Have fun and let it become fruitful. — Been thinking about skills for the future. And fun things to do now. Surviving is fun. And a requirement for the future. Scaling amplifies your efforts. To do either well, remove all of the steps. And go straight for the target. Instead of planning things out, I like to put…

A fun jingle to help you remember the steps in a PyTorch training loop — I’ve been learning PyTorch. And if you’re learning PyTorch too but have come from frameworks such as Scikit-Learn or TensorFlow, writing your own training and testing loops may be a foreign concept (both of these frameworks have a beautiful model.fit()system). To help myself learn I wrote a jingle. So I’d…

What’s the rush? — One of my favourite articles of all time is Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years by Peter Norvig. The synopsis of the article is to learn slower, as in, building good skills, worthwhile skills like programming take time. You see courses teaching speed learning or speed reading, or do X…

2021 Apple M1 Pro and M1 Max Machine Learning speed test comparison — The main keyboard I used is attached to a MacBook Pro. I’m typing this on a MacBook Pro. And being the tech nerd I am, when Apple released a couple of new MacBook Pro’s with upgraded hardware: M1 Pro, M1 Max chips and redesigns and all the rest, I decided…

There’s a lot going on in the world of AI. This article covers 183 slides in 17-minutes. — Although vast, the State of AI Report collects a snapshot of what’s happening in the field of artificial intelligence (AI) every year. I say snapshot because there’s a lot going on. Even with over 180 slides in the official report, there’s still much more the report missed out on. In…

Would you take a bet you could never lose? — Yesterday I saw a dog off its leash trying to lift a stick that was three to four times its body length and as thick as its waist. The dog tried from multiple different angles, moving its head, biting hard, biting soft, up one end of the stick down the…

My favourite books, aphorisms, questions without answers, principles for wealth, health and creating from my 27th year — Every year I write an article about the previous year. Sometime around my birthday. One article? About a whole year? Yes yes I know. There’s no way of capturing all the goings on in a year in a single article. …

Charlie walks the tightrope between head and heart. Between one path and another. — From my first novel, Charlie Walks. Charlie’s downtown again. At another grey building. Working on something he enjoys but not to the depths he’d like. So he’s torn. Torn between a known path and his own path. Between what he thinks he should be and what he’d love to be. …

Charlie goes to a project downtown. Meets the security guard downstairs, gets the tag, goes up. — From my first novel, Charlie Walks. Since Charlie works as a machine learning engineer for the largest technology company in the world, many other companies recruit his team’s services. Some projects are out of the main office and lack style, hence the brief chapter. Chapter 1, chapter 2, chapter 3…