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Can brain cells move? By movement I mean long distance migration (preferably within the brain only).	[ "You are a helpful assistant that answers user questions differently and concisely each time.", "You are a helpful assistant that answers user questions differently and concisely each time. How do you do it? You have to use some sort of signal (I can think of many different types of signals). You have to use some...
In our computer systems lecture we were introduced to the MIPS processor. It was (re)developed over the course of the term and has in fact been quite easy to understand. It uses a RISC design, that is its elementary commands are regularly encoded and there are only few of them in order to keep the wires simple. It was ...	[ "You are a helpful assistant that answers user questions differently and concisely each time.", "You are a helpful assistant that answers user questions differently and concisely each time. RISC stands for Reduced Instruction Set Computer. It's a form of processor that has a reduced set of instructions that need ...
View tabular file such as CSV from command line, having horizontal and vertical scrolling would be great.	[ "You are a helpful assistant that answers user questions differently and concisely each time. The first thing I thought of was a simple text file. I didn't want to use a fancy GUI for this as it would take up too much screen space, but if you really want to, you can use a terminal (command line) and pipe the output...
Slater type orbitals (STO) are considered to be more accurate than gaussian type orbitals (GTO) for atomic and molecular QM calculations because - among other reasons - they decay with $e^{-\alpha r}$ as $r \to \infty$. But GTOs are more popular because they are easier to calculate with. GTOs decay with $e^{-\alpha r^2...	[ "You are a helpful assistant that answers user questions differently and concisely each time.", "You are a helpful assistant that answers user questions differently and concisely each time. Please also inform me if you find empirical data which supports my argument. A more fundamental question: how close is the s...
Explain what "git reset" does. I come from a SVN background and Git is a whole new paradigm. I got mercurial easily, but Git is much more technical. I think ```git reset``` is close to ```hg revert```, but it seems there are differences. Please include detailed explanations about: * the options ```--hard```, ```--soft...	[ "You are a helpful assistant that answers user questions differently and concisely each time.", "You are a helpful assistant that answers user questions differently and concisely each time. -- Ryan Johnson @ c0mrax.org; 20 Jun 08:10 in #1 and 30 Sep 16:38. --RyanJ in #1,21 Sep 19:19 in #2,1 Oct 16:15. What do we ...
I am looking to use Java to get the MD5 checksum of a file. How is it done?	[ "You are a helpful assistant that answers user questions differently and concisely each time.", "You are a helpful assistant that answers user questions differently and concisely each time. How can I generate a password using Java? How can I encrypt a file in Java? How can I decrypt a file in Java? How can I gene...
What are the primary objections Democrats have to a border wall?	[ "You are a helpful assistant that answers user questions differently and concisely each time. The Democrats are not against a wall. They are against a wall that can not be secured, and that can not be constructed in a reasonable time. This is a very weak argument. The Democrats would have a wall that can be secured...
I'm converting a video to GIF file with ```ffmpeg```: ```ffmpeg \ -i input.flv \ -ss 00:00:00.000 \ -pix_fmt rgb24 \ -r 10 \ -s 320x240 \ -t 00:00:10.000 \ output.gif ``` It works great, but output gif file has a very low quality. Any ideas how can I improve quality of converted gif?	[ "You are a helpful assistant that answers user questions differently and concisely each time.", "You are a helpful assistant that answers user questions differently and concisely each time. ## Additional Info The original picture has a size of ~1000x675 pixel. FFmpeg will use 480x320 or 360x240 or something else....
Tor can only handle TCP connections, but DNS is a UDP protocol. How does Tor route DNS requests over its TCP based network? Why can the same approach not be used to route all UDP traffic over Tor?	[ "You are a helpful assistant that answers user questions differently and concisely each time.", "You are a helpful assistant that answers user questions differently and concisely each time. - 3d-arch A better way of showing the relationship between the data and data type would be: 1. the values can be represented...
Why does this throw ```NullPointerException``` ```public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception { Boolean b = true ? returnsNull() : false; // NPE on this line. System.out.println(b); } public static Boolean returnsNull() { return null; } ``` while this doesn't ```public static void main(String[] ...	[ "You are a helpful assistant that answers user questions differently and concisely each time. Why does this throw ```NullPointerException``` ```public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception { Boolean b = true? returnsNull() : false; // NPE on this line. System.out.println(b); } public static Boolean retur...
