I cant believe you managed to create machine learning code for doctors handwriting on the first try

thats really a world wide thing.

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Comment of the year.

...but he didn't. He used someone else's code.

I love the "wife annoyed to be forced to help her husbands weird projects" character she pulls lmao

i feel there is a degree of authenticity when you ask her to do a test to prove she isnt defective

"character" yeah

i have wondered if there is someone with a gun off screen

@@whatadude4841yes but it’s not a person. It’s a perfectly calibrated auto rig

​@notnotme1715 you two are pretty funny

I'm surprised pen pressure on the paper wasn't more of a problem. Seems like the robots perfect line darkness would stand out more.

My guess is they actually talked about how good they were, and what we saw was what we were allowed to hear.

I came here to say this, but in my heart I knew it had already been said

Probably not the most notable thing, especially if you consider if they were actually sent out you’d only see 1 and would have no comparison for the pen pressure, And repetition is much more noticeable to the brain

​@@BossKnightalso ballpoint pens, especially decent quality ones, tend to have little variation in darkness with pressure.

You would be able to see lots of different pressures between each letter. When handwriting, you have to lift up your hand for each letter so you wouldn't be able to use the same pressure on every one

You should send these to "handwriting experts" who think they can get insights into a persons personality or backstory from their handwritting.

You'd want to ridicule them?

Anyone writing each letter individually and not joining them up is sure to be a psychopath

@@dariusftw3378 Lol I am the type of person to handwrite everything IN CAPITAL LETTERS.

@@dariusftw3378 At school I had absolutely horrible handwriting when I was joining each letter up so I started to write individually and am now trying to unlearn 10 years of writing that way because it looks kinda unprofessional.

I would like to thank you on behalf of all criminals for giving us starting point of forgery and also explaining us how we might get busted so we could fix this before we go live.

I wanted to start a youtube channel where disgruntled industry experts explain how people could hack/cheat/bypass safeguards, if they even exist. It would be called "*IF* I Did It"

@@Roddy556 I would watch it. Safeguards are anti-consumer.

It's a cool trap of reverse psychollogy. Yo get so smart and skillful making a machine like this to try to do something illegal, that you end up pursuing a better career in science instead of being a criminal

​@@Zal1810yeah like that surgeon who m4rd3red ~300 minors before realizing he can be a doctor

I love the chemistry between him and his wife. They have the same sense of humor and banter so well. Ugh.

FINALLY. So glad to see another vid from you! You’re the most committed creator on this platform and I love your story telling / humor.

Bro 21 mins ago?

hey jake

Meme daddy???

let me get a shout out

@@CorruptOcean why

Is anyone really going to talk about how the wife managed to correctly decipher every fake card despite not being completely obvious and apart manage to see the ploptwist of the last 4 letters? If she is not a detective then she is not in the right job

Glad I wasn’t the only one that had that on their mind. She definitely wife goals

@@zahirmontano2254 Guess you don't know what acting is.

the wife is a robot he built

I love his wife’s facial expressions. It’s just the look of someone who loves a benign lunatic genius.

The fact that she figured out it was all fakes is poetic almost, machine learning vs gut feel lmao

personally, i think the idea of you putting all of this work into a cool personalized project that can automatically write cards for people is more endearing than just writing a bunch of cards, because like anyone can do that. you put your own personal touch on the idea and that makes it special.

It's on brand which is why it works

i just googled for a tormach robot to see if i can get one lol

Begone verified holder

PhlyDaily??? What are you doing here?

I was looking too! 😆 But man.. $1000 bucks a month for two years... 18k one time payment, or $500 for 4 years, and $630 for 3.. INSANE!! but it would be nice to have a robot arm!..😂

Yeah me too $18,450 starter package !! But I still want one !

@@ICantThinkOfAFunnyHandle phly is legit lol

What I learned from this channel over the years is that in order to do less work you have to do more work than you originally had to.

because it’s only ever less work for future you never present you

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It's just converting the work into other work that you like more. In this case he could just suck it up and write them out, or he could make a machine to do, that he not only is much more suited too, but also enjoys it's and allows him to hone his craft.

