El Bruno

Author: elbruno

#Python – Update all Python Packages using pip with #PowerShell

Hi ! Here is a small script that I always go back to search in my notes. I found this on internet sometime ago, and is the easiest way to update all packages in a specific environment using pip and PowerShell: Depending on your environment, it may take some time. The output is cool, your… — read more

Jun 27, 2020
#Podcast – NTN 56 – Azure Functions, experiencias de lenguajes de programación, el estado de Agile y más @panicoenlaxbox @jc_quijano,

Buenas! Hoy tenemos la suerte de hablar con Sergio Leon (@panicoenlaxbox) y Juan Carlos Quijano (@jc_quijano) sobre varios temas interesantes. Comenzamos hablando de Azure Functions, donde vi que mucho que aprender al respecto. Y después tocamos varios temas, como por ejemplo: la importancia de la calidad en la programación, el estado de Agile, experiencias con… — read more

Jun 24, 2020
#event – #GlobalAI On Tour Toronto, on Saturday June 27, let’s rock a full morning about AI

Hi ! The Global AI On Tour is a free event organized across the world in April, May and June by local communities that are passionate about artificial intelligence on Microsoft Azure. We will run this in Virtual mode, so for our local one, the one for the Great Toronto Area, we are going to… — read more

Jun 23, 2020
#Opinion – Face-Depixelizer , a sad sample of how ML illustrates preexisting bias

Hi ! During the past days, you may see this images about how a new ML model can start with a pixelated image of a face, and .. let me share the official project description: Given a low-resolution input image, Face Depixelizer searches the outputs of a generative model (here, StyleGAN) for high-resolution images that… — read more

Jun 22, 2020
#Tools – AutoHotKey + Display Changer II to quickly change screen resolutions with a hot key

Hi ! A couple of weeks ago, wrote a post where I explained how we can use Display Changer II to quickly change between monitor / screens configurations. Quoting myself: I mainly share my landscape monitor, however my default resolution in this monitor is 2560×1080. So, every time I share my screen, I found myself… — read more

Jun 18, 2020
#Humor – Not good at cropping …

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Jun 17, 2020
All you need to know to pass AZ-900 Azure Fundamentals June 2020

Originally posted on Ivana Tilca: This week I took and passed the exam AZ-900 Azure Fundamentals. This exam is the opportunity to prove your knowledge of cloud concepts, core Azure services, Azure pricing, SLA, lifecycle, fundamentals of cloud security, privacy, compliance and trust. In addition you should be familiar with concepts of networking, storage, compute,… — read more

Jun 16, 2020
#Podcast – NTN 55 – Machine Learning y datos, muchos datos con Miguel Egea @miguelEgea @jc_quijano,

Buenas! Hoy tenemos la suerte de hablar con Miguel Egea (@miguelEgea) y Juan Carlos Quijano (@jc_quijano) sobre Machine Learning, y datos, muchos datos. Miguel es uno de los principales referentes en lo que a datos se refiere, así que tener la oportunidad de hablar con el de varios temas, es todo un privilegio! Speakers Miguel… — read more

Jun 16, 2020
#Event – Resources used during the #AI session on the Best of Build 2020 – Canada Community Edition event

Hi ! After an amazing event last Saturday, where we shared our best choices after Microsoft Build, now it’s time to share the resources used in the Artificial Intellitence session. Slides Resources Virtual Stage Creating a virtual stage when in-person isn’t possible Building Build: a behind-the-scenes look at #MSBuild AI KeyNote AI Super Computer Microsoft… — read more

Jun 15, 2020
#Event – Best of Build 2020 – Canada Community Edition

Hi ! Build 2020 took place on May 19-20, 2020 – a 48 hour marathon of 600+ sessions, exciting announcements and a lot more. Our community leaders, MVPs, Microsoft Cloud Advocates and PMMs are getting together to share some of the excitement with you – do join us as we plan this Canada wide virtual… — read more

Jun 12, 2020
#ComputerVision – Object Detection with #YoloV4 (work in progress …) and let’s think about ethics in Computer Vision

