I'm trying to see how good a custom topographic map could be using only free data  For the moment I'm just playing with the data so of course the colours are not pretty. I did some classification and used some land cover data anyway I have a raster layer as background with the main land cover basically swamp forest and no vegetation. Since the result of a vectorization was awful and hard to fix I'm going to stay with the raster as background, the question is:  How to avoid the squared shape on my map? I would like to smooth the area to have a prettier map. I tried the bilinear interpolation but it creates white boundaries around the area and with the Nearest neighbour it's not pretty.  I tried some generalization tools as well but they are way too strong!  So what would you do?  Here is what I have done so far:
I have a DEM that I would like to smooth or generalize to remove topographic extremes (chop off peaks and fill-in valleys). Ideally, I would also like to have control over the radius or level of "blurriness". In the end, I will need a set of rasters that range from slightly blurry to really blurry. (Theoretically, the blurriest would be a constant raster of the arithmetic mean of all values).  Are there any tools or methods I can use (based on Esri, GDAL, GRASS)?   Do I need to home bake my own  routine?   Could I use a low-pass filter (e.g. ArcGIS's ), and if so, would I need to run it a bunch of times to get the effect of a large radius?
How to use ssh to transfer files from computer a to local computer I am trying to get some files off of my school Linux account using ssh. I have got the connection to work using:  scp &lt;school_server&gt;: ~/folder I want ~/where I want to go.    But when it goes to transfer folder it gives me the message:  not a regular file    The file contains .java files, and I want the whole folder. How can I search for bounty questions? Is there any possible way to search and list the bountied questions separately in SE? If $A + A^t = 2I$ then $\det(A) \geq 1$ 'pagesize' attribute ignored in hot network list Steps to reproduce:   Open  in Guest/Incognito mode or with cookies disabled. This will have 30 questions per page by default. Click the  link and as expected, you'll see questions 1-50 with page size of 50. Go the the  and see the bug: you're in the second page of 30 items per page, i.e. you'll see questions 31-60 instead 51-100 as expected.     It is very annoying. Please fix it.  My user-agent is: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.15; rv:70.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/70.0  There are no plugins installed affecting the site. It happens both when logged in or not.  The mechanism used to work before, but some weeks/months ago it stopped, enough to bother me to post here :)  Here are all modified "privacy" settings from about:support page:  privacy.clearOnShutdown.offlineApps true privacy.clearOnShutdown.openWindows true privacy.clearOnShutdown.siteSettings    true privacy.cpd.offlineApps true privacy.cpd.openWindows true privacy.cpd.passwords   true privacy.cpd.siteSettings    true privacy.donottrackheader.enabled    true privacy.history.custom  true privacy.item.cookies    true privacy.sanitize.migrateClearSavedPwdsOnExit    true privacy.sanitize.migrateFx3Prefs    true privacy.sanitize.pending    [{"id":"shutdown","itemsToClear":["cache","cookies","offlineApps","history","formdata","downloads","sessions","siteSetti privacy.sanitize.sanitizeInProgress ["cache","cookies","offlineApps","history","formdata","downloads","sessions","siteSettings","openWindows"] privacy.sanitize.sanitizeOnShutdown true privacy.sanitize.timeSpan   0 privacy.trackingprotection.enabled  true privacy.trackingprotection.introCount   20 Pluralizing Noun Phrase? Apache on CentOS 5.9 VM serves modified files incorrectly What is the difference between fixed effect, random effect and mixed effect models? In simple terms, how would you explain (perhaps with simple examples) the difference between fixed effect, random effect and mixed effect models? Windows 7 USB install error I am trying to install Windows 7 Professional x64 from a bootable USB stick. I have used the Windows 7 USB DVD Download Tool to create the media from an ISO.  The machine boots from USB fine, and enters the Windows installation wizard but then I get an error stating:     A required CD/DVD drive device driver is missing. If you have a driver floppy disk, CD, DVD, or USB flash drive, please insert it now.   I have tried setting the SATA controller in the BIOS to both AHCI and ATA but neither appear make any difference.  I've also tried both the USB 3 and USB 2 ports with no difference.  I've also tried to use the files from an official Dell recovery CD as this is a Dell laptop but again, no dice.  All this because there's no optical drive in the machine!  Dell Vostro V131 / i5-2450M / BIOS A04  Can anyone offer any advice please? Associativty of smash product on compact spaces Let $Y,Z$ be compact or $X,Z$ locally compact. Then the canonical bijection    $$ (X \wedge Y) \wedge Z \rightarrow X \wedge (Y \wedge Z) $$    is a homeomoprhism.    