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A Good Introduction for the Beginner
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This is a good introduction for the novice who is interested in removing some of the mystery around what machine learning really is. Prior experience with R would be a benefit, though isn't absolutely necessary. The most frustrating flaw of the book is that all images are in black and white, yet the book refers to the colors of data points.
Bottom Line Yes, I would recommend this to a friend
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Good Introduction with Examples
By MRC01
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Targeted for people with some programming experience, this book is a good introduction to machine learning. It covers a variety of algorithms and examples.
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There's just too much missing
By Rob
from Seattle, WA
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This was a pretty disappointing text. I'm reading this as an experienced programmer and hobbyist AI/ML/Statistics guru, and there's just too much that's missing for me to recommend this book. It reads less like "Machine Learning for Hackers" and more like "Statistics for People Who Want to Use R Without Understanding the Fundamentals." I found myself excited at the beginning of the chapter and disappointed by how little actual detail or information was provided beyond "type these commands to get numbers and hope for a good number."Chapter 12 ("Model Comparison") is a great example of this. While talking about SVMs, this is a snippet of what's provided: "As you can see from looking at Figure 12-6, the rather complicated decision boundary chosen by the sigmoid kernel wraps around as we change the value of gamma. To really get a better intuition for what's happening, we recommend that you experiment with many more values of gamma than the four we've just shown you." ... Really? To get a better feel for what's happening, I should just try more values for gamma? There is no mention of what, fundamentally, gamma is. The reader is supposed to just try different values and not worry about any details. This is one example, but it is a good example of how disappointed I was near the end of many chapters.I understand this book is targeted at beginners, but the number of times the author glosses over (or cleverly avoids) actually explaining an incredibly fundamental piece of a chapter leaves the reader wondering if the authors genuinely understand the material themselves.I'm giving it two stars because it's easy to read, there are decent suggestions as to which R packages are useful for statistical analysis, and because I enjoyed the overfitting examples and graphical depictions early on in the book.The book is not terrible, but it is lacking.
Bottom Line No, I would not recommend this to a friend
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Basic machine learning theory
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I've long been fascinated by Artificial Intelligence and wanted to get started without knowing where to begin. This is why I picked up this book, thinking this would be a good starting point.Truth be told, this was a good book and gave some insight, but not what I was currently looking for though. So for beginners into AI this is not the starting point.What this book did give me though, was a brush-up on statistics, predictions and an introduction to R. Going through the book the author starts building up knowledge on how to use predictions, estimates, clustering and similar techniques in order to make a machine learn to know what to do next based on previous events. The theory is then backed up by practical using the language R. The one chapter I liked the most was about building a simple recommendation engine on who to follow on Twitter based on your current profile. That sample got through some graph theory combined with clustering models, all summed up with some graphical elements summing up the points going through the chapter.Unfortunately in the end I still felt left in the dark not knowing where to go from here. R seems like a really strong language for performing many types of statistical analysis, but I have yet to see how I should use that in some mainstream application. This is probably due to lack of knowledge on my side, but it just underlines my point about this not being a "beginners" book regarding machine learning.To summarize it, the author did present basic statistical models that can be used in order to aid machine learning, all this combined with practical examples. But you need to have a higher baseline and previous knowledge about machine learning and ideas about in to utilize it in order to fully enjoy this book.
Machine Learning for Hackers
By Mary Anne
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About Me Data Scientist
Machine Learning for Hackers gets you started using R for machine learning. The book does a good job telling you how to install R and where to find help.There are lots examples on how to explore data using ggplot2. Other package covered include plyr which they equal to map reduce. tm package which is used in polynomial regression. glmnet and the Lamda function. K-Nearist neighbor algorithm which uses the class package.
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Broken Code
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A book heavily focused on the results of code to illustrate concepts takes on a BIG risk of that code being or becoming broken. The UFO example should refer to Unidentified Faulty Objects. Used the online code to work through a few more steps but still ended up with errors, errors that should not occur when cutting and pasting.
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Great book
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About Me Developer, Maker
It goes through the very basics of statistics to build the necessary knowledge to the machine learning algorithms. On the other hand it doesn't explains in depth shown blocks of code, leaving to the reader to understand particularities of the R programming language. The use of R allows the easy processing of data with few lines of code, on the downside its a very different language so it requires some effort to be understood. For beginners in R, its very valuable to lookup and understand used functions to enlighten used algorithms. This book is truly made for hackers as it requires low level statistics and high level of curiosity to play with code, it also uses real word data on its examples making it even more attractive and fun.
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Enjoyable but light on useful detail
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(Disclosure: I received a free review copy of this book.)I had high hopes for this book after the first few chapters. The emphasis in the early chapters on cleaning data rings true to anyone who has ever had to deal with a body of real-world data.But after that it fell into a repetitive pattern: state a problem, give a nontechnical description of a machine learning algorithm, and explain how to call the appropriate ML library in R. With no math and little description of most algorithms, if you want to do something besides use R's built-in libraries, this book isn't so helpful.The writing style is lively and enjoyable, and the authors picked interesting real-world examples. They probably could write a really good book on machine learning, but this one isn't it.
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the best book to start mACHINE LEARNING
By abhi1one
from india
this may be the book that helped me to start hacking AI and ML!!!
