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 Tableau Software’s Vancouver office, where I am bringing Machine Learning to Tableau’s data visualization tools.
- Before that, 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 (now at Google DeepMind) 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 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 a bit 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
Letterboxd: mrwindupbird
Recently (august 2020)
Needless to say, I have not been getting out much (though we were able to visit with the fam on Vancouver Island). In the interim, my movie catch-up project has turned into kind of a micro-blog.
- Game: Golf on Mars (iOS)
- Comic:R North, E Henderson, et al; The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl
- Non-Fiction: S Fuller, A Third Face: My Tale of Writing, Fighting, and Filmmaking
- Fiction: N K Jemisin, The Fifth Season
- Podcast: The Greatest Generation.
- TV: Peep Show, all (rewatch)
- Restaurant: Black Bird Schnitzel Haus, 3298 Island Hwy W, Qualicum Beach, BC (take-away)
- Drinks: Main Street Brewing Co., 261 E 7th Ave (delivery)
- Coffee: 49th Parallel Coffee, 2902 Main St (delivery)
- Last Great Movie: My Dinner with Andre (dir L Malle, 1981)
- Last Good Movie: Sans Soleil (dir C Marker, 1983)