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 not have 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
Twitter: @drwindupbird
Instagram: @misterwindupbird
Recently (june 2019)
“Listen Mister, I been around, and I know a wrong guy when I see one. What’d you do, kiss him with a wrench?” — Vera, Detour (1945)
- Game: Cavern (iOS)
- Comic: —
- Non-Fiction: Holtz and Rey, Dinosaurs: The Most Complete, Up-to-Date Encyclopedia for Dinosaur Lovers of All Ages
- Fiction: K Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse Five
- Podcast: Friendly Fire.
- TV: What We Do in the Shadows, season 1
- Restaurant: Coquille, 181 Carrall St
- Drinks: The Whip, 209 East 6th Avenue
- Coffee: Paper Crane Cafe, 531 E Broadway Ave
- Last Great Movie: GoodFellas (dir M Scorsese, 1990; rewatch)
- Last Good Movie: Detour (dir E Ulmer, 1945)