She was the only one with these tattoos who wasn't sacrificed. I think she became an enforcer, the leader of her tower. She was ridiculed by his peers for allowing different species in. Types of people included lion-like, bird people, and telepaths. I think there were people in power when were elf-like. I only read one book but I think it was a series.
I read this book series in middle school. I believe that it would be classified as young adult fiction/fantasy. A girl has magical powers, and with her growing powers comes runes/tattoos in her arms. This is shown on every book cover. I know that one cover is blue. This one shows the girl in a black tank top and black pants. One is a yellow cover, with her in a dress (I think).  The girl has a friend/mentor, who she develops feelings for. The girl is the key to stopping a war between multiple factions/people. Each side is trying to use her to their advantage. I think the series was written in the early 2000s.
Separate Models vs Flags in the same model I have customer data from 2 brands. The data structure are the same, but I expected the customer behaviour to be different in different brand.  So I could train 2 models, 1 for each brand, or I could train one model on both brands, but flag which brand the customers belongs to within the data.  So my question is, would training on both brands with flags be too much more work for the Machine Learning (I'm using neural network), and therefore be harder to achieve good accuracy than to have dedicated models for each brand? I'm looking for some help disproving an answer provided on a  I posted about computing the number of double square combinations for a given integer.    The original question is from the Facebook Hacker Cup       Source: Facebook Hacker Cup   Qualification Round 2011      A double-square number is an integer $X$   which can be expressed as the sum of   two perfect squares. For example, 10   is a double-square because $10 = 3^2 + 1^2$.   Given $X$, how can we determine the   number of ways in which it can be   written as the sum of two squares? For   example, $10$ can only be written as $3^2 + 1^2$   (we don't count $1^2 + 3^2$ as being different). On the other hand,   $25$ can be written as $5^2 + 0^2$ or as   $4^2 + 3^2$.      You need to solve this problem for $0 \leq X \leq 2,147,483,647$.      Examples:      $10 \Rightarrow 1$      $25 \Rightarrow 2$      $3 \Rightarrow 0$      $0 \Rightarrow 1$      $1 \Rightarrow 1$   In response to my original question about optimizing this for F#, I got the following response which I'm unable to confirm solves the given problem correctly.       Source:       Again, the number of integer solutions   of $x^2 + y^2 = k$ is four times the   number of prime divisors of $k$ which   are equal to $1 \bmod 4$.      Knowing this, writing a program which   gives the number of solutions is easy:   compute prime numbers up to $46341$ once   and for all.      Given $k$, compute the prime divisors of   $k$ by using the above list (test up to   $\sqrt{k}$). Count the ones which are   equal to $1 \bmod 4$, and sum. Multiply   answer by $4$.   When I go through this algorithm for $25$, I get $8$ which is not correct.          For each prime factor (pf) of $25$ ($5$, $5$ are prime factors of $25$)         if pf % $4$ = $1$ (true for both $5$'s), add $1$ to count      return $4$ * count (count would be $2$ here).          So for $25$, this would be $8$ In the film and book series, Year 4 (Goblet of Fire), how is it Mad-Eye Moody/Barty Crouch could see Harry through his Magical Eye even when he was under the Invisibility Cloak?  As the cloak is a True Invisibility cloak, immune to charms and spells, and according to legend invisible to even Death, how did Mad-Eye detect Harry Potter under the cloak? How Nagini and Mrs. Norris were able to sense Harry were through other senses, such as smell and warmth, but not visually.  I'm referring to the scene/chapter where Snape follows Harry at night. Harry hides under the Invisibility Cloak but his foot is stuck at the broken staircase. Eventually Mad-Eye arrives, sees Harry through his Magical Eye, and talks Snape away. Why are my Cycles settings missing? so I'm working on a little bathroom scene and wanted to make a clay render. I started looking for the material override which I kinda knew where it was and on the way I switched my render engine accidently to workbench instead of cycles. Switched to cycles all my seetings on the render tab are missing except color management and free style. Hows that? I restarted blender multiple times and tried some other stuff but nothing changed a thing, and I'd rather avoid a new installation I'm a physics teacher and I would like to find a simulation software that could be used to give exact numerical answers to high school level problems in Newtonian mechanics.  I want the students to first calcultate a numerical answer to a physics problem and then use the simulator to visualize the problem in order to understand it better and verify that the simlator gives the same answer that they got when doing the calculation themselves.  Here are some examples of what kind of problems I want the students to be able to solve with the simulator:   A slope with a specific angle of inclination and a ball starts rolling at a certain point. Determine the speed, angular momentum and total mechanical energy of the ball after a specific time t. A ladder of known mass and length is leaning against the wall at a specific angle. The contact between the ladder and the wall is frictionless. Calcultate the x and y components of the force between the floor and the ladder.   