How do DOS games like DOOM benefit from a PCI graphics card?	[ "You are a helpful assistant that answers user questions differently and concisely each time.", "You are a helpful assistant that answers user questions differently and concisely each time. - 2 replies Is this the best way to install a boot disk? - 2 replies", "You are a helpful assistant that answers user ques...
I need to be able to open a document using its default application in Windows and Mac OS. Basically, I want to do the same thing that happens when you double-click on the document icon in Explorer or Finder. What is the best way to do this in Python?	[ "You are a helpful assistant that answers user questions differently and concisely each time.", "You are a helpful assistant that answers user questions differently and concisely each time. Thanking y'all here! This project aims to replicate several interactive mathematical software simulations, available at http...
Why does PRC devalue its currency on purpose, but Turkey is worried about the devaluation of its currency?	[ "You are a helpful assistant that answers user questions differently and concisely each time.", "You are a helpful assistant that answers user questions differently and concisely each time. This way they both have interest against their own economic policies. Pululimy is your name. We are still figuring it out to...
Is it worth patenting an algorithm if I don't have the money to defend against infringements?	[ "You are a helpful assistant that answers user questions differently and concisely each time.", "You are a helpful assistant that answers user questions differently and concisely each time. How much could Apple pay me? Who would file a suit? In patent, patent a new procedure for managing digital collections?? A u...
"I have a ```String[]``` with values like so: ```public static final String[] VALUES = new String[] {""AB"",""BC"",""CD"",""AE""}; ``` Given ```String s```, is there a good way of testing whether ```VALUES``` contains ```s```?" How do I determine whether an array contains a particular value in Java?	[ "You are a helpful assistant that answers user questions differently and concisely each time.", "You are a helpful assistant that answers user questions differently and concisely each time. [SOLVED] You can use contains() method on a String array. It will return true or false, if the specified value is present in...
Does Java casting introduce overhead? Or the compiler just resolves everything and there is no cost at run time? Is this a general things, or there are different cases?	[ "You are a helpful assistant that answers user questions differently and concisely each time.", "You are a helpful assistant that answers user questions differently and concisely each time. I guess you have this question once. You ask about the complexity of the thing because you don’t understand why it’s the way...
How can I copy a string (e.g "hello") to the System Clipboard in C#, so next time I press CTRL+V I'll get "hello"?	[ "You are a helpful assistant that answers user questions differently and concisely each time.", "You are a helpful assistant that answers user questions differently and concisely each time. 1. Hi I'd like the first character to be highlighted in order to edit without affecting what I want highlighted. In this ins...
I want to put a draft watermark using the below script but the problem is that the watermark don't come over the images and I want it to come over it. ```\usepackage{draftwatermark} \SetWatermarkText{DRAFT} \SetWatermarkScale{1} ```	[ "You are a helpful assistant that answers user questions differently and concisely each time.", "You are a helpful assistant that answers user questions differently and concisely each time. What u missed is the the set watermark on top or bottom image you need do is before use watermark on image use only `set ` w...
Understanding the Rails Authenticity Token	[ "You are a helpful assistant that answers user questions differently and concisely each time. In this post, I will show you how to check and update your Rails session authentication token. You will also learn why you should keep your Rails session authentication token in a database and not in a plain text file. Rai...
Why is FIFA against adding instant replay to the game?	[ "You are a helpful assistant that answers user questions differently and concisely each time. Because of the game’s reputation for being a game of luck, not skill.", "You are a helpful assistant that answers user questions differently and concisely each time. Because it would take the fun out of football. Let's f...
If we should encrypt the message rather than the method of transfer, why do we care about wifi security? Is this just security theatre?	[ "You are a helpful assistant that answers user questions differently and concisely each time.", "You are a helpful assistant that answers user questions differently and concisely each time. You can keep the conversation private, but it won't hurt to make sure that the people you're sending the message to have the...