(12 of 13 customers found this review helpful)
Plenty of content with good examples
By Peter
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Machine Learning for Hackers provides an introduction to Machine Learning and the increasingly popular statistics oriented language: R.The book covers the basic concepts and some useful tools, including:An introduction to R;* Basic stats and probability;* Supervised and unsupervised learning;* Linear regression and categorization;* Non-linear data and regularization;* Principal Component Analysis (PCA) and input correlation;* Multidimensional scaling (MDS) for clustering;* k-nearest neighbour (kNN) for social network analysis; and* SVMs for non-linear classification.The general structure of each section is to first introduce a new concept, then demonstrate it by applying the concept to a trivial data set. Next, the technique is applied to a real data set. This structure is a great way to understand a technique.The complete process of first massaging the data and then determining the technique to apply is covered. Occasionally the author makes a wrong turn and the analysis fails. The demonstration of failure, why it occurs and what to do about it is a great feature of the book.The book is almost completely lacking in any of the mathematics or workings of the underlying algorithms being used, which may be considered a good or bad thing. Sometimes the book felt more like a tutorial on using R's various machine learning packages, rather than learning about machine learning itself.If you aren't familiar with R or machine learning, this book presents a significant learning curve. Unfortunately, R's syntax can be quite opaque, even to experienced programmers. Indeed, due to the heavy R component in this book, a better title may have been "Machine Learning with R".I'm not sure you can "hack" machine learning without properly understanding the underlying concepts, but with this book you can undoubtedly try.The book presents a relatively quick, somewhat cursory overview of Machine Learning. It provides a good starting point for further study.
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Bakersfield March Meet - Bakersfield's BestWritten by on June 2, 2010 The March Meet Is A Magnet For Custom Classic Trucks
If you want to see old farm trucks, go to an old farm town. Bakersfield, at the southern end of California's San Joaquin Valley, is our personal favorite. Not just for the trucks, but for the vintage drag racing at Famoso Raceway, 20 miles north of town.
The March Meet has been an annual tradition here since 1959 when it was called the U.S. Fuel and Gas Championships. The biggest names in the sport all raced here in drag racing's golden days of the '60s. Ten years into the 21st century, this new-historic event and less-than-state-of-the-art strip still have the feel of the old days, especially when front-engined Top Fuel dragsters, Gassers, Altereds, and nostalgia Funny Cars pull up to the starting line.
In addition to the racing, the March Meet always features a low-key car show in the Grove area located behind the grandstands. Beyond that is the swap meet. If it's new stuff you're after, the huge vendors midway has it all-from parts and apparel to automobilia. And the pits and staging lanes is where you'll find the between-rounds action. We hit it all, on the lookout for custom classic trucks. And we found lots of 'em: great drag trucks, cool push trucks and tow vehicles, a couple of interesting haulers, and a bunch of local homebuilt street trucks, including some old farm trucks. Take a look.
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When this was the Crazy Hawk, it was an A/Gas record holder. Now Duwayne Neuman bracket races the '41 Willys pickup, powered by an alcohol-injected Chevy big-block. It's channeled over a stretched frame, and runs in the low 9s. Duwayne pulled the trailer all the way from British Columbia with a custom '47 Chevy Loadmaster. Originally a Coca-Cola truck, it's built on an '86 Chevy 1-ton chassis, and is further modified with a mid-engine 5.9-liter Cummins engine and a '69 Kenworth sleeper.The coolest push truck of the March Meet was Bobby Tocco's channeled '35 Ford. We never actually saw it pushing the nostalgia Funny Car they were running, but we like the drilled split wishbones and Super Bell I-beam axle, exhaust system, and Mexican blanket interior. The Chevy 350 runs a CSR electric water pump.Don Dohlen's '48 Studebaker pickup is all home-fabricated, the window sticker promises. Get a load of those massive Mickey Thompson meats; a single wheeltub extends the width of the bed.The coolest tow vehicle of the March Meet was Robert Brkich's radically reduced '48 F-5, pulling the Blair's Speed Shop '48 Anglia Gasser. Robert's dad had owned the Ford, which was originally a dumptruck. Now it's got a chopped top and sits on a custom frame, with a quarter-elliptic suicide frontend. The 354 FirePower Hemi is adapted to a 700-R4 trans.Floyd Staggs came to this strip with his dad in the '50s. He started racing in 1958, quit in 1965, and came back in 1995 with this '68 GMC 1/2-ton shortbed, racing in D/Gas. The 540 is built with a Merlin block and manifold, single Holley 1150, and Dart heads, and runs on 91-octane pump gas. On Friday the street-legal '68 ran a 10.66/122, its best elapsed time to date.The body for Rich Roberts' '48 GMC hauler was bought right here in Bakersfield six years ago, and now carries Rich's '34 Willys Gasser and tows his Airstream. The truck was built, pretty much from scratch, on a motorhome frame with a fabricated carrier bed.Here are a few more from the Grove. This 351W-powered '52 Ford is Chris Young's daily driver work truck, The suede red is the latest of many colors the old farm truck has worn over the years. Chris added a '51 front end and is waiting for a dropped axle and springs. The dash has been autographed by George Barris, Gene Winfield, Mike Ness, and Lee Rocker.
