{"id":2608,"date":"2019-07-06T17:31:18","date_gmt":"2019-07-06T21:31:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ninecrows.com\/career\/?p=2608"},"modified":"2019-07-06T17:31:18","modified_gmt":"2019-07-06T21:31:18","slug":"steps-and-tangents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ninecrows.com\/career\/2019\/07\/06\/steps-and-tangents\/","title":{"rendered":"Steps and Tangents&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Started reading a book on coding <a href=\"https:\/\/developer.nvidia.com\/cuda-downloads\">CUDA <\/a>using python so I&#8217;ve loaded <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anaconda.com\/\">Anaconda <\/a>and the <a href=\"https:\/\/developer.nvidia.com\/cuda-downloads\">CUDA SDK<\/a> on my machines that have Nvidia video systems. Looks interesting and perhaps useful and the ebook was on sale at Packt for $10.  I&#8217;ll share here as things progress&#8230;as usual with sandbox items, this may move slowly as time permits.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Brought the basement Ubuntu system attached to the TV down there up to a better state. It now auto-launches chrome on boot and does not prompt for credential access on login&#8230;less secure overall, but much better user experience for a television.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m also loading an internal house use wordpress instance onto that system&#8230;it is one of the few machines around that doesn&#8217;t get used for software development, stays running most of the time and has Ubuntu Linux running. Hoping to use this for local only notes and tracking that I&#8217;d rather not host on my main public hosting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Getting wordpress setup properly is proving a bit more labor intensive than I remembered with all of the database setup being manual&#8230;but is has been a while since I set one of these up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Waiting for my Pi 4 to arrive though I&#8217;m not sure how much priority will go to it when it does as I&#8217;ve got quite a few other things going on currently.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I do want to put together a small motion triggered frame capture tool on the pi using OpenCV for data acquisition and image processing. My wife likes watching the wildlife and I expect we could get some interesting shots with a pi and a web cam pointed out a window for a day or two.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Started reading a book on coding CUDA using python so I&#8217;ve loaded Anaconda and the CUDA SDK on my machines that have Nvidia video systems. Looks interesting and perhaps useful and the ebook was on sale at Packt for $10. I&#8217;ll share here as things progress&#8230;as usual with sandbox items, this may move slowly as &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ninecrows.com\/career\/2019\/07\/06\/steps-and-tangents\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Steps and Tangents&#8230;<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-blog"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7F2Qc-G4","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ninecrows.com\/career\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2608"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ninecrows.com\/career\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ninecrows.com\/career\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ninecrows.com\/career\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ninecrows.com\/career\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2608"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ninecrows.com\/career\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2608\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2609,"href":"https:\/\/ninecrows.com\/career\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2608\/revisions\/2609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ninecrows.com\/career\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ninecrows.com\/career\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ninecrows.com\/career\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}