Might have a minimal bias towards Deep Learning — Have you ever asked yourself where you currently are on your Machine Learning journey? And what’s there that you can still learn about? This checklist helps you answer such questions. It provides an outline of the field, divided into three broad levels: Entry level (where everybody starts), intermediate level (where…

Examine the effect of augmentations in your browser — When working with image data, practitioners often use augmentations. Augmentations are techniques that artificially and randomly alter the data to increase diversity. Applying such transformations to the training data makes the model more robust. For image data, frequently used candidates are rotating, resizing, or blurring. The effects of the transformations…

A guide to the evolution of generative networks — Introduction In short, the core idea behind generative networks is capturing the underlying distribution of the data. This distribution can not be observed directly, but has to be approximately inferred from the training data. Over the years, many techniques have emerged that aim to generate data similar to the input samples. …

This month’s recommendations: Peter Sims, Timothy Ferriss — Due to a high workload, I (again) only had the chance to read two books this July 2022. Luckily, it’s not about how much — or how fast — we read but about how much we retain from what we read. As I have a simple yet effective note-taking system…

Prepare any M1 and M2 machine in less than two minutes — With the release of the second iteration of its custom System-on-a-Chip, Apple once again increased the compute power. The new M2 chip supports up to 24 GB of main memory and can offer up to 10 GPU cores. While this currently is small compared to the M1 Pro, Ultra, and…

A simple albumentations demo; runs live in your browser — Across all data domains, images have received the greatest amount of attention. Just consider convolutional neural networks: their kernels lend themselves easily to detecting objects in images, regardless of their position. Or, the mighty ImageNet dataset. This million-samples collection had and still has a tremendous impact on the evolution of…

Tara Westover, Frédéric Gros Reading is not a race. It’s not how many books we can devour but how much of a single book we grasp. While a personal library filled with countless novels, dramas, biographies, and other genres might impress guests, for most of us, there is simply not…

Ask three questions to be better the next time — Comedian Chris Rock comes up with novel ideas in small steps. Before his hugely successful shows, he spends as many evenings as possible in small comedy clubs and tries out new jokes. Of course, most of them fall flat, and the audience laughs at him. But there will inevitably be…

Cal Newport, Greg McKeown, Dan Millman, Malcolm Gladwell — April began with typical — if we dare to use this word given the current circumstances — April weather. Some sun, some rain, a little bit of snow. Thankfully, we readers are flexible: If it rains or snows, we read beside the warm fireplace; if the Sun sends her greetings…