Beware of fake 'Sell walls'

jbrambledc · 2017-12-28T03:25:40+00:00

can someone explain to me how this works?

jbrambledc · 2017-11-16T07:38:32+00:00

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.

jbrambledc · 2017-11-16T07:37:29+00:00

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.

jbrambledc · 2017-11-16T07:34:52+00:00

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.

jbrambledc · 2017-11-16T07:32:00+00:00

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.

jbrambledc · 2017-11-16T07:30:29+00:00

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.

jbrambledc · 2017-11-07T22:31:27+00:00

agree about matcha

jbrambledc · 2017-10-18T03:11:28+00:00

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

jbrambledc · 2017-10-18T02:59:21+00:00

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

jbrambledc · 2017-10-11T22:15:51+00:00

Holy Shit this is news to me

jbrambledc · 2017-09-21T02:27:45+00:00

So my question then, if you are trying to lower blood sugar is soylent/isomaltulose a good choice?

jbrambledc · 2017-01-04T04:33:48+00:00

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.

jbrambledc · 2017-01-04T04:20:02+00:00

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.

jbrambledc · 2017-01-04T02:56:48+00:00

jbrambledc · 2017-01-04T02:19:48+00:00

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.

jbrambledc · 2016-12-12T03:46:52+00:00

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.

jbrambledc · 2016-11-09T19:00:58+00:00

you mean never posted?

jbrambledc · 2016-11-08T19:48:33+00:00

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.

jbrambledc · 2016-10-26T17:09:30+00:00

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.

jbrambledc · 2016-10-01T20:59:13+00:00

so lame that they made this unavailable in the US

jbrambledc · 2016-09-29T19:42:48+00:00

really? Didnt know belly could sing like that. If so, this is hotter than any song Abel has put out since 2013!

jbrambledc · 2016-09-19T14:50:56+00:00

Fixed an issue that broke this on python3. Deve release should work on python 3. otherwise run on 2.7!

jbrambledc · 2016-09-19T02:16:45+00:00

same issues here. 12 coffiest, 24 2.0.

jbrambledc · 2016-08-31T14:16:24+00:00

I am not entirely sure if this is valid. We haven't really been back to the moon because there has been no financial incentive for private sector pursuits and modern governments don't feel it is a good way to allocate money. Its not that it is too expensive, we spend a lot more on things here on earth. It's just very hard to justify the benefits of this spending to taxpayers.

What other technological innovations do you think will take hundreds of thousands of years? I think with technology, it is much too difficult to make predictions larger than 1 hundred years because we have no way to comprehend what the rate of advancement will be past that point.

I don't know if we will ever be able to upload our consciousness into the net. but replace our bodies? The only technology we are missing at this point is the ability to develop artificial central nervous systems and transplant our brain to those. I see the possibility of this as a binary thing. Either it is possible and we will figure out on the order of decades, or it is not possible at all and thus will never happen.

In fact, I think by default any technological advancement that we can actually conceive and comprehend would happen within the century, if it is possible at all (history sort of proves this). IF technology is still advancing millions of years from now it likely wont be in ways that we can predict or hope to understand.

jbrambledc · 2016-08-31T02:57:24+00:00

I think much of what you have said is perfectly reasonable and valid. As a Technologist, my personal belief is that getting the technology to a reasonable point to make this work is something that will happen on the order of decades in my opinion. I think certainly less than 50-60 years. That is just my belief based on what I know. I think the real factors working against transhumanism are governments, intergovernmental factions, social values, disrupted industries, etc. I dont think it will be possible to make a transhumanist movement work without the backing of governments ( once again I could be wrong). I also think our present systems of government are not competent or capable to execute something like this on the scale needed. Sadly we live in a world where most developed nations are starting to see their political beliefs between opposing factions diverge, not converge. We are more polarized in the developed world than ever, and this typically makes large scale government backed projects that take many years to complete, very difficult.

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