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Isn't Ajax a brand of dish detergent?
good session.
the camera pan was killin me tho.
Talking speed of this meeting is bit faster to be comfortable for "different world people", if you understand what I mean
AJAX is my favourite soccer club, hope that new IT technology with same name will play same role for me
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I'm trying to build a website (html only) for a design studio and I am trying to figure out what is the best way to go about it.
Layour of a webpage is like this:
- A page is divided into two spaces (think of it as a vertical column like this:
L | Rwhere L = left side and R = right side)
Rpage will have images for menu options. For simplicity, let's say we have "Home" and "Contact Us"
Lpage behaves like a state machine. For e.g., when user clicks on
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Lis updated with contact us contents and clicking on
Homeupdates the content with home contents
I'm trying to figure out what would be a good way to deal with this kind of a situation. Please let me know if you need me to be clear or provide more details.

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I have been developing web sites/applications using the LAMP stack for almost 5 years. Currently I am interested to dig more into Linux OS, specifically BASH but from a web developer perspective, not from sys admin perspective.
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Why is it standard practice to type "ha" when you are translating は{wa} using a QWERTY keyboard? This has always confused me. これは... is pronounced "Kore wa" but when you type it out you type "Kore ha". Hiragana は{ha} when used as a particle is pronounced "wa" so why do we not type "wa"?
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Because computers cannot read your mind. When you type "wa", the computer cannot decipher whether you mean わ or は, so it was decided that わ would be the only way. You could argue that you could develop a system to perform 変換 based on context, but I would imagine that any attempt would fail. Also, if you don't like this system, you can always use かな入力 (mainly used by people who don't understand ローマ字), so when you hit the は key, you will always get what you want.
Because of the way IMEs are designed. All Japanese IMEs based on romaji that I know of (roughly) divide the keyboard-to-script transformation into two conceptual parts:
There is no reason why the two steps couldn't be combined into one non-deterministic step, i.e. directly from romaji-to-(kanji or kana or whatever), but given that Japanese already has many homophones, this would probably only add to the confusion when choosing between renderings.
Japanese doesn't have one single universal romanization scheme which everyone agrees upon. And even if they did, that scheme might not be the best to use for input. Some romanization schemes try to be (somewhat) true to pronunciation, some try to be true to phonemes, and some try to be true to (kana) orthography. I think it's fairly natural that the ones used for input are somewhat true to orthography. For example, there's no pronunciation which renders as "ッァ", but that doesn't mean that you cannot have reasons to type this.
As for why you saw someone write the particle は as "ha" in handwritten notes, my best guess would be that that person frequently uses IMEs with romanized input, and therefore that came more natural to them.
Every kana has a "set" romaji in the qwerty layout, even if it doesn't always make sense from an English perspective. For example づ is "d-u", even thou it's pronounced closer to "zu".
The instances where a kana is not pronounced how it looks (as far as I know) are limited to は when it acts as a particle. If you're just starting out, you might find this confusing, but it really become second nature to read or pronounce は properly. Compare that to English's spelling/pronunciation!
If one kana had multiple ways to type it, it would become complicated. For example, to say 3時半, and you could type, "s-a-n-j-i-w-a-n" you'd just be wrong and confused.
Also, I can't tell if this is causing you confusion, but Japanese people use qwerty keyboards just like in America. There is a layout where each key is a different kana, but I've never met anyone who uses it.
Or, to put Jesse Good's answer another way: When the romaji input was fixed it was probably decided it was more efficient to make human's input h-a rather than further complicate the programming and avoid additional time to perfom 変換.
Even if this could be done with modern programming I don't expect it is more likely to change than the QWERTY keyboard layout, which was designed to slowdown the input to a mechanical type-writer and reduce problem of the letter-hammers jamming.
(A better question would be why is the "wa-particle" the hiragana は and not わ?)


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LTI systems in state space representation are systems of the form:
\begin{eqnarray} \dot{\mathbf{x}}(t)=\mathbf{Ax}(t)+\mathbf{Bu}(t) \end{eqnarray} \begin{eqnarray} \mathbf{y}(t)&=&\mathbf{Cx}(t)+\mathbf{Du}(t) \end{eqnarray}
where $\mathbf{x}$ is the state vector, $\mathbf{u}$ is the input and $\mathbf{y}$ is the output. These systems satisfy the superposition principle only if the initial condition $\mathbf{x}=\mathbf{0}$ holds. Let us refer to the class of these systems with the aforementioned initial condition as $\Sigma_{LTI}^0$.
Now a different class of systems, namely $\Sigma_{conv}$ are the ones that are represented by a convolution integral, i.e. the input-output behaviour of the system is described by:
\begin{equation} \mathbf{y}(t)=\int_{-\infty}^\infty h(\tau) \mathbf{u}(t-\tau)d\tau \end{equation}
My question is whether it is true that every system in $\Sigma_{LTI}^0$ admits a representation in $\Sigma_{conv}$? If yes, how?
Note: I understand that my question boils down to finding a function $h$ such that (assume for simplicity that $\mathbf{C}=\mathbf{I}$ and $\mathbf{D}=\mathbf{0}$):
\begin{equation} \int_0^t e^{\mathbf{A}(t-\tau)}\mathbf{Bu}(\tau)d\tau= \int_{-\infty}^\infty h(\tau) \mathbf{u}(t-\tau)d\tau \end{equation}
Update: Let us assume that there exists a $h\in\mathcal{L}^2(\Re;\Re^n)$ such that an LTI system is equivalent to a convolution system and assume for simplicity that the input is one-dimensional. Then, these have identical impulse responses, hence for $u(t)=\delta(t)$ we have:
\begin{equation} \int_0^t e^{\mathbf{A}(t-\tau)}\mathbf{B}\delta(\tau)d\tau= \int_{-\infty}^\infty h(\tau) \delta(t-\tau)d\tau \end{equation}
\begin{equation} \int_0^t e^{\mathbf{A}(t-\tau)}\mathbf{B}\delta(\tau)d\tau= h(t) \implies h(t)=e^{\mathbf{A}t}\mathbf{B} \end{equation}
But then:
\begin{equation} \int_0^t e^{\mathbf{A}(t-\tau)}\mathbf{Bu}(\tau)d\tau= \int_{-\infty}^\infty e^{\mathbf{A}(t-\tau)}\mathbf{Bu}(\tau)d\tau \end{equation}
Doesn't look good! So, if there is no mistake in the above procedure, there is no $h$ that fulfills my requirements. Then, what is the connection between the aforementioned classes of systems.


