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As an example, let’s take the following URL: url = “https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Basidiomycete” When you follow it, it redirects to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basidiomycota So the question is: is there a way in Mathematica to follow url and detect the redirect? I would have thought that response = URLRead[url] would allow me to see the redirect in the generated HTTPResponseRead more

I have a ReadList of just some real numbers, called data. I’m trying to extract the data of specific columns from my list. When I execute the following data[[All,1]] I get this error: Part::partd: Part specification {-11.7056,-1.82099,8.23499,18.509,28.6437,-6.42392,2.4783,11.4386,-11.117,<<34>>,-7.02967,-8.13113,437.567,446.853,456.65,467.2,476.809,<<951>>}[[All,1]] is longer than depth of object. However, whenever I type data[[All,0]] , the output is just the wordRead more

I am planning to visit Iran next month. Yesterday I saw Trump’s tweet about time for change for Iran and I read a bit about the anti-government movement there. So, how safe a 10 day trip in Iran for me, my pregnant wife and 2 year old son? Should I cancel my trip or areRead more

and that our government needs to be more opaque? Also, Hillary’s 33,000 deleted govt emails are none of our damn business and Trump needs to release his taxes from when he was a private citizen? Yavan needs to be reported for promoting assassinations… once again.Read more

This class will load a file with INI configuration elements and cache them, it then has a method to get an item from the cache if it needs to. internal class ConfigHandler { private static readonly ILogger Logger = LogManager.GetCurrentClassLogger(); private Dictionary<string, string> _configItems; public ConfigHandler() { _configItems = new Dictionary<string, string>(); LoadConfig(“resources/config/pitaya.ini”); } internalRead more

SQL-server 2016, SQL server management studio (SSMS). Creating external tables with transact-SQL and Polybase. How can we read decimals with a decimal mark, comma instead of dot? When using float and decimal it fails and throws an error. When using money data type it succeeds, but misread decimals and integers are returned instead. Revised theRead more

Many airports now have repositioned airport chapels to be multi-faith, or even no-faith meditation rooms. Does anyone know the rules for these? Can I just sit quietly in a corner and read a book? That ought not to disturb anyone who is meditating, I hope. I wouldn’t want to push it by playing with aRead more

I want to try to understand non commutative geometry by reading Connes’s book ..and I am discovering it is a hard book to read 🙂 as I miss a lot of background specially in operator algebra and homology theory ( my field is nonlinear PDE so I know a bit of functional analysis already- atRead more

I have a text file containing integers in different lines which I want to read into a list of lists. So 01 11 14 45 50 09 should become ((1) (11 14) (45 50 9)) The real file is longer so I want to read it in using CL instead of transforming it using Emacs’Read more

What is the best way to capture editable data from the devices active screen display? By editable I mean ASCII. Sorry if this is obvious but I’m brand new at this. Any direction appreciated.Read more