UPDATE 6/20/2019: Christina of Bike Lane Uprising doesn’t work in software sales, and therefor is terrified of “forward-selling”, and wants to make sure its perfectly clear that automatic plate recognition, while in the road map, will …
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Pavlov’s Sandman pt 3: Hacking a Shock Collar and the benefits of Propper Cargo Culting
In the last post I laid out a super simple algorithm for detecting snores. You might have read that and thought, “dude, this barely counts as data science”. I would agree with you. I did that in …
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Pavlov’s Sandman Pt 2: Background and Detecting Snores
Where rawkintrevo learns some hard data science lessons.
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Pavlov’s Sandman pt. 1
I snore. I’m perfect in many most ways, but this is the one major defect I am aware of. Like any good engineer, upon learning of a defect I set out to correct or at …
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Borg System Architecture
or “how I accidentally enslaved humanity to the Machine Overlords”. The Borg are a fictional group from the Sci-Fi classic, Star Trek, who among other things have a collective consciousness. This creates a number of …
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Roll Your Own Cylon (Trailer)
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Using JNIs (like OpenCV) in Flink
For a bigger project which I hope to blog about soon, I needed to get the OpenCV Java Native Library (JNI) running in a Flink stream. It was a pain in the ass, so I’m …
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Introducing Pre-canned Algorithms in Apache Mahout
Apache Mahout v0.13.0 is out and there are a lot of exciting new features and integration including GPU acceleration, Spark 2.x/Scala 2.10 integration (experimental- full blown in 0.13.1), and a new framework for “precanned algorithms”. …
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Lucky Number 0.13.0
Apache Mahout has just released the long awaited 0.13.0 which introduces modular native solvers (e.g. GPU support!). TensorFlow has done a great job driving the conversation around bringing GPU accelerated linear algebra to the masses …
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Apache Mahout! What’s Next? DFW Big Data Meetup Talk
