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I wonder how much of the price action is due to debt funded purchases through MSTR and other leveraged ETFs (e.g. BITU, BITX)?

I was thinking it would be cool to add another slider for day of the year. That way you can see how the differences change as local timezones roll through their own daylight savings time or other adjustments. For example, right now Asuncion Paraguay is +3 hours ahead of Chicago U.S. but in April it will be only one hour ahead.

Thank you so much for creating this! Under the Curve61 point addition example, I was trying to follow the formula for adding two points: P:(x1, y1) + Q(x2, y2) = R(x3=l^2-x1-x2, y3=l(x1-x3)-y1) where l=(y2-y1)/(x2-x1). I tried to use the example P:(5, 7) + 23P:(2, 24) = (226/9, 2888/7) != 24P:(59, 55) and was wondering where I've gone wrong? Appreciate your response!

Much respect to the ScummVM team as they allowed me to play the original "Secret of Monkey Island" after it left my local library! Ironically, I no longer needed the "Dial a Pirate" code-wheel.

From what I can see, this just waters the plants? Is there any weed control (e.g. spraying with super-heated Clove oil)?

I know very little about CNNs. But, I noticed the ReLu Activation step is Max(0,x) where x is the sum of the pixel intensities from each channel. In this example, it appears x > 0 (for all x) and so the activation step isn't really doing much?

EDIT: I'm wrong. x < 0 for some of the pixels. Specifically for the more red-ish channels.

Logistically speaking, I wonder what's the best way to create a tree map/database for my own town? Google maps will go a long way towards getting location. Is the rest just driving/walking around collecting data (species etc..) manually?

My father owned a tree service in the town I grew up in. We spent countless hours driving around town, looking at different trees and giving estimates for trimming and removal. I could imagine leveraging this data as almost a Zillow for trees.

I was thinking the same thing! I think those would be her odds if she were permitted to go back and change her mind about which cups of tea had milk first. If she said the first 4 cups were milk first with some confidence, but on the fifth cup was absolutely certain it was milk first, she would have to go back and change a previous evaluation (because she knows there can be only 4). But because they were presented one at a time, and Bristol made her determination up front. It's basically a series of independent Bernoulli trials (i.e. Binomial distribution). So, assuming she had a 50% chance of guessing correctly, the probability would be (8 choose 4) * (1/2)^8.

Unfortunately, I don’t know enough to intelligently comment on this. I was largely under the guidance of my professor. However, I can tell you that in my modeling I used the paraxial approximation and that the light was linearly polarized. It was my understanding that only circularly polarized light carried intrinsic angular momentum (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spin_angular_momentum_of_light...).

Also, I would agree with you that in a uniform electric field, a single E vector in isolation would appear to produce a torque on a point some distance away. But if the rest of the field is considered, the net torque at that point would be zero, right?

Sorry, I misspoke about the angle of separation (it's actually 120 degrees) and did a poor job of describing the orientation. If you imagine a vector perpendicular to the sheet indicating the direction of travel, then these three vectors would intersect at a single point and lie along the surface of a cone. The angle between the axis of the cone and each vector, the azimuth, was 30 degrees.

https://i.ibb.co/VDgS8yr/3beam.png

I did a project during my undergraduate degree in physics which involved interfering three planar waves at 60 degrees from one another to create a hexagonal intensity pattern. The interesting thing was that at each of the 6 corners of the hexagon was a singularity (optical vortex) where the phase was undefined. At these points, the phase space was shaped like a spiral staircase (screw dislocation) and particles suspended there could actually be rotated. It was like an “optical wrench” if you will.

On a small scale, planar waves can be modeled like flat sheets of paper traveling through space without any angular momentum (no twisting motion). Yet when these sheets hit an object from multiple angles with the right timing, they can actually cause the object to twist.