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My Style'Z web app [Style transfer in action]

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 Sometimes you start playing with an idea, time passes and you end up with a project that you need to finish. I am sure this is not the case with most people, however this describes perfectly the process with which I've made the StyleZ app . I have always been fascinated by the applications where neural networks are used, outside of the traditional context. One of the ideas that were proposed to utilize such technology is style transfer. The Scream by Edvard Munch In this post, I will explain the steps I followed to implement and deploy a Neural Network Style Transfer App. The ideas is not to make a technical post, but to lay out the process to take a very small project from an idea to production Neural Style Transfer Neural style transfer is an optimization technique used to take two images, the first a content image such as the image of a person, a building or any other image or photo, and the second a style reference image (such as an artwork by a famous painter for exampl...

L'île au million d'yeux : Analyse des interactions sociales sur Twitter

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#KohLanta : Finale de la saison 2021 Koh-Lanta est aujourd'hui un programme incontournable du paysage audiovisuel français. Cette émission inspirée du “Survivor” polarise les réseaux sociaux et suscite à la fois l’excitation, la joie et parfois la **colère** de ses milliers de fans. Comme dans la vraie vie, où la nature humaine avec ses *qualités* et ses *défauts* se dévoile face aux épreuves, les **communautés** et les alliances se forment.  Et souvent  la “trahison” et la “déception” se manifestent  (tiens, c’est comme si je te décrivais un épisode lambda de #Kohlanta 🧐)  Dans cet article,  je joins l'utile à l'agréable et je partage quelques insights interessants, pour montrer que, comme dans la vraie vie (et exactement pareil dans #Kohlanta), les communautés sont souvent la formation sociale la plus **dominante** dans les interactions humaines et que le fait de partager la même vision/personnalité ou les mêmes opinions, joue un rôle important dans la forma...

On the hype around #DataScience

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 Here is my latest twitter storm about the death of Data Science..  Enjoy!       "The sexiest job of the 21st century" they said. Every time journalists and uninformed idiots hit the like button for a new buzz word, the whole domain falls victim of its own success. ⬇️ — Wajdi 📈 (@wajdi_bs) April 25, 2021 I have been doing what I do for a while now. When I was a student, #BusinessIntelligence was the hot thing out there. We even had a club in my school dedicated to this topic ( I never liked the idea, b/c those involved were a bunch of idiots with -50 IQ) ⬇️ — Wajdi 📈 (@wajdi_bs) April 25, 2021 Most companies suffer from the old inefficient practices and haven't successfully made the transition. But let's not focus on that. After that, #BigData started to become hot. I remember myself going through the shittiest tutorials and documentation to ⬇️ — Wajdi 📈 (@wajdi_bs) April 25, 2021 I now know not to trust/ follow an online tutorial without check...