I am writing a technical letter for my (and my lab partner’s) senior design project (we are engineering majors) and I would like some help on properly phrasing part of the letter.  The project belongs to my partner and I. I was always taught in school that in cases of dual possession, I should always proceed the other possessors.   Suppose for a moment that the project was just mine. Then in that case, the sentence below would be grammatically correct.     Attached to this email is my project selection.   Now if the project only belonged to my partner, this sentence would also be grammatically correct.     Attached to this email is my partner's project selection.   However, since this project belongs to both of us, I need to phrase the sentence accordingly.  The sentence below doesn’t appear to be correct in my opinion.     Attached to this email is my partner and I's project selection.   This one sounds better, but doesn’t follow the rules I was taught.     Attached to this email is mine and my partner’s project selection.   So which phrase (if any) should I use to be grammatically correct? Thanks
I just stumbled upon a :     My wife and I's seafood collaboration dinner. How does it look?   Sure enough, the top comment immediately points out that it should be "my wife's and my". However, a cross-post to the Grammar subreddit produced :     It's fine as it is written. "my wife and I" is a noun phrase, functioning as a subjective pronoun in the singular and made possessive with the apostrophe. It is exactly the same as "our".      It seems weird because you would never use "I's" on its own but it is not on its own here - it is part of a noun phrase.   That's a rather intriguing argument. Does it hold any water?
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Chat is our place for:        Real-time collaboration   Meeting fellow members of the community   Less structured, casual (but still roughly on-topic) conversation      Our chat system exists to serve the main site; users of each site can gather and commune with each other.  When in chat, we expect all users to abide by our  policy, which means that we expect community members to treat each other with respect.    While it is a place where the community can go to interact on a more casual level, chat still needs to be moderated by the community and there are tools in place to help with the moderation. This raises a few questions, that are addressed here: Perform feature normalization before or within model validation? A common good practice in Machine Learning is to do feature normalization or data standardization of the predictor variables, that's it, center the data substracting the mean and normalize it dividing by the variance (or standard deviation too). 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