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#6. The Only Thing a Saint-Chamond Tank Couldn't Conquer Was Potholes
When the French realized that World War I was going to turn on who had the better tanks, they were quick to jump onto the bandwagon with what was probably the most adorable and charming hunk of steel you could imagine, called the Schneider. Unfortunately, being cute isn't enough to win wars, and their tank was being ripped to shreds on the battlefield. In response, they created a replacement called the Saint-Chamond tank, which had everything the previous iteration lacked, except functionality on a battlefield.
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The Saint-Chamond tank could travel at about 7.5 miles per hour, which was surprisingly fast back then, but the hitch was that it could only do it over flat terrain. So what happened when the ground got rough?
The Achilles Heel:
Take a look at that tank for a moment. Even though you are not a master tank engineer, you may have noticed that, "Hey, the nose of that tank is awfully long. What happens when that tank has to ford rivers or trenches?"
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Since most WWI battles weren't fought in parking lots, this tank was only slightly more ineffectual than the tank it replaced, thanks largely in part to that massive appendage on the front, which had a tendency to dig straight into the ground and get the whole tank stuck.
Whenever the tanks surged across the battlefield, they would quickly and comically stumble over craters, mounds or just about any slight change in elevation, and since the gun couldn't rotate or elevate at all, the only thing it could do was shoot at the ground. So while it may have been useless against other vehicles and humans, the tank was very dangerous against enemies like dirt and mud.
"Shit. It's a hill -- get out the white flags."
If they ever did make it all the way across, they got stuck when their noses dug into German trenches, because they had slightly widened them specifically to fuck with these tanks. Yeah, that's it. No super gun, no giant antitank flamethrower, no giant-ass mines, just a little extra digging and this massive weapon became obsolete.
#5. The Frigate Vasa Could Be Blown Over by Wind
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Every year Lord Nelson's great victory at Trafalgar in 1805 is celebrated with a ceremony led by Lord Mayor of Birmingham, who places a garland of flowers on Nelson's statue in the Bullring .
The 2008 event, held on the 19th October, not only marked the 203rd anniversary of the battle but also commemorated both the 250th anniversary of the birth of Nelson on 29th September 1758 and the start of the 200th anniversary year of the statue on 25th October. In recognition of this, the Deputy Lord Mayor at the time, Councillor Randal Brew OBE, and the Commanding Officer of HMS Forward, Commander James Hayward RN, unveiled an Interpretation Board, which details the life and career of Lord Nelson in words and pictures. The text of this has been written by Stephen Hartland and the images supplied by Birmingham Museum Services.
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"Following the death of Lord Nelson at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805, Birmingham became the first place in the United Kingdom to raise a statue to his memory, which was unveiled on 25th October 1809, the day set aside to celebrate the Golden Jubilee of King George III. The £2,500 cost of statue had been paid for for small contributions from the working folk of Birmingham.
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At the Battle of Trafalgar there were 27 ships of the line and aboard every one there were men who came from Birmingham. The victory at Trafalgar was to be of great importance to Birmingham. Not only was it a triumph that ensured Great Britain's domination of the sea for the next 100 years, but it was also a catalyst that allowed Birmingham to develop as a great manufacturing centre, able to transport its products to the far corners of the world on merchant shipping that could sail safely anywhere under the Red Ensign.
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The Cougars (1-3), who had a rough second half in the loss to Pacific, outscored the Otters 7-3 in the final two quarters, while Maryann Slama registered her second hat trick of the year with a match-high four goals in the victory over CSUMB.
Three Azusa Pacific players posted multi-goal performances, with Allison Gonzales and Alynn Reade scoring twice against Cal State Monterey Bay after the Cougars combined for just one score in the loss to Pacific.
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Jessica Armagost finished with eight saves on the day, tallying four in each match. Taylor Whitney, Lora Donaldson, Megan Minekime, and Megan Myers each found the back of the net on Saturday.
In the loss to the Tigers, Azusa Pacific limited Pacific to just two first half goals to trail 2-1 at the break. The Tigers, however, scored four goals in the third and fourth quarter, to come away with a 10-1 victory. Whitney was the Cougars' lone goal scorer, while Armagost tabbed four saves in the match.
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1970 Ford Maverick - Bye-Bye, Little BuddyWritten by on November 1, 2007 Contributors: David Freiburger, Christopher Campbell, Randy Lorentzen What Happens When You Take a Six-Cylinder Maverick, Put EFI on It, and Then Hose It Down With Tons of Spray? Laughs Beyond Measure, Wicked-Cool Launches, and One Really Big Bang.
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After deciding to get more heavily involved in aftermarket performance, the staff at Spectre Performance developed a penchant for project cars and has second-gen Camaros stacked up like cordwood. Then Spectre owner Amir Rosenbaum found a superstraight, rust-free Maverick for sale. The semifresh cheapie paint job, whitewall Michelins, and freshly rebuilt 200ci inline-six called to him, and a low-buck project was born. He picked up the car for $2,500 and told his crew, "I love it and I want you guys to do something unique with it." Dangerous words.
For a baseline, the stock Maverick was strapped to Spectre's Mustang chassis dyno, where it ripped off 58 hp and 79 lb-ft of paper-bag-ripping torque to the wheels. And that's after some tuning. Sadly, it's a far cry from even the minuscule 120 hp touted on the air-cleaner housing, and with an auto trans sucking up power, the Maverick could hardly fall out of its own way. So the Mavinator concept was born.
Spectre is heavily promoting its new eMS-Pro engine management system, so injecting the six on a budget became step one. Good idea, but not exactly easy since the 200ci Ford suffers from the same problem as its 170ci and 144ci predecessors: a one-piece casting that integrates the cylinder head and intake manifold. A little junkyard scavenging was in order to find a workable throttle body. The right score came from a mid-'80s Chrysler K-car.
After the installation of the K-car throttle body and dial-in of the eMS injection, the Maverick saw 72 hp and 97 lb-ft of torque at the wheels. Still a weakling, but that was a 20 percent increase, and the extra 14 hp and 18 lb-ft were at least noticeable. Driveability went through the roof, and the Mav even delivered 26 miles per gallon in miserable Southern California traffic. In that trim, the team drove the Maverick on the '07 HOT ROD Power Tour(r) and hatched a plan that involves an online contest where you can tell them how to build the car. They'll pick their favorite idea, build it that way, and the winner will get a free eMS-Pro setup and all-expense-paid trip for two to drive the Mavinator on the '08 Power Tour(r).
