I am looking for the name of a book I read long ago.   spoilers ahead  The story was that some humans go to Mars for some experiment. They meet spheres of light which are the only physical remains of an earlier Martian specie. They are very intelligent and don't need a body and can communicate with the humans mentally. Later it is discovered they have a malicious intent.  Update  I read it 14 years ago. It was in English.   In the story, the humans we're in their spaceship (landed on Mars) most of the time and would occasionally go out of the spaceship on to the land for experiments. The intelligent lights invaded the minds of humans when they were relaxed and empty minded. Only one of the humans was able to survive for long. I am not sure if he succeeded to escape.
A while back, I read a story in a collection, but I don't remember very much. I know that it was about some missionaries on Mars. Eventually they found a bunch of spheres that apparently have escaped sin by leaving the material world. I don't remember anything else about it. Someone told me that it was in "The Martian Chronicles" by Ray Bradbury, but I checked my copy and couldn't find. I'm pretty sure that it was by Ray Bradbury though. Help would be greatly appreciated.
SQL Join Differences What's difference between inner join and outer join (left join,right join), and which has the best performance of them?  Thanks! A term for words that change pronunciation with part of speech I'm talking about words like:   construct: CON-struct(n.), cun-STRUCT(v.) present: PRE-sent(n.), pre-SENT(v.) record: RE-cord(n.), ri-CORD(v.)   They are pronounced differently based on whether they are a noun or a verb.  Here are the terms I DON'T think would apply:   Homograph: same spelling, different meanings: for example, bark (the sound of a dog) and bark (the skin of a tree). Homophone: same pronunciation, different meaning: for example, to and two Homonym: same pronunciation and spelling, different meanings: for example: bank (river bank or savings bank) Heteronym: same spelling,  different pronunciations and meanings: for example bow (the front of a ship) and bow (a ranged weapon)   Bow is particularly interesting. It is a heteronym based on the two nouns I described. But in the sense of the body movement, the noun and the verb are pronounced alike (rhyming with wow), thus, not belonging to the category I've explained.  In fact none of the terms explained  satisfy my requirement.  I'm looking for the term for words that have same (or related at best, NOT different) meanings, same spelling and different pronunciation.  Specifically, different pronunciation depending on the part of speech. As against the words which have the same pronunciation in different parts of speech like bill, turn, case (or bigger ones like manoeuvre)  TL;DR:  Fill in the blank:     The noun and verb forms of construct are pronounced differently   because the word construct is a _____   or      The noun and verb forms of construct are pronounced differently   because they are _____s. Enable Careers and Jobs in app Please provide the Careers and Jobs features in the app. This will help us to closely interact with employers. It will be an additional advantage if you provide chat option with employers too.  We, as job seeker, would like to see ratings and feedback of previous employees too for that company, before making a decision of job change. How to change/rewrite the lost password url? I used iThemes Security (formerly Better WP Security) hide back-end functionality to change the login url to /signin however clicking the lost password link /wp-login.php?action=lostpassword now generate a 404  Manually going to /signin?action=lostpassword works.  I came across the following code below which is suppose to make the change to however after some testing it doesn't seem to work  //******************************************************* //Function to change to lost password url //******************************************************** add_filter('site_url',  'wplogin_filter', 10, 3); function wplogin_filter( $url, $path, $orig_scheme ){     $old  = array( "/(wp-login\.php)/");     $new  = array( "signin/"); //this can be change to login or whatever or may remain there     return preg_replace( $old, $new, $url, 1); }   add to .htaccess  RewriteRule ^signin$ wp-login.php   How can i modify the above code in order to change the url for the lost password? plot(density(rexp(100))   Obviously all density to the left of zero represents bias.  I'm looking to summarize some data for non-statisticians, and I want to avoid questions about why non-negative data has density to the left of zero.  The plots are for randomization checking; I want to show the distributions of variables by treatment and control groups. The distributions are often exponential-ish.  Histograms are tricky for various reasons.    A quick google search gives me work by statisticians on non-negative kernels, e.g.:  .    But has any of it been implemented in R?  Of implemented methods, are any of them "best" in some way for descriptive statistics?  