My Interests and Activities

Reading

Listening

Doing

always trying to play the guitar
rehabbing a total knee replacement (basketball, biking, pickleball)

Specific Machine Learning Activities

I had an interviewer ask me this question once - seems like a good way to learn about someone's interests:

Do you work on personal technical projects outside of work? If so, what do you enjoy working on in your spare time?

And yes, much of what I do for 'fun' is actually a tech project or activity in some form or another.

Activities:

regularly attend the Kentucky Open Source Monthly Meetup
regularly attend the DerbyPy (Derby Pie, get it) monthly meetup (in covid-hiatus)
religious listener to TalkPython and ThisWeekInMachineLearning podcasts
'mock interviewer' for MLH 'Production Engineering' Fellowship Program

Focused Online Activities:

DeepLearning specialization from Coursera/DeepLearning.ai
- certificates achieved
- interesting project output: image of granddaughter 'convolved' with an image of sandstone (neural style transfer)
Fast.ai - Practical Deep Learning for Coders
- spawned multi-year study group until recently
- several kaggle competitions with this group
Study Group around 'Deep Learning using Graphs' course at Stanford

Home Projects:

OpenMediaVault-based NAS + NextCloud / LetsEncrypt for external access
- uses portainer.io for container orchestration
- contains 3 decades of media and personal files accessible by all major file access protocols
Plex server
- also portainer-based (separate system), and access files on the NAS
- makes all the media available to family members outside the house
linux on various things
- an old acer netbook to be used as a 'remote control' via vnc to a notebook running ubuntu in order to use clementine to play music in the office
- a defunct notebook in order to use serial port to control a Denon Home Theater system that I bought at Goodwill which didn't have the remote
raspberry pi
- in the middle of a project using audio detection to switch TV to another channel when a commercial comes on (I hate commercials)
  - uses IR output to a chained CircuitPythonExpress board to change channels
- various attempts at mole motion detection to alert for mole activity
  - image capture from android webcam software on burner phone pipelined to successive image analysis function
built a fixture to hold 3D objects for photogrammetry photo sessions
- goal is to analyze stone artifacts to assess human use modalities
Blender - develop microbiological animations for drug development corporate websites
setup 2 different computers with Makecode for my grandkids
whacked on AWS Deepracer for a time as part of an activity with our local hackerspace
mess with domains (about 30) and hosting for various ideas
- automatic content aggregation is fun (louisvilleblogs, foodwatcher, bourbonsphere)
personal website using MkDocs, github.io, and github actions - https://daveccampbell.com/