Initially

one time investment basically

I feel like, in this case, a forensic handwriting expert being able to make a profile for your handwriting bot is a feature, not a bug. After all, you're *not* trying to make 20,000 unique sets of handwriting, you are trying to make *one* set of handwriting that is consistent across 20,000 use instances. And if he sees enough shared characteristics between the different pieces of writing to work out a profile, that means they are identifiable as having been written by the same person (or, I guess, robot). Which means that you succeeded in creating a unique and consistent handwriting style

this reminds me of a cartoon from the 2000s called lazy lucy about a girl who hates doing tasks so she comes up with incredibly comedically complicated schemes to make them 'easier'

Absolutely love how succinctly you managed to sum up the experience of learning machine learning: write code; wait hours/days; find out you made a really dumb mistake; repeat steps until you eventually either ragequit or swallow your pride and decide to see if someone way smarter than you already figured it out (SPOILER ALERT: they did). Actually I suppose this goes for a lot of things!

Your training process, and failures afterwards remind me of my early days in computers in high school. We "wrote" programs on a paper teletypewriter, using a computer program named BASIC. Each line was numbered, resulting in hundreds or thousands of lines of commands. The we hIt "RUN". and would wait to see what the computer would do. each run resulted in "successive approximations" until we got it to run. That was in 1973! Wow, I thought that those days were over! Great video.

wait... I thought that was how things were done....

Basic is basically programming on root, tough stuff

Yup! lol. PDP-11 in 1976. We had to punch a paper tape to save the program for the next class. Newsprint as I recall. Didn't always work, yah, then you had to retype it.

It is truly impressive how human beings can recognize legitimate writing through participant observation. What if you reverse the process and create a robot that identifies a false signature or writing instead of the script learning machine? excellent work congratulations

You know you're an engineer when you spend hundreds of hours designing and building a custom solution to do a simple menial task

In fainress he actually ended up just using someone else's code on someone else's robot. All he did was feed it paper with a second robot.

@@Electric999999 he also handed the robot a pen haha. Seriously though he did engineer the trays to hold the cards, the system for picking them up and dropping them, the system for holding the cards for the writing bot and integrated those 2 robots together with the code etc. so it's not quite as easy but yeah. Giving up and using an existing code base is actually very typical of engineers in other jobs too lol.

I feel like I am cut out to be an engineer then, since I have ocd and I have spent hundreds of hours during my free time, to optimize my free time, so I have more free time. No joke.

​@@briondalion3696if you are old enough to go university, give it a shot. You can't be a certified engineer without an engineering degree.

I'm a software developer and I have a job and that job often makes me do tasks that take hundreds of hours only for no one to use it.

I love your videos! From the “wouldn’t it be easier to just write them out? - we don’t talk about that here.” To the way your wife interacts with you! Reminds me of my wife. I get the same exact look when she’s thinking “Stop being stupid!”. 😂

My favorite interaction is at around 17:50 : Him: "I just want you to be proud of... " Her: "— with your plumage?" 😂 Her deadpan delivery kills me, too

the most educational part of this is when he says, "on the first try, too! that never happens!" I always got discouraged as a kid when I didn't get things on the first try and i gave up. i didn't have any confidence to try again because i always tried my hardest the first time. If my best try wasn't good enough, no further tries seemed like they'd fare any better, so i, being a very reasonable and smart kiddo, concluded i just wasn't very good at that thing.

A very very few people in the world got what it takes to produce videos like this. Technical and theoretical knowledge, a good sense of humor, and video editing skills. this man deserves a medal!

If you did not watch this video's sponsor you are a monster. All of the hard work aside, the genuine explanation and request to just hear out the sponsored content was so pure I ended up making 3 accounts with Onshape.

This video is the embodiment of "we do things not because they are easy, but because we thought they were"

and we make necessary concessions when we realize it was a little bit too not-easy

"We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because we thought they were!" - JFK, 2023

@@thenightjackal8876 yea but budget doesn't change 😭😂

lmao 🤣

🎶WE DO WHAT WE MUST BECAUSE WE CAN! 🎶

“If I’m going to commit fraud, I’m going to do it properly.” Haha! Love your channel. The way you question things as well as how you approach each problem is both fascinating and entertaining.

Brilliant! I can't wait to see a project from you that requires a small team of engineers.

casually explaining deep learning techniques like this is my new favorite thing. I will now write a book called "Garbagosity"

As an AI graduate, that's an amazing explanation of neural networks :)

It's always reassuring to see other people struggle with programming, particularly when it's clear they're experienced and generally intelligent. Two things I'm not, yet. Thanks for leaving those parts in, and thanks for making such awesome content overall.

Ok, one major tip: natural hand writing is in fact a 3D action not just 2D, meaning that the writer exerts higher and lower pressure vertical to the paper surface as they write, which results in the pen line becoming thinner and thicker at different sections of a letter! Next try to build the Y-axis movement into that robot!!

