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 of the same length. I had […]
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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. Resiliency is a word that politicians […]
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 my GitHub ‘account’. Now for the […]
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 results our model has produced […]
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 the weekend when I ran my […]
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. Eleven days of frustration doesn’t seem […]
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 is complete. The wrong way is […]
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 to the hive. And as it […]
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 matter if it’s a “B”, then […]
Becoming a Data Scientist/Veterinarian at 67 years young.
Week 1: In the beginning… It’s true. When the student is ready the teacher appears. I’d “failed” again. I had ventured down the E-Commerce path, dreaming of fame and fortune, only to realize that doing it with a shop centered on French Bulldogs wasn’t going to get me there. Sure I could keep faking it […]