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Re:Segment Anything Model and Friends on Monday August 12, 2024 @11:00AM (#41225208)
This is a really interesting article. Thanks a lot for sharing! :-)
TLDR:

Machine learning applications in agriculture have an incredible impact on water, herbicides, pesticides, and fertilizer usage! In many cases, a reduction of up to 50% is possible by using ML for precision spraying.

Excited to share the impressive results on active learning in agriculture that Igor Susmelj just published!

Leveraged active learning to supercharge our YOLOv8 model for lincolnbeet (sugarbeet and weed detection). Boosted mean Average Precision (mAP) by up to 14.6x compared to random image labeling. Active learning reduced annotation costs by up to 77% - perfect for optimizing your annotation budget!

It's incredible how data selection by using active learning can make such a huge impact!

As a user of Bloop at my own startup I can say it's an amazing tool. It helped us a lot with two things 1) technical support questions from customers and 2) on-board new engineers and help them get up to speed by understanding the complex code-base faster

Great work!

Re:How Snipd is using AI to unlock knowledge in podcasts on Thursday August 18, 2022 @05:54AM (#32507347)
Really cool tool - one of the many use cases of AI I have never thought of which makes my life much easier!
Looks awesome! As a podcast aficionado I will definitely give it a try! Well done :-)
Re:Launch YC S21: Meet the Batch, Thread #5 on Tuesday August 10, 2021 @01:25PM (#28131634)
This is really great! Thank you