My Story Remix from Build 2017

In case you did not see Story Remix demos from Build, it is awesome. And here is my first take on it just using the photos that I took at Build 2017. Some of the things you saw at the keynote are not in the RS3 build I am running but interesting possibilities nevertheless. There should have been a video here but your browser does not seem to support it.

May 16, 2017 · Amit Bahree

Core principle of Machine Learning

There of course are many, but for someone coming from computer science, and, software engineering, where the environment is relatively clean and certain (deterministic), it usually is a leap to understand that Machine Learning (and other elements of #AI) are not. Machine learning, is based on probability theory and deals with stochastic (non-deterministic) elements all the time. Nearly all activities in machine learning, require the ability to factor and more importantly, represent and reason with uncertainty....

April 4, 2017 · Amit Bahree

Protecting your Data from being slurped up!

How to protect your data from what the The Guardian calls as ‘ US border agents are doing ‘digital strip searches’? The only way I think this is possible in a fool-proof way in the near future is that every has to absolutely implement a two-factor-DDA-authentication. There is not better #security today - period! There ain’t no stinking #AI, #RNN, #DNN, or Boltzmann machine in the world, or #Quantum computer worth its #quibits which can crack this - at least not in the near future....

April 3, 2017 · Amit Bahree

HoloPortation - Limits of Human Kind

When it comes to AI and the limits of human kind, what better example that shows the art of the possible than what Microsoft is doing with special awareness and HoloLens and other sensors. And not only can this replay time and allow you to have a ’living memory’ but it also is mobile. I do believe we are living in the great time ever! :)

March 17, 2017 · Amit Bahree

Neural Networks

Of course you heard of Neural Networks! In the context of #AI they are all the buzz of course. You might have heard of some such as DFF (Deep Feed Forward) or RNN (Recurrent neural networks)? Or perhaps you meant Recursive neural networks? Irrespective, it can be quite messy as you can see below and it would be somewhat important to have some understanding of the differences. And in case you are thinking, well what good or use is all this?...

March 16, 2017 · Amit Bahree

On Culture

I have said in the past, Culture eats strategy for breakfast. One cannot fix culture - but rather lead with example and have others follow. This article on how Satya at Microsoft is expecting a culture shock to drive growth at Microsoft is a great example of this. Quite exciting days for Microsoft ahead.

February 21, 2017 · Amit Bahree

Google as Xerox PARC?

This wired article titled If Xerox PARC Invented the PC, Google Invented the Internet , is an old one - from 5 years ago, but it is still an inspirational read. So many things lined up for Google, to be where they are today. I still get goose bumps reading that article - but then I am a geek, if that wasn’t obvious. Whilst, grid computing with GFS, MapReduce, Hadoop, are still very much relevant and great (and most others still trying to use and understand it); Dynamo (from Amazon) and BigTable lead to NoSQL which is great and still worth spending a lot of time learning, playing, and, experimenting - I would love to hear on what they are doing now with Colossus (think of that as GFS vNext), Caffeine and, Spanner ....

February 17, 2017 · Amit Bahree

HoloLens - Spectator view - allowing others to see what you are seeing

Microsoft just announced an update around the HoloLens that allows you to share on what you are seeing (from a first-person perspective) with others to make to more interactive. This is a combination of MRC (Mixed Reality Capture) which already exists and some new updates that address some of the short coming of the MRC - especially when working with a audience. The main use case on the spectator view - as the name suggests is to allow those in the room not wearing a device to see the holograms but also the interactions that the folks wearing HoloLens with their mixed reality experience....

February 14, 2017 · Amit Bahree

Preparation

Us vs. some of our friends. You know who you are. 

February 9, 2017 · Amit Bahree

Mouse without borders issue - Only one usage of each socket address

I have been using Mouse without Borders , a program that allows you to make a virtual KVM between machines for some time at home and it is awesome. You can use one set of keybard and mouse among various (windows) machines including clipboard and copy and paste. If you haven’t tried it, I would highly recommend it. However lately I could not connect between two machines and kept getting the error: “Only one usage of each socket address”....

February 5, 2017 · Amit Bahree

How does the Netherlands welcome the new US President?

