expression plus a small-o I'm trying to formalize the following limit:  $$\lim_{x \to \infty} \left[1+\frac{a}{x}+o\left(\frac{1}{x}\right) \right]^x= e^a$$ however I can't see how to rigorously show this identity.  Any suggestions? When I run the logistic regression, two independent variables have VIF values greater than 10 like 13 or so. Logistic regression is the one I will use to measure the overall change in the dependent variable with one incremental changes in every each independent variable. However, when I run the linear regression model version on my same data, the VIF values I get from all the independent variables are either slightly greater than 1 or around 5 or 6. Besides, all the coefficients are highly significant all below 0.01.  If so, is it safe to use my logistic regression model to find out the incremental effect of every each independent variable without dropping out any independent variables?   If my purpose is to find an incremental effect of every each independent variable on the overall dependent value in a logistic regression model, is multicolinearity an important problem to consider? Can I ignore it?   If my p-values are all less than 0.01 which is the same indicator as t-value, will I still need to worry about colinearity issue even though my VIF scores for two variables are around 13-14? Based on what you said, if p-value is safe enough, will this be still a problem?  I am also referring to the following website comment:                                                                     So, in sum, my ultimate goal is to use the final output from the logistic regression model generated from the independent variables and one binary dependent variable. If so, do you think I can ignore the multicolinearity problem? What's the meaning of 90-plus? What's the meaning of 90-plus? More than 90? If so, please tell me more ways to say "more than 90". Thank you! Careers should allow me to add external (authored but not owned) GitHub projects under "other" How do you serialize an object in C++? I have a small hierarchy of objects that I need to serialize and transmit via a socket connection.  I need to both serialize the object, then deserialize it based on what type it is.  Is there an easy way to do this in C++ (as there is in Java)?  Are there any C++ serialization online code samples or tutorials?  EDIT: Just to be clear, I'm looking for methods on converting an object into an array of bytes, then back into an object.  I can handle the socket transmission. How do I combine two lists into a dictionary in Python? probability that there is at least one defective part