Realizing it's unlikely that the six will stay in the car, the Spectre folks had no qualms about abusing it. HOT ROD offered to egg them on while they made it fast or died trying. Giddy with power lust, Reynolds kicked off the upgrades by sending the stock muffler to the landfill and driving the Maverick all over SoCal, running 19.80-second e.t.'s at the dragstrip and out-fart-piping every Honda within earshot.
What else does every California Civic have? A nitrous kit. The difference with the Mavinator is that it would actually be hooked up. So nitrous was the good news, but fuel enrichment was the bad news: The cobbled K-car throttle body was not up to the task, creating dead lean nightmares even at injector duty cycles of 90 percent. No one was ready to sacrifice pistons so soon. The Spectre shop went to EFI stage two, fabricating a new lid for the throttle body and grooming it with a Medusa of six injectors and fuel lines. Then there was the money: a single nitrous nozzle ready for mayhem. The eMS-Pro would modulate the fuel flow for the dry nitrous injection. A cold-air kit was fabbed from Spectre parts. The fresh atmosphere and the new EFI brought the power to 75 hp and 112 lb-ft at the wheels with no nitrous, and the timeslips said 19.40s at 74 mph. Not speedy.
That's why they make squeeze. With a size 37 nitrous jet, the power to the wheels grew by 50 hp and 55 lb-ft. The e.t. dropped to 18.40, though mysteriously, the mph was still 74. So the 50-shot of nitrous was worth a full second of e.t. reduction. Good enough? C'mon-who you talkin' to? A size 49 jet, typically good for 75 hp, pushed the car to 18.06 at 75.11 mph. Hey, that's nearly quick enough for beer runs.
Something had to be done. Like installing actual speed parts. Fortunately, Classic Inlines makes them for Ford sixes, and the company supplied a Pacemaker header with 151/48-inch primaries and a hydraulic flat-tappet cam with 214/224 duration at 0.050, 0.450/0.450-inch lift, and a 110-degree LSA. Those two add-ons picked up the wheel power by 12 hp and 12 lb-ft (peaks of 87 hp and 124 lb-ft). Sounds meager, but consider this: The new naturally aspirated e.t. was 18.48 at 74 mph. That's a full second quicker than with the stock cam and exhaust manifold, though oddly the mph was still virtually unchanged.
Solution? You've guessed it by now: nitrous. With the same 49 nitrous jet and a very conservative tune-up, the LACR timing shack reported 17.64 seconds and 80.46 mph, an improvement of 0.42 seconds and 5.35 mph versus the same nitrous setup with the stock bumpstick and cast-iron exhaust.
More. And more. The Mavinator's second most glorious moment came when Spectre's Scott Clark had whittled away at the tune-up in the eMS-Pro, loaded the tank with 110-octane race gas, heated the bottle pressure to 1,000 pounds, and gotten cocky enough to slip a 65 jet into the Fogger nozzle. That's like a 135hp hit. Let's clarify the gruesome truth: The nitrous was pretty much doubling the engine's flywheel output. Everyone ignored the flashing red lights in their heads and focused on the big green one at the bottom of the Christmas Tree, then on all the little tiny yellow ones on the scoreboards. They spelled 15.07 at 90.67 mph. You'd a' thought we'd won the U.S. Nationals by the scream- ing. We knew 14s were ours.
But so were a lot of steaks and some entertaining trips to the trash can. By the time the Spectre/HOT ROD crew was coherent the next day, it seemed totally implausible to make mere backup runs to break into the 14s. Not when you've got a tempting 71 nitrous jet just sitting there bored in the toolbox. We dressed up that sucker for action. Clark tuned like a madman, keyboard smoking.
We were rebuked for our greed. With ambient temps at 110-plus, even the 175hp nitrous spray would not get us into the 14s. The stock bottom end might have had something to do with it, too. After the first 175hp hit, Clark noted that idle vacuum had dropped a bit. If he'd looked away from the computer screen, then the oil dripping from the tailpipe might have hinted at the same thing. Not that a dead ring land ever stopped anyone seeking the path to glory. Nope. More timing. A bit less fuel. The tune was flawless-air/fuel ratios of 11.5-11.7, in fact, right up to the very moment that the air-inlet temp went from 85 degrees, thanks to all the ice in the airbox, and shot to the sensor limit of 250 degrees. That was probably due to the piston fire finding its way out the grille the hard way.
Our little buddy was dead, the last terminal victim of Los Angeles County Raceway. And that, friends, was its single most glorious moment.
So What's The Cost Breakdown?
|Used K-car throttle body with injector and regulator
|{{{E-350}}} fuel pump and generic fuel filter
|Adapter to mount TBI to factory intake
|Spectre Performance throttle cable kit
|Spectre Performance billet overflow tank
|Flex-a-Lite electric fan
|Spectre Performance eMS-Pro with harness
|Spectre Performance modular air intake and filter
|Fuel lines and fittings
|Sun tach
|Sun gauges
|Miscellaneous fittings, etc.
|eMS-Pro sensor pack (coolant/IAT)
|BDS threaded injector bungs, threaded injectors,
|clips, O-rings, distribution block and fittings
|Earl's fuel lines and fittings
|Aeromotive fuel pressure regulator
|Used Pro Shot Fogger, NOS solenoid, lines,
|nozzle, jets, bottle, and brackets
|Pacemaker header
|Clay Smith cam and lifter package
|{{{Ford}}} 390 FE valvesprings
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There are plenty of '70s compacts out there with six power. There's also a virtually unlimited supply of Coronas for the brainstorming sessions. Do the math, make the noise.The wiring is the time-consuming part, but Spectre's eMS-Pro is fairly simple even for electronophobes. The Mavinator's computer is tucked under the dash next to a trio of Sun gauges. The red switch is for nitrous arming and the black is for purge.Here's the Mav's phase two EFI setup, using the K-car throttle body topped by a 5.0 Mustang adapter that was bunged for six 25-lb/hr injectors from BDS. The cold-air induction was fabricated from scrap aluminum tubing and Spectre's P4 air filter. Notice the nitrous nozzle just above the injectors in the rear.The Maverick's best all-motor power number was with Classic Inline's header and cam: 87 hp and 124 lb-ft at the wheels. The Spectre guys sprayed their way up from there, and advertised it. Spending money foolishly is rarely so hilarious.Spectre's Scott Clark (right) was the man on the keyboard, tuning to let the six live as long as possible. Even on the death pass, the tune was mint. The cast pistons just couldn't hack it.To give the Mav every possible advantage we cooled the intake plumbing with a bag of ice and then blocked the grille (but not the cold-air inlet) with Coke-box cardboard. You're jealous.With the Big Boy shot in it and fingers crossed, the Mav left hard, then blew away the tire (yes, one). Then it went bang. Big bang. Chad Reynolds coasted to the side of the track and developed a new best friend in track owner Bernie Longjohn.
Here's the original one-barrel Autolite carb (right) and the K-car throttle body. The K-car flange differs from the Ford's, so an adapter was cut from a scrap of aluminum. An easier route would be to modify an adapter meant for a two-barrel Holley carb. Classic Inlines has them for $45.Once bolted on with a custom gasket cut from standard cork material, it's amazing how much at home the Chrysler throttle body looked on the Ford six.The EFI fuel system used an external fuel pump from a '90 Ford E-350 van and a generic $10 filter from Pep Boys. The stock Maverick vapor-canister line was used as fuel return to the tank. The eMS-Pro needs an oxygen sensor, but the Spectre kit doesn't include one, so a wide-band kit from Innovate Motorsports was used.The new dual-collector header was really neat. It's just one goody among a full line of six-cylinder speed parts from Mike Winterboer of Classic Inlines. He may even set the Mavinator up with a turbo stroker six for HOT ROD Drag Week(tm). Maybe.


