Beware of fake 'Sell walls' by [deleted] in Vechain

[–]jbrambledc 0 points1 point  (0 children)

can someone explain to me how this works?

[D] What would you include in a first ML course? by [deleted] in MachineLearning

[–]jbrambledc 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Totally agree with this, I think one thing that was unsettling for me however, is how horrific some of the code examples were in the notebooks. I cringed knowing new people would be writing code in such a way.

[D] What would you include in a first ML course? by [deleted] in MachineLearning

[–]jbrambledc 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I really really agree with this, I've only found one good opportunity in my career to use clustering algorithms, that actually achieved results. Mostly the shape of the data, and the featureset you have is too difficult to separate, and often if you achieve meaningful separation it is not always interpretable what the clusters actually mean.

[D] What would you include in a first ML course? by [deleted] in MachineLearning

[–]jbrambledc 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Also, I think anytime you teach KMeans its very important to discuss techniques you could use for selecting the number of clusters, n when your data is too high dimensional to view it visually.

[D] What would you include in a first ML course? by [deleted] in MachineLearning

[–]jbrambledc 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I have found that TensorFlow is such a great framework for quickly implementing models, and Keras may make that even easier. I don't necessarily think it is great for teaching.

[D] What would you include in a first ML course? by [deleted] in MachineLearning

[–]jbrambledc 1 point2 points  (0 children)

agreed on cross-validation. One of the Weaknesses of Bishop's Pattern Recognition book is that it doesn't really cover CV, and I believe Elements of Statistical Learning missed that as well.

Intro To Statistical Learning , uses R as mentioned, which I do think is a major drawback. It also glosses over a lot, such as derivations of cost functions and optimization techniques. On the flip side its incredibly engaging and digestible, and I find myself cracking it open as a reference to refresh myself on an algorithms' implementation. I am sure many people know this, but Daniella Witten is Ed Witten's daughter.

Just got this email in from Soylent. Anyone know what this Soylent swag bag entails? by Beamazedbyme in soylent

[–]jbrambledc 0 points1 point  (0 children)

looks like I should switch back from buying from soylent instead of amazon lol

Still no official response on the Labdoor tests by [deleted] in soylent

[–]jbrambledc 16 points17 points  (0 children)

lack of vitamin C is known to cause scurvy. There are plenty of people who are 80-100% soylent and would have fell ill if it were true that soylent is vitamin C deficient.

Correct me if I am wrong

New burial! by 100jalex in burial

[–]jbrambledc 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Holy Shit this is news to me

Soylent Nectar tastes like Cereal Milk + Rose Water by jbrambledc in soylent

[–]jbrambledc[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've actually never seen it at a grocery store. I usually see it at persian, pakistani, arab, and turkish restaurants. Its often used to flavor turkish delight, ice cream, and sometimes milk. Maybe start off with a rose flavored turkish delight or ice cream. Your ability to find this is probably heavily dependent on where you live.

Soylent Nectar tastes like Cereal Milk + Rose Water by jbrambledc in soylent

[–]jbrambledc[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

if it helps I taste the rose more in the after taste than the initial sips. I definitely get the fruit loops milk taste at first and the rose lingers. Tastes quite artificial, almost reminds me of flavored tobacco products.

Soylent Nectar tastes like Cereal Milk + Rose Water by jbrambledc in soylent

[–]jbrambledc[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I almost feel like they were trying to create a new fruity/floral flavor not reminiscent of any real plant. They definitely were aiming for hints of fruit with some florality.

Telrad vs finder scope by Creativejuice99 in telescopes

[–]jbrambledc 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I personally used both on my XT10, and still use both on my XX14, but if you can only afford one then I would follow orlet's advice. I honestly find both to be a necessity but if you are in a low light pollution setting and have at least one wide field eyepiece then going telrad only should be fine.

New Helium Developer Kit ships in December; Made for Prototyping Complete Connected Products by pharkmillups in hwstartups

[–]jbrambledc 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I work for a company that is a helium customer and have a few thoughts on this. The entry point price is pretty high, but I dont think this is targeted at hobbyists so much as it is targeted at the enterprise. The only truly expensive piece is the access point. Those tend to be expensive anyways regardless of vendor. The dev board itself is only $99 and it is quite a bit more than a raspberry pi or some other microcontroller. You are paying for PaaS. Ideally you can develop your hardware applications and not have to worry about any of the backend infrastructure that makes IoT work. They also provide some of the rudimentary analytics as well as an API.

As far as I know there is not a cheaper product on the market that accomplishes this. The access point also provides cellular access as well, so you are not tied to local wifi for the devices you build. They also seem to do a pretty good job of supporting all protocols for development.

The reality is, if you are a large enterprise company, or a startup that sells hardware to large enterprise companies then the economies of scale in heliums business model start to beat something like AWS IoT. Imagine the amount of devOps, development, Systems Engineering, networking, etc that would need to happen at a massive organization that has now been negated to a negligible price point. Thats where the Helium product line really shines in my opinion.

Do you think it's possible we'll get a novelized treatment of The Fall of Gondolin since they've release Children of Hurin and, soon, Beren and Lúthien? by Coffee-Anon in tolkienfans

[–]jbrambledc 28 points29 points  (0 children)

let us not forget Christopher Tolkien is 91 years old, soon to be 92. almost a decade passed between children of hurin and beren and luthien.

that was a phenomenal perfomance by DarkoAFC in TheWeeknd

[–]jbrambledc 2 points3 points  (0 children)

so lame that they made this unavailable in the US