I would like the software to have the following features:  - Simulation in 2D. No 3D simulations are necessary and the software should at least have the option of doing simulations only in 2D.  - Position all objects exactly by writing numbers (just positioning the objects using the mouse is not precise enough).  - Show animations of the time evolution of the system.  - Show forces, velocities and accelerations as arrows.  - Give exact numerical results so that the students can use the software to verify their calculation.  Ideally the software would have a graphical user interface, but if no suitable software with graphical interface exixts, I could also consider a software with text-based inputs. I would consider both free and commercial software.  My question is: Is there any software that would meet these requirements and if there is, where could I get it? How do I rename a directory via the command line? I have got the directory /home/user/oldname and I want to rename it to /home/user/newname. How can I do this in a terminal? I'm struggling with my lab report. I have a questionnaire which contains Likert responses (1-7) as well as questions that require only yes or no answers. I want to see if there is a correlation between higher scores on the likert scale and responses to the binary answers to the other questions.   Specifically - the likert response is about anxiety levels. The binary (yes/no) answer is about negative consequences due to alcohol use. I want to just run the one ordinal likert item with all the negative consequence responses to see if there is a relationship. Can anyone help me?     Thanks so much for the fast comments. It definitely assures me that Spearman's Rho can be used but my main problem is the fact that i am mixing binary and ordinal variables together in the one correlation matrix.  I have one ordinal variable (anxiety - 1-7 on likert scale) crossed with 13 dichotomous (0 or 1 representing yes or no) to answers ("have you ever been hospitalised due to your alcohol use?). I get statistically significant answers (&lt;.05 and &lt; .01 but the Correlation coefficients are tiny (i.e o.2) at best.   the hospitalisation is the DV an the anxiety levels the IV.   I just think i'm doing something wrong here. should i collapse the 13 binary variables in to one some how?   i can't see how SPSS will recognise the values between 1-7 when correlating with binary answers. i keep thinking it will just read that there is something in that box (ordinal) but not recognise the value (i.e 1-7) . but people keep saying that SPSS does in fact recognise this difference and account for it. Lightning aura:iteration over two objects with dynamic key I want to do simple thing - I want to iterate over list of two objects and use displayColumns as dynamic keys to get values from selectList object:  &lt;aura:attribute name="displayColumns" type="String[]"/&gt; &lt;aura:attribute name="selectList" type="Object[]"/&gt;   &lt;table&gt;     &lt;aura:iteration items="{!v.selectList}" var="elem"&gt;     &lt;tr&gt;         &lt;aura:iteration items="{!v.displayColumns}" var="col"&gt;             &lt;td&gt;{!elem[col]}&lt;/td&gt;         &lt;/aura:iteration&gt;     &lt;/tr&gt;     &lt;/aura:iteration&gt; &lt;/table&gt;   In pure JS I would do: elem[col.value], but in lightning compiler returns:      expecting a positive integer, found 'col' at column 6 of expression:   elem[col.value]: Source   Is there any workaround without creating proper object structure in controller? Sharing Open Source Python/ArcPy Code and Models for ArcGIS Desktop? I will be writing scripts for ArcGIS Desktop in Python with ArcPy.   Is there a community or open source project where code and models can be shared? Usage of brackets/parentheses When and how do we use the different kinds of brackets/parentheses&nbsp;— (){}[]&nbsp;— while writing English (not code)? How to open nautilus without a desktop? I'm using xmonad, and I would like to open a nautilus window to a certain directory, because I like the convenience of browsing inside an encrypted zip file without unzipping it, which nautilus allows.   however, opening nautilus, even with a path argument starts a desktop on the monitor I'm using (There are 8 xmonad monitors) The desktop is inoperative and renders that monitor useless until nautilus is killed.  Is there any way to open just a nautilus window without any desktop starting? I am a senior undergraduate (electrical) engineering student, exceedingly interested in physics. 4 years ago when entering university, for some reasons (better: illusions) I chose engineering as my major, while I was interested (and also really knowledgeable) in physics . Soon after the first semester I realized that I've decided wrong, and I must have chosen physics.  Since our university is a technical institute and does not have a strong physics department I decided to study physics on my own, without changing my major.But I took and passed the basic graduate physics courses (advanced quantum mechanics, advanced statistical mechanics, electrodynamics I &amp; II), have done a few research projects and had a paper published (maybe 1 more in the future). I have explored lots of research areas in physics and I think I have a good potential for doing research.  