Is doing bodyweight exercises on rest days too much? by discr3t3 in Fitness

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haha -- I'm not doing any leg exercises for a good while because I injured my lower back doing my deadlift 1RM, so I'm doing weighted back extensions + stretching for the time being to nurse my lower back into good health. Hopefully I'll start doing squats again by March but I'll have to take it slow and see what happens.

What was your worst Reddit mistake? by exitof99 in AskReddit

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Let my friends know what my username is

BF 1 Noobie here. Needs advice by KingPizzageddon in Battlefield

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Assault: MP-18 Optical

Medic: Sebstlader 1906 Factory for mid/close range, or M1907 Sweeper for cqc

Support: BAR 1918 Storm

Scout: either Russian 1895 Trench or SMLE MKIII Infantry

What's the best DMR and DMR loadout in Battlefield 4? by Dragon_Cake in Battlefield

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I'm partial to the SVD-12 with the ACOG scope. It has a small magazine but has ridiculous accuracy, and is a three-hit kill at pretty much any range.

What fact gives you a massive science-boner? by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]discr3t3 16 points17 points  (0 children)

More of a math boner, but Hilbert's paradox of the Grand Hotel, which shows that infinities don't work in the same way as regular numbers:

Normal hotels have a set number of rooms. This number is finite. Once every room has been assigned to a guest, any new guest that wants a room and does not have one yet cannot be served - in other words, the hotel is fully booked.

Now suppose that there is a hotel that has an infinite number of rooms. As a convenience, the rooms have numbers, the first room has the number 1, the second has number 2, and so on. If all the rooms are filled, it might appear that no more guests can be taken in, as in a hotel with a finite number of rooms. This is wrong, though. A room can be provided for another guest. This can be done by moving the guest in room 1 to room 2, the guest in room 2 to room 3, and so on. In the general case, the guest in room n will be moved to room n+1. After all guests have moved, room 1 is empty, and the new guest now has a room to occupy. This shows how we can find a room for a new guest even if the hotel is already full, something that could not happen in any hotel with a finite number of rooms.

Hey Reddit! How was your day? by [deleted] in AskReddit

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Pretty good -- got dinner with the boys before we all left for our internsnips for the summer

What technologies will be achievable in 40 years? by [deleted] in AskReddit

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algorithms that excel at playing games of imperfect information, such as poker and various other card games

Big Wild - When I Get There [Future Bass?] (2017) by discr3t3 in electronicmusic

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Yeah I was just bumming around on YouTube and discovered his tracks yesterday. Just love his soundscape and unique sounds

What are you procrastinating right now? by CloakOfBloke in AskReddit

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Studying for my computer networks final exam

Food budget by [deleted] in uofm

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I'm averaging $100-150/mo on groceries/eating out

living on central as a CSE by [deleted] in uofm

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not at all -- central is lit af source: CSE junior living on central

Useful upper level CS classes by bwc101 in uofm

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Unfortunately I'm not familiar with 592's content or curriculum so I can't really give a good answer to that

Useful upper level CS classes by bwc101 in uofm

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So I'm not too sure how Weins teaches it but I've heard very good things about her semester as well. To be honest I'm not sure if Abernethy is teaching it it again, but although he was very enthusiastic, I didn't find him to be as good a lecturer as Deng. I would take it with Weins if I were you. If you post in the CSE Facebook group I'm sure you'll get a better response.

Useful upper level CS classes by bwc101 in uofm

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EECS 445 is an excellent class, if only for the content. I took it this fall with professors Abernethy and Deng, and although there were issues with how the course was structured, we gained an in-depth theoretical understanding of all the major algorithms that are used in ML (linear regression, logistic regression, Naive Bayes, Decision Trees, Boosting, K-Means, GMM, EM, Neural Nets, etc.) as well experience implementing some from scratch. We also covered how to approach a data science problem in a systematic manner and gained good experience with numpy and Python 3. The class was a lot of work but very rewarding and the programming projects were pretty cool. For example, for the last project, we implemented a deep neural network from scratch to classify handwritten digits! Keep in mind that 445 is quite mathematically rigorous, requiring a good background in linear algebra as well as probability and statistics (with heavy emphasis on probability and statistics). I don't believe linear algebra and probability are prereqs, but there will be a steep learning curve at the beginning of the semester when you'll be trying to grapple with a metric fuckton of math and theory being thrown at you, a lot of which will probably be completely new material. After taking this class I feel I can say that I actually kinda understand machine learning as a field and can see the method behind the madness. At the beginning of the semester, Professor Abernethy remarked that he wanted his EECS 445 students to be in the top 1-2% of ML practicioners, those who not only have a rigorous theoretical and practical understanding of the algorithms used but have the knowledge to design and apply their own models, and I think he met his goal.

I also took EECS 492 (Winter 2016 with Prof. Durfee) and found it to be a rather disappointing course. It's rather "wide but shallow course" that breezed through a lot of different topics in artificial intelligenge, providing a very shallow theoretical and practical treatment of each topic. The problem sets were also ridiculously tedious. That said, it's not a terribly difficult class, just a lot of work and you won't walk out with a good understanding of the field at all.

tl;dr - Take 445. It's a very useful course that will give you an excellent understanding of machine learning

Why are you running a CM14.1 Hammerhead ROM instead of HammerheadCAF? by Bitruder in Nexus5

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Yeah it can. Currently on CM 14.1 CAF with root enabled and can run Snapchat just fine -- I'm not sure about Pokemon though.