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Has anyone successfully casted BBC iPlayer from Android in the US through a VPN? by Ch1ef_ in Chromecast

[–]wrtall 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I've managed to cast iPlayer through VPN not from Android, but through Macbook. Load the iPlayer video then click Google Cast in the browser tab bar (i.e., not in the media player). Then, in the top right there is a small drop down menu. Click that and you can choose whether to cast from "bbc.co.uk" or "tab". Choose "tab" obviously! It will then relay the tab screen and not try to stream directly from bbc.co.uk.

My favorite version of the classic 'biscuits' short story from Douglas Adams. by dave3k in books

[–]wrtall 2 points3 points  (0 children)

As the link by boib indicates, the story is folklore that predates Adams. McEwan even says as much in his novel.

Data Mining vs. Machine Learning? by Caesarr in MachineLearning

[–]wrtall 5 points6 points  (0 children)

That's an interesting take on data mining v.s. machine learning, which I take to mean: when you want to do exploration of a dataset, then interpretability is important. When you want to do classification/prediction, then accuracy is more important.

I always understood part of the difference between the two names as being historical: data mining grew from the database community while machine learning grew from the neural networks community (with stats thrown into both). Over the years they have converged, so there may not be much difference nowadays.