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Switch off the GPU in a Python script

Posted 28th October 2024

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Here’s a simple piece of code which effectively directs a Python script to use the CPU rather than the GPU.

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Divide Label Studio YOLO annotation files into training and validation sets

Posted 17th October 2024

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Label Studio is an open-source data-labelling platform used to prepare training data for machine learning models.

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Setting-up Git Large File Storage on a GitHub repository

Posted 16th October 2024

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Help! I just committed some large files to GitHub and now I can’t push them because they’re too big.

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Download and extract a tarball in Python

Posted 9th October 2024

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A simple method for downloading a tarball from the internet and then extracting its contents in Python.

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Installing RStudio in WSL2

Posted 22nd July 2024

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Installing RStudio within the Windows Subsystem for Linux was not as simple as expected, once I started installing packages in R. Here’s my procedure for getting it all to work seamlessly.

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Replace a string in file names recursively in Linux

Posted 5th June 2024

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Use this simple BASH script to recursively rename parts of file names in Linux.

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Crop images in Python with array indexes

Posted 22nd May 2024

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The advantage of this simple procedure for image cropping is that there’s no need to install special image manipulation packages.

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Stop Git from always asking for user credentials

Posted 11th April 2024

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Here are a few methods for preventing Git from asking for user credentials upon every push.

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Export an R data frame into a formatted Excel sheet

Posted 22nd March 2024

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A straightforward method for exporting an R data frame to a formatted Excel workbook.

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Dark Theme in WSL2

Posted 9th November 2023

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Implement a “dark theme” for GUI apps in Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL2)

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