Image Classification with Swin Transformers in Keras

Image Classification with Swin Transformers

As a Python Keras developer with over four years of experience, I’ve seen how Transformer models revolutionized natural language processing and are now reshaping computer vision tasks. Among these, the Swin Transformer stands out for its ability to efficiently capture both local and global image features, making it a powerful tool for image classification. In … Read more >>

Semi-Supervised Image Classification with Contrastive Pretraining Using SimCLR in Keras

Semi-Supervised Image Classification with Contrastive Pretraining Using SimCLR

I’ve spent years working with Keras to build efficient deep learning models, and one challenge I often face is training image classifiers with limited labeled data. Semi-supervised learning, combined with contrastive pretraining, offers a powerful solution. In this tutorial, I’ll walk you through how to use SimCLR, a popular contrastive learning framework, to pretrain your … Read more >>

Implement Few-Shot Learning with Reptile in Keras

Implement Few-Shot Learning with Reptile in Keras

Recently, I was working on a project where I had to train a model to recognise new categories with very little data. The issue is that deep learning models usually need thousands of examples to learn anything useful. So we need a workaround that allows our model to learn fast, just like a human can … Read more >>

Check if a Variable is a Byte String in Python

python check if bytes

I remember debugging a data pipeline for a large logistics company. The system was crashing randomly, throwing type errors that made no sense at first glance. After hours of digging, I realized the issue wasn’t the logic; it was the data types. Some legacy sensors were sending raw binary data (bytes), while newer APIs were … Read more >>

How to Check If a Variable Is a String in Python?

python check if variable is string

I still remember the panic I felt during a database migration for a large US healthcare provider when a “Zip Code” column caused the entire pipeline to crash. It was a rookie mistake that taught me a valuable lesson about Python’s dynamic typing system: never assume your data is what you think it is. I … Read more >>

Booleans in Python: True, False and How to Check Them

Python booleans: the Command Prompt showing that the string False evaluates as True

A boolean in Python is a value that is either True or False, and nothing else: Both must be capitalised. Lowercase true is just an undefined name, so it raises a NameError. The trap worth knowing before anything else: bool(“False”) is True, because any non-empty string is truthy. Everything on this page was run on … Read more >>

Python Add Two Variables

how to add two variables in python

In this tutorial, I will show you how to add two variables in Python. Adding variables is perhaps the most fundamental operation I perform in my daily coding routine. Whether I am calculating financial data or merging user lists, understanding how Python handles addition is critical. I have spent over a decade building software, and … Read more >>

Use Depthshade in Matplotlib 3D Scatter Plots

Depthshade in Matplotlib 3D Scatter Plots

While working on a Python data visualization project, I needed to create a 3D scatter plot that looked more realistic and visually appealing. The challenge was that when I customized the colors of each data point, the natural depth effect, the shading that makes closer points appear brighter, disappeared. If you’ve ever worked with 3D … Read more >>