On solving ode/pde with Neural Networks
What should I do when my neural network doesn't learn?
In January, some additional whitespace  below h1, h2 and h3 headings,  more whitespace below the headers than above them.  Could we have the whitespace above the headings be more than the whitespace below them?  I find some posts a bit hard to read, like the current rendering on the left:   &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Why does shrinkage work? In order to solve problems of model selection, a number of methods (LASSO, ridge regression, etc.) will shrink the coefficients of predictor variables towards zero. I am looking for an intuitive explanation of why this improves predictive ability. If the true effect of the variable was actually very large, why doesn't shrinking the parameter result in a worse prediction? Compare nullable types in Linq to Sql I have a Category entity which has a Nullable ParentId field. When the method below is executing and the categoryId is null, the result seems null however there are categories which has null ParentId value.  What is the problem in here, what am I missing?  public IEnumerable&lt;ICategory&gt; GetSubCategories(long? categoryId) {     var subCategories = this.Repository.Categories.Where(c =&gt; c.ParentId == categoryId)         .ToList().Cast&lt;ICategory&gt;();      return subCategories; }   By the way, when I change the condition to (c.ParentId == null),  result seems normal. How to "add existing frameworks" in Xcode 4? True displacement in EEVEE? I have a Blender 2.8 scene with animated true displacement. It is created using material nodes and works fine in Cycles. However, EEVEE doesn't displace my meshes truly, only normals are changed. Is it possible and how to solve the problem now or in the future? Earth moves how much under my feet when I jump? If I'm standing at the equator, jump, and land 1 second later, the  Earth does NOT move 1000mph (or .28 miles per second) relative to me,  since my velocity while jumping is also 1000mph.   However, the Earth is moving in a circle (albeit a very large one),  while I, while jumping, am moving in a straight line.   How much do I move relative to my starting point because of this? I  realize it will be a miniscule amount, and not noticeable in practise,  but I'd be interested in the theoretical answer. Why does k-means clustering algorithm use only Euclidean distance metric? Is there a specific purpose in terms of efficiency or functionality why the k-means algorithm does not use for example cosine (dis)similarity as a distance metric, but can only use the Euclidean norm? In general, will K-means method comply and be correct when other distances than Euclidean are considered or used?  [Addition by @ttnphns. The question is two-fold. "(Non)Euclidean distance" may concern distance between two data points or distance between a data point and a cluster centre. Both ways have been attempted to address in the answers so far.] I'd like to create a Windows bootable USB stick, but I don't have a Windows machine with me at the moment to do so. How could I achieve the same using Ubuntu? My question is whether $x/x$ is always equal to $1$. I am mostly intersted in real numbers and particularly wonder whether $x/x$ is defined at $x=0$.  On one hand the division should simplify to $1$, on the other hand you should not be allowed to divide by zero.   I have been trying to find whether the simplification 'goes first' or whether the division causes trouble first, but it has proven impossible for me to find usefull search terms.     Note that this question arose after reading  and its first comment. This is a  about using cron &amp; crontab.   You have been directed here because the community is fairly sure that the answer to your question can be found below. If your question is not answered below then the answers will help you gather information that will help the community help you. This information should be edited into your original question.  The answer for 'Why is my crontab not working, and how can I troubleshoot it?' can be seen below.  This addresses the cron system with the crontab highlighted. I am using a chi-sq test between two proportions (). I am using this over the z-test for proportions because I do not think my data is normal.   My question is how do I get the difference (shift) estimate &amp; confidence intervals for this test.   For example,     Data1: 193/252=.77   Data2: 154/227=.68   P-value=.032 (I used the formula in the link above. I will also add my exact code below)  Shift Estimate: I assume its the difference between proportions, ie .77-.68=.09. Is this correct?   