I’m reading The Intelligent Investor by Benjamin Graham (4th edition) and there is one sentence that I just don’t get: … Ben’s father died in 1903, the porcelain business faltered, and the family slid haltingly into poverty. Ben’s mother turned their home into a boardinghouse; then, borrowing money to trade stocks “on margin,” she was … Read more
A: They might slip up. Or he might slip up. Either way. They make him, my whole investigation goes south. B: Your ‘whole’ investigation? A: Some things shook loose, yeah. There are more moving pieces than expected. There might be more victims. The speaker B though it’s just ‘an’ investigation not ‘whole’ investigation. But the … Read more
Police Officer: “You know, take my advice. You get busted back to walking a beat at your age? Put in for your twenty.” I googled ‘put in for’ and ‘your twenty’. It says ‘put in for’ means ‘ask for something’ and ‘your twenty’ is a code for ‘my location is’. And I’m counfused. How is … Read more
I have seen bags labeled “crib bags” on Australian websites. I never really understand what they are precisely or whether “crib” refers to the material or the shape of the bag. It seems the bags that fall under this category range from satchels, to tool bags, to carryalls (holdalls in BrE.) For example this site … Read more
Trying to understand the meaning of “clearing up”. One of the meanings I see at Collins Dictionary is When you clear up or clear a place up, you make things neat and put them away. Here’s some excerpt to give some context. MOUSE – RUNNN! UNICORN – Hop onto my back! UNICORN – I see … Read more
what does ‘two-fifties’ meaning? “You know the drill— two-fifties, two-fifties, two-fifties. Stop-and-frisk ‘til we get this guy.” I listen to this talk from a detective on the TV drama ‘Law & Order’. I can’t find it on a dictionary or Google. Please help me! Answer I believe the sentence is referencing “250”, which is an … Read more
This post says It gives you an alphabetical listing of valid names (attributes) in the scope (object). This is pretty much the meaning of the word directory in english. As a non-native english speaker, I would say “It gives you an alphabetical list of valid names”. I’ve no clue whether it is a gerund or … Read more
In sentence They were rescued by Joseph-Louis Liouville, the son of a captain in Napoleon’s army who became a professor in the Collège de France. who became a professor: Joseph or his father? Photo of the source: Why beauty is truth: a history of symmetry / Ian Stewart. ISBN-13: 978-0-465-08236-0 Answer Poor punctuation leads to … Read more
It sounds like the lecturer is saying Before solving the puzzle, let’s write a second version of this function that is more compact. We will call this function random walk 2. We will perform our cell and programmers duty and write a docstring. I am confused about the last sentence. Writing a docstring is one … Read more
This post call this figure “LotArea visual”. Usually, I see people call this a figure or a plot. “Figure” is perfectly acceptable, since almost all of textbooks call it “Figure”. The question is: is it common to call this kind of figures “visual”? Answer I think you’re overreading the source here. The article is about … Read more
