This site is the place to find me if you’re looking, and occasionally a place for me to sound off on work, my life and travels, and my obsession with weird old movies.
- My curriculum vitae.
- I work at Salesforce’s Vancouver office (via their acquisition of my previous employer, Tableau), where I am where I am working on the Einstein GPT Generative AI platform.
- Before I joined big tech, I was lucky enough to work at Pocket Pixels on the popular iOS photography apps Color Splash and Juxtaposer. I also worked on the Machine Learning parts of news recommender app Zite, which was acquired by Flipboard in 2014.
- My PhD thesis, code, and other publications. The subject of my PhD work is Bayesian optimization, with an emphasis on practical AI applications (computer vision, machine-aided animation tools, robotics, etc). I had the incredible fortune of having Nando de Freitas as my thesis supervisor.
- For the past few years I’ve been making something or other to sum up each year of my life and putting it online. Here’s what I did for 2020, 2018, 2017, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012 and 2011
- I <3 movies. Partly because people sometimes ask, but mostly because I’m a huge dork who wants the world to love what I love as much as I do, I maintain a list of my favourite movies that you maybe haven’t seen.
- My wife and I love to travel, mostly in Asia. In January 2014 we took a month-long trip to Vietnam. She was six months pregnant at the time. It was fine. Since then, our trips have been abit more kid-friendly, just the occasional jaunt across the Pacific to visit relatives in Australia, you know?
- My old blog. Remember when blogs were a thing and everybody had one and they were all a bit samey but also kind of personal and intimate? I miss that.
Email: eric@haikufactory.com
Instagram: @misterwindupbird
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Back from Nepal! I’m @misterwindupbird on Instagram if you want to see some pics.
- Game: Balatro (iPad; replay)
- Comic:S Lee, J Kirby, et al; Doctor Doom: The Book of Doom Omnibus
- Non-Fiction: W Herzog, Every Man for Himself and God Against All: A Memoir
- Fiction: —
- Podcast: MegaDumbCast
- TV: Interior Chinatown
- Music: Witch Bolt
- Restaurant: Smoking Yak; JP Road Chaksibari, Kathmandu, Nepal
- Drinks: Paradise Lodge; SE of main airstrip, Lukla, Nepal
- Coffee: Sherpa Barista; base of central staircase, Namche Bazaar, Nepal
- Last Great Movie: Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy (d A Mackay, 2004; rewatch)
- Last Good Movie: Nosferatu (d R Eggers, 2024)
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