Why the writing and reading in English are different? I do not encounter so big problems with the English language although I'm not a native English speaker. But I'm curious why some languages (like English or French) are written different from the way they are read? And the German or Slavic languages are WYSIWYG. So especially for beginners (but I use them sometimes too) there are transcriptions in the dictionaries how to read the corresponding word.  Is this because in the middle ages the west European societies were separated in classes (castes) and some of them were privileged to be literate and some not? Or this is a special way to save the pronunciation of the word?  Thanks in advance and regards!  PS: Some examples (the entire language is an example but... ;))   example [ig'za:mpl]  sometimes ['sʌmtaimz] literate ['litərət] language ['længwidʒ] although [ɔːlˈðəʊ] because  [bi'kɔz] you [ju] ...   and in German the corresponding words:   Beispiel manchmal gebildet obwohl weil du / ihr / Sie   And here (in German) you can see few exceptions too.   "ei" is actually [ai]. "sp" is [ʃp] "ch" is [h] vowel + "h" = long vowel / obwohl [obvo:l] / ihr [i:r] "ie" is [i:]   In English:   "A" is [a] and [ei] "C" is [s] and [k] "E" is [e] and [i] and nothing at the end of the word etc...   But in German "A" is only [a], "E" is only [e]...  I'll not give you examples in Slavic languages.
Why English pronunciation differs so much from written language, compared to German? Given that English is derived mostly from German, when Anglo-Saxons (German tribes) migrated to Britain, how do you explain that   although German has a strict correspondence between written language and spoken language (the sounds largely follow 1-1 what is written)... English has sooo intricate pronunciation rules, sometimes directly at odds with what is written? (Too bored to give examples, but it should be obvious).   My pet, tongue-in-cheek theory is that those tribes weren't too literate, didn't have a sound knowledge of the written form of words, so it was easy the pronunciation to follow its own independent path.   Anyone with a more informed explanation?
I'm wondering about the period character . used as a shortcut for the local computer name.  You can use it when logging into Windows 7, for example, to specify that the user account you're entering belongs to the local computer rather than to a domain:  .\MyLocalUserAccount   And you can use it within a Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) query to indicate that the target is the local computer rather than a remote computer.  You can also use it when working with named pipes to for similar purposes.  However, you cannot use it as the UNC network name for the computer, like this:  \\.\MyShare   Does this character have an official name (e.g. "LocalHostToken") and when and where can it be used for this purpose? I am trying to classify using randomForest classification in GEE . However, I always get the error User memory limit exceeded, so I assume the number  of the feature are too large. Nevertheless, I saw many developers can classify even bigger dataset, so I am wondering if there is a better option there? The code can be accessed via  var fire= ee.FeatureCollection('users/spatola/recovery_rf_1712').map(function(feature){     var num = ee.Number.parse(feature.get('CLC_311'));     return feature.set('CLC_311', num);   }) var indices= ['EVI_mean','Dnbr','NBR2_mean','NBR2_min','NBR2_max','EVI_min','EVI_max']; var fire1=  fire.filter(ee.Filter.notNull(indices)); var fire2= fire1.select('Class_R','Dnbr','EVI_max','NBR2_max','imageId') var bands= ['NBR2_max', 'EVI_max']; var classProperty= 'Class_R'; var random= fire2.randomColumn('random'); var split_train= 0.8; var split_test= 0.2; var trainPartition= random.filter(ee.Filter.lt('random',split_train)); var testPartition= random.filter(ee.Filter.gte('random',split_test));  var RFtrained_c= ee.Classifier.smileRandomForest({  numberOfTrees: 100,  minLeafPopulation:2,  seed: 123,  }) .setOutputMode('CLASSIFICATION') .train({     features: trainPartition,     inputProperties: bands,     classProperty: classProperty,     }) print(RFtrained_c); var dict =  RFtrained_c.explain(); var test = testPartition.classify(RFtrained_c) print(test.first()) Prove that if $V$ and $W$ are three-dimensional subspaces of $\Bbb R^{5}$, then $V$ and $W$ must have a non-zero vector in common.  