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 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……

Completing a Data Science Project in 14 days – Fraud Detection Challenge Announcement

I’m challenging myself to do a full data science project on a Kaggle data set in 14 days – including data understanding, preprocessing, modeling and evaluation. I’m sharing this to make sure I actually do it and to show a realistic portrayal of what is possible in 14 days if you’re not a Kaggle grandmaster.……

How to install Scala on Windows and use Scala kernel in Jupyter Notebooks

If you’re coming from Python or another language that often makes use of Jupyter notebooks, you might have become a bit addicted to them like me. Especially when learning a new language, like Scala now, or functionality I often want to check my intermediate results when coding and Jupyter notebooks provide a visual and comfortable……

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