Can we use 3rd form of verb after subject? E.g: I seen it. Mostly I have seen this sentence in Hollywood movies like another example "I been with you"
I've encountered a particular type of writing occasionally and it being, derp, in writing, it's hard to tell whether there's an accent behind it. The English used seems to me to be simply incorrect, but I can't help but feel that the following features are part of a dialect or a regional style of English. One of the most glaring (and grating) features is the substitution of &quot;saw&quot; with &quot;seen&quot;.  He seen him at the shop the other day. I seen that you were looking for... etc.  The use of &quot;away (to)&quot; is also peculiar, if not incorrect.  He was away to open the door when... He was away to get what he had asked for. etc.  I haven't come across these forms very often, and even then it was accompanied by otherwise mostly correct English, which is what makes me wonder what the hell. This is more intellectual curiosity than anything else.
Multi armed bandit for general reward distribution I'm working on a multi-armed bandit problem where we do not have any information about the reward distribution.   I have found many papers which guarantee regret bounds for a distribution with known bound, and for general distributions with support in [0,1].   I would like to find out if there is a way to perform well in an environment where the reward distribution does not have any guarantees about its support.  I'm trying to compute a nonparametric tolerance limit and using that number to scale the reward distribution so I can use the algorithm 2 specified on this paper (). Does anyone think this approach will work?  If not, can anyone point me to the right spot?  Thanks a bunch! Why have we chosen our number system to be decimal (base 10)? After learning about the binary number system (only 2 symbols, i.e. 0 and 1), I just thought why did we adopt the decimal number system (10 symbols) after all?  I mean if you go to see, it's rather inefficient when compared to the octal (8 symbols) and the hexadecimal (16 symbols)? cardinality of all real sequences I was wondering what the cardinality of the set of all real sequences is. A random search through this site says that it is equal to the cardinality of the real numbers. This is very surprising to me, since the cardinality of all rational sequences is the same as the cardinality of reals, and it seemed fairly intuitive to me that if cardinality of a set $A$ is strictly greater than the cardinality of the set $B$, then cardinality of $A^{\mathbb{N}}$ should be strictly greater than cardinality of $B^{\mathbb{N}}$. It turns out to be false.  Some technical answers have appeared in this forum elsewhere but I do not understand them. As I am not an expert in this topic, could some one explain me in simple terms why this is happening?  Also is the cardinality of all functions from reals to reals also the same as the cardinality of reals? Chat is down. Where can I find when it'll be back up? Chat is down network-wide. Where can I find when it'll be back up? In what occasion could the word “precious” be taken disapprovingly, or sarcastically? I understand that the word “precious” in the following quote of Maureen Dowd’s article “Heart of Darkness” (NYT, March 20) literally means “2. valuable or important and not to be wasted” as defined in OALD:     Congressman Jones read an e-mail from a former boss of General   Allen’s, giving the congressman this unvarnished assessment:   “Attempting to find a true military and political answer to the   problems in Afghanistan would take decades. Would drain our nation of   precious resources, with the most precious being our sons and daughters. Simply put, the United States cannot solve the Afghan   problem, no matter how brave and determined our troops are.   But I didn’t know “precious” has another meaning as defined in OALD: 5. (disapproving, people and their behavior) very formal, exaggerated and not natural, and Readers English Dictionary: 2.(colloquial) terrible, almost worthless, until I was told by my respected forum mate a few days ago.   Being encouraged by his suggestion for me to “ask another question if I’m not sure of what he means by describing his input as “precious” is actually rather “precious” phrasing, I would like to ask:   What is an example of “precious” being used as “disapproving” or sarcastic way (as neither OALD nor CALD provides examples)? Is there an easy way to discern the instance “precious” being used as “disapproving” from the case being used in the sense of genuine “great value” as used in the above quote other than judging from the context? Ubuntu does not offers me "install alongside Windows" Any of the partitions makes in Windows was not recognised by Ubuntu, or Zorin OS, or LinuxMint. It's like a blank hard disc, 250 gb free. I'm a new Linux user, but what confuses me is that I was able to install Ubuntu alongside Windows on my laptop with no problems, but on PC... no way! I've created a simple mesh consisting of a cube that has been modelled out into a corner by extrusion:    I'm now trying to sculpt detail onto it in sculpt mode using dynotopo, however I'm getting different results on different sides of the mesh.  