There were plenty of nice trucks to be found in the swap meet area, including this half-hidden '59 GMC 1/2-ton.Bill Keithley didn't care that his 14-second '74 VW was "the slowest car at the Meet." This was the first March Meet for Bill and his wife Lana, who have been pulling the Beetle with this propane-fed-350-powered '74 Chevy for three years. Back home, the truck is driven daily.There's probably a little more satin black paint in store for Tim Carpenter's '48 Ford F-1, from Ojai, California. We spotted it in the Grove, and liked the painted wire rims with rings and caps, and the nice pinstriping on the hood.Rough on the outside, nice on the inside, Matt Saar's '41 Chevy panel gets driven all over. A 350/350 combination and Heidt's front-end are part of the package. Matt's wife, Stephanie, takes the kids to school in the truck, including 7-year-old Trinity, who picked it out.Maybe next March this swap meet Willys will be a push truck, or show truck, or a cool Gasser pickup running down the dragstrip. We'll come back and find out.The history of the March Meet begins with Art Chrisman, who won the first U.S. Fuel and Gas Championship in Bakersfield in 1959, driving The Hustler. Fifty-one years later, Chrisman and The Hustler are still active and were both back in Bakersfield, joined by Art's '57 Ford Ranchero push car. Art's owned the Ranchero, now running a 428 Super Cobra Jet engine, since 1968.This '55 Chevy with 10-year-old paint runs 15s with a V-6 engine and TH350 automatic, but it's getting ready for a blown small-block any time now. Underneath there's a Camaro front clip. It did belong to "Papa Joe" Fuentez for a few decades, but now belongs to son Jeremy Fuentez. They were racing in the Hot Rod bracket class, until an oil leak ended their day.This two-tone '58 Chevy in the swap meet area is dressed up, for a moment, by the cute redhead. That's gonna make a nice Christmas card.
Mark Wilson drives this old-time '47 Dodge. The paint is a combination of drab-green and history. The motor is a six-cylinder with two Carter 2V carbs on an Edmunds manifold, and Fenton headers. Mark said the door felt and rubber is new, but the glass is original.Down by the finish line, we spotted this primered, chopped, and slammed '48-50 F-1. Owner Roy Keenan told us he bought the Ford from a descendant of Henry Ford. Roy redid the chrome and the interior, and bent a big old Coca-Cola sign and a few others for the bed floor.Back in the swap meet, Andy Lessenden and BJ Johnston of Rumpedy Rods in Bakersfield, were trying to sell this low-mileage '57 Chevy with a 235. Wonder if they ever did.The thing that makes Floyd Hanson's '56 Ford F-100 and Dennis Kelso's '58 Chevy Apache so similar is the contrasting combination of weather-worn paint-faux or for real is your guess-with the fresh-looking chrome and rolling stock. The Ford rolls on painted steelies with caps and rings; the Chevy rolls on supersized Panthers.


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Really, really wonderful!!!
Hello, Sandra, and thanks so much for the comment. Really happy that you like my newest one!
WOW great work Judith!
Thanks so much, Ben, and thanks for commenting :-)
Power of nature.., we may see, as changing weather, but we have no ability to change all around but two sisters have those powers! For me, this is so philosophic picture about our lives, enigmatic powers, in which someone don't want believe :)
Very beautiful, Judith, and fabulously!!! :))))) I feel autumn and fresh aroma of wet-after-rain leaves, lying on the ground.
My HUUGs for you, Judith!!!!
Very beautiful, Judith, and fabulously!!! :))))) I feel autumn and fresh aroma of wet-after-rain leaves, lying on the ground.
My HUUGs for you, Judith!!!!
Hello, Ira, and thanks for your fantastic comment! I love how you interpret my picture! Thanks for stopping by! Big hug to you, too!!!
Thank you!!
I'm really happy you like it, munieca! Thanks for coming by.
That cat and bird collaboration is really hard to find! So different, yet sharing... This is very nice Judith!
Fantastic as usual. Love the spider web cats's cradle
This is wonderful and reminds me of doing the cat's cradle with my friends when I was a kid (but not with spider webs).
gorgeous as always. such a delicate, refined style.
Amazing! Love the masks!
I love this so much. The masks, the way that their hands are holding the spiderweb, just perfect!
Judith..I love love love your work...it's so beautiful!
This is great! Love the masks and the web/cradle!
Oh my!! Dear Irmak, Efi, Mark, Kirsten, Eric, Tammy, Deepti, Phoebe, Terry, Garima, and Catherine: Thanks so much for all these lovely and wonderful comments! Thanks to everyone! I enjoy reading every single one.
New favourite!
Thanks for stopping by, Amy! Really happy you like the picture!
It is nice...I have showcased your illustration at http://rit-artworld.blogspot.com/...hope you'll like it...
I just looked at your blog, and all the artwork you've chosen. Looks great, and thanks for including my works! Very much appreciate it.
I love this!
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love it!
Thanks so much for stopping by, Laura, and for the comment!
Hi Judith :) I just wanted to let you know that I bought a framed copy of this print a few weeks ago and I absolutely love it! You are so talented and all of your work is gorgeous.
Thank you SO much, Phoebe!! You don't know how happy that makes me! Thank you for writing and letting me know. I'm totally thrilled!!!!
Your work is so wonderful!
Thanks so much, Phoebe and Visioluxus! Really glad you like the picture!
Beautiful! Love that they are playing with that string pattern thing, how cool is that.
