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My fish's native habitat is rice fields. My fish's native habitat are rice fields.   Which one is correct? I'm pretty sure it's the first, since 'is' modifies 'habitat,' but it still sounds weird... Speak Slower or Speak Slowlier? AFAIK the correct grammar for "speak slow" is "speak slowly" (slowly being an adverb). Please correct me if I am mistaken.  But in daily life I have not heard anyone saying "Speak slowlier".  I think I heard folks saying "Speak slower" but I also think it is incorrect.  Which is the best or correct form to convey the message?  Could that be the longish "Speak more slowly?" What tool can I use to manage the configuration of my Windows Server environments I help manage environments for an application that uses cloud-based Windows server VMs. The application stack consists of Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2012, SQL Server 2008, IIS, and SharePoint 2010. I have several environments Dev/Test/Stage/Prod. I am looking for a way to do configuration management of those environments to make sure any environmental changes are applied in a consisent way and there is a way to verify that no changes have been made to one environment that have not been made to other environments.  I have been reading up on Puppet, Chef, etc and I like the idea of doing delcarative configuration management. What is a good method or tool to use to help manage the configuration of these environments. I know a little  about SCCM but it is too expensive for this particular situation although I would still be interested in knowing if it has the capabiltiy to do those things. Does anyone know the (specific) reasons that it is recommended that old LTS server users wait until the point release to upgrade?  Is it just a matter of bug fixes and waiting for improved stability for production servers, or is there something more fundamental than that? PhD thesis without acknowledgements During the process of writing my PhD thesis, I was close to falling out with my adviser, the advice I received from other staff at the lab (including the director) was unhelpful at best. I have since made up with my adviser and have successfully defended the thesis. I now have to publish my thesis.  The department says that one can include acknowledgements. All of the theses I have seen in my lab and in my department feature acknowledgements. Due to this special situation,  I don't quite feel that acknowledgements are called for. Yes, my adviser helped during the first half of the project but then almost completely reverted his stance. In terms of contribution, it is my opinion that he comes out at 0%.  I do not want to address any of the issues in the acknowledgements. I do not think that this is the right place. Likewise, I do not feel like thanking any of the involved people. Therefore, I would just leave out the acknowledgements completely. In academia, is this considered worse than lukewarm acknowledgements? Should I actually care about the acknowledgement, because others do? To power my microcontroller (ATmega8), I am using a ~5.4V voltage source. I want to ensure that I don't accidentally connect the voltage source in reverse, and figured a diode would be a nice way to accomplish this as from what I have learned so far, a diode allows current to flow in one direction, and blocks it in the other.  But what I also learned is that diodes create drops in voltage. I have a few of the typical diodes (1N4001, 1N4148, etc.), and would like to use them to achieve the aforementioned result without dropping the voltage as it would be too low to power the IC.  My question is, is there any way to do this with a diode? Or do I need some other component (if so, what would you recommend)? PDF upload silently fails I dunno since when, but upload of PDF images fails, this hurts especially on tex.SE.  Could this be an effect of an updated /etc/ImageMagick-6/policy.xml on the imgur server?  At least on my Ubuntu 18.04 LTS machine, this file was modified two weeks ago. $\{a_n\}$ be a sequence such that $ a_{n+1}^2-2a_na_{n+1}-a_n=0$, then $\sum_1^{\infty}\frac{a_n}{3^n}$ lies in... Let $\{a_n\}$ be a sequence of positive real numbers such that   $a_1 =1,\ \  a_{n+1}^2-2a_na_{n+1}-a_n=0, \ \ \forall n\geq 1$.   Then the sum of the series $\sum_1^{\infty}\frac{a_n}{3^n}$ lies in...  (A) $(1,2]$, (B) $(2,3]$, (C) $(3,4]$, (D)$(4,5]$.   Solution attempt:   Firstly, we figure out what $\frac{a_{n+1}}{a_n}$ is going to look like. We get, from the recursive formula, $\frac{a_{n+1}}{a_n}=1+\sqrt{1+\frac{1}{a_n^2}}$ (remembering the fact that $a_n&gt;0$, the other root is rejected).   We know that, if $\lim_{n \to \infty}\frac{a_{n+1}}{a_n}&gt;1$, then $\lim a_n \to \infty$.   Further, $(a_{n+1}-a_n)= \sqrt{a_n(a_n+1)}&gt;0$. (Again, the other root is rejected due to the same reason).   Hence, $(a_n)$ increases monotonically.   Therefore, the largest value of $\frac{a_{n+1}}{a_n}$ is approximately $1+\sqrt{1+\frac{1}{1}} \approx 2.15$  Now, the sum can be approximated as $\displaystyle\frac{\frac{1}{3}}{1-\frac{2.15}{3}} \approx 1.3$ (In actuality, $\mathbb{sum}&lt; 1.3$).  So, option $(A)$ is the correct answer.   Is the procedure correct?   I have been noticing a handful of this type of questions (based on approximations) lately, and the goal is to find out where the sum / the limit of the sequence might lie.   Is there any "definitive" approach that exploits the recursive formula and gives us the value, or does the approach varies from problem to problem? How could it possible to factorise $x^8-1$ in product of irreducibles in the rings $(\mathbb{Z}/2\mathbb{Z})[x]$ and $(\mathbb{Z}/3\mathbb{Z})[x]$? How could it possible to factorize $x^8-1$ in product of irreducibles in the rings $(\mathbb{Z}/2\mathbb{Z})[x]$ and $(\mathbb{Z}/3\mathbb{Z})[x]$?  