Guns Germs And Steel
I’ve never been a big history fan. Too many names and dates to memorize. But now, free from the pressure of having to learn for the sake of getting good grad...
First Post
Cue customary Hello World.
With that aside, shout out to Jonathan McGlone for putting together this useful guide that helped me get this site up and running.
I’ll upload another post or update the site itself with my more general intentions once I’ve properly figured out what they are myself.
2020
Letters From A Stoic
A little while ago, I read Letters from a Stoic by Seneca (translated and edited by Robin Campbell). I got a lot out of reading Letters and wanted to encoura...
Every Tool Is A Hammer
I recently finished reading Every Tool’s a Hammer: Life Is What You Make It1 by Adam Savage. It was an energizing read and I highly recommend this book to fe...
2019
Coord Conv Tutorial
CoordConv
Culture Series
Recently, I binged through the Culture series by Ian M. Banks. It was an amazing read and I thought a write up about it might help ground the experience and ...
Learning to Learn
I recently the following on Coursera: Learning How to Learn: Powerful mental tools to help you master tough subjects Mindshift: Break Through Obstacles ...
2018
Style Transfer
If you’re reading this, I’m assuming that you’ve read the paper Image Style Transfer Using Convolutional Neural Networks and have some familiarity with it.
Gotcha! Tensor Shape
While working on the second part of my style-transfer project, I needed to obtain the shape of a tensor. I decided to try using the tf.shape function.
Style Reconstruction
If you’re reading this, I’m assuming that you’ve read the paper Image Style Transfer Using Convolutional Neural Networks and have some familiarity with it.
Gotcha! TF Variable Initialization Order
While working on the first part of my style-transfer project, I had: A new input variable which would have to be initialized from scratch. The VGG-19 ne...
Gotcha! TF Input Data Type
While working on the first part of my style-transfer project, I found out the hard way that TF is very sensitive to the network’s input’s data type.
Gotcha! TF Saver Subset Initialization
While working on the first part of my style-transfer project, I dealt with two main variable groups: The input variable which was the image I was optimizi...
Gotcha! Pyplot Image Displays
While working on the first part of my style-transfer project, I used pyplot’s imshow to diplay images in the notebook. However, it took me a little bit of pl...
Gotcha! CV2 and Pyplot Channel Order
While working on the first part of my style-transfer project, I used Open CV’s cv2.imwrite to save images to disk. However, the images seemed to have a weird...
Gotcha! CV2 JPEG vs PNG
While working on the first part of my style-transfer project, I ran into lots of image issues. One of the issues was that cv2 uses a BGR channel order inste...
Content Reconstruction
If you’re reading this, I’m assuming that you’ve read the paper Image Style Transfer Using Convolutional Neural Networks and have some familiarity with it.
First Post
Cue customary Hello World.