While concentrating on physics, I was inattentive to EE courses. Today, while searching for graduate programs, I saw that some schools require a minimum GPA, usually 3. I just calculated my GPA and found out that it is 2.95!   Do all universities have a GPA threshold?  Since I'm changing my major and also have a good GPA in graduate physics courses, is there any way I can compensate for my (very) low electrical engineering GPA? (like by taking subject GRE, etc.) If I first (somehow) get a masters degree in physics and then apply for a PhD, can I throw away this electrical engineering GPA in my PhD application ?   Any other suggestion is warmly appreciated. Any help with this problem is appreciated. It comes up in the context of Lusin's theorem, where it was assumed to be true.     Suppose $E$ is a closed subset of $\mathbb{R}$ and $f:E\rightarrow \mathbb{R}$ is continuous. There exists a continuous function $g: \mathbb{R} \rightarrow \mathbb{R}$ such that $f(x)=g(x)$ for $x \in E$ and $g$ satisfies $$\sup_{x \in \mathbb{R}} |g(x)| \leq \sup_{x \in E} |f(x)|\;.$$ Why is it true that "I before E, except after C"? I almost hesitate to ask this, because it is hard to believe no one else asked it; but it isn't showing up in the "similar titles" list.  What is special about 'C' that switches the 'IE' immediately following it? can't type lower cased e in amazon ec2 (Amazon Linux) After a few days of operation on my new ec2 build, the following happens:   I log into SSH, everything is fine, I do my coding I return the next day, and log into SSH I cannot type a lower cased e anymore--I get the error ding when I type it I try to ssh from a different computer, same problem I reboot the server, same problem I open nano or vi and e works fine, just not in bash or sh I terminate the server, create a new one, install from scratch, a few days later it happens again   This is baffling! Where do I even start to troubleshoot?  My Local Machine Setup(s):   windows XP or 7 putty (latest) or cygwin/openssh   The EC2 setup   Amazon Linux (default options) node.js iptables forwarding port 80 to node on port 8003 emacs, npm, and openssl-devel no other mods       Output of stty -a while I can't type an e  sh-4.1$ stty -a speed 38400 baud; rows 30; columns 95; line = 0; intr = ^C; quit = ^\; erase = ^?; kill = ^U; eof = ^D; eol = &lt;undef&gt;; eol2 = &lt;undef&gt;; swtch = &lt;undef&gt;; start = ^Q; stop = ^S; susp = ^Z; rprnt = ^R; werase = ^W; lnext = ^V; flush = ^O; min = 1; time = 0; -parenb -parodd cs8 -hupcl -cstopb cread -clocal -crtscts -cdtrdsr -ignbrk -brkint -ignpar -parmrk -inpck -istrip -inlcr -igncr icrnl ixon -ixoff -iuclc -ixany -imaxbel -iutf8 opost -olcuc -ocrnl onlcr -onocr -onlret -ofill -ofdel nl0 cr0 tab0 bs0 vt0 ff0 isig icanon iexten echo echoe echok -echonl -noflsh -xcase -tostop -echoprt echoctl echoke   In case it helps someone else with a similar issue, I created a script (called sub) to convert upper-cased E to lower-cased, then echo the command back. Then I run it in backticks to get an e on the command line::  #!/bin/sh echo ${@//E/e}  &gt; `sub Emacs /Etc/profilE`   UPDATES   This breaks for all users In bash only (csh works fine) In emacs edit mode only   I've created  and hone in the solution. Solve $$\int \limits_{0}^{\infty} \frac{\cos(x)}{\cosh(x)} dx$$ without complex integration.  This integral can be very easily solved with contour integration, but how can you solve it without taking a tour in the complex plane? I'm currently working on building a predictive model for a binary outcome on a dataset with ~300 variables and 800 observations. I've read much on this site about the problems associated with stepwise regression and why not to use it.  I've been reading into LASSO regression and its ability for feature selection and have been successful in implementing it with the use of the "caret" package and "glmnet".   I am able to extract the coefficient of the model with the optimal lambda and alpha from "caret"; however, I'm unfamiliar with how to interpret the coefficients.    Are the LASSO coefficients interpreted in the same method as logistic regression? Would it be appropriate to use the features selected from LASSO in logistic regression?   EDIT  Interpretation of the coefficients, as in the exponentiated coefficients from the LASSO regression as the log odds for a 1 unit change in the coefficient while holding all other coefficients constant. Why does my document 'error' when using '%' I am designing gamecards in LaTeX  Everything is going pretty ok so far but when i try to insert the %-sign for a question about percentages my file keeps giving errors.  I tried putting the percentage between dollarsigns because i know just % will make it a 'remark' and that the dollarsign makes it 'mathematical data'.   Whats the reason for the error?   P.s. the error says: file ended while scanning use of \kaart. ...    Codesample:   {\kaart{Bekijk statistiek kaart F:   Schat het percentage mensen dat als lievelingseten spaghetti opgaven, je mag er slechts $ 2% $ langs zitten. } { $ 11% $}} How to get RGB values from UIColor? I'm creating a color object using the following code.  curView.backgroundColor = [[UIColor alloc] initWithHue:229 saturation:40 brightness:75 alpha:1];   How can I retrieve RGB values from the created color object? Find $\lim\limits_{x \to \infty} \frac{x}{(\log{x})^n}$ Find $\displaystyle \lim_{x \to \infty} \dfrac{x}{(\log{x})^n}$.   My book says that $\displaystyle \lim_{x \to \infty} \dfrac{(\log{x})^n}{x} = \lim_{y \to \infty} \dfrac{y^n}{e^y} = 0$, but I don't see how that is true.