When Youtube came out, I wanted to try that out right away. Here are all the videos I posted over the years. This is my very first Youtube video. Me playing a jazz standard all by myself. |
My niece, Emily and I learned a song for her brother's wedding. We performed it live at the wedding. For jollies, I also made a video. |
After I retired from IBM I studied artificial intelligence. To apply that
knowledge I built a robot. Click the robot to see the videos
Late 2021 I noticed that my robot's ability to see stopped working. After some investigation I learned that IBM Watson had dropped support for visual object recognition. That broke my robot's ability to respond to "What do you see?". I decided to reimplement that function using Microsoft Azure's cognitive services. I posted my code to github so other TJBot implementers could use what I implemented. I communicated that with the creators of TJBot at IBM research. In turn, they posted my link to their featured recipies site. |
I have recordings of my mother and uncle Jerry. While locked in during the Covid-19 pandemic, I also digitized old photo albums. I decided to put the 2 together, plus add some tracks. So nice to play music with my parents and uncles. |
Here are some recordings of my long time band, Third Time Thru. The last one is actually by Pig Lights. They used to do light shows at the Fillmore East.
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This one is a video I put together for the website of my now-defunct band, "Evolving Door". This next one is part of a rehearsal video of Evolving Door.
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While working at IBM I put an online lecture series together. The tutorials were 'How To Use IBM's Rational Performance Tester'.
That was a performance measurement and analysis tool that IBM created and sold. I worked very closely with that group to get them to add features that my team needed.
I found I was spending a lot of time answering questions about how it worked. In anticipation of my retirement, and because I had taken some online classes, I decided to put a set of tutorials together.
I wanted to learn how to make an online class. So I just did it.
In all there were around 50 lectures. Each was between 1 minute and 20 minutes. I tried to cover everything I knew about the product. IBM actually gave me a monetary award for the videos as they were among the most watched IBM videos in 2014-2016. Some were watched over 5000 times. I put my email in the videos and I had people all over the world contacting me with questions. Around the time I retired, IBM spun off Rational Performance Tester to a company called HCL. In 2020 while creating this page, I looked at my link to the videos, and IBM had taken them down. I'm pissed off! I guess IBM doesn't develop the product any more, so why have videos about it on their Youtube page? After some pondering, I decided to upload all the videos again. Here's a screen capture of the intro video. Click on it to see the full playlist. |
Next is part of a video I made while in graduate school. We were tobagganing in subzero weather. My friend could make a fire in those conditions. Amazing. |
These next few are from my childhood. This next is a gift my sister got for me.
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