Hi ! So after yesterday post where I used YoloV3 and MobileNetSSD, I also remember that we have YoloV4 released on April. I managed to make my code work with YoloV4 with some poor FPS results. If you are interested on the code, let me know and I’ll be happy to share the code. It’s… — read more

Jun 9, 2020
#ComputerVision – Object Detection with #YoloV3 and #MobileNetSSD

Hi ! I have a ToDo in my list, to add some new drone demos. In order to do this, I was planning to perform some tests with pretrained models and use them. The 1st 2 in my list are Yolo and MobileNetSSD (see references). YoloV3 Let’s start with one of the most popular object… — read more

Jun 8, 2020
#Coding4Fun – How to control your #drone with 20 lines of code! (21/N)

Hi ! In my post series I already wrote about how to detect faces. We can do this with a camera and OpenCV. However, a drone can also be moved on command, so let’s write some lines to detect a face, and calculate the orientation and distance of the detected face from the center camera… — read more

Jun 5, 2020
#SomeGoodNews: I’ll be at the Talk 4 Kids 2020 event. #t4k2020 @talks4kids

Hi ! Let’s share Some Good News. Before moving to Canada, my last event in Spain was probably one of the the best one ever: with a couple of friends we hosted the Talk 4 Kids. Talk 4 Kids The event is focused on technology, with amazing speakers, and the funds raised will go entirely… — read more

Jun 3, 2020
#Office – Another cool #Outlook Feature: review links and email participants before send an email

Hi! I already write about some cool features embedded in Office to help us to be more productive. Some of them are AI based, and others are so simple and useful, like this one, that they deserve a post. This is a classic one: we are trying to avoid big attachment in emails, if you… — read more

Jun 2, 2020
#Podcast – NTN 54 – OpenAPI, Terraform, Go, Rust, TypeScript y más con Pedro J. Molina @pmolinam @jc_quijano,

Buenas! Hoy tenemos la suerte de hablar con Pedro Molina (@pmolinam) y Juan Carlos Quijano (@jc_quijano) sobre varios temas interesantes. La idea inicial era hablar de OpenAPI y Terraform, pero en el camino nos salimos de guion y terminamos agregando temas sobre generadores de código, y opiniones y experiencias sobre otros lenguajes de programación como… — read more

Jun 1, 2020
My Top 10 Build AI + MR releases–You won´t believe number 3 !

Originally posted on Ivana Tilca: Everyone is talking about build…. Here are MY TOP 10 Releases from Build! Of course only talking about AI and MR which is my main field…? Some exciting announcements were made at Build and MR DevDays so i will cover today the ones that caught my attention lets start with… — read more

Jun 1, 2020
#Event – Resources used during the #GlobalAI Tour, Buenos Aires, May 30. Let’s code a drone to follow faces! Using AI, Python, containers and more.

Hi ! The event is complete, and now is time to share the resources I used during the session Slides Code https://github.com/elbruno/events/tree/master/2020%2005%2030%20Global%20AI%20Tour%20BsAs%20Drone%20AI Resources DJI Tello Drone, https://www.amazon.com/Tello-CP-PT-00000252-01-Quadcopter-Drone/dp/B07BDHJJTH Ryze Tello SDK, https://www.ryzerobotics.com/tello Viola Jones, Object Detection Framework, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viola%E2%80%93Jones_object_detection_framework Cognitive Services Custom Vision, https://customvision.ai — read more

May 30, 2020
#Event – #GlobalAI On Tour, Argentina. Vamos a programar a un dron en Spanish !

Buenas ! Cambios de ultimo momento. Mañana estaré como uno de los ponentes virtuales en el Global AI on Tour para Argentina. Estaré hablando de drones, y más que hablando más bien programando un poco un drone para pasarlo bien. Y utilizando un poco de AI para hacer esto más divertido. Para subir el nivel,… — read more

May 29, 2020
#Humor – JSON Statham

I regret nothing ! — read more

May 27, 2020