Old Sci-fi story about a man trapped inside a giant female alien creature that uses him to fertilise herself
Short story (50s? 60s?) with a man trapped inside a sentient cave
I used an SRTM DEM to create a hillshade in QGIS 2.2.0. However, the resultant hillshade seems to be vertically exaggerated. Also, changing the settings for scale and z-factor does not have any effect on the resultant hillshade. I have tried both options in QGIS, Analysis-> DEM (Terrain models) and Terrain analysis -> Hillshade. Both methods gave the same results.  Is this an isolated incident, a bug, or am I missing something? I'm training a neural network and the training loss decreases, but the validation loss doesn't, or it decreases much less than what I would expect, based on references or experiments with very similar architectures and data. How can I fix this?    As for question        to which this question is inspired, the question is intentionally left general so that other questions about how to reduce the generalization error of a neural network down to a level which has been proved to be attainable, can be closed as duplicates of this one.  See also dedicated thread on Meta: Upload files with HTTPWebrequest (multipart/form-data) Remove numbering from Section and Subsection Keyboard key stuck or not being recognized; how to fix Select translation: where? File issues after importing Drupal site I recently tried to move my Drupal site to a new server using this page: . But now the style doesn't seem be loaded and more importantly I get this error on every page in the site (even on the frontpage):  Warning: file_put_contents(temporary://filef76T9k): failed to open stream: &quot;DrupalTemporaryStreamWrapper::stream_open&quot; call failed in file_unmanaged_save_data() (line 1900 of /Library/Server/Web/Data/Sites/Default/drupal/includes/file.inc). The file could not be created.  Any ideas what this could be about? How can I transform the elliptic curve $E/\mathbb{C}$ of the form $$y^2=4(x-e_1)(x-e_2)(x-e_3)$$ with $e_1&gt;e_2&gt;e_3\in\mathbb{R}$ roots of $E$ into a Weierstrass-Form $y^2=x^3+ax+b$? Entire function and the series of its successive derivatives I recently came across the result that if $g$ is holomorphic in a neighbourhood of a point $z_0$ and  $$\sum_{n=0}^{\infty }{g^{(n)}(z_0)} $$ converges then $g $ is an entire function. Now, my doubt is if the above series is absolutely convergent then can we say something more about $g$, like say $g$ is a polynomial? I could not find any non-polynomial  entire function( I tried with functions like $e^z$, $\sin z $, et al), whose successive derivatives converge absolutely as series. Any help please? Distribution of linear combination of OLS regression coefficients Do different databases use different name quote? For example, mysql quote table name using   SELECT * FROM `table_name`;   notice the `   Does other database ever use different char to quote their table name Question 1: Why are irrational numbers uncountable and rationals countable?  I really struggle to understand this. I initially thought it had something to with the fact that between any two numbers there will always be a irrational number. But now it has come to my attention that the same holds for rational numbers. So I can't really see the difference between them. What is it that makes the difference? Why can we line up all rational numbers one-to-one with the natural numbers, but not the irrationals with the naturals?  Sorry for a perhaps basic question, but I really, really struggle with it. Thanks. Does this seemingly elementary question require König's theorem? Proof of $\gcd(a,b)=ax+by\ $ [Bezout's identity] equality of two operators... Please help me with the following problem( give some hints or references):  Let $X$ be a Banach space and $B(X)$ be the algebra of bounded linear operators on $X$. Suppose that $A$ and $B$ are two operators in $B(X)$ such that for every $T \in B(X)$ we have $\sigma(AT)=\sigma(BT)$. Show that $A=B$.  Here $\sigma(A)$ denotes the spectrum of $A$, i.e., the the set of all complex numbers $\lambda$ such that $\lambda I − A$ has no inverse in $B(X)$.  Thanks in advance. I have something like this:  &lt;div class="content"&gt;     &lt;a href="#"&gt;A&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/div&gt; &lt;div class="content"&gt;     &lt;a href="#"&gt;B&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/div&gt; &lt;div class="content"&gt;     &lt;a href="#"&gt;C&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/div&gt;   When one of these links is clicked, I want to perform the .hide() function on the links that are not clicked. I understand jQuery has the :not selector, but I can't figure out how to use it in this case because it is necessary that I select the links using $(".content a")  I want to do something like  $(".content a").click(function() {     $(".content a:not(this)").hide("slow"); });   but I can't figure out how to use the :not selector properly in this case. Align Caption to the left Cartesian Product of Two Countable Sets is Countable How can I prove that the Cartesian product of two countable sets is also countable? I am very confused. Unless I am mistaken, I know "it" has to be a noun of some sort, but I am unable to figure out what noun "it" is referring to.   What is "it" in the following sentence:      It is clear that Bob likes doughnuts.   Heres another couple of examples:     It is impossible to fly. I read a novel when I was 12 or 13 (late 80's, early 90's) about two timelines combining on Earth.  It was a full length novel for adults that I swiped from my mom (she doesn't remember it at all.)  I've been trying to figure out what the title is for some time but my google-fu is unable to find the right search terms.    The book was published in the 80's or perhaps early 90's.  The story: It was set on Earth and featured two timelines running concurrently (in the 80's?)  Timeline 1:  The nuclear missile crisis had gone badly and a low level nuclear war had more or less destroyed the US, but small towns still survived but are slowly fading away.  Much of the story was about the scarcity of goods, and the protagonist in the main thread of the book started the story by finding a 6 pack of Coke buried in a ruined house.  Throughout the story people were finding things that had grown scarce (deer, bullets, human beings.)  One strange scene I recall involved mutant/radioactive sweet potatoes that had driven a man insane.  Eventually people in this timeline began having dreams of their lives in Timeline 2.  Some of the people were not having dreams, and it was eventually discovered that they had died in Timeline 2.    Timeline 2:  There is panic in a world recognizable as our 1980's as nuclear war draws near.  Since more and stronger missiles have been developed, the end of humanity is at hand.  Things start disappearing from that world as the war begins.  Timeline 2 was mostly seen as vignettes of panicked people running around.  Combination of Timelines: In a weird, incongruous, almost surely poorly written scene, Gaia (yes, Earth itself) is seen to be combining a dying timeline with a doomed timeline in order to save humanity.  At the end of the novel, kids from Timeline 2 are transported into Timeline 1 in order to repopulate.  The new kids drink all the Coke, in case you were wondering...  Any help finding the title would be welcome.  I recall enjoying the book a lot when I was a kid, but I suspect my mom traded it in at our local used book store because at some point it just disappeared.