I can prove the case when $X,Z$ are locally compact using exponential law. But I don't see how one approaches the case when $Y,Z$ compact. Hints? I know the past tense carries the past tense in every dependent clause, but referring specifically to places or to things that are eternal, like the Earth, seems a bit weird and therefore we sometimes (I believe incorrectly) say     He didn't know that New Jersey was actually on the East Coast.   Because it still is. Or     He thought the Earth was round.   So is it square now?  Logically speaking, would you consider the use of past tense here a bit confusing in a day-to-day speech in these examples? Would you instinctively opt for using the present tense? Mysterious cord running from wall. Safe? My wife and I are preparing to sell our home and are discovering some weird things. Our home was built in 1958, so it is older. We found this in a corner that had some furniture in front of it.   We are wondering    What kind of wiring is this?  Is it safe to handle or remove? Table:   UserId, Value, Date.   I want to get the UserId, Value for the max(Date) for each UserId. That is, the Value for each UserId that has the latest date. Is there a way to do this simply in SQL? (Preferably Oracle)  Update: Apologies for any ambiguity: I need to get ALL the UserIds. But for each UserId, only that row where that user has the latest date. Java Strings: "String s = new String("silly");" I'm a C++ guy learning Java. I'm reading Effective Java and something confused me. It says never to write code like this:  String s = new String("silly");   Because it creates unnecessary String objects. But instead it should be written like this:  String s = "No longer silly";   Ok fine so far...However, given this class:  public final class CaseInsensitiveString {     private String s;     public CaseInsensitiveString(String s) {         if (s == null) {             throw new NullPointerException();         }         this.s = s;     }     :     : }  CaseInsensitiveString cis = new CaseInsensitiveString("Polish"); String s = "polish";    Why is the first statement ok? Shouldn't it be   CaseInsensitiveString cis = "Polish"; How do I make CaseInsensitiveString behave like String so the above statement is OK (with and without extending String)? What is it about String that makes it OK to just be able to pass it a literal like that? From my understanding there is no "copy constructor" concept in Java? Variance of sample mean. Let $X_1, X_2, \ldots X_n$ be random variables with mean $\mu$ and variance $\sigma^2$. We define the sample mean $\bar{X} = \sum_{i = 1}^n X_i$.  I am having trouble understanding why the variance of $\bar{X}$ is $\sigma^2 / n$.  Here is what I worked out thus far:  $$\begin{gather} \sigma_\bar{X}^2 = E((\bar{X} - \mu)^2) = E(\bar{X}^2 - 2\bar{X}\mu + \mu^2) = E(\bar{X}^2) - 2\mu E(\bar{X}) + E(\mu^2) = E(\bar{X}^2) - \mu. \end{gather}$$  However, I'm not sure what to do with the $E(\bar{X}^2)$. Correct MySQL username/password, but getting Access Denied error when run from script MacOS dmg file question Not entirely sure if this is where to ask this, but I can't find another place to...  I've recently switched from Windows to Mac and I am trying to understand more in depth what I'm working with.  My question is: are .dmg files the equivalent of .zip files in Windows? I came to this theory when downloading a .dmg and when I opened it, it contained a .app and and text file read me. To me, this seems like a compressed file.   Is this correct? How do I get a book graphic and description from the Amazon Book API? sends an ISBN number to Amazon and gets back a small bit of XML including author, title, and publisher.  However, I also want to get small, medium and large graphic and book descriptions of the title.  Problem: I can find no REST URL examples/documention that work, either at Google or when logged into my "AWS Account" at Amazon Associates.  I find a lot of examples from 2003-2005 but they are all out-of-date and give errors, it seems that Amazon's cloud web services have obfuscated their simple REST API documentation for their books.  Can anyone point me to some documentation on how I can get detailed information about books at Amazon via REST/XML?   Here's what I have tried so . Using CLI, how do I change the user's profile picture? A similar task for changing the desktop background, can be achieved using the following script:   FILE="/backgrounds/background.png" gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.background picture-uri "$FILE"   How would I achieve the same result, but with the user's avatar/profile picture? Let $M$ be a smooth manifold and let $N$ be a manifold with boundary. If $dF_{p}$ is an isomorphism, then $F\left(p\right)\in\mbox{int}M $. I feel stupid asking, but I can't seem to find the answer to this anywhere. I'm trying to follow  to edit my bash prompt, but there is no .bashrc in either my user directory (~/.bashrc), or in my home directory, or in the main file system directory.   There is no .bashrc in /etc/ (there is a bash.bashrc, however).   Do I create a .bashrc file in my user or home directory? Is there a better, more recent set of instructions for modifying the bash prompt?