So great to see you, Rachel!! I think it's called a "cat's cradle". I'm thrilled you like the pic (it's still one of my own favorites ;-)
Fascinating work!! Have you ever been published in print Judith?
wonderful balanced piece, in colors, composition and atmosphere.
For some reason, balance is always important to me in my pictures. I'm very happy with this picture, and happy that you like it, too! Thanks for the great comment! It really means a lot!
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Totally in love with your style!
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love them~
I really appreciate the lovely comment! Thanks, Pazu!
I'm very happy you like this one, Maryam and catspaws!!!
Wonderful, as usual!
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wonderful drawing!
Thank you, Pia! This has always been one of my own favorites ;-)
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Your works are wonderful!
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Perfect Halloween feel :)
Yes, it does have that, doesn't it? Thanks, Cathie!
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1948 Chevy Truck - Flatfoot Forty EightWritten by on July 1, 2008 Contributors: Rob Fortier Bob Almon's '48 Chevy
How does a senior agent for the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation get the nickname, Flatfoot? Normally, that comes with the territory of being a cop, but for Bob Almon, it's because he drives fast. Bob doesn't drive quite as fast these days unless duty calls, but in his younger days he was a menace at the local dragstrip, which is how he picked up the moniker that's stuck ever since. Normally, that comes with the territory of being a cop, but for Bob Almon, it's because he drives fast!
Bob has had plenty of hot rods in the last 20 years and got the hankerin' for an old truck a while back. As luck would have it, a good friend of his by the name of Dusty Cox, who runs Dusty's Collision Center in Pocola, Oklahoma, had a '48 Chevy 3100 and that was the start of things to come. The truck wasn't too bad to begin with, but you know how things go, so Bob took it to Paul Stevens in Greenwood, Arkansas, for a little chassis work. Paul built a new fully independent frame for the '48 using a good deal of parts from an '87 Corvette, which was no small task. The IRS uses the stock Corvette 3.08:1 gears and, paired with the 700-R4 transmission, makes for an awfully comfortable highway cruiser. After the frame was done, all the Vette parts were detailed and the 'rails painted black before Bob threw on the polished 17-inch American Racing Torq-Thrust wheels and Grabber tires.
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Ah! I thought you were doing both the 7" conversion and the Tri-bar install. Feel free to ignore most of what I said Scott
The 5 3/4" headlight is a US only thing. In order to meet US DOT specs your headlight must be adjustable. So they sunk a 5 3/4" light with adjustment apparatus into the 7" original non-adjustable bezel. The 7" is fine for the rest of the world but we're special.There were one or two posts that I saw noting that after installing the 7" headlight it was not aligned properly, another few other notes of small wedges in the bezel to correct, but it seems to work just fine for most people.Scott
The Adjure Tri Bar light is DOT approved. And, Singh, it gives WAY more light than the stock light.I had no idea that U.S. bikes came with 5 3/4" lights. So do they have a different nacelle, or are they adapted somehow?Look here:: www.atvconnection.com/Features/Product_reviews/adjureheadlight.cfm
The Adjure Tri Bar light is DOT approved. And, Singh, it gives WAY more light than the stock light.
Looks good though, don't it....
Singh - Thanks for the pic. All is now clear. Why do they fit those smaller lights to U.S. bikes....? Scott - yes I'd missed the point about adjustability. Mine seems fine as fitted, to my untutored eye....Looks good though, don't it....
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I usually try and send in a tooth out of the critters I kill and just got the postcard back on my 2010 archery bull. He was an Oregon Coast Roosevelt.
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12.5. NFC. No freaking clue.
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Mount Ratings and Counter Wieghts
Posted 13 March 2009 - 08:27 AM
My conclusion is that the capacity rating of the mount does not include the counter weights. The evidence supporting this would be the fact that the mount itself is advertised with the counter weights. The question is how to interpret the capacity of a mount. It would seem in this situation that you don't have to include the counter weights against the capacity. Is this true?
This also brings up another question. There would be two mechanisms that would determine the capacity of a mount. These are the total weight where the mount would cease to function properly, and the inability of the mount to provide proper counter balance. Which mechanism asserts itself first? An interesting note from the field is that there are many complaints about the LX75 SN-10 mount being over matched. There are however those that say "if properly balanced ...". This would give credence to the 'inability to counter balance' mechanism.
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Posted 13 March 2009 - 08:46 AM
Posted 13 March 2009 - 12:14 PM
The weight capacity doesn't include the counterweight.
Usually, but watch out for some older Vixen specs, in some cases they used to include the counterweights in the mount's capacity rating. That made for some very confusing spec matching exercises.
There are so many variables in this exercise of matching mounts to OTAs that you can spend eons researching the possibilities.
As Lane said longer tubes reduce the carrying capacity somewhat, anti vibration pads improve it. The quality of the tripod, how nice and snug all the bolts are (overall condition of the mount if used), the length and type of saddle on the mount, how smooth the gears are, how well balanced your scope(s) are, what type of work (imaging vs. visual), what focal length scope(s), portability requirements, budget, HC software, PC control capability, autoguiding capability, etc. etc.
Or if you want to simplify it, find out what others are doing with setups similar to your needs and try and avoid being at the manufactures spec limit, that way you're buying some extra headroom which should make up for some of the variables mentioned above.