Brutal

Or the microscopic human skin flakes and grease we leave on the paper while writing?

Yes I thought the handwriting expert would make this point. Maybe the robot does press more in some places?

I was about to suggest the same haha

Not only the pressure of the pen but angle of the pen too (or rather two angles) and the writing speed.

It would be a nice addition to let ChatGPT generate encouraging or sarcastic messages to cheer the writing robot on. As time progresses, it could go from loving granny to hungover teenager. Great project again!

it shocks me how amazing your videos are sir, just way above the bar my friend. i love making my 10 year old daughter watch these with you. she says she doesnt want to watch but wont let me skip or change to another video... lol. top tier content every time, that i can not only watch with my child but its inspiring to both of us. Well done sir

I love this channel. What makes it even more awesome, is the insanely dry humor of his wife, whom he includes in every episode! She needs her own reaction channel, rating other engineering YT channels 🤔🧐.

Your videos have great quality! Ron in a follow up video will be seen for the first time in this way. His work can be introduced to all of us!

I was hoping you would go more into the actual mechanics of penmanship since the ML and graphical/font side of this is likely been researched quite a bit. As a dynamic font the results were great but still the giveaway to me was the super consistent perpendicular constant pressure strokes. Wouldve been cool to see u tackle variable stroke tilt, speed, presssure mechanics. The tapered stroke you get from the flick of a pen is completely absent.

Thanks to the generous support of patrons I've been able to move my shop multiple times with less fear of going bankrupt. I've been wanting to send out something cool as a way of saying thank you, which led to the creation of this robot. If you're interested in helping to support these projects you can join the patreon at https://patreon.com/stuffmadehere.

Love your work bro 👏👏👏👏

How was this comment made before the video?

you are awesome hope u have a great and relaxing weekend with your family

​@RanDix he had the video uploaded and set to private beforehand

Been waiting for his videos

Garbageosity is the best description I've heard for training and tunning a net🤣🤣 And wow, those animations are amazing! I mean everything is great, but you set very high standards every time!

My dad also had me write lines, but he didn't supervise me, so I wrote one letter 45 times down the line, thus allowing me to briefly dissociate from pencil cramps by doing a repetitive action, freeing my mind for more interesting thought. Thank you for this awesome idea, I've gone along the same path! I feel like line wiring is a really good punishment for a kid. Feels like you used an svg file but added a 5mm Z hop

Shane Wighton was the inventor of the Total Perspective Vortex, which he created to annoy his wife. She would nag him about the amount of time he spent staring out into space or mulling over the mechanics of safety pins and would tell him to have some sense of proportion. So he built the Total Perspective Vortex just to show her. His wife was plugged into the Total Perspective Vortex, which showed her the entire infinity of creation and herself in relation to it. The shock of this experience completely annihilated her brain. Shane was horrified to learn that he had destroyed his wife’s mind, even as he proved his point that if life is going to exist in a Universe of this size, then the one thing it cannot afford to have is a sense of proportion.

I just wanna say that I frickin love your videos, and I always look forward to the next one. You are literally living and doing my dream job, and it makes me want to set-aside more time in my life to work on that long list of side projects that I have always wanted to work on. Thank you Stuff Made Here

the fails are always the best parts 😁 did you really have the confidence on every try to run a 46h training or is it for the show...being able to iterate quickly is key when you're trying new stuff. I know that feeling "this time's the one. OK one more"

just a tip when using neural networks. In the video, I noticed after every bug you fixed, the editing at least made it look like you spent ~50 hours training the RNN again. Usually, you can use smaller datasets to train the networks and see if the output is slightly acceptable before spending the 2 days training the network with the full dataset.

Bingo

I also notice he didn't plot his training loss / validation loss. It's very important to be able to know if both are decreasing, otherwise you might just be overfitting to noise or something. 😆

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@@fitybux4664 Also in realtime, to see if it is worth waiting another 50 hours

Or, just invest in better/more GPUs

Love your content- but can you make a machine that properly redistributes the down feathers back to each square in my comforter after it’s been washed?

In the '90's I had a plotter, mixed half a dozen handwriting fonts, and tweaked the baseline shift, and baseline tilt to make writing indistinguishable from... plotted text.

This fella is simply brilliant. I came upon his channel just today, but what is clear to see is that he is someone who has a great intellect that walks hand in hand with curiosity. Great stuff.