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19 Jan 2012 12:19 PM #21
As an example, Google developers require a special permission to use Windows (as they consider it less secure).
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Why, the main reason is because you can identify issues at the "start" of the product development life cycle rather than later on. It's just best practice. I understand that Dev's feel more productive on certain platforms, however a percentage of the Dev's need to take some pain, so that the customer doesn't.
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They can run Windows on Parallels or VirtualBox on their Macs. I'd hope a company that's into virtualization would know to do this (I have no doubt).


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MUMBAI— Mohammed Ajmal Kasab, the lone surviving gunman from the November 2008 Mumbai attacks, was executed in a jail in the western Indian city of Pune early Wednesday.
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Probabilist are very often working with Polish spaces, though this is not always very clear where this assumption is needed.
question: what can go wrong when doing probability on non-Polish spaces ?
Probabilist are very often working with Polish spaces, though this is not always very clear where this assumption is needed.
question: what can go wrong when doing probability on non-Polish spaces ?
One simple thing that can go wrong is purely related to the size of the space (polish spaces are all size $\leq 2^{\aleph_0}$). When spaces are large enough product measures become surprisingly badly behaved. Consider Nedoma's pathology: Let $X$ be a measure space with $|X| > 2^{\aleph_0}$. The diagonal in $X^2$ is not measurable.
We'll prove this by way of a theorem:
Let $U \subseteq X^2$ be measurable. $U$ can be written as a union of at most $2^{\aleph_0}$ spaces of the form $A \times B$.
Proof: First note that we can find some countable collection $A_i$ such that $U \subseteq \sigma(A_i \times A_j)$ (proof: The set of $V$ such that we can find such $A_i$ is a sigma algebra containing the basis sets).
For $x \in \{0, 1\}^\mathbb{N}$ define $B_x = \bigcap \{ A_i : x_i = 1 \} \cap \bigcap \{ A_i^c : x_i = 0 \}$.
Consider all sets which can be written as a (possibly uncountable) union of $B_x \times B_y$ for some $y$. This is a sigma algebra and obviously contains all the $A_i \times A_j$, so contains $A$.
But now we're done. There are at most $2^{\aleph_0}$ of the $B_x$, and each is certainly measurable in $X$, so $U$ can be written as a union of $2^{\aleph_0}$ sets of the form $A \times B$.
Corollary: The diagonal is not measurable.
Evidently the diagonal cannot be written as a union of at most $2^{\aleph_0}$ rectangles, as they would all have to be single points, and the diagonal has size $|X| > 2^{\aleph_0}$.
Separability is a key technical property used to avoid measure-theoretic difficulties for processes with uncountable index sets. The general problem is that measures are only countably additive and $\sigma$-algebras are closed under only countably many primitive set operations. In a variety of scenarios, uncountable collections of measure zero events can bite you; separability ensures you can use a countable sequence as a proxy for the entire process without losing probabilistic content. Here are two examples.
Metrizability allows us to introduce concepts such as convergence in probability. Completeness (the Cauchy convergence kind, not the null subsets kind) makes it easier to conduct analysis.
There's already been some good responses, but I think it's worth adding a very simple example showing what can go wrong if you don't use Polish spaces.
Consider $\mathbb{R}$ under its usual topology, and let X be a non-Lebesgue measurable set. e.g., a Vitali set. Using the subspace topology on X, the diagonal $D\subseteq\mathbb{R}\times X$, $D=\{(x,x)\colon x\in X\}$ is Borel Measurable. However, its projection onto $\mathbb{R}$ is X, which is not Lebesgue measurable. Problems like this are avoided by keeping to Polish spaces. A measurable function between Polish spaces always take Borel sets to analytic sets which are, at least, universally measurable.
The space X in this example is a separable metrizable metric space, whereas Polish spaces are separable completely metrizable spaces. So things can go badly wrong if just the completeness requirement is dropped.
Google "image measure catastrophe" with quotation marks.
Below is a copy of an answer I gave here http://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/2932/metric-spaces-and-the-support-of-a-random-variable/20769#20769
Here are some technical conveniences of separable metric spaces
(a) If $X$ and $X'$ take values in a separable metric space $(E,d)$ then the event $\{X=X'\}$ is measurable, and this allows to define random variables in the elegant way: a random variable is the equivalence class of $X$ for the "almost surely equals" relation (note that the normed vector space $L^p$ is a set of equivalence class)
(b) The distance $d(X,X')$ between the two $E$-valued r.v. $X, X'$ is measurable; in passing this allows to define the space $L^0$ of random variables equipped with the topology of convergence in probability
(c) Simple r.v. (those taking only finitely many values) are dense in $L^0$
And some techical conveniences of complete separable (Polish) metric spaces :
(d) Existence of the conditional law of a Polish-valued r.v.
(e) Given a morphism between probability spaces, a Polish-valued r.v. on the first probability space always has a copy in the second one
It can also be useful to have the set of Borel probability measures on $X$ (with weak* convergence, a.k.a. convergence in law) to be metrizable, for instance to be able to treat the convergences sequentially. For this you need the space $X$ to be separable and metrizable (see Lévy-Prohorov metric).
We know by Ulam's theorem that a Borel measure on a Polish space is necessarily tight. If we just assume that the metric space is separable, we have that each Borel probability measure on $X$ is tight if and only if $X$ is universally measurable (that is, given a probability measure $\mu$ on the metric completion $\widehat X$, there are two measurable subsets $S_1$ and $S_2$ of $\widehat X$ such that $S_1\subset X\subset S_2$ and $\mu(S_1)=\mu(S_2)$. So a probability measure is not necessarily tight (take $S\subset [0,1]$ of inner Lebesgue measure $0$ and outer measure $1$), see Dudley's book Real Analysis and Probability.
An other issue related to tightness. We know by Prokhorov theorem that if $(X,d)$ is Polish and if for all sequence of Borel probability measures $\(\mu_n\)$ we can extract a subsequence which converges in law, then $\(\mu_n\)$ is necessarily uniformly tight. It may be not true if we remove the assumption of "Polishness". And it may be problematic when we want results as "$\mu_n\to \mu$ in law if and only if there is uniform tightness and convergence of finite dimensional laws."
As far as I remember, the projection of a measurable set may fail to be measurable, so something very natural may become not an event. Besides, constructing conditional probabilities as measures on sections becomes problematic. Perhaps, there are more reasons but these two are already good enough.


