He believed, moreover, that children are innately good.   I've seen this sentence in an English test book. Shouldn't we use "were" instead of "are" in this sentence?     He believed, moreover, that children were innately good.   If "are" is correct here, that means we can also say:  He believed that I am a good person.  I would use "was" instead of "am" here. But the first sentence confuses me. If a sentence starts with past tense, shouldn't it continue with past?
Suppose Pat is male. Which one is correct?     I found out Pat is male.      I found out Pat was male.   Does the following change make any difference?     She said Pat is male.      She said Pat was male.   Suppose you created a mathematical model. When you are describing a result, which one (or neither) is correct?     The model analysis shows that the equilibrium is stable.      The model analysis showed that the equilibrium is stable.
How to distribute proprietary Mathematica code sci-fi book where a meteorite gives 3 different kinds of telepathic powers to people who then vie for control 3 groups of telepaths each with different powers.  They received their powers from a meteorite.  One group is the strongest and are kind of in control.  Another group wants to gain control.  One group, I believe the strongest, have telepathic battles to determine the strength of one another conjuring up swords, walls, etc. in their minds. It was written by a lawyer.  Could have been written in the ‘80s, or earlier. Symbols instead of numbers as footnote markers 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? Finding the limit $\lim_{x\rightarrow \infty} \sqrt[3]{x+1}-\sqrt[3]{x}$ Should I always use a comma after "e.g." or "i.e."? It seems that "e.g." is always followed by a comma but "i.e." is not. Why is that? How can author deal with late reviews? Another problem I personally struggle with in peer-review publication process is the situation when review takes really, really, really long. The precise definition of "long" is probably very area-specific: for example a paper in Maths will probably took longer to review than one in Physics. Many well-established journals and major publishers, sadly, prefer not to specify the "rules of the game" precisely, particularly how long the review process should normally take. Fortunately, I quite often serve as a referee with the very same journals and know the amount of time I am given to write a review. Unfortunately, when I am an author, I do not observe these deadlines to be always met. For example, a notable U.S. publisher would ask a reviewer to send a review in 2 months; but in practice a first review of my paper once took as long as 8 months.  As a rule of thumb, I usually start writing to editors with questions about "the status of my paper" in X+1 months time, when X is a deadline time for a reviewer to submit a review. This strategy is not particularly successful &mdash; what I usually get is a recommendation to be more patient. Since there is no "official" deadline time announced, there is no formal ground for complaints here.  Of course, such delays lead to a whole bunch of funny situations, particularly if a preprint is put online (e.g., on arXiv) and the results are presented in some conferences. Follow-ups with no official paper to cite, grant applications in which you can not justify by a solid publication, good research but bad bibliometrics or CV, to name just a few.   Could you recommend an efficient way to deal with this problem? Find examples of two series $\sum a_n$ and $\sum b_n$ both of which diverge but for which $\sum \min(a_n, b_n)$ converges. To make it more challenging, produce examples where $a_n$ and $b_n$ are positive and decreasing.  Edit: This problem is taken verbatim from Exercise 2.7.11 on page 68 of Abbott's Understanding analysis. Awk: if pattern not found add some text at the end of file How to undelete a directory that was just deleted with "rm -R" command (in cloud drive)? I deleted an important directory with rm -R command. This is an very populer host data. It was located /var/zpanel/hostdata/ayrintilih After remove ayrintilih directory has gone everything.  I tried to undelete with ext4magic program. But it need to another hdd volume for recovery.  Error message:   ERROR: can not use "/root/recoveried" for recover directory. It's the same filesystem : "/dev/dm-0"   My ISP just replied my request:  Unfortunately there is no way to add another Volume to a virtual Instance.  If it would be a dedicated Server, we could do it, but not in a Cloudserver.  You could try to minimize the partition and create another one, that would  count as another Volume. We also recommend to have allways a  Backup for your Important files. What is the amplitude of a light wave? Referring to this question   I'm curious about what is a amplitude of a light wave. Especially for light from a thermic source. Saving Mathematica kernel state? Farkas/guards pursuing me glitch I was doing a quest for the companions. When I entered Jorrvaskr, Farkas pulled out his sword and began to talk to me. Every time I would try to leave the conversation he would just follow me and try to talk to me again. This lead to me paralyzing Farkas and running away.   