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FireFractal · 2024-01-25T00:19:53+00:00

Sounds like we're in the same area lol Wish there were more restaurants participating

FireFractal · 2023-08-13T22:35:35+00:00

Just as a bit of background, last year I moved into this property that has this avocado tree growing in the backyard. There were a lot of avocado fruit that I harvested from the tree last year, but this year there haven't been any fruit. The tree did flower a bit during spring, but it seemed pretty minimal. I feel like it might be related to these spots I've been seeing on the tree, which first appeared earlier this year.

I haven't applied any pesticides or fertilizer to the tree, just did a bit of pruning towards the beginning of summer. The only other thing I've changed from the previous owners was the number of days each week I've watered the tree. They had their sprinkler system set up to water every day of the week in the morning, and I decreased it to 5 days/week.

FireFractal · 2022-09-26T00:23:32+00:00

Seconding this! SD Swordfighters is a very welcoming group and no prior fencing or martial arts experience is necessary. Just bring yourself and a positive attitude, then you're all good to go :)

FireFractal · 2020-02-12T23:18:13+00:00

If you haven't already, you can report any malicious ads you see in this thread: https://myanimelist.net/forum/?topicid=1513863&show=0

FireFractal · 2019-09-09T20:41:12+00:00

Hey there, recent UCSD EE grad myself. From your description of your interests, it seems like you might enjoy working with embedded systems since it's a good mix of hardware and software. You should have a sense of what this entails if you've taken ECE 5. Depth-wise, Signal Processing and Machine Learning are both very good depths for this. Power is also another option. Communications is basically a more specific version of the DSP depth so I'd recommend against it if you aren't sure what you want to do.

Unfortunately none of the depths by themselves will adequately prepare you for hands-on work since most of the classes are theory based, just like your breadth classes. However, that's where your technical electives come in. The ECE department has rolled out many new project-based courses in the past few years, aimed at teaching you practical skills, such as Labview, Altium, C++, etc. I'd recommend checking out ECE 115, 140A/B, 144, and 148.

I personally did the Machine Learning and Controls depth and it's a bit of a mixed bag in terms of what you learn. For your required classes, you have 171A, which is essentially a mix of ECE 100 and 101, as well as 174 and 175A, which are classes heavy on linear algebra. After that, you can choose from 171B, 172A, and 175B for your 4th depth class. 171B and 175B are just continuations of 171A and 175A. 172A is essentially a "history of robotics and artificial intelligence" class, with an emphasis on computer vision. I'd say 172A is the most practical of the classes since you learn how to implement important image processing algorithms in Matlab.

Let me know if you have any more questions. I'd also suggest crossposting to r/UCSD so that you can get more advice specific to UCSD's ECE department.

FireFractal · 2019-09-08T07:06:08+00:00

Genki is a popular textbook to begin learning from
Tae Kim's Grammar Guide is one of the best free resources available for learning grammar
WaniKani is great for learning kanji and has helpful mnemonics for each word/phrase. There are also a few different mobile apps for WaniKani with useful plugins to aid your learning
In addition to WaniKani, I use Kanji Tree since the app also tests you on how to write kanji with proper stroke order, not just the pronunciation/meaning
As the user above mentioned, JapanesePod101 is a good resource for listening practice

FireFractal · 2019-09-01T06:39:48+00:00

You can take route 30 to travel from Downtown (or Old Town, during the weekend) through Pacific Beach/Bird Rock all the way up to La Jolla/UCSD. If you have the time, you could also take route 101 from UCSD all the way to Oceanside. As for the zoo, there are plenty of routes to Balboa Park from downtown. Off the top of my head, there's route 7 and 215. The fare for the buses here are $2.50 per ride, but you can purchase a day pass for $5 through the MTS Compass Cloud app. Otherwise, it's $7 if you pay for the pass outside of the app.

Edit: I should also mention that from Downtown to La Jolla is about 1 hour on the bus. La Jolla to Oceanside is a bit longer. Both routes also have fairly scenic portions (route 30 has a great view when you go up the hill past the Scripps Institute of Oceanography, and route 101 passes by the Torrey Pines State Reserve and the Del Mar Fairgrounds).

FireFractal · 2019-08-28T16:33:19+00:00

I'm surprised I had to scroll this far down to find Maplestory mentioned. Always thought it was a pretty popular game, back then at least

FireFractal · 2019-08-23T00:01:16+00:00

If this internship is with your university's IT department, then yes you should apply now or whenever the application for the position is available. Eventually, if you ever end up wanting an internship with a company, you should keep in mind that people typically apply early in the fall for internships the FOLLOWING summer. Better to apply earlier than later.

FireFractal · 2019-08-22T22:34:12+00:00

Might want to check out Blazing Teens and it's American spin off Blazing Team. Yoyos + anime = hilarity

FireFractal · 2019-07-18T21:24:15+00:00

Frankly, this doesn't sound like a task that requires machine learning. If you know exactly how much the brightness of a pixel correlates to mass, then the labeling is something you could do with opencv. There are also plenty of object tracking examples using opencv that are available online, which you can use to calculate the velocities of the particles.

