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One week into my first year physics course at the University of Michigan, a professor assigned a problem set that required simulating some many-body system. It was due Friday. That was the week I learned my first programming language, Matlab.

This is how I’ve picked up bits and pieces of a dozen or so languages over the past decade. Besides an introductory CS class taught with C++ and a Java-based database class in graduate school, I never had any formal training in software engineering. For me, coding was a way to finish my homework, analyze data to answer a question, or turn an idea in my head into something real.

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In this article, we’ll train a model that is able to label cat and dog images. The images used for this project can be found here and here. Of course, you don’t have to use cats and dogs; the process is the same irrespective of your images. Before we get too far into this, you’ll first need to create an account at Fritz AI.

Continue reading Image Segmentation with Fritz AI Studio

Geolocation as an API has different methods that can be used in a web application. But it’s also a powerful API for mobile development. Ride share mobile apps like Uber, map app like Google Maps, and location features implemented in apps like Instagram depend on using this API. React Native takes advantage of this API and its available methods by extending the Geolocation Web specification.

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In this article, we’ll build a simple neural network using Keras. We’ll assume you have prior knowledge of machine learning packages such as scikit-learn and other scientific packages such as Pandas and Numpy.

Continue reading Introduction to Deep Learning with Keras

In the last piece in this series on developing with Flutter, we looked at how we can implement face detection using ML Kit, which belongs to the Firebase family.

In this 8th installment of the series, we’ll keep working with ML Kit, this time focusing on scanning barcodes from an image.

Continue reading Scan Barcodes in Flutter Using Firebase’s ML Kit

PyTorch, Facebook’s core machine and deep learning framework, has been steadily gaining momentum and popurity in recent months, especially in the ML/DL research community.

But until recently (last week, in fact), there was a substantial piece of the puzzle missing—an end-to-end solution for deploying PyTorch models to mobile.

Continue reading PyTorch Mobile: Exploring Facebook’s new mobile machine learning solution

As a React Native developer, you’re going to come across use cases that will require you to embed or redirect a web application or a web page inside a React Native app. WebViews are often used for such use cases.

Continue reading How to handle navigation with WebViews in a React Native app

At last year’s iPhone event, Apple announced that, starting with iOS 12 and the new A12 Bionic processor, Core ML models could now take advantage of the Apple Neural Engine (ANE). The ANE is a special co-processor capable of accelerating machine learning models to run up to 9X faster using just a tenth of the energy. While we’ve been able to verify these speedups in certain cases, we noticed they weren’t universal. Some models didn’t seem to be benefitting from the new hardware.

Continue reading Does my Core ML model run on Apple’s Neural Engine?

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Training Data (generates)=> Patterns

Input => Patterns => Prediction

The first artificial neural network was designed in 1958. Why now—when artificial intelligence, the parent technology to machine learning, has been around for more than 50 years—is there a surge of ML applications?

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