def is_show_uncategorized(self, request):
        """Return the result of the "?show_uncategorized" query string param"""

        show_uncategorized = request.GET.get('show_uncategorized', False)
        if show_uncategorized is True or show_uncategorized == 'true':
            return True
        return False
def __get_stop_condition(self):
        for covariance in self.__variances:
            if numpy.linalg.norm(covariance) == 0.0:
                return True