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  • Behind the Scenes of “…”: Part 3- Making it Pretty

    Posted by rawkintrevo on September 12, 2019

    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 …

    big data for noobs, Engineering, React
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  • Behind the Scenes of “RT’s HoRT IoT-A, An AIoT-P MVP Demo”: Part 2- The Streaming Engine

    Posted by rawkintrevo on September 5, 2019

    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 …

    Engineering, flink, How-Tos, IoT, openwhisk
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  • Behind the Scenes of “Rawkintrevo’s House of Real Time IoT Analytics, An AIoT platform MVP Demo”

    Posted by rawkintrevo on August 27, 2019

    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, …

    big data for noobs, Engineering, flink, How-Tos, IoT, K8s, openwhisk, python, React, video
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  • Building a License Plate Recognizer For Bike Lane Uprising

    Posted by rawkintrevo on June 19, 2019June 20, 2019

    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 …

    Engineering, How-Tos, openwhisk
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  • Pavlov’s Sandman pt 3: Hacking a Shock Collar and the benefits of Propper Cargo Culting

    Posted by rawkintrevo on May 30, 2018May 23, 2018

    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 …

    Engineering, How-Tos, Uncategorized
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  • Pavlov’s Sandman Pt 2: Background and Detecting Snores

    Posted by rawkintrevo on May 22, 2018

    Where rawkintrevo learns some hard data science lessons.

    Engineering, How-Tos, python
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  • Pavlov’s Sandman pt. 1

    Posted by rawkintrevo on November 28, 2017November 28, 2017

    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 …

    Engineering, How-Tos, python
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  • Borg System Architecture

    Posted by rawkintrevo on November 7, 2017November 7, 2017

    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 …

    Engineering, flink, How-Tos, mahout
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  • Using JNIs (like OpenCV) in Flink

    Posted by rawkintrevo on August 14, 2017August 14, 2017

    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 …

    Engineering, flink, How-Tos
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  • Introducing Pre-canned Algorithms in Apache Mahout

    Posted by rawkintrevo on May 2, 2017May 3, 2017

    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”.  …

    big data for noobs, Engineering, mahout
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