Lisa Tagliaferri – 3 Python Machine Learning Projects
/ A.I., python, software

 

A Compilation of 3 Python Machine Learning Projects

 

  1. How To Build a Machine Learning Classifier in Python with Scikit-learn
  2. How To Build a Neural Network to Recognize Handwritten Digits with
    TensorFlow
  3. Bias-Variance for Deep Reinforcement Learning: How To Build a Bot for Atari with openAI gym
Tatev Aslanyan – Machine Learning for Beginners 2024: Theory to Practice with Python Project
/ A.I., python, software

 

Especially Crafted For:

  • Budding Data Scientists and Python enthusiasts
  • Innovators in Machine Learning and AI fields
  • Engineers looking to transition into ML roles
  • Product Managers eager to incorporate ML insights
  • Educational pioneers and high school students exploring tech
  • Anyone intrigued by the potential of ML and Python
Tom Hanks on his debut novel “The Making of Another Major Motion Picture Masterpiece”: Nothing comes easy if you learnt all through mistakes… 
/ production, ves

https://www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-50-q/clip/16014382-tom-hanks

 

Two-time Oscar winner Tom Hanks (Forrest Gump, Philadelphia, A League of Their Own) on his debut novel “The Making of Another Major Motion Picture Masterpiece,” the insecurities he’s felt throughout his career, and what drives his passion for filmmaking when it feels like “the odds are stacked against you.”

Nothing comes easy if you learnt all through mistakes… 

How to learn to become a VFX artist
/ ves
  • Structure your learning time
  • Consistency
  • Retention
  • Mental health
  • Don’t feel intimidated
  • Don’t feel rushed
  • Be kind
  • Luck is when preparation meets opportunity
Foundry Nuke Cattery – A library of open-source machine learning models
/ A.I., production, software

The Cattery is a library of free third-party machine learning models converted to .cat files to run natively in Nuke, designed to bridge the gap between academia and production, providing all communities access to different ML models that all run in Nuke. Users will have access to state-of-the-art models addressing segmentation, depth estimation, optical flow, upscaling, denoising, and style transfer, with plans to expand the models hosted in the future.

 

https://www.foundry.com/insights/machine-learning/the-artists-guide-to-cattery

 

https://community.foundry.com/cattery

 

chat.openai – A conversational AI system that listens, learns, and challenges
/ A.I.

https://chat.openai.com

 

https://openai.com/blog/chatgpt/

 

 

Tell me about when Christopher Columbus came to the US in 2015

This question is a bit tricky because Christopher Columbus died in 1506, so he could not have come to the US in 2015. But let’s pretend for a moment that he did!

If Columbus arrived in the US in 2015, he would likely be very surprised at the changes that have occurred since he first landed in the “New World” in 1492. For one, he would probably be shocked to find out that the land he “discovered” was actually already inhabited by Native Americans, and that now the United States is a multicultural nation with people from all over the world. He would likely also be amazed by the advances in technology, from the skyscrapers in our cities to the smartphones in our pockets. Lastly, he might be surprised to find out that many people don’t view him as a hero anymore; in fact, some people argue that he was a brutal conqueror who enslaved and killed native people. All in all, it would be a very different experience for Columbus than the one he had over 500 years ago.

Oliver Theobald – Machine Learning For Absolute Beginners
/ A.I.

http://infinity.wecabrio.com/B07335JNW1-machine-learning-for-absolute-beginners-a-plain-e.pdf

Google’s ’20% rule’ shows exactly how much time you should spend learning new skills, and why it works
/ quotes

www.cnbc.com/2021/12/16/google-20-percent-rule-shows-exactly-how-much-time-you-should-spend-learning-new-skills.html

 

“We encourage our employees, in addition to their regular projects, to spend 20% of their time working on what they think will most benefit Google,”

1. Clearly identify what you want to learn

2. Win — even if you lose

3. Be flexible and committed

4. Look for ways to make it fun

5. Think in decades

Machine learning with Python for Beginners – Jamie Chan
/ python, software

https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B09BNYDH5F

Learn Django 3 and Start Creating Websites With Python
/ python, software

Learn how to do back end web development using the popular Python Django framework. You’ll build data visualization web apps using Pandas dataframes, Matplotlib, and Seaborn. You’ll also work with PDF rendering and even base-64 encoding. (7 hour YouTube course)

Learn Low Poly Modeling in Blender 2.9 / 2.8
/ blender, software

TIPS

Loop cut a selected face
1- select face
2- shift-H to hide all but the selection. Loop cut doesn’t work on hidden faces.
3- loop cut
4- Alt+H to unhide everything when you’re done.

Autodesk Shotgun running generative scheduling based on machine learning
/ A.I., software

www.awn.com/news/autodesk-shotgun-taps-new-tech-future-production-management

With Autodesk’s acquisition of technology known as Consilium, machine learning-driven generative scheduling is coming to Shotgun Software, which will enable more accurate bidding, scheduling, and resource planning decisions.

Machine learning is being brought to production management with generative scheduling in Shotgun, currently in early testing. For producers and production managers, this will make the manual and complex challenge of optimized scheduling and resource planning more dynamic, controllable, and predictive. This feature set will allow producers to plan faster, with greater accuracy and agility to help their teams produce the best work possible.

