I need a word that describes how some words have irrelevant meanings. Such as hot fast cold etc. what is hot to one person is not hot to another. What is hot? 100 degrees 1000 degrees. I knew this word long ago and can’t remember and it’s driving me crazy
The importance of a factor depends on how importance is defined.   The word importance has a fuzzy nature open to different   interpretations and the importance of a factor depends on how   importance is defined.      In other words, importance is ...   How can I complete this sentence with one word?   Edit:  I prefer to use a neutral word without negative connotations, since I'm not against having different interpretations in this case. Rather, I mean depending on how importance is defined, we need a different method.
Does the appositive in this sentence need to be set off with commas? On the freelancing website Upwork, there is a US Punctuation and Mechanics test one can take to boost credibility on one's profile for potential clients. These tests are administered by third-party companies that often hire non-native English speakers, so they're known to have some inaccuracies. Unfortunately, because you're allowed to retake the exams after a certain period passes, the correct answers are never revealed. One of the questions on this exam is the following:  Richard’s wife(A) Abigail(B) is an incredibly talented cook(C) and gardener. Comma at (A) Comma at (B) Comma at (C) Comma at (A) and (B) No commas needed  I answered &quot;No commas needed&quot;, but I suspected afterwards that the answer key was looking for the answer choice above it, &quot;Comma at (A) and (B)&quot;. After searching this question online, I found a website with answers for the various questions on the test, and the site claims that &quot;Comma at (A) and (B)&quot; is in fact the correct answer for this particular question. Is the answer key wrong? I feel like there's really no need for any commas, but on the other hand, the appositive Abigail isn't restrictive because it doesn't offer terribly &quot;essential&quot; information, suggesting it could be set off by commas. How can I fuse a lot of cubes? So, I made a mesh with a lot of cubes ( I've created a cube, and copied it, pasted it to make figures ), And, when I've done it, I tried to smooth it, but it looks wierd because it's made with a lot of cubes, so a lot of faces, I already tried Ctrl + J, but faces remain, Is there anyway to fuse those lot of faces in one? Find the value of $\sin\frac{2\pi}{7}+\sin\frac{4\pi}{7}+\sin\frac{8\pi}{7}$ Why isn't there a centre of charge? When determining the gravitational attraction between 2 solid bodies, we can simplify computations by taking their masses to be concentrated at their respective centres of mass. However, had they been electrically charged bodies and we needed to compute electrostatic attraction, there is no "centre of charge" notion available to us. ( We would evaluate a 2-dimensional integral, or equivalently, apply Gauss's law. )  Is there any simple reason for the absence of such a centre of charge? Frequently, I've got the answer: "charge just doesn't work that way". Knots in Smoothing Splines In , there's this line under the section describing Smoothing Spline's tuning parameter $\lambda$:       In fitting a smoothing spline, we do not need to select the number or   location of knots - there will be a knot at each training observation,   $x_1,...,x_n$.   But, in my opinion wouldn't that be overfitting?     Reason for such a claim: If there are more points which act as knots in the Spline fit, then the range for each slot for fitting is very small. Thus each change in the data, is recognized and imititated in the fit. Thus fitting the changes, which are random, and do not mean anything. Thus overfitting.    Possibilities: We know that cubic splines and Smoothing splines are different. The basic differences are:     Smoothing splines try to minimize the function $$\sum_{i=1}^n(y_i-g(x_i))^2+\lambda\int g''(t)^2dt$$ Smoothing splines shrink the parameters.   Moreover, Smoothing Splines are basically natural cubic splines, and thus they're smooth too.  So, how can these differences( and properties) save the Smoothing Spline from overfitting? Is there anything else that I'm missing here? Drush installed and running; No Drupal site found even with uri specified After much trial and tribulation, I thought I had drush all ready to roar. Much excitement. But then, no joy...  Drush is working. The sites operate fine via MAMP. Regardless, a "drush cc all" command returns:   No Drupal site found, only 'drush' cache was cleared.                                          [warning] 'all' cache was cleared.                                                                       [success]   This question has stumped drupalcon attendees and very experienced developers. Any ideas?  I am on Mac OS 10.9.3 using MAMP (free) Version 3.0.5  Here is my drush status:   Drupal version         :  7.29-dev                                 Site URI               :  http://default                           Database driver        :  mysql                                    Database hostname      :  localhost                                Database username      :  db_user                             Database name          :  db_name                        PHP executable         :  /usr/bin/php                             PHP configuration      :                                           PHP OS                 :  Darwin                                   Drush version          :  7.0-dev                                  Drush temp directory   :  /tmp                                     Drush configuration    :                                           Drush alias files      :                                           Drupal root            :  /Applications/MAMP/htdocs/mysite.dev   Site path              :  sites/default       Have tried executing drush from /Applications/MAMP/htdocs/mysite.dev; from /Applications/MAMP/htdocs/mysite.dev/sites/default; and using drush cc all --uri=http://localhost/mysite.dev  Tried running drush from sites/default. Same result. Fast calculation for $\int_{0}^{\infty}\frac{\log x}{x^2+1}dx=0$ I want to show that $\int_{0}^{\infty}\frac{\log x}{x^2+1}dx=0$, but is there a faster method than finding the contour and doing all computations?  