Business Prototype in every profession TLDR: Prototyping benefits all professions, promoting execution, improved communication, feedback, testing, cost saving, and collaboration, leading to successful projects.
Computer Science The CS Mountain This is my first week on a Computer Science and AI MSc. I read a nice analogy about having to overcome the ‘mountain’. I’m currently standing at the bottom and it represents everything I don’t know. I’m interested to see how this will impact my journey into
Artificial Intelligence No AI? No Business. Despite AI hype, non-AI businesses can also succeed by focusing on customer experience and satisfaction. AI, though beneficial, is just a tool, not an absolute necessity for business success.
Productivity The Cathedral Effect I started a project back in November to read a book a month for 12 months. I got off to a great start and consistently worked my way through the first 4 books on the plan. THEN…I found Blinkist and I was able to digest a new book almost
Productivity Time: The Most Precious Resource Time is your most valuable resource, so make sure you make the most of it. Write down your goals, be selective with your commitments, and take care of yourself. Recently lots of people have been demanding my time… For so long I’ve been focusing on productivity and the relentless
Artificial Intelligence DeepLearning.AI – Module 1 Yay! I did it. This module was super fun and is part 1/3 of the Stanford Online, Andrew Ng Machine Learning Specialization. One thing that’s been confirmed is the need for more mathematical knowledge. The start of this was easy to follow along, but it soon got very
Artificial Intelligence Supervised Learning Model V.2 – Linear Regression Reality check. This year has got away from me. Much like normal ‘new year’s resolutions’, the hype for a new project often diminishes throughout the year. In defence of myself, I’ve had a lot going on, but once again, it’s time to refocus. Rather than the Codecademy
Computer Science How I fixed my Python install You know I’ve been messing around in Python all year. Well, I went digging into source files and screwed everything up… Due to the release of GitHub CoPilot, I switched my IDE from pycharm to visual studio code. After I got used to the new interface, any library imports
Computer Science Medical Insurance Analysis – Python Project So, as I’ve been working through the Data Scientist career path on Codecademy (for some solid fundamentals), I skipped ahead to the first off-platform portfolio project. There was a lot of overlap at the start of the course on Python basics (I’m comfortable enough to not go through
Computer Science Rule-Based Chatbots This blog post was originally titled ChatBots…but I soon realised there was a LOT more to unpack than I first imagined. It’s definitely a topic that needs to be broken down, so let’s start with the 3 different types: rule-based chatbots, retrieval-based chatbots and deep-learning/ generative chatbots
Personal Stuttering & The Joy of Writing 10/05/2022 EDIT – Added National Stuttering Awareness Week 2022 Video Writing as a daily practice has been amazing for me over the past few weeks. On reflection, I’ve always had a love of the written word and this new outlet for creativity has been a breath of fresh
Productivity Have ONE Calendar Digital minimalism. Technology should work for us, not the other way around. Part of my activity for this week has been to simplify some of my digital world. There’s so many distractions that a little house-keeping actually went a long way. Let’s get started! I will do a
Artificial Intelligence Artificial Intelligence & the Metaverse. A rambling. The metaverse is coming. In fact it’s already here. Multiple virtual ‘universes’ already exist where real people are living an alternate reality.
Productivity Create or Consume? – The trap of dopamine. Every 12 months I ask myself 10 questions to review the prior year. The second on that list is: What was the best thing you built/created? Sadly, and for no other fault than my own, for many years the answer to this question was very little. With so much
Artificial Intelligence Video Game AI I read an interesting article by Keith Stuart at The Guardian ‘Think, fight, feel: how video game artificial intelligence is evolving‘. He had an interesting narrative about how the use of AI is transforming our in-game interactions. Traditionally NPCs have been static, pre-programmed, boring characters. I used to play a
Computer Science Wix Development Wix is harder to customise than I first expected. const greeting = 'What do you think of my first JavaScript code?'; console.log(greeting); There is a range of emotions today after I complete one of the in-platform Wix coding challenges on Codecademy. I’m struggling to understand why
Computer Science MatPlotLib – turning code to colour! The blog is back in action, and we’ve moved over to DataCamp to continue the Python journey. I did a quick ref test to see what i’d retained and felt comfortable enough to start with the Advanced Python Tree. *Ta Daaa* If I can keep a good cadence,
Computer Science Panda, Panda, Panda I’ve heard Pandas offer powerful, flexible and fast solutions for advanced data analysis and manipulation. Today I was able to tick off the intermediate Panda module @DataCamp and I was given just a taste of their power. Getting to a stage where you learn actionable insights and begin to
Computer Science Python 3 – Done Yay! So STEP ONE is done. We complete the Python 3 course in about 4 weeks. The last few projects and challenges were VERY hard so no doubt I will revisit this curriculum over the following weeks to really understand the logic. Either way, this is a great milestone and
Computer Science Week 3/4 – Dreaming about Loops Working through the Codecademy Python 3 course, I now have a good understanding of control flow, lists and functions. As I was progressing through the course, loops were always causing issues so I spent the majority of the last 2 weeks touching up on my knowledge. Unexpectedly, I got a
Computer Science Week 2 Update The site launched yesterday, but in reality, I’m 2 weeks into the process. I will outline the long-term plan in another post, but for now, I turned to Codecademy (I subscribed to PRO) to learn the basics of Python. I’m currently on the Python 3course and progressing well.