By the time I got to the gates of Whiterun he had already gotten up, ran to me and started another conversation. I quickly made it to the gates and exited, he followed me through the gates but I whirlwind sprinted to Shadowmere then attempted to fast travel - which game me the "Can not fast travel when guards are pursuing you" message even though no guards were following me.   I knew Farkas wasn't far behind so I quickly jumped on a carriage and I traveled to the nearest hold which was Dawnstar. Now I can't leave Dawnstar because the same message appears. I have tried to pay off my debt to the Dawnstar guards but it didn't fix the problem. How can I resolve this issue? Windows 10 update broke my MBR / GRUB After I ran Windows 10 update this afternoon my partition table broke... I had dual boot with Windows 10 and Ubuntu 14 with Grub as the boot loader. The error that came up was "Error no such partition, Entering rescue mode... grub rescue>". I googled it,  about the boot-repair ISO, installed it on a USB, ran the repair, got this report, but still no luck:    Now the boot skips Grub entirely and goes to Windows boot manager which fails with "The boot configuration data for your PC is missing or contains errors". So now instead of dual boot I have zero boot. Thanks Microsoft.  Anyway can you guys help me interpret the disk info in the pastebin link? I don't remember my partition configuration but I believe Ubunut had slightlty less disk space than Windows. Questions I have:   Is the Ubuntu partition still there? Could it be the one named "Extended"? (sda4) Where would GRUB be? Gone? Can it be reinstalled? how?   I don't really care about the Windows partition anymore, but it would be nice to rescue Ubuntu. What's the relationship between initial eigenvalues and sums of squared loadings in factor analysis? On the one hand I read in a comment  that:     You can't speak of "eigenvalues" after rotation, even orthogonal   rotation. Perhaps you mean sum of squared loadings for a principal   component, after rotation. When rotation is oblique, this sum of   squares tells nothing about the amount of variance explained, because   components aren't orthogonal anymore. So, you shouldn't report any   percentage of variance explained.   On the other hand, I sometimes read in books people saying things like:     The eigenvalues associated with each factor represent the variance   explained by that particular factor; SPSS also displays the eigenvalue   in terms of the percentage of variance explained (so factor 1 explains   31.696% of total variance). The first few factors explain relatively large amounts of variance (especially factor 1), whereas subsequent   factors explain only small amounts of variance. SPSS then extracts all   factors with eigenvalues greater than 1, which leaves us with four   factors. The eigenvalues associated with these factors are again   displayed (and the percentage of variance explained) in the columns   labelled Extraction Sums of Squared Loadings.   That text is from Field (2013) Discovering statistics using IBM SPSS, and this diagram accompanies it.    I'm wondering     Who is correct about whether it's possible to speak of eigenvalues after rotation? Would it matter if it was an oblique or orthogonal rotation?   Why are the "initial eigenvalues" different from the "extraction sums of squared loadings"? Which is a better measure of total variation explained by the factors (or principal components or whatever method is used)? Should I say that the first four factors explain 50.317% of variation, or 40.477%? Accessing localhost (xampp) from another computer over LAN network - how to? I have just set up a wi-fi network at home. I have all my files on my desktop computer (192.168.1.56) and want to access localhost over there from another computer (192.168.1.2).  On my desktop I can access localhost through the normal . Apache is running on port 80 as usual.  Exactly what do I have to do to achieve this? There is documentation on the net but they either don't work or are too fragment and confusing to understand.  I think I have to make changes to my apache's httpd.conf file and the hosts file. Any ideas as to what changes to make? I wanted a list of sub-domains of Stack Exchange that are not mentioned over here   Some of the sub-domains I found which were not mentioned are       Are there any other which are not mentioned?    Mentions by , ,             Other mentions below which are not mentioned in "All Sites" but are mentioned in the drop down menu on the top left of the Stack Exchange website         Any other website that's left out ? In the Upcoming Halloween Update Posted By SOOPUR SELL (supercell), there have been sneak peeks released showing new skeleton traps for TH 8+. I also remember the Santa Strike from one of the Christmas Updates. My question is when these holiday events finish, do we lose the money we spent on the Traps or do we keep them forever? What are the limits on how I can cast, change, and retract votes? What limits are there on how I can vote?  How often can I vote? How do my votes become locked/unlocked? How can I run a program on startup, minimized? I just want Telegram to be run and I have added it to startup apps. The point is that I need it to be minimized. Any commands?