Progress On ShitSpotter

Over the past 3 years I've made significant progress on ShitSpotter. I've collected over 5000 images (31 GB). Recently I've started annotating images and training models. I annotated 400 images before I started training my first models. It was subpar. I annotated up to 900 images, and started seeing loss curves like this: With corresponding…

Underappreciated Things I’m Thankful For

I'd like to express my thoughts on several topics that I feel are lessfrequently appreciated, perhaps unfairly. Modern Lifestyle I'm grateful to be alive in this golden age of human civilization. We arethe most powerful we have ever been. The median quality of life is the highest it hasever been. I'm hopeful for our future.…

Debugging Unexpected System Shutdown – Initial Archive

This is the new home for my journal entries about this debugging effort. It turns out stack exchange has a character limit, and my most recent post almost exceeds it. It is likely that if there is ever a solution to this issue, the maintainers of SE (stack exchange) will want to pair it down.…

I changed my primary GPG key (to 622BE571405441B4)

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 About 2 years ago I started learning about GPG and published my first set of keys. I made a few mistakes. I only generated primary keys and the default subkeys. The biggest mistake: I did not generate the primary key that I wanted to use as my identity in…

New Package Releases, ubelt, xdoctest, and more

On 2020-08-26 I released working changes to PYPI on the majority of my active public repositories. The new latest versions are: https://github.com/Erotemic/xdoctest - 0.14.0 https://github.com/Erotemic/ubelt - 0.9.2 https://gitlab.kitware.com/utils/scriptconfig - 0.5.8 https://gitlab.kitware.com/computer-vision/netharn - 0.5.10 https://gitlab.kitware.com/computer-vision/ndsampler - 0.5.11 https://gitlab.kitware.com/computer-vision/kwplot - 0.4.7 https://gitlab.kitware.com/computer-vision/kwimage - 0.6.5 https://gitlab.kitware.com/computer-vision/kwcoco - 0.1.5 See the CHANGELOG.md in each repo for details about what's…