So here I am in October 2023 still running up against obstacles and frustrations. I now have a new bigger database of images to work with after the 2022 – 2023 facial eczema season here in N.Z. It was a wet summer and autumn which tested our dairy farmers....
Obstacles or Learnings?
Why Games? Actually why not!
A New Year and BIG dreams and a teeny tiny project I’m doing right now. My present goal is to train my Deep Learning model on a larger number of images believing that the predictions it makes will be more accurate. I’m taking pictures of Pseudopithomyces Chartarum spores as...
Momentum
When you’ve gone as far as you can. With the data you’ve got. What’s next? How do you use the momentum you’ve built to keep going? I’ve shipped what I’ve made so far. A copy of my project notebook in Google Colab complete with code is now available in...
Let’s get Visual, Visual, I Wanna Get Visual!
Olivia Newton John sang “Let’s get physical, physical I wanna get physicaa…aaal. Let’s get into physical. Let me hear your body talk, your body talk”. Well our version of the lyrics at this stage of our Deep Learning Classification project is all about the VISUAL. We want to SEE...
Precession and Goal Setting
Bucky Fuller taught many principles to his students. One of them was PRECESSION, which he defined as: “the effect of bodies in motion on other bodies in motion“. He demonstrated this idea with a story about the honey bee. The bee goes about gathering nectar from flowers to take back...