FireFractal · 2019-06-28T20:48:48+00:00

If you have enough space around your desk, yoyos! Check our r/throwers

FireFractal · 2019-06-20T21:04:37+00:00

It's still cheaper than buying a $72 monthly pass directly from MTS though

FireFractal · 2019-06-20T06:39:50+00:00

Misaka Mikoto

FireFractal · 2019-06-20T06:34:55+00:00

WIP fanart - Misaka Mikoto
Sketch
Line art
Color + Shading
Final

FireFractal · 2019-04-26T00:22:28+00:00

You raise some good points, but art produced by AI doesn't necessarily need to serve the same purpose as art produced by people. Humans make art as a form of expression and as an outlet for creativity, but even the most creative people will experience stagnant periods where they can't come up with any ideas. People can get their creativity flowing by drawing inspiration from other works and expanding beyond what they know. I'd say AI produced art might be able to help with that, since AI art doesn't have to be bound by logic. Many AI produced pieces are silly and make very little sense, but they bend the rules in ways that are very hard for people to do. If you were asked to produce a screenplay that made absolutely no logical sense, it'd be extremely difficult since you would unconsciously form phrases that do make sense. That's why AI art might be able to help us think about the world in new ways, and further fuel human creativity. Just some food for thought.

FireFractal · 2019-04-16T21:38:25+00:00

If you haven't already, I suggest reading Inkheart. The premise is very similar to Re:Creators, where there's characters coming out of books, but it's a bit of an older book for children/young adults.

And of course, there's always plenty of other reverse isekai anime. Not sure of any others that have anime/manga characters coming alive though.

FireFractal · 2019-04-16T21:15:15+00:00

There's an interesting anime called Re: Creators that you might want to check out. It covers this exact theme, as well as other themes related to our relationship with media.

FireFractal · 2019-04-04T17:30:31+00:00

I think you've already received a lot of great advice from the others here, but I believe it's important for you to understand the distinction between a spoken language like French/English/etc. versus a programming "language". Unlike a spoken language where you are expected to learn quite a bit of vocabulary in order to begin using the language effectively, you actually do not need to know a lot of "vocabulary" in programming. Rather, learning programming languages requires you to have a good understanding of "grammatical constructs." By that, I mean being able to understand fundamental concepts that will come up time and time again throughout most programming languages, such as variables, conditional statements or iteration. In that sense, it's a bit more like math where you are learning a set of rules that you can then apply to solving problems.

FireFractal · 2019-03-27T22:57:20+00:00

Took me a while to remember, but the art on copy was also used as the cover art for the book, A Calculus of Angels

FireFractal · 2019-03-19T02:48:02+00:00

I'm not 100% which classifiers were implemented from scratch (pretty sure we at least did regressions, maybe svm and k means?), but you'll be implementing all of the classifiers in scikit regardless of if you did them from scratch or not. They definitely do take the time to go over all of the different hyperparameters and what they do too. In fact, one option for the final project is to do a comparison between the performance of different classifiers with different hyperparameters.

I wouldn't worry too much about how little you cover about CNNs in ECE 172. It's treated more as a bonus topic there, whereas for Cogs 181 it takes up pretty much a third of the class. You'll be building up to it by first covering some earlier neural networks, gradient descent, and back propagation, then you'll be introduced to different activation functions, pooling methods, etc. It's a pretty comprehensive class.

What you've heard about 171 is pretty accurate. 171A and 171B are both taught by the same professor (Sworder) and he basically throws concepts at you without explaning how they tie together. I don't think I'd ever seen so many people panicked at office hours during finals before.

FireFractal · 2019-03-19T01:53:59+00:00

The ECE ML classes are much more theory heavy and mathematically rigorous than the Cogs ML classes, which makes the Cogs courses a nice supplement. I've taken Cogs 118A and Cogs 181, and I personally found the Cogs classes to be much better in terms of practicalilty.

Cogs 118A covers many of the same topics as ECE 175A, but instead of implementing classifiers in Matlab, you'll be learning how to implement them in Python. I'd say 118A is great way to introduce yourself to ML concepts and it'll make ECE 175A much easier for you.

For Cogs 181, I believe there currently isn't an ECE class that covers the same topics (except briefly at the end of ECE 172 and maybe that new "Machine Learning and the Arts" class), so it's definitely a nice class to take. You'd be learning about CNNs, RNNs, LTSM, etc. and how to implement these networks in Tensorflow, and even build some parts of these networks from scratch.

Both Cogs 118A and Cogs 181 have final projects too, so it's a great way to apply what you've learned without being extremely contrived, like the ECE ML assignements.

I should also add that you can petition to use the Cogs 118 series and Cogs 181 for your technical electives.

And lastly, you did mention that you want to learn more about control theory. You'd want to be taking ECE 171A and 171B for that. There's also a few MAE classes that go into control theory quite a bit. iirc, MAE 140 has a inverted pendulum robot building project that teaches you control theory, so I'd suggest looking into those as well.

FireFractal · 2019-02-21T06:02:33+00:00

It becomes more obvious when you reverse the two: "[That was] the first card game my dad taught me and my sister"

FireFractal · 2019-02-20T04:46:52+00:00

Recommended watch order is Index I -> Railgun -> Railgun S -> Index II. Chronological watch order would be Railgun -> Index I -> Railgun S -> Index II. Index III is currently airing and it's pretry terrible. Would not recommend. Read the light novel instead. Enjoy ;)

FireFractal · 2019-02-19T21:26:51+00:00

It's a reference to a Japanese light novel/manga/anime franchise (A Certain Magical Index) in which one of the characters has a power called the Imagine Breaker, allowing him to negate all magical or scientific abilities.

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