I would like to ask a question about Java that doesn't have a specific answer. It's a question to see what people think and to share their opinion.    Will Stack Overflow tolerate this, or is there another Stack Exchange resource where I may ask a question like this?
Stuff like polls, recommendations based on subjective constraints, puzzles, webcomics etc. do not belong on the serious main SE sites, where professionals should be considered at work and having just a few spare minutes ("code's compiling") to answer questions, so they should not be distracted by such things. However, I'd also like to have a home for these things still using the SE engine. For the reason I mentioned before, this needs to be a separate place though. Let's call it four.[sitename-here].com.
Why was Sam Wilson chosen for this, but not Bucky? At the end of the Avengers: Endgame movie,      old Steve Rogers passed down his mantle of Captain America   to Sam Wilson.  Why didn't he choose Bucky for this? Bucky seems more fit for the job as he is a super soldier. Probability of continuous random variable Flash Player works on Firefox, but not on Chromium? I want to play online games, and other online stuff that requires Flash Player on the internet. Flash Player works just fine under Firefox, but in Chromium I just get a blank page. I don't know what is the exact problem or know to fix it. Why aren't my turtles breeding? 529 plan withdrawal penalties My son is a freshman this year.  We live in and he attends school in California.  We pulled out the first $ from our Utah 529 plan.  I had the money deposited in my account since I paid the registration and dorm &amp; meal plan.  Our friend has a son a year ahead and he has the exact same 529 plan.  He warned me that he got hit with a small tax penalty when he withdrew the money to his account and not to an account in his son's name.  I called the 529 administrator and they said it shouldn't matter either way.  Other online blogs agree.  They say the only difference is that my son would get the tax forms and have to file if it went to his account. Nevertheless, my friend did get a penalty.  Any clarity would be appreciated! GRUB and LILO both fail to install to NVMe hard disk when installing Debian Moderncv adding date of birth to personal information I'm doing my cv with the moderncv package and I'm using the classic style. I would like to add a date of birth line directly above the adress. Does anyone know how to do this? I've tried various solutions but they all seem to be broken. is_active_sidebar() Always Returns False What SIM card would you recommend for a smartphone user for travel in Germany?  It would be probably the only or the most important connection to the Internet, so large amounts of data and relatively fast transfer is an issue.  I need to stay in touch with friends and family, so the calls to other EU countries should be as cheap as possible.   For to the first criteria, I found the T-Mobile offer interesting. The internet costs 10 Euros/month and after reaching the transfer limit it stays relatively fast. According to tests (Galileo from Pro7, AFAIR) it has also the best coverage. However, calls to other countries are very expensive.  For to second criteria, Lebara and Mobilka are interesting. The calls are very cheap, but there are problems with signal strength in many locations, where T-Mobile has no problem. The voice quality, at least in Lebara, is also limited. They both have mobile internet with unlimited transfer, but after reaching the high speed limit, the transfer is reduced to 64 kbps, which is too slow.  I've found out that O2 has foreign calls at moderate prices, but I haven't yet checked for details. There are so many other options, making it is hard to compare them all without spending the whole weekend on it. So, if someone has found a better option than having 2 SIM cards and constantly switching them, this answer would be greatly appreciated. What is the definition of a "feature map" (aka "activation map") in a convolutional neural network? Intro Background Within a convolutional neural network, we usually have a general structure / flow that looks like this:  input image (i.e. a 2D vector x)   (1st Convolutional layer (Conv1) starts here...)  convolve a set of filters (w1) along the 2D image (i.e. do the z1 = w1*x + b1 dot product multiplications), where z1 is 3D, and b1 is biases. apply an activation function (e.g. ReLu) to make z1 non-linear (e.g. a1 = ReLu(z1)), where a1 is 3D.   (2nd Convolutional layer  (Conv2) starts here...)  convolve a set of filters along the newly computed activations (i.e. do the z2 = w2*a1 + b2 dot product multiplications), where z2 is 3D, and and b2 is biases. apply an activation function (e.g. ReLu) to make z2 non-linear (e.g. a2 = ReLu(z2)), where a2 is 3D.    The Question The definition of the term &quot;feature map&quot; seems to vary from literature to literature. Concretely:  For the 1st convolutional layer, does &quot;feature map&quot; corresponds to the input vector x, or the output dot product z1, or the output activations a1, or the &quot;process&quot; converting x to a1, or something else? Similarly, for the 2nd convolutional layer, does &quot;feature map&quot; corresponds to the input activations a1, or the output dot product z2, or the output activation a2, or the &quot;process&quot; converting a1 to a2, or something else?  In addition, is it true that the term &quot;feature map&quot; is exactly the same as &quot;activation map&quot;? (or do they actually mean two different thing?)  Additional references: Snippets from :  *The nomenclature is being used loosely here. In particular, I'm using &quot;feature map&quot; to mean not the function computed by the convolutional layer, but rather the activation of the hidden neurons output from the layer. This kind of mild abuse of nomenclature is pretty common in the research literature.   Snippets from :  In this paper we introduce a visualization technique that reveals the input stimuli that excite individual feature maps at any layer in the model. [...] Our approach, by contrast, provides a non-parametric view of invariance, showing which patterns from the training set activate the feature map. [...] a local contrast operation that normalizes the responses across feature maps. [...] To examine a given convnet activation, we set all other activations in the layer to zero and pass the feature maps as input to the attached deconvnet layer. [...] The convnet uses relu non-linearities, which rectify the feature maps thus ensuring the feature maps are always positive. [...] The convnet uses learned filters to convolve the feature maps from the previous layer. [...] Fig. 6, these visualizations are accurate representations of the input pattern that stimulates the given feature map in the model [...] when the parts of the original input image corresponding to the pattern are occluded, we see a distinct drop in activity within the feature map. [...]  