I've noticed in different papers that after a certain number of epochs there sometimes is a sudden drop in error rate when training a CNN. This example is taken from the "Densely Connected Convolutional Networks" paper, but there are many others. I wonder what is the cause of this? Especially why it appears at the same epoch although the two architectures compared here a completely different.    A similar question was asked , but the only answer given there so far stated that it's because a saddle point in the error surface is reached and then overcome. As the two architectures are very different, they also will have a very different error surfaces (even with different dimensions), so I find highly unlikely that they both reach and overcome a saddle point at exactly the same epoch.
I've seen plots of test/training error suddenly dropping at certain epoch(s) a few times during the neural network training, and I wonder what causes these performance jumps:    This image is taken from Kaiming He's Github, but similar plots show up in many papers.
Ever since upgrading to Windows 10 1903 the other day, my CPUs have all been pegged at 100%.  "Antimalware Service Executable" is using 60%, and "Microsoft OneDrive (32 bit)" is using 35% (with the other 5% being spread amongst everything else running).  After running like this for a day or so my computer case (Surface Tablet) is smoking hot.  How can I find out what's causing this problem?  Is there logging I can review for those services?  Known issues with 1903 that I just can't find on Google? Can you create a strong blockcipher with small blocksize, given a strong blockcipher of conventional blocksize? Suppose I want a strong 20-bit blockcipher.  In other words, I want a function that takes a key (suppose the key is 128 bits), and implements a permutation from 20 bits to 20 bits.  The set of permutations should be close to a randomly-chosen subset of size $2^{128}$ of all $2^{20}!$ permutations on 20 bits.  I don't want you to build a new blockcipher from scratch.  Instead, assume you have a "strong" blockcipher like AES (128-bit blocksize, 128-bit keysize) and use this to build your 20-bit cipher.   Of course, your construction should be practical (i.e., you should be able to run it in both directions with reasonable amounts of time and memory). Prove that $f$ analytic, $f(x) \in \mathbb{R}$ for all $x \in \mathbb{R}$ implies $f(\overline{z})=\overline{f(z)}$ Let $U\subset \mathbb{C}$ be a nonempty connected open set such that for every $z\in U$, $\overline z\in U$.  Let $f$ be analytic on $U$. Suppose $f(x)\in\mathbb R$ for every $x\in U\cap\mathbb R$. Prove that $f(\overline{z})=\overline{f(z)}$ for any $z \in U$.    By definition, I know that $f$ analytic on $U$ means that for every $z_0 \in U$, there exists $r&gt;0$ and a sequence of complex numbers $\left(a_n\right)_{n=0}^\infty$ such that $f(z)=\sum_{n=0}^\infty a_n\left(z-z_0\right)^n$ on the disc $D(z_0,r)\subseteq U$. I see that $f$ takes points without imaginary components to other points without imaginary components. But I don't see how this implies a symmetry that $f(\overline{z})=\overline{f(z)}$ for $z \in \mathbb C \setminus \mathbb R$. It seems like a very strong conclusion and I'm not sure how I would prove it.  I have also shown in the preceding question that $U\cap\mathbb R$ contains an open interval, however I am not sure if that detail is meant to be helpful to this question. RECENTLY ON THE ANDROID SITE WE GOT  WRITTEN IN ALL CAPS.  THIS WAS SURPRISING TO ME, SINCE I ASSUMED IT WOULD HAVE BEEN CAUGHT BY THE QUALITY FILTER &mdash; BESIDES BEING INDICATIVE OF OTHER POST QUALITY ISSUES, IT'S AWFUL TO LOOK AT AND REQUIRES A LARGE AMOUNT OF EDITING TO FIX (EVEN IF YOU RUN IT THROUGH TOLOWER() FIRST).  WE ALL KNOW THAT CAPS LOCK IS , BUT STILL: CAN WE BLOCK THESE QUESTIONS?    RICK  RICK  OH MAN THAT STUFF JACOB G  IS COMEDY GOLD  RIIICK     Note to editors: This post looks exactly like it is supposed to look, as an example of a question in all-caps. Please do not replace the uppercase letters with lowercase. How do you style an input type="file" button? Is any particular punctuation necessary when a quotation is the subject of a sentence? For example, in the sentence below, should there be a comma after export? Or anything else?     "Laughter is America's most important export" is a well-known quote of Walt Disney's. Prior to doing some benchmarking work how would one free up the memory (RAM) that the Linux Kernel is consuming for its buffers and cache?    Note that this is mostly useful for benchmarking. Emptying the buffers and cache reduces performance! If you're here because you thought that freeing buffers and cache was a positive thing, go and read . The short story: free memory is unused memory is wasted memory. how to extend a basis Does Google use the Meta Description Tag for Description of Page? `apt update` failed on Debian Linux Attempting to upgrade testing/stretch Debian Linux:  $ sudo apt update  Ign:1 http://dl.google.com/linux/talkplugin/deb stable InRelease Hit:2 http://dl.google.com/linux/talkplugin/deb stable Release                                                                    ... Get:25 http://mirror.vorboss.net/debian unstable/main i386 Packages 2016-03-25-1456.28.pdiff [15.0 kB]              Fetched 686 kB in 7s (89.5 kB/s)                                                                                                                                                         Reading package lists... Done W: gpgv:/var/lib/apt/lists/dl.google.com_linux_talkplugin_deb_dists_stable_Release.gpg: The repository is insufficiently signed by key 4CCA1EAF950CEE4AB83976DCA040830F7FAC5991 (weak digest) W: gpgv:/var/lib/apt/lists/deb.opera.com_opera_dists_stable_InRelease: The repository is insufficiently signed by key 419D0ACF314E8E993F7F92E563F7D4AFF6D61D45 (weak digest) W: Failed to fetch http://dl.google.com/linux/talkplugin/deb/dists/stable/Release  No Hash entry in Release file /var/lib/apt/lists/dl.google.com_linux_talkplugin_deb_dists_stable_Release, which is considered strong enough for security purposes E: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used instead.  What's wrong? How to fix it? crisscross, dillydally, riffraff, etc How can I render an edge only mesh as solid lines? MySQL Insert query doesn't work with WHERE clause What's wrong with this query: INSERT INTO Users( weight, desiredWeight ) VALUES ( 160, 145 ) WHERE id = 1;  It works without the WHERE clause. I've seemed to have forgot my SQL. Why should you not use Number as a constructor? Classic Fantasy with characters from the real world I read this book about 6-8 years ago, and it was already slightly old at that point. The key parts were that the characters were all from Earth (America, if I remember correctly - one character internally monologues about remembering exactly how many steps it takes to get to a specific beach from his house, and while I don't remember the beach name, I remember thinking it was American) and woke up in a fantasy world, scattered about, and not remembering where they come from for quite a while.  Each abductee is wearing a bracelet with (what I remember as) polyhedral dice, although they aren't named that I think I inferred it from the description, and at some point they start using them as a form of magic. They find out that they were all abducted by a wizard so they go to find him. I can't remember what happens next, other than that eventually they find him and in a later book in the series (that I only saw the blurb of) they go back to his castle.  I think the book might be called "______ Keep", and am fairly certain the later book in the series is called "Return to ______ Keep".  I'd really appreciate it if someone who knew the title could tell me - it's like an unscratched itch at the moment, and I'd love to read it again! I have searched the web a lot and could not find an answer that fits my situation. Here are two links that are quite contradictory:       My situation:  I've visited Portugal in December 2012 for 29 days on a Schengen visa valid from December 1st, 2012 to February 1st, 2013 for research purposes (I am a Ph.D. student). I want to visit Sweden from February 10th, 2013 to May 10th, 2013 (89 days). I have applied for a Schengen visa again (for research). How will the 90/180 rule work in my situation? Origin of the meaning of joe How does gravity escape a black hole? Generate random numbers uniformly over an entire range I'm running a few VMs, and suddenly I noticed my CPU fan was spinning louder than usual. I tracked it down to Windows 8 doing some "automatic maintenance":      How can I turn this completely off? I found a way to set the time, but not a way to turn it off completely.