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 wardrobe. As if by magic we feel lighter. Simplifying seems to release energy in a good way.

I’ll leave you to discover more about his different creative approaches to simplify our lives. Like historical review, bulk and exception, as well as shedding, chunking and my favorite ….. provocative amputation.

I’ve been doing a bit of this with my Deep Learning image classification project. And simplifying has really helped me make progress. It started first with my cluttered “P Chartarum Vision” folder in Drive. Instead of having all sorts of different label iterations, now there is only one. I’ve named this csv file “fe_labels”. Also after trying all sorts of different Python coding ways to convert my image extensions from .JPG to .jpg, I discovered a simpler method in Windows! Renaming 500 images is simple…it was a piece of cake after all.

Creating image filenames from my labels also proved to be a little challenging at first. Concatenating in Python is easy when using strings but doesn’t work in integer format. I needed to convert the numerical values in my “id” column to strings in order to cobble a filename together. Now finally, I can carry on with pre-processing the images I took with my trinocular microscope and turn them into tensors using TensorFlow.

Release energy by decluttering and simplifying!