January 27, 2017 · Amit Bahree

Bing Blues

It isn’t often that one see’s issues with Bing - I can’t recall when I last saw it, but then when it does it sure is cute. We love Pandas so this can only be good. 😄

January 10, 2017 · Amit Bahree

Happy New Year

December 31, 2016 · Amit Bahree

Blockchain, blockchain, blockchain!

Dilbert says it nicely! :)

December 4, 2016 · Amit Bahree

Object and scene detection with #AI

Continuing the previous #ArtificialIntelligence theme. Wanted to see what and how does Amazon’s rekognition work and different from the #AI offerings from the others, such as Microsoft. Here is a #ProjectMurphy image’s confidence score. I am glad to see that there is a 99% confidence that this is a person. Object and Scene detection The request POST is quite simple: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 { "method": "POST", "path": "/", "region": "us-west-2", "headers": { "Content-Type": "application/x-amz-json-1....

December 2, 2016 · Amit Bahree

Playing with #AI

So, been spending a lot of time recently around many things related to Artificial Intelligence (#AI). More on that some day. :) Was curious about yesterdays Amazon’s announcement to jump on this bandwagon. Of course Microsoft and others have been there. I don’t know to what extend has Amazon been working on this, but given Alexa has been out for a couple of years, I know they have had rich pickings of tuning this further....

December 1, 2016 · Amit Bahree

Excel runs the world

This video proves it; and it also shows that Clint is probably one of the best teachers out there! Love the passion! Now, go learn some Excel. :)

October 7, 2016 · Amit Bahree

How I feel each time I wear the HoloLens?

Honestly, I don’t think even Tony Stark can explain - this sums it up quite nicely and the music is just the cherry on top. :)

October 5, 2016 · Amit Bahree

Real-time performance capture - HoloPortation?

Some of the folks working on PPI and HoloPortation team from MSR left and went to setup a new company called PerceptiveIO . They have recently published a paper called Fusion4D: Real0time performance capture of challenging scenes. In that they cover some of the work around multi-view performance capture, the raw depth acquisition and preprocessing that needs to be done around that. This interestingly also handles deformation changes (e.g. taking off a jacket or a scarf) and these can be non-rigid and much more difficult to handle, but they are done beautifully....

October 5, 2016 · Amit Bahree

Three cheers for Agile!

(Hip hip Hooray!)3

April 30, 2016 · Amit Bahree

Monkeying Around with Holograms

I guess you can see the similarity. No? 😈

April 29, 2016 · Amit Bahree

HoloLens - Device Portal (Part 2)

In addition to the HoloLens Device Portal ( see part 1 ), another option is using the UAP HoloLens companion app which you can install from the store . I think this is a little more end-user friendly, and perhaps a little less developer focused. It exposes a subset of the same functionality. Once you install it, you connect more or less in the same manner; I think most people will like the live streaming option....

April 26, 2016 · Amit Bahree

HoloLens - Device Portal (Part 1)

One of the advantages of running Windows 10 on the HoloLens is that it has all the regular features that you would expect. From a developers perspective, one of those being the Device Portal which is awesome. It is essentially a web server that is being hosted on the machine, and allows you to manage your device over Wifi and USB. It is a must have if you want to stream your apps (including Holograms) so that others can see it, or alternatively you can record and then share....

April 25, 2016 · Amit Bahree

Creative Coding

As we start to play and explore with new AR/VR mediums like Oculus and HoloLens there is a stronger shift from the traditional medium of working from a more transaction with-known-outcome based model to a more expressive and exploratory model. In the context of many enterprises this is a bigger shift - albeit some of it they have started seeing with mobility but still not the same. I really like how Rick explains and expresses this both in terms of definition and thinking....

April 22, 2016 · Amit Bahree

bash on Windows is real & not a VM

I have talked to a few folks recently, and they still don’t believe bash on Windows (RS1) is ‘real’ and think it some kind of a VM. No it is not. It is the ‘real’ user mode running on Windows. It is not Cygwin, and it is not a VM. It is essentially all of the user mode (I.e. Linux without the kernel). The kernel in this case is a wrapper around the NT kernel that translates the Linux commands to Windows and then things run....

April 20, 2016 · Amit Bahree