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quote: To be "strong" in the force requires that the biological be strong. Faith is not enough...you must also have ability.
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quote: Regardless of Lucas' reasons though, it was a bad idea to invent midichlorians. Heck, even episodes 5 and 6 backed away from the actual mysticist aspect of the force, maybe to "not create controversy" I dunno
quote: ...Of course there not being any real sets to speak of means everything is computer graphics, and making things dirty with computers is difficult, so that's another reason too.
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Lift truck: Damon drives Yale forklift in "Hereafter"
In his latest role, Oscar-winning actor Matt Damon dons a hardhat and takes the controls of a Yale forklift in the movie "Hereafter." The hush-hush shooting of the forklift scenes happened on January 19 in the warehouse of the C&H Sugar Co. refinery in Crockett, California, near San Francisco. The production company chose this site because of its industrial appearance but prohibited any disclosure until after the shooting ended.
About 125 people from the studio spent about 12 hours at the refinery setting up and shooting the scenes. The forklift-related action took about two hours. "We required everyone from the studio to follow our rules for hard hats, safety glasses and hardcover OSHA toes," said Jake Peterson, C&H warehouse manager.
Apparently from some prior instruction, Damon was familiar with how a forklift operates, Peterson said. In this case, Damon drove a battery-powered Yale forklift with a 5,000-pound lifting capacity and operator-monitoring ShockWatch equipment. "We programmed a ShockWatch key in Damon's name and I showed him how to log on to the forklift as well as the basic functions of the lift," Peterson explained.
While Damon has earned Oscars for his performances in "Good Will Hunting" and "Invictus," he's not likely to win any awards for his lift truck driving skills. In one scene, Damon drove the forklift, picked up a pallet of boxes, raised it and placed it on top of other boxes. In another scene, he drove the forklift without any load. But at one point, Damon inadvertently rubbed paint onto a metal box that stores empty pallets. "He pushed the box against a column but with so little impact it did not set off the ShockWatch unit," Peterson said.


