Having a function that calculated a coverage score at the end would also make it easy to take a baseline measure of how effective people randomly placing the slices are. I think a comparison between those and the software solutions would add to the comedy of the project.
Optimal Peanut Butter and Banana Sandwiches
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#92Or just, you know, slice longitudinally.
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#93Earlier quoted context omitted.
If you want to make a PB&B that uses the entire banana, simply peel the banana, coat the flesh in PB, tear up your bread slices and adhere them to the banana. This method is not guaranteed to use all the bread.
This method may also compromise the structural integrity of the banana after trying to spread PB on it.
I agree, pliny hasn't thought it through.
Smear peanut butter on the bread, NOW tear up the bread, and apply the peanut-butter-smeared shreds to the (peeled) banana.
Still the same primary advantage as pliny's method, same primary drawback (may not exhaust the bread), but we've solved the structure problem that you raise.
I feel the trend-line here is looking good; with a few more iterations, we may reach the true ideal PB&B sandwich.
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#94Or just, you know, slice longitudinally.
This is addressed in his writeup.
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#95While this is technologically awesome, I want to propose an alternate method. What if one gets a sufficiently large/long enough banana that by cutting off the ends, it's essentially cylindrical? One could size the banana to the size of the bread, coat the bread in peanut butter, then wrap the bread around the banana burrito style.
Maybe the banana ratio is too high in that case. I'll have to try it.
Additionally, sometimes I'll take a slice, break it into smaller pieces, and put the smaller pieces in-between the gaps of the other slices. Or I'll be a monster and just layer the slices...
My wife just came up with the idea of slicing the bananas sides off to make the slices square. That way you'd also be able to pack in that banana far more efficiently.
Others also have mentioned mashing the banana and spreading it.
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#96I love a good PB&B, but I'm with the other commenters who just smash the banana onto one of the slices of bread. Lately my go-to PB&* sandwich has been peanut butter and kale. Yes, PB&K. Toast the bread, spread peanut butter on each slice, pile up some baby kale in the middle and smash it together. No machine learning needed. Sometimes brute force algorithms are best! To make a really great PB&K or just about any san…
Another PB&K fan here - but I drink them instead of eat them. Throw kale, pb, some mineral salt and a sweetener of choice (I use erythritol currently) into the blender and blend until texture is smooth.
You can smash a pitcher full of kale leaves and balance it out with just a tablespoon of PB. Not that making everything taste divine is always the end goal, but it was surprisingly difficult to find an ingredient that balances out the taste of kale.
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#97I always mash the banana on. I find it has a nicer texture than slices somehow. I also recommend toasted "wheaten bread". A form of wholemeal soda bread popular in Northern Ireland. https://www.thespruceeats.com/traditional-irish-wheaten-brea... [Edit] add word toasted.
I grew up making PB&B by mashing the banana and peanut butter together in a bowl, tuning the ratio to taste at that time, and then applying the mixture to the bread. I'm starting to think maybe this was not the usual way?
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#98I am an emergency physician without any formal software training and for the last three months I’ve been trying to build a program that segments the wall of the heart from an ultrasound video and then identifies regions that aren’t moving (an early sign of heart attack). There are many similarities between this man’s project and mine. And if I had his knowledge I may have cracked my problem by now and would have new…
Correct me if I'm wrong (I haven't worked with health data science like this) ... wouldn't an end-to-end approach work better from the get-go?
What I mean is, rather than developing a segmentation algorithm and then a motion detection algorithm, why not just feed a bunch of frames into a CNN and have it directly predict "heart attack risk"?
Or is the segment-then-motion-detect approach necessary because of its better explainability?
I guess I view the end-to-end approach as being less fiddly than the more traditional computational imaging approach. And it has a bonus. If data is available, you could feed it historical ultrasound data from patients that later had heart attacks. With that, it's possible it will learn other features of an ultrasound that predict future heart attack.
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#99I am an emergency physician without any formal software training and for the last three months I’ve been trying to build a program that segments the wall of the heart from an ultrasound video and then identifies regions that aren’t moving (an early sign of heart attack). There are many similarities between this man’s project and mine. And if I had his knowledge I may have cracked my problem by now and would have new…
Correct me if I'm wrong (I haven't worked with health data science like this) ... wouldn't an end-to-end approach work better from the get-go? What I mean is, rather than developing a segmentation algorithm and then a motion detection algorithm, why not just feed a bunch of frames into a CNN and have it directly predict "heart attack risk"? Or is the segment-then-motion-detect approach necessary because of its better…
That would require a dataset of ultrasounds from people having active myocardial infarctions, which we don’t have, and would take at least a year of academic coordination to assemble.
The current datasets are just labeled anatomy at end systole and diastole.
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#100Earlier quoted context omitted.
Correct me if I'm wrong (I haven't worked with health data science like this) ... wouldn't an end-to-end approach work better from the get-go? What I mean is, rather than developing a segmentation algorithm and then a motion detection algorithm, why not just feed a bunch of frames into a CNN and have it directly predict "heart attack risk"? Or is the segment-then-motion-detect approach necessary because of its better…
That would require a dataset of ultrasounds from people having active myocardial infarctions, which we don’t have, and would take at least a year of academic coordination to assemble. The current datasets are just labeled anatomy at end systole and diastole.
Hmm, curious. I suppose I would wonder, then, if there's no dataset how any algorithm could be developed. What I mean is ... once you've developed something, how do you test how well it performs? How do you analyze the effectiveness of the algorithm, the false positive rate, etc.