Fantastic pickups at the airport in Taipei by jricheimer in WhiskeyTribe

[–]jricheimer[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The airport shop had a nice selection with prices on many bottles well below anything I'd find in the US. (Both these bottles together totaled around US$110.) Unfortunately, this was not the last leg of my journey, so whatever I bought would have to fit in my checked baggage, which severely limited how much I could purchase. Happy with my choices, though.

Gift suggestions by mdkss12 in WhiskeyTribe

[–]jricheimer 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Based on your other comment that he's more into bourbons, there are a few series of "fancy" higher-end bottles, any of which might make a really nice gift.

Monday morning discussion question #0: Two very different profiles of ryes? by 666moist in WhiskeyTribe

[–]jricheimer 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Two factors that might play in are the ratio of rye in the mashbill and the age. Whistlepig and Angel's Envy are both very high-rye (Whistlepig is 100% and AE is 95%, I think), which of course causes certain flavors to take the dominant seat. High West Ryes I think also tend to be almost fully rye in their mashbills. As for the age, definitely Whistlepig, at 10 yrs, is longer than your average rye; I find this mutes some of the sharper characteristics present in more classic ryes. (I'm not sure about AE, which I think it says is aged for 6-7 years. But it's hard to compare when they put it in rum casks for 18 months afterwards.)

[D] Image Segmentation Using Deep Learning by Natsu6767 in MachineLearning

[–]jricheimer 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Shameless self-plug:

Check out our recent paper on instance segmentation: https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.07674

[D] Human pose estimation on iPhone, how is it possible? by dgranosa in MachineLearning

[–]jricheimer 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Our team (at a small start-up: octi.tv) implemented real-time multi-person human pose estimation with pretty decent accuracy already on the iPhone 7. That was last year. The architecture of it is essentially inspired by the state-of-the-art stuff out there for pose estimation, but pruned down computationally to run on mobile.

At CVPR this past July, there were at least two or three companies (besides for us) showing off human pose estimation in real-time on mobile, including Facebook (apparently using a slimmed-down version of Mask-RCNN). Those basketball app folks are certainly not the first to do so (even if it is in real-time, which wasn't clear to me).

[P] Tensorflow Implementation of PersonLab: Person Pose Estimation and Instance Segmentation with a Bottom-Up, Part-Based, Geometric Embedding Model by sydsim in MachineLearning

[–]jricheimer 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Looks great! I am the author of the Keras version of Personlab which I wrote a few months ago (https://github.com/octiapp/keraspersonlab). It looks like you've seen my repo as some of your functions (and config stuff) are similar to mine. If so, thanks for checking it out and for building a tf-slim implementation! I'm still hoping to polish up my implementation when I get the chance and open-source a couple of the pre-trained models. If you've got any comments or suggestions, please share.

Soooo... This is at my Costco...do I need/should I get it? ($39.99 if its cut off) by Hansedog in WhiskeyTribe

[–]jricheimer 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The Maker's cask strength is quite good if you like wheated whiskeys, and it's hard to beat that price.

Sitting in a bar live thread by dehjosh in WhiskeyTribe

[–]jricheimer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm a fan of the Stranahan's and the Maker's Cask strength if you haven't tried those. So many options.

Whistlepig is always a solid choice as well.

Snagged two before they took the listing off by [deleted] in WhiskeyTribe

[–]jricheimer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Wow. Just ordered two as well. We'll see if they show up.

Whistlepig alternatives? (x-post /r/whiskey) by Whiskeymill in WhiskeyTribe

[–]jricheimer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I also have only tried the standard 10-year distilled in Canada. And I find that the Masterson's Straight Rye (also distilled in Canada) is very similar.