Learn in public, build your own projects, start the job before you have it, polish your resume and practice, practice, practice! — The following resources/tips are mostly tailored towards getting your first machine learning job but can be extended for future machine learning jobs. They are in order of how I would approach them. For example, the final two have little meaning if you’ve not gone through the first three.

OpenAI, Tesla and Meta use PyTorch to power their machine learning products, perhaps you should too. — Machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI) are exploding! And as you’ll find out, PyTorch is one of the biggest driving forces behind many of the latest AI revolutions. So if you’re looking to build machine learning and AI-powered systems, chances are you’ll eventually be stumbling across PyTorch.

From beginner to PyTorch practitioner in one video. — My latest YouTube video is 25 hours, 36 minutes and 57 seconds long (actually a little over a day). And its sole purpose is to be a momentum builder, to help you learn PyTorch for deep learning.

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…