Remarks: also introduces the term &quot;feature map&quot; and &quot;rectified feature map&quot; in Fig 1.  Snippets from :  [...] One dangerous pitfall that can be easily noticed with this visualization is that some activation maps may be all zero for many different inputs, which can indicate dead filters, and can be a symptom of high learning rates [...] Typical-looking activations on the first CONV layer (left), and the 5th CONV layer (right) of a trained AlexNet looking at a picture of a cat. Every box shows an activation map corresponding to some filter. Notice that the activations are sparse (most values are zero, in this visualization shown in black) and mostly local.   Snippets from   [...] Every unique location on the input volume produces a number. After sliding the filter over all the locations, you will find out that what you’re left with is a 28 x 28 x 1 array of numbers, which we call an activation map or feature map. How to tail multiple files using tail -0f in Linux/AIX I tried tailing two files using the option:  tail -0f file1.log -0f file2.log   In Linux I see an error "tail : can process only one file at a time".  In AIX I see the error as "Invalid options".  This works fine when I use:  tail -f file1 -f file 2   in Linux but not in AIX.  I want to be able to tail multiple files using -0f or -f in AIX/Linux  multitail is not recognized in either of these OS. How to vertically center content with variable height within a div? What is the best way to vertically center the content of a div when the height of the content is variable.  In my particular case, the height of the container div is fixed, but it would be great if there were a solution that would work in cases where the container has a variable height as well. Also, I would love a solution with no, or very little use of CSS hacks and/or non-semantic markup. I have a bathroom door that is quite loud when operated. And when someone goes to the bathroom at night, it innevatibly wakes someone up (and baby room is just across from the bathroom!) there are 3 components of noise, and I was wondering if there is an alternative to fixing them:   door bangs against the jamb (this is fixed with simple foam bumpers) latch mechanism makes a loud CLUNK when door is pushed closed (I was able to dampen it just a bit by putting foam inside strike plate, but it is still quite loud) lock button also makes a CLUNK when the knob is turned and it is released (this can be battled by replacing with a mechanism that needs to be manually opened [twist instead of push] but it is less convenient, and I would prefer something that automatically unlocks)   Any suggestions as to a knob that has a dampening of the latch and lock button? I have only found one youtube video of my ideal handle, but there is no information on how it works, where to buy it, or anything else: How to write a unit-test / test class for trigger? How do I write a unit-test / test class for a trigger?  What are my options?   Inline with the trigger?  New Class? Improving our spatial data by calculating "Close to Coastline", "Close to Park", "Close to Stadium" etc A quick background for context is maybe helpful for this.  Essentially we have "vacation rentals" and I would like to add additional data to them automatically. We create booking websites for customers who have very niche sites, for example,    "Pet Friendly" rentals.  "Olympic Cottages" "Surfing Adventure Lettings".    Quite often each of our customers always ask the same questions,   "It would be awesome if we could plot the distance and sort properties based on their relative distance from XYZ".   Usually XYZ is something like a list of dog friendly beaches, or cycle tracks, or wine vinyards. So esesntially points of interests which are easily definable. In those cases, we've always just asked the customer to provide a list of the lat/lngs of every possible "point of interest" that they would like us to calculate distance from".  More recently we've been asked to include "Close to Coastline".   What I want is to come up with a standard way of automating this. My ideas so far are to create a shapefile. For example, let's say we wanted to do "Close to Coastline", we could use something like     At this point, I'm somewhat stuck in knowing how would be most efficient to calculate the distance from the edge of the coastline.   I'm thinking about being able to just create/add a shapefile per "concept" that the customer wants us to use for their product. But then do not know the process/tools available to me to know distance from each edge, or vector point. How to use classes from .jar files? I read the Java tutorials on Sun for JAR files, but I still can't find a solution for my problem. I need to use a class from a jar file called jtwitter.jar, I downloaded the file, and tried executing it (I found out yesterday that .jar files can be executed by double clicking on them) and Vista gave me an error saying "Failed to load Main-Class Manifest attribute from [path]/jtwitter.jar".  The guy who coded the .jar file wants me to import it, but where do I store the .jar file to import it in my code? I tried putting both the .jar file and my .java file in the same directory, didn't work.  The file I'm trying to work for is here:   I'm using JCreator LE. Screen resolution stuck at 1024x768 How can people teleport through forcefields in Star Trek? Occasionally, people have been able to teleport through a forcefield in Star Trek. Was there ever a consistent explanation for this?  I'd previously assumed a forcefield was like a solid wall. Or do they have gaps? Evaluating $\int_{0}^{\frac{\pi}{2}}\frac{\sqrt{\sin x}}{\sqrt{\sin x}+\sqrt{\cos x}}\, \mathrm{d}x$ Who took care of Naruto when he was young? In episode 350, we see that the Third Hokage took on to take care of Naruto. But towards the beginning of the anime Naruto is seen to be living alone.   Did Naruto live with the Third? If so, why did he leave there?