Swift ARKit Sun iPhone App for Londoners

   |  16 minutes  |  3289 words  |  Milos Gajdos

If you happen to be one of the lucky people living in London you couldn’t miss we’ve had a bit of a sunlight crisis [not just recently]. Instead of the usual vitamin D deficiency which we are used to being brought to our attention during regular health checks things have been a little bit worse than that. First we got a visit by storm Ciara which was then shortly followed by storm Dennis. [Read More]
iOS  swift  Swift  ARKit 

Breadth-first search using Go standard library

   |  10 minutes  |  2037 words  |  Milos Gajdos

Just like many Go developers out there, I’m a big fan of Go standard library. Over the past few years I’ve been hacking on Go, I’ve discovered some real gems that not only made my life as a developer easier (no need to maintain unnecessary code), but they also made my code considerably more readable for others to follow. The last time I blogged I talked about how you can leverage Go standard library to generate weighted random draws. [Read More]
go  golang  random  simulation 

WASM: Universal Application Runtime

   |  14 minutes  |  2936 words  |  Milos Gajdos

WASM: universal application runtime Last summer, fresh off my last freelance gig, I was catching up with my friend Asim, the founder of the widely popular microservices company, Micro at one of our favourite coffee shops in London. We would end up meeting almost every week talking about the presence and the future of technology. But that day our conversation turned into something that we had not talked about for a long time: Web assembly (WASM). [Read More]
wasm  WebAssembly 

Weighted Random Draws in Go

   |  7 minutes  |  1377 words  |  Milos Gajdos

When working on my last project I needed to find a way to draw a random number from a list based on some weight assigned to it i.e. given a list of numbers each of which has a weight assigned to it, I had to find a way to draw a number from the list based on the weight. The numbers which have higher weight assigned to them should be more likely to be drawn than the numbers with lower weights. [Read More]
go  golang  random  simulation 

Apollo program, Kalman Filter and Go

   |  12 minutes  |  2474 words  |  Milos Gajdos

Before the end of the last year I went to see a movie made by one of my favourite movie directors, Damien Chazelle. The movie is called First Man and it tells the story of the journey of the first man on the Moon. I am also a bit of a space nerd, so my expectations were sky high. I was happy to find out the movie delivered on its promise. [Read More]
kalman  kalman filter  Go  Golang  estimation  filtering 

Edge computing with Go and Intel Movidius Neural Compute Stick

   |  11 minutes  |  2136 words  |  Milos Gajdos

This summer I spent quite a bit of time speaking to various people about “intelligent” Edge computing. I put double quotes around the word intelligent to avoid the wrath of the thought leaders on the internet as they fight each other over what intelligence is and what is not. The more I talked to people the more I was realizing the possibilities and opportunities the edge computing opens up for the future: “injecting” intelligence into dumb physical objects seems akin to injecting “life” to dead objects, at least for us, scifi fans, which makes up for interesting vision of the future (for brevity let’s ignore the IoT security issues in this post). [Read More]
machine learning  neural networks  Go  Golang  movidius  neural compute stick  edge computing 

Tensorflow conditionals and while loops

   |  5 minutes  |  897 words  |  Milos Gajdos

Tensorflow conditionals and while loops Recntly I found myself needing to implement more advanced control flow in some models I have been hacking on in my free time. In past I never really needed any graph conditionals or loops or any combinations thereof, so I had to dive into documentation and read up on them. This blog post covers tf.cond and tf.while_loop control flow operations and was written to document and share my experience learning about them. [Read More]
machine learning  neural networks  tensorflow 

Hopfield networks in Go

   |  12 minutes  |  2465 words  |  Milos Gajdos

As I continue to explore the realm of Artificial Neural Networks (ANN) I keep learning about some really cool types of neural networks which don’t get much attention these days. Many of these networks have not found much practical use in the “real world” for various reasons. Nevertheless, I find learning about them in my free time somewhat stimulating as they often make me think of some problems from a different perspective. [Read More]
machine learning  neural networks  Go  Golang  hopfield  Hofield networks 

Kubernetes services and ingress under X-ray

   |  20 minutes  |  4256 words  |  Milos Gajdos

I haven’t blogged here for over 2 years. It’s not that I had nothing to say, but every time I started writing a new post I never pushed myself into finishing it. So, most of the drafts ended up rotting in my private Github gists. Although my interests have expanded way beyond the Linux container space, my professional life remained tied to it. Over the past two years I have been quite heavily involved in Kubernetes (K8s) community. [Read More]
kubernetes  ingress  ingress controller  pods  containers 

Self-organizing Maps in Go

   |  17 minutes  |  3413 words  |  Milos Gajdos

Couple of months ago I came across a type of Artificial Neural Network I knew very little about: Self-organizing map (SOM). I vaguely remembered the term from my university studies. We scratched upon it when we were learning about data clustering algorithms. So when I re-discovered it again, my knowledge of it was very basic, almost non-existent. It felt like a great opportunity to learn something new and interesting, so I rolled up my sleeves, dived into reading and hacking. [Read More]
machine learning  neural networks  Go  Golang  SOM  Self-organising map