Using A.I. for video quality control • 25 May 2024
I’m doing lots of research these days on using A.I. (generative or other) in the daily operations of cinema advertising, which is my area of expertise. Let me tell you about one topic I recently explored: using artificial intelligence models...
How not to suck at Supercharging • 28 Dec 2023
A recent trip to the U.K. showed me the reality of opening the Supercharger network to non-Tesla cars. I hadn’t really seen much of that in Belgium yet, but then I don’t use the Superchargers a lot when I’m close...
Realistic daily range of an electric vehicle • 15 Jan 2023
I have been driving my Tesla Model Y 2021 for almost 18 months now, and while I do not really suffer from EV Range Anxiety, I would like to nuance the official range of the Tesla Model Y LR, which...
Benchmark: MacOS tr vs GNU gtr • 18 Apr 2022
Post #6 in this bash benchmark series,
measuring the speed of common bash text manipulations.
Benchmark: slugify text in Bash • 15 Apr 2022
Post #5 in this bash benchmark series,
measuring the speed of common bash text manipulations.
Benchmark: romanization in bash • 08 Apr 2022
Post #4 in this bash benchmark series,
measuring the speed of common bash text manipulations.
Track your (Synology) NAS when it’s stolen • 16 Apr 2011
When a friend of mine recently got his MacBook stolen, I quickly verified if I had installed Prey Project on each laptop/desktop PC I have. For those who do not know Prey:
Shooting portraits of strangers • 13 Jan 2011
This was quite a discovery: Danny Santos has been shooting portraits of complete strangers on Orchard Road, Singapore. The story was featured on JPG Magazine with some beautiful examples and that post pointed to his Facebook album, which pointed to...
Focal length for the common man: "portrait distance" • 01 Feb 2010
I remember that before I started photography on a serious level, I had some understanding of shutter speed, but none of aperture and focal length. Even when I read what they meant, I still couldn´t ‘picture’ it, had no feeling...
Favourite podcasts: Basic Soul Radio Show • 28 Apr 2008
I subscribe to less and less podcasts (not enough time to listen), but there is one I always install on every newly installed iTunes. It’s called the Basic Soul Radio Show, it’s presented by Simon Harrison. Every week Simon selects...
Apple trailers: when 720p isn’t always 720p • 28 Feb 2008
One of the best places to look for high-quality movie trailers is Apple Trailers. They have lots of bandwidth and a large selection (altough they don’t have e.g. the new Indiana Jones 4 trailers, which are exclusively on Yahoo HD...
Screenshots of a DVD with ffmpeg • 08 Feb 2008
I’ve been playing around a lot with video conversion lately and one of the tools I use often is the Swiss armyknife for video manipulation ‘ffmpeg‘. It does format conversion (MPEG1/2/4, Quicktime, AVI …) , rescaling, recompressing, frame rate conversion...
Youtube bandwidth: terabytes per day • 04 May 2006
Youtube seems to be losing some of its early adopters: Coolz0r quits the service, while Nathan even embarks on a grassroots activism mission to ruin the company (by getting its most popular uploaders banned – I have mixed feelings about...
Recent posts + comments in Blogger • 19 Jan 2006
One of the disadvantages of using Blogger is that by default, you don’t have categories and recent comments on your blog. There is a trick to put recent comments on this Blogger help page. It involves introducing a new <Blogger>...
I remember house before it was techno • 26 Sep 2004
I remember house before it was techno I remember house before it had an afro I remember house before it was deep I remember house before it was hard I remember house when house had tempos I remember house before...
Top Ten Smelly Celebrities • 25 Aug 2004
A friend told me about an off-the-record list of celebrities with unpleasant body odor, where Brad Pitt supposedly featured as #3. Some Googling later, I found out Brad has moved up to #1! Here is the list as compiled in...
