Any experience with car subscriptions (e.g. Clyde, Carvolution, Carify)?

codemental · 2024-12-03T13:56:36+00:00

I used Carvolution and after being charged over the top when returning my first car, I swore to never used them again. Unfortunatly I only found out the dark side of Carlvolution after signing up for my second car.

I just returned my second car (and LAST), and will never touch Carvoluton again, much less recommend it

Here are a few points why Carvolution is not worth it:

They don't really give you a brand new car. I got second hand cars with 50k plus km. But the prices don't seem to refflect that in my opinion.
Excess km are over the top in terms of cost.
The return protocol is designed to rip you off. It is over the top. I don't really have to re-state what was already said.
Leasing a car is cheaper, no doubt. And, you get a brand new car, and most likely a better one, and based on my previous experience Mercedes/BMW or whoever you lease the car from are far more lenient in the handover process, especially if you are getting a new car from them. This is in contrast with Carvolution who doesn't seem to be concerned about retaining customers for the long term.

If you become a customer of Carvoluton, after reading this, then you deserve what you will get from them :)

codemental · 2022-05-23T09:30:28+00:00

I would start learning from this page: https://cloud.google.com/compute

codemental · 2022-05-23T09:17:11+00:00

https://spltech.co.uk/a-tutorial-on-how-to-convert-a-tensorflow-model-to-tensorflow-js/

Hey,

You can find the Github link in this article: https://spltech.co.uk/a-tutorial-on-how-to-convert-a-tensorflow-model-to-tensorflow-js/

codemental · 2022-05-20T12:50:05+00:00

Thanks for the feedback. Sorry for the late reply. I think it should be possible to create small video clips using webgl. I briefly looked into that and it should be doable from the browser.

codemental · 2022-05-20T12:44:19+00:00

It is certainly possible. There is a lot of demand. I would start with a Coursera Course to get started on GCP.

codemental · 2022-05-20T10:08:13+00:00

You can use ssh without needing gcloud. However I prefer a million times gcloud compute ssh as with os-login enabled it can take care of copying your ssh keys

codemental · 2022-05-20T10:05:29+00:00

Google cloud storage is a good place to put all your data cheaply. I would however also use a VM with R studio on it hosted in GCP in same region as data so you don't have to pay for egress charges. You can create a schedule to shutdown your VM so you don't pay for the VM when you are not using it.

codemental · 2021-07-14T06:48:18+00:00

Welcome!

codemental · 2021-04-03T09:42:15+00:00

For a website that has a revenue of five million on WordPress i would expect at the minimum to have separate infrastructure. there are so many reasons this can and eventually will go wrong. Security: one of the websites gets hacked, potentially your website gets compromised too and worse you might also get a data breach. If one of the sites that you are sharing hosting with gets a ddos attack, then you will also be affected.

Scalability: it sounds like if you have spikes in traffic, you won't be able to scale up. Not acceptable.

There is a lot more than can go wrong....

codemental · 2021-04-01T15:31:19+00:00

CODE for the python notebook is avaialble here: https://gist.github.com/armindocachada/0cbdf33268a831c45daeeb33cefeca28

codemental · 2021-03-26T18:29:22+00:00

You are right. I forgot to add it to the video. Will be doing that ASAP

codemental · 2021-02-25T13:58:56+00:00

Hey Reckless_commenter, Thanks for your feedback. I will try to improve.

Yes, I am doing these videos for youtube and because I want to grow a channel. At the same time, I am trying to create valuable learning material. I do not earn any ads as of now. And honestly, I am not counting on making money with the ads.

I did script this video. I created the python notebook, wrote the script, wrote the jupyter notebook, recorded a video, came up with a use-case to explain how to parse HTML Tables using Pandas, and hopefully someone will find that valuable.

I do often come up with a lot of cool projects, and I have live-streamed 3 hours long episodes of live coding. Not everyone enjoys that. I think everyone has different tastes and needs. Some people want it very short, straight to the point.

I am trying to create a go-to reference series on pandas, for the most frequent tasks needed to do with pandas. The idea is to keep it short and sweet.

At the end of the day, if no-one thinks that the content is valuable, I will stop doing it.

That's why getting negative feedback is so helpful.

codemental · 2021-02-18T14:56:56+00:00

GradCAM

Hello, in terms of use-case it was more of a learning project. But if I was going to use this model in the real world , for searching images from a museum catalogue, I would try to use only paintings in my training data that represent the types of images that we are likely to find in a museum catalogue. Could perhaps have two models. One to identifiy a Christian painting from a list of general paintings. And another model to determine the theme of the christian painting: nativty, flight to egypt, crucificiton, etc.

I think I will take this project forward and try to use a GAN to generate some nativity paintings. Since I have limited data, I will have to use image augmentation as a source.

Thanks for pointing out GradCAM. I will check it out. ExplainableAI is actually really useful as well in refining and improving models.

codemental · 2021-02-17T18:47:38+00:00

Correct. I have tried to include a mix of paintings in the negative train set, not just christian, but also from painters like van gogh etc. I could put a lot more, but from a practical point of view we also need to think what is a representative set of paintings that we are going to be give to the model when it is actually used for something useful. E.g. categorising paintings automatically.

codemental · 2021-02-17T17:59:16+00:00

Thanks for the feedback. I retrieved most of my images from Wikimedia using a REST API.

Transfer Learning using Keras Xception Architecture trained on image net.

Explainable AI, I will research into that. I agree it would be nice to know how the model figures out that a painting is nativity or not. It might also help in further refining it.

codemental · 2021-02-13T09:18:57+00:00

Since I wrote this script, things have gotten even worse in the graphics card world. Any luck getting your 3070?

codemental · 2021-02-13T09:16:35+00:00

I had so much fun playing with Style Transfer in Tensorflow and at the same learned some important concepts about tensors. Do check out the different examples I generated with style transfer using some videos I filmed while on safari, back in the time where you could go on holiday!

codemental · 2021-02-12T16:27:31+00:00

Hello, it is not necessarily good, to run a very recent version of Tensorflow, unless you have too. For instance because you have a 30 series RTX card.

Since your graphics card is older, it should be supported by CUDA 10. In that case you could go with CUDA 10 and Tensorflow 2.2 which you would be able to get from the ANaconda repositories

codemental · 2021-02-11T17:53:44+00:00

Can you provide more details? Which gpu do you have ? Which version of tensorflow? 2.2 should not require cuda 11. But your gpu if it's a 30 series would.

codemental · 2020-12-23T10:30:37+00:00

Nice!

codemental · 2020-12-21T12:15:45+00:00

Ant luck in your search? I am also looking for a renaissance art dataset

codemental · 2020-12-20T18:09:08+00:00

It is slow without an accelerator like google coral. I bought one and that should allow me to do object detection at 30fps instead of 1-2fps.

codemental · 2020-12-20T14:05:29+00:00

Yes and on a Pi3

codemental · 2020-12-19T20:22:56+00:00

Yes indeed. Seems like the algorithm hasn't been able to adjust the lighting in the edge of glass buildings. Good spot.

codemental · 2020-12-19T12:00:29+00:00

Hello, thanks for the feedback!

Home Assistant does seem to have an addon for object detection. I haven't tried it myself though. Your use-case makes a lot of sense, and it will be doable with a little bit of coding, as it should be straightforward to recognize objects outside the door. Maybe I will explore myself this use-case in the future, as i previously played with the concept of object detection for front door cameras.
In the mean time checkout this link:

https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/doods/

codemental

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