It's cheap because it's an awful place to live. You can work in insurance, or hospitality, or for terrible wages in "tech", aka making CRUD apps or doing IT for the aforementioned industries. State taxes are super high and a huge burden. The weather is awful for all but 1-2 weeks in the spring and 1-2 weeks in the fall (hot and humid in the summer, extremely cold and windy in the winter). Schools are generally terrible.
There's a reason housing is cheap and there is a net population outflow out of NYS.
I can’t speak to Syracuse itself, but some of the suburban areas around Syracuse are pretty nice and have very good schools. For example, Fayetteville-Manlius High School is ranked #807 in the entire US: https://www.usnews.com/education/best-high-schools/new-york/...
My wife is from the area and I’ve been there dozens of times. It’s not as happening as a major city, but if you wanted to live in an affordable suburb outside a large-enough city, it would be a fine place to live.
As a parent of kids in the FM district (and an FM graduate myself), it is indeed a fantastic district for most kids. If your kids need any sort of supporting services though, there are much better options in the area. FM fights pretty hard to avoid providing any kind of services.
That being said, there is a _lot_ of privilege in my complaint here. There are plenty of schools in less affluent areas where the idea of even requesting services would be laughable; there just aren't the resources to provide them. FM is frustrating because it _has_ the money, but fights hard to avoid using it.
Personally, the weather variety is one of the things I _like_ about the Syracuse area. I get bored very quickly when I have to spend time in places like California (or the southwest in general).
> The weather is awful for all but 1-2 weeks in the spring and 1-2 weeks in the fall (hot and humid in the summer, extremely cold and windy in the winter).
I did. It's less about how far north, and a lot to do with the lake effect snow the area gets.
It’s an interesting area. It has the opportunity to really bloom but has a couple issues. Climate sucks, it’s cold even for Northeastern standards. The cities all have urban issues like crime, not many upstate cities have really become cute and desirable. That’s mostly the smaller or mid sized towns.
I grew up nearby. Being just downwind of Lake Ontario, Syracuse gets 10 feet of snow per winter. [0] If you're susceptible to seasonal depression, it's a rough place to live. Just 50 miles south (around Ithaca / Elmira / Binghamton), the winters get milder, still dark but less cold and snow.
For decades, the region has wanted for STEM employment opportunities. (It's the rust belt, a lot of industry moved away.) I get the impression Rochester weathered it better than Syracuse, even after the downfall of Kodak. Rochester feels a little more vibrant to visit. That said, to the extent Micron is willing to train people, I imagine they'll have an easier time hiring in Syracuse than a lot of other places.
As a reference, Boston averages 60 inches, which would put it at the lowest scale on this map. So, even the milder regions are still quite cold and snowy!
A German friend of mine, who did high school I think in Osaka encountered this. If I remember it right one teacher wanted to enforce this and dye his hair so that he wouldn't stand out, but the principal overruled him and he didn't end up with black hair.
Everyone is assuming incompetence/familiarity with old tooling but it's also likely that this is a corruption/kickback scheme with some local distributor
To my knowledge, the software was provided for free, there was no economic transaction. In fact, Delphi Community Edition is free to any student over the world. This deal adds support for teachers.
Hope it'll ship with better support that the first Jetson. The one they marketed with all that AI/Machine Vision stuff and then shipped without a camera driver.
This is just following Google's Edge TPU, which probably competes with a Raspberry Pi + Movidius stick. The market there is getting interesting.
This. And all of the third party camera solutions for TX2 cost $500+ when equivalent USB cameras with the same sensor cost $50. They really need to get their act together and sell some NVIDIA-sanctioned camera solutions at scale, and at price points similar to Raspberry Pi cameras.
A lot of third party carrier boards also have a complete sh_tshow of connectors. Auvidea's boards, for example, ship with a Raspberry Pi camera connector, but Raspberry Pi NoIR cameras don't have TX2 drivers, and there are hardly any other cameras that ship with that connector.
Seriously, NVIDIA: Please sell a TX2 devkit that has six non-weird 2-lane CSI connectors and some IMX290 or AR0521 or any other commonly-used robotics sensors for $100 each that plug in and "just work". It would make a lot of people happy to have something to at least start with, and pave the way for third party options to follow the same form factor, connectors, pinouts, board sizes, and so forth.
They've actually fixed this hopefully this time around.
According to their blog post it actually has driver support for the RPi CM2 8MP (IMX219) and they'll be releasing their own Nvidia-sanctioned cameras available from their partners.
It should hopefully just work.
No lowlight options at this time however, which means external CCTV is out of the question :(
Cool. Well hopefully some third parties will now create cameras all in the same form factor with the same pinout so that the choice of carrier board and camera can be independently made.
I'm actually hoping that 3rd party carrier boards standardize on the weird 6 csi connector thing, and was a little saddened to see that nvidia's devkit for the nano doesn't use it :(.
I bought a tx2 carrier from connecttech, and half their tx2 boards use a 30 pin connector used by leopard imaging, and the other half use the same ribbon connector that the nvidia devkit uses for its camera. I have $600 worth of camera which doesn't fit the carrier I chose ::face-palm::.
What's the market or use case for these camera drivers? It seems like the fancy direct-to-chip camera connections and driver development would be better aimed at sensor manufacturers, not hobbyists trying to build simple vision algorithms.
Why wouldn't you use the Ethernet port with a traditional GigE camera? I've also done some simple projects using an ordinary USB webcam.
