In my previous post I gave an overview of facial recognition, its advantages and ethical considerations. Today I want to show you how to put this technology in practice. We are going to build a web application that detects your face and does some basic feature analysis. Let’s start with a demo. Source code: https://bit.ly/3g39PZY…
Facial recognition is arguably one of the most prominent applications of computer vision across all verticals, ranging from pure entertainment all the way up to law enforcement and security. I wrote this to inspire you to experiment and make yourself familiar with the technology. I’ll also point out some of the pain points and threats…
This post will help you get started with Rasa, an open source framework for building contextual virtual assistants. I take an opinionated stand point, sharing what I found worked best in terms of cutting on time and effort. Among other things, I’ll show you how to work around some of the limitations and use this…
You put all the effort into writing your own chatbot with Rasa. You spent hours or even days on training your model and testing. Now you want to make it publicly accessible and keep the cost down. Where shall I run the action server? What if my bot is multilingual and I need to spin…
This is a quick announcement for those of you who work with or contribute to Rasa. I have created a template for my Test Locations bot. Clone the repo and make it your own. I plan to extend the API with more countries and a more fine grained search. Get in touch if you want…
Postman were among the first ones to come up with public data sets about medical centres where you can get tested for the novel virus (US only). I thought it’s a brilliant idea and created a simple chatbot allowing you to quickly arrive at useful information. You can check details at my submission page at…