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...
Persistence and Problem Solving
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....
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...
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...
Getting stuck on a Python Truth Value Error
What happens when you get stuck and nothing seems to work? That’s what happened with me. I kept getting a Python Truth Value error when running code in my Colab Notebook. From the 7th of August to the 18th I tried all manner of things to work out why....
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...