I like how accurately you describe what its like to be an engineer; often painful, with great moments of elation and joy when you're finally successful. Ive worked on quite a few ML projects, and i can totally relate to how annoying it can be to iterate through the process with how long training can take.

Reminds me of the old-school drafting printer we had in school, that handled huge sheets of paper. It was like this, but at least 5 or 6 times larger. It had an arm and a bunch of different coloured pens, and drew each line one-by-one. It would go fast, fast, slow. Stop in weird places and continue in other weird places. Was a lot of fun to watch.

Not over engineered at all... lol Great video, really enjoyed it. I've actually been using a Cricut with a pen and handwriting font to write Holiday Cards and Labels for a few years now. Surprisingly it fooled a lot of people, however, it wouldn't fool me let alone a forensic expert.

I love the field of Computer Science. Spending 4 months to create something to do a 3 hour task for me just gives such a huge feeling of accomplishment.

Until a year later when you need to do the task 10,000 times. Or 1M times.

thats how mostly any machine got made.

There's two reasons why investing a lot of time to gain small benefits: - If you repeat the task, there will come one point where your work amortizes itself - You probably invest all the time (i.e. 12 hours for 10 minutes faster tasks) at a point where you have it available and you also have fun with it. I've done the same for my collagues with some forms - they may only save a couple of minutes but we all get done faster and have less repetitive tasks since they're done automatically.

in my junior year of hs i had an obsession with writing code to basically make specialized calculators for whatever we were doing in math. definitely spent more time on making those programs than time i would've spent actually doing the work, but it was fun lol

This really gave me a mood boost as a starter CS student

I wonder how you are able to make such videos, I mean I watched a 20+ minute video but it felt like 3 minutes - Truly amazing.

As someone who almost exclusively uses solid works for school and work, I’ve been really happy with Onshape for some of my home CAD projects. Being able to create a CAD model while measuring the garden faucet is a big game changer.

These animations are amazing! Can’t image how much work went into this video.

This is incredible, I'm a musician and in college my professor made us turn in all of our compositions with hand-written scores. HOURS of writing and hand cramps, this would have been amazing.

Miss you man. But I know you will be worth the wait! You're an amazing engineer!

Trained as a mechanical engineer 40 years ago - despite afterwards working in another field your videos resonate with the engineer's heart that still beats within. Thank you!

yesssssss!

I just really appreciate todays sponsor. Finding free CAD software is hard to come across.

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I thought the last one he did with the handwriting machine - before moving on and incorporating the robot arm - was actually really good 👍

I can’t imagine how much time you put to craft those awesome videos! Amazing!

I had an idea like this when I was younger. I wanted to be able to type my essays and print in handwriting. I am happy to see someone actually made it work.

you make this sound like it's a new thing. it's not new, the thing you're talking about has already been accomplished quite some time ago.

I appreciate you including all the results of the errors. Many of the products made by engineers are the result of numerous tries and experiments. It is a tedious yet crucial step in the process. Negative outcomes may not be fun but they are vital because they only help us become better learners.

Before the forensic part, I assume pressure levels will do too constant over all the letters, you don’t always push with the same amount of force, sometimes letters come out lighter or thicker because of that and I didn’t see that accounted for

The amazing thing is that Shane could get a high level job literally anywhere but he'd rather do his own stuff like this. And that makes him awesome

i think it's a little naive to think this guy doesn't have a job

@@MrDylanHole a little?

@@aonodensetsu I was trying to be nice

4.21 million subscribers definitely help. Hell, people with 75k subscribers are quitting their jobs and doing YouTube full time. Shane has it made and we’re all here for it!

His job is inventing, " He is an inventor with five patents and 13 pending applications. " -wikipedia

Honestly the most impressive lesson I've learned from all this is that your wife is an ace detective. Like, straight up saw through you every single time with seemingly no effort hahaha.

People tend to pick mates with similar levels of intelligence and education. : )

I love how you described how machine learning works for laymen. Brilliant.

Sup bro. I love your channel and your machines and process of making them. It feels like you understand my struggles when making college projects. I have currently just finished my college career at Mechatronics Engineering and would like to specialize on something that would help me build robots like you. I love to draw I love to design and I love building ideas so, any suggestions?

