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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Building a License Plate Recognizer For Bike Lane Uprising
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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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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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Watching YouTube Activity with Apache Streams
We’re finishing up our series of blogs on providers with YouTube. After this we’ll get down business on building our own social monitoring quasi-app! Getting YouTube Credentials Before accessing any API, we of course need …
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Deep Magic, Volume 3: Eigenfaces
This week we’re going to really show off how easy it is to “roll our own” algorithms in Apache Mahout by looking at Eigenfaces. This algorithm is really easy and fun in Mahout because Mahout …
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Deep Magic Volume2: Absurdly Large OLS with Apache Mahout
In this post we’re going to really show off the coolest (imho) use-case of Apache Mahout – roll your own distributed algorithms. All of these posts are meant for you to follow-along at home, and …