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Lovecraft's The Case of Charles Dexter Ward, Dr. Willett      Enters Joseph Curwen's dungeon and resurrects a dead person identified as No. 118 by reciting the incantation of the Ascending Node over his salts.   Dr. Willett is told by      The resurrected Joseph Curwen, impersonating Charles Dexter Ward, who he secretly murdered,   that   " 'twas Number 118, and I conceive you would have shook had you looked it up in my list in t'other room."  No. 118 himself gives Dr. Willett a note asking the doctor to      kill Joseph Curwen.   It soon becomes clear that No. 118 is opposed to the nefarious dealings that have been transpiring and desirous of being an ally of Dr. Willett.  Who is No. 118?  Earlier in the story,      The grave of Ezra Weeden, a primary instigator in Joseph Curwen's initial downfall and the romantic rival of Curwen, is robbed. There doesn't seem to be any other mention of Weeden in the 20th century occurrences, so without a further connection the passage seems superfluous.   The shared goals of these two people seem to indicate that No. 118 may, in fact, have been that person, but the      Note given by No. 118 to Dr. Willett in eighth century Latin seems to indicate someone much older than Ezra Weeden.   It also occurred to me that No. 118 could be      The recently murdered Charles Dexter Ward himself. Ward's reference to killing Dr. Allen (who is actually an alias of Curwen) and dissolving his body with acid and No. 118's mention of doing the same to Curwen seem to support the idea, but that still doesn't explain the archaic note. Ward is described as writing in a somewhat modern style, at least as opposed to Curwen. It also doesn't explain why Curwen would want to murder Ward if he was going to resurrect him later anyway. Calculation of $\int^{\pi/2}_{0}\cos^{n}(x)\cos (nx)\,dx$, where $n\in \mathbb{N}$ Compute the definite integral      $$ \int^{\pi/2}_{0}\cos^{n}(x)\cos (nx)\,dx $$      where $n\in \mathbb{N}$.   My Attempt:  Using $\cos (x) = \frac{e^{ix}+e^{-ix}}{2}$, we get  $$ \begin{align} \int^{\pi/2}_{0}\cos^{n}(x)\cos (nx)\,dx&amp;=\int_{0}^{\pi/2} \left(\frac{e^{ix}+e^{-ix}}{2}\right)^n\left(\frac{e^{inx}+e^{-inx}}{2}\right)\,dx\\ &amp;= \frac{1}{2^n}\mathrm{Re}\left\{\int_{0}^{\pi/2} \left(e^{ix}+e^{-ix}\right)^n\cdot e^{inx}\,dx\right\}\\ &amp;=\frac{1}{2^n}\mathrm{Re}\left\{\int_{0}^{\pi/2}\left(e^{2ix}+1\right)^n\,dx\right\} \end{align} $$  Letting $z=e^{4ix}$ gives us  $$ \begin{align} e^{4ix}dx &amp;= \frac{1}{4i}dz\\ dx &amp;= \frac{dz}{4iz} \end{align} $$  So the integral becomes  $$\frac{1}{4\cdot 2^n}\mathrm{Re}\left\{\int_{C}\left(\sqrt{z}+1\right)\cdot \frac{dz}{iz}\right\}$$  How can I complete the solution from here? 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I want to shrink my second (LVM) partition, in order to create a new partition in the newly freed space. I am using the Live CD to do so, because I know I can't resize/move this partition while it is in use. When I opened GParted in the Live CD, I realized that I could not resize the partition, because when I right-click it, the option "resize/move" is disabled.  I tried to unmount it, to "lazy" unmount it (umount -l /dev/sda2) but it didn't work.  A screenshot from GParted: Stepping up 3V to 5V $$\lim _{x \rightarrow 0} \left(\frac{ \sin x}{x}\right)^{1/x}$$  I have spent an hour on the above limit and have no work to show. I tried using L'Hopital's Rule, but just kept going around in circles. Any help would be appreciated. Thank you. Is it possible to use the laptop's audio via headphone jack and Bluetooth speakers at the same time? Lolo Joe wants earphone jack to plug and use big speakers but at the same time he wants to partner the music coming out the earphone jack and his Bluetooth system and speakers. Is it even possible to use the earplug connection and the Bluetooth system and devices at the same time? Unity shows wrong distribution name Combinef in R HTS package- constrain to keep forecasts positive? When using the combinef function from Rob Hyndman's very useful  for forecasting hierarchical and grouped time series, there does not seem to be a way to constrain the optimally combined forecasts to be positive- the starting forecasts can be positive, but can go negative through the reconciliation process.  The forecast.gts and forecast.hts functions have an argument to keep forecasts positive, but this does not seem to be an option when using combinef by itself with forecasts obtained by other methods.  Am I correct in this understanding, and if so is there a decent workaround? 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