I dropped into a study group today that was trying to work through the first Fast.ai course. It was the first day of the group, so most of the day was just spent getting everyone to the point where they could start working on the notebooks. I have my own setup available for Keras ...

So last night I finally got the PyOpenGL-on-github-to-TravisCI integration working. TravisCI is a CI service that has a free Open Source project integration. However, it doesn't support OpenGL on the xvfb-run tool out-of-the-box. The recipe to enable it is pretty simple, just install a bunch of packages and pass some args to the server ...

So I just pushed a bunch of fixes into the PyOpenGL repository. They're mostly just minor bug-fixes people have reported. There are more bug-reports sitting in the email backlog, but I think I'm done for today.

[Update] Second level/RMA support just reversed their decision. I'm afraid I was rather impolite in my email response to their decision.

So the saga so far:

• Dell laptop 3 months past 1 year warranty
• Battery starts swelling/eploding while on trip in Italy
• Turns out it is a "feature" of the XPS laptops ...

So one of the things I've been working on recently is creating a docker-based container to host a complex application for video processing that requires a lot of OS-level setup. I, of course, work on a number of Ubuntu 17.04 machines for development, and docker there has proven to be exactly what you ...

The use case here is capturing a network input source (mpeg ts stream) and then using that capture for playback later. If you just use a filesrc your playback will run as fast as the machine can process it unless you've got an element in the pipeline that will limit the speed (such as ...

So I guess it's necessary that I write this up, as my previous reviews of this laptop were relatively positive, despite the PITA-ish ness of using it with Linux and the coil-whine of the power supply, and the latest issue makes it a "stay the hell away" recommendation.

Background:

A few months ago my ...

Update: the battery in this machine started swelling/exploding at 1.25 years Strongly recommend not buying one!

So I've now had a Dell XPS 15 9550 as my primary driver for approximately 9 months. I covered the (painful) setup process a bit when I first got it, so I won't repeat most ...

PyCon Canada is going to happen in downtown Toronto. The conference is Nov 12-13th and then two days of sprints. The call for proposals is up and you have until the end of August to get your talk/tutorial proposals in. PyCon Canada is a pleasant conference with lots of friendly people, not as overwhelming ...