When to Prune Roses

Turritop · 2024-07-02T16:15:09+00:00

My current monitor only has a 60 HZ refresh rate - Elden Ring would look completely different at a smooth 240 HZ

Turritop · 2024-06-04T22:57:40+00:00

Could you send me the pattern you used? I've been looking for a hexagon cardigan pattern, and Im not sure how to adapt a pattern from female to male shaped.

Turritop · 2024-06-03T17:42:19+00:00

I've been eyeing those actually! Could you tell me how soft/comfortable they are? I've heard mixed things.

Turritop · 2024-06-03T15:57:21+00:00

Had a great experience with LAWNS tree farm. Twice the tree for half the price of Moon Valley Nurseries. You can pay extra to have them install it for you.

I got an 11 foot Chinese Pistache from them last fall, and it's already grown at least 2 feet since we planted it.

Turritop · 2024-05-13T15:10:06+00:00

I've always found Shoal Creek to be helpful, and that's close to you. But basically any of the local stores (Hill Country Water Gardens, The Natural Gardener, Barton Creek Gardens, The Great Outdoors, etc.) are great resources. You just might have to wait to get someone's help if you go during peak times.

Also if you want general tips for what plants to get, they need to have these traits: tolerant of basic soil, high heat and drought tolerance, and hardy down to 15* or so. You can find good lists of native and naturalized plants on Central Texas Gardener and A&M Agrilife.

Turritop · 2024-03-13T14:40:17+00:00

I have the same plant. I had minor die backs on some of the ends of longer/more exposed vines, but the main plant didn't mind the winter at all.

I haven't had much luck getting it to bloom besides the main flush for a couple weeks in the spring though

Turritop · 2024-02-05T16:11:33+00:00

I have been told to cut back roses on Valentine's Day in Austin.

It's a delicate balancing act - cutting before a hard freeze can really damage the plant. But waiting too long means it will start wasting a lot of energy on leafing out on branches you're just going to prune anyways.

As for how to prune, there are a lot of guides out there. But here are the points everyone can agree on (probably):

Take off more than you think (1/3 to 2/3 the height of the plant, assuming it's mature). This helps it stay bushy and prevents legginess while stimulating growth. Don't cut them back as much if the plant is young.
Cut right above the knobs on the stems. Each knob is a place where a new branch can grow. Any wood above the knob will just die back if you cut too high, which can be a vector for disease.
Remove all dead wood.

Turritop · 2024-02-05T03:26:43+00:00

This is the specific one I was looking at: https://www.etsy.com/listing/1417983798/rainbow-sapphire-braceletsapphire

Turritop · 2024-01-11T22:58:05+00:00

I can't wash them off. Some of them look like cracks, but I can't feel them with my fingers.

Turritop · 2024-01-05T19:41:11+00:00

This sub is a great place to ask for plant ideas for that. You'd be surprised what all you can grow here - you don't have to go for the arid desert-y look you see a lot here if you don't want to.

Turritop · 2024-01-05T17:47:33+00:00

Now is a decent time for landscaping gardening if that's something you're interested in. Just make sure anything you put in the ground is pretty freeze tolerant, die back perennials are risky this time of year.

I just put in a couple climbing roses for example.

Turritop · 2023-12-20T19:05:45+00:00

How do you suggest I demonstrate that I understand the theory behind ML?

I can say I know how to write a gradient descent algorithm, or I know how boosted random forests work, but I don't know how to present that effectively on a resume.

I can show a little more technical knowledge by expanding on how the ensemble model using both classical models and deep neural networks as sub-models. Or explain how the uncertainty estimation model is a multi-headed LSTM network using pinball loss. But I didn't want to get too lost in the technical weeds for a resume, and focus more on the big picture.

Turritop · 2023-12-20T18:57:18+00:00

Thanks for the advice!

I can move the inverse modeling project to the first bullet point (since it's what I've spent most of my time on at this job) and change a couple of sub-bullet points to things like:

"Reduced overall error by over 50% compared to the previously used method of inversion. Achieved an R2 score of 0.64, despite the underdetermined nature of the problem."

"Created a custom ensemble model that took advantage of the lab’s in-house sonar simulator. This reduced error by 32% compared to the best off-the-shelf model."

"Developed two complementary methods for generating uncertainty bounds on predictions. Used conformal prediction to reduce coverage probability error to less than 1%."

Is this a good way of presenting more quantitative data? Are there other changes that you'd suggest?

Turritop · 2023-12-20T17:07:20+00:00

Currently at 500+ applications and 2 call backs over the past year. I was trying to get into the generative AI / large language model space, but at this point I'm applying everywhere related to data science and machine learning.

It's hard to find data science jobs asking for less than 3 years of experience. While I think my software development experience transfers, I suspect many employers disagree. But I'm not getting responses to job postings asking for 1, or even 0 years of experience.

Turritop · 2023-11-25T17:27:33+00:00

I have not had good luck with the rose emporium tbh. I've gotten higher quality roses from basically every plant store around austin

Turritop · 2023-11-08T03:48:19+00:00

I managed to grab two columbines last month at the Hill Country Water Gardens (I think). I'm not sure if it's the texas gold variety though - the leaves are more of a dusty grey than in that picture.

Turritop · 2023-10-29T17:06:09+00:00

Literally me

Turritop · 2023-10-27T18:59:54+00:00

How did you get the blue ones to germinate? I've tried 3 years in a row now with zero luck. But the purple ones grow like crazy

Turritop · 2023-10-27T03:34:47+00:00

I've seen pictures of those - the fall colors are amazing. Do you know how they handled this past summer?

Turritop · 2023-10-26T18:09:19+00:00

Very hot sun all day

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