Murat Kendir's Knowledge "Basement"*

"We found a hut and dry wood here. Others will come. Give them rice, salt and matches, Captain."

from the movie "Dersu Uzala", Akira Kurosawa, 1975

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Who am i?

Murat Kendir.

I was born in Germany and spent my youth and most of my professional career in Turkey. I completed a Bachelor's degree in Geomatics Engineering and a Master's degree in Geographic Information Technology at Istanbul Technical University. I have gained work experience in both practical and information technology fields. I am currently working as a researcher at the Technical University of Munich. I am married and have one child.

In many of my other interests I like to remain an amateur. I believe in learning to learn. Living is a serious business. But there should always be time for good music or a good coffee.

What is the purpose?

  • organizing my knowledge/information/data
    • to be more nerd about these things.
  • That's all. Enjoy the website!

Latest Notes

  • Random Forest, 2016, Belgiu and Dragut
  • AlexNet, 2012, Krizhevsky
  • U-Net, 2015, Rinneberger
  • DeepLab, 2017 , Chen
  • SAM, 2023, Kirillov
  • Tobler's First Law of Geography
  • Vantor Open Data Program vantor.com
  • USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) NAIP imagery nrcs.app.box.com/v/naip
  • CNN Classification Architectures: ResNet, EfficientNet, Vision Transformers Vit, ConvNext
  • Object Detectors: YOLO, SSD, RetinaNet, FCOS, DETR, OWL-ViT, Grounding-DINO
  • Semantic Segmentation arch: UNet, DeepLabv3, FPN, PSPNet, LinkNet, MaNet, Pan, UperNet, Segformer, DPT
  • Vision-Language Models: moondream.ai
  • Satellite Embeddings: Clay Foundation, TESSERA, AlphaEarth

from the book GeoAI for Python 

pandoc README.md -o readme.pdf \
-V fontfamily=libertine \
-V fontfamilyoptions=osf \
-V geometry:margin=3cm

Convert the MarkDown documents to PDF using custom margin

BPython

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Vi Editor

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  • Save & Quit [:wq]
  • Save & (force) Overwrite & Quit [:wq!]

Using BPython & Vi together