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See what Video Intelligence API can do with this visualisation tool

I built a visualiser for the Google Cloud Video intelligence API that allows anybody to explore all of the features of the API. If you’re working with video, then the Video Intelligence API has a lot of powerful features for analysing and detecting what’s in your videos, for small pet…

Google Cloud Platform

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See what Video Intelligence API can do with this visualisation tool
See what Video Intelligence API can do with this visualisation tool
Google Cloud Platform

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Jul 30, 2021

How I conquered writer's block with Google Assistant + Google Docs

Over lockdown I built a voice app that would interview me about my projects and help write articles for me. …

Google Assistant

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How I conquered writer's block with Google Assistant + Google Docs
How I conquered writer's block with Google Assistant + Google Docs
Google Assistant

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Jul 29, 2021

🚴 Safer cycling with ML and Edge TPU’s

A while ago I tried to make my bike smarter with machine learning to help keep me safe whilst commuting through busy London streets. Background If you live in a big city and cycle you probably have developed superhuman reflexes and awareness, especially in cities like London where a lot of…

Machine Learning

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🚴 Safer cycling with ML and Edge TPU’s
🚴 Safer cycling with ML and Edge TPU’s
Machine Learning

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Jul 28, 2021

🎥 🏉 AppSheet + AppScript for sports videography highlights tracking

During the summer I was asked to help with some video recording for a rugby tournament, but rather than spending hours rewatching footage to find highlights, I quickly threw together some tech to make things a lot easier. Background Sport videography is a hobby of mine (specifically rugby). It is however…

Sports

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🎥 🏉 AppSheet + AppScript for sports videography highlights tracking
🎥 🏉 AppSheet + AppScript for sports videography highlights tracking
Sports

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Jul 27, 2021

🎥🙈 Using AI to automate phobia safe film production

At Google I/O this year I used ML to build an automated video processing pipeline that detects what’s in a video and automatically hides the parts you would find scary. Background Whilst watching some movies with some friends, we discovered that…

Google Cloud Platform

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🎥 🙈 Using AI to automate phobia safe film production
🎥 🙈 Using AI to automate phobia safe film production
Google Cloud Platform

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Published in Towards Data Science

·Oct 24, 2018

Zombies & Model Rot (with ML Engine + DataStore)

So you’ve deployed your machine learning model to the cloud and all of your apps and services are able to fetch predictions from it, nice! You can leave that model alone to do its thing forever… maybe not. Most machine learning models are modeling something about this world, and this…

Machine Learning

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Zombies & Model Rot (with ML Engine + DataStore)
Zombies & Model Rot (with ML Engine + DataStore)
Machine Learning

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Published in Towards Data Science

·Oct 5, 2018

TensorFlow & reflective tape 🏀 (am I bad at basketball?)

Recently a friend got me into basketball. Turns out, it’s a lot harder than it looks. No matter, I can over engineer a solution using machine learning. If your into ML and shooting hoops then there’s also this article that combined TensorFlow and basketball in a simulation.

Machine Learning

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TensorFlow & reflective tape : why I’m bad at basketball 🏀
TensorFlow & reflective tape : why I’m bad at basketball 🏀
Machine Learning

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Published in Towards Data Science

·May 21, 2018

Finally learn how to use command line apps… by making one!

At the risk of alienating a lot of readers… I grew up with GUI’s, so I never needed to learn the ways of the terminal! This is socially acceptable in todays society of friendly user interfaces, except maybe if you’re in software engineering… whoops! Getting back my software engineering street cred’ I’ve gotten pretty far just through…

Python

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Finally learn how to use command line apps… by making one!
Finally learn how to use command line apps… by making one!
Python

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Published in Towards Data Science

·Apr 1, 2018

Friendlier data labelling using generated Google Forms

Manually labelling data is nobodies favourite machine learning chore. You needn’t worry though about asking others to help out provided you can give them a pleasant tool for the task. Let me present to you: generated Google Forms using Google App Script! The regular way people might label data is…

Google

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Friendlier data labelling using generated Google Forms
Friendlier data labelling using generated Google Forms
Google

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Published in Towards Data Science

·Mar 18, 2018

Learn RCNNs with this Toy Dataset

Here’s a dataset that is designed to help showcase when a Recurrent Convolutional Neural Network (RCNN) will outperform its’ non-recurrent counterpart, the Convolutional Neural Network (CNN). A little primer Recurrent models are models that are specially designed to use a sequence of data in making their predictions (e.g …

Machine Learning

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Learn RCNNs with this Toy Dataset
Learn RCNNs with this Toy Dataset
Machine Learning

4 min read

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Zack Akil

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(www.zackakil.com) Machine Learning Maker @ Google

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