Confidence Interval: ??????????????????  Code for generating P-value (matlab):   % Pooled estimate of proportion  p0 = (n1+n2) / (N1+N2); % Expected counts under H0 (null hypothesis)  n10 = N1 * p0;  n20 = N2 * p0; % Chi-square test, by hand  observed = [n1 N1-n1 n2 N2-n2];  expected = [n10 N1-n10 n20 N2-n20];  chi2stat = sum((observed-expected).^2 ./ expected);  p = 1 - chi2cdf(chi2stat,1);  H=0; if(p&lt;.05), H=1; end ggplot2: facet_wrap strip color based on variable in data set Troubleshooting "Windows cannot be installed to this disk. The selected disk has an MBR partition table" I recently bought a desktop computer with Windows 7 Home Premium x64 preloaded (OEM). I tried to install Windows 7 Ultimate x64 on this computer but I was presented with the following error message:     Windows cannot be installed to this disk. The selected disk has an MBR   partition table. On EFI systems, Windows can only be installed to GPT   disks.   The 1TB HDD on this computer has three partitions:   SYSTEM 100 NTFS - Healthy (System, Active Primary Partition)  OS (C:) 9148.04 GB NTFS - Healthy (Boot, Page File, Crash Dump, Primary Partition)  HP_RECOVERY (D:) 13.37 GB NTFS - Healthy (PrimarynPartition)   I'm trying to install a clean copy of Windows. Kind of converse of Kolmogorov maximal inequality Let $S_n=\zeta_1+...+\zeta_n$ where $\zeta_i$ are independent with $E\zeta_i=0, E\zeta_i^2=\sigma_i^2&lt;\infty, |\zeta_i|&lt;K$.  Then, $P(\max_{1 \leq m  \leq n}|S_m| \leq x) \leq (x+K)^2/\operatorname{var}(S_n)$.  How do we show this?  The hint says that I should use the fact that $S_n^2-\sum_{m \leq n}\sigma_m^2$ is a martingale. But I am totally clueless....  Any hint would be appreciated! Thanks and regards. UIDatePicker show only month and day I'd like to have a UIDatePicker where the user can pick a month and a day but not the year. I'm aware that leap years have an extra day, so for simplicity, let's throw that day away.  Is there any way to remove the year column or have 2 reels with month/day that act like the UIDatePicker (grey out days that don't exist in the selected month)? What data type to use for hashed password field and what length? I'm not sure how password hashing works (will be implementing it later), but need to create database schema now.  I'm thinking of limiting passwords to 4-20 characters, but as I understand after encrypting hash string will be of different length.  So, how to store these passwords in the database? Temporarily deleted answer missing from asker's inbox I  and . This answer does not appear in my inbox. I never saw a notification, and as of now the latest notification from CS is  {"SiteUrl":"cs.stackexchange.com","FaviconUrl":"https://cs.stackexchange.com/favicon.ico","CreationDate":"17 hours ago","Url":"https://cs.stackexchange.com/questions/641/language-of-the-graph-of-an-affine-function/667#667","Title":"Language of the graph of an affine function","Summary":"Hint:\n\n$53 \\cdot 100000010000000000 + 4 = 5300000530000000004$.\n\nSketch:\n\n\n  ! Assume $a$ has $n$...","Type":"answers","Count":3,"IsNew":false}   This answer was posted, deleted and undeleted while I wasn't online. I suppose the deletion removed the entry from my inbox. Then the undeletion should have recreated an entry but didn't. why arcane legacy steps to boot from USB with GPT and UEFI? To run the live AVG rescue "disk" on USB for Windows 10, how is it made to work with a GPT and UEFI system?  (Possible solution listed below.)  I enabled the boot menu so that pressing F12 will display a list to select from.  Also, I put everything USB at the top of the boot sequence and Windows and the HDD at the bottom.  However, I hadn't realized GPT and UEFI are so different from a BIOS.  Because the USB flash drive isn't compatible with GPT it's not being picked up?  This  was suggested:   Open the notebook and press quickly F2 to enter the BIOS. Under the MAIN menu, enable the F12 Boot Menu option. Under the BOOT menu, select Legacy boot and press F10 Save &amp; Exit. While the notebook is rebooting, press F2 again to enter the BIOS. Under the BOOT menu, select as your first boot option the USB HDD stick (your USB stick). Press F10 Save &amp; Exit.    Perhaps this will work, but what is the problem that prevents UEFI boot from registering the thumb drive?  Because it's using GPT and not an MBR?  I don't want to switch to legacy, but stay with UEFI.  The laptop: Multiple addresses in JSON-LD Schema.org I have several thousand nodes of a particular content type. Using the web interface (example.com/admin/content), I can only delete about 50 at a time. How can I quickly delete them?