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 (mar 2020)
I set myself a task of catching up on a hundred years of missed movies on Letterboxd. Just finished the silent era!
- Game: XCOM 2: War of the Chosen (PS4)
- Comic: —
- Non-Fiction: —
- Fiction: T Chiang, Exhalation
- Podcast: The Greatest Discovery.
- TV: Star Trek: Picard.
- Restaurant: Guu with Otokomae, 375 Water St
- Drinks: Six Acres, 203 Carrall St
- Coffee: Paper Crane Cafe, 531 E Broadway
- Last Great Movie: Man with a Movie Camera (dir D Vertov, 1929)
- Last Good Movie: Our Hospitality (dir B Keaton & J Blystone, 1923)