Getting Frames from YouTube

YouTube has a wealth of data but often you don't feel like downloading it all to disk. How can we stream video to python and then access the frame data?

Running Scripts at Startup

systemd_and_systemctl_as_a_happy_cartoon

And other Linux delights. Often there is a need to configure processes to start on startup and to restart on failure. On Linux systems this process is controlled via the systemd init system and system manager. Now, as with most things Linux, there are a lot of sources of information out there. Several of them … Continue reading Running Scripts at Startup →

Effortless NLP with spaCy

I've loved spaCy for a long time but I've only just got my head around how you can structure a text processing pipeline to take full advantage of its power.

The Neocortex & Power Iteration

A look at how the power iteration method for computing eigenvectors may allow brains to extract variance from the world.

Swift Taylor Approximations

This post continues my explorations of simple intelligence. In this post, we'll consider some elementary sensing cells. We'll then look at whether we can apply local function approximators. Sensors Consider a set of sensing cells, which we'll call "sensors". We have N sensors, where each sensor measures a value over time. This value could be … Continue reading Swift Taylor Approximations →