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Al-Sarraf, M et al.
Abramson Cancer Center of the University of Pennsylvania
Ultima Vez Modificado: 1 de noviembre del 2001
Reviewers: John Han-Chih Chang, MD and Kenneth Blank, MD
Source: Journal of Clinical Oncology, Volume 16 Number 4, pg. 1310-1317
Histological classification is done by the World Health Organization (WHO) grading system. Type 1 is a well to moderately differentiated carcinoma with keratin production. Type 2 is a non-keratinizing carcinoma. Type 3 is an undifferentiated carcinoma (also includes lymphoepithelioma).
The standard treatment has been radiation therapy. The results for locally advanced disease (stages III and IV) have been fair. From many single institutional studies, 5 year survival rates range from 30 - 45%, but drops off to 25% by 10 years and 12% by 20 years. Many have explored other avenues of therapy such as chemotherapy. Trials with cisplatin (CDDP) have shown some promising results, but no positive randomized trial on survival has been published until now.
The current article details some of the initial results of the Southwest Oncology Group?s's (SWOG) cooperative intergroup trial 0099 involving the RatiationTherapy Oncology Group (RTOG) and the Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG). This phase III randomized trial compared chemoradiotherapy (CTX/XRT) treatment to radiotherapy alone (XRT) for stage III and IV nasopharynx cancer.
Median follow-up was 2.7 years. Interim analysis had stopped the trial in 1995, because of the overwhelming data in support of improved outcome in the combined modality arm. The hazard ratio between the XRT and CTX/XRT arms was 3.28. This corresponded to median progression free and overall survivals of 15 and 34 months for the XRT arm, respectively, and neither having been reached in the CTX/XRT arm. The actuarial 3 year PFS and OS rates for XRT were 24% and 47%, respectively. For the CTX/XRT arm, they were 69% and 78%, respectively. These were statistically significant with p values of < 0.001 and 0.005.
One hundred and forty-six were evaluated for toxicity. No fatal or grade 5 toxicity were reported. The most severe toxicities seen in the CTX/XRT relative to the XRT alone arm were leukopenia (lowering of white blood cell count), nausea, vomiting, ototoxicity (hearing impairment) and stomatitis (breakdown of mucosa of the oral cavity).
Complete response rates were not statistically significant, but had a difference of 13% (36% versus 49%) favoring CTX/XRT. Failure was seen only locoregionally in 26% of the XRT alone arm and 10% in the CTX/XRT arm. Distant as any component of failure was 35% in the XRT alone arm and 13% in the CTX/XRT arm.
Compliance to chemotherapy was slightly over 50% in this trial. This troublesome figure holds true other combined modality trials involving the head and neck.
Lacking were data on compliance to chemotherapy and outcome. This maybe useful in tailoring the chemotherapy. Data on outcome and WHO grade/type was also missing. Despite similar survivals stage for stage, there is an inherent difference in how these patients fail (type 1 and 2 have more locoregional failure while distant disease predominates type 3). The effects of chemotherapy on these patterns of failure may have been useful.


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I'm having this issues with too many logs files being generated. Over 60gb in the last 24 hours. It's not a massively high transactional website. What is the best way to read the log files and work out a likely cause. I'm using SQL Server 2008
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Usually, these questions arise from a misunderstanding of what the log file does. Usually, a larger than expected log is caused by a database in full recovery where log backups aren't being taken.
If you are taking log backups or your database is in simple recovery, there is probably a very large or long running transaction that has required 60GB of log space. KB317375 is a good starting point for understanding why unexpected log growth may occur and includes steps for identifying transactions that could be the cause.
In order to manage your database transaction log effectively you need to have at least a general understanding of how its content is being generated by your workload.
You need to find out what it is that has caused the 60GB of logged data in order to determine whether or not it is a valid outcome to be expected. Consider things such as long running queries, large data modifications and index maintenance operations as good starting points for your investigations.
Only once you understand your transaction log usage can you then confidently look to both size the transaction log accordingly and manage any log backup requirements dependant on recovery model.
Is there a lot of bulk inserted data into the database? There is always a rhyme and a reason for transaction log size.
Answering your question, you can access the log file through Management Studio. Under the server in Object Explorer, there is a "Management" folder. Expand that and you will see a "SQL Server Logs" folder. You can open the logs there.
Regarding the problem, KB873235 has some great tips.
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FIRM, Kenneth, 78, died Thursday, November 22, 2012 at Vibra Hospital, due to complications from a fall.
Mr. Firm was born January 11, 1934 in Toronto, Ohio, a son of William and Jane Morrow Firm.
He was a 1952 graduate of Toronto High School. After graduation, he proudly served in the United States Marine Corps from 1954, until being honorably discharged in 1957. Mr. Firm worked as a shipping superintendent for Ohio Ferro Alloy Corp. of Brilliant, Ohio for over 20 years, until their closing. He then worked as a marine surveyor for both Metallurg Alloy Corp. and retired from Shieldalloy Corp. in Louisiana. After retiring, he moved to the Youngstown area in 1999.
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He was a member of Church of Christ in Struthers, where he served as a deacon. In his spare time, Mr. Firm enjoyed reading, particularly western and military books.
He leaves his wife, the former Martha "Arline" Norris, whom he married June 9, 1956; three sons, Tim (Cathy) Firm of Rockford, IL, Scott Firm of Campbell, and Doug (Melissa) Firm of Campbell; five grandchildren, Sara, Kailey, Ryan, Kyle, and Jeremy Firm; brother, Carl "Bud" (Mary) Firm of Toronto; and numerous nieces and nephews.
In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by his sister, Lillian Trifanoff.
A memorial service will held Tuesday at 6 p.m. at Church of Christ, where family and friends will be received from 4 p.m. until the time of the service. A committal service will be held at the Richmond Union Cemetery at a date and time to be announced later.
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Working with cellular automata I came across a system of equations for unknown integers $R_{k}$ and $C_{k}$ that looks like this.
Where 0< k$\leq$ 2m
(for k>m we take $\binom{m}{k}=R_{k}=C_{k}=0$)
Given $R_{1}$, the system has a unique solution.
Has anyone seen something similar? Do you know if it still possible to solve it, if instead of $\binom{m}{k}$ in the left you put something else?
I just want to know if it's related to something else, and if it's possible to solve more general systems.


