30+ years of tech, retired from an identity intelligence company, now part-time with an insurance broker.
Dev community mod - mostly light gardening & weeding out spam :)
Hi Chase, yes I have that problem quite often, both at home and at work. My usual fix is to pick something that would be useful but possibly too large to do all of, and try to isolate the useful bits - then do those first to pick up some motivation :)
Silly example - my ongoing efforts to replace Picasa facial recognition with a home-brewed, open source solution (ashbysoft.com/wiki/Face%20Recognition) - I started by not writing a machine learning system, but borrowed a usable one, and worked on a framework to process the many files I needed to, then took on the next challenge of viewing the results... one checkpoint at a time.
Hi Chase, yes I have that problem quite often, both at home and at work. My usual fix is to pick something that would be useful but possibly too large to do all of, and try to isolate the useful bits - then do those first to pick up some motivation :)
Silly example - my ongoing efforts to replace Picasa facial recognition with a home-brewed, open source solution (ashbysoft.com/wiki/Face%20Recognition) - I started by not writing a machine learning system, but borrowed a usable one, and worked on a framework to process the many files I needed to, then took on the next challenge of viewing the results... one checkpoint at a time.
Thank you so much for the tips and it’s great to hear I’m not alone 😂 I’ll definitely try to implement that strategy soon.