El Bruno

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#LinkedIn – How do I pronounce your name? LinkedIn may help

Hi ! I meet new people everyday, and living in this multicultural world, one of the first questions I ask is: How do I pronounce your name? I think I can manage Latin names, however with so many people from all around the world, is nice to try to learn the correct way to pronounce — read more

Jul 10, 2020
#Event – Let’s hack a drone, hack the camera and use AI! virtual with Microsoft Reactor @MSFTReactor

Hi ! Today I’ll share a new version of my drone and Artificial Intelligence session, hosted by Microsoft Reactor Toronto. The registration link and details are available here — read more

Jul 9, 2020
#Python – #FastAPI Webserver sharing information from values in a different thread

Hi ! After my yesterday post using Flask, I was sure that a FastAPI version will be needed, so here it goes: I have a common scenario which involves: A sensor collecting information A web-server publishing the sensor information Read my previous posts to understand why I think this is the simple way to solve — read more

Jul 7, 2020
#Python – Flask Webserver sharing information from values in a different thread

Hi ! I have a common scenario which involves: A sensor collecting information A web-server publishing the sensor information This is simple, however the sensor does not support constants requests, and it may return a “too many requests” response when called directly. The idea to get the sensor information directly in the web-request was not — read more

Jul 6, 2020
#Humor – CSS is awesome

No more words … — read more

Jul 5, 2020
#Office – New Microsoft Word editor helps support Inclusive Language.

Hi! I already write about some cool features embedded in Office to help us to be more productive. These features are mostly based on Artificial Intelligence. And one great example is the Microsoft Word Editor feature. Today I was reading an article “New AI tools help writers be more clear, concise and inclusive in Office — read more

Jul 3, 2020
#SomeGoodNews: Reminder, less than 24 hr for Talk 4 Kids 2020. #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 30, 2020
#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
#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 …

Source: Internet — read more

Jun 17, 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
#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