I’m a self-taught machine learning engineer currently working as a freelancer. Prior to my machine learning career, I served as a preacher — although I, alongside many experts (most notable being Alexandra Stein), later came to the conclusion that the church I attended was…
Testing is extremely important in the development of software. There are many different types of tests: integration tests, acceptance tests, and performance tests to name a few. Unit tests are the first layer of software testing and one of several types of automated tests.
We use them to define the…
Medium publications are like Facebook groups on steroids. They are designed to promote engagement between tribes, which is exactly what content creators seek when they share content. Unfortunately, it’s quite likely you’ll be rejected by many publications — almost certainly the major ones — for two main reasons: 1) your…
If you decide to pick up a new skill you might as well get good at it. This holds true for ML too. There’s no point learning a new skill to get a new job or to seem smart to your friends: more competent ML engineers will be paid more…
Whenever I learn a new skill, my goal is to get good. Extremely good. This goes for any skill I set my eyes on. I can’t stand being rubbish, even though I know it’s an important phase for anyone who’s ever achieved mastery.
It’s during this phase where the foundations…
I learned to make the most of my days through fear of consequence. I’d usually wait until the moment everything was about to go tits up then out of nowhere my spidey senses would start tingling — “Shit! Chelsea is playing tonight, I can’t get a detention. …
Machine learning experiments take time. If it’s not down to a large dataset, it’s a large model, or both. Either way, any model we build will attempt to approximate the relationship between the inputs and outputs, and this process takes a while.
It’s not all doom and gloom though if…
The decision to become an ultra achiever begins with clarity: what do you want to achieve? What type of people do you want to hang around? how do you want your physique to look? etc.
When you have an idea of what you want, it’s much easier to map the…
