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 and Australia. In November-December 2024 I took a month-long trip to Nepal, which was an incredible experience, in spite of the COVID and altitude sickness. I saw a yeti scalp and everything!
Email: eric@haikufactory.com
Instagram: @misterwindupbird
Letterboxd: mrwindupbird
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“When the past is always with you, it may as well be present; and if it is present, it will be future as well.”
— William Gibson, Neuromancer
- Game: Balatro (iPad)
- Comic:M Liu, S Takada; Monstress
- Non-Fiction: M Suyelman, The Coming Wave
- Fiction: W Gibson, Neuromancer (reread)
- Podcast: MegaDumbCast
- TV: The Pitt
- 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: Challengers (d L Guadagnino, 2024)
- Last Good Movie: Anora (d S Baker, 2024)