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@melissa_loh OHMYGODDDDD


@melissa_loh Okay, there appears to be a Typo at Broadway Shopping Center. I’mma check this out. Thank you!! 🥚❤️


@parisba @The_McJones He looks like his Good Place character Michael being delighted by yet another silly human thing, like paper clips or Friends.


RT @shoe0nhead: which one are you https://t.co/2FWTJm8kah


TFW you’re working on a conference talk and you have to go back to the conference agenda to double-check what you said three months ago you’d be talking about.


Just set up another 200+ images to label. Any knitters want to volunteer an hour or so to help? Just need a web browser and the ability to distinguish between basic stitches! https://t.co/uW5ZY9u9Vu


Ah, the futility of trying to teach a computer to distinguish between moss and seed stitch, when you yourself get them confused constantly.


@The_McJones I’ve got around 600 images. One of the ML geniuses at work told me that should be plenty, as long as I twiddle with the colours and rotate them to augment.


@The_McJones Around 400 emailed by people, and around 200 that I scraped from various places online.


@The_McJones I’m fortunate in that I can throw lots of resources at it in the account they give me to learn stuff for work. 🙂 I figured I’d try different things. First go is just using the built in stuff in SageMaker.


@The_McJones I have very low hopes of actually achieving meaningful results. Mostly this is just an excuse for me to learn a bit more about ML and what it involves.


@KnitMeAThneed Oh thank you! Can you please DM me your email address and I’ll add you?


If folks are curious, this is what the interface for labelling looks like in Amazon SageMaker Ground Truth. https://t.co/fyvSzaYhw7


Kinda regretting that I didn’t put “Goddamn crochet” in there as a label.


@KnitMeAThneed Oh you’ll see ’em…


@JulieKalitis I’m using this definition to separate them: https://t.co/Y1paoKFYL7


@woollenwords That would be lovely! Yes please, DM me your email address.


@KnitMeAThneed Yeah, a few folks seem to have accidentally attached the wrong images to their emails. 😂 Part of the joys of crowdsourcing data!


@KnitMeAThneed Did you get the Halloween candy yet?


The dirty secret of machine learning is that first you have to enlist a whole task force of folks to spend time clicking buttons. Current labelling job stats… https://t.co/7MblcSulKX


@ceels Yes please! Please DM me your email address and I’ll add you.


@CynthiaMTeague Awesome! Please DM me your email address and I’ll add you.


@cczona In my case it’s simply that my brain doesn’t grok crochet naturally. Every time I use it I have to relearn it entirely. I like linear sequential things, and cricket is so freeform and 3-D it just eludes me.


@cczona DM me your email address and I’ll add you!


@MerryGlennie Please DM me your email address and I’ll add you!


@JasonUmiker That’s the idea! I was listening to Eminem to get pumped before @PubConf a few weeks back so @CoreyGinnivan quickly made that for me. And it worked because I WON.


@JasonUmiker @PubConf @CoreyGinnivan No knitting content that night though – was all Roald Dahl and websites and crazed startup founders and AI.



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