Last day at GrabOne (NZME)
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You care more about learning than what other people think about you.
Excerpted from the following article: The 2 Mental Shifts Highly Successful People Make Some of the highlights: There are no bad teams, only bad leaders. Confidence is a direct reflection of past performance You care more about learning than what other people think about you. Seek first to understand… then to be understood Talent wins… Read More »
New technology to crack down on house-flipping
Just read an article on cracking down house flipping in NZ, it says “New Zealand’s real estate watchdog is ramping up its crackdown on house-flipping by investing in new technology which allows it to track when properties have been quickly re-sold for huge profits.” So what’s the new technology is about? You would have thought… Read More »
Time is the enemy of the privileged few. Cost is the enemy of the masses.
Stumbled upon an youtube video: Why Planes Don’t Fly Faster Turns out making travel cheaper is way more important, very well said at the end: “Time is the enemy of the privileged few. Cost is the enemy of the masses.”
Current state of solar energy for NZ customers
Recently there is a wave of ads/posts on my facebook about solar energy, ranging from installations to solar tax. I did a quick calculation from https://www.energywise.govt.nz/tools/solar-calculator/, using all the standard attributes and costs, it worked out that I will save a HUGE(not) $1100 in 22 years, that is without any issues within 22 years. I don’t really think… Read More »
Building a bed rail
As Casey grows older, wife would like her to be able to climb out of her own bed(cot), so we have to replace the bed rail. No worries, I had some scrap timber laying around ” order_by=”sortorder” order_direction=”ASC” returns=”included” maximum_entity_count=”500″]I had some trouble with the scrap timber as they were not straight so the measurement was… Read More »
Building a shed
When we went out to parks, my daughter seemed she enjoyed playing in mini-houses, which made me want to build one in our backyard so she can play whenever she wants. Since it’s a bit more complicated structure than previous ones, I had to draw it up somewhere, and I used an online 3D modelling… Read More »
Mini Deck
Another retrospect to my wood work hobby, so I was looking for things to make (and make more use of the mitre saw), I managed to find a small project to do, building a mini-deck between the main house and laundry room, we used to leap across the concrete foundation between the 2 areas since… Read More »
Wood work, something that I have never done before.
This is a small post goes back to July 2016, my dad bought me an AEG mitre saw from Bunnings which I had no project in mind and have never done wood work before. So I did big clean up in the garage in the morning to make room for the to be built workshop, then… Read More »
Reading Material: Recognizing Traffic Lights With Deep Learning
A pretty good Non-AI-Experience required article talking about how to train models to recognise traffic lights. It has a few link references that will be very helpful for my future AI training/projects, eg. image-net.org https://medium.freecodecamp.com/recognizing-traffic-lights-with-deep-learning-23dae23287cc#.k941su69v