I'm interested in this as a small form factor industrial computer. I've run Raspberry Pis and Intel NUCs in lots of manufacturing equipment where you need something that can run a few lines of Python and sit between the PLC and your device. Given this board's processing power, it might be interesting to plug into a little Dalsa or Basler camera and run a vision algorithm. You can already buy simple "vision sensors" from Keyence, Banner, Sick, etc. that integrate what I understand to be a simple ARM chip with the vision sensor and run basic vision algorithms, but they're often hamstrung by the tooling. The ability to perform and communicate results of arbitrary commands in applications where you don't need lots of processing power would be great.
What camera applications are people builidng that need 1.5 Gbps of camera data? I've built assembly lines that build several parts per second and never even come close to being limited by frame rate or network bandwidth.
I ordered a Coral USB accelerated (Edge TPU on a USB) to tinker with for the novelty and it just arrived this afternoon. I will say one giant gap between these two is Google's Edge TPU based products only support TensorFlow Lite.
Yeah! Looks exciting. I will say that the Raspberry Pi is USB 2, so bandwidth between , say, your camera and the Movidius Stick is limited. The google device and this one should have proper high bandwidth interfaces.
Just in the process of outfitting the office with Thinkpad T480s's.
Why not X1 Carbon? At first it was the MX150 option for deep learning on the go, but we decided to drop that because it was going to be a pain the ass in Linux and it's not a very good GPU anyway - better to ssh to the server (The variant in T480s is 25% slower even though it has the same model name). Now it's just the price... Not quite worth the upgrade price for that many machines, and the limited upgradeability means we can get 8gb now and add 8 more when there is a bit more liquidity.
The mx150 is a piece of crap GPU. It performs at less than half the performance of a GeForce 1050 and a third of a 1050 ti (which are in the Dell XPS 15 series.)
Yeah and that's the 1D10 variant. The 1D12 variant in T480s is even slower.
If it wasn't for the Linux driver headaches I still might have gone for it to have another way to check if CUDA code was running properly without having to ssh to the central server.
I think I'll be out of the Mac ecosystem soon. The writing is on the wall. I still don't like any Linux DE and I hate the eternal config hell I end up in, but the effort to have a functional Mac is starting to catch up to it.
I'm still using a 2015 MBP and a Hackintosh desktop (Old Intel 3770k + Titan Xp) but this year was the first time after the 2006 release of the MBP that I bought a non-Apple notebook... I needed something to replace my 11" MacBook Air that I use for travel, and the new keyboards just aren't usable for me. Bought a Thinkpad X1C6... Great machine except a few baffling design decisions, and appears to be borderline impossible to Hackintosh for now - but the keyboard is my tool of the trade. I need a good one.
I was really happy when Apple Music launched, because I had a huge library on iTunes that I had been keeping meticulously for about half a decade then, and I was a spotify user - I thought I could consolidate the two.
Well Apple Music responded to my enthusiasm by trashing my music library, mislabeling everything automatically and losing half of the library. I don't know if they fixed that, but that managed to turn me to a permanent spotify user.
Spotify too is making me unhappy these days though, because for some time now they are heavily emphasizing geography in discover weekly playlists, which isn't what I want as an expat. It's always a bunch of songs in the same style, listened to nowhere else but where I am now, and pressing the dislike button doesn't help. I guess I should get a VPN/use a payment method from my home country/switch to an alternative.
I find I can just go into the settings and change my country, and Spotify will happily accept this. My GeoIP nor my credit card's country seems to have had an effect on the content in my library.
This is one of the joys of Spotify compared to other services I use, where it just accepts that I want the experience of the country I select, and not something arbitrary like an IP or a credit card (like Netflix, Steam).
I checked now and it's asking me to change my payment method to change my locale. Makes sense on a level I guess, since I'm paying ~£4 instead of £10 due to currency differences.
Oh boy, this happened to me despite using the enterprise edition. The system forced an upgrade, despite me doing everything to stop it, and every time the upgrade crashed and I had to roll back to the previous version. Every day.
I spent a month like this, on an always-on system, trying to shut down the upgrade downloader from the task bar whenever I can after failing to stop it from settings, group policy, horsing around in powershell etc. Before that, I had also tried to make the upgrade work by doing it manually, updating drivers, unplugging all the peripherals etc. but it kept getting stuck halfway through. So I couldn't upgrade, and I couldn't not upgrade.
Well last week there was an update to the update so I hoped at least the upgrade would work now and I would be done with this charade. Nope, it crashed again while upgrading, except this time there was no way to roll back and use my system. I am torn between cutting windows out completely and going back to windows 7.
I'm mostly a Linux user but I use Windows at work. There is also an additional Windows computer in my house. Although I can't say I dislike Windows there is a singular issue with it that really grinds my gears. The OS assumes way too much about what I want to do. I get it that the defaults are there for the inexperienced or casual users but there really needs to be a way to tell the OS "Hands off! I know what I'm doing". I really don't want arbitrary actions to be made before I consent to them.
Honestly I could tolerate the defaults being heavy-handed towards updates, but I was really miffed to find out I literally didn't even have an option to not update, even when it was a system-wrecking one.
Yes. I've had this issue on almost every version of windows so far. As usual with Windows the only way to fix these issues is by reinstalling the operating system. After decades Microsoft still doesn't have a working update solution.
Compare this with most linux distributions. The updates can run in the background, the update process is often significantly faster and finishes in a few minutes and finally I don't need to reboot unless the kernel is updated.
Another note for people unfamiliar with linux: Even in the case of a kernel update you can just reboot whenever. There's nothing prompting you or forcing you to do it at any specific time.
Windows update is definitely my #1 reason to switch to linux.
Take heart! It doesn't help for these forced updates, either. Mine has "partially downloaded" as of this week, and now keeps forgetting that I have a valid copy of Windows at all - it floats an "Activate Windows now!" watermark in the corner of my screen until I try to manually download the rest of the update. :/