9 Key Machine Learning Algorithms Explained in Plain English
/ A.I.

www.freecodecamp.org/news/a-no-code-intro-to-the-9-most-important-machine-learning-algorithms-today/

Recommendation Systems

Linear Regression

Logistic Regression

K-Nearest Neighbors

Decision Trees and Random Forests

Support Vector Machines

K-Means Clustering

Principal Component Analysis

Blender For Noobs – Learn Blender in an hour
/ blender, software

 

Common Blender 3.x keyboard shortcuts

 

Common Blender 2.x keyboard shortcuts
By Blender for Noobs!

Mouse Navigation:
Select = Right mouse button (unless you set it to use the left mouse button)
Dolly = Middle mouse button
Pan = Shift + Middle mouse button
Zoom = Mouse scroll wheel

 

Menus:
T = Object Tool Shelf (toggle)
N= Properties Tool Shelf (toggle)
Shift + A = Add object menu

 

Window views:
Numpad 1 = Front view Numpad Ctrl + 1 = Back view
Numpad 3 = Right view Numpad Ctrl + 3 = Left view
Numpad 7 = Top view Numpad Ctrl + 7 = Bottom view
Numpad 5 = Orthographic and perspective views (toggle)
Ctrl + Up arrow = Full screen view (toggle)
Ctrl + Alt + Q = 4 window split view

 

Functions:
Undo = Ctrl + Z
Redo = Ctrl + Shift + Z
Save = Ctrl + S
Object/Edit mode = TAB (toggle)
Select/Deselect all = A (toggle)
Box select = B
Box deselect = B, then Middle mouse button
Circle select = C
Circle deselect = C, then Middle mouse button
Delete = X
Toggle Solid view and Wireframe view = Z
Toggle Solid view and Render preview = Shift + Z
Render = F12

 

Modeling/Object Manipulation:
Extrude = E
Grab/Move = G
Edge Loop = Ctrl + R
Rotate = R
Merge = Alt + M
Scale = S
Duplicate = Shift + D

 

Maya setup in 2.80+
https://blender.stackexchange.com/questions/130342/maya-viewport-navigation-in-2-80

 

Blender keymap for busy Maya / Unity / Substance Designer users
https://gist.github.com/bitinn/22f6fefe026d8d9e83468864edb8f835

 

Apply/resolve constraints
https://blender.stackexchange.com/questions/1013/kind-of-apply-for-a-clamp-to-constraint
Search for “Apply Visual Transform”

 

Camera movements
https://all3dp.com/2/blender-how-to-move-the-camera/

shift+`
W or S move forward/backwards
A or D move left/right
Q or E move up/down

 

Add keyboard shortcuts
Go to Edit->Preferences
Select Keymap on the left side
Expand 3d View (or interested location)
Expand 3d View (Global)
Scroll to the bottom of the list and click “Add new”

Light emission in Cycles
To make an object emit light you use an emission shader. Go to the materials tab on the properties editor, then add a new material and change the shader from the default diffuse to emission.

 

Avoid rendering in a new window.
You can set the Display Mode for the actual rendering in Preferences under Interface/Temporary Windopes. If you’d like to get the old behavior back, set it to ‘Image Editor‘ or ‘Keep User Interface’ and save preferences.

 

Proportional transformation by numbers
By left-clicking and dragging down on the sliders you can select and edit the values for multiple axes simultaneously

 

Light power emitted through an element in Cycles
https://blender.stackexchange.com/questions/45209/what-kind-of-units-does-the-cycles-emission-strength-use

https://blendergrid.com/learn/articles/cycles-physically-correct-brightness
The emission shader strength value is Watt/m^2
The unit is Irradiance – radiant flux emitted by a surface per unit area (watt per square meter).

Irradiance is a radiometric “corresponding” unit to Illuminance (also known as Lux), which is a photometric unit measured in lumen per square meter.

Radiometric units are based on physical power, that means all wavelengths are weighted equally, while photometric units take into account the sensitivity of human eye to different wavelengths.
The weighting is determined by the luminosity function (which was measured for human eye and is an agreed-upon standard).

Converting Irradiance and Illuminance:
There is a different conversion factor for every wavelength, so the spectral composition of light must be known to make the conversion.

At the most sensitive wavelength to the human eye the conversion factor is

1.0 W/m2 = 683.002 lumen/m2 # at wavelength = 555nm (green)

That means the irradiance (power) to make 1 lumen is at it’s minimum at this wavelength (just 1.464 mW/m2).
Luminous efficiency is then the ratio between the actual number of lumens per watt and the theoretical maximum.
Incandescent light bulb has a luminous efficiency of 2% which is very poor. It’s because lot of it’s irradiance is only heat which is not visible. The luminosity function is zero for wavelengths outside the visible spectrum.

 

Control text through drivers and the animation node tree
https://blender.stackexchange.com/questions/31814/how-to-drive-text-based-off-of-a-value

 

Driving custom properties

 

Rendering when using Animation Nodes
import bpy
for step in range(0, 40):

bpy.context.scene.frame_set(step)

bpy.data.scenes[“Scene”].render.filepath = ‘D:/render/image.jpg_%d.jpg’ % step

bpy.ops.render.render( write_still=True )

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