I'm having a hard time starting the problem. Could anyone help me at this point? Graph theory: Tree holds two sub-tree with an amount of vertices How to analyze trend in non-periodic time series Suppose I have following non-periodic time series. Obviously the trend is decreasing and I would like to prove it by some test (with p-value). I am unable to use classic linear regression due to strong temporal (serial) auto-correlation among values.  library(forecast) my.ts &lt;- ts(c(10,11,11.5,10,10.1,9,11,10,8,9,9,                6,5,5,4,3,3,2,1,2,4,4,2,1,1,0.5,1),             start = 1, end = 27,frequency = 1) plot(my.ts, col = "black", type = "p",      pch = 20, cex = 1.2, ylim = c(0,13)) # line of moving averages  lines(ma(my.ts,3),col="red", lty = 2, lwd = 2)     What are my options? What are the differences between git pull and git fetch? Making sense of principal component analysis, eigenvectors & eigenvalues In today's pattern recognition class my professor talked about PCA, eigenvectors and eigenvalues.   I understood the mathematics of it. If I'm asked to find eigenvalues etc. I'll do it correctly like a machine. But I didn't understand it. I didn't get the purpose of it. I didn't get the feel of it.        I strongly believe in the following quote:     You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother. -- Albert Einstein   Well, I can't explain these concepts to a layman or grandma.   Why PCA, eigenvectors &amp; eigenvalues? What was the need for these concepts? How would you explain these to a layman? Why are rockets so big? I'm curious why rockets are so big in their size. Since both the gravitational potential one need to overcome in order to put thing into orbit, and the chemical energy burned from the fuel, are proportional to the mass, so if we shrink the rocket size, it would seem to be fine to launch satellites. So why not build small rocket say the size of human? I can imagine small rocket would be easier to manufacture in large quantities and easier to transport. And maybe someone can make a business out of small rocket, carrying one's own satellite. What's the difference between the simple past tense and the present perfect? The simple past tense indicates that an activity or situation began   and ended at a particular time in the past.      The present perfect expresses the idea that something happened (or   never happened) before now, at an unspecified time in the past.The   exact time it happened is not important. It also expresses the   repetition of an activity before now. The exact time of each   repetition is not important.   Even though I understand the explanation above, I can't figure out: If the present perfect states the idea that something happened in the past, why not use the simple past?  For example, would you please explain the following sentence to tell the difference between these two tenses?         The plane crashed there.    The plane has crashed there.      What is the biggest difference between them? Seeing that Defense Against the Dark Arts is a crucial subject, both in Harry's life as well as a part of the school-going wizard's curriculum, it must be in the hands of a good professor.   Is it known who Minerva McGonagall appointed as DADA prof. once she was made Headmistress. Was it someone we know or was it just a random powerful wizard. Is there any information about this available? Which are safe and unsafe regions in Iran? Now there's a lot of propaganda in the west that leads us to believe Iran is dangerous and travellers shouldn't go there.  Obviously there are major political disagreements between several governments and the Iranian government and this should be taken into account.  But at a human level I have met many Iranians travelling elsewhere in the world and have found them to be friendly, charming, and hospitable. I have also met several western travellers who spent time in Iran, including hitchhiking around the country, who only have wonderful things to say about the country and its people.  As a traveller I've learned to trust the most what I hear from other travellers about a destination, especially ones which prefer similar ways of travel to myself. I've also learned to trust the opinions of inhabitants of countries bordering on the destination country the least.  Yet some people still insist that Iran is not safe for a traveller, or that .  I can look up for myself the general travel advisories issued by governments and disclaimers in WikiVoyage. So please don't regurgitate those an answers.  I want to know from travellers who've been there, from Iranians, or from references to specific incidents targeting foreigners/westers about which parts of Iran are no problem, and which parts should be avoided, even by experienced intrepid travellers.  (I realize any advice won't apply to Israeli citizens unfortunately. I'm Australian.) I sometimes get files from my clients that have the wrong file extension. For example, the name is image.jpg but the file is actually a TIFF image. In many cases I can clarify it by opening the file in a text editor, looking at the first few bytes, then deducing which file type it is.  This works for me with JPEG, TIFF, GIF and PDF files. However there are many more file types out there.  Is it possible to automate identification of the correct file type by analyzing the containing data? Multicollinearity in Decision Tree Can anybody please explain the affect of multicollinearity on Decision Tree algorithms (Classification and regression). I have done some searching but was not able to find the right answer as some say it affects it and others say it doesn't. I'm trying to setup OpenVPN using NetworkManager. The GUI seems buggy and unresponsive. Are there any other tools for setting up a VPN client?