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 (apr 2019)
“I refuse to say anything twice. Repetition is death… When you repeat something, you are reliving a moment, wasting it, severing it from the other end of your life. I believe only in new impressions, new stimuli, new life!” — A Bucket of Blood (1959)
- Game: Red Dead Redemption 2 (PS4)
- Comic: B Watterson, The Complete Calvin and Hobbes
- Non-Fiction: —
- Fiction: M Miller, Circe
- Podcast: Finding Drago.
- TV: Star Trek: Discovery, season 2
- Restaurant: L’Abattoir, 217 Carrall St
- Drinks: Railway Stage and Beer Cafe, 579 Dunsmuir St
- Coffee: Modus Coffee Roasting Company, 112 W Broadway
- Last Great Movie: Mulholland Drive (dir D Lynch, 2001; rewatch)
- Last Good Movie: Us (dir J Peele, 2019)