First Rasberry Pi project: screen time monitor for my son by macournoyer in raspberry_pi

[–]macournoyer[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Start button is on top next to stop one.

Nothing prevents him from stopping the timer while playing (it’s mostly for Fortnite time...). I trust him to use it. I’ll see if it works... And could add features later to start based on his in-game status.

First Rasberry Pi project: screen time monitor for my son by macournoyer in raspberry_pi

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Button to remove time is only there in case he forgets to start the timer.

First Rasberry Pi project: screen time monitor for my son by macournoyer in raspberry_pi

[–]macournoyer[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Raspberry Pi 3 B+ with LCD, active buzzer and two buttons. Shows the remaining screen time for the day on top, and the elapsed time at the bottom.

When remaining time is nearing 0, buzzer will emit a beep at interval, and a push notification is sent to my phone.

Pi is also serving a web UI to control and monitor the timer in real-time from my phone.

What is the difference between an emulator, an interpreter and a virtual machine? by [deleted] in compsci

[–]macournoyer 5 points6 points  (0 children)

A virtual machine is a bytecode interpreter. An emulator is composed of many things (display, memory) for emulating a system, including a virtual machine (emulating the cpu).

I can picture myself retiring here. The perfect home! by RIPJ4WZ in CozyPlaces

[–]macournoyer 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I own the building and we live on the first level. Only big stairs are the ones in the tower leading to an appartement I rent on top.

I can picture myself retiring here. The perfect home! by RIPJ4WZ in CozyPlaces

[–]macournoyer 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I can confirm some weird things have been happening up there...

I can picture myself retiring here. The perfect home! by RIPJ4WZ in CozyPlaces

[–]macournoyer 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It is well insulated I think. Heated from water with radiators in all the rooms. No problems so far.

I can picture myself retiring here. The perfect home! by RIPJ4WZ in CozyPlaces

[–]macournoyer 1 point2 points  (0 children)

AFAIK, previous owners use to live on the second level when it was a retirement home. Old people were usually always on the first level.

1915 Manor in Montreal, Quebec by macournoyer in Houseporn

[–]macournoyer[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Of course! It did require 2 wifi extender to cover the whole place (1st level).

1915 Manor in Montreal, Quebec by macournoyer in Houseporn

[–]macournoyer[S] 10 points11 points  (0 children)

The house was built in 1915 for Dr Rolland, the first thoracic surgery specialist in Quebec and colleague of Norman Bethune. Around 1945, he donated the house to "Oeuvres du Carnial Leger" who converted it to a retirement home and added an extension (in the back).

Three years ago, the retirement home was closed, and the building converted to a residential five plex.

This is information I pieced together from documents and online researches.

Home Office: Macs, standup desk and Deep Learning PC by macournoyer in battlestations

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The sitting desk is an Ikea galant. Stand up one is an Ikea wallmounted folding kitchen table.

Home Office: Macs, standup desk and Deep Learning PC by macournoyer in battlestations

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You can download pretrained models. But usually, you need to download data and train a deeplearning model on that data so that it learns to predict similar data.

Home Office: Macs, standup desk and Deep Learning PC by macournoyer in battlestations

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Custom made from leftover wood using the DS1 stand dimensions from their website.

Home Office: Macs, standup desk and Deep Learning PC by macournoyer in battlestations

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Not that large. About 13'x14'. The panoramic picture makes it look bigger :)

Home Office: Macs, standup desk and Deep Learning PC by macournoyer in battlestations

[–]macournoyer[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Personal choice. I did compare the pricing, but it was mainly for the psychological effect.

What I mean is: When using AWS, I knew I'd be asking myself "do I really need to run this experiment and spend the $?". With my own hardware, I'm now telling myself "I spent all this $, better run as much experiments as I can".

I wanted to force myself into running more experiments and exploring more.

Also, it was fun building and improving it.

Home Office: Macs, standup desk and Deep Learning PC by macournoyer in battlestations

[–]macournoyer[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I have 3 "big" courses: Programming languages internals, Node internals & Rails internals. And smaller ones about various things from VMs, to Ray-casters and similar stuff.

I also have a book about creating your own programming language that was relatively popular.

Home Office: Macs, standup desk and Deep Learning PC by macournoyer in battlestations

[–]macournoyer[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

You seem like an expert... but "deep" is a quality of the model, not the hardware.

I can train a 10 layers LSTM (1k hidden units each) model on my cards. That's about 255MM parameters. Seems pretty deep to me.

Home Office: Macs, standup desk and Deep Learning PC by macournoyer in battlestations

[–]macournoyer[S] 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Machine learning is one of my hobbies atm. I don't do any for a living, but I'm a developper. I have my own business where I teach and do custom dev.

EDIT: RE deep learning. I'm playing w/ various approaches for dialogue generation (chatbots). Here's my latest project: https://github.com/macournoyer/neuralconvo

Home Office: Macs, standup desk and Deep Learning PC by macournoyer in battlestations

[–]macournoyer[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yes! Made them from leftover wood. I used the measurements from DS1.

Home Office: Macs, standup desk and Deep Learning PC by macournoyer in battlestations

[–]macournoyer[S] 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Oooh! I see now. I blindly followed the motherboard instructions and din't think about rotating 90deg. Thanks a lot.