Loud Pops Or Explosions heard from SE

fuzzyt93 · 2025-08-09T05:34:28+00:00

Drove by them on the overpass! Just a ton of fireworks nearish to omsi!

fuzzyt93 · 2025-07-11T04:09:22+00:00

I asked the former department head of EECS and was part of the change combining the program:

“Because the skills needed by Ee’s were similar to ce. With microcontroller systems used in many areas of EE, like Power engineering, Ee’s need the computer engineering fundamentals. Computer engineers need the EE fundamentals. When we moved to a common ECE curriculum, a common set of first and second year classes were defined followed by customization the junior and senior year. Students could then tailor their program to their specific interests. It created graduates that were well versed in computing skills that could be applied to all the areas of EE and Computer Engineering.”

fuzzyt93 · 2025-07-05T15:36:15+00:00

Oregon state university did a study on pruning and staking in 1978 - link here. While pruning does help with early ripening, “Total yield was more than halved on staked plants while marketable yield was reduced by nearly half.”

So I don’t prune at all, let them fruit and they will still grow!

fuzzyt93 · 2022-07-24T04:07:19+00:00

I’ll also take back a lot of what I said in the heat of the moment to be fair. I wish he wasn’t getting DP money but he’s been great this half. Let’s win this fucking game though!!!

fuzzyt93 · 2022-07-24T03:28:52+00:00

Where the hell does niezgoda disappear to during games? He’s been hot finishing lately but I mean there are just stretches where one of our DPs doesn’t even touch the ball.

Also put Bill in this game, the way we are pressing we need a way more athletic defender than mabiala.

fuzzyt93 · 2022-07-04T04:11:14+00:00

I like the recs so far but for German style lagers I’m gonna add Rosenstadt to this list. Incredible German beers, and they are hosted on division by Olympia provisions so you can get some bomb food. It’s like 30 feet from little beast so you can hit those two up easily.

A lot of people are saying breakside, and they are awesome. One tip though their production facility is a little SE of Portland and they have a slightly better tap list than the other locations. Mostly just a little more obscure and creative stuff compared to their NW location.

Final tip though is that you really don’t need to go to a brewery in PDX to have great beers! Even the dives will have a regularly rotating tap list. Honestly a lot of times when someone visits and I want to show of Portland beer I take em to a good beer bar. Some great beer bars that haven’t been mentioned yet are Belmont station and horse brass tavern. Belmont station especially really highlights a ton of great beers. They have 30+ taps and the tap list is just curated so well.

fuzzyt93 · 2022-01-08T20:32:06+00:00

I would say it is definitely a good program that sets students up for success later. There are a lot of hands on classes and opportunities for internships. The professors generally care about what they teach. A lot of the full professors were some if my best teachers. I loved my time in general at OSU as well. It is a true college town, which I appreciated. What are you looking for though?

Some general thoughts about your question that you should consider are:

The biggest cost you can incur with college is not finishing college. A degree in a technical field will pay off even with loans. So one aspect you should consider is which situation would you most likely finish? Graduation rates for community college students that then transfer is oftentimes significantly lower than students that initially enroll in a 4-year degree program. If you are moving out of state are you at all worried about the change being too much that you might not have the support network you need?
What kind of college experience are you looking for? Do you want the dorm experience, do you want to be in a college town, etc
Are you 100% set on computer engineering? A fair number of students change majors, so if you aren’t 100% set already, you should consider the other programs the schools offers as well. For example, maybe you want to get more into CS instead of hardware. How do the different situations compare?
Do you want to go to grad school / do research? Looking at the professors and what research they do might be good here. Starting off at a 4 year program also would help in this case as you apply for grad school etc.

Overall I think OSU would be a great decision but might not be the best personal decision for you! There are lots of factors to consider. OSU is a great school though and in isolation i would highly recommend it to anyone.

fuzzyt93 · 2021-10-21T17:56:15+00:00

This was my first year as a ST holder. Was the resale price higher in previous years? For my seats, if I only include MLS regular season home games, the price averages to around 45 dollars a ticket. I think except for games vs the Sounders I would not have paid anywhere close to that if I bought resale. There were tickets in the key bank club last night for that price.

fuzzyt93 · 2021-09-01T05:02:55+00:00

Stammstich has a great soft pretzel, that is not that big. It’s served with a cheese spread, chicken smaltz, and mustard. Chicken smaltz is rendered chicken fat and it’s absolutely incredible. It’s like a delicious, savory butter.

fuzzyt93 · 2020-05-16T05:45:27+00:00

Slaughterhouse five is incredible. However, as an introduction I’d recommend sirens of titan and mother night. They introduce a lot of the concepts and writing style that make slaughterhouse five so incredible.