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Hi All,
Please vote whether "cunning" is positive (encouraging) or negative (discouraging) word!
Please vote whether "cunning" is positive (encouraging) or negative (discouraging) word!
|View Poll Results: In general, is "cunning' word used as positive or negative sense?
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Originally Posted by mayjunedifficult to say amar, its like asking is the F word used in -ve or +ve sense? the word is in itself not +ve or -ve but how and what context one says, i can use F word with friends in a +ve way and with someone else in -ve sense..
similarly with cunning, i have used it with friends in a +ve way, and said it in -ve way too...it alll implies to you...
Take another example Is fission reaction+ve or -ve? Can't say right? as it depends how you use it..for making electricity or destroying a nation...
same here...
hope it clarifies the idea...
I will put the question in another way... if you have used cunning 10 times... how many times would it have been in negative...
Originally Posted by mayjuneSame answer amar, its all in the context.... if a judge gives punishment to hang for ten people and a murderer kills ten people... they both killed ten people, but its there context which differentiates them..
The judge for all his ten sentences he was doing his duty, while murderer for his selfish reasons..
without the context a judge is equivalent of murderer..
I know what you saying, but think of what i am saying, and you'll realise what matters is how and why rather then what...
So, It all depends on the persons how they sees the question...! Isn't it..?


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The most famous garlic mayonnaise is the aïoli of Provence. This aïoli makes an exceptional dipping sauce for crisp-tender asparagus, carrots and cauliflower; for steamed artichokes; and for raw radishes, celery and fennel. It is good with cold steamed mussels, scallops and shrimp, and for grilled vegetables, meat, poultry and fish, or as a sandwich spread. MAKES ABOUT 1 CUP.
• 1 or 2 fresh garlic cloves, thinly sliced• 1 extra-large egg yolk• About 1 tablespoon lemon juice• About 3⁄4 cup olive oil• Salt and freshly ground pepper• About 1 teaspoon Dijon-style mustard• 1 to 2 tablespoons freshly grated horseradish root
1. With a pestle, pound sliced garlic to a paste in a porcelain or marble mortar; there will be some small bits that do not completely break down. If you don't have a mortar and pestle, mince the garlic very fine, then mash it well with the flat of a cleaver or large knife.
2. Stir egg yolk into the garlic paste and loosen the mixture with the lemon juice. Add the oil drop by drop at first, stirring continually. After about 1⁄4 cup of oil has been added, drizzle the oil in a thin stream, stirring continually. When the aïoli has emulsified, season with salt and pepper, and more lemon juice if desired. Stir in mustard and horseradish.
3. Store the aïoli in a tightly covered glass jar for up to a week. The flavor is best when the aïoli is fresh, but any that's left over (doubtful) is good in salads.
Note: To make the aïoli in a food processor, add garlic to the processor and pulse a few times, then add egg yolk and lemon juice. Drizzle oil through the feed tube in a thin stream until the aïoli emulsifies. Season with salt, pepper and lemon juice. Stir in the mustard and horseradish until just combined.
Susan Belsinger is a long-time herbal enthusiast who wrote Dill, Herb of the Year 2010 for the International Herb Association.
To read more, see the International Herb Association's book, Horseradish, Herb of the Year 2011, edited by Susan Belsinger. To purchase, visit www.iherb.org or write to Marge Powell at the International Herb Association, P.O. Box 5667, Jacksonville, FL 32247-5667.
Click here the main article,2011 Herb of the Year: Horseradish (Armoracia rusticana).
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So I was asked to look at reconstructing a section of a website which I didn't build. One of the issues I'm running into is a contact form which is being loaded through an iFrame from another server. Obviously, the form's action submits to the other server, and the information is stored in a database for the client to see later.
I've never had to deal with something like this before and I'm wondering if I need to go through some sort of API the host may be able to provide, or can I recreate the form so I can style it and just have it submit to the same server. Sorry for the noob level of this question, but I'm just looking to be pointed in the right direction.


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Tanki Em
I'm Tanki Em, a fashion-obsessed Cape Town dame living an awkward life.
I write about fashion, dream about clothes, think in trends and when the sun comes out in the morning, the first thing I think is: "Urg, this is going to be a rollercoaster of a day, so let's go!"
My life is random. I have troublemaker talents that cannot be challenged (that's how Dragon Ball-Z I can get), and recover after an emotional pow-wow via blogspot. I Instagram a lot so I don't Pinterest, I tweet but I'm probably antisocial. Some assume I'm a young businesswoman (if only they knew I'm trying to figure this thing out.)
All in all, I'm about clothes, fashion and the digital world. Everything else is just ... a blur.
My baby: www.cptstreetmag.com
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Top reasons why fashion designer Ruald Rheeder loves Cape TownThe future of South African menswear lies with Cape Town-based designers and brands such as Craig Port, Fabiani, Carducci, Csquared and, without a doubt, Ruald Rheeder.
J&B Met 2013: Tanki Em's guide to being Made To FlyOh my. It's that time of the year where classic style and fashion are put aside for the celebration of avante-garde looks and one-of-a-kind garments that are either custom-made for the J&B Met, happening at the Kenilworth Racecourse on Saturday 2 February, 2013 – or dramatically altered retail store dresses and tresses which make the cut for this annual themed horseracing event.