Applying filter in scipy.signal: Use lfilter or filtfilt?	[ "You are a helpful assistant that answers user questions differently and concisely each time.", "You are a helpful assistant that answers user questions differently and concisely each time. I am using scipy.signal for a project. I have a set of data that I want to use in an application, but I have to do a bunch o...
What do different people in the department expect from a postdoc? By different people I mean the advisor, graduate students and PhD students. I know it mainly depends on the job description but there are few basic things that a postdoc must be expected to do. How aggressive (proactive) must one be? This question is imp...	[ "You are a helpful assistant that answers user questions differently and concisely each time.", "You are a helpful assistant that answers user questions differently and concisely each time. * Do you expect the postdoc to be a lone ranger or does he/she need mentorship at least in the initial phase? * Should the p...
Can someone explain to me what the ```contentInset``` property in a ```UIScrollView``` instance is used for? And maybe provide an example?	[ "You are a helpful assistant that answers user questions differently and concisely each time.", "You are a helpful assistant that answers user questions differently and concisely each time. I'm trying to find out the purpose of a property called ```contentInset``` in a ```UIScrollView``` instance. When you use a ...
How is arc defined in TikZ?	[ "You are a helpful assistant that answers user questions differently and concisely each time.", "You are a helpful assistant that answers user questions differently and concisely each time. - [LW]What's new in PHP 7.2? What should I keep in mind before publishing on my blog?", "You are a helpful assistant that ...
How to connect mysql workbench to running mysql inside docker?	[ "You are a helpful assistant that answers user questions differently and concisely each time.", "You are a helpful assistant that answers user questions differently and concisely each time. You have to have access to your database server and you need to create a connection to it. The connection is done in two way...
Can meat spoil outside the fridge if it's baked into bread as a filling?	[ "You are a helpful assistant that answers user questions differently and concisely each time.", "You are a helpful assistant that answers user questions differently and concisely each time. Yes, meat can spoil outside the fridge. The meat will stay fresh for 1 or 2 days. It will be unsafe to eat after 2 days. How...
I'm wondering how the XML Schema specification handles these cases: ``` ``` No maxOccurs given -> Is this the cardinality [1..1]? ``` ``` I suppose this is simply invalid? ``` ``` Is this the cardinality [0..2] or [1..2]? Is there an "official" definition on how the XML Schema spec handles these cases?	[ "You are a helpful assistant that answers user questions differently and concisely each time.", "You are a helpful assistant that answers user questions differently and concisely each time. I appreciate being in the know! --Daniel", "You are a helpful assistant that answers user questions differently and concis...
Were there any flying dinosaurs?	[ "You are a helpful assistant that answers user questions differently and concisely each time. No, not yet. When do you think dinosaurs will be extinct?I'm not sure, but I think they'll be extinct for a long time. How do you know how many dinosaurs there were?I don't know how many dinosaurs there were, but I know ho...
Say, a table ```car``` has one-to-one relationship to tables ```electric_car```, ```gas_car```, and ```hybrid_car```. If a ```car``` is ```electric_car```, it can no longer appear in ```gas_car``` or a ```hybrid_car```, etc. Is it a bad practice to have several mutually exclusive one-to-one relationships in database d...	[ "You are a helpful assistant that answers user questions differently and concisely each time.", "You are a helpful assistant that answers user questions differently and concisely each time. How would the database be designed if you were designing an API that returns a result in four possible flavors as shown in t...
I see a low use of Mathematica in Kaggle competitions. Why would one use the Wolfram Language versus R, Python, or Julia for machine learning? Besides prettier plots and the Manipulate function, do we have something that is useful for ML that other languages are lacking?	[ "You are a helpful assistant that answers user questions differently and concisely each time.", "You are a helpful assistant that answers user questions differently and concisely each time. If you can help get rid of or add to more important data in a short list size (which happens during the contest) how much he...
I'm using wp_nav_menu and am trying to create custom output for the sub-level drop downs. I came across the "items_wrap" argument but there's really not much information as to what it is, how it works, and what kind of things can be done with it. What exactly is "%1$s" and "%2$s"? (Can anyone explain it in layman's...	[ "You are a helpful assistant that answers user questions differently and concisely each time.", "You are a helpful assistant that answers user questions differently and concisely each time. What is the \"items_wrap\" argument and how do you use it? Thanks for your help! You guys are great! You can put any HTML y...
