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Recognizing objects in images with TensorFlow and Smalltalk
In this post, I will be showing a simple example of object recognition in images using the TensorFlow library from Smalltalk. Doing Machine Learning without Python? With Smalltalk? Seriously? Whenever...
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Object Detection with TensorFlow and Smalltalk
In a previous post we saw basic object recognition in images using Google’s TensorFlow library from Smalltalk. This post will walk you step by step through the process of using a pre-trained model to...
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Getting Started with Nvidia Jetson Nano, TensorFlow and Smalltalk
On all my previous posts (like this one) you can see VASmalltalk running on any Raspberry Pi, on Rock64 and even on Nvidia Jetson TX2: First #Smalltalk ever to run on #NVIDIA #JetsonTX2? What's next?...
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It’s 2019: stop reading text and start debugging!
If you are a programmer, I am sure you have found yourself many many times “debugging” a system by writing strings to the console / stdout / file. Those messages were usually something like “passed...
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El Carrillon: playing MIDI songs on an 18-bell tower with a Raspberry Pi and...
Some time ago I blogged about a fantastic project Gerardo Richarte and I were doing with an 18-bell tower located in Argentina. Back then, I showed some details of the architecture, code, and how I...
View Article“El Carrillon” project featured in the RaspberryPi magazine MagPi
Some time ago I blogged about a fantastic project Gerardo Richarte and I were doing with an 18-bell tower located in Argentina. Back then, I showed some details of the architecture, code, and how I...
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Deploying VASmalltalk on Amazon AWS ARM servers
A while ago, I did some experiments with Amazon AWS and EC2 instances. Back then, they weren’t very different from a VPS except that you were charged based on the usage and the servers were easier to...
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Troubleshooting Applications Running on Windows
Over the past few months, I’ve been troubleshooting hard problems that have appeared when running the VAST Platform (VA Smalltalk) on Windows. Some of the problems were indeed bugs (like sockets...
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“DLL Hell”: Tips & Tricks to Avoid it in VAST
Delegating tasks from high-level languages like the VAST Platform (VA Smalltalk) to languages like C, C++, Rust via some kind of FFI (Foreign Function Interface) is becoming more and more common....
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Segfaults: GDB Scripts to the Rescue
We recently discovered that we would very sporadically get a segmentation fault when running the whole test suite of the VAST Platform (VA Smalltalk) on Linux. During our initial investigation, we...
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