Persistence and Problem Solving

I’ve given up being efficient. “Do it right the first time or not at all!” No, that’s not how I or other people with my modus operandi do things and succeed! Processing my data has been problematic for sure. Each image must have a corresponding label. My lists weren’t...

Obstacles or Learnings?

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....

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...

The Case of The Disappearing Image

I expect you’ve come across this situation too while working on your Machine Learning projects. You’re making progress each day and feeling proud of what you’ve done. Until you don’t. Yes, this is when something unexpected happens and we hit another roadblock, another error. It happened to me in...

Simplicity over Complexity

Edward de Bono in his book “Simplicity” explains why he believes that simplicity is going to be a key value in the future. And describes different approaches we can take to achieve it. The benefits are obvious to those of us that have recently de-cluttered the shelves in our...

Mistakes and Lessons

Mistakes. Learning from your mistakes is okay but it saves time when your teacher makes them first so you don’t have to. My ZTM teacher Daniel taught us the best way to upload our files into Google Drive correctly. You see uploaded files can get deleted once the runtime...

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...