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Part 1 (2019)
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I started a blog and wrote my first entry:

  • Discussed how I used fastai to create a classifier for 5 blue jay species.
  • Gave a friendly explanation of topics like: image augmentations, transfer learning, one-cycle policy.
  • Most importantly, I talked about how I almost got intimidated out of beginning to study deep learning.
  • And, how I realized first-hand that deep learning’s usefulness and impact is commensurate to how many “real folks” understand it’s a tool they can apply.

Would appreciate if you could take a moment to read and let me know if any feedback/suggestions/questions.

Thanks so much,
-James

(Details if interested: my notebook is here; ResNet50 backbone with around 400 images used for training, curated manually; after 20 epochs of training, 0.05 validation error rate)

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