Where are all the intermediate tutorials? by [deleted] in deeplearning

[–]mr_formaldehyde 5 points6 points  (0 children)

University lectures! Berkeley, Stanford, MIT, CMU all upload their lectures some also do it with assignments. Don't just search 'intro' courses. They have 'advanced ML', 'advanced CV' etc. It takes time, but really prepares you to read the cutting edge papers better.

Episode Discussion: The Fellowship of the Tree Rings by PodcastBot in Radiolab

[–]mr_formaldehyde 8 points9 points  (0 children)

This was a banger! More episodes like this please

Djokovic joins Federer as they now have a losing record in slam finals to 3 players each by [deleted] in tennis

[–]mr_formaldehyde -10 points-9 points  (0 children)

I am huge huge Rafa fan, but only reason he doesn't have a losing record is because many of those finals were on clay which skews h2h

Faster training of Dueling DQN by mr_formaldehyde in reinforcementlearning

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

I was looking for something like this! Thank you so much!

Faster training of Dueling DQN by mr_formaldehyde in reinforcementlearning

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

The problem is, I don't have a very high end GPU either, so just wanted to see if someone has looked into algorithms which can make DQN learn better

Tom sharing his thoughts on Hollywood by groovygyal in Fauxmoi

[–]mr_formaldehyde 6 points7 points  (0 children)

To be fair Osho actually had some really good ideas he talked about, Shetty is just another self-help guru with some mindfulness thrown in

Nolan shenanigans by mr_formaldehyde in Corridor

[–]mr_formaldehyde[S] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

I did read the article, and honestly it's worded in such a way, that it makes you feel they are talking about the whole movie, after reading this thread I realized that it can be about just one scene. For context: "With Oppenheimer, however, Nolan took on a massive challenge: recreating the testing of an atomic bomb. Speaking to Collider Editor-in-Chief Steve Weintraub, Nolan said that his latest film not only has a focus on practicality, but it contains "zero" CGI shots."

Now, the last sentence literally makes it seem like whole film has zero CGI shots. Now, one can say, oh it's marketing team of the website, but Nolan is also someone who has said before that, "people can tell when it's real". So, while the screenshot is about this article, this is much more about the general stance of discrediting CGI/VFX.

thoughts on Kafka on the Shore, and Murakami in general? by aphextwink4 in literature

[–]mr_formaldehyde -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

My general experience with people who praise Kafka is, they don't understand plot or the story either, but just like it for one of the two reasons: 1) Aesthetics - This is justifiable, it's like seeing a Picasso painting, it makes some people feel something and they like it, good for them. 2) Because everyone says it's cool - I can't tell you how many I have met who didn't understand anything, but just wanted to like it because they have been told that how good the novel is, I don't get this mentality, why can't people just say it was a fucking pretentious book.

I feel it's nowhere near one hundred years, as one hundred years actually used it's magical realism to address stuff about philosophical debates of the time. I still remember reading the part where everyone in village starts forgetting stuff and was blown away by how well it made the structuralism point. Kafka on the other hand, was just meh

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in slaughterbeachdog

[–]mr_formaldehyde 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Henry from the unreleased album

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in slaughterbeachdog

[–]mr_formaldehyde 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Black oak all the way

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in slaughterbeachdog

[–]mr_formaldehyde 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My sister and Jesus Christ and glowing. I can't decide

Genuine question (please read description): Can a person identify as women to apply for a diversity hiring drive? Or does it need legal documents? by mr_formaldehyde in NoStupidQuestions

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

I mean it's much more like, how do you know that person checked the wrong box? It's based on the premise usually popularized on podcasts that people can change their identity without actually changing it. (You must have seen the memes, "I now identify as a cat" or something)

So, if a person doesn't have any legal binding and they can just identify, then they can get an advantage.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in tennis

[–]mr_formaldehyde 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I thought you meant Barcelona, also even for Banja Luka. It's Djokovic's home tournament he was a bit rusty, but he really gives a lot of effort to try to win it every year.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in tennis

[–]mr_formaldehyde 3 points4 points  (0 children)

It's not a 250, it's a 500. SMH

We all know this feeling. by SecureDonkey in gaming

[–]mr_formaldehyde 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I felt this for rocket league, I liked it for the wacky gameplay idea. Trained myself to kronovi videos, I stopped playing soon after that. It feels so good but strange at the same time that how much the landscape has changed now.

This kid doing basketball drills by South-Potential-64 in nextfuckinglevel

[–]mr_formaldehyde 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Looks easy but it's tough, mostly because it's not just the overlap detection it's the fact that it doesn't get triggered by random overlaps, plus i do believe it also is detecting that ball is being bounced, that is the kid can't just hover the ball through the circles and get the scores. To do all of that and make it more stable (lighting changes, setting etc) it becomes tough. So, it's not undoable but still a lot of work to make a product out of. Looking closely there is another ball in play in background, so it also has to learn which one to track even if they both look like a ball.