Video demo of my Sign-language project

This project convert sign-language / gestures to speech. You can read more about it on github or in my site. I just uploaded a video demo of the project. Feel free to comment.

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docker-compose in production

Deployment sucks! I'm not a dev ops / sys admin type of person, and every time I'm into deploying a web project I start to rethink the whole process and get confused. Recently, I decided to restart the work on one of my older django projects, Xteams, and one of the …

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My new portfolio site

I have a new site!

My portfolio header

The site was created to present the different projects I'm working on as a portfolio. I will keep posting ideas and explorations here. But I feel that a site with a proper home page and unique design (compared to this blog, at least) will present …

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Poor man's trick to add and remove conda from $PATH

Conda is great for managing dependencies as matplotlib and scipy: try to install these with pip, in a virtualenv, and you will be convinced that conda is better in that regard. But! Somehow, the folks at continuum analytics decided that using conda should override the default python environment (the system-wide …

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Back to music with Malinka

It's been a while, but recently I started playing bass guitar in a band again. The band, "Malinka", is lead by Stav German, and we have our first live show next week in Tel-Aviv. Feel free to hear, comment, and come to the show, it's free.

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My Jupyter (tmpnb) server and Thebe

Notice: code execution in the browser is currently broken

%matplotlib inline
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import numpy as np
from IPython.html.widgets import interact

def plot_sine(frequency=1.0, amplitude=1.0):
    plt.ylim(-1.0, 1.0)
    x = np.linspace(0, 10, 1000)
    plt.plot(x, amplitude …

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Writing a programming book? Don't compose an utility library!

I came across two books recently, in which the authors decided to write an utility library. The first book was Python in Practice, by Mark Summerfield (my opinion about the book can be found here), and the second, which I'm still reading, is Doing Bayesian Data Analysis, Second Edition, by …

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Python readings

I usually learn anything new by reading books. In fact, I got almost all of my python knowledge (which is not a lot, I'm just an apprentice programmer) by reading python books. A year ago I've started to learn web development from Udi Oron in Hackita (my impressions here), and …

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Participants movement tracking animations from my MA experiment #2

The following animated renditions are a byproduct of the video tracking an analysis of my MA thesis second experiment.

Experiment design

The figure above shows a schematic diagram of the experiment design. The videos are of session 1 to 3 of each of the groups (the last session wasn't analyzed). They have …

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Create teams easily with Xteams!

Playing volleyball

I've been playing volleyball recently with a group of amateur players. In the last two months the size of our group has increased so much that it became very hard to create teams. And if you think that size is the only issue I can assure you that there are …

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