An introduction and some context setting around startrekbots.com , my new fun toy. In this post we briefly compare retrieval vs generative chatbots, and consider how this method is more akin to improv comedy than traditional story construction.
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Behind the Scenes Pt. 4: The K8s Bugaloo.
Let me start off by saying how glad I am to be done with this post series. I knew when I finished the project, I should have just written all four posts, and then timed …
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Behind the Scenes of “…”: Part 3- Making it Pretty
At my first job, I was hired to do something (for 40 hours a week) that I was able to write a script to take care of in my first week. I went to my …
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Behind the Scenes of “RT’s HoRT IoT-A, An AIoT-P MVP Demo”: Part 2- The Streaming Engine
Welcome back from Part 1. On our last episode we did an introduction, spoke briefly on the overall structure of the program, discussed our demo data source, and did some foreshadowing of this week. This …
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Behind the Scenes of “Rawkintrevo’s House of Real Time IoT Analytics, An AIoT platform MVP Demo”
Woo, that’s a title- amirigh!? It’s got everything- buzzwords, a corresponding YouTube video, a Twitter handle conjugated as a proper noun. Introduction Just go watch the video– I’m not trying to push traffic to YouTube, …
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Building a License Plate Recognizer For Bike Lane Uprising
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 …