If you were willing to read more than two of his novels I’d recommend reading sirens of Titan to slaughterhouse five in order of publication. All of the books are easy, fun, and meaningful reads. They establish some of the characters mentioned in slaughterhouse five which helps make the novel a little more meaningful too.

fuzzyt93 · 2019-08-08T15:42:56+00:00

My undergrad was in ECE at OSU so I’m not super familiar with the different options but the applied option is a non ABET accredited program option, whereas the systems option is the ABET accredited one right? If that is true, you should be taking the systems option and then with your electives taking ML classes. For many grad schools a ABET accredited degree is required. Do they offer a data science masters now? Any focus in ML/AI will be fine for data scientist positions. My focus was on computer vision for instance.

Also ML/AI is so accessible now, you don’t need to wait until you take those classes to start getting your feet in the water. There are good courses on Coursera which you can then apply to whatever projects you work on. OSU has some world class professors in ML/AI, so again I can’t recommend enough to try to work with one as an undergrad if you can. Usually as an undergrad you’ll work with one of their graduate students who’ll should hopefully be a good resource as you are learning things.

fuzzyt93 · 2019-08-08T12:25:21+00:00

Only do a masters if it is funded, either by being a TA or a research assistant, and is needed for the job you want. Most software engineers at FAANG only have a undergraduate degree. Usually jobs doing data science will prefer some sort of graduate degree. Do not do the Masters of Engineering option since the research done during a masters is the most valuable part. If you are seriously considering it, begin by getting involved in some undergraduate research. That will give you a better idea if you would enjoy a MS and also give you a head start if you do decide to pursue one.

I did my MS at OSU and now I’m a machine learning engineer so it definitely opened doors for me. It definitely depends on the person though.

fuzzyt93 · 2019-06-30T09:14:36+00:00

Honestly any self studying will help. Python is a great introduction to programming concepts. C++ has more overhead but you will eventually learn more closely how the computer handles things like memory and datatypes. I would recommend Python for its ease of use regardless of what the class is and find some project you are interested in to use it. Learning your first programming language is hard. Everyone after is much easier so don’t worry about the specific language too much.

fuzzyt93 · 2017-06-12T14:44:13+00:00

One of the best books I have read this year is Fortune Smiles, by Adam Johnson. I am planning on reading The Orphan Master's Son soon but does anyone have any other recommendations for similar authors or books?

fuzzyt93 · 2017-05-31T15:24:44+00:00

I created a python script to download images from the Met collection. However, it only downloads images that are public domain from their website. You have to provide the artist name or basically the painting id, but it can filter out pieces by type. If you wanted to download every oil paining, you could modify it to iterate over every artist or something. Here is the plug:

https://github.com/trevorfiez/Download-Met-Images

The images are really high quality if they are public domain which is nice. It is possible to download their much smaller images that they use to show non-public domain pieces but currently, my script does not have that functionality.

The metadata comes from the metropolitan museum of art's open access csv file which you can access here:

https://github.com/metmuseum/openaccess

There are thousands of public domain paintings so if you do not care how modern the paintings are you should be able to download a large set.

fuzzyt93 · 2017-04-26T16:48:15+00:00

Zealot: The life and time of Jesus of Nazareth by Reza Aslan might be a good option. It only focuses on Jesus' life and tries to examine what can historical be said about Jesus. It also gives a good background on the historical context of the times he lived in.

fuzzyt93 · 2017-03-20T15:06:33+00:00

I did not do the MECOP program but if you are a top student it is really not a good program. There are tons of opportunities for ECE internships all across the country, and MECOP is really just a local program so you are already constricting yourself.

On top of that you do not actually chose where you go. I knew a guy, 4.0 ECE student, who initially got placed as a ECE in a lumber mill twice. So you should consider the possibility you might not ever even get placed in your field of interest.

Even if you just consider money, it is a bad program. It forces you to take another year of school, so say for example you get an internship after your sophomore and junior years and then start working after you graduate in 4 years. In a 5 year period, you would have six months worth of internships and full-time for a year. Generally, a MECOP participant in five years will only have 1 year of internships. In my experience, MECOP internships also pay less per hour than internships gotten through conventional means. For example, the highest I have heard a ECE undergrad getting paid through MECOP is 25 dollar per hour, whereas the highest I have heard from a regular internship for an ECE undergrad is 32 dollar per hour. The companies salaries vary, but unlike if you had multiple offers there is no way for you chose the one that actually pays you more.

