Say you want a laptop with decent power for local AI development. If you don’t want to spend a lot of money, and you want a portable, sleek laptop (not a clunky “portable desktop”), consider the ASUS ROG Zephyrus G14. You can get one of these from BestBuy, on a deal, for under $2000. It…

About 4 years ago I bought an early edition of the Tesla Model Y. I immediately loved it. I still think it is the best car available. When I purchased the car I also paid for Full Self Driving (FSD). It was understood that FDF wasn’t actually ready – but that it would mature over…

Apple makes some good products… I’m not so sure the Apple watch can be counted as one of them. Reasons: the battery life isn’t stellar, and, most importantly, it is an utter pain to set one up for family member. The setup problem is because apple requires an iphone to set up the apple watch…

It’s not magical – no matter how many times they say it is. It is as magical as having a pickpocket empty your wallet everyday and giving you back only lost days of your life and a sunburn. I hope someone starts a new theme park that is actually based on some new ideas and…

I use my RTX for heavier ML workflows, like training and high-quality inference (say, centernet). Additionally my security system has edge-based (coral TPU) cameras (one TPU per camera) that perform their own inference workloads. Thus all my compute resources are busy burning any solar power I get, and then some. This poses a problem as…

How sad that a grown man – a single sorrowful, pitiful human being – could dash the hope and optimism of the world by plunging it into a stupid war. We all make dumb mistakes – but very few of have the distinction to make a mistake that causes the following: Young children, who should…

Putin has lost the war for one simple reason: he never had a cause to start it in the first place – and everyone knows it. What he is doing might have worked 50 years ago – when the skies weren’t monitored by non-military GPS. When we didn’t have social media showing us the people…

https://brohrer.github.io/how_convolutional_neural_networks_work.html – This page did a good job of breaking down the individual operations that are common to all CNNs – ReLU, pooling, convolution, etc. After reading the article you can basically implement your own CNN – but without a lot of the advanced improvements that have made them faster and more powerful. https://towardsdatascience.com/review-yolov3-you-only-look-once-object-detection-eab75d7a1ba6 has…