The bottom of the mesh (which was the original cube that I extruded from) sculpts nice and smoothly as expected, however the other side is jagged and distorted which I can't sculpt as nicely. Why is this? The original faces appear to be the same. are used by the Empire in a manner that is tactically identical to how a modern day army would use a tank, in that they are used as shock armour with powerful main guns which will punch through entrenched positions. (No combined arms tactics were used in the Battle of Hoth, but that's a different question altogether)  However, AT-AT walkers have a number of (rather lethal) drawbacks and no advantages that I can see compared to tanks.    They have footpads in place of treads, which greatly increase their ground pressure, and which will cause them to easily sink as compared to treads They have a high center of gravity and can be easily tripped, which was exploited in the Battle of Hoth. (granted that this was canonically presented as an oversight, albeit a rather stupid one, since most martial arts strongly emphasise lowering your CG.) They are slower than a modern main battle tank despite their long legs, which one would normally expect to grant additional mobility (max speed 60km/h on flat terrain, compared to 72km/h on flat terrain for the ). This is exacerbated by the fact that AT-AT walkers are using fusion power cells as compared to diesel engines.   It would seem that it would make far more sense for the Empire to remove the legs and mount the main chassis on treads, which would make the vehicle far more effective. Why then, did they not do this? It clearly was not the case that imperial Engineers lacked imagination, as they did produce .   Possible answers which I find implausible as advantages:  1: AT-AT walkers are tall, and therefore have a surveying advantage over the battlefield / have a better vantage point to fire from  Orbital satellites can provide the observation, and in any case air/orbital support should always be called in, especially if fire support from above is required. How to install .bundle packages in Ubuntu? Cannot vote to close immediately after edit I know about beamer's  feature \setbeamercovered{invisible} and \setbeamercovered{transparent} to hide or grey out upcoming item's . But is there some way to have past items greyed (transparent) and future items hidden (invisible), so that only the current item is black/highlighted? And the best would be if on or 1 slide after the last all the item's could be visible highlighted. Something like this:   [grey] past 1 [grey] past 2 current [hidden] future 1 [hidden] future 2 [hidden] future 3   Is there any easy way of doing this? $\lim_{n \rightarrow \infty} \sum^n_{k=1} \frac{1}{k+n}$ Could you explain how to find this limit?  $\lim_{n \rightarrow \infty} \sum^n_{k=1} \frac{1}{k+n}$ What is the difference between "used space", "size" and "size on disk"? There is only one partition for both system files and personal data, which is C:. The other two partitions are for boot and for recovery.  Now I have two different reports on the size of C: on my Windows 7:   by clicking the property of C:, it shows 59.4 GB for "used space"; by selecting all contents (I have setup to view all hidden files and directories) under C: and viewing their property, it shows 46.9 GB for "size" and 47.6 GB for "size on disk".   Here are my questions:   I was wondering why the two reports are not the same, and where the difference comes? in the second way, why "size" and "size on disk" are different? What do they mean actually? What is the difference between them and "used space" in the first way?   Thanks in advance! $k^{\phi(l)} + l^{\phi(k)} \equiv1\pmod{lk}\,$ if $\,\gcd(l,k)=1$ I would like to prove the following equality: $$k^{\phi(l)} + l^{\phi(k)} \equiv1\pmod{lk}$$if $\gcd(l,k)=1$. What methods can I use? Thank you for your help. Round double to 3 points decimal I'm using Lubuntu for a while now, but found a couple of details that I wanted to view with Unity (that's another story).  Ok, the thing is: I've tried on a VM with Lubuntu to install Unity (sudo apt-get install unity) When the installation is over. I selected in the Lubuntu login Unity/Unity2D but did not work.  Right now I'm installing ubuntu-desktop, I am presuming that will work, but also it will change my login for example.  Is there a way to do a "clean" installation of Unity but not make major changes on my Lubuntu?  I would prefer Gnome-Shell instead of Unity. What is the difference between "is subject to" and "is subjected to"? I found the following sentence on the U.S. Customs and Border Protection website:     All persons, baggage, and other merchandise arriving in or leaving the   United States are subject to inspection and search by CBP officers.   I would like to know whether changing "subject" to "subjected" will change the meaning of the sentence. Taking advantage of one-time pad key reuse? "This question has been asked at Stack Overflow" vs. "on Stack Overflow" How should I phrase it:     This question has been asked at Stack&nbsp;Overflow.   Or,     This question has been asked on Stack&nbsp;Overflow. Imaging new hard drive in Windows 7 laptop? I'm upgrading my Windows 7 laptop to a new hard drive.  How can I clone or image the old hard drive over to the new hard drive, so that it looks like nothing has changed (other than the new hard drive) to my operating system and applications?  Can I use what is built into Windows 7 Backup or should I use something else?