Otherwise my idea is to do the substitution $x=e^t$, integral than changes to $\int _{-\infty}^{\infty}\frac{t e^t}{1+e^{2t}}dt$. Next step is to take the contour $-r,r,r+i\pi,-r+i\pi$ and integrate over it... Nothing happens when I press "Submit" on duplicate suggestion For example, in . How is Dru-Zod/General Zod still alive after this character died? Exporting Data From Salesforce - REST or SOAP? We have a requirement where we need to export records from salesforce tables into our application programmatically. I am reading on the various API's for data integration from salesforce mainly SOAP vs REST API's.  From what I understand, REST should be used when the web service requests are from mobile devices or browser based clients (since they understand JSON). Is that true? If that's the case how do Bulk REST API's fit the bill (since they are meant for bulk data transfers)?  I would like to get your thoughts on what are pros and cons in using SOAP or REST API's to export data records. Note that the requests are being made a java ee server application programmatically. After retrieving the records (probably in batches) from salesforce records we process (validate, filter etc) them and load them in our internal tables.  Thanks. Limit of Series with differences of Floor function How to remove all comment tags from XmlDocument I am having trouble understanding the estimation of an AR process. In some textbooks, the AR(1) process is defined as follows: $y_{t}=\theta y_{t-1}+ϵ_t$ (which does not contain a constant). So the OLS estimator is biased. I am confused about the cause of the bias. It is explained that $y_{t-1}$ is dependent on $ϵ_{t-1}$ although it is independent of $ϵ_t$. However in linear regression, if the equation does not contain a constant, we cannot make sure the expectation of disturbance is zero. So the OLS estimator is bias without a constant. Does it mean that the OLS estimator is unbiased if I add a constant in AR process? Is a music band a singular or a collective entity, grammatically speaking? Duplicate:    What is correct to say?  Korn* is a great band  OR  Korn* are a great band.  (* You can replace your favourite band's name here) Of course everybody there is no doubt about the following sentences:  The Beatles are a great band Led Zeppelin is a great band  But with certain kinds of names, the situation becomes difficult.  Metallica are a great band  OR  Metallica is a great band  Is there any consensus on this matter? Clusering based on categorical variables? I am working on a project and currently experimenting cluster analysis. The dataset is mainly categorical variables and discrete numbers. Please pardon my poor programming skills as I am not very familiar with MathJax, but I will try to summarize the data set in words in the following three examples.   imagine column 1 is participants names of course, from column2 - 5, each column's value range from 1 (least important) - 5 (most important). so in this case, column 2-8 only have discrete data.  column 6 for example, since this is a multiple choice question. row 1 chose "nice" as an answer, however, row 2 chose "poor". In this case, we have one column that contains multiple categorical answers. for column 7-9, this is another type of multiple choice questions. However this time, each column represents only one answer. column 7 only allows string values "true", column 8 only allows string "somewhat". So in this case, we have multiple columns that represent multiple answers of the same question.    Any ideas how to solve this? Thankful to any input!   A2       A3       A4       A5       A6       A7         A8         A9 1        4        5        4        nice     true       somewhate  false 2        4        3        1        poor     true                  false 1        5        2        1        nice                somewhate     3        2        1        5        nice     true                  false Why doesn't saturation current in the photoelectric effect depend on the frequency of light absorbed ny the metal emitter? $\mathbb{Q}(\sqrt{p},\sqrt[3]{q})=\mathbb{Q}(\sqrt{p}\sqrt[3]{q})$ for distinct prime $p,q$ Javascript profanity match NOT replace "Like" versus "as" How do I set up a shipping condition that accesses the value of a specific field in product? I have a term reference field in product called "Weight" with values "Light", "Medium" &amp; "heavy". I am using flat rate shipping service and trying to check the value of "Weight" field in Calculation rules.I know that I need to expose it by using "entity has field" but I end up having  commerce-line-item:order:commerce-line-items:0 commerce-line-item:order:commerce-line-items:1 commerce-line-item:order:commerce-line-items:2 commerce-line-item:order:commerce-line-items:3 commerce-line-item:order:commerce-line-items:0... commerce-line-item:order:commerce-line-items:1... commerce-line-item:order:commerce-line-items:2... commerce-line-item:order:commerce-line-items:3...    I was able to get to the weight field by using any of them and then did a Data Comparison  commerce-line-item:order:commerce-line-items:0:commerce-product:field-product-weight   this condition worked ok first time but not after that. can anyone please help me on this or if you think of another solution please let me know. Thanks