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I am able to run emacs as server daemon and attach back to it on Linux.
Is it possible to start emacs as daemon on Linux, but attach back to it from Windows with a different client?
Emacs or xemacs, both are okay.
to be precise, I want to start a emacsclient windows client to connect to linux emacs server. so putty or exceed or screen is not precisely what I want to do.
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Corporate Counsel Women of Color has a scholarship opportunity available to 1Ls and 2Ls. To be considered for this scholarship, you must submit an essay of no more 350 words detailing how you plan to use your legal education to foster diversity in the legal profession. Click here for details and to download an application.
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Our senior year we were fortunate to have four students from the Nebraska School for Visually Handicap join us. Max Aguliar was the one i remember most..that opened our eyes to anew world and they taught many of us Braille writing ...later on i helped coach wrestling under the leadership of Roger Davis at NSVH...campus was never closed and many of us got to enjoy the Maid-Rite cafe.just a half block west of school on 9th st. ..Bouys enjoyed football, basketball and track, while the girls under the leadership of Mary Ellen Slck had only volleyball as a sport..AND YOU KNOW HOW MUCH DIFFERENT IT IS NOW IN HIGh SCHOOL SPORTS
LOOKING BACK at some of the greats in NCHS sports.. in late 40's, 50's thru 70's: the Thiesfeld brothers, Dean and Bob, Dan Joiner, Bob Hoback,Cecil McKnight , Hans Gosch, the Gittinger boys Marv and Mel, Marv and Dan Zimmerman, Del Broers, Mark Cordell ...the Porters. grandpa, then dad Mort,then Budge who suffered a career ending spine injury at Nebraska and then Scott, finishing his career with the Huskers...There were just so many before these and so many more while i was writin g sports...Basketball under Coach Smith and his state basketball team..the three Lyone boys, Jim Herman..sprinter George Peterson and so many more whose names escape me...sorry for those whose names i failed to mention..I tip my hat to each and every former Pioneer and St Bernards and Lourdes coach and athlete..Amnd the list goes on and on.


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A non-authentic cowboy or cowgirl. A person who finds western wear cool for pickin up a person of the opposite sex
1. That drugstore cowboy came into the bar last night but couldn't talk the talk.
by The real thang February 21, 2006
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from the movie of the same name, a person who gets their high by way of prescription drugs, most likely obtained illegally.
"Most people don't know how they're gonna feel from one moment to the next. But a drugstore cowboy has a pretty good idea. All you gotta do is look at the labels on the little bottles.
by all for one one for all July 13, 2004
Drugstore cowboys originally referred to actors dressed as cowboys who could be seen daily at the drugstore coffee counters near the Hollywood studios after unsuccessfully trying to get parts as extras in the morning's open call.
Mavis couldn't get her morning cup of coffee and danish at Schwab's on her way to work because of the crowd of drugstore cowboys hogging the counter.
by Studio Tex March 23, 2006
A young man that hangs out at drugstores or any other place that suits his loafing and usually wears elaborate clothing during the roaring 20's.
The drugstore cowboy was wearing a big floppy hat and fur coat as he sipped on his ice cream soda.
by Jojo Turk April 01, 2008
An individual that frequently scams or burgularizes pharmacies for the purposes of using or selling narcotic perscription drugs.
I robbed that bitch ass pharmacy for 500 oxycontins, I'm a mother fuckin' Drugstore Cowboy!!!
by G mannn May 18, 2006
A poseur cowboy. One who dresses up as a cowboy to do non-cowboy activities
Todd only dresses up as a cowboy when he goes clubbing. He is a drugstore cowboy.
by MistahTom August 01, 2005
Noun. A robber who specializes in drugstores, the places where the drugs are. See the movie, "Drugstore Cowboy."
"I robbed a drugstore last night, and got a load of fine downers, so I'm a drugstore cowboy."
by Joyce Boles February 17, 2006


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It's basketball time at WGGC. The station is airing UK basketball during the NCAA tournament.
And around the corner in the breakroom at Hughes and Coleman Law firm, Micki Love says: "We're having a good time. We're yelling at the TV and making sure everybody knows who's going to win."
Love says even in the middle of the workday she and other UK fans will be tuned in to the games.
Love says: "I think there's a lot of die hard fans here in Kentucky so when March rolls around it's really hard to not find us watching UK when they're in the tournaments."
But for employees at Jents Elite Home Brands they've got the best of both worlds. They can come into work and tune in to the game on all of the big screen televisions.
Brent Carter says: "I really like it here because I get to watch the game at work and not really have to worry about it too much. If my boss asks what I'm doing I'll say oh I'm selling a TV. But I'm actually watching the game."
At Greenwood Ford employees and customers gathered around to catch the game.
Glenn Clark is the general manger. He says: "Productivity has dropped to zero since the game came on, but we're having a lot of fun. A lot of people out here. Got a little food out here."
But the manager has faith that productivity will get back to normal as soon as March Madness is over.
Clark says: "We expect it to increase about 150 percent as soon as this game finishes."
As long as Kentucky keeps winning it looks like these businesses and other around may be seeing more on the court action and less work place productivity.


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Self-Assessment Tools
Use these self-assessment tools to help you decide if you may be in need of some mental health assistance.
- ULifeline.org - anonymous, online screening available 24/7; an online resource for university students providing facts/information about mental health and wellness, as well as local and campus services and referrals.
- Screening for Mental Health - anonymous, online screening available 24/7; news and information on mental health/wellness including videos, health care resources, and related articles.
- Do I need therapy?
- Adult ADD/ADHD Screening Test
- Anxiety Screening Test
- Eating Attitudes Test
- Depression