Posted 13 March 2009 - 02:20 PM
The weight capacity doesn't include the counterweight. It also does not take into account long OTA's. However the only reason any of this matters is if you are concerned with vibration damping time. There are plenty of people using the EQ-G on this site with over 65 lbs of equipment on top of it and are very happy with that. I am certain that it needs to be very well balanced for this to work. Obviously if they touch that scope it will vibrate for 20 seconds but that is not a problem if the scope it not in the path of the wind and you use an electric focuser. For visual use without an electric focuser and outside where the wind is a concern, this amount of weight would simply not work. In fact, I would keep the load at or below 30 lbs and definitely use vibration suppression pads. Otherwise you will be dealing with vibration damping times that you may find unacceptable.
I put close to 50lbs on my Atlas. I use vibration suppression pads, but the "20 seconds of vibration" is way overstated IMO. Visually, if I knock the tripod or OTA, or a guest of wind comes, vibration only last for a couple of seconds. I'm not putting 65 lbs on there, so I can't comment on vibration times with that weight. But around 50 lbs the vibrations are minimal. But if only put my 7lb AT80EDT on there vibration is basically non-existant.
But the Atlas can handle more then the 40lbs it's rated for. Like with ANY mount, the more weight you put on there, the more balance is an issue and the more vibration is an issue.
Posted 13 March 2009 - 02:41 PM
Another issue is inertia of the load. People often find out the hard way that moving a high inertia load such as a long refractor is more stressful on drive gears and motors and generally requires a bigger mount than a compact SCT, even though both have the same weight.
Posted 13 March 2009 - 02:56 PM
Look in a mirror I think your nose has just gotten several inches longer
Posted 13 March 2009 - 03:17 PM
"vibration only last for a couple of seconds"
Look in a mirror I think your nose has just gotten several inches longer
Have you looked through my set-up? Didn't think so.
I have close to 50 lbs on my Atlas and have not had any issues with 20 seconds of vibration. Like I said, I've had maybe 5-7 seconds of vibration after a big gust of wind or I accidentally hit the tripod or OTA.
And I don't like being called a liar. What's that quote from Full Metal Jacket about people from Texas?
Anyone who has 20 seconds of vibration doesn't know how to set up and balance a mount correctly or simply can't count and thinks a quarter past 5 means 5:25.
Posted 13 March 2009 - 03:27 PM
But I never said you had 20 seconds of vibration and you never said you had 5-7 seconds of vibration. You said you had a couple of seconds of vibration.
Couple = 2
So my comment was only to point out that there Ain't-No-Way you could possibly have 2 seconds of vibration with all that weight. I would have guessed closer to 10 seconds. But 5-7 is bad enough. To me anything over about 2.5 is simply not acceptable for visual use, way to frustrating for me.
Posted 13 March 2009 - 03:58 PM
"vibration only last for a couple of seconds"
Look in a mirror I think your nose has just gotten several inches longer
I run over 40 pounds on my 10" f/10 SCT/Atlas, and without pads on concrete or asphalt it runs about seven seconds to calm down. With Celestron pads or on grass, about three at most. I'm constantly whacking something so I have a large sample size.
Posted 13 March 2009 - 04:22 PM
Now Jim - If you pop in an eyepiece and run it up to say about 250x aiming at some little stars and you thump the side of that telescope and start a stopwatch at the same time. Then you peep into that eyepiece and wait for every last vibration to go away and then stop that stopwatch, it reads 3 seconds
Because if you can honestly say you did something like that then that would be objective data that could not be ridiculed by skeptics like me
Posted 13 March 2009 - 04:32 PM
3 seconds? Jim am I going to have to offend you too I think I already reached my quota for the day :o
Now Jim - If you pop in an eyepiece and run it up to say about 250x aiming at some little stars and you thump the side of that telescope and start a stopwatch at the same time. Then you peep into that eyepiece and wait for every last vibration to go away and then stop that stopwatch, it reads 3 seconds
Because if you can honestly say you did something like that then that would be objective data that could not be ridiculed by skeptics like me
I'm going out tonight. I'll bring my stop watch I use for coaching basketball. There's no need to argue about vibration time, but it would be an interesting report. I'll take some notes tonight. I also have to report on my MPCC in my SN10. I'll be busy tonight.
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Posted 13 March 2009 - 05:57 PM
Actually I think it is worth arguing about. Because for some of us it is very important. If a scope has to much vibration then you cannot focus it easily at high power and in general it isn't as much fun to use. In fact, this is the very reason I joined this site. I was trying to buy a new mount at the time and hoped to make sure of the damping time before I got it. Needless to say I got terrible advice out here on CN, it was in fact Mike at OPT that determined the actual damping time of the scopes I planned to buy. He was absolutely correct too, every single person on this site that gave me advice was completely wrong. So I am on a little personal campain to stamp out misinformation on this site, not necessarily for myself, but for the next poor guy that wonders out here seeking advice. And I don't believe anyone out here is deliberately lying either, I just think people basically tend to give subjective answers to questions that really need be answered objectively.
I thought I was impatient.
Anyhow, I mount a huge SN10 on my Atlas and vibration is rarely an issue. The SN10 w/ my dew shield is 4' 2" long.
Like I said, only when a big gust of wind comes or I knock into it.
Also note, I have a dual Losmandy/Vixen Saddle, a Losmandy dovetail on the SN10 and a thicker longer CW shaft (18"x1"), a Moonlite focuser and I replaced all the bearings and relubed everything. With my set-up, vibration isn't an issue to me, weather conditions are. I don't have vibration issues when I focus either. That's all I'm trying to get across. I don't want people who are thinking about buying an Atlas to think is shakes like crazy (20 seconds), that's simply not true.
