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Incubator Q&A What resources are available about prompt engineering?

Dair.AI maintains a free prompt engineering guide. There is also another similar project which is structured as a course. There is also a literature review from March 2023 which is more technical ...

posted 1y ago by matthewsnyder‭  ·  edited 1y ago by matthewsnyder‭

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Meta Can Tabletop Games Codidact be given as the support site for a board game?

My personal opinion, not speaking for anyone else: A user-run community can't generally be the support site for your game or other product, but it can be a support site. Your players can get answ...

posted 1y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Incubator Q&A What are the support vectors in a soft-margin SVM

The goal of a soft-margin or C-SVM is to solve the following minimisation problem: $$\min_{\boldsymbol{w}, b} \frac{1}{2} \|\boldsymbol{w}\|^2 + C \sum_i \xi_i$$subject to $$\forall i : \begin{al...

posted 1y ago by mr Tsjolder‭

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Incubator Q&A Running cordless tools from the outlet

Is it possible to run cordless tools (which normally take a battery) from the outlet somehow? While obviously the intended use of these is cordless operation, occasionally you don't have a charged...

1 answer  ·  posted 1y ago by matthewsnyder‭  ·  last activity 1y ago by Olin Lathrop‭

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Incubator Q&A Running cordless tools from the outlet

I've had some old cordless tools where the tool itself has a charger port. I've tried running these while plugged in (but with the battery drained) and they didn't work. That's because the charger...

posted 1y ago by Olin Lathrop‭

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Incubator Q&A How can I test a monopole timer switch?

I have a Lutron Maestro MA-T530G. I installed this to control an old bathroom fan which was malfunctioning. I'm planning to replace the fan anyway later, but I wanted to have a timer in the meanwh...

2 answers  ·  posted 1y ago by matthewsnyder‭  ·  last activity 1y ago by manassehkatz‭

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Incubator Q&A How can I test a monopole timer switch?

You can't test such a timer with just a voltmeter. It is possible that the timer requires the load to try to draw some minimum current, which a voltmeter probably wouldn't. Or, the timer might ha...

posted 1y ago by Olin Lathrop‭

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Incubator Q&A How can I test a monopole timer switch?

Key information is in the installation manual. Unfortunately, as is often the case, Lutron doesn't have easy-to-find installation manuals on their own web site. Fortunately, Home Depot does. This ...

posted 1y ago by manassehkatz‭

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Meta Scope discussion for Sports

There are two obvious ways to set the scope: Physical sports only, or anything competitive. Physical sports only: This would pretty much exclude all overlaps. You might miss out on some "came to d...

posted 5mo ago by matthewsnyder‭  ·  edited 5mo ago by matthewsnyder‭

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Incubator Q&A How do I search for d6 dice with a blank 6th face?

I am afraid the best thing you can search for is "blank dice" or "custom dice" or "custom made dice" (this will maybe bring up someone who provides such services, those who also do engravings a...

posted 3mo ago by Antares‭  ·  edited 3mo ago by Antares‭

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Incubator Q&A Why are many bond ETFs just like a worse-performing S&P?

This is a "recent" phenomenon. If you look back to 1900, bonds have a lower return on average, but in stock drawdowns they maintain a positive performance. Around 2000, they became correlated. Coi...

posted 5mo ago by matthewsnyder‭

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Incubator Q&A Shaders incorrectly render lower parts of vertically extended worlds

I have an older Minecraft world first created almost a decade ago, as a superflat desert world. In MC 1.18 or 1.19, I increased the world height with a simple data pack to y ∈ [-256, 1024]. Unfortu...

1 answer  ·  posted 3mo ago by Andreas witnessed the end of the world today‭  ·  last activity 2mo ago by Andreas witnessed the end of the world today‭

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Incubator Q&A What can I do with used disposable batteries?

I asked the city and they told me that just dumping it in the garbage bin is fine. I doubt you're going to have a more authoritative answer than that. I take mine to the help desk at Staples o...

posted 3mo ago by Michael‭

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Meta How do I object to a community proposal?

Public objection You can raise a discussion on either of: Proposals Meta, if you believe that the presence of the proposal itself is a problem. Codidact Meta, if you believe that either the pr...

posted 3mo ago by trichoplax‭

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Meta How do I object to a community proposal?

The answer by trichoplax is basically right. If there is an issue with a proposed community, raise it - preferably on Proposals Meta, but private is ok if it's sensitive. As much as possible, we ...

posted 3mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Incubator Q&A Do laws determine societal norms, or vice versa?

When society creates laws to govern themselves, do they simply codify what has already been established practice in society? For example, when a law is written that forbids theft, is this because s...

2 answers  ·  posted 6mo ago by matthewsnyder‭  ·  edited 6mo ago by matthewsnyder‭

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Incubator Q&A Current record for minimally clued 7x7 Hidato (16 clues)

Note: I checked that the solution is in fact unique using this Picat program created by SE user Bubbler. Background So back in March, I posted this question on the Puzzling Stack Exchange asking ...

0 answers  ·  posted 6mo ago by CrSb0001‭

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Incubator Q&A Is there a specification meta-language for logics?

There are many depending on what your goals are. First, pretty much any foundational system will let you do this via encoding. It is a tedious but straightforward exercise to encode the syntax of ...

posted 6mo ago by Derek Elkins‭

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Incubator Q&A Calculating load for OSB flooring

The span ratings are generally deflection limited for most applications, not breaking load limited. https://www.innovativepanel.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/American-Plywood-Association-Load-Spa...

posted 6mo ago by Spamalot‭

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Meta Is there room for a long list of types of buildings and facilities in a city or country?

I'm looking for a very long and sufficiently detailed list of every possible type of facility that exists in the world today, or perhaps is likely to exist in the future. For example, the list woul...

3 answers  ·  posted 3mo ago by Andreas witnessed the end of the world today‭  ·  last activity 3mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Meta Link back to the proposal post in the wiki for the proposal's tag

When I'm browsing through questions in the Q/A category, I often want to look closer at the community proposal that the question belongs to. The most obvious path to follow, then, is to click on th...

1 answer  ·  posted 3mo ago by Andreas witnessed the end of the world today‭  ·  last activity 3mo ago by Andreas witnessed the end of the world today‭

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Incubator Q&A One cert with many domains, or one domain per cert?

Relevant to you A single certificate is easier to manage, rotate, etc. Borderline Before Server Name Indication (SNI), you could only bind one certificate to each IP/Port combination on ...

posted 8mo ago by Michael‭

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Incubator Q&A Can you always interpose an intermediate effect into any causal chain?

Charles Darwin more or less spent his whole life proving this theory to be true and it's essentially what On the Origin of Species is all about. So if you are looking for rigorous arguments in publ...

posted 8mo ago by Lundin‭

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Incubator Q&A How do I configure Cloudflare to redirect my alternate domain name with HTTPS support?

I have several alternate domain names that I would like to redirect to my site: misspelling.example -> example.com longer-domain-with-hyphens.example -> example.com old-brand.example -&g...

1 answer  ·  posted 1y ago by Stephen Ostermiller‭  ·  edited 1y ago by ArtOfCode‭

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Incubator Q&A What is the end-of-life date for Google Universal Analytics?

I've been using Google Analytics on my site for years using the universal analytics tags. Google emailed me and said that I have to upgrade to Google Analytics 4 because universal analytics is goi...

0 answers  ·  posted 1y ago by Stephen Ostermiller‭  ·  edited 1y ago by Stephen Ostermiller‭

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