Amelia Earhart May Have Survived Crash-Landing, Newly Discovered Photo Suggests

Re:Amelia Earhart May Have Survived Crash-Landing, Newly Dis... by Fezzik on Wednesday July 05, 2017 @06:00PM (#14706450)

Not to veer too far off-topic - but what does deep-frying not work on? (ice cream, veggies, sweets, sea-food, beef/any meats... all delicious when deep-fried). Maybe fruit is the one exception? I have never tried but may give it a go. It seems like a poor comparison, as almost all foods are delectable when deep-fried. I know very little about machine learning though, I will concede. I also cannot open the link (blocked at work).

I say this mostly for the humor, but also for the truth: deep-frying is the best. And I deep-fry food quite often. In fact, I am headed home to deep-fry some Won-Tons soon.

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Re:Amelia Earhart May Have Survived Crash-Landing, Newly Dis... by wahern on Wednesday July 05, 2017 @08:03PM (#14707206)

You've probably had deep-fried bananas. I've had deep-fried watermelon. Like most deep-fried foods, neither is particularly memorable except for the kitsch, even if they do taste good.

Which I think supports the original point: you can deep-fry anything and enjoy tasty results, but that _still_ doesn't mean there's anything substantial in the sense of untapped value.

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Re:Amelia Earhart May Have Survived Crash-Landing, Newly Dis... by bjterry on Thursday July 06, 2017 @03:28AM (#14708721)

Food is highly sensitive to cultural and social context. Even with deep-fried fruits, the part that stuck with you the most was the "kitsch" rather than the flavor, texture, aroma, size, cost, or any other objective fact about the food item.

My observation offers no lessons on deep learning image recognition, but as long as we are already on a tangent...

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Re:Amelia Earhart May Have Survived Crash-Landing, Newly Dis... by mathw on Thursday July 06, 2017 @04:24AM (#14708902)

Deep-fried battered pineapple rings were a staple of trips to the local chip shop when I was a child. Drizzled with syrup they make an excellent dessert when you've been running around outside all day.

Not what you'd call delicate or refined, though.

Maybe if you used tempura batter instead of chip shop batter.

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Re:Amelia Earhart May Have Survived Crash-Landing, Newly Dis... by daemin on Thursday July 06, 2017 @05:22AM (#14709086)

I've had cheesecake in spring roll skin deep fried before. Maybe not everything has to be battered but instead can be encased in some form of pastry.

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Re:Amelia Earhart May Have Survived Crash-Landing, Newly Dis... by paulcole on Wednesday July 05, 2017 @07:10PM (#14706898)

I think the connection is the overuse/desire to apply deep-frying/machine learning constantly and to everything. While there are certainly (delicious) benefits, there are also drawbacks that make the non-stop use a net loss.

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Re:Amelia Earhart May Have Survived Crash-Landing, Newly Dis... by Fezzik on Wednesday July 05, 2017 @07:27PM (#14707015)

I had a similar thought as I typed - having more than one or two deep-fried dishes a week is unappealing, and having too many deep-fried courses together is unappealing (at least to me). And then potential health issues. When I get home, and after eating my fried won-tons, I'll check out the link.

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Re:Amelia Earhart May Have Survived Crash-Landing, Newly Dis... by hinkley on Wednesday July 05, 2017 @07:44PM (#14707115)

Plus there's the whole 'burn your house down trying to make Thanksgiving Dinner' angle.

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Re:Amelia Earhart May Have Survived Crash-Landing, Newly Dis... by wybiral on Wednesday July 05, 2017 @08:53PM (#14707399)

I'm a Texan and can confirm that most of my experiments support this hypothesis.

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