And this is coming from someone who had a Celestron 130SLT which would vibrate by just looking at it.
I'm sorry you got wrong information on here. I've never had someone give me blantely incorrect advice - well someone from my astronomy club did once, but that's a different issue.
Posted 14 March 2009 - 12:40 AM
Fully loaded Atlas EQ-G. SN10 & AT80EDT - Mount legs were not extended, but placed on vibration suppression pads. I was on grass.
49lbs of equipment + 45lbs of counterweights. The SN10 with dew shield is 52" long.
Used a 5mm TMB Planetary in my SN10 that's 203x. No wind at all tonight. I used a stop watch to time.
I viewed Saturn, tapped OTA, usually it would stop vibrating within 3 seconds. Mostly in the 2.25sec to 2.85sec range. The longest time was 3.71 seconds. I also did it with a 9mm and my 23mm Ax, same thing, within 3 seconds vibrations would stop, somtimes a little over 3 seconds, but not once did I reach 4 seconds.
I did the same thing in the piggy-backed AT80EDT F/7 560mm. With a 4mm TMB 140x (&9mm and 23mm Ax) Vibration time was a little longer. Mostly in the 2.70sec to 3.30sec range. Still nothing over 4 seconds.
Of course wind would act differently on it but once the wind stopped, the vibrations would stop within 3-4 seconds. Vibration isn't the problem, weather is.
Posted 14 March 2009 - 01:04 PM
"vibration only last for a couple of seconds"
Look in a mirror I think your nose has just gotten several inches longer
I run over 40 pounds on my 10" f/10 SCT/Atlas, and without pads on concrete or asphalt it runs about seven seconds to calm down. With Celestron pads or on grass, about three at most. I'm constantly whacking something so I have a large sample size.
3 seconds on grass w/ vibration pads is basically exactly what I got. Usually quicker than 3 seconds though.
Posted 14 March 2009 - 02:46 PM
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I also read John's information from the other post, I had a feeling that adding the mount extension would cut damping time even more and his results support that assumption. I got one on order now. I am also considering lining the inside of it with one of the anti-vibration pads that they sell at the audio stores for stopping vibrations in cars.
This has me very excited, I may go ahead and get a dual mount bar for my CGEM so I can have my C11 and the ED80 on board at the same time. Having the wide view and the narrow view at the same time would be great.
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Monday, December 7, 2009
QUOTE OF THE DAY: JuJu
Labels: Justin Henin, player quotes, tennis
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Erm, Richie...are we to assume Justine is going to grab the Chair mic and break out into stand-up during changeovers at the AO?...ReplyDelete
"But seriously, folks...yesterday during Serena's practice session I yelled out "Foot fault!" and pointed to Roger Federer when she looked to see who yelled it." *rimshot*
ROFL can you imagine?! I would DIE if she ended up being at better at LOLs than tennis - and that would be saying something.ReplyDelete
I would so stalk her global "JuJu Jokes Comedy Tour!" Count me in.
Just seeing her crack a smile during a match would be enough to cause hysterics, I'd think!ReplyDelete
- Tennis ObserverDecember 9, 2009 at 11:44 AM
Just focus on the backhands and the volleys, it's enough. There are enough clowns in the WTA to entertain.ReplyDelete
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I had not spend so much thoughs on the background of Heraldry in my former designs, but with the recent increase of Coats of Arms on maps like thoses of Vorro and -Max-, my interest was back to try understanding rules and structures of what I paint. I hadnt heard of Blazon before and am very fascinated about this language and am reading the Book you have linked.
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New York City Consumer Affairs Commissioner Gretchen Dykstra and Health Commissioner (DOH) Thomas Frieden, MD, MPH, today released the list of the Filthy Fifty cigarette vendors who have been cited by the Department of Consumer Affairs (DCA) have had their licenses revoked for repeatedly selling cigarettes to minors. New York City has one of the toughest laws in the country regarding the sale of cigarettes to minors. Under the Retail Cigarette Dealer Licensing Law, it is mandatory that vendors who are caught selling cigarettes to minors twice within 2 years have their license revoked. The commissioners were joined by young people from REALITY CHECK, a statewide leadership initiative focused on youth-to-youth advocacy against tobacco use.
"It is unfortunate that any store would sell cigarettes to a minor one time; that these vendors have been caught selling twice is deplorable and it has cost these retailers their licenses," said Commissioner Dykstra. "I am particularly saddened that a retail chain like Rite Aid, with such a large presence in the city, would sell cigarettes to children. They are supposed to be in the health business, not in partnership with the tobacco companies."
"More than 12,000 New Yorkers die prematurely from tobacco-related causes each year. The tobacco industry has to replace them with new smokers. Since 80% of smokers start when they are under the age of 18, it is clear that the industry is after our children. No-one should be allowed to aid and abet efforts to get our children hooked on cigarettes," said Commissioner Frieden.
"DCA conducts undercover inspections year-round to ensure that tobacco vendors comply with the law and check for identification before selling cigarettes to anyone who appears under the age of 25," said Commissioner Dykstra. "New York City has one of the highest compliance rates in the country, but as this announcement makes perfectly clear, we will not rest until every tobacco vendor is in compliance with the law."
