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  • Music Find: Ezra Furman

    S and I serendipitously discovered Sex Education the day Netflix released season one…. OK, it’s probably less coincidence than my oblivity that S keeps up with EW…. (Oblivity should be a word?) Anyway, it doesn’t take long to get the series musical hook. The soundtrack and score are fabulous, especially if you grew up in the 80’s.

    It’s all familiar, even the stuff I hadn’t heard before…. speaking which that’s Ezra Furman, who collected the soundtrack, wrote and performed the score. His band makes a cameo at a school-dance scene, as well.

    Check out his sound. It’s a mix of Violent-Femmes-folk-punk, The-Clash-Brit-Punk, and Queenesque-retro-hat-tipping with a bass clarinet garnish.

  • What’s with the favicon.ico?

    At least as of this writing, the blog has a ghostly image for the favicon. It’s the product of my futzing with edge detection of an image of our dear hound, L, to make color-muted mascot, I think for Cahoots, using GIMP.

  • Introduction to Computer Vision with Go I: Obnoxious Webcams

    Earlier this week I spent a morning listening to Ron Evan’s introduction to computer vision with Go course through Safari. Following my belief that every course should should have at least one project, I hacked up an application to deface images and webcam streams with hats: Lotsohats.

    The course walked through several GoCV example applications to apply filters to images and use deep-learning packages with pre-trained models for image classification. To me, it seemed like an obvious easy assignment was mimic a certain alcohol-advertising crowd-cam app used at the local hockey arena and drop hats on people in images.

    It was my first experience with Go, but the proof of concept took a morning to hack something together, learning Go unit testing and exploring the GoCV and Standard Go Library APIs along the way, and this morning was spent polishing, tweaking, and documenting. The Donovan and Kernighan Go book is also a good resource.