🧵 9 Computer Vision Tricks to Improve Performance 🚀

This is my post popular post on Kaggle:

I had shared 9 tricks that you might find helpful if you’re working with Image Data 📸

kaggle.com/competitions/h… 1. Start with Smaller Resolution:

The more ideas you can prototype, the better when starting out.

Resizing images to smaller resolutions allows you to increase batch size and iteration speeds as well

🧵 Top Kaggle solutions always feature many great insights and hidden details:

I spent the past two days reading top solutions from the recently ended Great Barrier reef competition

There were many fascinating tricks shared, my short summary

kaggle.com/c/tensorflow-g…

TL;DR👇 2/

First, some context around the competition:

⭐️Identify starfish in underwater videos
😱There was a HUGE Shakeup expected, so trusting your CV was key

The winners made this post as a joke, when they were on the 150th LB rank and ended up winning!

kaggle.com/c/tensorflow-g…

📚Annotated ConvNext, summary in 🧵

Announcing Groundbreaking paper series @weights_biases!

The series will cover groundbreaking papers and share short + detailed summaries along w colabs.

Ty @captain__pool, @soumikRakshit96 for teaming on ConvNext

github.com/init27/Groundb… The paper by @liuzhuang1234 et al is a nice take on "Modernising ResNets"

Apply all ideas from Transformers -> ConvNets and make them more scalable

This is so incredible 🙏

The amazing founders of @SharpestMindsAI have decided to pursue a bigger goal & an important mission of working towards AI Safety🤖

Good Luck Team! 🍵

medium.com/@edouard_harri… I don't think a single paragraph justifies this:

This is an absolutely huge achievement by the team.

I've only heard of a few ISA companies and SM has continued growing after raising a v small seed round 🙏

I'm so happy my "Dream setup" feels complete now!

Here's a virtual tour of the Chai Studio/Home Office:

1. Complete Room
2. Main Desk (Neutron + Dual Monitors)
3. Render/Video Editing Rig
4. Video/Podcasting/Reading Table

Details in Thread: Main Desk:

Custom made, dual tables that house Neutron + 2 Monitors.

Primary monitor is a 27in 144Hz-serves as a gaming monitor too, secondary is a 22in.

PC:

https://twitter.com/bhutanisanyam1/status/1384204889358622720?s=20

⌨️: Keychron K2, IIRC @SrirangaTarun and I waited for >1 year to grab this!

🖱: G502

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Meta thread of AMAZING threads by @EmilWallner, linked:

1. The AI autodidact degree
2. ML portfolio tips
3. Tips for AI writers
4. Compute access for ML training
5. Coming edu backbone for talent
6. Research areas that req little compute
7. Bootstrapping into DL research 1/7

https://twitter.com/EmilWallner/status/1163301565081501701?s=20