Feeling the tech community love today, folks. ❤️
I spent the weekend setting up a pipeline to process images from an email address so I could start collecting swatches for my machine learning project data set. I rolled it out slowly with a post here and on the Australian Knitters Ravelry group, then expanded to one of the big 6 boards as well as a tweet. Today I am up to 200 images and my tweet has pretty much gone viral. I got replies from a couple ML researchers (including Janelle Shane, who does those wacky “what if a neural net named kittens/colours/romance novels?” blog posts!) pointing me to existing data sets I can use to augment my own. And I reached out to a couple AI experts within Amazon who have both offered amazingly helpful advice. How great is that?