Cartagena Colombia Travel

Travel
Experiences
We started our journey in Fitchburg, WI. We took a Lyft to the bus stop and took the bus down to Chicago the night before our flights. This was not necessary but it did make…
Jun 21, 2024
Kevin Bird

 

Artist Identification - EJ Whitney

Art
My wife sent me a link to a painting that caught her eye. It had all of the colors that we have been working into the lounge in our house. It was a 44in x 34 oil painting…
Jun 21, 2024
Kevin Bird

 

Genetic Algorithm Intro

technical
ChatGPT
A walkthrough of genetic algorithms generated using ChatGPT
Dec 21, 2022
Kevin Bird

 

Should We Use ChatGPT?

advice
ChatGPT
Until a few days ago when I started trying out ChatGPT, I didn’t think this was a question I would have to contemplate for at least a few years, but, realistically, I…
Dec 8, 2022
Kevin Bird

DiffEdit Paper Implementation

technical
research
Implementing the DiffEdit Paper
Nov 2, 2022
Kevin Bird

 

5 Ways to Improve Your Quality Inspection Process

Manufacturing
Quality
If you work in manufacturing and are struggling to with rising costs, returned products, and unhappy customers, check out some of my ideas below on how to improve your…
Sep 26, 2022
Kevin Bird

 

Exploring Timm vs Torchvision Resnet18 Difference

fastai
technical
exploration
Reviewing the impact batchnorm initialization has on non-pretrained model performance
May 2, 2022
Kevin Bird

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PyTorch torch.lerp Exploration

python
technical
exploration
Reviewing torch.lerp and its uses
Feb 22, 2022
Kevin Bird

 

A cron job that will run conda, run python script, and email when it fails

technical
I have searched high and low trying to create a scheduled task (cron job) that will: 1. Use a conda environment 2. Run a python script 3. Email if/when errors occur
Feb 17, 2022
Hiromi Suenaga

 

Create SSH key pair and using it

technical
It is fairly simple to create a SSH key pair as ssh-keygen will guide you through the whole process.
Feb 15, 2022
Hiromi Suenaga

 

Python Function Default Argument Value

python
technical
exploration
Exploring an unexpected Python behavior that could cause your program to behave inconsistently
Feb 7, 2022
Kevin Bird

 

Using Makefile to Create Git Hook

technical
In our previous post, we created a Git Hook that will strip all the superfluous metadata automatically when you commit notebooks. We wanted to make the installation of this…
Feb 6, 2022
Hiromi Suenaga

 

Using Git Hook to Clean Jupyter Notebook on Commit

technical
To avoid merge issues and make PR review easier, we wanted a Git Hook which will: - Clear output of Jupyter Notebook - Only clean the files that were modified for this PR
Feb 5, 2022
Hiromi Suenaga

Texas Rate Inspector Overview

texas
rate
Currently Texas’ rate selection process is heavily driven by the lowest cost for a typical user. However, this limits the imagination of Retail Electricity Providers (REP)…
Sep 19, 2021
Kevin Bird

Normalizing fastai Tabular Inputs

technical
Exploring the effectiveness of normalization on tabular data
Aug 16, 2021
Kevin Bird

 

5 Lessons from Richard Feynman

advice
I recently listened to a biography about Richard Feynman and I had some takeaways that surprised me. I had always vaguely known that Richard Feynman was an interesting guy…
Aug 3, 2021
Kevin Bird

 

Python Native slots Attribute Exploration

python
technical
exploration
Diving into Python to see what slots does and how it can be used
May 21, 2021
Kevin Bird

 

5 Tips for a New CIO

advice
Congratulations on your new role as CIO! As the CIO, your job is to remove roadblocks, provide a vision, and enable your business partners without spending more than is…
May 18, 2021
Kevin Bird

 

fastai’s Text DLs Exploration

fastai
technical
exploration
Exploring different methods to create the dls object in fastai
May 14, 2021
Kevin Bird
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