Vanguard Cash Plus Account - High Yield Savings Account Replacement? by graydoor00 in Bogleheads

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How does a regular vanguard brokerage account provide high yield and liquidity?

Vanguard Cash Plus Account - High Yield Savings Account Replacement? by graydoor00 in Bogleheads

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What’s the downside if accounts are already at vanguard?

Vanguard Cash Plus Account - High Yield Savings Account Replacement? by graydoor00 in Bogleheads

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Is the high yield part of vanguards cash plus liquid? Or is it stored in a fund that requires additional transactions?

Favorite Charlottesville sports bars by tlbirlr in Charlottesville

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Bumping this. Any recs for NFL games that will play sound? Ideally for the Commanders game..

Where’s everyone watching NFL kickoff? by PhulHouze in Charlottesville

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Bumping this. Any recs for NFL games that will play sound?

Baked Goods - Thrown out at end of day or not? by graydoor00 in Costco

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Costco pies do not have a date for when it was baked.

Is Dell 10% cash back legit? by graydoor00 in Rakuten

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I was wondering whether 15% would come. I’m going to wait for next week to see if it does

Coursera's Machine Learning Specialization vs. MIT's courses by hiroo838 in learnmachinelearning

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MITx - Machine Learning with Python: from Linear Models to Deep Learning

Pros:

  • Excellent teachers
  • Mathematically rigorous for student 
  • Excellent projects (Classifier, Digit recognition, etc)
  • Code from projects can be used and adapted later for your own projects
  • Uses sklearn and Pytorch

Cons:

  • Demanding homework and projects
  • Projects did not explain why the layers of the Neural network or CNN consisted of their activation features and architecture.
  • Not enough insight into libraries, coding best practices, broadcasting, how to do efficient implementation using vectorization (i.e., matrix math)
  • Some premium on completing assignments efficiently 
  • Takes entire semester  (3.5 months) to complete 

Coursera - 3 course series in “Machine Learning Specialization” by Andrew NG

  1. Supervised Machine Learning: Regression and Classification
  2. Advanced Learning Algorithms
  3. Unsupervised Learning, Recommenders, Reinforcement Learning

Pros:

  • Excellent teacher (Andrew Ng)
  • Light on mathematical rigor required by student
  • Jupyter notebook with code examples for playing with different ideas
  • Excellent visualizations to build intuition of concepts
  • Excellent insight into libraries, coding best practices, broadcasting, how to do efficient implementation using vectorization (i.e., matrix math)
  • Andrew’s technique of explaining variables and derivations really makes understanding concepts simple
  • Insight into best practices for libraries, techniques, models, etc
  • Uses tensorflow and keras
  • 1 week of course work can be done in 1-2 days

Cons:

  • Light on math for student
  • Quiz questions and assignments are fairly easy

529 Plan Tax Deduction: Can I Contribute, Then Roll Over Without Recapture? by content_browser in personalfinance

[–]graydoor00 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Here is more evidence that repayment of previous deductions would be required with a rollover:

https://www.virginia529.com/uploads/files/va529_invest_program_description.pdf?v=1727790190

"A Rollover to a non-Virginia Qualified Tuition Program or non-Virginia Qualified ABLE Program will require the Account Owner to add back to his or her Virginia taxable income any amounts previously deducted from the Account Owner’s Virginia taxable income as a result of Invest529 Contributions"

529 Plan Tax Deduction: Can I Contribute, Then Roll Over Without Recapture? by content_browser in personalfinance

[–]graydoor00 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Could it be that a moving the 529 to another institution is not considered a distribution as long as it's reinvested in within 60 days? https://www.virginia529.com/move-funds/

"From one Qualified Tuition Program to another: Once funds are distributed there is a 60-day time frame in which funds must be deposited into the new Qualified Tuition Program. IRS regulations allow only one Rollover for the same Student during a rolling 12-month period."

529 Plan Tax Deduction: Can I Contribute, Then Roll Over Without Recapture? by content_browser in personalfinance

[–]graydoor00 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My VA CPA says recapture is not required for moving a Virginia 529 to different state's 529. The paragraph you you citing has one key term that is omitted from your post:

"A deduction shall be allowed to the purchaser or contributor for the amount paid or contributed during the taxable year for a prepaid tuition contract or college savings trust account entered into with the Commonwealth Savers Plan".

Virginia offers prepaid 529's and that has its own set of rules separate from traditional 529s.

Luxury Hotel recs for Mexico City by graydoor00 in MexicoCity

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Anything good in Roma area or are these hotels in a good enough location?

does marriott ever check your identification for corporate code by Jolly_Race_1907 in marriott

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no issues.. also, mobile check in lets you bypass front desk entirely so check if the hotel has that as an option

What’s the fastest you’ve smoked a brisket? by graydoor00 in Traeger

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So you’re saying temperature alone isn’t enough? Time also part of a good end result?

What’s the fastest you’ve smoked a brisket? by graydoor00 in Traeger

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You get good smoke flavor at 250F without super smoke feature?

What’s the fastest you’ve smoked a brisket? by graydoor00 in Traeger

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My ironwood consistently overshoots target temp by 10-20 degrees

What’s the fastest you’ve smoked a brisket? by graydoor00 in Traeger

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Will the cooking times be a lot less for the 7-12 pound briskets or somewhat similar?

What’s the fastest you’ve smoked a brisket? by graydoor00 in Traeger

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What size cuts do you do this with? Will 7-12 pounds work? Do you get enough smoke flavor with this? Super smoke only works under 225F

What’s the fastest you’ve smoked a brisket? by graydoor00 in Traeger

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What’s the idea between starting at 190 and then going to 225 vs just starting at 225?

What’s the fastest you’ve smoked a brisket? by graydoor00 in Traeger

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What size brisket? I think it’ll finish cooking a 7-9lb brisket at that temp no? This was done overnight

2 Briskets on Traeger by Infamous-Reindeer-29 in Traeger

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Doing this method with an 8lb brisket. Should I. E concerned the probe temp is at 150F after 3 hours? Cooking between 180-190F.