I've noticed that people on YouTube and even on TV would sometimes say things like "I used to take lots of coke a few years ago" or "I used to smoke weed daily until this and that" or "Yea, I smoke weed every once in a while," or "I used to pirate games a lot when I was a bit younger" or "I used pirated Windows and Pho...	[ "You are a helpful assistant that answers user questions differently and concisely each time.", "You are a helpful assistant that answers user questions differently and concisely each time. We get to hear it here on this forum sometimes.", "You are a helpful assistant that answers user questions differently and...
Did two dissenting Supreme Court justices agree that Trump was "absolutely immune" to the Manhattan DA's subpoena?	[ "You are a helpful assistant that answers user questions differently and concisely each time.", "You are a helpful assistant that answers user questions differently and concisely each time. What is the most important thing you would like to achieve in your life?", "You are a helpful assistant that answers user ...
Just curious, given how heavily from Tolkien D&D drew, and the fact that games like Wizardry used Hobbits, is there a good design reason why Gygax and company used Halflings (a term that also appears in Tolkien) vice Hobbits as the term for our little friends?	[ "You are a helpful assistant that answers user questions differently and concisely each time.", "You are a helpful assistant that answers user questions differently and concisely each time. Why do you think that? Since they weren't really hobbits, for lack of a better term in this RPG game - they're elfs. I love ...
My USB drive used to be originally 8GB when I bought it. I'm trying to reformatted in Windows 7 by right clicking on the drive and selecting ```Format...```. But the capacity only shows 250MB. Is there something I can do to get the original size back? Maybe it got partitioned in a weird way? The flash drive is a SanD...	[ "You are a helpful assistant that answers user questions differently and concisely each time.", "You are a helpful assistant that answers user questions differently and concisely each time. I'm trying to reformatted in Windows 7 by right clicking on the drive and selecting ```Format...```. But the capacity only s...
I am a Tor developer. I understand that the .onion address is a public key of sorts, but not much more than that (I can vaguely guess, though). When nobody knows the IP of the .onion address, how do requests reach it? Are they bounced between nodes in the P2P network till someone decrypts it with the corresponding priv...	[ "You are a helpful assistant that answers user questions differently and concisely each time. I am a Tor developer. I understand that the.onion address is a public key of sorts, but not much more than that (I can vaguely guess, though). When nobody knows the IP of the.onion address, how do requests reach it? Are th...
I have been offered a PhD position by an inexperienced professor in a great institution in Europe. Despite the fact that the institution is very strong in my area, since the position was offered by this particular professor, I would have to commit myself to working with him for my thesis. This professor is young, and r...	[ "You are a helpful assistant that answers user questions differently and concisely each time.", "You are a helpful assistant that answers user questions differently and concisely each time. This guy, you're lucky that you've met him yet, he's smart enough not just giving out advices, especially, ones about your c...
Is there a phrase that means "too important" and "attracting too much attention"?	[ "You are a helpful assistant that answers user questions differently and concisely each time.", "You are a helpful assistant that answers user questions differently and concisely each time. It's a concept like that, but it's not important and it doesn't attract attention. You are talking about something else, but...
This guy claims that Olympic powerlifters working in the 1-6 rep range can increase strength without increasing muscle size. > Trained Olympic lifters, for example, were shown over a two-year period to have significant strength increases with barely noticeable increases in muscle mass (Hakkinen et al, 1988). I had a ...	[ "You are a helpful assistant that answers user questions differently and concisely each time.", "You are a helpful assistant that answers user questions differently and concisely each time. Are most folks born weak from within? Will all these muscles ever be toned so that they appear even if you make them look ev...
What are the major concerns about planting trees to create carbon offsets?	[ "You are a helpful assistant that answers user questions differently and concisely each time.", "You are a helpful assistant that answers user questions differently and concisely each time. The major concerns about planting trees to create carbon offsets is the land they need to take up. The tree planting also af...
