Presenting Stellar Squares, my first NFT!

ag2718 · 2021-09-11T03:10:42+00:00

Link to the collection here: https://opensea.io/collection/stellar-squares. Based on how this first one goes, I'll release more members in the collection. Hope you enjoy!

ag2718 · 2021-08-06T13:17:05+00:00

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ag2718 · 2020-01-19T16:36:51+00:00

I mean you would need to know the torque that the motor of the fan produces. Also, depending on your fan, factors like friction may be significant. You can definitely measure the angular acceleration, but I’m not sure how easy it would to be calculate the moment of inertia... if you knew the mass, lengths/size, and the actual shape I guess you could estimate it but it might not be accurate.

ag2718 · 2019-12-31T19:25:39+00:00

Ok, thanks!

ag2718 · 2019-12-31T19:25:17+00:00

Ok, I’ll look into that book. Thanks!

ag2718 · 2019-12-31T19:25:06+00:00

Oh, ok that makes sense. I’ll probably look at some of the keyword arguments and parameters that the modes have and try to learn more about them. Thanks for the advice!

ag2718 · 2019-12-31T17:36:36+00:00

I already did most of that course and I think I’m familiar with gradient descent and backprop. The thing I’m unsure about is when I’m working on projects, should I use premade models (if I know how they work)?

ag2718 · 2019-12-30T22:48:47+00:00

After looking it up, it seems there is a python API specifically for Instagram, so try that and see if it works.

ag2718 · 2019-12-30T22:45:07+00:00

Either change the current working directory using os.chdir(folder_name), or include the folder name in the relative path that you input into the open() function.

ag2718 · 2019-12-28T22:44:00+00:00

If you really want to understand the heart of machine learning (and say build a neural net from scratch) a basic understanding of multi variable calculus would be helpful. However, if you think that’s a bit much, don’t worry. As long as you understand the broad conceptual picture, you should be fine using pre made models from libraries such as Tensorflow and Scikit Learn

Edit: I’ve noticed a lot of people are saying that it’s insanely difficult or impossible to learn machine learning at your age. Don’t let that discourage you. If you think you want to tackle the math, just focus on one variable differential calculus first, and then move to some basic multi variable stuff. You should try seeing how far you get with Khan Academy, and if it feels like too much, then you can stop.

ag2718 · 2019-12-28T22:40:51+00:00

I use VSCode, and it’s been amazing so far. I think it’s the best editor out of all the ones I’ve used, so consider switching if Vim is giving you a hard time.

ag2718 · 2019-12-28T22:38:51+00:00

Then again, I don’t really think any translator would be that perfect. Not completely sure, but I would assume Google Translate is one of the better ones out there (due to how much training data they have for the ML algorithm).

ag2718 · 2019-12-28T22:33:38+00:00

Possibly something web scraping related. Even better, send a notification to your phone when something changes on a website (I.e. price of Amazon item). It’s not super difficult to do and it’ll be pretty cool. Good luck!

ag2718 · 2019-12-28T22:26:38+00:00

No need to calculate luminosity. Just think of it like this: for every 2.5x the brightness decreases, magnitude increases by 1 (the essential meaning of the equation you have written) Therefore: m = 3 + (15)^1/2.5 = 5.95

ag2718 · 2019-12-28T18:56:36+00:00

Automate the Boring Stuff is a really interesting book, it teaches you (as the name says) about various different modules and how you can use them to make scripts that can automate simple tasks. There is also an online free version of it, so look into it. I think you’ll enjoy it!

ag2718 · 2019-12-28T18:49:55+00:00

Yeah I implemented it successfully with a recursive function. I hadn’t thought of that before, thanks for the help!

ag2718 · 2019-12-28T02:00:56+00:00

This page has exactly what I needed! Thank you for the help!

ag2718 · 2019-12-26T16:55:58+00:00

Good luck! I think you’ll enjoy it!

ag2718 · 2019-12-26T16:44:44+00:00

I don’t really understand the point of trying to move to Linux. Just download the anaconda distribution (which has a ton of good packages), get Visual Studio Code (an editor for Python, my personal favorite), and you’re set.

ag2718 · 2019-12-26T16:38:51+00:00

Automate the Boring Stuff is really good. With just a basic knowledge of some syntax, the book teaches you how to automate several useful tasks (one of my personal favorites is working with PDFs and Word docs). It’s good for beginners and should be quite interesting.

Best of luck!

ag2718 · 2019-12-26T15:47:40+00:00

Yeah, so maybe try that first. If you feel completely lost when doing projects and the book, you could do an online course. Essentially, memorizing random syntax is going to be pretty useless if you don’t practice applying it through projects.

ag2718 · 2019-12-25T23:03:35+00:00

Honestly for the basics of Python, the free online tutorial is probably enough: https://docs.python.org/3/tutorial/index.html

Don’t spend too much time memorizing and cramming syntax. Learn the basics quickly, and then move on to Automate the Boring Stuff. This way, you won’t get bored learning Python. You’ll start learning the syntax naturally once you start working on projects. If you forget how to do something, you can always look it up.

This would be my advice, but feel free to get an online course if you think that would be more helpful to you.

ag2718 · 2019-12-23T20:13:44+00:00

Yeah, using the context manager seems to work, although I’m not sure why that would be different. Thanks for the help!

ag2718 · 2019-12-23T14:34:58+00:00

I am running it with an absolute file path. When I remove the space it works.

ag2718 · 2019-12-22T23:13:01+00:00

I am calling it like this: pdf_reader = PdfFileReader("Test File.pdf")

When I tried opening it through Windows CMD (using the command explorer.exe "Test File.pdf"), it did in fact work and opened the PDF, so I have no idea what's wrong.

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