I’m the first to admit that most productivity techniques don’t work for me. I read about them, watch videos on YouTube, and sometimes I even start applying them (looking at you, Getting Things Done, with your dozen lists), but they never properly integrate into my daily life. In January this year, I gave productivity advice……
Author: GalaxyInferno
Intro to Scene Text Recognition – Guide to Image-to-Text Conversion
Recognizing text in a photo – something we’re quite good at, but neural networks struggle quite a bit with it. While OCR (Optical Character Recognition) (OCR Wikipedia) is a fairly well-known concept, the very similar Scene Text Recognition (STR) problem is not talked about as much. It’s always easier to show than to explain, so……
How to solve Advent of Code 2023 – Day 4 with Python
If you missed any previous days or are looking for another year, click here for all my content about that: Advent of Code, if you want to know why you should participate and try to code the solution for yourself, click here: Advent Of Code 2022 – 7 Reasons why you should participate. If you’re……
How to solve Advent of Code 2023 – Day 3 with Python
If you missed any previous days or are looking for another year, click here for all my content about that: Advent of Code, if you want to know why you should participate and try to code the solution for yourself, click here: Advent Of Code 2022 – 7 Reasons why you should participate. If you’re……
How to solve Advent of Code 2023 – Day 2 with Python
If you missed any previous days or are looking for another year, click here for all my content about that: Advent of Code, if you want to know why you should participate and try to code the solution for yourself, click here: Advent Of Code 2022 – 7 Reasons why you should participate. If you’re……
How to solve Advent of Code 2023 – Day 1 with Python
We’re back! It’s once again time for the most festive time of the year and therefore Advent of Code! 🎉 But before we get right into the first day and my solution for this day’s puzzle: What even IS Advent of Code??!! Good question, my friend. Here is this year’s about page: https://adventofcode.com/2023/about and it……
My To-Want List before the End of the Year 2023
Way too often we are stressed out by long To-Do-lists and forget to be excited about what’s coming up. This list is a collection of things I want to see and do, people I want to meet up with and things to learn I’m interested in – before the end of the year 2023. I……
Keras Core: Keras AND PyTorch?! A first look at the new Keras (3.0)
TensorFlow vs PyTorch was one of THE debates of the last decade or so among deep learning practitioners. Personally, I ended up in the PyTorch camp, but whenever I talked to TensorFlow people, their main argument was, “But Keras is so convenient!” PyTorch itself has had PyTorch Lightning for a few years now. Although it……
Machine Learning Study Goals – April 2023: Transformer paper & Outlier Detection with Deep Learning
Last month I took a month off from setting study goals and I made basically zero progress on my studies. Admittedly it was also deadline month at work, so time and energy was rare. No matter the reasons, this month I’m back to sharing my goals online to hold myself accountable and to inspire you……
What I learned during my 14 Days Fraud Detection Challenge
The problem: Do you have many topics you would like to study or areas of coding you want to improve, but you can’t decide which is the best to focus on so you end up studying a little bit of everything and never making noticeable progress? Or you end up so overwhelmed that you just……