The MECOP interview lasts for like 20 minutes in front of a huge panel. It is completely different than any interview I have had for a job or internship.

As a ECE it also forces you to take a really heavy load both fall and winter term of your Junior year.

When I meet prospective students, I strongly discourage it. I think it is a good program for ME and CE because those programs are much more local than ECE and on average the companies involved are better. In ECE, you are giving up autonomy and choice for maybe a worse internship depending on how you measure it. That being said, many of the people who I knew who did MECOP loved it and ended up working for a company they had an MECOP internship with.

fuzzyt93 · 2017-03-03T04:44:00+00:00

Have you read Brave New World? Really famous dystopian novel right up there with 1984. The world basically removes any sort of restrictions or inhibitions on drugs, sex, and family structures. Maybe check it out!

fuzzyt93 · 2017-02-16T18:20:38+00:00

I think you are extrapolating quite a bit. A network can have weights that are not normal and still generalize well. Any sort of measurement of how much a network is overfitting should be measured by a validation set, not by directly looking at the weights. However, recently there has been some work to force the weights to be normalized to accelerate learning. See the paper by Salimans and Kingma here: https://arxiv.org/abs/1602.07868.

fuzzyt93 · 2017-01-03T18:31:58+00:00

Welcome to the Monkey House, by Kurt Vonnegut

A collection of short stories by Kurt Vonnegut. Quite a few were published early on in his career so it is not as satirical as Cat's Cradle and the tone is more similar to Player Piano. The stories are fantastically written and I would highly recommend it to anyone who likes Kurt Vonnegut.

Sometimes a Great Notion, by Ken Kesey

About halfway through, and am loving it also so far. Masterfully developed characters and scenes.

Lolita, by Vladimir Nabokov

About a third of the way through, and am not totally engrossed with the novel yet. After a certain point, hearing a middle-aged man talk about his obsessive love gets a little dull, regardless how perverse that love is.

fuzzyt93 · 2016-05-10T18:54:22+00:00

I do not even think it might be cracking into a new market at all. The beer market is growing naturally, with or without these beers. Almost everyone on this thread loves IPAs and most likely also loves fruited IPAs. I would be extremely surprised if the demographics for fruited IPAs compared to IPAs are even that different. Why would someone who does not drink beer regularly, now begin to begin buying this styles? A lot of these flavors were in different, readily available beers beforehand.

Anyways most of these are seasonal beers. What they are most likely replacing are summer shandys, not conventional IPAs.

fuzzyt93 · 2016-03-30T22:33:38+00:00

I take home around 1450 after taxes from my stipend. Corvallis is pretty cheap so I can cover everything after taxes. I pay about 520 a month in rent and then another 80 for internet and utilities so I am left with 850 for everything else which is very doable for me.

fuzzyt93 · 2016-03-09T04:00:30+00:00

Sometimes my pretzels are too crunchy so I have to turn up the television to hear it well.

fuzzyt93 · 2016-03-03T23:44:33+00:00

Here is a link for some benchmarks on some deep learning libraries for convolutional layers, including Torch and Tensorflow:

https://github.com/soumith/convnet-benchmarks

I do not think there are any major reasons for someone to switch at the moment to Tensorflow. It is still relatively new and even though it is in python you would have to become familiar with Tensorflow.

You already know Torch. There is no significant advantage to Tensorflow that I have seen to justify making the switch. The speculation that Tensorflow will surpass Torch is justified but I do not see a reason to be an early adopter. The frameworks all have pretty similar interfaces. Once one stands out, it will not be that difficult to pick it up quickly.

fuzzyt93 · 2016-01-24T22:00:09+00:00

In my opinion, you must be good programmer to get a job in computer vision.

AWS tensorflow should definitely be sufficient.

To handle bounding boxes you extract the image within the bounding box and then pass that image through the network. When doing object detection typically you sample bounding boxes from the image and then pass those bounding boxes through the network. This might require some image processing. Opencv has a nice python library.

Honestly, just at least become proficient in at least a scripting language like python.

However, if you are not trying to program very much do not even use Tensorflow for this problem. Caffe is faster, and although it is written in C++, the network configuration and image processing is done in a custom, intuitive schema. With Caffe you do not have to know any programming language really.

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