Need help understanding what a natural log transformation is actually doing and why specific transformations are required for linear regression
In linear regression, when is it appropriate to use the log of an independent variable instead of the actual values?
In Oracle, I can re-create a view with a single statement, as shown here:  CREATE OR REPLACE VIEW MY_VIEW AS SELECT SOME_FIELD FROM SOME_TABLE WHERE SOME_CONDITIONS   As the syntax implies, this will drop the old view and re-create it with whatever definition I've given.  Is there an equivalent in MSSQL (SQL Server 2005 or later) that will do the same thing? bcmwl-kernel-source broken on kernel: 5.8.0-34-generic What is the regular expression for a decimal with a precision of 2?  Valid examples:  123.12 2 56754 92929292929292.12 0.21 3.1   Invalid examples:  12.1232 2.23332 e666.76   The decimal point may be optional, and integers may also be included. Identical creatures entering the battlefield Creating a unique alphanumeric 10-character string I'm looking to create a simple short-lived reservation system, and I'd like to generate confirmation numbers that are   unique random-looking alphanumeric short-ish, at least much shorter than 32 character-long strings returned by sha1   I'm only looking to have ~500 reservations, so I don't imagine high likelyhood of collissions.  One idea I had is generate an sha1 hash based on a date-time stamp and username, then truncating it to its first 10 characters.  Would something like that be reliably unique enough for the purposes of processing ~500 reservations? The space $C^0([0;1],\mathbb{R})$ of all continuous, real-valued functions on $[0,1]$ is not reflexive. How to handle trigger recursion I have two objects A(parent) and B(child) related by a lookup relationship. I  need to update records in object A using data loader. There is an after update trigger on object A which updates some fields on related records of object B. On object B as well there is an after update trigger which updates a field on parent object A. How can i handle recursion. Why do people have darker skin in sunnier climates? I don't understand why darker skin is advantageous in hotter climates. Wouldn't it absorb more of the heat? I have heard that it reduces the incidence of cancer, but I would think absorbing more radiation would increase the risk? Bypass GPG signature checks only for a single repository Portuguese tab names on profile page A few minutes ago, when I viewed profile pages on my phone, the tabs were all in Portuguese:   On the mobile interface:   On the full site     But it didn't happen on my desktop, and now it's back to normal.  Other users report that the site is normal, but  says it's still happening, so I've decided to post this bug report even though it seems to be working for me at the moment.   Perhaps it's some sort of intermittent problem.  I'm posting this on Meta.SE, since it seemed to happen on both Japanese.SE and ELL.SE, so it doesn't seem to be specific to a particular site. How does the lens diameter influence photo quality? I have tested two different 50mm lenses in my camera. One was a Nikkor 50mm ∅52mm. The other one was a Sigma 50mm ∅72mm. I took some pictures with both lenses using the same setup for aperture and shutter speed, but couldn't notice significant differences in the quality of the pictures.   So, how does the diameter affects the photo quality, if it does? What advantages would the ∅72mm lens have over the ∅52mm one? How do rich people guarantee the safety of their money, when savings exceed the FDIC limit? I am curious how a millionaire would guarantee the safety of his money, given that the FDIC only insures up to $250K of an individual's deposits at a bank.  If someone had $3 million that they wanted to put into the bank, would they have to open up 12 different bank accounts and deposit $250K into each one, so that all of his money is insured by the FDIC?  Or is there an easier way to guarantee the safety of all his money? I have a large hole in a mesh that I'm trying to fill:    I've been trying an approach like this:    I'm finding it quite tough, since the number of vertices around the perimeter of the hole don't match a grid.  Is there a better approach to filling a hole like this? On-screen keyboard popping up whenever I touch screen I'm in 17.10. Whenever I touch the screen, whether to change windows/apps, scroll within a browser, or press a button, the stupid little keyboard pops up in the bottom left corner.  I have never left Screen Keyboard enabled in Universal Access, but if I toggle it on, that's the same keyboard popping up in the bottom left corner.    In this screenshot, I'm simply touching the screen in a full-screen youtube video. You can see the menu pop up on the right, under the point where I'm touching.  I don't have a before pic, but it was similar look/color keyboard, but it was smaller, maybe half as wide, and only in the bottom left section of the screen, as opposed to stretching across the entire width. This change from little left-hand keyboard to full-width keyboard happened after following @pomsky 's advice below.    This is a . You can mark yourself affected by it to hopefully increase its received attention. network manager says "device not managed" I stupidly ran sudo chown -R carlos:carlos / and carlos is my user. This changed all files to be Carlos and I could not boot up again (because the root files were now owned by #1000) and I cant get sudo acess in live cd (because the owner of /usr was changed to my user). Can anyone help me? FYI I have mounted my hard drive. How do you apply colormanagement settings to EXR files? How do you apply colormanagement settings to EXR files?  When i do some color adjustment by using colormanagement and try to save exr file and open it in photoshop it looks like colormanagement settings was not applied to it. I'd like to see the full How-To on how to use manual partitioning during Ubuntu installation. The existing guides (at least those I found here) cover only automatic part and leave untouched the manual part (or extremely short and contain no pictures).  I'd like to cover such situations:     If your disk contains other systems: Propagate all arguments in a bash shell script I am trying to get an intuitive idea of how the  affects Quantum computation. My understanding is that given a qubit $Q$ in superposition $Q_0 \left| 0 \right&gt; + Q_1 \left| 1 \right&gt;$, NCT states another Qubit $S$ cannot be designed such that $S$ is equivalent to the state of $Q$.   Now the catch is, what does Equivalent mean? It could mean either that:   $S = S_0 \left| 0 \right&gt; + S_1 \left| 1 \right&gt;$ such that $S_0 = Q_0, S_1 = Q_1$. Or it could mean that $S = Q$, meaning that if $S$ is observed to be some value ( for example 0) then $Q$ MUST be that same value, and vice versa.    So it seems that point 2, occurs anyways in entangled systems (particularly cat-states), so I can eliminate that option and conclude that that No Cloning states, given a qubit $Q$, it's impossible to make another qubit $S$ such that:  $S = S_0 \left| 0 \right&gt; + S_1 \left| 1 \right&gt;$ such that $S_0 = Q_0, S_1 = Q_1$.  Is this correct?