As you were working through the problem of stacking cards for the robot to pick up I paused and thought of two solutions, 1. The simple caveman way, measure the height of a card, count the number in your stack and then have the computer loop trough the stack of cards, lowering itself by one cards height each time. (clearly not a good solution) 2. Make a trigger for the robot arm, a simple piece of metal and a spring to detect distance from the target, slowly lower from max stack height until the trigger is pressed(good but it requires a mechanical trigger which can fail, and a user may put a stack that is too large into the stack. I cant believe I didn't consider a spring loaded platform to move the cards up as they are taken from the stack. This is clearly the best way, the same way plates are dispensed at a buffet.

Cool video and awesome idea! Hopefully, you got enough sleep after your project was finished. Your eyes like you didn't during your project. Stay healthy and watch your health!

Your video and editing skills are coming such a long way.

Nice

Good...

Hai

The production on this vid was way way ahead of what I remember seeing from him. Agree.

Nice👍👍👍👍

An idea I had for applying this tech - use it to reverse engineer (translate 😉) doctor’s handwriting. Have the doctors write out a prescribed paragraph or two that is then tied to the text to “calibrate” the translation algorithm. Then have a device to visually scan the doctor’s handwriting and display on a screen overhead the translated plain text so that nurses can understand what the bloody hell their doctors have written in patient notes 😂

Dude, I've dreamt about this. I've wanted a robot that would write or even just a font of my handwriting for word. I've also thought about a printer that works as a typewriter.

All the time I was hoping you would notice that you have no control on the ink, so if it ends you will lose a lot of time. Of course it would have been a crazy task to make the robot switch pen, but I really wanted to see that 😂

I bet that because of your ambitious projects, it's not always possible to complete them entirely on your own, like this one. Looking for what already exists is also part of engineering. However, seeing how you overcome unbeleivable problems and challenges is what makes me want to watch your videos. Satisfaction only comes when a lot of efforts are put into a project. Cheating your way out made me lose my interest. Your videos are still very good. Keep up!

hello Shane, I find this video really interesting. I was thinking one thing that machines do not take into consideration is- how we change our handwriting at the starting edge of the page in comparison to the ending edge of the page. I am of the view that our moods, feelings too affect them. Also may be subconsciously we try to cram in more words at the ending edge or just squish the word towards the end; may be that is something handwriting experts consciously or subconsciously look into the handwritings.

I love how the wife is always so unimpressed 🤣🤣🤣 she is honestly one of my favorite parts of this channel.

IMO these videos would not really work nearly as well without her

Some other guys plumage doesn’t impress her.

I was going to say the same, her reactions really make me laugh

His wife is my favorite minor character on Youtube

Clearly defective😂

Your videos always ignite the spark in me to be an inventer ,and push me to learn further

..also i wanted to say that i'm time and time again impressed by your skills. I sometimes daydream about you youtubers doing a collab one day to make a world peace machine.. or some free energy magic that solves so many problems.. it feels good to know that people like you exist :)

He really made neural networks easy to understand :)

Have you considered building a swarm of 3D printers? If you could coordinate them and solve the refill problem, you could get around the size limits on 3D printed houses. Speed can be controlled by adding more bots for larger projects and without the large crane to move the print head, it would lower the cost of entry for contractors and enthusiasts. Plus there's all the other potential applications for Art, sidewalks, monolithic archit.... eh never mind. 😅

Nice job. You should have looked for previous solutions to feeding cards as well. Printing presses have had automatic feeders for over 150 years that are not that hard to implement and would give a solution that would precisely position any size and kind of paper. I would have used parts from an old printer.

My favorite part of this channel is how you show yourself making mistakes, finding the error, and trying again. Over and over and over. You're inspiring.

As a full time programmer, that "But why!?!?" - "Ooooh..." really made me nod and giggle haha

Lol yea makes me feel fine about my work process 😅

we're not alone 😭

My favourite part is your comment!!!!

Jesus loves you alot trust in His death 4 salvation and be saved from eternal hell

I was thinking Ron might be able to tell the fake handwriting based on the applied pressure. You didn't mention anything about it, but I imagine the robot always applies a specific pressure, while humans aren't as precise and the letter arrangement probably alters the pressure we apply. A compliant contact and coding black magic would probably solve that too though

Great video, and I like how you always give credit when credit is due, which shows your ethics. 😊 great video, keep up the good work. 👍🏽

There's a few things to consider different when writing and having a machine copy it. People tend to compress the letters as they get to the right side of the page to make sure they have enough room to finish the word. And hand fatigue kicks in after a few paragraphs, making it not as tidy as when started.

the suction cups at approx 8:25 are a VERY similar concept to how Bell and Howell MailStar 500 mail insertion machines work. They use a suction arm to pull the envelope open, then a jet of air to puff the envelope open.