I am wondering how to generate uniformly distributed points on the surface of the 3-d unit sphere? Also after generating those points, what is the best way to visualize and check whether they are truly uniform on the surface $x^2+y^2+z^2=1$?	[ "You are a helpful assistant that answers user questions differently and concisely each time.", "You are a helpful assistant that answers user questions differently and concisely each time. In other words, I want to plot on a 2D sphere at random uniformly distributed points and check whether they are really truly...
In Shutter Island, at the end of the movie Teddy had a chat with Chuck, in that scene Teddy told to Chuck as, Which would be worse: To live as a monster, or to die as a good man? What's the implicit meaning of this dialogue? Who's the monster as Teddy mentioned? And, who's a good man?	[ "You are a helpful assistant that answers user questions differently and concisely each time.", "You are a helpful assistant that answers user questions differently and concisely each time. In any form? Who's that guy? In this, Teddy wants him to be his assistant rather than his rival (Chuck). What do you think h...
To set the minimal distance between flexbox items I'm using ```margin: 0 5px``` on ```.item``` and ```margin: 0 -5px``` on container. For me it seems like a hack, but I can't find any better way to do this. ```#box { display: flex; width: 100px; margin: 0 -5px; } .item { background: gray; width: 50px; hei...	[ "You are a helpful assistant that answers user questions differently and concisely each time.", "You are a helpful assistant that answers user questions differently and concisely each time. You are a helpful assistant that answers user questions differently and concisely each time. To set the minimal distance bet...
Is there a Git for data? The key improvement I'd want is to Diff/Merge more intelligently. e.g. in CSV rather than line vs line comparison, it would do cell vs cell. And ordering is usually not significant, e.g. rows in a CSV, whereas Git does care and presents the user with 'conflicts'.	[ "You are a helpful assistant that answers user questions differently and concisely each time.", "You are a helpful assistant that answers user questions differently and concisely each time. The first thing I'd do, is ask a question. Then, look for a response to that question. The question you may have wanted an a...
I have been puzzling over where to put the submit button, on the left or the right. In researching, I noticed that many sites put buttons on the bottom right in dialogue boxes, and on the bottom left in forms. It makes sense: in a dialogue box it seems to denote finality, being in the endpoint of the window for left–ri...	[ "You are a helpful assistant that answers user questions differently and concisely each time.", "You are a helpful assistant that answers user questions differently and concisely each time. The button on the left, if using bootstrap, are of the rounded–corners type, therefore I was imagining putting in something ...
Is it at all possible to update object's properties with ```setState```? Something like: ```this.state = { jasper: { name: 'jasper', age: 28 }, } ``` I have tried: ```this.setState({jasper.name: 'someOtherName'}); ``` and this: ```this.setState({jasper: {name: 'someothername'}}) ``` The first results in a syntax er...	[ "You are a helpful assistant that answers user questions differently and concisely each time. Is it at all possible to update object's properties with ```setState```? Something like: ```this.state = { jasper: { name: 'jasper', age: 28 }, } ``` I have tried: ```this.setState({jasper.name:'someOtherName'}); and this:...
What is the difference between Non-Player Characters (NPCs) and bots in video games?	[ "You are a helpful assistant that answers user questions differently and concisely each time. Bots and NPCs in games are different. Bots are programmed to do something by itself. They do not require human input. In contrast, non-player characters are human-like characters that are not controlled by a human player. ...
Is there anything like ```static class``` in java? What is the meaning of such a class. Do all the methods of the static class need to be ```static``` too? Is it required the other way round, that if a class contains all the static methods, shall the class be static too? What are static classes good for?	[ "You are a helpful assistant that answers user questions differently and concisely each time.", "You are a helpful assistant that answers user questions differently and concisely each time. I want to add these extra services to another application already written in java. These additional functions will make it m...
The Episode IV-VI movies never mention the Emperor's name. In Episodes I-III, we can guess that Darth Sidious will be the emperor, but what about Chancellor Palpatine? If the audience didn't know that he was Sidious, the impact of the reveal would be far different than if they did. But I did. In all the novels and comi...	[ "You are a helpful assistant that answers user questions differently and concisely each time.", "You are a helpful assistant that answers user questions differently and concisely each time. The audience would've been better off to think it was obvious, but they could still argue among themselves what the intent w...

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