EDIT:  even if the from command can solve my current problem, it'd be nice to know whether anyone has implemented kernels based on literature on non-negative density estimation How do they film continuous blood pooling? How do threads work in Python, and what are common Python-threading specific pitfalls? I've been trying to wrap my head around how threads work in Python, and it's hard to find good information on how they operate. I may just be missing a link or something, but it seems like the official documentation isn't very thorough on the subject, and I haven't been able to find a good write-up.  From what I can tell, only one thread can be running at once, and the active thread switches every 10 instructions or so?  Where is there a good explanation, or can you provide one? It would also be very nice to be aware of common problems that you run into while using threads with Python. Why do high resolution cameras shoot stills at high resolutions, but only typically shoot video at 1080p which is about 2 megapixels?  For example I have a Sony-NEX 6 which can shoot stills at 16 megapixels but only 1080p by 1920p video.  Also how do digital cameras separate the frames in video if the lens shutter never closes?  And if you can shoot video at 30 fps or 60 fps then why can't cameras have a continuous drives at 30 to 60 fps? Reducing size of KML file (after converting from Shapefile) Exception thrown inside catch block - will it be caught again? This may seem like a programming 101 question and I had thought I knew the answer but now find myself needing to double check. In this piece of code below, will the exception thrown in the first catch block then be caught by the general Exception catch block below?  try {   // Do something } catch(IOException e) {   throw new ApplicationException("Problem connecting to server"); } catch(Exception e) {   // Will the ApplicationException be caught here? }   I always thought the answer would be no, but now I have some odd behaviour that could be caused by this. The answer is probably the same for most languages but I'm working in Java. What does goodness of fit mean in context of linear regression I am having trouble understanding the concept of 'goodness of fit' w.r.t linear regression. The name suggests that the goodness of fit test is used to determine how well a model fits the data.  But the linear model is already the 'best' fit since we have minimized the sum of the squared error terms. Why do we need to test 'goodness of fit' again? We know it is a good fit because we minimized the sum of the squared errors. Are there any differences between Skyrim & Skyrim: Special Edition? Command for forcing a pointer ungrab (captured mouse release) Sometimes Firefox doesn't release the mouse after dragging, so I need to kill the application to force it to release its pointer grab.  Is there any command to force an application to ungrab the pointer without killing it? What is the design pattern for processing command line arguments Add the ability to ignore users Showing that a one-to-one linear transformation maps a linearly independent set onto a linearly independent set Problem 4.3.32 in Linear Algebra, Lay:  Let $V$ and $W$ be vector spaces, let $T:V\to W$ be a linear transformation, and let $\{\mathbf{v}_1, \dots , \mathbf{v}_p \}$ be a subset of $V$. Suppose that $T$ is a one-to-one transformation [...]. Show that if the set of images $\{T(\mathbf{v}_1), \dots ,T(\mathbf{v}_p)\}$ is linearly dependent, then $\{\mathbf{v}_1, \dots , \mathbf{v}_p \}$ is linearly dependent. This fact shows that a one-to-one linear transformation maps a linearly independent set onto a linearly independent set.  All I can think of doing: If $\{T(\mathbf{v}_1), \dots ,T(\mathbf{v}_p)\}$ is linearly dependent, then there exist weights $c_1, \dots, c_p$, not all zero, so that $$c_1 T(\mathbf{v}_1) + \cdots + c_p T(\mathbf{v}_p) = \mathbf{0}$$ Since $T$ is linear: $$c_1 T(\mathbf{v}_1) + \cdots + c_p T(\mathbf{v}_p) = T(c_1\mathbf{v}_1) + \cdots + T(c_p \mathbf{v}_p)=T(c_1 \mathbf{v}_1 +\cdots + c_p \mathbf{v}_p)=\mathbf{0}$$ So the set $\{\mathbf{v}_1, \dots , \mathbf{v}_p \}$ must be linearly dependent. Am I missing something? And why must $T$ be on-to-one for this to be true? An example showing that it is not true if $T$ is not one-to-one would be great! How to print variables without spaces between values I can't play Pokemon GO! What's wrong? We were given the following problem as an assignment, we proved the converse in class for prime numbers; however, we can't use the assumption that $\operatorname{gcd}(a,b) = 1$.  So I am struggling to think of my first possible move.  We are given $ar + bs = 1$, the only think I can think of is let $d$ be a common divisor or $ar + bs$ and then show that the $d = 1$.  However, I am not really sure how to do that.  If anyone could just give me a hint or two to nudge me in the right direction I would be appreciative. Suppose $n$ divides $3^n + 4^n$. Show that $7$ divides $n$. Suppose $n \geq 2$ and $n$ is a divisor of $3^n + 4^n$. Prove that $7$ is a divisor of $n$.  My work so far:  I had a hypothesis that if $n| 3^n + 4^n$, then $n = 7^k$ for some $k\in\mathbb{N}$. But this is not necessarily so. Take $n = 7⋅379$, where $3^7 + 4^7 = 7^2⋅379$. Then, $3^7+4^7$ divides $3^n + 4^n$, and since $n$ divides $3^7+4^7$, we must have $n|3^n+4^n$.