http://simonwillison.net/2018-06-15T18:06:44+00:00Simon Willison2018-06-15T18:06:44+00:002018-06-15T18:06:44+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2018/Jun/15/suzanne-macdonald/#atom-tag

<blockquote cite="https://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2018/06/13/us/ap-us-stranded-raccoon.html"><p>Raccoons don't think ahead very much, so raccoons don't have very good impulse control. I don't think the raccoon realized when it started climbing what it was in for.</p></blockquote> <p class="cite">&mdash; <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2018/06/13/us/ap-us-stranded-raccoon.html">Suzanne MacDonald</a>, raccoon behavior expert</p> <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/raccoons">raccoons</a></p>

2017-11-14T04:24:48+00:002017-11-14T04:24:48+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2017/Nov/14/how-to-train-your-own-object-detector/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="https://towardsdatascience.com/how-to-train-your-own-object-detector-with-tensorflows-object-detector-api-bec72ecfe1d9">How to train your own Object Detector with TensorFlow’s Object Detector API</a></strong></p> Dat Tran built a TensorFlow model that can detect raccoons! Impressive results, especially given it was only trained on 200 raccoon images from Google Image search. <p><small></small>Via <a href="https://github.com/datitran/raccoon_dataset">GitHub - datitran/raccoon_dataset: The dataset is used to train my own raccoon detector and I blogged about it on Medium</a></small></p> <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/computer-vision">computer-vision</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/tensorflow">tensorflow</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/raccoons">raccoons</a></p>