The Department of Consumer Affairs has conducted over 9,500 undercover tobacco inspections this year. The DCA employs teams of teenagers, ages 14-17, who are recruited from throughout the five boroughs. These teenagers go into stores and attempt to purchase cigarettes. If they are not asked for identification, the vendors are cited by DCA. Among the major drug store chains in the city, Rite Aid has the worst rate of recidivism, 24% of the locations inspected by DCA sold tobacco to minors a second time.
The Tobacco Product Regulation Act (Local Law 83 of 1992) prohibits the sale of tobacco products to those under 18 years old. The law requires that tobacco sellers request a photo identification of customers who appear younger than 25 years of age. Merchants must also conspicuously post a sign stating that it is illegal to sell tobacco products to minors.
In addition, New York City has one of the toughest laws in the country against vendors who sell tobacco to minors. According to Local Law 2 of 2000, vendors can be fined up to $1,000 for a first offense and up to $2,000 for a second violation. Repeat offenders can have their license revoked if a second violation occurs within a twenty-four month period. All fines and revocation actions are subject to a hearing. All fifty revocations announced today have been adjudicated.
"The revocation of these licenses makes it clear to tobacco vendors throughout the city that selling cigarettes to minors is hazardous to your business's health," said Commissioner Dykstra.
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New iPhone apps worth downloading: Triposo update, Penguin Pre-K, Man of Steel
Start the week planning your next trip with the help of Triposo, a travel guide app that brings tons of information about a huge number of destinations and countries. We've also got Penguin Pre-K, a learning game app for kids who haven't started Kindergarten yet, and Man of Steel, a 3-D dueling title that ties in with the newly released movie.
Triposo update (Free)
What's it about? Travel app Triposo provides tons of information about different places destinations and countries around the world.
What's cool? Triposo is a travel guide that's packed full of info about the places you might visit, from a huge list of countries. When you download the app, you pick which country you're going to be visiting and, using your Internet connection, Triposo grabs everything you need to know about it and downloads it to your device. Each country comes with an overview map, plus more detailed maps and information about major cities, with recommendations about things like restaurants, nightlife and more. There's even a currency calculator so you'll know how much you have and should pay, and the app's latest update throws in maps for 20,000 small towns and more detailed offline maps, as well.
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Experience the future of travel as we upgrade our fleet with hundreds of new planes and refresh our existing aircraft to bring you a more modern, comfortable and connected experience. We're changing the way you fly as we build, in five years, toward the youngest fleet in the sky among the five largest U.S. airlines.
The Latest in Personal Entertainment at Every Seat
Watch what you want when you want on our new planes with the latest in personal, in-seat entertainment, choosing from a vast selection of movies, TV programmes, audio selections and games. If you prefer to venture online, stay connected with Wi-Fi, available on most flights within the continental U.S. – and on select international flights. All of these features, including individual 110v universal AC power outlets and USB ports, will be available at every seat and every cabin on our new planes,* which are designed to keep you comfortable and entertained while you fly.
Where Are You Flying?
Flying to the USA
We're updating our international fleet with new and refreshed planes to keep you comfortable on flights to the USA. Be among the first to enjoy a world-class travel experience on our new Boeing 777-300ERs **, featuring fully lie-flat First and Business Class seats with all-aisle access. From new cabin interiors and updated amenities, to Wi-Fi, the new aircraft will offer you a unique, state-of-the-art travel experience. We'll also begin taking delivery of over 40 Boeing 787 Dreamliners for international travel in the near future.
Flying within North America
Our fleet is being updated with cutting-edge aviation technology and design. Since May 2011, we've been adding up to three Boeing Next Generation 737-800s planes to our fleet each month, which feature Boeing Sky Interior — a contemporary atmosphere and enhanced lighting. Beginning in 2018, we also plan to add 100 new Boeing 737-800 MAX planes, which will offer a fresh, modern inflight experience as well as more environmentally friendly engines. Additionally, we plan to introduce 130 Airbus A319 and Airbus A321 aircraft beginning in July of 2013, with continued deliveries through 2017. As we welcome new planes to the American Airlines fleet we will retire ageing members of our fleet – meaning that no matter where in North America you travel, you will experience more comfort and style in every cabin.
Flying USA Coast to Coast
When you travel between New York's JFK and San Francisco International Airport, and between JFK and Los Angeles International Airport, you'll appreciate that American plans to be the only carrier to offer you a three-class cabin, plus fully lie-flat First and Business Class seats including all-aisle access from every First Class seat on our Airbus A321 Transcontinental aircraft. These planes will also offer the option of four to six more inches of legroom with Main Cabin Extra seating.
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It is impossible to try and resist the charm of this Baroque town, nestling in a hollow of the splendid mountain ranges of Bükk and Mátra. The town's past dates back many centuries. Conquered by the Turks in 1596, it was liberated by the Habsburgs in 1687, but only really came back to life in the 18C. Eger also owes its fame to its wine, egri bikavér, also known as "bull's blood". According to legend, the heroes of the battle against the Turks drank it to give them strength.
Tourist attractions Eger : Things to see and do
Former teacher training college
Eszterházy Tér. 1 H - Eger 3300
The archdeacon's library first opened in 1793. It currently boasts over 130,000 extremely rare books including Medieval manuscripts, incunabula, 16C, 17C and 18C works and the only letter written by Mozart on Hungarian soil. The painted ceiling, the ..
