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2024

Delve 5: The Quest for a Full Screen Raspberry Pi Application

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"All life is problem solving." -Karl Popper

Full Screen Applications on the Raspberry Pi, Why so Hard?

Hello data delvers! Apologies for the lack of updates, life has been busy! For today I have a quick delve on a frustrating problem I had to solve, longer delves are on the way!

Like I'm sure many of you, I greatly enjoy doing side projects on the Raspberry Pi mini computer. If you've read my previous delve, you'll know there are lots of fun utilities you can run on a linux machine. One such application I like to use my Raspberry Pi for is to stream music from web services such as Spotify to my television and then use an audio visualizer like those covered in my previous delve to provide a visual.

Delve 4: The ML Engineer, Coming to an Enterprise Near You

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"Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving." -Albert Einstein

Who am I?

Hello data delvers! I hope your year is off to a good start! For this delve I wanted to cover a question that I get asked often, especially whenever I meet someone new, the dialog usually goes something like this:

Me: "Hi I'm Chase, nice to meet you!"

Other Person: "Hello Chase, it's nice to meet you too! I'm \<Insert Name Here>. I'm a \<Insert Profession Here>. What do you do for work?

Me: "Oh! I'm a machine learning engineer!"

Other Person: "Oh that's neat... What's a machine learning engineer?"

Delve 3: Fun Linux Utilities

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"People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing" -Dale Carnegie

*nix the Workhorse of MLOps

Welcome to 2024 data delvers! I hope you had a wonderful holiday season! As we enter into the new year I'd like wanted to take some time to talk about things that make my day to day as a developer fun! As I hope to get into in future delves, for many reasons I prefer a nix (Unix or Linux) based environment for doing development. Many people use MacOS as their nix environment of choice, however my preferred method of achieving this in recent years has been the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL). It is super easy to set up on any modern windows machine, integrates very nicely with my IDE of choice, Visual Studio Code, and avoids many of the dangers associated with partitioning your hard drive to dual-boot your machine with multiple operating systems. As a bonus, when working with cloud providers you are almost always deploying your model on a Linux server, so mirroring that same environment on your dev machine makes everything that much smoother.