John Donne wrote “No man is an island, entire of itself, every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main.”. You could say the same for a woman. Synergy is the magic that happens when you have a group of people passionate about the same...
No Woman Is An Island
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...
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...
Start Right Where You Are
Such good advice from my creative mentor Samantha Bennett of therealsambennett.com . Start with who you know. Start with something you’re passionate about and good at doing. Start with something that gives value or solves a problem for the people you want to help the most. Make something no...
Revive your Animal Health- 10 Quick and Easy Ideas
It’s autumn and your cows are nearing the end of their lactation. They may only have 60 days to go. And you’ll be wanting them to keep milking as long as possible. Provided that they are also putting on body condition. Here are 10 Quick and Easy Ideas and...
How To Fix Low Milk Protein
There are many reasons why your cows could be producing less milk protein than you would like. Your cows are like high performance cars. Unlike a car though you can’t lift up the bonnet and take a look inside. That’s where our imagination comes in. And the brainstorming. ...
Getting Best Returns on Your Animal Health Spend
The only thing wrong with reducing animal health costs is what do you do when you’ve got them as low as you can?. What then?. Getting a better return on the money you already spend on animal health is a different approach. It opens up your mind to more...