Kossuth Lajos Street
Kossuth Lajos Utca H - Eger 3300
It is worth stopping to admire the Baroque houses in this street. N°9, which now houses the Regional Council, was designed by a Viennese architect in 1750. Its wrought-iron railings are among the most well-known examples of Hungarian ironwork. The Pa..
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Bastyb Utca H - Eger 3300
An impressive network of underground passageways and blockhouses stretches under the foundations of St John's cathedral, of which only the ruins now remain. Learn how this network helped detect Turkish attempts to blow up the castle through the diggi..
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Hotel Senator-Ház Eger
Dobó tér 11 H - Eger 3300
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Szent János u. 3 H - Eger 3300
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The Szent János Hotel lies in the heart of the historic town centre of Eger, close to the Dobó square. It offers elegantly furnished rooms, and a sunbed. Free Wi-Fi is available. A winter garden is offered by the Szent János Hotel. Eger Thermal and..
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It's April, and the San Francisco International Film Festival is just around the corner. Celebrating its 55th year, this lavish festival runs April 19th to May 3rd and features 174 films from 45 countries. Films include features, documentaries, and short films. Movies are screened at theaters and venues throughout the Bay Area.
Sponsored by the San Francisco Film Society, the event draws upwards of 70,000 people and a number of filmmakers make personal appearances at select screenings. This year's Founder's Directing Award will be presented to Kenneth Branagh and author Jonathan Lethem is slated to present this year's State of Cinema Address. For information and tickets, visit the San Francisco International Film Festival website.
Controversial Caveh
One of the films featured this year is the subversive The Sheik and I by filmmaker Caveh Zahedi (I Am a Sex Addict, In the Bathtub of the World, A Little Stiff). Last year, there was a New York Times article about the film's strange odyssey—its random solicitation by the Middle Eastern arts showcase, Sharjah Biennial, his making of the film in which he breaks one of the big no-no's of the Biennial's guidelines ("No making fun of Sheik Sultan bin Muhammad al-Qasimi, the ruler of Sharjah"), and its subsequent rejection from the showcase and the whirlwind of controversy that followed.
Fresh from a few somewhat contentious screenings at South by Southwest, The Sheik and I will be shown at San Francisco's Kabuki Theater in late April. (See The Sheik and I screening times.)
Caveh Zahedi's Top 5 Lists
Caveh Zahedi visited the Half Moon Bay Library a few years ago for a film presentation, so staff asked him to share some of his movie, book, and music influences. Zahedi generously obliged with the following Top 5 lists.
Top 5 Movies
- A Woman Under the Influence (Cassavetes)
- Breaking the Waves (Von Trier)
- Freaks (Tod Browning)
- Stalker(Tarkovsky)
- Close-Up (Kiarostami).
Top 5 Books
- Thomas the Obscure by MauriceBlanchot
- Ulysses by James Joyce
- Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
- House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
- Endless Love by Scott Spencer
Top 5 Songs
- "Come Here" - Kath Bloom on Come Here: The Florida Years and as heard in Before Sunrise (DVD)
- "In My Mind" - Amanda Palmer on Amanda Palmer Goes Down Under
- "By This River" - Brian Eno on Before and After Science
- "Starry Stairs" - Okkervil River on The Stand Ins
- "Oh! My Mama" - Alela Diane on The Pirate's Gospel
For more information, please visit Caveh Zahedi's website.
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Exaggeration is a BILLION times worse than understating.
Originally Posted by isuaggie
"Bought" bicycles for the wife and I. As always, "Umm...we don't have that in your size but we will order it in for you to try no obligation of course"
yea, mini condoms are always hard to find
Originally Posted by wartknight
Kept getting back on the computer to see if it was up. I'm convinced you had cf down so you could drive more people to your new site ipf. :)
had two dreams:
dream no.1 -that were kicking the hawkeyes arse 70-3.
dream no.2 -that we were kicking the fuskers *** 63- zip!!!!!!!!!!
Last edited by Angie; 08-24-2010 at 02:46 PM.
Read. I hate you, CF, for making me read!
Not a bad book, though. But I still hate you!
Originally Posted by Cysrevenge
yea, mini condoms are always hard to find
You speaking from experience?
Well played.
Being 6'5" makes it hard to buy anything without special ordering.
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Prepare using KRAFT 2% Milk Shredded Cheddar Cheese and BREAKSTONE'S Reduced Fat or KNUDSEN Light Sour Cream.
Use a small knife to cut up tomatoes right in the can.
This chili freezes well. Prepare as directed; cool completely. Ladle into 1-qt. freezer containers and freeze up to 3 months. Thaw in refrigerator before heating to serve.
* Nutrition information is estimated based on the ingredients and cooking instructions as described in each recipe and is intended to be used for informational purposes only. Please note that nutrition details may vary based on methods of preparation, origin and freshness of ingredients used.
I love this recipe. Quick and easy to make. Can freeze with no problems later also. I tend to make mine a little bit more spicy but I have never had any complaints. Yum!
Very good, although I would have added a little salt to the rice, but the chili was delish
Flavorful! Subbed out the rice, and served over "Moist Tex-Mex Cornbread." Great timing to make cornbread while chili needs time to simmer. Best recipe I've made in awhile.