Category: Projects

When Your Smart Doorbell or Camera Isn’t Enough, Try a Raspberry Pi

CamKnows™ 1.0 for the Raspberry Pi is now available on GitHub.

I have owned a smart doorbell for several years now, and I can’t imagine life without it. The benefits of smart cameras and doorbells are numerous. I can instantly know who is at my front door or when a package is delivered. There are, however, some drawbacks to any camera-equipped smart device.

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Caching Deep Learning Models with TensorFlow, Keras and PTMLib

Save Machine Learning models, time, and energy (and maybe even the planet)

I’ve noticed when going through lengthy ML tutorials for Keras and TensorFlow that I often run the same models repeatedly in Jupyter Notebook, regardless of the fact they have no changes. This is natural for me with a notebook with multiple models. I also find that typing the code into a new notebook, rather than just clicking Shift + Enter, aids my understanding and retention of what I have learned.

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Xandly5 – Generate Lyrics with Deep Learning and Natural Language Processing

Xandly5 is a lyrics generator powered by Natural Language Processing (NLP) and the Keras and TensorFlow frameworks. Deep Learning models are trained on separate collections…

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