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March 18, 2017March 19, 2017

problems installing HDF5

To recap, got this error on running the Julia convert script:

UndefVarError: h5open not defined

in macro expansion; at ./REPL[9]:2 [inlined]

So the HDF5 module is not correctly installed, although I’d assumed it was when I ran convert.jl.

The top line of output from the compiler confirms that:

ERROR: LoadError: LoadError: HDF5 not properly installed. Please run Pkg.build(“HDF5”)

So reinstalled HDF5 as recommended:

julia> Pkg.build(“HDF5”)

Getting build errors…. and the compiler suggests:

— build the package(s) and all dependencies with `Pkg.build(“HDF5”)`

– build a single package by running its `deps/build.jl` script

But I’ve already tried the package manager build twice without success, so next I’ll try cloning the HDF5 code from Github.

March 17, 2017March 17, 2017

Converting the CIFAR-10 dataset

The binary files of the CIFAR-10 dataset need to be converted to HDF5 as that is the format recognised by Mocha. To do this, I will use the Julia script convert.jl provided by pluskid. First, in Julia used the package manager to install HDF5: Pkg.add(“HDF5”). Then ran the conversion script. I get the following error:

UndefVarError: h5open not defined
in macro expansion; at ./REPL[9]:2 [inlined]
in anonymous at ./<missing>:?

March 11, 2017March 17, 2017

Installing Caffee on Docker

Downloaded the Docker image from BVLC’s repository. First time I tried, the pull failed with a Docker i/o error: “failed to register layer” Then reset Docker to factory defaults. Then the pull worked: dowboaded newer image for bvlc/caffee: cpu.

February 25, 2017March 22, 2017

“Cold-brewed” Caffee

I’m going to install Caffee on a system that doesn’t have a GPU. This MacBook Air 2014 only has Intel integrated graphics… no dedicated graphics chip. Is it possible to install and run Caffee without a GPU? Yes, according to their docs. Caffee can be configured to use only the CPU. Uncomment CPU_ONLY := 1 in MakeFile.config to get “cold-brewed” Caffee.

Of course, the deep learning algorithms required for image classification would run much faster with GPU support, as the parallel architecture of a GPU is ideally suited to those algorithms. But they can still run on the CPU alone. So I’m going to try the deep learning tutorial without a GPU. Something may be learned by starting from the minimum and working up.

February 18, 2017January 27, 2018

Installing Caffee on OS X

I found out yesterday that I’d have to install Caffee first before I could start the demo in Mocha. Caffee is a CNN (Convolutional Neural Network) developed by Berkely Vison and Learning Center. The tutorial I’m following (at mochajl.readthedocs.io) requires using Caffee’s API to export the Caffee model parameters to HDF5 format. After that, the exported file can be input to Mocha. To sum up, I have to install Caffee first. That’s next…

February 8, 2017

Setting up Julia locally

Setting up Julia locally first, before trying the cloud environment. Running OS X, El Capitan. Python and iPython weee already installed. So I first installed Julia, then installed IJulia.jl from the Julia REPL (Read Eval Print Loop). IJulia is an interface between Julia and Jupyter notebooks. Then installed Images.jl, also from the Julia REPL. Then Gadfly, a visualization tool written in Julia. Will continue tomorrow night.

January 29, 2017January 30, 2017

Starting Julia & Mocha

Since my last post, I discovered the Julia language. Like Lua, it is a high-performance programming language ideally suited to numeric analysis. Depending on how I get on with Julia, I may decide to run Mocha (a machine learning library for Julia) on an AWS instance instead of Torch.

January 19, 2017January 19, 2017

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