geekoverdose is all about software examples for puzzle game solvers, artificial and machine intelligence, privacy & security, and also a couple of other interesting areas. There are also posts on how to configure your Linux or automate some everyday tasks to save yourself some time. The examples are mostly written for people who are somewhat familiar with software development and mostly targeting Linux.
About me: my name is Rainhard Findling, I’m a software engineer and researcher. Currently I’m with Google Germany. Before that I’ve been with the Ambient Intelligence Group at Aalto University/COMNET/ELEC, with the Institute of Networks and Security (INS) at the JKU Johannes Kepler University Linz, and with the Department of Mobility & Energy at the University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria, Campus Hagenberg. I’ve received my Dr. techn. (PhD) degree in Computer Science from JKU in 2017, and my MSc and BSc degrees in Mobile Computing from the University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria, in 2013 and 2011. I’m interested in the research and tech development of our world, specifically when it’s related to shaping our society and our future in things related to intelligence and mobility, privacy and security – and of course puzzle game solvers 🙂
Why do I run this blog? Once in while I try out new stuff, and all those small proof-of-concept implementations and configurations that pop out as a result are only of use to our world when they are opened to the public. Hence: here they are 🙂
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Hello Rainhard
I am Vishnu Nandan, PhD Student, Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research, Germany. I am working with Radio Echo Sounding and Radar Remote Sensing for Structural Glaciology. As part of my research, one of my main work packages is to classify the Radio Echo Sounding image, with complex ice features, using Neural Network Classification.
Could you please advise me on open source tools which could be useful for this. I am pretty new to programming. So I need some time to look into the tool and the data, on how it works.
Many Thanks Again. Please let me know If I should supply more info on my work.
Thanks and Regards
Vishnu Nandan
Hello Vishnu,
just in short: for prototyping you could use UI tools like Weka (http://www.cs.waikato.ac.nz/ml/weka/). You just need to convert your data to the correct form. If you need to dig deeper you could use Matlab with the Neural Toolbox – or R (RStudio), which is free. For both you need some programming, but they are much more powerful and worth trying.
Best regards