That feels like a nice generative deep learning exercise. Might have been interesting to look into generative adversarial RNN approaches, with one generative network (similar in architecture to the paper shown in video), and two discriminators, one to critique whether the handwriting does indeed "look like handwriting", and the other to critique whether the handwriting does indeed "have the same letters as the example word". A weighted average of both discriminator outputs can be used as the loss for the generator. Though the purpose of the video is probably to get something working, rather than to do AI research

Honestly I think that having a postcard written by a project you made is way cooler than having one hand written

He bought the robot online and copy pasted the code for the program, he didn't do anything for the final product.

​@@hanswurst666 he made the suction things also combining two things different things to do one thing is harder then it looks

Beep bop... I'm the Philosophy Bot. Here, have a quote: "Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will rule your life and you will call it Fate" ~ Carl Jung

Isn't this more work than just writing them by hand yourself? No. Nope. No way. In fact, to geeks and nerds like us, this is playtime. 🤓🎉🎇🎆🎊 Edit: Considering the intent of the project and the work you put into it, I don't think it loses anything. If I could afford to support you and got one of these cards, it would hit better than if you hand wrote it. After all, you're sharing the fruits of your labor with those who supported the project.

I have to say this channel is really one that makes me feel like i did as a kid when I think about Engineering. Thank You for that.

There is a display, or at least there was, at the Northwestern Mutual Insurance Company headquarters in Milwaukee WI that included a device that held 4 desk fountain pens connected to one another. It was used in the early part of the 20th century to speed up signing checks. Interesting video, especially the effort to find a program to simulate handwriting.

This is the first video of yours I have ever seen and I couldn't stop watching! This is just amazing! I loved watching this. Great work!

Love the chemistry between you two.

I love how nonplussed she is every time she joins the video, she's fantastic 😂

eh

you should see how nonplussed she is when he drops his drawers

Nerds 😂😂😂

@@nnamdiphilip3011 The true nerds are people like me going THAT'S NOT WHAT NONPLUSSED MEANS

why tho??

I received your postcard when I came back from holidays. At first I was like « I don’t know any Shane from the US. wtf ». But then I red your card and remembered your video. I was delighted. The card has now a special place on my desk. Keep on the dubious projects.

Would the uniform holes in the vacuum writing surface also end up leaving a distinguishable mark in the cards as well as the uniform pen pressure (already commented on by russellinator). Maybe have the robot arm place the cards somewhat randomly on the vacuum table so that the writing was not always in the exact same place on each card. This would mimic the slight variation that would naturally come from human written postcards.

Whoever added sponsorblock segments to this, I salute you. It's very concise. I can always watch again if I want the theatrics.

I liked this video. It represents programming as a skilled craft, like carpentry, that requires problem solving and best practices, along with a little artistry. AI will nev... Oh. 😔

Love your stuff that is made here sooo much! Thank you for your absolute brainblasting content!! May I ask you what your profession is? Greetings from austria ✌️

I have to say, one of the most helpful parts of your video was when you gave up and used code off the internet. It's nice to see others realize that some other people just do things better sometimes and you don't have to re-invent the wheel every single project. Buying a plotter, borrowing code. This is how things move forward. Good luck in your new shop!

That's how science and engineering works. You use what other people have done in the past to create something new.

Anyone have tips on how to do this more? I often feel like I'm spending just as much time figuring out how to integrate or implement their code into mine. I suppose that's just down to the quality of the documentation?

yeah, I started writing a custom library for playing audio files in vanilla JS, and then I thought "wtf am I doing - just find an open source one". And lo and behold, there are like 5 of them.

@@EmersonPeters Be sure of what you need. Once you know what goes in and what goes out you can use other works as a black box. GPT can also help with code integration nowadays.

That is why i share every line of my codes to github... it feels great to see someone uses something you did and turn it into something more useful 😂

One way to reduce the iteration time for ML models is to try overfitting on a single batch. If you can train on say 4 examples and the model training are configured correctly, it should be able to predict those 4 examples perfectly with a reasonably small number of iterations, so you can identify bugs much faster before doing a full 46 hour training run. Not sure if this applies to your issue or not but thought I’d mention it. This is taken from Andrej Karpathy’s Recipe for training neural networks. Cheers

I love your explaination of Machine learning, simple and informative!

The amount of effort this took is incredible!